Pop-up-to-Powerhouse pulls back the curtain on the highs and lows of building a creative business in the luxury event world. Through raw solo episodes, tactical training, and inspiring guest interviews, Jamie shares the exact steps, lessons, and mindset shifts needed to grow from “just starting out” to thriving in the premium market. This is where creative vision meets business strategy and where artists become CEOs. It’s where you’ll learn to attract high-paying clients, price confidently, design scroll-stopping work, and build a brand that books itself.
Latest episodes
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26 min
90% of My Business Comes From the Same People. Here's How.
If you've been chasing clients one cold email at a time, this episode is your permission to stop. This week on Pop Up to Powerhouse, Jamie pulls back the curtain on how she built a…
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20 min
How to Hold Your Price (Without Losing the Jobs You Want)
You send the proposal. Then the voices start. Was that too much? Should I have charged less? Are they going with someone cheaper?If you've felt that, this episode is for you.In the…
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25 min
From $300 to $8,000 Installs: What 10 Years Taught Me About Charging My Worth
No outline. No script. Just me.In this chapter of the Charge Your Worth series, I'm doing something new. I'm riffing and I apologize in advance. The more I taught about these past…
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25 min
#23: The Psychology of Premium Pricing: Why the Right Clients Pay More (Charge Your Worth Pt. 3)
Why do two businesses offering what looks like the same service charge completely different prices? And why do some clients happily pay two or three times more?In Part 3 of the Cha…
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25 min
#22: Charge Your Worth, Part 2: Why Clients Pay More for the Same Service
Raising your price is never the finish line. In Part 2 of Charge Your Worth, Jamie breaks down why two people can offer the exact same service and one gets paid double, and it usua…
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26 min
#21: Charge Your Worth, Part 1 — the real formula behind pricing
If you've ever pulled a price out of thin air and then held your breath hitting send on the proposal, this episode is for you. This week on Pop-Up to Powerhouse, Jamie breaks down…
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1 h 15
#20: The Money Thermostat: Why You Keep Hitting the Same Income Ceiling with Jillian Minter, Money Coach
If you've been working harder than everyone in the room and still hitting the same income ceiling, this episode is the reframe you didn't know you needed. This week on Pop-Up to Po…
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38 min
Ep. 19: From Winging It to Systems: Building SOPs Without Losing Your Standard
This week's episode started with a DM. A listener wrote in and said what so many of us are thinking: "I just winged it. I don't have SOPs. I'm still working so much in the business…
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60 min
#18: The Brand Rules and AI Rules You Need to Break with Hey Bex Creative House
If your brand feels like it's blending in with every other business in your industry, this episode is your permission slip to stop playing safe. This week on Pop Up to Powerhouse,…
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30 min
#17 You Don't Need One Niche. You Need One Reason People Remember You.
She breaks down the real research behind why niching works (processing fluency and the mere exposure effect, not just vibes), tells the story of pitching her gift box company at St…
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1 h 11
#16: The Corporate Client Playbook Every Event Creative Needs with Carolina Gomez from Balloon Element
If you've been waiting for corporate clients to magically find you, this episode is the wake-up call. This week on Pop Up to Powerhouse, Jamie sits down with Carolina, founder of B…
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1 h 14
#15: Why Career Women Can't Out-Hustle Their Health (With Desiree Burgess Alford, West Coast Wellness)
If you've ever wondered why you're working harder than ever in the gym, tracking every calorie, running yourself into the ground and somehow feeling worse, not better this episode…
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55 min
#14: Part 5: The "Magic" That Paid Off $100K (And Why It Wasn't Magic At All)
This is the episode you've been waiting for. If you've been following the pivot series on Pop Up to Powerhouse, you already know the story — the debt, the burnout, the tears, the m…
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37 min
#13: Part 4: I Didn't Think My Way Out. I Behaved My Way Out.
For the last few episodes, I've walked you through the darkest chapter of my business: the debt, the burnout, the crying, the moment I realized I wasn't happy for anyone. Now it’s…
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31 min
#12: Part 3: When I Wasn't Rooting for Anyone
There's a part of my pivot story I've been quietly sitting on… because I wasn't sure I was ready to say it out loud. During the hardest chapter of my business, I wasn't happy for o…
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27 min
#11: Part 2: Burnout Doesn't Always Feel Like Burnout
After surviving COVID, being featured in the New York Times, landing corporate clients like Microsoft and Google, and finally signing my first warehouse lease, I thought I had made…
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28 min
#10: Part 1: The Part of My Business I Almost Shut Down… Ended Up Saving It
There was a moment when I had decided to shut down part of my business and ironically, it ended up being the part that saved us. In this episode of Pop-Up to Powerhouse, I'm finall…
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1 h 27
#9: The Biggest Networking Mistake Founders Are Still Making with Alisha Kumar
If you've ever walked out of a networking event wondering why it didn't lead to anything… this episode is going to reframe how you show up to every room you walk into. In this epis…
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11 min
#8: The Hidden Cost of Being “Too Much”
If you've ever worried that you're too much, too direct, too emotional, too ambitious, or simply too different, this episode is for you.In this episode of Pop-Up to Powerhouse, we…
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1 h 09
#7: When a Trademark Threatened My Business with Lynnae Pompeo
What would you do if someone told you that after five years of building your business, you could no longer use your company name?In this episode of Pop-Up to Powerhouse, Jamie sits…