Filthy Rich Cleaners: The Cleaning Business Podcast
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Filthy Rich Cleaners is the free cleaning business coach you never knew you needed. Hosted by Stephanie Pipkin, founder of Serene Clean, every episode delivers real, tactical advice you'd normally pay for in a consulting call. Honest stories, proven strategies, and tips from people who've built successful cleaning companies, whether you're just starting out or ready to scale. We're here to make you Filthy Rich 💸
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#181: Should You Buy a Cleaning Company? Do Your Due Diligence
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Oct 08, 2026 |
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#180: How to Hand Off Clients Without Losing Them, with Meghan Caicedo
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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#179: Update On Our Transition to Flat Rate: Numbers and Lessons Learned
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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#178: How to Win Apartment Building Cleaning Contracts, with Nick Spagnolo
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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#177: Stop Letting Your Business Live in One Person's Head
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Sep 24, 2026 |
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#176: How Dave Camenga Built a Thriving Janitorial Business with 30+ Cleaners
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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#175: Every Software I Use to Run My Cleaning Business
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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#174: How Cold Calling Built This Commercial Cleaning Business
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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#173: Why We Turned Down a $50,000 Cleaning Account
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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#172: How Courtney Nunes Got to 18 Cleaners in Under 2 Years
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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#171: Having Difficult Conversations With Your Employees
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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#170: Behind the Scenes of Shaquille Richards's Luxury High-Rise Cleaning Business
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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#169: How My Cleaning Business Hit a Record $130K Month
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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#168: How Michelle Walker Turned $200 And One Babysitting Client Into A 15-Client Cleaning Business
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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#167: Groundhog Day: Why You’re Dealing With the Same Sh*t Every Day
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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#166: From $700 to $13K/Month in 4 Months — Katie Wilson's Playbook
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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#165: How to Scale Commercial Cleaning Without Losing Quality
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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#164: What Cleaning Business Owners Get Wrong About Pricing, Branding, & Content
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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#163: How to Know When You're Ready to Hire Your First Cleaner
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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#162: The Mother-Daughter Duo Running Two Cleaning Companies
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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#161: How Vanessa Muir Doubled Her Cleaning Business's Revenue in One Year
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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#160: Rose's Playbook to Attract the Right Client at the Right Price
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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#159: Client Red Flags Every Cleaning Business Owner Should Know
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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#158: The Mindset Shift That Tripled Sophia Tyler's Cleaning Business
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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#157: The Exact Quality Control System We Use at Serene Clean
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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#156: How Jose Razo Built a Premium Cleaning Brand From Scratch
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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#155: Why Accountability Makes or Breaks Your Cleaning Business
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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#154: Simone Angell on How to Go From Solo Cleaner to Running a Team
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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#153: How to Handle Damage in Clients' Homes (And Who Pays For It)
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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#152: Your Gut Is Always Right About Bad Hires, with Lee Anne Chevalier
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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#151: Why 57% of My Interview Confirmations Never Showed Up
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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#150: Why Ashley, My Longest-Tenured Cleaner, Has Never Quit
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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#149: How We Raised Prices AND Got Our Highest Close Rate in Years
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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#148: ZenMaid's Vision for the Maid Service Industry, with CEO Amar Ghose
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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#147: How I Built a Career Path for My Cleaning Techs (Finally)
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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#146: How Matt Ricketts Built a $6M Cleaning Company
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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#145: 3 Ways Cleaning Business Owners Are Doing Too Much
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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#144: How Krista's Family-Run Cleaning Business Grew 30% a Year
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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#143: How to Get Hundreds of Google Reviews for Your Cleaning Business
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May 28, 2026 |
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#142: Dan Platta on Why Hitting $1M in Your Business Won't Fix Your Problems
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May 26, 2026 |
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#141: How We Got Free Local News Coverage for Our Cleaning Business
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May 21, 2026 |
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#140: How Reagan Bell Turned Getting Fired Into a Thriving Cleaning Company
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May 19, 2026 |
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#139: Why I Switched From Hourly To Flat Rate After 7 Years
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May 14, 2026 |
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#138: Why Ryan Williams Started a Cleaning Business From Working at ZenMaid
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May 12, 2026 |
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#137: I Asked Alex Hormozi to Fix My Cleaning Business
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May 07, 2026 |
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#136: Shannon Miller on Why W-2s vs. 1099s Changes What Your Cleaning Business Is Worth
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May 05, 2026 |
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#135: The Books That Changed How I Run My Cleaning Business
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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#134: How Natalie’s $15 Clean Built a 15-Year Business
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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#133: The Paper Checklist That Built a Million-Dollar Cleaning Business
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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#132: A $25K Revenue Drop Made Us More Profitable?! What My Q1 Review Taught Me About My Business
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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#131: "We've Cleaned It All" — 18 Years of Vacation Rental Secrets
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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#130: The Real Mental Side of Running a Cleaning Business, with Kala Pomeroy
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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#129: 7 Lessons in 7 Years of Running a Cleaning Business
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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#128: How Jonathan Berger Runs a NYC Cleaning Empire Remotely From Southeast Asia
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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#127: Creating Genuine Content for Your Business (Live from CleanCon)
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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#126: Sean Parry on Google Maps SEO for Cleaners
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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#125: When to Fight for a Client (And When to Fire Them)
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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#124: Samantha Price on Post-Construction Cleaning 101
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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#123: How Julia Went From 0 to $100K Months in Under 2 Years
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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#122: Katie Bradley's “Simple Kit” Strategy for Faster, Safer, More Profitable Cleans
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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#121: Why Your Cleaners Keep Going Over Time (And How to Fix It)
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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#120: How Kai DeMoss Went From a Gig App Cleaner to Real Clients in San Francisco
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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#119: How Emily Built a $330K Cleaning Business After Starting Over From Zero
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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#118: Scaling Fast While Staffing Smart, with Jennifer Dorn
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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#117: How Serene Clean Built a Rockstar New-Cleaner Orientation Program
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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#116: How Marko Lazarevic Bought and Modernized a 36-Year-Old Cleaning Company
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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#115: Follow Up Like a Mad Person and Stop Letting Leads Die
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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#114: Sharon Tinberg’s No-BS System for Training Cleaners Fast
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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#113: How to Always Be Hiring + Why You Need to Charge Travel Fees
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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#112: How Jacques Bastien Built a Cleaning Business Without Being the Cleaner
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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#111: Don't Be a Pushover! Policies That Protect Your Cleaning Business
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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#110: How to Land Commercial Cleaning Accounts, with Juan & Regina Jaramillo
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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#109: On Pricing Fear and Profit Margins
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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#108: How Yari Ising Called 2 Builders and Accidentally Built a Cleaning Company
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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#107: Leadership Mistakes That Cost Serene Clean $120K
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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#106: Drew Larison's Take on Google vs. Facebook Ads for Cleaners
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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#105: The “Free Cleaning” Strategy That Grows Your Business
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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#104: Scaling a Cleaning Business as a Husband-and-Wife Team
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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#103: The Data and Numbers Behind Serene Clean's 2025
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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#102: Sidi Thiam on Sales Skills and Pricing Confidence
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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#101: How Victor's Residential-First Model Achieved 600+ 5-Star Reviews
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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#100: The Official 2025 Naughty and Nice List
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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#99: The “Be Your Customer” Marketing Strategy (and Why It Works), with Katie Pearse
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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#98: Stop Letting Fear Run Your Cleaning Business
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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#97: Why Your Systems Determine Your Success (Not Your Experience)
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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#96: Yes, Your Team Needs Weekly Meetings (and Here's Why)
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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#95: You Need to Think Like a CEO, Not a Cleaner
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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#94: Solo or Team Cleaning? Choosing What’s Right for Your Business
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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#93: Couch-Surfing to CEO: Building a Million-Dollar Cleaning Company, with Misael Avalos
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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#92: How to Set Your Pricing, Staff Pay, and Packages
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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#91: The Biggest Mistakes Cleaning Owners Make and How to Stop Them, with Cheryl Hajjar
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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#90: How to Spot & Fix Bottlenecks in Your Business
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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#89: How Paige Built a 15-Person Cleaning Team (Plus Her Secrets to Retention)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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#88: How to Delegate Without Losing Control of Your Cleaning Business
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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#87: How Coaching (and Chaos) Transformed a Cleaning Business, with Jamie Runco
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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#86: Our Spiciest Takes About the Cleaning Industry
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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#85: How to Get Quality Cleaning Leads, with Sean Parry
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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#84: How Handwritten Letters Built a Thriving Cleaning Business, with Lucy Spencer
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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#83: Creating a Culture of Accountability in Your Business
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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#82: How to Make Your Cleaning Business Stand Out Online
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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#81: Staying Calm When Your Business Is in Crisis
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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#80: When a Longtime Client Gets Weird (Handling an Awkward Cancellation)
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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#79: Bidding 170,000 Sq Ft and Beating Imposter Syndrome, with Amanda Stovall
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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#78: How to Stand Out Against Cheap Competitors
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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#77: Lessons from Scaling a Veteran-Owned Cleaning Brand to $55K/Month, with Ibrahin & Jessica Robles
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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#76: Don’t Do These Things Yet! Timing is Everything
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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#75: Lessons from Building a 140-Employee Cleaning Company, with Sharon L. Cowan
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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#74: The 7 Signs Your Cleaner Is About to Quit
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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#73: From Burnout to Balance — Lessons from 16 Years of Cleaning Business Ownership
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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#72: Roasting Myself and Exposing My Biggest Business Owner Mistakes
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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#71: Deep-Dive into Scaling with Independent Contractors
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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#70: When and Why You’re Most Likely to Lose Customers
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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#69: Fired Over Makeup to $10K Months — Amanda Stovall’s Journey
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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#68: The 3 Traits That Built My Cleaning Business
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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#67: Real Talk on Marketing, Experimentation, and Growing Smart
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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#66: The KPIs You Need to Track Your Cleaning Business
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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#65: Would You Rather (Cleaning Business Owner Edition), with Stephanie, Amar, and Maria
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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#64: Managing Inventory and Supplies in Your Cleaning Business
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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#63: Taking a Heartfelt Approach to Cleaning, with Kimberley Crockett
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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#62: The Truth About Running Your Cleaning Biz with Independent Contractors
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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#61: “Clarity is Kindness” — The Right Way to Give Feedback
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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#60: When Misaligned Expectations Lead to Angry Client Emails
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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#59: Why This Healthcare Worker Ditched Her "Real Job" for Cleaning (And Never Looked Back)
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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#58: The Numbers That Actually Matter for Your Cleaning Business
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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#57: From Immigration Consultant to Cleaning Empire Builder
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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#56: Fear of Being Misunderstood vs. Standing on Business
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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#55: Double Your Bookings with Katie & Stephanie’s Cleaning Funnel Fixes
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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#54: Stop the Turnover Spiral: How Stephanie Built a Drama-Free Dream Team
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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#53: From Accidental Startup to Remote Empire: Juan Chaparro on Culture, W-2s & PipeHire
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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#52: Audit Your Cleaning Biz & Stop Overpaying: How to Save $10K+ a Year
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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#51: How One Cleaning Tech Employee Becomes Irreplaceable
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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#50: What I Wish I Had in Place *Before* My First Nightmare Client
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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#49: The Divorced, Broke, and Fearless Journey to Six-Figure Vacation Rental Success
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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#48: 8 Website Mistakes That Are Costing You Leads (And How to Fix Them Fast)
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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#47: An Interview With One of Stephanie's Amazing Cleaning Techs
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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#46: The Week Everything Went to Sh*t — And What Makes You a Real Leader
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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#45: She Cleaned to Survive — Now She’s Booked Out. Zaila’s Story Will Blow You Away
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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#44: A Full Breakdown of My Company's Rates, Wages, and Revenue — From Day 1 to $121K Months
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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#43: How My First Employee Became the Heart of the Cleaning Company
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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#42: The Secret to Hiring Cleaners Faster (and Smarter) with Group Interviews
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May 28, 2025 |
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#41: What Running a Maid Service Taught ZenMaid’s CEO About Leadership
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May 27, 2025 |
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#40: Live Coaching Call: She's Ready to Grow... But Hiring is Holding Her Back
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May 22, 2025 |
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#39: From $15 Intern to $84M CEO: Executive Coaching Lessons for Cleaning Business Owners
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May 20, 2025 |
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#38: How to Create a Trustworthy Cleaning Brand (Even if You've Messed Up)
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May 15, 2025 |
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#37: Building a Cleaning Business That Serves Your Life with Ken Carfagno
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May 13, 2025 |
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#36: My First 10 Hires: The Hilarious (and Horrifying) Truth About Finding Good Cleaners
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May 08, 2025 |
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#35: Live Coaching Call: Navigating Your First Few Months in Business with Gentry Hunter
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May 06, 2025 |
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#34: Gossip, Bad Ideas, and Lost Money: My Top 3 Business Regrets
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May 01, 2025 |
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#33: She Didn’t Plan to Start a Cleaning Business… And Then It Took Off
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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#32: The Client Isn’t Always Right — Why We Fired a “Good” Account
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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#31: She Left Wall Street and Built a Thriving Cleaning Business (Here’s How)
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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#30: The Exact Lead Management System I Use in My Cleaning Business
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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#29: How She Merged With Her Competitor and Built a Cleaning Empire Together
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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#28: How Much Does a 7-Figure Business Owner Take Home? + More Juicy Q&A's
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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#27: The Lead-Converting Marketing Secrets Most Cleaning Businesses Get Wrong
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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#26: The Client Retention Strategy Your Competitors Don't Want You to Know
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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#25: How Kate Croukamp Built a 7-Figure Product Line in Her Cleaning Business
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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#24: Why I'm Cutting a $56k Service from My Cleaning Business
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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#23: Stop Making Excuses: How to Overcome Your Mental Barriers to Success with Liz Trotter
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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#22: The Cleaning Industry's Dirty Little Secret: Why Your Cleaner's Safety Can't Wait
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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#21: Breaking into Commercial Cleaning: From Cold Calls to 7-Figure Contracts
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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#20: What to Do When Your Revenue Is Down (Hint: Don't Panic)
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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#19: How to Ride the Emotional Rollercoaster of Cleaning Business Ownership with Carolyn Arellano
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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#18: Answering Your Burning Questions (Childcare, Drug Testing, Call-Outs & More!)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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#17: "They ALL Quit in One Day!" How She Rebuilt Her Cleaning Business After a Mass Walkout
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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#16: How to Avoid Legal Nightmares in Your Cleaning Business
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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#15: Tired of Cleaners Quitting? This Owner Kept Her Staff for 9 Years
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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#14: The $20,000 Mistake That Taught Me to Trust My Gut in Business
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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#13: Why Libby DeLucien Slowed Down Her $2M Organizing Company
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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#12: The 5 CRAZIEST Stories from My Cleaning Business
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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#11: Turning a Local Cleaning Business into a National Franchise with Neel Parekh
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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#10: Mistakes New Cleaning Business Owners Make
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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#9: From Rock Bottom to Rising Star: Inside Tenacity Clean with Katrina Johnson & Tameka
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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#8: EXPENSIVE Mistakes New Cleaning Business Owners Make (And How to Avoid Them)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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#7: Building a Multicultural Cleaning Company (+ Airbnb Cleaning Tips) with Vanessa Higgins
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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#6: Running a Cleaning Company from 7,000 Miles Away with Chris Schwab
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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#2: Building a Luxury Home Assistant Business with Simone Angell
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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#3: The Secret Sauce to Growing from $10K to $40K Monthly Revenue
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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#4: Wild Client Stories and How to Survive the Hard Days with Cheryl Hajjar
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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#5: Why a Cleaning Business is NOT Passive Income (And That's Okay!)
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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#1: How Stephanie Pipkin's Side Hustle Grew into a Million-Dollar Cleaning Business
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Jan 20, 2025 |