FoundHer Rising with Christine Hakkola

Why Your Business Needs Boundaries to Scale with Sara Coyle | FoundHer Rising S01 E28

Sara Coyle built a steady one-on-one therapy practice, brought on contractors, and ran straight into a problem most service founders don't see coming. The wait list didn't transfer. The growth stalled. The marketing playbook that built the business stopped working. In this video, Sara shares what she's learning in real time about scaling Connected Roots Therapy from solo to team, why the strategies that built her practice aren't the strategies that grow it, and the moves that are actually moving the needle. If you're scaling a service business and your hires aren't filling up the way you expected, this conversation is the diagnosis you need. KEY TAKEAWAYS: 👉🏻 The trust you built as a solo provider doesn't auto-transfer to your team. Your marketing job fundamentally changes when you bring on contractors. 👉🏻 Social media is rarely the growth lever for service businesses under multi-six-figures. Networking, sponsorships, and showing up in person are what actually convert. 👉🏻 Hire before you feel ready. Most founders wait until they're drowning, and that's the moment growth stalls. Buying back your time is what creates the room to grow. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — Sara's story and the 2019 turning point 05:50 — Why private practice gave her freedom and what she traded for it 12:17 — Building Connected Roots and the move from solo to group practice 19:30 — What actually works in service business marketing right now 26:30 — Hire before you're ready and stop being the bottleneck CONNECT WITH SARA COYLE Website: connectedroots.ca LinkedIn: Sara Coyle (no H) Instagram: @connected.roots.ottawa CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA Website: hakkolahorizons.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola Free Guide: From 10K to 40K Months. If you've hit consistent revenue but working harder isn't creating more growth, this guide breaks down what actually has to change. https://go.hakkolahorizons.com/opt-in-10kto40k-months-guide #BusinessCoach #Entrepreneurship #HeartCenteredBusiness

How to Get Clients After Your Warm Network Runs Out with Shenelle B. | FoundHer Rising S01 E27

You're great at what you do. The work brought clients. The clients brought referrals. You built something real. Then growth slowed, the warm network thinned out, and the same fear started showing up under every decision: more clients means more hours, and there aren't more hours. This week, Shenelle B., founder of B.L.A.Z.E Careers, walks through how she scaled her HR consulting practice past that wall. The shifts she made aren't tactical tweaks. They're structural, and they're the ones most service founders skip. KEY TAKEAWAYS: 👉🏻 The first six figures in a service business almost always come from your warm network. Past that, you're earning trust from people who don't know you yet, and that's a different kind of sale. 👉🏻 "I don't have time" is rarely about hours. It's a priority problem dressed up as a scheduling problem. 👉🏻 The post-2020 DEI reckoning didn't kill the work. It separated leaders performing it from the ones actually doing it, and the ones actually doing it are still hiring. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — How burnout becomes the pivot point 05:30 — Separating performance from identity 11:00 — What's actually happening with DEI past the marketing reckoning 17:00 — How companies are quietly rebuilding the work 22:00 — The trust gap when prospects don't know your name 27:30 — Why "I don't have time" is a priority problem 32:30 — The AI consultant role nobody is filling yet CONNECT WITH SHENELLE B. LinkedIn: Shenelle B. Instagram: @_withshenelle CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA Website: hakkolahorizons.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola Free Guide: From 10K to 40K Months. If you've hit consistent revenue but working harder isn't creating more growth, this guide breaks down what actually has to change. https://go.hakkolahorizons.com/opt-in-10kto40k-months-guide #FoundHerRising #WomenFounders #ServiceBusiness #ScalingBeyondOneToOne #WarmReferrals #HRConsulting #BusinessCoaching #FemaleFoundersPodcast #LeadershipDevelopment

How to Price Your Services for Sustainable Growth with Jemima Blazdell | FoundHer Rising S01 E26

You're booking sessions, helping clients, and still working evenings and weekends to make it sustainable. The problem isn't your skill. It's the pricing model and the marketing strategy you inherited from people who don't understand service work. In this video, therapist and coach Jemima Blazdell shares what 15 years of building a heart-centered practice has taught her about sustainability, the trap of undercharging, and why the clients who pay the most often get the most out of the work. KEY TAKEAWAYS: 👉🏻 Pricing is a value signal. When clients pay less, they often invest less in the transformation. 👉🏻 Real relationships are the marketing engine for service businesses. Referrals and speaking beat algorithm-chasing. 👉🏻 Big vision without a system to capture and prioritize ideas leads to a graveyard of unfinished projects. A quarterly parking-lot review keeps the focus tight. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 — Introduction 1:18 — How EFT changed Jemima's life and career 7:28 — The vision and reality gap when building a practice 12:30 — The $5 client lesson on pricing and value 18:09 — Why marketing is really relationship building 26:30 — Managing creative chaos with the parking-lot system 30:30 — What's next for Jemima Blazdell CONNECT WITH JEMIMA BLAZDELL Website: https://www.jemimablazdell.com/ Instagram: @Jemima_Blazdell YouTube: JemimaEFT CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA Website: hakkolahorizons.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola Free Guide: From 10K to 40K Months. If you've hit consistent revenue but working harder isn't creating more growth, this guide breaks down what actually has to change. https://go.hakkolahorizons.com/opt-in-10kto40k-months-guide #FoundHerRising #WomenFounders #WellnessBusiness #CoachingBusiness #ServiceBusiness #HeartCenteredBusiness #BusinessCoach #SustainableGrowth

How to Build a Boutique Coaching or Therapy Practice with Jordana Bergman | FoundHer Rising S01 E25

Most heart-centered founders hit a wall around the full-roster mark. The business that felt aligned starts feeling like a ceiling. In this episode, Jordana Bergman, founder of Eden Wellness Psychotherapy and former Bay Street litigator, shares the exact shifts that took her from full solo practice to a scalable boutique group clinic without losing the integrity of the work or burning out in the process. KEY TAKEAWAYS: 👉🏻 Why "full from day one" is a credibility play, not a marketing one, and what actually builds that credibility before you ever hang the sign 👉🏻 The niching mindset that makes hiring the right clinicians obvious instead of agonizing 👉🏻 How risk-averse founders can use data to make bold moves and why spreadsheets reduce risk for every personality type TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — Introduction 05:00 — The injury that forced the pivot 11:00 — Back to school with four kids under seven 18:00 — The 2025 decision to scale 24:00 — Hiring for lived experience 30:00 — From gut calls to data driven decisions 35:00 — The vision for a boutique group clinic CONNECT WITH JORDANA BERGMAN Website: https://www.edenwellness.ca/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edenwellnesspsychotherapy/ CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA Website: hakkolahorizons.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola Free Guide: From 10K to 40K Months. If you've hit consistent revenue but working harder isn't creating more growth, this guide breaks down what actually has to change. https://go.hakkolahorizons.com/opt-in-10kto40k-months-guide #FoundHerRising #WomenFounders #PrivatePractice #BusinessGrowth #ServiceBusiness

From Corporate Recruitment to Freedom with Susan Henriques | FoundHer Rising S01 E24

Susan Henriques spent 17 years in the school board system before she made her first move toward private practice. Four years later, she runs a group psychology practice with three associates and two mornings a week just for herself. This isn't a story about taking a big leap. It's about building something that lasts by moving at exactly the right pace. In this episode of FoundHer Rising, Christine Hakkola sits down with the founder of New Horizons Child and Adolescent Psychology Services to talk about the real mechanics of going from solo practitioner to group practice, and the hard lessons about burnout, systems, trust, and knowing when enough growth is exactly enough. KEY TAKEAWAYS: 👉🏻 Why "change happens at the speed of safety" is a strategy, not an excuse, and how Susan used a four-year gradual transition to build an unshakeable private practice foundation 👉🏻 The key difference between hiring someone and actually delegating to them and why trust has to come before you let go, not after 👉🏻 How to identify your business's "set point" the size and structure where it is most profitable, most sustainable, and most aligned with why you built it CONNECT WITH SUSAN HENRIQUES: Website: www.newhorizonspsychology.ca Email: info@newhorizonspsych.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-henriques-30056317a/ CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA Website: hakkolahorizons.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola Free Guide: From 10K to 40K Months: https://go.hakkolahorizons.com/opt-in-10kto40k-months-guide Are you a founder in wellness, coaching, or consulting? If today's episode resonated and you're ready to have an honest conversation about what scaling actually looks like in your business, apply to be a guest on FoundHer Rising. #FoundHerRising #WomenFounders #PrivatePractice #BusinessGrowth #ServiceBusiness