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 Get OUT of Comparison Mode
One of the most common causes of my clients getting stuck is being in COMPARISON mode.We have all heard about ‘compare and despair’ and it really is a thing. Its something we have all met at some point in our work - and it really can (a...
3 Business Mistakes You Don't Need to Make
Between my two businesses I have made ALL the mistakes. And while I'm a big fan of making mistakes in order to learn and grow, I know that there are (at LEAST) a handful of mistakes I've made that didn’t need to take ALL the time ...
How to Be Consistent
Consistency is the secret sauce of business. But it can be tricky to achieve... we all WANT to be consistent, but struggle to actually BE consistent. This week I'm going to share the key to consistency, and the t...
How I CREATED a job I love (and you can too!)
Today I have a job I love. But that didn’t just HAPPEN. Moving from the classroom to the business that I have today has been a journey. This week I’m sharing two key lessons that I learned on my journey fr...
How to Make Decisions Without Drama
We’ve been taught to think that making decisions is hard, or that it has to be hard. But actually, most of what’s hard about making decisions is INDECISION. This week I’m going to teach you how to recognize indecision, what it means (it’s not w...
Success by THINKING
Success isn't created by what you DO. It's created by how you THINK. I know it sounds nutty but you can change your ACTIONS and what you do in your business 1000 times - you can try every course, every coach, every program - and still never rea...
How to Be Your Own Coach
Having a coach is great - for me it’s an essential part of business.But it’s ALSO essential to know how to be your OWN coach. To learn how to see when and how you are in your own way. To learn how to give feedback to yourself.<...
The 4 Views of Evaluation
Evaluation is rocket fuel for your business, in general. In this episode I’m sharing the 4 views of evaluation - for ways to look at your work and evaluate it - that are essential for business success.
How to find THE ZONE in your business
The very BEST version of your business - whether it’s a dream now, or already up and running - is the ZONE between what you’re good at, what you love to do, and what need. The trick? Actually FINDING that place. This week on the podcast we’r...
The Magic of Incremental Expansion
Growing is NEVER instant. And yet we often have expectations of ourselves that are for exactly that. We expect to be perfect, to be expert, to be able to figure out all the things immediately, rather than incrementally. This week I’m making ...
Problem Solving as a Business Owner
One of the superpowers of ALL teachers is problem-solving. In a teaching setting, we solve a million problems a day, as they come up, from one moment to the next. We do exactly what we need to figure out what’s happening a...
Talking to Your YESES
In a classroom the responsibility of a teacher is to get everyone on board - no matter how much or how little the faces in the room want to ‘buy’ the information for sale. As a result, you have to talk to EVERYONE. You have to connect to eve...
Networking YOUR Way: how to talk to more people (and make more money) this year
Networking is something lots of people AVOID, but really, it’s just business-speak for talking to people. And talking to people is one of the fastest and most effective ways to make more money in your business. So how do y...
Keeping it Simple in 2021
Simplicity is one of my core business (and life!) values. Simple is just better. It makes everything - from day to day life to work and everything in between - easier. This week we’re going to talk about how to approach gr...
10 Life changing thoughts from 2020
This week, I’m sharing 10 thoughts that have changed my life and business in 2020.They are the thoughts that have helped me to create a thriving business from nothing in less than a year, the thoughts I use to help my clients c...
Planning for 2021: The ONE Goal Approach
In planning for your business in the new year, I believe that the most effective approach is focusing on ONE goal. This week on the podcast we’re going to talk step by step through the ONE goal approach to planning for your business in 2021!...
Turn down the Noise! How to be an effective learner for your business
Teachers LOVE to learn. We like to read, to research, to figure out, to discover, to hunt down resources...and it’s a GREAT asset to us in the education world. It’s the ability to think ‘hmmm, I wonder how other people have done that’ and th...
But what about the guilt?
When I left the teaching world and started a business I had alllll kinds of guilt. Guilt that I’d left my calling - my forever job. Guilt that I had changed my plans. Guilt that I wanted to do something else. Guilt that I was making more money tha...
Gah! It's silent: Assessing in teaching vs. business
Silence can be scary in business. Especially if you are coming from the teaching world, where there's ALL kinds of feedback/information coming at you all the time. In this episode we talk about assessing as a teacher versus in a business (and wher...
Teaching skills ARE business skills
One of the core ideas of Teachers in Business is this: teaching skills ARE business skills. This is what I’m here to help you see. Today we’re going to talk about the first layer of this which is how this idea - that teacher skills ARE business sk...