The BizChix Podcast: Female Entrepreneurs | Women Small Business | Biz Chix · Natalie Eckdahl, MBA

627: Final Episode + 6 Lessons from 124 Months of Business

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After 124 continuous months and 627 episodes, Natalie Ekdahl says this is the final BizChicks episode.

1. BizChicks Podcast: Female Entrepreneurs | Women Small Business | Biz Chix ends with episode 627, which Natalie Ekdahl says is the final episode after 124 continuous months. 2. Natalie Ekdahl is the host, the founder of BizChicks, and the coach who is shifting her business to serve nonprofit consultants only. 3. The episode asks what it looks like to close a long-running show and explain a niche change with 627 episodes of history behind it. 4. Natalie says the new podcast is Biz of Nonprofit Consultants, and she says it launches today for consultants who serve nonprofit clients. 5. She says her programs will change in August so they are solely for nonprofit consultants, not people who work inside nonprofits. 6. Natalie describes starting the podcast in a master bedroom closet two houses ago, before moving from California to Tennessee. 7. She says that when she started in 2014 she could not find another podcast just for women entrepreneurs, but now there are many. 8. A photo from around May 2014 shows Natalie pregnant with Jet, holding toddler Tahoe, with Aurora, her dad, and her grandma in the frame. 9. She says Jet is now nine and in fourth grade, Tahoe is 12, and Aurora is finishing college with one year left. 10. Natalie says the decade brought grief, joy, love, hope, friendships, and the loss of her dad and grandma. 11. She says the business started with coaching any business, then moved through physical-location businesses, then consultants, marketers, and financial professionals. 12. Natalie explains that over time she found her strength was helping service entrepreneurs move from hourly work into retainers or high-ticket projects. 13. She says she noticed saturation in coaching and marketing about two years ago, which made her question how focused her business should become. 14. Elizabeth Cook, her team member of at least five and a half years, told her she was still serving too many groups and planted the seed for a change. 15. Natalie says the sign she asked for came in August 2023 when five of seven women in CEO Chicks Mastermind served nonprofit clients. 16. She says the following month half of the women in Six Figures Lab also served nonprofit clients, which was rare in her business. 17. Natalie says a retreat in Nashville, Tennessee, showed unusually strong collaboration among women serving nonprofit clients. 18. She describes her style as a quick start who moves through risk, while Karen DeYoung is a deep fact finder who researches before deciding. 19. People who want a specific account of niching, pricing, and nonprofit consulting strategy would likely value this episode. 20. People looking for a broad BizChicks back catalog or general small-business advice might skip it.

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A practical farewell for service-based owners focused on profit, boundaries, and staying power.

BizChicks ends on a plainspoken note for consultants, marketers, and financial professionals who want a business that lasts without becoming a grind.

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You want a final episode that leaves you with a calmer way to keep building a durable service business.

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