Have you ever wondered how to scale an agency to seven figures without building a massive team or sacrificing profit margins?
In this episode, Eleanor sits down with Renee Warren: award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, author, and founder of the PR agency We Wild Women. Renee reveals the key decision that allowed her agency to experience hockey stick growth in both revenue and profitability.
Tune in this week to hear how, by doing less, Renee and her partner were able to streamline operations, boost team morale, attract bigger clients, and ultimately catapult their PR agency to over a million dollars in revenue.
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If you’re currently growing your company, the reality is you need to develop stronger preparation skills to help you maximize your impact with less stress and more joy, and Eleanor’s got you covered this week.
Listen in to hear Eleanor’s simple but powerful four-step preparation protocol she uses to get clear on her priorities, set better intentions, and truly maximize her impact, and learn how implementing this process will help you take on big challenges while feeling calm, composed and supported as you finish out the year strong.
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What does it take to turn your expertise into patented inventions that generate millions?
Eleanor sits down with Amy Jordan, former Marvel Studios executive turned pilates entrepreneur, who did exactly that. Amy shares how she sketched out her first pilates machine on a plane, invested over $200K to prototype it, and then launched the WundaBar Pilates brand… but the journey wasn’t easy. Tune in to hear all the details of Amy's incredible entrepreneurial journey and glean insights on how to turn your own ideas into valuable, revenue-generating assets.
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What do you need to let go of in your business in order to grow to the next level? When it comes to scaling a business, the most smart, savvy, and successful business owners understand that sometimes, less is actually more.
In today’s case study interview, Eleanor is joined by Oonagh Duncan, a multi-award-winning fitness expert and author of the international bestselling book Healthy as F*ck. Oonagh walks you through a series of cuts, scale-backs, and eliminations she has made over the last couple of decades of growing her fitness empire, and how each of those phases produced the next quantum leap.
Tune in this week to learn Oonagh’s insights on how subtracting and simplifying can actually lead to exponential business growth.
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Are you considering a pivot in your business? Maybe you want to change your niche, your offers, your message, or your entire strategy. Before you make any big moves, it's crucial to ensure you're pivoting for the right reasons.
Join Eleanor this week as she walks you through three essential questions to ask yourself before making a pivot. These questions will help you explore your motivations and make sound decisions as a leader and CEO, and by the end of this episode, you'll have a framework for evaluating potential pivots and ensuring they align with your long-term business goals.
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Eleanor is always on the lookout for great reads that will help her learn, grow, and gain exposure to the ideas of influential leaders, and in this episode, she gives you her essential reading list for every aspiring or existing seven-figure woman CEO.
Join Eleanor this week as she shares the top seven books that have helped her as a woman CEO and working mom to grow Safi Media into the top 1% of women-owned companies globally. From making peace with power as a woman leader to building a saleable business, these books offer invaluable insights and strategies that will skyrocket your business.
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Have you ever wondered how to leverage Instagram to skyrocket your business growth? What’s the secret to creating compelling content that attracts your ideal clients and generates real revenue?
In this episode, Eleanor sits down with Jenna Harding, the Instagram expert behind @jennaspaige to uncover her secrets to Instagram success. Jenna shares her incredible journey from being an overworked, underpaid social media manager to building a thriving seven-figure business using her signature Insta-booked formula. If you’re currently marketing on Instagram, you’re going to want to pay close attention to today’s case study.
Tune in this week as Jenna breaks down the key components of her Instagram strategy and reveals how you can implement them in your own business, even if you don’t have a huge following right now.
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Do you have a powerful vision statement for your company? Many of you have a vision for your brand but aren’t articulating it clearly.
Join Eleanor this week as she shows you why having a million-dollar vision statement is one of the most important things you can do to build your personal brand, and how being able to articulate your vision will help you scale to the multi-million dollar mark.
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Do you feel like your time management system just isn’t cutting it anymore? Like you're constantly working for everyone else, leaving no space for what truly excites you? I’ve been there too. But what if you could take back control of your calendar and build a thriving business while working far less than the typical 40-hour workweek?
This week, I’m joined by time management expert and founder of The Pink Bee, Megan Sumrell. Join Megan as she shares how she scaled her seven-figure business with a lean team, focusing on what matters most. She'll also break down the exact strategies she's using to grow her email list and boost revenue effortlessly through her branded app.
Have you ever felt torn between your mission as a business owner, the amount of money you want to make, and your role as a mother? Can women really have it all? What could increasing the number of women entrepreneurs earning seven figures and beyond really do for our world?
These are some of the questions Eleanor dives into with Jackie Serviss on her podcast, The Jackie Serviss Show. Jackie is a seasoned HR leader and Executive Coach with a passion for driving sustainable business growth through the power of people.
Listen in this week as Eleanor and Jackie discuss why so few women entrepreneurs break the million-dollar mark, and the shifts that need to happen to change that statistic.
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Do you dream of building a seven-figure business without a big team? Is it even possible to do it alone? Eleanor’s guest this week is a solopreneur who doesn’t have any employees and doesn’t consider herself a leader, but she’s built a seven-figure business doing what she loves.
This week, Eleanor is joined by award-winning copywriter, founder of Talking Shrimp, and author of Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You’re the F-Ing Worst, Laura Belgray. Laura has cracked the code on using email to generate over a million dollars in annual sales, and in this episode, she gives you the fundamentals of email marketing and her secrets for crafting compelling emails your audience can’t wait to read.
Listen in as Laura reveals how she built her seven-figure solopreneur company from scratch using email.
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One of the measures of success and abundance for many women owners is not just money, but time. As a leader, it's critical that you spend your time focusing on growth-oriented tasks that will really move the needle. Growth comes down to what you’re doing every single day, which means you need a daily protocol that you can lean on to produce results like clockwork.
Join Eleanor this week as she shares her five-step daily checklist that helps her grow seven-figure results in under 90 minutes per day. You’ll hear why these tasks are literally worth $10K per hour to your bottom line, the reason following a checklist like this must happen daily, and how this can create freedom and peace of mind for you as CEO.
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One of the key things that has transformed Eleanor’s guest this week into one of the most well-recognized, respected, and successful business coaches for women entrepreneurs is her ability to successfully refine her ideal client, and she’s here to give you a masterclass in niching.
Sigrun is an award-winning business coach, international speaker, bestselling author, and top podcast host. If you’re currently resisting niching out of fear of limiting your potential, tune in to hear Sigrun reveal why the riches are in the niches, and how she continuously refined her ideal client to exponentially scale her impact and income.
Listen in today to hear the step-by-step process Sigrun used to niche down and propel herself to multiple seven-figure growth year after year - a rare feat for women-owned businesses.
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Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and unsure of what to focus on next in your business? A major part of your role as CEO involves constantly identifying and releasing constraints, which is necessary to scale your business… but that’s not sexy and people often don’t want to hear about it.
In the process of actively consulting with hundreds of businesses a year, Eleanor has identified a tool that helps her clients unlock increased amounts of revenue without ever feeling like they have to work harder. In this episode, she shares the exact quarterly planning process she uses to drive consistent 30% growth in Safi Media and recently helped a client achieve a whopping 50% revenue increase in just 90 days!
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Ever wondered how to launch a new offer and generate six figures without sending a single email or running paid ads?
Linda shares the ingenious community-driven launch strategy she used to generate over $300,000 in sales for her new program, The MixerMind, with zero emails and no paid advertising. By leveraging the power of peer-to-peer invites and allowing her existing community members to take ownership, Linda was able to fill her program with over 100 highly aligned members in a matter of days.
If you're looking for a fresh approach to launching that puts relationships and community at the forefront, this episode is a must-listen.
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Do you feel like you're constantly drowning in your to-do list with no time left to actually grow your business? Imagine what you could do with an extra 29 hours to work ON your business instead of just IN it.This week’s episode outlines a very high-level and strategic approach to managing your time so that you can have plenty of open, unscheduled time in your calendar.
If you're ready to take back control of your calendar and finally focus on the high-leverage activities that will catapult your business forward, this episode is a must-listen. You’ll learn why open, unscheduled time in your calendar is a sign of an effective and valuable leader, the changes that had the biggest impact on Eleanor’s calendar.
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How much should you pay yourself as a woman business owner? This is a question that plagues many entrepreneurs as they try to balance fairly compensating themselves with reinvesting profits back into the business. If this is you, you're in luck because this week, Eleanor gives you the ultimate guide for deciding on your salary and distributions as a woman CEO.
Listen in this week as Eleanor equips you with some timeless principles that will help you think critically about your own compensation. You’ll learn what is required of you to have a well-financed business, and become a well-financed woman who has the fuel you need to feel protected, weather challenges, and have an abundant life.
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What’s the secret to hosting live events as a way to not only connect with and serve your audience, but also generate insane revenue? Eleanor’s guest this week made $1.2M in three days through her live event, and she’s here to share everything she’s learned about the keys to success in selling in-person and virtual events.
Dr. Darnyelle Jervey Harmon is an award-winning business advisor, speaker, strategist, and the founder of multi-million-dollar company, Incredible One Enterprises: a minority woman-owned Inc. 5000 company specializing in combining business growth strategy with mindset and spiritual alignment principles.
Tune in this week as Dr. Darnyelle pulls back the curtain on how she generates multiple seven figures per year, largely driven by event marketing.
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If you want to drive huge profits in your business, you must focus on retention. Eleanor’s guest this week is a personal development powerhouse who has nailed down what is necessary to drive industry-leading client retention rates, and she’s here to give you a masterclass in advanced retention strategy.
Tracy Litt is a former HR executive who took the leap from corporate to the woman-owned world to build her personal development empire. Her company, The Litt Factor, rapidly crossed the seven-figure mark, a move Tracy says largely came from their outrageous retention rates. Her approach to client retention is what elevated her company into the top 1% of woman-owned businesses, and you get to hear exactly how she did it today.
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This week, you’re hearing Eleanor’s conversation with Ellen Yin, over on Ellen’s Cubicle to CEO Podcast. Since Q4 of 2021, Eleanor has successfully hosted 14 roundtables, which generated over $884,000 in revenue plus thousands of new email subscribers over two years, and she’s letting you in on the logistics behind hosting roundtables so you can replicate her strategy in your own business.
Tune in to hear Ellen quiz Eleanor on how Safi Media was able to add $884K in revenue through roundtable discussions. Eleanor breaks down everything you want to know, from the logistics of inviting and attracting speakers, to what mediating roundtables looks like, and how to best approach new leads that come through these types of discussions.
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There are lots of individual components involved in building strong personal branding, but Eleanor’s guest this week believes speaking is the best way to leverage your brand.
Monique Bryan is a personal branding coach for entrepreneurs, where she helps small business owners who haven’t quite figured out how to get people to take notice of their brand market themselves better. Monique has learned how to maximize the long-term marketing and brand-building firepower of speaking gigs, whether it’s a podcast, virtual event, or live on stage, and she’s giving you a masterclass in elevating your marketing. Listen in this week as Monique offers her four-step speaker protocol that helps her make $60K in additional revenue from unpaid speaking gigs.
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Your email list continues to be one of the most lucrative assets in any modern business. Social media shoutouts are great, but people’s email lists deliver way more leads and sales. Having a powerful asset like this gives you a growth runway and new people you can sell to, and this episode outlines an insanely simple way to begin growing your email list.
If you’re convinced by the power of building an audience that pays you, you’re in luck this week because Eleanor is here to share the three Ps of list building, and a simple two-step process you can get started on today to accelerate your audience and impact while enriching your network at the same time.
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It’s every entrepreneur’s dream to start a meaningful company, build up a great team, and create innovative tech that has an impact on the marketplace, so much so that someone comes along wanting to acquire your company, leading to you and your investors getting paid. This is Sreejata Chatterjee’s woman-owned story, and it’s a case study full of gems.
Sreejata Chatterjee is a self-professed nerd, programmer, and computer science genius who co-founded LeadSift in 2012 and then sold it in 2021. LeadSift helps B2B companies fill their pipelines using intelligence from publicly available data from places like social media, and in this interview, you’ll hear exactly how Sreejata secured her multi-million dollar exit.
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The decision to hire a full-time staff for your business is a huge commitment. A 2019 survey found that 55% of all entrepreneurs have gone without pay for at least six months in order to pay their staff, but unless you want to stay stuck doing everything on your own, you must figure out how to grow your team without going broke.
Join Eleanor this week as she gives you five fundamental rules for being an empathetic, compassionate, and great business owner to work for while ensuring a profitable and lucrative business. You’ll learn practical, actionable steps you can put into place to make sure you aren’t draining your company of profits, and tips for hiring employees who generate wins for your business.
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