Breakfree from
Being the Bottleneck:
For consulting, marketing or creative agency owners still stuck in the "it's easier to do it myself" cycle.
Get access to 5 industry leaders exploring different seasons of business change and learn how they broke free from the bottleneck cycle to scale.
Hosted by Audrey Joy Kwan
Are you in a season of growth, pivot or change and need more time back from the day-to-day of your business?
Feel like you’re stuck in busy work or weighed down by things you want off your plate (like now)?
Odds are you started your business for more opportunities and freedom.
But as you grow your business from just you to three, five or twenty, you unknowingly (or knowingly) have freelancer, solopreneur and perfectionist habits that no longer serve your new direction.
Let me explain...
All multiple six and seven-figure service-based business owners who start their business providing a service and excel at what they do have blind spots.
Your blind spots make you doubt the business you truly want is possible.
On some days, it has you thinking about throwing in the towel. Sometimes it feels like the mountain is too steep a climb.
But don’t be fooled; it's not the climb that is hard; it’s the struggle to see your way out of the plateau and the bottleneck cycle.
In this free curated audio, pop-up event, you will gain a front-row seat to how these 5 “feel the fear and do it anyway” business owners broke free of the bottleneck cycle across different seasons in each of their businesses to grow multiple six, multiple seven figures and even take a business public (IPO).
So read on...
What stalls growth is the number of decisions you have to make.
How do you make decisions in different seasons in your business so you can grow instead of finding yourself stuck as the bottleneck?
There’s much more to growth than “just delegate,” as some would have you believe.
This audio pop-up event gives you access to 5 industry leaders and business owners who have gone through 5 different seasons when “just delegate” isn’t enough.
You will hear firsthand:
- What it takes to have rapid growth and big goals and not get stuck as the bottleneck
- How to take your maternity leave and grow your revenue at the same time
- What perfectionist habits and beliefs are the hardest to shake to build a multiple seven-figure business that runs without you
- When to pivot, add or let go of services, clients, or team members to create the next big leap in your business
At different seasons in your business, you will find yourself at the bottleneck of different things and needing new perspectives to break free.
We will dig into the seasons and reasons together so you can gain more freedom at your business's different stages and seasons to scale your business.
If you’re the bottleneck in your business, you’re not alone.
Get access to five multi-six and seven-figure service-based women entrepreneurs who were once-upon-a-time solopreneurs and took smart risks in the right season and with the right reason to catapult their growth and get out of the bottleneck cycle.
I’m pulling back the curtains with my mentor, clients and friends so you can shortcut growth and tap into the thinking that worked in different stages and seasons of business.
Meet Our Speakers
Miranda Lievers
How to do less for rapid business growth
Before she co-founded Thinkific (and took it public), Miranda built and grew a small design agency into a nationally recognized photography studio and turned a side hustle into over seven figures. She scaled her team to give her back time and co-founded Thinkific, a business that, in 2022 alone, made over 50 million dollars.
Co-Founder, Thinkific
Andréa Jones
How to set up your agency to make money while on extended leave?
Running a social media agency generating $700K and poised to break the million-dollar mark, Andréa needed to maintain the momentum while taking maternity leave. She shares the strategic optimizations, solutions and systems that made it possible and how she now averages 25-hour work week.
Founder, OnlineDrea Inc.
Bonnie Wan
How to “lift as you rise” to create an award-winning self-managing team
Bonnie knows what it takes to lead award-winning teams and carve out time for her entrepreneurial pursuits. As Partner and Head of Brand Strategy for Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Bonnie’s leadership has earned the Cannes Grand Prix Lion in Creative Strategy and a Grand Ogilvy, among many accolades. She was named 2022’s “Chief Strategy Officer of the Year“ and 2023’s Leading Women Award. Hear how she transformed her leadership role over the years and the lessons to building an award-winning self-managing team.
Partner & Head of Brand Strategy, Goodby Silverstein & Partners
Kiirsten May
How to make $500K in your first year and scale it to multiple 7 figures in 6 years
Kiirsten and Alex started UpHouse in 2017 as a team of two and have grown the company to nearly 40 people going from $500K to a multiple seven-figure agency. Kiirsten compares and contrasts the shift from a flat structure to developing a traditional organizational structure with a director-level team, the whiplash of rapid growth and how to empower employees through change.
Co-Founder, UpHouse
Natalie Gingrich
Who do you need in your business to support operations?
Natalie Gingrich is the founder of The Ops Authority, where she certifies and mentors women who leverage their natural skillset of operations and administration. Natalie demystifies the difference between Operation roles so you can determine who you need in your business and at what stage.
CEO, The Ops Authority
Breakfree from Being the Bottleneck:
An audio event for consulting, marketing or creative agency owners still stuck in the “it's easier to do it myself” cycle.
Get access to 5 industry leaders exploring different seasons of business change and learn how they broke free from the bottleneck cycle to scale.
When you RSVP to this free private audio pop-up event, you’ll get:
5 exclusive interviews via private podcast feed (listen from anywhere!)
Invites to strategic roundtables with other agency owners
Expert insights and practical takeaways from experts who have done it.
A curated front-row seat to agencies owned or operated by women who are open books (you won’t get this anywhere else!)
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anywhere, anytime.
Meet your host
Hey Friend, I’m Audrey Joy Kwan.
I help service-based business owners go from solopreneur to agency owner with strategic systems, processes and leadership.
This includes a track record of helping agencies triple their revenue and a Master's Degree in Communications focused on Organizational Development.
In this free audio pop-up event, meet my mentor (Miranda Leivers), my clients and my friends, who will take you behind the scenes of their business to:
- Uncover misconceptions that hold you back and give you shortcuts to break through your bottleneck plateaus.
- Share what it means as a women agency owner to feel the fear and do it anyways to reach seven figures.
- Figure out what matters in different seasons and stages of business instead of a one size fits all thinking.
From my experience as a coach and strategist to agency owners and having been second in command of a seven-figure agency, I know firsthand the struggle of being a bottleneck and how to grow past it.
That’s why I’m bringing you this exclusive audio event.
So read on…
You won’t find this unique line-up anywhere else.
From an agency owner who broke free from the bottleneck to co-found a 50 million dollar company that has gone public (IPO). To an agency leader spilling the secrets to leading an award-winning self-managing team. And how an agency owner set herself up to work 25 hours a week and more.
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Break Free From Being the Bottleneck
For consulting, marketing or creative agency owners still stuck in the "it's easier to do it myself cycle. Get access to a thoughtfully curated audio event of leaders to break free from the bottleneck cycle.