Natalie Eckdahl, MBA
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Host Natalie Eckdahl, MBA is a coach to high performing women. She is married with three children ages 7-20. Natalie helps women entrepreneurs own their role as CEO through her business trainings, on air coaching calls and expert interviews. Learn how to master your mindset, grow as a leader, refine your strategies, build your team and gain visibility in your industry. Natalie is also an expert in outsourcing at home and at work.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
BizChix makes service-business strategy concrete by connecting pricing, boundaries, hiring, and positioning to the decisions owners face in practice.
Natalie Ekdahl turns service-business growth into a series of decisions an owner can actually examine. BizChix moves between direct coaching and practical conversations, tracing how pricing, positioning, delegation, contracts, and client selection shape a more stable business.
A client adds Instagram captions; Natalie Ekdahl shows you how to say no without a closing argument.
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A practical year-reset for women business owners.
Natalie Ekdahl treats the new year as a reset for women business owners who want a business that is enjoyable, profitable, and sustainable. The focus stays on planning with the end in mind, getting as much help as possible at home and in the business, and choosing a clear vision…
A narrower offer can make nonprofit consulting easier to explain, refer, and sustain.
Natalie Ekdahl and Elizabeth Cook frame nonprofit consulting around a simple market lesson: a narrower offer can be easier to understand, refer, and place.
A practical guide to raising prices without blowing up the client base.
Natalie Ekdahl and Elizabeth treat pricing as a business call, not a formula. After a new certification and a higher level of service, they argue for bringing new clients into the updated model while giving existing clients notice and time to decide whether to stay.
A practical capacity check for consultants, marketers, and financial professionals who need clearer numbers before they chase more visibility.
Natalie Ekdahl treats this as a practical capacity check for consultants, marketers, and financial professionals who want a business that is enjoyable, profitable, and sustainable.
LinkedIn helps turn everyday relationships into clearer visibility and more referrals.
Natalie Ekdahl makes a solid case for consultants, marketers, and financial professionals who want a business that is profitable, sustainable, and actually worth keeping.
Being referable starts with being specific.
The episode treats relationship marketing less like charm and more like precision. Natalie Ekdahl keeps circling the same question: can a listener explain what a business does well enough for a referral to stick? The strongest points are the practical ones. Get more specific.
Boundary-setting becomes practical when policies, contracts, and a direct no support a steadier business.
Natalie Ekdahl and Elizabeth Cook turn boundary-setting into something practical, not abstract. The discussion is strongest when it moves from reassurance to the mechanics of running a business: clear policies, solid contracts, and a clean way to say no without overexplaining.
A practical way to think about the first handoff before a fuller hire.
This episode stays with the awkward middle ground between running solo and building toward an agency. Its clearest point is that some jobs should be handed off early, especially narrow work like Canva images, where someone already comfortable with the tool can take the load off…
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Host Natalie Eckdahl shares five tips for feminine negotiation, emphasizing emotional intelligence, non-verbal cues, and creative non-monetary strategies.
Claire Lauer brings Natalie Ekdahl a focused question.
Natalie Ekdahl welcomes Elizabeth back to talk about relationship marketing.
Natalie Ekdahl slows the new-year rush down.
Business coach Natalie Ekdahl teaches the six-week sprint framework for women entrepreneurs managing multi-five to six-figure revenue.
Do your clients know your boundaries?
BizChicks marks ten years by looking back at how the show started and how the business grew alongside it.
Natalie Ekdahl opens by framing the episode around consultants, marketers, and financial professionals who want work that is enjoyable, profitable, and sustainable.
Natalie Ekdahl walks through the in-between stage between solopreneur and agency.
Host Natalie Eckdahl explains why many women entrepreneurs' businesses stall, focusing on six strategic areas: overly general services, premature group program launches, wrong visibility methods, ineffective sales processes, mindset issues, and over-reliance on one client.
Natalie Ekdahl provides a comprehensive guide to running a high-ticket project business, covering challenges like longer sales cycles, advanced cash flow management, scope creep prevention, project management systems, and pricing strategies for service-based entrepreneurs.
Pricing sits at the center of the conversation.
Natalie Ekdahl says episode 627 is the final BizChicks episode after 124 continuous months and 627 episodes, and she is launching Biz of Nonprofit Consultants the same day.
This episode of The BizChix Podcast, hosted by Natalie Eckdahl with guest Elizabeth Cook, explores sales strategies specifically for nonprofit consultants, focusing on how funding differs from other sectors and offering advice on building a profitable, sustainable business through retainers and high-ticket projects.
Natalie Ekdahl and Elizabeth walk through the BizChix “retainer roadmap,” which moves from hourly billing to a package of hours, then to a package of value, and finally to scale.
Host Natalie Ekdahl revisits a 2014 interview with business strategist Sharon Lecter, who shares her "2-2-2 rule" for relationship marketing and productivity.
Natalie Ekdahl makes a practical case for taking local relationships online.
Natalie Ekdahl asks a practical but uncomfortable question: how many clients can be handled right now.
Natalie Ekdahl opens with a direct message to consultants, marketers, and financial professionals: if strategy is part of the work, charge for strategy.
Natalie Eckdahl shares her rapid visibility framework to help women entrepreneurs quickly gain recognition and clients.
Natalie Ekdahl and Elizabeth Cook use this BizChix episode to argue that many service providers do not have a sales problem at all, they have a positioning, urgency, or ROI problem.
Host Natalie Ekdahl identifies five common business mistakes that even experienced consultants make, including over-reliance on single clients, improper subcontractor compensation, lack of profitability tracking, network neglect, and inadequate onboarding fees.
Host Natalie Eckdahl explains the difference between specializing (the type of work you do) and niching (the specific clients you serve), arguing that combining both creates a 'specialized niche' for business growth.
Host Natalie Ekdahl and co-host Elizabeth Cook discuss positioning strategies specifically for nonprofit consultants who have built successful businesses but hit growth plateaus.