Early Childhood Business Made Easy

About Early Childhood Business Made Easy

Early Childhood Business Made Easy: Preschool, Childcare & Play Cafe Success Strategies Transform your preschool, childcare center, or play cafe from chaotic overwhelm into a profitable, time-freedom business. Host Kelley Peake, former KinderCare executive and owner of multiple seven-figure early childhood businesses, shares proven strategies for enrollment growth, team management, marketing that works, and operational systems that actually stick. You'll Learn How To: ✨ Increase preschool enrollment and retention without expensive ads ✨ Hire and keep great teachers in a competitive market ✨ Grow play cafe traffic and party bookings consistently ✨ Structure your services for maximum profit (without raising tuition) ✨ Build systems that free up your time instead of stealing it ✨ Market to modern parents who value quality over price ✨ Scale your early childhood business without burning out This Podcast Is For: → Preschool owners and directors drowning in daily chaos → Childcare operators struggling with staffing and slim margins → Play cafe and enrichment program owners wanting more bookings → Working moms building early childhood businesses while raising families → Anyone who started their EC business to make a difference—not to work 60-hour weeks Kelley doesn't teach theory. She shares real strategies from 25+ years operating Peake Academy (boutique preschool), Play Boutique (indoor play cafe), and coaching hundreds of early childhood businesses through her Shine Membership and CEO Mentorship programs. Every episode delivers actionable systems you can implement this week. Popular Topics: Early childhood business operations, preschool marketing strategies, childcare enrollment systems, play cafe revenue growth, hiring and retention for early childhood, parent communication frameworks, pricing strategies for preschools, operational efficiency, work-life balance for childcare owners. Stop sacrificing your family to serve other families. Learn to rewrite the rules of business for early childhood at peakecreative.com. →New episodes weekly. Subscribe now.

Publisher

Kelley Peake

Category

business · business · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Mar 2021

Latest episode

3 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

307 episodes in the feed.

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   3 Oct 2026

   201: Holiday Program Profits: Plan Now For November And December

   Send us Fan Mail You've got a good feeling about November and December, more families in the building, more energy, more requests for “extra” days. But when January hits, your holiday programs somehow cost you time, sanity, and margin instead of building it. This episode breaks down the exact plan Confident Early Childhood Operators use to build profitable preschool holiday programs and childcare events families love, without adding chaos to the busiest season of the year. Click HERE to see t...

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   24 Sept 2026

   200: October Enrollment Strategy: Fill Winter and Spring Spots Now

   Send us Fan Mail ★ MILESTONE EPISODE ★ Two hundred episodes. The families who will fill your winter and spring spots are not waiting until January to look. They are deciding in October. This milestone episode celebrates 200 episodes of Early Childhood Business Made Easy — and delivers the proactive enrollment strategy that fills your program before the gaps appear. Plus: the announcement of the free pre-recorded Coaching Week now available to every podcast subscriber. Click HERE to see the Sh...

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   18 Sept 2026

   199: Fall Team Momentum: Keep Energy High Through the Holidays

   Send us Fan Mail Fall fatigue does not arrive because your team is the wrong team. It arrives because sustained excellence is demanding, and no amount of passion for the work eliminates the need for intentional leadership investment to maintain it. This episode gives you three strategies for keeping team energy high through October, November, and December: understanding fall fatigue as a predictable pattern, building momentum through specific recognition and growth investment, and cultivating...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

4.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

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Quality

78

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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