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Ambitious Podcast
Welcome to The Ambitious Podcast with Kate Perkovic, a former server turned 7-figure business owner. Join Kate in exploring how unwavering ambition fuels success. Discover insights from a seasoned business coach, delve into pivotal entrepreneurial roles, and embrace ambitious living for holistic growth. Set audacious goals, thrive with experts' breakthroughs, and remember—stay ambitious!
Episodes
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How to Actually Regulate Your Nervous System While Scaling a Business w/Olivia Marie | EP.150
The ceiling in your business is almost never a strategy problem. It’s an internal one. And today’s guest, Liv, has built an entire body of work around proving…
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3 Signs Your Relationship Is Capping Your Success | EP.149
This is the conversation Kate has most often behind closed doors with women in business, and the one almost nobody is having publicly. Because naming it feels…
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The Real Reason Your Content Stopped Getting Views | EP.148
You’ve felt it. The content that used to work isn’t working the same way anymore, and nobody has given you a straight answer on why or what to do instead. This…
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How to Plan a Black Friday Promo That Actually Sells Out | EP.147
$6.3 million per minute. That is how much money is being spent during Black Friday. Not per hour. Per minute. And if your business isn't intentionally…
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EP. 146: The 7 Messages Buyers Need Before They Buy From You
If you've been posting consistently, showing up on stories, putting in the reps, and still feel like your content is going nowhere, this episode is going to be…
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EP.145: The Hidden Reason You're Not Attracting Premium Buyers
You might have a premium price. You might even have premium results. But if the people closing into your offers are draining your energy, questioning every…
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EP.144: The Soft Skills That Actually Close High-Ticket Sales
You refined the script. You adjusted the wording. You practiced the objection handles. And they still didn't close. If that sounds familiar, this episode is…
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EP.143: The Daily Habits That Separate Who You Are From Who You Want to Be
You know who she is. The future version of you. You can see how she runs her mornings, how she responds to problems, how she shows up in her business. You've…
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EP.142: Successful and Miserable: When Ambition Loses It's Fun
You still love your business. You're not ready to walk away from it. But somewhere between where you started and where you are now, it stopped being fun. The…
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EP.141: The Real Reason Your Team Isn't Giving You Any Relief
More people on payroll. More expenses going out. And somehow, you're still working the same hours you were before any of them existed. If that's where you are…
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EP.140: You Don't Have to Be an Influencer to Build a Personal Brand
You didn't sign up to post your morning coffee. You didn't sign up to document every corner of your house or have strangers know your dog's name. And if…
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EP.139: Why Your Sales Funnel Stopped Working
Something has shifted, and you've felt it. Getting leads, warming them, converting them - it all feels harder than it did a few years ago. This episode is the…
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EP.138: Stuck at the Same Revenue Every Month?
Same numbers as last week. Same as the week before. You're doing everything right, and nothing is moving. That's a plateau. And the plateau itself isn't the…
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EP.137: How to Take Maternity Leave When YOU Are the Business
Nobody posts the messy middle of planning a business around a baby. You see the pregnancy announcement. You see her back at her desk a few months later. What…
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EP.136: Stuck in Your Comfort Zone? How to Know If You're Justifying Fear or Making a Smart Choice
Comfort is not lazy. It's actually one of the most sophisticated opponents you're going to face in business. It comes to the table with logical arguments…
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EP.135: First-Gen Entrepreneur Isolation: How to Build Your Own Safety Net
Nobody hands you a manual for this. There's no parent to call when a client ghosts an invoice, no older sibling who's been through a slow month in their own…
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EP.134: How to Find Your Personal Style When Nothing in Your Closet Feels Right w/Jamie Lewis
Getting dressed every morning shouldn't feel like a problem to solve. But for a lot of women, it does. The same ten pieces on rotation, the Pinterest boards…
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EP.133: The 4-Part Social Proof Framework That Turns Client Wins Into Consistent Sales
You have results. Real ones. Clients hitting milestones, sending voice notes, sharing wins you genuinely didn't expect. And yet somehow, when it comes to…
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EP.132: From Goat Milk to $150M w/ Brent Ridge of Beekman 1802
What does it actually look like to build a nine-figure brand from a moment of total financial collapse, a herd of borrowed goats, and the decision to never…
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EP.131: The Truth About Passive Income That Nobody in Online Business Will Tell You
You want sales coming in while you sleep. You want to stop feeling like the second you step away, the revenue stops too. That desire makes complete sense, but…
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Hot Takes: Online Business Advice I Absolutely Hate
Eight years in this industry, and the one thing that's never changed? Everyone online has an opinion and they're saying it like it's law. High ticket is the…
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5 Discovery Call Mistakes Killing Your Close Rate
Your discovery calls aren't failing you, they're talking to you. The no-shows, the reschedulers, the people who ghost halfway through the application, the…
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Thinking About Quitting Your Business? STOP. Listen To This First
Save this one. Seriously. Bookmark it, download it, do whatever you need to do so that the next time you're sitting in the feeling of I can't keep going, you…
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A Client Just Asked For a Refund. Here's Exactly What To Do
Refund requests. Cancelled contracts. Failed payments. Nobody's posting about this on Instagram, but it's happening in scaling businesses everywhere, including…
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People Are Watching, Saving & Engaging. So Why Is Nobody Buying?
Most online business owners are great at creating offers. Far fewer know how to create demand for them. And if the only time your offer moves is during a…
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Strategic Patience: Why It Builds Million-Dollar Businesses
Every entrepreneur has heard it both ways: progress requires patience and success loves speed. But what if the problem isn't that you're moving too slow or too…
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EP.124: How to Stand Out Online When Everyone Does What You Do| The Ambitious Podcast
Standing out in a saturated online market starts with one thing: a brand point of view. In this episode, I'm breaking down why having a clear, consistent brand…
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EP.123: Audience vs. Community: Why One Grows Your Business and One Doesn't | The Ambitious Podcast
Community building is the real competitive advantage in today's market. You don't need a bigger following to have more community. People with 1.2 million…
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EP.122: AI, Sales & Positioning: The Online Space Has Shifted PT 2 | The Ambitious Podcast
AI integration is no longer optional for your business. If your competitors are using AI and you're not, they're operating at a pace you can't match. How fast…
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EP.121: The 4 BIGGEST Changes in Online Business RIGHT NOW! | The Ambitious Podcast
Online business strategy that worked two years ago doesn't work anymore. The online consulting market is now worth $6.2 billion. The number of consultants has…
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EP.120: Stop Losing Clients: The 12-Month Retention Map Explained | The Ambitious Podcast
Client retention is how you scale without burning out on marketing. If you're signing clients who leave after one contract and you're right back at zero every…
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EP.119: Why Half Your Team Is Secretly Job Hunting w/ Dave Garrison
I hire people and it feels like I've increased my expenses, widened my team, and yet I haven't reduced my workload or mental pressure at all. If you see people…
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EP.118: Simplicity Scales: The Road Map To 7-Figures | The Ambitious Podcast
Getting to seven figures isn't about doing more. It's about removing what's not working and doubling down on what is. You have the ingredients for seven…
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EP.117 Unfiltered: Your Top Questions Answered – Marketing Strategy, Brand Repositioning, & Scaling | The Ambitious Podcast
This is an unfiltered Q&A episode. No script. No preparation. Just the questions you submitted and my honest answers about what's keeping you stuck. We're…
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EP.116: The Things I’m Still Figuring Out at 33 | The Ambitious Podcast
You see the highlight reel. The milestones. The scaled business. The loving relationship. What you don't see is me crying in my therapist's office trying to…
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EP.115: The 5 Psychology-Backed Ways to Build Brand Authority | The Ambitious Podcast
People get paid to be in Forbes. Credential stacking won't make you a leader. You can't demand authority in a room. Your authority has to be learned…
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EP 114: How to Align Your Business With the Life You Want | The Ambitious Podcast
If you dread opening Slack on Monday mornings, if you can't take time off without chaos, if you're working all day only to finish admin tasks at night, your…
Ambitious PodcastEP.113: From Funnels to Substack: The Long Game of Brand Building w/ Landon Poburan | The Ambitious Podcast
Every marketing strategy works. Funnels work. Social media works. Ads work. DMs work. The question isn't what works, it's what works for YOU and the business…
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EP.112: The Dark Side of Ambition | The Ambitious Podcast
What does it really cost to be ambitious? If you've ever felt too big for some rooms but not enough for others, if you hide your success because you're afraid…
Ambitious PodcastEP.111: Is SEO Dead? How Google, AI & Search Are Changing Business Visibility w/ Kara Duncan | The Ambitious Podcast
Is SEO dead or just different? If you've been relying solely on social media to grow your business, you're missing a massive opportunity. Today I'm joined by…
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EP.110: The Role of Self-Trust in Business Growth & Leadership | The Ambitious Podcast
Am I the problem? Is it me and the way that I am showing up? If your business strategy isn't working, your marketing feels stuck, or you keep starting things…
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EP.109: The 101 Of Creating Habits: James Clear Insights | The Ambitious Podcast
Winners and losers have the same goals. So what really differentiates those that are successful and those that are not? You don't rise to the level of your…
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EP.108: Women as Breadwinners: The Financial & Emotional Pressure No One Talks About | The Ambitious Podcast
Are you a female breadwinner struggling to balance work and family? You're not alone. One in three Canadian couples now have women as the primary earner, and…
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EP.107: Where Scaling Businesses LOSE Money (And How To Fix It) | The Ambitious Podcast
You're hustling. You're working hard. You're making sales. But somehow, you're not seeing the profit you expected. Sound familiar? Today we're diving into the…
Ambitious PodcastEP.106: From Ego Death to Entrepreneurship: The Making of a $10M Founder w/ Neal Thakkar | The Ambitious Podcast
Have you ever lost everything you thought you were? Today's guest went from Division 1 soccer player to overdosing on pills, to building a $10 million…
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EP.105: How High-Level Entrepreneurs Triage & Prioritize Their To-Do Lists | The Ambitious Podcast
Do you feel like everything needs you right now? Like you need more than one of you to get everything done? You're scrolling social media when you know what…
Ambitious PodcastEP.104: Women’s Hormones in 2025: Stress, Metabolism & Fertility w/ Jessica Dupont | The Ambitious Podcast
Are you dealing with painful periods, missing cycles, weight gain you can't explain, anxiety that won't go away, or fertility struggles that your doctor keeps…
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EP.103: The 3 Brand Tiers That Control Your Pricing, Sales, & Clients: Mass, Premium or Luxury | The Ambitious Podcast
Are you attracting the wrong clients? Does your sales process feel harder than it should? Are you constantly trying to convince people to convert even though…
Ambitious PodcastEP.102: Mastering the Product Game: Branding, Sales & What They Don’t Tell You w/ Madison Paige | The Ambitious Podcast
Have you ever thought about starting a product-based business? Maybe you've wondered what it would take to get a product into stores, scale it into a household…
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EP.101: The Hard Truths About How You Showed Up This Year | The Ambitious Podcast
When was the last time you actually sat down and reflected on where you're at? Not the "I'll think about it while I'm rushing through my to-do list" kind of…
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EP.100: ONE HUNDRED Episodes of Ambitious | The Ambitious Podcast
I can't believe I'm saying this, but we just hit 100 episodes of the Ambitious Podcast. This is not your typical episode. No guest, no strategy framework, no…
Ambitious PodcastEP.99: Dreamstorming: The 3-Phase Framework That Scales Ideas Into Execution | The Ambitious Podcast
Ever had a brilliant idea that never made it past your brain? Or watched a dream die because someone poked too many holes in it before you even had a chance to…
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EP.98: The AI Shift: Future-Proofing Strategies Every Entrepreneur Needs to Do RIGHT NOW | The Ambitious Podcast
AI is no longer a futuristic concept. It's our present reality, impacting every industry and business. In this episode of Ambitious, I emphasize the critical…
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EP.97: How To Set Boundaries & STOP People Pleasing In Life and Business
In this episode of the Ambitious, I dive into the topic of enforcing boundaries in both business and personal life. Drawing from my experience in therapy and…
Ambitious PodcastEP.96: Reclaiming Safety After Trauma & What It Taught Me About Power w/ Tyler Blankchtein | The Ambitious Podcast
In this episode of Ambitious, I am joined by Tyler, a self-defense instructor and personal protection specialist with Masada Tactical. Tyler shares her…
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EP.95: My Most Raw Business Mistakes & The Lessons That Changed Everything | The Ambitious Podcast
In this episode of Ambitious, I reveal how I built a seven-figure business in 18 months, despite stumbling into comfort zones and facing major setbacks. I open…
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EP.94: The Ultimate Guide To Black Friday Promotions | The Ambitious Podcast
Black Friday is the Super Bowl of marketing, where shoppers spent $6.3 million per minute online last year. In today's episode of Ambitious, we dive deep into…
Ambitious PodcastEP.93: The Power Couple Behind The Massive Marketing Empire w/ Kenda & Soren Laney | The Ambitious Podcast
In this episode of Ambitious, I sit down with the incredible power couple, Kenda and Soren Laney, who scaled their business from the ground up to seven figures…
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EP.92: Beyond Revenue: The Hidden Indicators Of Business Growth | The Ambitious Podcast
In today's episode of Ambitious, we're tackling the often overlooked side of business growth. We're breaking the misconception that more revenue is the…
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EP.91: The HARD Truths of Entrepreneurship | The Ambitious Podcast
In today's episode of Ambitious, we are diving into the hard truths of what it takes to truly succeed as an entrepreneur. It's not just about having the best…