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
How to Grow a Business AND Do Everything Else, All at Once
A client recently asked me how I 'did it all, all at once.' This is something we're all doing, right? You're building a business AND working AND parenting AND being a friend AND being a partner AND AND AND. So the question is, how do you do it ...
The Problem with Your Sales Funnel
Do you feel like you really SHOULD have a working sales funnel, and maybe that's the reason you aren't getting enough clients, customers, inquiries? Do you have a funnel that SHOULD be working, but isn't? Or do you have something that might be ...
Should You Have a Side Job As You Grow Your Business?
Should you have a side job as you grow your business? This is a question I get a LOT. It's something I talk about with friends and colleagues and new business owners (or people thinking of starting businesses) a LOT. So, what's the answer...
The 4 Best Business Decisions I've Made (that you can make too!)
Four 'official' years into business, and now making well into 6 figures a year, what are the 4 things that have helped the MOST? I've been thinking a LOT about this (I always do in the summer!) - and in this episode, I'm going to share the 4 be...
The Secret for Creating Know-Like-Trust as a Business Owner
One of the simplest 'rules' out in the business world is that people have to know, like, and trust you in order to buy from you. It seems simple... but also, how do you actually GET people to know, like, and trust you - especially since we can'...
The Number of Followers you ACTUALLY Need
Do you think a lot about how many followers you have on each platform, how to grow your audience, what the numbers mean, how to monetize them, your funnels and the rest? Do you worry you're not talking to the right people, or enough people, or ...
How to Stay ON Track (and NOT derail yourself!)
Are you the biggest barrier to your own success? Do you finally get things working the way you want, the way they should and then find yourself without the motivation to stick with it? Do you start over and start over and start over? If t...
3 Secrets to Pricing Your Service
Pricing your service can feel COMPLICATED.You want to choose a price that feels like enough without also being too much.You want to be fair to you and to them.You want people to be able to afford it but also to make enough ...
How to Talk About What You Do MORE Without Hating It
The more you talk about what you do the greater impact you will have on the people you want to help, AND the more income you'll create through your work. It's visibility, and it's simple, right? Well... if you're an entrepreneur you proba...
How to NOT Burnout (it's not what you think)
No one wants to burn out. But at the same time? Most of us entrepreneurs skirt the edges of burnout more often than we'd like to admit - especially if you are also a parent, a spouse, a friend, a helper, a giver and a whole bunch of other thing...
5 Tricks to Simplify Success Today
It would be nice if success didn't feel so complicated, right? Well. I think success IS - and CAN be - far simpler than we all (me included) make it out to be. In this episode I'm sharing 5 (simple!) tricks to simplify success right...
How to Create a New Offer
One of the things I do a lot of coaching around is OFFERS. And one of the things I regularly help 1:1 and group coaching clients with is creating new (or revised) offers. Usually the process of creating an offer - and making all of the decision...
How to UNDERthink
If you are an OVERthinker - this episode is for you.If OVERthinking is a problem in your day to day, and espeically in your business - maybe it's time to consider it's opposite... UNDERthinking.In this episode, we're going to talk...
SHARING the Sales Process to Create More Yeses
Tired of getting to the end of sales calls and thinking 'well, THAT didn't go to plan?', OR even worse, thinking the call went well only to be ghosted? The tricky thing about sales call and a sales process is that it involves someon...
Scheduling in Doubt
This might sound crazy, but I think we should all schedule in doubt. By scheduling it in we get to decide when we spend time spinning around in our questions, worries, and doubts - and also, and more importantly, when we DON'T. ...
How to Use your Journal to Make Money
We all know we *should* journal... but easier said than done, right? It seems like a nice thing to do - so if we have time it happens, and if we don't...well, it doesn't. But. What if journaling actua...
Teacher Tools that Simplify Business Too!
There are LOTS of tools and tricks that I used as a teacher, for myself, in my classroom and with students and colleagues that I still use today both as a business owner and as a coach. On this episode of the podcast, I'm sharing my three favor...
Before you Launch: 4 lessons to learn AHEAD of time
Launching something new? Planning a new offer? Adjusting a current offer? Me too :) And having been through the process myself recently I was reminded of things I've had to learn (repeatedly!) in the process of launching something new. On this ...
3 Steps to Simplify Anything
Want to simplify... something? Anything? EVERYTHING? You can. And taking something that feels complicated right now and simplifying it so that it feels, well, simple only requires 3 steps. And really, 'steps' makes them sound like more work tha...
Selling withOUT Icky, Sticky, or Hard
What if, seriously, what IF selling never had to feel icky, sticky, or hard ever again? What if it could be different? What would change if you didn't HIDE from selling, if you didn't AVOID it, if you actually felt GOOD about it? (Probably a lo...
Simplifying the Elevator Pitch
Do you think about your elevator pitch, your 30-commercial, your introduction endlessly? Is it something you're CONSTANTLY trying to figure out, get right, and get clear on? Do you feel like if you can get the elevator pitch down then maybe eve...
5 Keys to Making Networking Work for You (and also NOT hating it...)
You should network more!' 'Get out there and meet more people!' Yeahhhh, people tell me that too. But networking can be intimidating, and uncomfortable, and scary, and just downright painful... especially if you are doing it in a way that doesn...
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 might...
5 Things You Don't Need in 2023
This time of year we make ALL the plans and have lots of ideas about what we NEED to help our businesses thrive. And so often? The things we think we need - the ones that cost the most time and money and brain power - actually aren't required a...
Planning for 2023: The Salad Bar Approach
What if planning for the new year was as simple as making your favorite version of salad at a salad bar (and yes, I am well aware that salad bars are SO 2019, ha!)? What if planning effectively was all about choosing the pieces of planning that...