When you look at the day and week ahead, are you paying close attention to your natural energy peaks?

How about your preferred activity or satisfaction levels?

Annie is the CEO and Artistic Director of Performing Arts Academy of Marin - also known as PAAM - in Mill Valley, California.  Annie established PAAM in the summer of 2009, facilitating its growth with the help of dedicated faculty and staff from humble beginnings in a church hall to a thriving community with state-of-the-art facilities and premier training in dance and the performing arts.

In this limited series, Annie will be your guide to achieving more freedom and balance in your studio life as she walks you through her 6 Secrets to a Profitable 20 Hour Work Week.

"Freedom" is a word that Dance Studio Owner, Annie Leese Thistle can get behind - and we know its one you can get behind too!

This week's episode is all about the 4 key ways that Annie has achieved more freedom and balance in her studio and life as she strives towards the 20 hour work week that enables her to Work Less, Make More. 

This week, Annie walks you through:

1. Why you need to create clear job descriptions for your team.
2. Empowering your team to be thinkers and come up with new ideas.
3. Planning for your team’s productivity as well as your own.
4. Discovering what are your "loss leaders".

Annie also shares her tips for laying out your days and weeks for maximum producitivity and freedom, AND the #1 financial tip that has transcended into her leadership and empowered her employees to take initiative confidently in their roles. 

We hope you enjoy this week's episode of Work Less, Make More with Annie Leese Thistle, powered by the Transform My Dance Studio Podcast. 

About your Host, Annie Leese Thistle!

For the next 6 weeks, we couldn't be more excited to be introducing a brand new host here on the podcast. Annie Leese Thistle is an extraordinary Studio Owner and Inner Circle member who will be leading from behind the microphone for a 6-part podcast series, ‘Work Less, Make More”

Annie is the CEO and Artistic Director of Performing Arts Academy of Marin - also known as PAAM - in Mill Valley, California.

Annie established PAAM in the summer of 2009, facilitating its growth with the help of dedicated faculty and staff from humble beginnings in a church hall to a thriving community with state-of-the-art facilities and premier training in dance and the performing arts. 

In this limited series, Annie will be your guide to achieving more freedom and balance in your studio life as she walks you through her 6 Secrets to a Profitable 20 Hour Work Week.

What are the things that are currently holding you back from reaching your full potential?

If you are a studio owner who wants change; if you want more, if you want better than your average; you need to change some things in order to get different results.

And that is exactly what this week's episode of "Work Less, Make More"on the Transform My Dance Studio Podcast with guest host, Annie Leese Thistle.

In this episode, you'll unlock:

• How to define what you really want in life so that you can be empowered to go after it
• Practical strategies for taking inventory of your current work week
• Tasks can you offload right now, and those you can look forward to offloading in the near future
• The importance of having clear training processes and systems in place

"You have to start with YOU in order to fix anything in your business or quality of life."

For the next 6 weeks, we couldn't be more excited to be introducing a brand new host here on the podcast. Annie Leese Thistle is an extraordinary Studio Owner and Inner Circle member who will be leading from behind the microphone for a 6-part podcast series, ‘Work Less, Make More”

Annie is the CEO and Artistic Director of Performing Arts Academy of Marin - also known as PAAM - in Mill Valley, California.

Annie established PAAM in the summer of 2009, facilitating its growth with the help of dedicated faculty and staff from humble beginnings in a church hall to a thriving community with state-of-the-art facilities and premier training in dance and the performing arts. 

In this limited series, Annie will be your guide to achieving more freedom and balance in your studio life as she walks you through her 6 Secrets to a Profitable 20 Hour Work Week.

In this six part podcast series 'Work Less, Make More', workaholic studio owner Annie Lesse Thistle discovers her true values and transforms her life to achieve a balance of work, family, and self that she never thought possible.

During this podcast mini-series, Annie will be your guide to achieving more freedom and balance in your studio life as she walks you through her six secrets to achieving the highly profitable 20 hour work week.

In this series premiere, you'll discover:
1. How Annie Leese Thistle went from working 72 hours a week to a 20 hour work week
2. What it was like for Annie during the pandemic and how it changed her perspective
3. How to identify and let go of things in your life that are holding you back

And SO much more.

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

About Your Host: Annie Leese Thistle is an extraordinary studio owner and Inner Circle member who will be leading a six-part series on working less and making more.

Annie is the CEO and artistic director of Performing Arts Academy of Marin (PAM) in Mill Valley, California. She established Pam in 2009 and has grown it from humble beginnings in a church hall to a thriving community with state-of-the-art facilities and premier training in dance and the performing arts.