The Pricing Problem: Pricing as a Leadership Decision
About this episode
Sheena discusses the importance of treating pricing as an ongoing leadership discipline rather than a one-time project.
A founder does the hard work — she diagnoses her underpricing, she reverse-engineers better numbers, she raises her rates, and it works. And then eighteen months later, she’s drifted right back. Costs crept up. New offers got priced with old logic. The fear quietly returned. She treated pricing like a pothole to patch once and move on — but pricing was never a pothole. It’s a road you have to maintain. In the final episode of The Pricing Problem, Sheena zooms out and answers the question that decides whether everything from the first three episodes actually lasts: how do you make pricing an ongoing discipline of leadership instead of a one-time project? The episode covers why pricing is genuinely a leadership decision — because it determines who your clients are, your capacity, your team’s sustainability, and whether your business funds its mission or just barely funds itself — and then how to build a real pricing practice into your rhythm as a CEO. The second half of the episode turns to the inner game: how to keep your nerve when pricing keeps testing you. Sheena reframes the flinch as information, not a problem; explains how the work you do on calm days steadies you on hard…
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