The Smart Gets Paid Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Discover the unfiltered truth every consultant needs to hear, as Leah delivers a raw and honest pep talk. In this episode, she confronts hard realities, shares practical strategies, and offers actionable steps to propel your business forward, so you can stop stalling and start succeeding. Tune in for invaluable insights and a roadmap to a profitable and fulfilling year ahead.

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→ Get Higher-Paying Consulting Clients: If you’re a woman running a consulting business, learn how you can get paid more for your consulting contracts and attract more of the right kinds of clients at smartgetspaid.com.

What happens when you go from taking consulting projects here and there, to building your business with intention? That's the journey that leadership consultant Beth Messich is sharing in this episode. Join us as Beth Messich shares how she decided to go from from casual consulting gigs to intentional entrepreneurship.

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→ Get Higher-Paying Consulting Clients: If you’re a woman running a consulting business, learn how you can get paid more for your consulting contracts and attract more of the right kinds of clients at smartgetspaid.com.

As a woman consultant, it's not uncommon to feel like you're doing well with revenue, but maybe working with too many clients to get there. That can leave you feeling totally swamped. That's why many consultants want to move to working with fewer clients that pay you more. Leah dives into this topic in the first of a two-part series.

In this episode, Leah chats with a client about the first step to transitioning to fewer clients who pay you more: raising your prices with your current clients. Get ready for some great insights and tips on how to kickstart these important conversations.

Connect with Leah on LinkedIn

→ Get Higher-Paying Consulting Clients: If you’re a woman running a consulting business, learn how you can get paid more for your consulting contracts and attract more of the right kinds of clients at smartgetspaid.com.

Go behind the scenes with Leah as she coaches co-founders who have sent out a lot of proposals, but haven't gotten a lot of "yesses". You'll hear why selling into business is more complex, and how you can use that knowledge to successfully land new contracts. 

Topics covered: B2B selling, selling into a complex organization.

Resources:

→ Free Sales Strategy Guide for Consultants: If you’re looking for a clear, easy-to-follow sales strategy for your B2B consulting or coaching business, get your copy of the One-Page Sales Strategy, and create a customized, focused strategy for your business, today: onepagesalesstrategy.com

→ Get Higher-Paying Consulting Clients: If you’re a woman running a B2B consulting business, learn how you can get paid more for your consulting contracts and attract more of the right kinds of clients at smartgetspaid.com.

You know you can't serve *everyone*, but it's hard to focus on who you truly want to work with, then position your work for those clients. In this episode, listen in on a session with a leadership consultant who's struggling with her positioning, but she needs to make a decision first.

Topics covered: Value-based messaging, ideal clients, positioning

Resources:

→ Free Sales Strategy Guide for Consultants: If you’re looking for a clear, easy-to-follow sales strategy for your B2B consulting or coaching business, get your copy of the One-Page Sales Strategy, and create a customized, focused strategy for your business, today: onepagesalesstrategy.com

→ Get Higher-Paying Consulting Clients: If you’re a woman running a B2B consulting business, learn how you can get paid more for your consulting contracts and attract more of the right kinds of clients at smartgetspaid.com.

Listen in on Leah coach a woman who's leaving a long career in corporate finance to start her own business, and she wants to make sure she can do the work she loves, not the grunt work she hates. In this call, Leah shares the fastest route to revenue for consultants, and how to decide how to deliver your services.  

Topics covered: structuring a consulting business, positioning your business, and turning your work into a scaled offering.

Resources:

→ Free Sales Strategy Guide for Consultants: If you’re looking for a clear, easy-to-follow sales strategy for your B2B consulting or coaching business, get your copy of the One-Page Sales Strategy, and create a customized, focused strategy for your business, today: onepagesalesstrategy.com

→ Get Higher-Paying Consulting Clients: If you’re a woman running a B2B consulting business, learn how you can get paid more for your consulting contracts and attract more of the right kinds of clients at smartgetspaid.com.

"How can I muster the energy to try and get new clients when I'm feeling so depleted?" With the pandemic, social unrest, and a shaky democracy, a lot of women are asking themselves this question. Thankfully, one of Leah's clients also asked HER this question, and in this episode, you'll hear Leah's recommendation for what to do when you're feeling simply depleted.

Topics covered: Selling, working with the clients you want, talking about your beliefs, self care

Resources:

→ Free Sales Strategy Guide for Consultants: If you’re looking for a clear, easy-to-follow sales strategy for your B2B consulting or coaching business, get your copy of the One-Page Sales Strategy, and create a customized, focused strategy for your business, today: onepagesalesstrategy.com

→ Get Higher-Paying Consulting Clients: If you’re a woman running a B2B consulting business, learn how you can get paid more for your consulting contracts and attract more of the right kinds of clients at smartgetspaid.com.

When you run your own business, you want to be seen as an expert... but it feels weird to CALL yourself an expert. In this episode, listen in as Leah tackles this topic with one of her clients, and helps her figure out where her real value lies.  

Topics covered: LinkedIn, putting yourself out there, and showing up.

Resources:

→ Free Sales Strategy Guide for Consultants: If you’re looking for a clear, easy-to-follow sales strategy for your B2B consulting or coaching business, get your copy of the One-Page Sales Strategy, and create a customized, focused strategy for your business, today: onepagesalesstrategy.com

→ Get Higher-Paying Consulting Clients: If you’re a woman running a B2B consulting business, learn how you can get paid more for your consulting contracts and attract more of the right kinds of clients at smartgetspaid.com.

Listen in as Leah coaches a woman who's a self-proclaimed perfectionist, who has to figure out how to get new consulting clients for the first time since starting her business eight years ago.  

Topics covered: positioning your business, using LinkedIn to get clients, and getting out of your own way.

Resources:

→ Free Sales Strategy Guide for Consultants: If you’re looking for a clear, easy-to-follow sales strategy for your B2B consulting or coaching business, get your copy of the One-Page Sales Strategy, and create a customized, focused strategy for your business, today: onepagesalesstrategy.com

→ Get Higher-Paying Consulting Clients: If you’re a woman running a B2B consulting business, learn how you can get paid more for your consulting contracts and attract more of the right kinds of clients at smartgetspaid.com.

Join renowned B2B sales coach for women running consulting and coaching businesses, Leah Neaderthal, for a behind-the-scenes look as she helps women solve their biggest sales challenges and start landing higher-paying clients. 

From her background in marketing -- “definitely not a salesperson” -- she taught herself how to sell and developed a selling methodology that feels comfortable and works. Now she shares that with other women in their consulting and coaching businesses. 

From clearly communicating your value, to comfortably leading a sales process, to pricing your work, getting in front of your ideal business clients, and even confidence and mindset, you’ll listen in on the real, honest conversations with women just like you who are facing, and solving, these challenges. 

Along the way, you’ll discover that even if you’ve never been a salesperson, you can learn how to land consulting and coaching clients, comfortably and confidently, without being salesy. 

Learn more at smartgetspaid.com.