Sunk Costs, Small Town Opinions, and Starting Anyway: Finding a Better Way to Build
CHS Class of 2005. I had a plan, and if I'm being honest, it wasn't really mine. It was THE plan we were all given at that time. Get the degree, get the good job (the one with the benefits), stay unti...
14 Okt 27min
Small Business Burnout: 7 Lessons from the Thing That Makes Me Zero Dollars
Picture me on a Saturday night at the end of August: a wig with flips I can only describe as aggressive, a fake mustache I've sweat off more times than I can count, and a hanky in my back pocket assig...
7 Okt 23min
Bonus: How to Measure Nonprofit Impact When the Work Is Relational (Moms Connect Dubuque)
We stopped recording...and then kept talking. (As one does.) In this bonus clip from my conversation with Kristina Heinzen and Gina Martin, co-founders of Moms Connect Dubuque, we get into a question ...
5 Okt 4min
How Two Foster Moms Built a Nonprofit to Keep Families Together: The Moms Connect Dubuque Story
I'll pull back the curtain a little: I walked into this interview with my questions prepped, sent, and tidy. Then Kristina Heinzen and Gina Martin answered the very first one and the whole conversatio...
30 Sep 51min
Every Ballot, Every Deed, Every Dollar: What Your County Auditor Actually Does
You probably couldn't tell me what your county auditor actually does. I couldn't either, until I sat down with Whitney Hein. Whitney is the Jones County Auditor and Commissioner of Elections, and by t...
23 Sep 52min
Using AI Without Losing Your Voice
Okay, let's just say the thing out loud: You've seen the captions that sound like a robot wrote them. You've seen the flyers that look like every other flyer on the internet this month. Maybe you've ...
16 Sep 24min
How to Start a Podcast for Your Business: My Real 7-Step Process
Somebody pulls me aside about once a week now and says some version of the same thing: I've been thinking about starting a podcast. It happens in client sessions, at conference tables, in DMs from peo...
9 Sep 26min
The Worst Business Plan I Ever Made
Back in 2022, I had a marker board covered edge to edge with ideas. I'd write a launch date right next to each one, feel the rush of excitement, and sprint at it with everything I had. And then somewh...
2 Sep 25min
