Prepared is the Enemy of Perfect
Breadwinning Business Women with Jamila Payne
Release Date: 04/24/2025
Money Mistakes that Women Owners Make (and How to Avoid Them) Part 2
Breadwinning Business Women with Jamila Payne
Last week, we cleaned up your money habits. This week, we build your financial empire. Because once you stop saying “I’m bad with money,” the next question is— “How do I make my money work for me?” That’s where this week’s episode of Breadwinning Business Women comes in. We’re going beyond cash flow and into CEO-level financial strategy—the kind that turns profit into wealth. Here’s what I’ll walk you through: 💸 Why “winging” your prices keeps you broke (and the formula that fixes it). 💸 How to make taxes a strategy, not a surprise. 💸 The reason you must...
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5 Money Mistakes that Women Owners Make (and How to Avoid Them)
Breadwinning Business Women with Jamila Payne
You’re not bad with money. You just haven’t been taught how to own your numbers yet. In this week’s episode of Breadwinning Business Women, I’m calling out the five money mistakes that quietly keep smart women broke — and how to fix them for good. And I know them all because I’ve been there. Think of it as a financial detox for your business. You’ll learn: 💸 The #1 number you need to pay attention to in your business and it’s NOT revenue. 💸 How to start paying yourself even if your cash inflow is inconsistent. 💸 Why hiding from the numbers in your business is costing...
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Managing the “Messy Middle” of Emotions in Business
Breadwinning Business Women with Jamila Payne
You sit at your laptop. The email draft to a potential client is open. The cursor blinks. But you freeze. You tell yourself you’ll come back to it later. But “later” keeps turning into someday, maybe, never. That’s not procrastination. That’s success avoidance. In this week’s episode of Breadwinning Business Women, I’m breaking down how fear, doubt, and discomfort quietly sabotage your next level and how to stop letting emotions block your income. You’ll walk away knowing exactly how to build your emotional edge—the skill that separates stuck entrepreneurs from those who...
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7 Must have skills that every business owner needs
Breadwinning Business Women with Jamila Payne
Your calendar is full. Revenue feels stuck. You are doing more work, not getting better results. You need skills that convert effort into income. I’ll share seven of them today. In this week’s Breadwinning Business Women, I coach you through the skills that pay the bills. I show you how to practice each one without overwhelm. Clear steps. Real examples. What to do first, and what to stop doing now. Here is what you will take with you: The two-date method that makes projects ship on time. The sales shift that stops overtalking and starts closing. The 10-minute weekly marketing check...
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How to Stop Overthinking and Start Winning
Breadwinning Business Women with Jamila Payne
Success doesn’t sit around waiting while you “think it over.” It moves. Fast. I learned that the hard way early in my career—watching mentors, colleagues, and even friends leapfrog to results while I was still making color-coded pros and cons lists. That’s what this week’s episode of Breadwinning Business Women is all about: why success loves speed and how you can finally stop waiting and start winning. Here’s what I break down inside: The one sneaky habit that makes you feel productive but actually keeps you stuck. A two-minute practice that will kill your procrastination...
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The Six-Figure Mistake That Almost Sank My Business
Breadwinning Business Women with Jamila Payne
Picture this: Your business is rolling. Bank deposits are coming in. Clients feel steady. And then—bam. One shift, one decision, one email from your “big client”... and your cash flow dries up overnight. That happened to me. And the mistake cost me six figures. In this week’s Breadwinning Business Women episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on that story—and more importantly, the strategies you can use to make sure it doesn’t happen to you. Here’s a taste of what you’ll hear inside: Why depending too heavily on one client is riskier than you think (and how to spot it before...
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Prep Your Business for a Profitable Fall (My Simple 5-Step Routine)
Breadwinning Business Women with Jamila Payne
You know what most business owners do in August? They coast. They slow down. They “wait until September” to get serious. And then they spend the first month of Fall playing catch-up while the clients… the opportunities… the profits… pass them by. I’m not letting that happen to you. That’s why I just dropped a brand new episode of the Breadwinning Business Women podcast: Prep Your Business for a Profitable Fall (My SIMPLE 5-Step Routine) Inside, I’m breaking down exactly what to do right now to: Set clear sales targets that make your Q4 revenue predictable Lock in the...
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How I Built My First Group Coaching Program to Scale My Business
Breadwinning Business Women with Jamila Payne
Ever hit a wall in your business and wonder, ‘Is this all there is? At that moment I wanted to throw in the towel because it hit me like a ton of bricks: I can’t scale my business if I’m the only one doing the work. So, I took a leap. Instead of just coaching clients one at a time, I started a group program and brought on two coaches. It wasn’t the smoothest transition, but let me tell you—it was worth every second of discomfort. In this week’s episode of the Breadwinning Business Women podcast, I’m flipping the script a bit. For the last few weeks, we’ve been...
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Package Your Expertise into a Scalable Group Offer
Breadwinning Business Women with Jamila Payne
I met a brilliant service provider—a woman who helped C-suite executives get clear on their personal brand. When I asked about her client experience, she said: “Oh, it’s completely custom. Every single one is different.” My eyebrows raised. And my business coach radar went off. Because “completely custom” sounds luxurious—until you realize it’s also completely unsustainable. She was overdelivering, undercharging, and staying stuck in the cycle of trading dollars for hours. So I asked her: What if you didn’t have to keep teaching your expertise from scratch? What if your...
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The Business Model That Gives You Your Time Back
Breadwinning Business Women with Jamila Payne
I remember staring at my calendar—17 client calls booked for the week. Every hour filled. Every day color-coded and accounted for. I had built what some would call a “successful” business. But it didn’t feel like success. It felt like I was stuck in back-to-back Zoom sessions, trapped by my own creation. I loved my clients...but hated how I was living. And that’s when I realized something that changed everything: I hadn’t built a business—I had built a really demanding job. If your day’s are filled with client work, this week’s episode of the Breadwinning Business Women...
info_outlineYou’re stuck in prep mode.
There’s a sneaky little trap high-achieving women fall into—and it’s dressed up as professionalism.
We wait until the branding is perfect.
We stall until the funnel is polished.
We tell ourselves, “When I’m ready, I’ll (fill in the blank)”
But let me tell you: Prepared is the enemy of profit.
And in today’s new episode of Breadwinning Business Women, we’re blowing this mindset wide open.
Because women like us? We don’t have time to let perfection block our purpose. We have revenue to earn and lives to change.
This episode is part mini training, part mindset makeover—and it’s going to give you the nudge (or the kick 👠 booty) you didn’t know you needed.
Here’s what you’ll hear inside:
🔹 The personal story of how I delayed a book deal chasing a fake rule—and what finally snapped me out of it
🔹 The 3-step shift to start profiting even when you don’t feel ready
🔹 The real reason your “perfectly done” projects aren’t converting—and what to do about it now
If you’ve been sitting on your brilliance, hiding behind another round of tweaking, editing, or rebranding—this is your wake-up call.
Let’s stop playing small in the name of getting it perfect.
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