The Smart Gets Paid Podcast

About The Smart Gets Paid Podcast

Join renowned sales coach for women running consulting businesses, Leah Neaderthal, for a behind-the-scenes look as she helps women solve their biggest sales challenges and start landing higher-paying clients. From her background in marketing -- “definitely not a salesperson” -- she taught herself how to sell and developed a selling methodology that feels comfortable and works. Now she shares that with other women in their consulting businesses. From clearly communicating your value, to comfortably leading a sales process, to pricing your work, getting in front of your ideal business clients, and even confidence and mindset, you’ll listen in on the real, honest conversations with women just like you who are facing, and solving, these challenges. Along the way, you’ll discover that even if you’ve never been a salesperson, you can learn how to land consulting clients, comfortably and confidently, without being salesy. Learn more at smartgetspaid.com.

Publisher

Leah Neaderthal

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Mar 2021

Latest episode

25 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

29 of 154 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   25 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   153: Get paid for your experience instead of your labor, with Jeanne Meyer

   Leah Neaderthal interviews Jeanne Meyer, a corporate communications consultant, about leveraging decades of experience to price services on value rather than labor.

2. 

   11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   152: How Kara van Stralen built a business sturdy enough for real life

   Host Kara van Stralen shares how she built a resilient government affairs firm that supports her family through life's unexpected challenges.

3. 

   27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   151: The marketing system built for how clients actually buy now, with Jaclyn Sergeant

   Marketing and Pipeline Coach Jaclyn Sergeant joins host Leah to reveal a modern marketing system that aligns with current client buying behaviors and LinkedIn's evolving algorithm.

Inside a recent episode

153: Get paid for your experience instead of your labor, with Jeanne Meyer

Published 25 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I just had to do a lot of soul searching on how to get there. Because there have been instances where I have been engaged to do crisis management and I was able to solve what could have been a billion dollar problem in 15 minutes. You know, that's not something like a quarter of an hourly fee. That is value based. Yeah. Yeah. More from my conversation with Jean Meyer after this. Well, and I think that's just a perfect segue into sort of this getting into advisory work, right? And less of the execution, more of the advisory. Because when you are an advisor, people just want sort of your advice, right? […]

Who has been a guest on The Smart Gets Paid Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jeanne Meyer
• Kara van Stralen
• Jaclyn Sergeant
• Shanna Hocking
• Abby McAdams

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

1,674

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

86 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

25 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

78

Social presence

94

YouTube

68

Engagement

92

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Books guests

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