This episode of The Art of Entrepreneurship is for founders who catch themselves comparing their year two to someone else's year thirteen. Comparison shows up whether you feel behind or ahead, and the people who look effortlessly ahead of you are usually hiding just as much as you are. My fix isn't to stop comparing, it's a four-word mantra that lets you feel someone else's win without losing your own.

Tune in if you're ready to trade comparison for a mantra that assumes your time is still coming.

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This episode of The Art of Entrepreneurship is for founders who need to believe a setback is making room for something better. I don't hold onto this belief because I'm an optimist; I hold onto it because I know how hard I work to make it true. That's the difference between empty positivity and a mantra that actually moves you forward. When a client leaves or a goal falls through, I ask myself one question: what would better actually look like? Then I go build it.

Tune in if you're ready to turn your next setback into an assignment instead of a tragedy.

✨ This podcast is produced in partnership with Accelity, a full-service marketing agency for bold people growing bold companies.

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This episode of The Art of Entrepreneurship is about why you have to ask for what you want—because if you don't, the answer is already no. I've used this one mantra to waive college classes, fund my MBA and negotiate raises. Tune in if you're ready to stop hoping and start asking for exactly what you want.

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This episode of The Art of Entrepreneurship is for founders who are scared that niching down means shrinking their business.

Going narrow feels like it should shrink your market, until you realize staying a generalist is the bigger risk. My guest Chris Widmayer of Penrod slowed his own company's growth for three years by betting on a single vertical, and that bet is exactly what turned his consultancy into one of the top five healthcare partners in the entire Salesforce ecosystem.

Tune in if you're sitting on the fence about going narrow and you want to hear what it actually costs and what it actually gives back.

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This episode of The Art of Entrepreneurship is for anyone struggling to connect with the right audience—and struggling to grow their business as a result. We're revisiting one of our most requested episodes: my case for why an ideal customer profile isn't optional, and why saying no to the wrong-fit clients is what actually let us grow. Tune in if you're ready to get selective about who you work with, even when it feels counterintuitive.

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This episode of The Art of Entrepreneurship is for marketers and business leaders who think a strong strategy is enough to make marketing work.

I’m chatting with Sarah Bielejeski, our Key Account Director at Accelity, who keeps every stakeholder aligned and the friction low; and Sierra Davis, our Marketing Account Manager, who builds the processes that carry a project from kickoff all the way through to results.

We talk about why senior stakeholders who all think they know marketing can quietly stall a plan, how a client that hasn't aligned internally will hand you five different definitions of success, and why reporting only the wins instead of the misses is the fastest way to lose a client's trust.

Tune in if your agency or your team keeps delivering work but you're still not sure it's moving the business forward, and you want to know how to fix that.

✨ This podcast is produced in partnership with Accelity, a full-service marketing agency for bold people growing bold companies.

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This episode of The Art of Entrepreneurship is for founders who just spent the summer filling their pipeline and are about to say yes to whatever comes out of it. Not every deal deserves a yes; bad revenue costs more than no revenue at all, and it rarely shows up on the P&L until it's already eating your team's time and energy.

Tune in if you're ready to stop chasing every dollar and start being selective about which ones you actually take.

✨ This podcast is produced in partnership with Accelity, a full-service marketing agency for bold people growing bold companies.

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Making a strategy is the easy part. Making it work is where things get messy.

In this episode, I'm joined by two people who see that gap every day with our clients at Accelity: Steph Gambino, our Account Director who manages complexity and keeps strategy moving, and Kelley Rogers, our Senior Copywriter who translates that strategy into messaging people actually respond to.

We talk about why a strategy that feels solid in one meeting can unravel the moment more stakeholders get involved, how to spot a brand strategy that's built on copying competitors instead of finding its own voice, and why "surprise feedback" late in a project usually means someone was left out of the room too long.

Tune in if your strategy looks great on paper but keeps falling apart in execution, and you want to know how to fix that.

✨ This podcast is produced in partnership with Accelity, a full-service marketing agency for bold people growing bold companies.

If you're ready to level up your B2B marketing, check us out.

→ accelitymarketing.com

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