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
Teaching and Giving Yourself Permission to be an Expert on YOU with Renee Grady
When we know our superpowers, we can USE them to help others to find theirs. THIS - and SO MUCH MORE - is what my guest this week, the fabulous Renee Grady teaches girls and moms. If you want to use your superpowers for good, AND embrace ...
How to Stop Procrastinating
Do you procrastinate, especially when it comes to the new, the scary, the risky, the important, or the challenging? This week on Teachers in Business I'm going to share 3 simple hacks for STOPPING procrastination in its tracks.&nbs...
How to STOP Underpricing Yourself
Underpricing is a lose-lose. You lose because you don't make the money from your business that you want (and deserve!), and your clients lose because they aren't getting the BEST possible version of you (the one where you feel amaz...
The Teacher’s Guide for Creating a Money-Making Business
From a struggling former-teacher-turned-entrepreneur, to a business coach who makes more than DOUBLE what she did when she was teaching, I want to share the four simple steps to building a business that makes money AND gives you the truly flexi...
Why They Aren’t Buying and 3 Changes to Make Right Now to Make More Money!
The main reason that people hire me as a business coach is because their business isn’t making the money they want. Period.As a coach, I know this struggle well - I sell a service (and I also have a second business where I sell a produc...
Too pushy, too salesy, too braggy...How to STOP letting the 'toos' hold you BACK!
We ALL get the 'toos'. The 'toos' are when we're worried that we're going to be TOO something...to pushy, too spammy, too salesy, too braggy, too agressive - and then we hold ourselves BACK to avoid going too far. So w...
Loving Your Body, Teaching, and Containers with Jennifer Lebo
How do teaching and learning to love your body connect? This week the AMAZING Jen Lebo is sharing her teaching journey from teaching in a classroom to teaching women how to love their bodies, and everything in between.
Teaching, Practice, and MONEY with Jessica Kleine
Jessica Kleine is one of my favorite teachers...but she doesn't actually think of herself AS a teacher. This week on the podcast, we'll talk about that, teaching, homeschooling, business, and MONEY (because those are all the things...
How Do You Want to STRETCH Next?
One of my FAVORITE questions to ask myself (and clients) is how do you want to STRETCH next? It's a great question for LOTS of reasons, but the biggest is that it's an OPENER. It's the kind of questions that opens me (...
Teaching, Coaching, and Magic with Stacey Andon
Why are teachers EXCELLENT entrepreneurs? Why is starting and building a business a perfect match for teaching skills? And magic? What??! This week on the Teachers in Business podcast my guest, former ELA ...
How to Set a Goal that WORKS
Having a goal is a good idea, right? I mean...it seems like a good idea, BUT. Here's the thing. It's easy for goal-setting to go terribly wrong. And when it does, we get FRUSTRATED - it sucks to set goals ...
Why Knowing How People Learn is a Business Advantage with Dr. Carrie Graham
Teachers have a deep understanding of how people learn. And this understanding? This is a business ADVANTAGE (because if you've ever taken a boring course, you know that NOT everyone just gets this). This week I'm talk...
The 4 Word Business Model: Talk to MORE People
My business model is 4 words.Nope, not 4 steps.It's 4 WORDS.Talk to more people.Period.This model is exactly what has created ALL of my business success, and it's ALL you need to create yours.And ...
Finding Clarity and Purpose with Deb Stanley!
Special Guest Alert! This week the AMAZING Deb Stanley shares her story of moving from the teaching world to the worlds of business AND book authorship. Deb is a great example of what it looks like to do it YOUR way, t...
5 Questions to Ask Yourself BEFORE You Buy that Next Course
Teachers LOVE learning...and so we buy a LOT of courses. Some of them we start AND finish, some we just start, and then there are the ones we buy and NEVER even touch - yikes! This week on the Teachers in Business podc...
Genius Hour + business = GROWTH
Genius hour has long been a thing in schools. It's a tool to help motivate and engage students, and one that helps them build critical thinking, problem solving, and connection skills. On this episode of the podcast I'...
How to Stop WAITING
Conventional wisdom is to be patient, to let it all come with time, and to wait when we aren't sure. And I think when it comes to waiting conventional wisdom should take a hike. Waiting, particularly in business, is a ...
How to Take a VACATION as a Business Owner
Everyone needs a vacation sometime - even just a day or two - ESPECIALLY business owners. But if you own your own thing, and you wear ALL the hats, how do you walk away, even just for a day or two? This is a HUGE topic...
How to Plan without OVER-Planning
One of the MOST common issues teachers in the business world face is that we PLANNERS.In the teaching world, we plan weeks (months!) in advance, and have a clear path of what's going to happen when from the start of the year to the end....
How the Heck Does Motivation = Weather??
One of the things I hear from clients ALL the time is 'I've lost my motivation'. Friends, motivation is like the weather - it changes ALL the time! Depending on motivation to power you allllll the time is like planning...
How to SIMPLIFY Your Business
When business is convoluted and complicated it's also NOT fun. And when it's not fun, you probably aren't growing either. On this episode of the podcast, I'm sharing a new definition of simplicity along with a handfu...
How to Stop Freaking Out About Your Niche
The online business world says you MUST have a clear niche right NOW. And if you don't? You're DOOMED. As a result, business owners spend an ungodly amount of time freaking out about their niche in 100 different ways.&...
How to Create ALL the Content
One of the things clients ask ALL the time is 'how do you manage to create SO MUCH content? You never seem to run out of ideas.'One this episode of the podcast I'm sharing how I think about creating content.Then, I'm teaching yo...
The 3 MOST common Reasons Your Pricing isn't working - and how to fix them NOW
Is pricing your nemesis? Does it take an insane amount of your brain space (and maybe steal your sleep)??! No. More. Today I'm going to talk about the three most common reasons your pricing isn’t working.&...
Mapping Teaching Skills to Biz Skills: From Questions to Connections
You might not realize it, but your teaching skills are your unique business advantage. They are what sets you apart from the rest. One of the MOST vital skills in a teacher's tool kit is asking great questions - and this skill tran...