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05/27/2026

New Podcast Drop 🎤

What if your agency’s biggest advantage isn’t your service…

It’s your positioning?

On the latest episode of *Smart Agency Masterclass*, I sat down with Brooke Sellas founder of B Squared Media to talk about how she built an agency with enterprise clients that have stayed for NINE years with zero churn.

Yeah. Zero.

Brooke didn’t grow by trying to be everything to everyone.

She built a clear differentiator:
Social media is a revenue channel — not just a content channel.

That positioning changed everything.

In this episode, we get into:

Why most agencies confuse personality with differentiation
How founder dependency quietly limits growth
Why speaking and authorship became her biggest growth engines
How AI is changing agency operations faster than most owners realize
Why agencies delaying AI adoption are already falling behind

This conversation is packed with real lessons on positioning, leadership, and building an agency clients don’t leave.

If you’ve been wondering why your content isn’t converting into authority or growth…

This episode will challenge the way you think.

Go listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

05/25/2026

Indy 500 for the first time with my son Luke

05/25/2026

Indy 500

Weekend with my oldest at .
05/24/2026

Weekend with my oldest at .

A lot of agency founders secretly build businesses that can’t function without them.At first, it feels rewarding.You’re ...
05/21/2026

A lot of agency founders secretly build businesses that can’t function without them.

At first, it feels rewarding.
You’re the closer.
The problem solver.
The decision-maker.
The one everyone relies on.

But eventually…
being needed becomes a liability.

Your team waits for your approval.
Clients escalate directly to you.
Slack never stops.
Vacations create anxiety instead of freedom.

And revenue becomes tied to your energy instead of the company’s structure.

That’s not scale.

That’s dependency wearing the disguise of growth.

The real shift happens when the founder evolves from operator → architect.

Because enterprise value is created when the business becomes less dependent on the founder — not more.

Most agencies don’t stall because of bad marketing.



They stall because the founder’s role never evolved with the age

A lot of agency founders secretly build businesses that can’t function without them.At first, it feels rewarding.You’re ...
05/21/2026

A lot of agency founders secretly build businesses that can’t function without them.

At first, it feels rewarding.
You’re the closer.
The problem solver.
The decision-maker.
The one everyone relies on.

But eventually…
being needed becomes a liability.

Your team waits for your approval.
Clients escalate directly to you.
Slack never stops.
Vacations create anxiety instead of freedom.

And revenue becomes tied to your energy instead of the company’s structure.

That’s not scale.

That’s dependency wearing the disguise of growth.

The real shift happens when the founder evolves from operator → architect.

Because enterprise value is created when the business becomes less dependent on the founder — not more.

Most agencies don’t stall because of bad marketing.



They stall because the founder’s role never evolved with the agency.

What’s the hardest thing for you to delegate right now?

Comment below 👇

05/20/2026

New Podcast Drop 🎤

Most agency founders think hiring creates freedom.

It doesn’t.

At least not at first.

After 22+ years building a referral-driven agency, Olivier Bridgeman of Bridge Media finally faced the reality most founders avoid:

More people without systems, positioning, and leadership evolution usually creates MORE founder dependency — not less.

In this episode, Olivier breaks down the uncomfortable transition from Operator → CEO inside his agency:

• Why hiring initially created more work
• How technical expertise became a bottleneck
• Why referral-based growth created operational chaos
• How fixing sales infrastructure improved delivery
• Why founders sabotage delegation without realizing it
• The identity shift required to stop measuring value by personal involvement

One of the most important lessons from this conversation:

The skills that build the agency are rarely the skills that scale it.

If you’re still:
— the top closer
— the escalation point
— approving pricing
— solving team issues

…you’re likely still operating, not leading.

Featuring: Olivier Bridgeman, Co-Founder of Bridge Media

Listen to the full episode wherever you download your podcasts.

05/18/2026

NEW PODCAST DROP 🎙️

Most agency account managers don’t fail because they lack talent.

They fail because the agency never built the structure around them.

In this episode, Michelle Keckler, co-founder of KNC Marketing, breaks down how she and her co-founder spent seven years building an account management system that improved retention, strengthened accountability, and reduced founder dependency inside their agency.

We unpack:
→ Why responsibility without authority destroys account management
→ The communication cadence that increases client trust and retention
→ What actually makes a great account manager
→ Why leadership instincts matter more than technical expertise
→ How founders accidentally stay the bottleneck long after hiring senior people
→ What it really took for Michelle to remove herself from account management
→ Why healthy co-founder dynamics create stronger agencies under pressure

Michelle also shares the operational shifts that helped her team own outcomes without constant founder involvement — and why sustainable agencies are built through structural clarity, not founder heroics.

If clients still escalate to you…
If your team waits for your approval…
If your account managers feel overwhelmed…

This episode will show you where the real breakdown is happening.

Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

05/15/2026

New Video Drop.

What started as a mountain climb turned into one of the most honest conversations we’ve had yet.

This week on Epic Friday, Greg and I take on Babcock Peak in full alpine conditions:

Ice axes.
Crampons.
Steep snow.
Exposure.
And a few moments that could’ve gone very differently.

But somewhere between the climb and the summit… the conversation shifted.

We started talking about what’s actually happening to agencies right now.

AI.
Automation.
Creative work becoming commoditized.
What agency owners are missing.
And what businesses need to do over the next few years if they want to survive and stay relevant.

No hype.
No “10 AI prompts” nonsense.

Just two guys in the mountains having a real conversation about the future of agencies.

And apparently… you guys are loving these Epic Friday videos so much that this has officially become a regular series.

So if you haven’t followed yet — now’s the time.

Watch the full episode on YouTube under Jason Swenk or hit the link in bio under “Epic Friday Videos.”

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