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The SpeakEasy Cooperative We teach creative brains to think like business leaders so they tear down toxic systems & make money.

We are a consulting and coaching firm that uses a variety of personal and professional development strategies to help voice teachers, performers, musicians, and other service-based business owners in the arts become profitable and self-loyal. At the heart of our mission is the joy of witnessing individuals discover their true potential and purpose in the world. We foster this growth through our core values of business savvy, tenacity, and radical hospitality. Whether you join The SpeakEasy Cooperative®, become a member of the How to Run Your Voice Biz Without Hating Your Boss Accelerator Program, or choose 1:1 coaching, we are here to give you the tools and support you need to build a sustainable and money-without-shame business.

Ten years ago, the ideal client conversation was primarily about who someone was on paper: age, income, how much they'd ...
09/29/2026

Ten years ago, the ideal client conversation was primarily about who someone was on paper: age, income, how much they'd probably pay.

That version of the framework is still very important, and it isn't wrong! It's the foundation for how to approach for the world we market in now.

This training takes SECO members through a fast pass at ideal client work, built on the STAR framework taught inside H2RA's "Cast the Show" module, reshaped around how AI ads to the conversation in 2026.

Members will learn:

… Why an ideal client isn't a luxury, an ego trip, or an act of exclusion, and why the whole business rests on getting clear about this

… The STAR framework at a glance: Specific, Truly profitable, Amicable, Representative

…. What's made the IC client convo more nuanced in the last ten years, including how AI-driven search is reshaping who gets found at all, why demographics stopped being the main event, and why vague marketing reads as untrustworthy instead of safe

… A real, doable way to spot the pattern in current clients this week, without rewriting a whole profile from scratch

Deets:
Tues, Oct. 13th at 10am PT - 11:30am PT
Members Only Training

Not a member yet? Learn more at https://thespeakeasycooperative.com/speakeasy/

09/28/2026

One of the most expensive things you can do in business is solve the wrong problem.

We buy the scheduling software before understanding the workflow issue. We lower the price before looking at the sales problem. We take on more students before recognizing the capacity problem.

Sometimes the thing that looks like a pricing problem is really about confidence, boundaries, capacity, or the way you’ve learned to value your work.

What Your Artist Business Needs Next is a free 3-part series for arts educators who want to understand what is actually keeping their business stuck and what to do about it.

In about 10 minutes a day, you’ll look at three common pressure points: money, time, and capacity, then choose one clear next step.

Less spiraling, more starting: http://thespeakeasycooperative.com/next

09/21/2026

Patch a problem without diagnosing it and it doesn't actually leave. It comes back in six weeks wearing a little disguise, like a Scooby-Doo villain betting you won't look too closely.

So you patch it again. And again. Meanwhile, 15 or 20 minutes on your calendar finding the real source would've unmasked it the first time.

Go ahead and pull the mask off. Turns out the thing haunting your business was a fixable setting the whole time.

Episode 12 is all about troubleshooting without spiraling.

🎧 Listen on the How to Run Your Biz Without Hating Your Boss Podcast

09/15/2026

“I thought you just ran a voice studio.”

Michelle’s accountant assumed a music teacher couldn’t have checked her own numbers. Then Michelle proved otherwise, and the whole room shifted.

Here’s what gets us: no other field is expected to know everything and nothing at the same time. People revere what we do as artists and educators, and still assume we couldn’t possibly handle the business side.

So we want to hear it. Have you ever been talked down to for being “just” a music teacher? Drop it below. 👇

Full episode this week — subscribe so it hits your feed the second it’s live.
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Everything ended up in your head because that is where a business goes when nothing else is built for it.The follow-ups....
09/14/2026

Everything ended up in your head because that is where a business goes when nothing else is built for it.

The follow-ups. The policies. The pricing decisions. The scheduling. The tiny tasks that somehow become your whole week.

Get that business stuff out of your head, and stop being tired for reasons no one else can see.

What Your Artist Business Needs Next is a free 3-part series that helps you identify whether your business needs money, time, or capacity most right now.

Start the free 3-part series and discover what your business needs next: https://thespeakeasycooperative.com/what-your-artist-business-needs-next/

09/02/2026

A deadline three weeks out stays abstract to an ADHD brain until it's basically on top of you.

The brain chemicals wait for the crisis, so the panic ends up doing real work supplying the dopamine and adrenaline the brain wasn't generating on its own.

That's why telling yourself to feel the deadline earlier goes nowhere.

The move is to manufacture a little urgency on purpose, before the real thing shows up and takes over.

Full episode on motivation is live now.

🎧 Listen on the How to Run Your Biz Without Hating Your Boss Podcast, Episode 11: What to do when your motivation is in the toilet

08/27/2026

Urgency feels like motivation. It's a trap.

When you lean on a fire deadline to get things done, your brain floods with cortisol and adrenaline and starts to believe the only way you do good work is under pressure.

Rely on it long enough and you train your brain to depend on self-created crises to get anything done.

Fret not, ADHD friends! We know urgent = important for ya, and we cover exactly that in this episode as well.

The full conversation on motivation (and what to do when yours is in the toilet) is live now.

🎧 Listen to Episode 11 of the How to Run Your Biz Without Hating Your Boss Podcast

08/26/2026

And the podcast is back! For Episode 11 we focused on “What to do when your motivation is in the toilet…”

Here’s a little peek into the framing behind this episode. More clips to come!

🎙️ Check out the full episode wherever you love to listen to podcasts: How to Run Your Biz Without Hating Your Boss.

08/24/2026

I rarely talk about faith-related things.

I’m more of a “they will know you by your fruit“ deconstructed and reconstructed gal.

And it may surprise you to know that I have a masters degree in worship, theology, and the arts, and I’m acutely qualified to talk about faith things in addition to all the other things I’m qualified to talk about.

Am I being absolute and judgmental in this reel? Indeed I am.

Am I holding back the benefit of the doubt? Indeed I am.

Do I see this as a table flipping moment instead of a “let people be people, they’re doing the best they can?” Indeed I do.

Will I delete later because once I calm down I’ll wish I was more kind about it? Indeed I may.

But y’all, I am STUCK on this:
If one cannot bother to do the things that needs to be done in order to stage a show properly, one should not be doing it.

Getting theater out into the world is hard. And yet thousands of people figure out how to do it every day!

Thousands of people with smaller budgets, tighter deadlines, and a higher sense of integrity than some yo-yo butts out there that thinks they’re above all the rules.

(for those of you out there that work your ass off in order to make sure that you’re doing it the way that it needs to be done, may all the blessings from all the deities fall upon you and may your next season bring you a volunteer brigade that can move mountains)


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