I’m Making Some Big Changes. Here’s What’s Coming Next.
Things are about to shift.
For the last four and a half years, I’ve been building my solopreneur business.
As of today (Jan 12th, 2025) I have officially become my longest employer. That’s pretty wild!
For most of that time, I grew the business in a linear way:
improve my coaching
raise prices a little
take on more clients
It worked well, until I hit a capacity ceiling in 2025.
My calendar is full, my energy is finite, and I have two young kids at home who deserve the best of me, not whatever is left after a week of Zoom calls. And when you reach that point, you face a choice: keep pushing the same model harder… or rethink the entire system.
I realized it was time to rethink things.
So I’m reshaping my business in 2026 because I want more impact - without more units of work.
A few months ago, I sat down and asked myself what the next chapter of this business should look like. I realized that I want to serve more people, build something bigger, and create work that aligns with the season of life I’m in right now.
The next evolution is going to have two important building blocks.
The podcast
A group coaching program
In this piece, I’ll focus on the podcast (though I’ll share a deep-dive into how I’m thinking about group coaching later in Q1).
How the Podcast Started
I started the show without much of a plan.
Eighteen months ago, I filmed the first episode on pure instinct. I had no podcast gear and no interview skills.
But I knew two things:
I love story-driven conversations
I wanted to humanize the people in our industry who look flawless on paper (or Linkedin) - Heads of growth, heads of product, CMOs - people who moved up quickly and never seemed to make the mistakes I kept making in my own career journey.
Early in my own career, I had tons of anxiety, self-doubt, and burnout moments.
But nobody talked about that stuff publicly.
I wanted to understand if I was the only person who struggled with these. So the podcast became my way of finding out.
(And over 80+ interviews, I learned that they absolutely do.)
What Surprised Me
Some surprising things worked better than I expected.
The first, is how open guests became.
When we finished recording, every guest said (some flavor of), “I’ve never shared that publicly before,” which is cool to hear.
More importantly, that honesty created connection with listeners. I started getting messages saying the show helped them feel less alone, or helped them get through a brutal season of work.
One coaching client even told me they were experiencing such extreme burnout that it caused hair loss (they pulled off their hat to show me!) - and that the show made them feel understood for the first time in months.
And also reinforced something I’ve always believed: the human growth stories (vs the company growth stories) are what’s most important.
And the audience growth, while modest, reflects that. The show has over 1,200 subscribers with strong retention, which feels meaningful given how hard growing a podcast is.
But for every win, there were more cracks that needed fixing.
What Needed to Change
The show didn’t have a clear premise - and it caught up with me.
Growing a podcast is brutally hard.
There’s no discovery on Apple or Spotify.
LinkedIn hates external links.
And, remote-interview clips, don’t stop the scroll on short-form platforms.
But my biggest problem was lack of clarity.
When I interviewed five listeners and asked how they’d describe the show, I got five entirely different answers (and none matched my vision).
I also kept hearing that people wanted to hear more of my perspective.
But I wasn’t sure how solo-episodes fit into the interview show I had created. So I held back.
The Leadership Thread Running Through Everything
The best episodes all shared the same DNA.
They humanized the guest
Normalized the hard moments
And highlighted the lessons gained from them
Those three elements created the episodes people shared the most, replayed the most, and emailed me about.
And they represent something I see every day in my coaching practice: at a certain point in your career, your success stops being about tactics.
It becomes about managing yourself through pressure, uncertainty, tough feedback, and the moments where your confidence wobbles. Those are inner-game skills. They’re hard to learn from books. They’re painful to learn through mistakes. And they become transformative when you learn them through someone else’s experience.
That’s the direction the show needs to go.
Where the Podcast Is Going Next
So here’s where the podcast is heading next.
The premise is getting sharper. The structure is changing. I’m adding solo episodes. And I’m rebuilding the show to focus on the inner game of growth leadership - the part of the job nobody trains us for, but everyone eventually struggles with.
Stories will stay at the center, but they’ll sit alongside more practical lessons you can apply in your own leadership journey.
And the show is getting a rebrand:
new name
new artwork
new positioning
new publishing cadence.
It’s a full rebuild. My hope is the podcast will become one of the main pillars of the business because it will allow me reach more people and teach at scale.
This shift is about creating leverage without losing the quality or depth that makes the work meaningful.
Later this week, I’ll share the full reveal.
I’ll walk through the new name, artwork, structure, and direction - and share how it all connects to the mission that’s been shaping my work from day one.
I’m building this next version of the business to help more people navigate leadership with less stress, more clarity, and more confidence.
I’m excited about what’s coming. I’m excited about what this unlocks. And if you’ve been following my work, I hope you stick with me - because this next chapter is going to be a big one.
And if you haven’t already I hope you’ll subscribe on whatever platform(s) you use most.
More soon.