Uncomplicating Business with Sara Torpey
Business gets WAY less complicated when you keep it human. In the Uncomplicating Business world, we use a simple, flexible four-part framework—ground, plan, connect, sell—to help you simplify decisions, set (and keep!) effective timelines, and show up consistently without burning out. You’ll hear bite-sized solo episodes and thoughtful interviews that turn messy challenges into actual actions, from pricing with confidence to building trust with yourself, your offers, and your community. Come for the clarity, stay for the momentum. Let's create *functional success* - where successful businesses are one part of our successful lives - together.
Episodes
196 episodes
Summer How to Series : How to Find Clarity
Clarity is this magical thing that we feel like we have to FIND. It feels like something we have to search high and low for, and that we can't DO any of the things we want to do without. Because if we start and we're unclear, well... we m...
Summer How To Series: Growing a Business 'Even When'
Sometimes life is chaos. It happens here too. I get it - all the moving parts, life events, unexpected things can be a lot to navigate AND grow a business. Today we're going to talk about growing a business 'even when' - even when there i...
Summer How to Series: How to Celebrate
We all hear the same advice all the time - 'celebrate more! The more you celebrate the better!' and it sounds GREAT. But also, HOW do you actually do that? Like, seriously. How do you celebrate success, even AHEAD of time, and also in a way tha...
Summer How to Series: How to Focus
First up in the Summer How-To Series is a favorite from way back in Season 1 and it's all about HOW to focus.Focus is one of those things we all think 'if I only had a little more of that, things would be.______ (insert dream here!).' <...
Self Care as the Driver for Teaching, Business, and Life Success with Tami Hackbarth
A rare UNComplicating Business interview - and this one is SO GOOD. Come listen in on my conversation with the amazing Tami Hackbarth - we talk all things transitioning from teaching to business, including the struggle of balance, self-ca...
6 Tips for Becoming Someone New (a business owner!)
On this episode we are jumping into the intricate process of becoming someone new... and in particular, a business owner (especially if you were once/are a teacher!) :). I'm sharing six super-helpful tips for navigating identity cha...
The 5 Most Annoying (and useful) Business Coaching Questions
Want to grow your business more effectively, faster? Ask yourself these questions more regularly. As a business coach these are the MOST annoying questions I ask my clients (the ones they don't love at all but also really love!!) because of the...
3 Tips for Simplifying Sales Success as a Service-Based Biz Owner
In today's episode, we dive into the often over-complicated world of sales for service-based business owners. Sales (and closing sales!) can feel like the Holy Grail, but it isn't all that magical, really. Today we're talking about three action...
Reflections of a Business Weirdo
I'm a business weirdo. I want to do things 'right' and also I'm completely unwilling to do things that don't feel like me... which means a lot of the 'rigth' ways of the traditional business world don't match up. Maybe you can relate to t...
How to Journal as a Business Owner
Journaling seems like a good idea, right? And also, how do you journal as a business owner in a way that actually makes a difference for your business, doesn't take a TON of time, and helps you grow? On this episode, we're going to talk about t...
How to Actually GET TO New Things
Ahhhh, new things to do. We all have a list of new things we WANT to do and also that we never get to because NEW things seem to require NEW time - and none of that is coming, right? Wellll... today we're going to talk about these new things yo...
How to Simplify TIME as a Business Owner
As a business owner (as a person, really) time can get COMPLICATED fast. In this episode, I'm going to share a handful of the ways I simplify time in my own business. These are tools, ideas, and strategies that have served me well and have also...
How to Be a Connector and Why it Matters for Your Business
If you run a business that helps people, the most important business move you can make for both your business and your people is to become a connector. What does that mean? Why does it matter? How does it actually help your business? And really...
When Life Takes Over Your Business: How to Keep Going
The truth of the matter is that sometimes your life takes over your business. There are lots of things you WANT and NEED to be doing to grow your business and also other things happening - and finding the balance between business and life feels...
All of the Ways to Invite Someone to Work with You
Sometimes it can feel really hard to know what to say, how to say it, and where to say it in order to invite people to work with you or buy from your business. In this episode I'm talking you through my favorite ways to invite people to work wi...
How to Market Your Business: the SIMPLEST Framework
You could spend what feels like a billion dollars figuring out exactly HOW to market your own business. There are a million books, podcasts, episodes, articles, experts, freebies, not-so-freebies and things you can do, try, change, test - it al...
How to Create a Business Plan for 2024 You'll Actually Use
Do you love to plan for your business but then.... those plans just sit, untouched, staring at you for the whole year? Or, maybe planning feels complicated or even just pointless... there are too many moving parts to consider and you're not goi...
Tiny (but MIGHTY!) Thoughts to Successfully End 2023 and Start 2024
Business success comes from DOING, yes - but what we do or do not do is highly tied to how we are THINKING at any given moment. In this episode we're going to talk about THINKING, in particular some tiny but mighty thoughts that you might consi...
5 Books That Have Made a Business Difference (but maybe aren't also biz books)
I LOVE books and to read, and I often find myself sharing books and book recommendations with clients as they work through the ups and downs of growing a business. On this episode, I'm going to share 5 books that have made a difference in my bu...
3 Questions that Will Make Every Offer Better
Making offers - telling people what you do, why it matters to them, and how to get what they need/want - is vital to business success. People can't buy what you aren't telling them about. Making offers matters, and also, making BETTER offers al...
A Sneak Peek - Mark Your Calendar!
There are a LOT of oppotunities coming your way in the not so distant future from the UNcomplicating Business world, and I wanted to take a minute to share them with you here. If you want to sell in a way that feels like you, make more offers, ...
How to Successfully Close a Sales Call (even if you hate sales)
Do you struggle with 'closing' a sale calls? Do you find that you spend the last chunk - the part where you're supposed to tell them how much, why, and how it works - in a panic? Do you run out of time, feel like you don't know what to say and ...
Why Teachers are GREAT at Sales
Teachers are the best sales people out there. Full stop. If you're a teacher, you're also a sales person - and a good one - whether you realize it or not. In this episode we're going to talk about what exactly makes teachers great at sales (and...
Assumptions that are Hurting Your Sales
Here's something humans - you and I and all of us - are REALLY good at... ready? We are really, REALLY good at assuming things that may not actually be true. In sales, there are a LOT of these kinds of assumptions, both that we make naturally, ...
How to Stop Hating the Sales Part of Your Business
Having a business is great... except for the sales part' is something I hear a version of a LOT. And it's HARD to grow a business while hating the sales part - since the sales part is what actually creates, grows and FUNDS the business. So how ...