Launched in 2014, Smashing the Plateau shares weekly stories, strategies and ideas to help consultants, coaches and small business owners build success as entrepreneurs following long careers as high-achieving employees. We believe you should be able to take control over your career destiny, do what you love, what you’re competent at doing, and get paid what you’re worth, consistently. We are committed to the success of expertise-based businesses. Ready to go even deeper? The Smashing the Pl ...
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How to Achieve Business Success by Defining Success on Your Own Terms and Building Community Featuring Holly Jean
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Holly Jean Jackson is a Revenue and Performance Consultant, Speaker, Podcast Host, Author, and founder of Business Builder Throw Down. Her career spans technology, communications, organizational change, public relations, and content strategy. She has dedicated over 12 years to helping business leaders get their groove back physically, mentally, and…
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How to Embrace Vulnerability and Transform Your Career Path with Intuition and Empowerment Featuring Monika Sawyer
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Monika started Mastermind Mentoring in 2023 after spending 23 years in the high-tech consulting world, where she focused on solving customer problems through technical innovation, growth strategy, and client relationship management. The entrepreneurial path found her when life threw her a curveball, and her position was eliminated. During that time…
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How to Break Free from Myths About Wealth and Transform Your Financial Impact Featuring Kellan Fluckiger
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Kellan is the ultimate alchemist for entrepreneurial growth, a bestselling author of 20 books, and the founder of "Your Ultimate Life." Kellan helps entrepreneurs move mountains, melt barriers, and mobilize superpowers to achieve their dreams. Kellan's personal journey includes battles with depression and addiction. Now, he is committed to helping …
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How to Integrate Scientific Expertise and Human Skills for a Successful Coaching Career Transition Featuring Corinna Freitag
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Dr. Corinna Freitag is an Executive Coach, Advisor, and Speaker with over 30 years of expertise in natural and human sciences, spanning university, industry, and continuing education. She coaches STEM professionals to overcome workplace challenges so that they look forward to Mondays again. She holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and is certified as an Exec…
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How to Achieve Business Success Through Strategic Planning and Community Engagement Featuring Jessica Lackey
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Jessica Lackey is a strategy and operations advisor who blends business strategy, practical application, and a human-centric approach to create sustainable businesses. With a background in corporate leadership, McKinsey & Company consulting, and a Harvard Business degree, Jessica knows a thing or two about hustle culture and what it feels like to j…
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How to Overcome Project Pausing Fears and Seize New Opportunities Through Mindset Shifts Featuring Diana Acuna
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Diana has spent the last 20 years in SaaS. She has expertise in sales, customer success, Six Sigma, and service delivery. She is currently the Senior Director of Transformation at Kantata. As a leader, Diana is passionate about leveraging emotional intelligence in the workplace to drive meaningful outcomes, and she speaks and coaches on this topic.…
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How to Develop Essential Sales and Marketing Skills for Your Business Featuring Deborah Anne Coviello
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Deb Coviello is an accomplished author, podcast host, and leadership expert in quality and operational excellence, known as the CEO Whisperer. Deb uses her 30 years of experience to help CEOs and C-suite leaders of tomorrow find peace of mind by providing solutions to their technical business issues and elevating their teams. Her book, "The CEO's C…
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How to Transform Solo Entrepreneurship and Overcome Challenges with Effective Community Support and Strategic Planning Featuring Boudewijn Bertsch
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Bou is a leadership consultant who helps his clients discover how to bring out the best in themselves and others. He designs and delivers customized leadership development workshops for executive teams around the globe. Bou also has a thriving executive and life coaching practice. Together with his wife, Riva Greenberg, he supports people living wi…
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How to Utilize Self-Care Strategies for Effective Leadership While Transitioning to Entrepreneurship Featuring Boudewijn Bertsch
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Bou is a leadership consultant who helps his clients discover how to bring out the best in themselves and others. He designs and delivers customized leadership development workshops for executive teams around the globe. Bou also has a thriving executive and life coaching practice. Along with his wife, Riva Greenberg, he supports people living with …
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How to Manage Legal Challenges Faced by Startups and Small Businesses Featuring Shahrina Ankhi-Krol
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Shahrina Ankhi-Krol, Esq. is a distinguished attorney and the founder of Ankhi-Krol Law. Founded in 2012, Ankhi-Krol Law has become a leading legal service provider that caters exclusively to the needs of startups, small businesses, and entrepreneurs all over the country. The firm's areas of practice are Business, Contract, Trademark, and Copyright…
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How to Use Soft Skills to Enhance Team Performance and Leadership in Technical Fields Featuring Gloriana Teh
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Gloriana Teh is the founder and owner of Claritas Consulting & Coaching. She equips leaders and organizations so their people and projects can thrive. Claritas Consulting & Coaching provides strategy and talent management consulting services to organizations, along with leadership and career coaching services. Prior to consulting, Gloriana was resp…
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How to Master Effective Positioning and Understand Your Market Featuring Steven Lewis
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Steven Lewis is a copywriter who draws on decades of experience in journalism and marketing to position experts as the obvious choice for their ideal clients. In today's episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn how to effectively communicate your expertise and position yourself for success as a corporate refugee. Steven and I discuss: Steven…
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How to Make Consistent Progress and Generate Momentum in Business Featuring Kayvon K
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As a productivity and profitability expert, Kayvon helps entrepreneurs and business owners make consistent progress and generate momentum. In a world where information overload and execution shortages are rampant, he helps his clients implement the right growth strategies, in the right way, at the right time. Zero fluff. Just progress. Although he …
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How to Empower Educators Worldwide with AI Tools and Transform Online Learning Featuring Jessica Spencer
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After nearly two decades in the corporate world, Jessica founded the educational media company Penguin Connective to create greater equality and opportunity in hard-to-navigate areas, including future readiness, foster-to-adopt, and transitioning to adulthood. She is the creator of AI Explorer Society and a ChatGPT for Teachers course that is curre…
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How to Use Technical Skills to Create High-Impact Coaching and Newsletters Featuring Troy Larson
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Troy Larson has over 40 years of software development and technical management experience, including five years at Amazon as a Solutions Architect. In 2022, Troy founded The Unique VA Experience, a Filipino-based coaching company that has trained nearly 300 VAs, providing opportunities for Filipinos who are looking to change careers and for stay-at…
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How to Build a Successful Business and Triple Your Income Featuring Tina Collura
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Tina Collura is an award-winning Productivity and Business Development Coach who leverages over 14 years of entrepreneurial expertise to drive businesses from surviving to thriving. Through personalized consultations, she helps business owners develop growth models that secure deals and triple entrepreneurs' income swiftly. In today's episode of Sm…
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How to Enhance Your Online Presence and Transition to Entrepreneurship Successfully Featuring Ahsan Karim
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Ahsan Karim is a business strategist and founder of Light Vision Group. His company helps businesses generate more revenue with online marketing. In today's episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn about the journey of transitioning from a corporate career to becoming a successful entrepreneur and the importance of building an online presenc…
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How to Build a Business by Adapting Corporate Skills and Embracing Risk Featuring Erin Marcus
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Erin Marcus is the founder and CEO of Conquer Your Business, an international company helping driven entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve the financial and emotional freedom they need to build a business and life they’re proud of. In today's episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn how to unlearn corporate habits and develop a min…
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How to Apply Basic Work Design Principles for Organizational Success Featuring Thomas Bertels
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Thomas Bertels is a management consultant and business transformation expert on a mission to make work more productive, valuable, meaningful, and impactful. He has more than 25 years of experience helping companies across a range of industries, from startups to Fortune 5, transform how work gets done. Thinkers360 has recognized Thomas as a Top 50 T…
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How to Shift from Self-Employment to Entrepreneurship in the Translation Industry Featuring Jason Willis-Lee
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Jason Willis-Lee is a popular translator trainer and has given presentations on various business topics aimed at freelance translators and interpreters for ProZ, BP, CIOL, and Training for Translators. He co-founded the Collaborative Networking Translation Project, Medico-legal Translations (www.medicolegaltranslations.com). As a solopreneur, he re…
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How to Design Effective Business Processes and Focus on Productized Services Featuring Wayne Pelletier
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After 25 years as a creative professional, Wayne founded Resonant Pixel Company just three years ago. The business experienced some early rapid growth, but it wasn't the business Wayne wanted. He has since transitioned the company into productized services, helping small businesses leverage the Squarespace platform to go from having an informationa…
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How to Transition to Entrepreneurship with Effective Delegation Featuring Kyle Walburn
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Kyle Walbrun is the Founder and CEO of EfficientAide, an assistant company. He is deeply passionate about helping professionals work effectively and proficiently through a proven process of delegation. Throughout his career, Kyle has partnered with a broad range of business leaders, strategizing on how to buy back their time and eliminate worry. In…
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How to Navigate Mid-Sized Business Challenges for Growth Featuring Phillip Brown
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Phillip Brown is the founder of Blue Pit, Inc., a software consulting firm dedicated to improving business process automation. Throughout his career, Phillip has forged impactful partnerships with renowned organizations, including Disney, Harley Davidson, and NASA, leveraging his expertise to revolutionize their operations. His dedication lies in e…
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How to Hit the Million Mark as a Video Freelancer Featuring Ron Desi
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Ron Desi, a full-time freelancer on Fiverr, has just crossed the million-dollar threshold. He is a video content creator and professional spokesperson, who has also started an off-Fiverr agency offering video services to law firms aiming to attract clients through video. Previously, he worked as an IT consultant and directed a university MBA progra…
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How to Combine Expertise with Coaching for Success Featuring Carla Fowler
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Dr. Carla Fowler is an MD, PhD, and an elite executive coach who has been a secret weapon for scores of CEOs, entrepreneurs, and other senior leaders for the last decade. Carla's unique approach combines the latest research from performance science with timeless best practices to help top performers level up and achieve their goals. In today's epis…
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