About Scaling Together with Josh and Yesenia Nelson
Join Josh and Yesenia Nelson, the married partners behind Seven Figure Agency, as they explore what it really takes to build a thriving digital marketing agency and a thriving relationship.
Doing life and business together sounds like the dream. But let’s be real, it can get messy.
Scaling Together is a podcast for entrepreneurial couples navigating the highs, lows, and holy crap are we doing this right moments of growing a business together.
We are pulling back the curtain on how we run a seven figure agency and grow closer in the process. Sharing wins, failures, frameworks, and everything
AI Won't Wait for You: What Multiple 7-Figure Agency Owners Need to Know
You have built a successful agency. But what happens when growth stalls, AI is changing everything, and you are not sure what move to make next? In this episode of Scaling Together, we share the conversations we are having right now, on whether to invest in AI or wait, what it really means to hit a glass ceiling at multiple seven figures, how to deploy the capital sitting in your business, and why coaching remains one of the best investments you can make at any level.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro clip: New agencies are building agentic from the ground up
0:48 – Welcome and episode overview
1:24 – Should successful agencies invest in AI now or wait?
2:47 – Why waiting is riskier than it looks
3:56 – What winning agencies have in common with AI
5:18 – Why playing with the tools is the only way to get ahead
6:57 – The difference between a plateau and a glass ceiling
8:08 – What has to change when incremental improvements stop working
8:51 – Why leadership is the key to breaking the ceiling
10:09 – The ceiling calculator at sevenfigureagency.com/ceiling
11:22 – Why retention alone will not get you past the ceiling
11:55 – The leadership hire most agencies are holding off on
12:28 – Acquisitions and vertical expansion at the $5M level
13:31 – What to do with capital sitting in your business
15:27 – Building a wealth advisory team and fractional CFO
15:59 – Is coaching worth it at multiple seven figures?
17:22 – Why coaching delivers the highest ROI
18:57 – How they approach coaching and implementation
20:43 – Speed to implement: the plane ride home conversation
22:23 – Closing thoughts
15 Jul 2026
How We Run Two 7-Figure Businesses
Running one business is hard. Running two multiple seven-figure businesses together as a couple while homeschooling three kids is a whole different challenge.
From moving all meetings to one day, to protecting white space for creativity, to the three things a visionary should spend their time on, this episode is a practical and personal look at what it takes to run two businesses at scale as a team.
The Secret Sauce: White space days = creativity + strategic planning. Can't pour from an empty cup.
We're exhausted too. There's no magic elixir. But intentional calendar management + the right people in the right seats equals sustainable growth.
What does YOUR ideal week look like? Drop it below 👇
Chapters:
00:00 - Feeling Overwhelmed and Restructuring Our Calendar
00:52 - Welcome to Scaling Together Podcast
01:16 - Building a Community to Support Two Businesses
01:23 - Our Homeschooling Decision and System
02:07 - Creating Our Home Support Team
02:30 - House Manager and Family Support Structure
03:23 - The Business Foundation: Family First
03:55 - Growing Plumbing and HVAC SEO to $7M
04:23 - Building Seven Figure Agency with Level 10 Meetings
04:58 - Restructuring Our Meeting Calendar
05:50 - Consolidating All Meetings to Mondays
06:38 - The Importance of Level 10 Meetings
07:23 - Eliminating "Got a Minute" Interruptions
07:47 - Our Weekly Content and Meeting Schedule
08:27 - The Value of White Space on the Calendar
09:26 - Visionary Planning and Five-Year Goals
10:10 - Making Space for Creativity
10:41 - Second-Guessing Every Meeting
11:24 - The Three Things Visionaries Should Focus On
12:12 - Building Relationships as a Core Function
12:44 - Content Creation and Big Ideas
13:13 - Focusing on Team Culture and Hiring
14:06 - Our Morning Routines
15:04 - Our Daily Work Rhythm and Lunch
15:21 - Evening Routine and Family Time
16:22 - Managing Energy and Finding Balance
16:24 - Closing Thoughts and Subscribe
#EntrepreneurCouple #BusinessGrowth
2 Jul 2026
Is Your Agency Going to Survive the AI Shift? Here's What You Need to Do
AI is already reshaping what digital marketing agencies do, how they deliver, and who they need on their team. In this episode of Scaling Together, Josh and Yesenia break down what agency owners are getting wrong about AI, where it is already replacing real agency work, and how to bring your team along without losing momentum or morale.
They also get practical, sharing how AI is being used inside their own agency today and the one simple thing every agency can do right now to start getting their whole team on the same playing field.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro clip: The fear and the opportunity
0:45 – Welcome and episode overview
1:25 – What agency owners are misunderstanding about AI
2:28 – The human element AI will not replace
3:52 – The fear around AI and why it is overblown
4:16 – What a PE firm's research says about local digital marketing
5:47 – Agencies that adapt vs. agencies that wait
6:35 – Where AI is being used incorrectly right now
7:53 – How long to obsess over AI before handing it off
9:24 – Empowering the whole team, not just the founder
9:55 – How AI is already replacing agency work
13:19 – How they use AI internally at Plumbing and HVAC SEO
16:07 – How to introduce AI without team resistance
18:45 – Turning AI adoption into a team opportunity
20:25 – One simple AI implementation to start today
21:18 – Closing thoughts
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
3 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
1 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100
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YouTube
93
Engagement
32
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