Revenue Reset Part 1: Turning Mindtrash Into Gold

If you're like most web designers, you've probably had a moment (or several) where you've looked at your business and thought, “Something’s not working here.” Maybe you're overwhelmed. Maybe you're undercharging. Maybe you’re delivering so much value but still not seeing the kind of income or freedom you expected when you started. I’ve been there—more than once.

When I look back at my business journey and the things that I thought to be true and were conditioned to believe as a web designer – and a woman web designer – and a service provider and a business owner, etc., and I deconstruct those things I thought I had to do to create the life and the freedom and the financial freedom that I wanted to create – it feels like I'm thinking about a totally different person.

And it feels that way because I decided I was open to thinking and believing new things about myself, and I want you to allow yourself to experience the transformation of going from how you might think things have to work or how you might think things are to truly transform your beliefs about what's possible for you as a freelance web designer.

Because I was thinking about this, especially as women, but as service providers and former employees and all of this stuff, we are conditioned to be of service, to take care of others, to take care of customers and clients.

We're conditioned to believe that we get paid by the hour, that we're worth only so much per hour based on how long we've been doing it – or that our worth is all about us and our experience and what someone else tells us a role is worth or a job is worth.

And when you take those things that we've been conditioned to believe in our society and combine them with being a business owner, what ends up happening is you get someone who is massively undercharging and over-delivering and burnt out, and it's completely unsustainable.

That was my lived experience. Almost everything I learned about how to operate safely in this world is incompatible with being a business owner. And I had to unwind that and reset that and deconstruct that. And so that's why I hosted the Revenue Reset Challenge – to walk you through that process of figuring out what your beliefs are about what you're capable of – and do you want to keep them?

Are they creating the results that you want? If they are creating the results that you want, awesome. How can we do more of that? If they're not creating the results that you want? Awesome, how can we shift what we think about and how we believe to create the results that we want? How might our potential clients be thinking and how can we guide them to think in ways that serve them instead of kind of being enrolled in thinking that doesn't serve them – and put it all into action to create the results we really want.

Because sometimes, the most profitable thing you can do isn’t push harder—it’s pause, reflect, and reset.

Your next level doesn’t require you to do more. It asks you to become more you.

Because here’s the thing: even after years of growth, I still catch myself stuck in old ways of thinking—patterns that I didn’t even realize were there. And that’s part of the journey. Whether you’re just starting or you’ve been in it for years, there are always beliefs to examine and shift so you can take your business to the next level.

That’s exactly why I created the Revenue Reset Challenge:

The Revenue Reset Challenge was originally hosted live back in September 2023, and it was transformational for everyone who participated. Get the original replays and workbook here.

Let's kick things off with a Mind Trash Makeover.

What is “mind trash” and why does it matter?

We all have thoughts and beliefs—many we don’t even realize we’re carrying around—that shape how we run our businesses. Things like:

I can’t charge that much.
Clients won’t pay me more until I have more experience.
I work with people who can’t afford to pay more.
My packages are still a work in progress, so I’m not ready to raise prices.

These thoughts may feel like facts, but they’re not. They’re beliefs—and if they’re not creating the results you want, it’s time to examine them. That’s what we call “mind trash”—and around here, we LOVE finding it because that’s where the gold is. When you notice it, you can start shifting it.

Step 1: Know your numbers

We’re not about vanity metrics like six-figure businesses or five-figure projects. Your business is as unique as you are—and so are your financial needs. That’s why we start with what I call your Minimum Baseline Revenue. It’s the amount of money your business needs to generate each month to be sustainable—for you.

To find your Minimum Baseline Revenue, add these three numbers together:

What you want to pay yourself each month
Your monthly business expenses (tools, subscriptions, training, subcontractors, etc.)
Your estimated taxes (I recommend 20–25% of your pay in the U.S.—this is not legal or tax advice!)

That total is your Minimum Baseline Revenue. Then, compare it to how much your business currently makes each month. What’s the gap?

Once you know the gap, ask yourself: at your current pricing, how many more clients would you need to close that gap?

Step 2: Notice your thoughts

This is where the mind trash starts to pile up—thoughts like:

No one will pay that.
I’m not experienced enough to charge that.
Clients will question the value.
I’ll never book another project if I raise my prices.

It’s okay to feel that way. You're not doing anything wrong. These are the exact thoughts we get to examine and shift in this challenge. You’re not expected to just flip a switch and change your price tomorrow. We baby-step our way to believing it’s possible first—then we align our actions from that place.

And it’s not always about raising prices. You get to decide intentionally how your business is structured. Sometimes, it’s about adjusting your scope or improving efficiency so you can do more with less. There are two sides to the equation: money and time. Your revenue reset might be about reclaiming your time just as much as it is about increasing your income.

Action Steps

Take some time to answer these questions:

How much money does your business make per month, on average?
How much do you want to pay yourself?
How much are your monthly business expenses?
How much do you want to set aside for taxes?
What is your Minimum Baseline Revenue (add the last three numbers)?
What is the gap between your current revenue and your Minimum Baseline?
At your current pricing, how many more clients would you need to close that gap?
If I told you that you had to change your price to match your Minimum Baseline right now… what comes up for you?

Write it all down. Word vomit style. Don’t filter it. Let all the thoughts out—because that’s where we start to see the patterns. That’s where the transformation begins.

Turning Mindtrash Into Gold

Now you'll take it a step further and walk through how to actually make over those thoughts so you can finally create the outcomes you want. This is the magic of turning your mind trash into gold.

The sneaky way thoughts create your results

Here’s how it works: You have a thought. That thought creates a feeling in your body. That feeling drives you to either take an action—or not take an action. And that action (or inaction) creates your result. So technically, your actions create your results, but those actions are always driven by how you feel, which is always driven by what you’re thinking.

If the thought creates fear, anxiety, or self-doubt, your nervous system is going to respond. You might feel pressure in your chest, get sweaty palms, or start overthinking everything. And your brain’s not broken—it’s just doing its job. That’s your nervous system kicking into survival mode: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.

How those responses show up in business

Fight: Overworking, saying yes to every client, burning yourself out to prove your worth.
Flight: Scrapping your website again, pivoting your niche, hiding behind “perfecting” your offer.
Freeze: Stalling, avoiding your inbox, not posting, not selling, disappearing from your business.
Fawn: People-pleasing, undercharging, ignoring red flags, customizing everything to keep clients happy.

And this is the cycle that keeps you stuck—because when you're operating from fear, your highest-level thinking is offline. Creativity? Intuition? Strategy? Gone. You’re just trying to survive.

My real-life example of mind trash

Let me give you a peek behind the scenes. I host an in-person retreat every year for our Next Level students, and I noticed I was procrastinating planning the food and vendor logistics. At first, I didn’t know why—I just knew I was spinning out and wasting time. Once I looked closer, I saw the thought: “I’m going to screw this up.”

That thought created pressure, fear, and a huge feeling of inadequacy. I felt like an imposter. I imagined everyone being disappointed. So what did I do? I avoided the task completely. If I hadn’t recognized that thought and shifted it, I probably would’ve waited until the last minute, stressed myself out, and risked things actually going sideways. My actions would have created the exact result I was afraid of.

The Mind Trash Makeover Process

This is the exact process I use for myself (and that I coach our Web Designer Academy students through) to shift those sneaky thoughts and create new results:

Notice what you're doing or not doing. Are you avoiding something, procrastinating, overworking?
Name the feeling behind the action. Is it pressure, fear, overwhelm, shame?
Identify the thought driving that feeling. What are you believing that's triggering that emotion?
Ask: What evidence do I have that this thought is false? Or: What else could be true?
Create a bridge thought. Something like, “I’m willing to try and see what happens” or “Maybe this isn’t true.”
Calm your nervous system. The goal isn’t to jump to “I’m amazing and everything is perfect”—it’s to create just enough relief to think clearly and take action.
Take one small step. What would I do if I felt calm and capable?

For me, the bridge thought was, “I didn’t screw it up last year.” I remembered I’d planned events for 400+ people in my corporate job. No one starved. And if someone’s disappointed? I can handle that. I don’t have to be perfect. I just have to ask for help, make a decision, and move forward.

You can use this for anything

You can use this process for anything in your business: pricing, marketing, sales, copywriting, niching, creating packages. The goal isn’t to lie to yourself or fake confidence—it’s to shift your thoughts just enough that your brain doesn’t go into panic mode. It’s how you go from “I know what to do, but I’m not doing it,” to actually doing it.

Here are a few bridge thoughts I love:

“I just don’t think like that anymore.”
“Maybe none of this is true.”
“I’m willing to try and see what happens.”
“If they can do it, I can do it too.”
“This doesn’t have to be forever. It’s just for now.”

You don’t have to go from “I’ll starve if I raise my prices” to “I’m charging $10K websites” overnight. You just need to take a small step toward a belief that serves you better—and repeat it often enough that your brain starts to believe it, too.

So, what’s your next step?

If you’ve been procrastinating, overcomplicating, avoiding, or people-pleasing, it’s not because you’re lazy or unmotivated. It’s because your brain is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do when it perceives danger.

Now you have the tools to interrupt that pattern. You can notice the thought, name the feeling, find a better one, and act from there. You don’t have to wait until you believe it 100%—you just have to be willing to try something different.

So go ahead and identify one mind trashy thought that’s been keeping you stuck. Then take it through this process. You’ll be amazed what happens when you stop believing everything your brain tells you—and start choosing what to think on purpose.

About Your Host

Hi, I’m Shannon Mattern, and I’m a Pricing Coach for women web designers who are ready to stop undercharging, stop overdelivering, and finally build a simpler, more profitable business that actually supports the life they want.

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Shannon Mattern (00:02.578)

Hey there, welcome back to the Profitable Web Designer podcast. So as I am recording this intro to this week's episode, I am actually preparing to go down to Destin, Florida for the next five days to do a in-person retreat with our Web Designer Academy Next Level students. Those are our advanced students who have either been through our first, like at least one year of our Web Designer Academy program, or who are coming in already, like already, you know, making six figures in their web design business and wanting to grow from there. And we, this is the second year that we are hosting this in-person retreat. And so, you know, I'm sitting here thinking about the women that I'm gonna be spending the next five days with and like where they were when they found us, when they came to work with us. Some of them came to work with us like in the very, very beginning days, like the 2016, 2017 days of the Web Designer Academy. It was just an online course. And some of them have come to work with us this year.

Some of them joined like one year ago, two years ago, and they're all at different places in their business. And it's just so fascinating to like look back at where they were when they started, what they were struggling with, how much they've transformed. And at this in-person retreat, it's like they're creating their next level goals, their bigger goals. And so, I was sitting here thinking about, you know, where I like I was just like, Oh my gosh, they have come so far. I have come so far. The people that come to work with us have come so far. But also, I know that so many of you are at the very beginning of your journey. And I was at the beginning of my journey. You know, we all started at the beginning of our journey. And so I was really reflecting.

Shannon Mattern (02:23.526)

um recently on like what that was like and the things that i just believed to be true and facts and that like i just didn't even consider could be thought of a different way or could be done a different way and how just kind of locked in to um my way of thinking that

was locked into. Like I just didn't know what I didn't know. I didn't know it could be any different. And it's fascinating because as I'm thinking about like what do I want to get out of these next five days at this retreat, I noticed that I've been locked in to a certain way of thinking again that I get to release and let go of in order to get

to the next place on my journey. And it's a whole different way of thinking than I was thinking in the beginning, but I'm also seeing how like this line of thinking is keeping me stuck. And so I will absolutely share more with you about those lessons that I'm learning and all of those things when I get back from the retreat and when I start to really like process that. But today,

I have a very special episode for you. I have a series of episodes planned for you that really are taking me back to the beginning of my journey and the things that I thought to be true and the things that I was like conditioned to believe as a web designer and a woman web designer and a service provider and a business owner and all of those things.

and really deconstructing of those things that I had to do in order to create the life and the freedom and the financial freedom that I wanted to create. So over the next five episodes of the Profitable Web Designer podcast, I am giving you the replays of the Revenue Reset Challenge.

Shannon Mattern (04:38.21)

that I recently hosted for our email list subscribers back in September of 2023, because it was a truly transformational challenge for the people that attended live and watched the replays and actually took the time to do the exercises in each of the trainings. So I'm putting those replays on the podcast for you.

Um, edited, edited down a little bit. So it's just the information that you need. And I want to invite you to take the time to actually go through the exercises that I'm going to be talking about in each, uh, in each episode. I want you to, um, give yourself the opportunity to experience the transformation of going how you from like, how you, how you might think. Things have to work or how you might think things are.

to really transforming your beliefs about what's possible for you and all of those things related to being a freelance web designer. Because I was thinking about this, especially as women, but as service providers and former employees and all of this stuff, we are conditioned to be of service, to take care of others, to take care of customers and clients.

We're conditioned to, you know, that like our time is like we get paid by the hour. We're worth only so much per hour, only worth how long we've been doing it. Or, you know, that our worth is all about us and our experience and what someone else tells us this role is worth or this job is worth. And so when you take those things that like we've been conditioned really to believe in this society.

and combine them with being a business owner, what ends up happening is you get someone who is like massively undercharging and over delivering and burnt out and it's completely unsustainable. And I say that because I lived to that. That was like my lived experience. I'm like, all of the things that I've learned about how to like operate in this world are incompatible with being a business owner. And

Shannon Mattern (07:04.406)

I had to like unwind that and reset that and deconstruct that. And so that's why I hosted the revenue reset challenge to really walk you through that process of figuring out like, what are your beliefs about what you're capable of? Do you want to keep those? Are they creating the results that you want? If they are creating the results that you want, awesome. How can we do more of that? If they're not creating the results that you want?

awesome, how can we shift what we think about and how we believe to create the results that we want? How might our potential clients be thinking and how can we really like guide them to think in ways that serve them instead of kind of being enrolled in thinking that doesn't serve them and like believing their thoughts that don't serve them and really like speaking to

what they really want instead of what they might be afraid of. And then finally, kind of taking all of that into action and like putting it into action. So over the next five episodes, five weeks of the show, I'm going to walk you step by step through everything I did in the revenue reset challenge. So I invite you to, you know, you're probably listening while you're doing other things, which is why I love podcasting so much. Like it's basically the only way I consume content online.

Um, you're probably doing something else while you're listening to this, but I invite you, like, when you have a quiet moment to just get out a pen and piece of paper and take action on the things that I'm talking about in every episode over the next five weeks. And I would love to hear from you about what you discovered about yourself, any epiphanies or aha moments or breakthroughs that you had, um, on your way to

truly transforming what you believe to be true about what is possible for you. So without further ado, this is the first episode in the Revenue Reset Challenge series all about identifying your mind trash.

Shannon Mattern (00:09.082)

Okay, so the first thing we need to know when we're talking about like having a revenue reset is where are we now? Where are we now? Where do we want to be going? And what are our thoughts about that? Right? So if you have ever taken any of my

I always talk about minimum baseline revenue. I talk about it on the Profitable Web Designer podcast. I talk about it all over the place. And minimum base, this is where, when I talk about pricing, I'm like, you get to charge sustainably for you. We're all about creating a profitable, sustainable web design business. And when I say sustainable, I'm talking about time, I'm talking about capacity.

But I'm also talking about like, you are charging the amount of money that you need to live your life because that's why we do this. Unless you're a charity and I'm sure you're not at the revenue reset challenge if you just want to build websites for people for free for fun. So you get to look at what do I need to live? To live comfortably, sustainably?

What does that look like in my life? And my pricing gets to take that into consideration and reflect that. It's not what most people think focusing first on like, oh, how much can I charge for this? And then I'll do that in volume to make the money I wanna make in my life. It's how much do I wanna make in my life? And then I reverse engineer my pricing from there.

The first question is how much money does your web design business currently make each month on average, right? You might have some ebbs and flows in your revenue just depending on like when you're booking clients, but like on average, how much does your business make each month? And if you don't know those numbers, like off the top of your head, just notice that, just notice that and ask yourself,

Shannon Mattern (02:31.682)

Hmm, why don't I know that? Like maybe it's just because you haven't looked. Maybe you don't wanna look. You wanna notice if you don't know the answer to that, why you don't know the answer to that. Because those are also like little pieces of mind trash that we get to turn into gold. We turn your mind trash into gold around here. Like we love finding it, we love excavating it because it's so valuable.

Shannon Mattern (03:00.862)

And then how much revenue does your business need to make each month in order to pay yourself what you wanna make? So to cover your living expenses and your obligations, everybody is different. We don't do vanity metrics like five-figure websites and six-figure web design business around here. You might, that might be.

where you want to go, that might be your minimum baseline, but everybody is different. Where I live in Alexandria, Ohio, the cost of living here is like very reasonable versus some of our students who live in LA or New York, like a mortgage payment for them is double for half the size of a house than here, right? So I want you to look at you.

and your personal situation and you might be a single parent, you might have a partner, you might be the sole provider, you might have a partner that contributes financially. These are the things to look at and your unique revenue needs are completely individual. So that's why...

I think it's so important to look at that. And it's so important to take that into account when it comes to your pricing. Because what we teach in the Web Designer Academy is that minimum baseline revenue is our first goal. That's what we work you up towards. So minimum baseline revenue, that first part of it is how much do you wanna pay yourself every month? What do you want that paycheck to be? Or maybe you wanna pay yourself twice a month. And what do you want that to be? Two payments of 2,500.

Maybe you only need 1500, maybe you need 5000 twice a month. Everybody's different, okay? Second part piece of that is how much do you need to cover business expenses? You have business expenses. You pay for hosting, you pay for tools, you pay for training. Maybe you subcontract or have a team. Maybe you're not quite there yet, that's fine. Mentorship, courses, all of those things.

Shannon Mattern (05:25.282)

How do you, how much do you need to cover those things? What are you spending on your business every single month to run it? Like if you use a onboarding tool like Dubsado or HoneyBook or one of the bajillion million ones, if you're paying for other tools, like what are, how much are you spending every month on business expenses, plug-in subscriptions, stuff like that.

So you can just kind of guess that. And then here in the United States, and I am sorry for those of you who are in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Canada, I don't know. I'm not like an expert in tax law. I'm not an expert in United States tax law. This is not tax or legal advice, disclaimer. I always say that when I talk about this part, this is not tax advice.

However, what I do in my business is I add on 20 to 25% of how much I wanna pay myself each month. So for easy math, if I wanna pay myself $4,000 a month, 25% of 4,000 is 1,000. So I want to put $1,000 in the...

Shannon Mattern (06:51.49)

the line for taxes.

Shannon Mattern (06:56.266)

I cannot tell you how to figure that out in any other country, but whatever percentage you would pay of your income, you want to add that to this formula, right? So it's not that I want to take home 4,000 and then I'm going to deduct 1,000 and only have 3,000 after I pay taxes. It's that I want to take home 4,000, so I want to add in another 1,000, so I want to make 5,000 so I can keep 4,000.

You have three line items. How much do you wanna pay yourself every month? How much do you need in your business to cover those expenses? And how much do you need to set aside for taxes? And then add those things up. And what is the total? And we call that your minimum baseline revenue.

And then what is the gap between what your web design business is currently making and your minimum baseline revenue? So let's say that you're currently making 2,500 a month and you added those three numbers up and I'm just doing like easy math again. Say you added those three numbers up and it was like 7,500 a month. What's the gap? $5,000.

Right? Or say you're currently making $5,000 a month and your minimum baseline is 7,500, the gap's 2,500. Right? So everyone's going to have a unique situation. And it is so important to know these numbers. It's just, your business is so unique to you. Your business doesn't look like everyone else's. You don't offer the same services as everyone else. You don't work with the same clients as everyone else. You are unique.

your business is unique, your needs are unique. And when you try to fit yourself into other people's molds, that's where we get in trouble. We think we should be different. We think we should stretch farther than we're ready to stretch. We don't do one size fits all around here. We do what fits you and your life and your goals and your business. So what is the gap for you?

Shannon Mattern (09:13.41)

And then the next question to take a look at, and remember, this is the MindTrash makeover, MindTrash makeover day of the challenge. So we're gonna get into all your thoughts about this later, all your thoughts about these numbers later. At your current pricing, how many more clients do you need to book each month to close the gap?

How many more clients at your current pricing do you need to book each month to close the gap?

And then I'm gonna ask you the question that is designed to bring up all your mind trash so we can turn your mind trash into gold. This is my favorite part. And I'm gonna kind of set the stage for how we think of mind trash around here because mind trash is not a bad thing at all. The more mind trash you can find and get coaching on,

that is what's going to shift everything in your business. You are not supposed to come into this challenge and be like, oh, I get an A plus. I have no mind trash, I have no trashy thoughts. I check, check. Like, I'm good everywhere. Moving on, I get a gold star pot on the back. If that is you, amazing. Like, what I want you to notice is what are all your golden thoughts that you have?

that you are like, let's notice those, right? And maybe you don't have as much mind trash to make over. Some of you are gonna have a lot, some of you are gonna not have too much, but we all get to share thoughts. If you have really golden thoughts about things, you get to share that with everybody else. Chantel says,

Shannon Mattern (11:12.77)

to charge my minimum baseline price makes me want to barf. I'm so sorry that like that's exactly what I wanted to have happen with this challenge is for you to identify that. I don't want you to feel nauseous, but this is what we get to work through in order for you to get really on the path to doing that. So thank you for sharing that feeling.

Shannon Mattern (11:45.319)

So, this leads me to the final question of day one. Imagine that I told you right now, you have to change your price to at least your minimum baseline revenue for your web design packages.

If I was like, day one of the challenge, you can never come back ever. You can't, you have to delete the podcast. You got to remove yourself from my email list. Like, unless you, I don't know how else, I don't know how else I can like, you know, make you do it. I'm gonna jump through the computer and make you do it. Imagine I told you right now that you have to change your price to at least your minimum baseline revenue.

Would you do it? Why or why not? What are all the thoughts running through your mind? What do you think, believe about charging that price? How does it make you feel? I want you to do, sorry about the grossness of this, but we call it a word vomit in the web designer academy. When someone is just like, here's all the things I think, and I'm not even sure if just, what are all the things that come up for you?

if I said you have to like leave here right now and go change your price.

because a lot of times, I don't wanna say 100% of the time, but I could say like 98.9% of the time, this is the stuff that's keeping you from making the kind of money you wanna make. Not your messaging, not your website, not whatever, it's this type of stuff.

Shannon Mattern (13:26.114)

So Kelly said, I think I would starve. Also, how can I deliver that value? My packages are always a work in progress. I want you to notice those thoughts, Kelly, because we are gonna make those thoughts over tomorrow. So you have a belief that like, it's not worth it. How can I deliver that value?

So notice where you're placing the responsibility for the outcome. Do you have to?

I'm getting into tomorrow, so I'm gonna hold that thought. Just notice these thoughts, this is the gold. We're gonna make these over tomorrow. So definitely write those down that you would starve. Why? Because no one would have like, you'd never book another project. How can I deliver that value? Sometimes when we ask questions, I just want to point this out when we're talking about mind. What you're really saying is, I can't deliver the value.

or I don't think I can deliver that value. It's a belief, right? So we wanna like notice that belief and that my packages always feel like they're a work in progress. So there's something going on with like, I'm not ready, it's not good enough, things like that. So I'm picking this gap, this is gross. I don't know why today is so gross, but I'm like picking this gap today, we'll put a bandaid on it tomorrow. I promise I will not leave you hanging with.

your mind trash thoughts. Chantelle says, I totally want to, but it's terrifying because I'm scared I'll get no clients coming in. I am a new designer, so I feel like I can't charge those prices until I have more years under my belt. I feel like I would need to offer more of my packages. I know this is what I need in order to feel mentally better and feel my worth is valued. So don't worry, Chantelle, I'm not gonna make you go do it tomorrow.

Shannon Mattern (15:32.919)

I just want to know really where your mind is at. What you just said is literally everything, almost every person I've ever worked with thinks when they're just starting out or like when they're in those early days of trying to figure out their pricing. So I don't know if it makes you feel any better that you are so totally normal and that we have made over.

those that mind trash with many, many web designers who then go on to be like, Oh my gosh, it's so funny that I thought I could never charge that much. But it's a process. You're not going to go from there to just changing your price and believing it. If you try to, you will just like probably close up your laptop and like stop being a web designer. We don't want to stretch you too far past your comfort zone. So just

I don't want you to think that like on Friday, I'm gonna be like, okay, change your price to your minimum baseline. If you're ready, amazing. Like I'll fully support that, but we're gonna baby step you to at least believing it's possible. Gabrielle says, I work with a number of charities and really small businesses. So I have some of those feelings like they can't afford to pay more. And Liz says, yes, especially with fellow creative types and artists. Yeah.

So it's just important to notice all of those thoughts.

Shannon Mattern (17:06.374)

And also I will say, you get to design your business how you want intentionally, okay? So there's that piece of revenue reset too. It's not always about raising your prices. We have two sides of the equation, right? Time and money. So how can, like if you decide very intentionally from a non-mine trashy place,

that the type of clientele you want to serve benefits from you keeping your price at a certain place and in your soul at your core, you're like, and I know the value of this is worth a million times more.

and I've done the work to know that and I'm choosing to keep the price here and I'm gonna change things to like make it so that I can do the work faster or whatever it is so that it's still profitable and sustainable for you. That's okay too. So I just want revenue resets not always about like how high can we get our prices? There's two sides to the equation.

And there's so many places where your web design business is leaking time and money that we can patch up to reset your revenue without you having to change your price to your minimum baseline for all of your packages and all your clients. But I want you to do the thought experiment because this is the type of thing that I want you, we need to come up,

Shannon Mattern (18:53.23)

to think about what you truly think about charging that much, whatever, that much is to you. And so we can work through the challenge. Heather says, I'm tired of neglecting my kids to make barely any money, and I'm ready to stay out of my client's wallets. My mind trashes, I am scared of being questioned about bills and not being valuable to the client. Yeah.

That is also very, very common mind trash. What are they gonna say? I'm afraid I'm gonna blindside them. What if, with what happened with Z, they're like, that's how much you charged me to change the percentage on my website. And I'm not saying that was that person's tone at all, but sometimes we read that tone and we're like, oh shoot, they're mad at me, right? And it's, you know.

And then we're like, oh, I can't charge for that. At least that's how I would react back in the day. When I was new and I'm like, oh, that was so small. Like I shouldn't charge for that. But like there was time involved in that. Even if the change itself is simple, it's like I had to read the email. I had to plan time to do it. I had to do it. I had to communicate with the client. I had to do all of these things. My time is valuable. It's worth something. And I get to communicate.

to my clients what the expectations are, what the boundaries are, and all of those things. Okay, so day one, I basically just made you get the trash can out of your kitchen and like dump it on the floor and like make a big pile of mine trash. Tomorrow we're going to start cleaning it up. Okay, so I want you to just take some time and really think about it, really answer those questions.

Really do that math and tomorrow we'll do some coaching on some of this mind trash. And we're going to start like taking some of those heavy feelings off and shifting those beliefs and really deconstructing them so that you can start to take action and stop.

Shannon Mattern (21:11.23)

You know, there's lots of different ways this mind trash holds you back. I will show you how that mind trash is holding you back and we will start to deconstruct it and make it over.

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