Business, Manifestation, Podcast

My latest podcast episode about pricing, confidence, and the quiet ways undervaluing your work reshapes your entire brand presence.

🎧 Tune into episode 69 of Inspired by Design

The Signal Beneath the Number

Underpricing isn’t just a strategy choice. It’s communication.

Your price tells a story before you ever get on a sales call. It signals confidence, positioning, and perceived value. And when that number doesn’t match the transformation you actually deliver, something subtle but significant happens. There’s friction. Not always visible, not always dramatic, but present.

You might feel it as hesitation before sending an invoice. As the urge to over-explain your process. As the quiet pressure to add “just one more thing” to make it feel worth it.

When Your Pricing Creates Tension

When your rates are misaligned, your nervous system often compensates.

You may find yourself overdelivering to justify the investment. Attracting clients who question your expertise. Agreeing to scope creep because somewhere inside, you’re not fully anchored in the value of what you offer.

Underpricing doesn’t just affect your revenue. It impacts your boundaries, your confidence, and the way you show up in your brand. And over time, that energetic mismatch can quietly erode trust both with your clients and with yourself.

Why Aligned Clients Aren’t Always Looking for “Affordable”

Here’s what we don’t talk about enough: underpricing can actually repel the clients you most want to work with.

High-level, aligned clients aren’t just buying a deliverable. They’re investing in leadership, clarity, and transformation. When your pricing feels tentative or disconnected from your positioning, it creates doubt instead of certainty.

Confidence is felt. In your visuals. In your messaging. In the way you present your offers. Strategic design plays a powerful role here, not as decoration, but as reinforcement. When your brand presence reflects depth and clarity, higher pricing doesn’t feel inflated. It feels obvious.

Raising Your Price vs. Raising Your Positioning

This episode isn’t about randomly increasing your rates. It’s about alignment, about understanding the ecosystem of your brand messaging, design, experience, boundaries and ensuring it supports the level you’re ready to operate at. When those elements work together, pricing becomes a natural extension of your positioning rather than a leap you have to justify.

In this solo episode, I unpack why underpricing often signals a deeper clarity gap, how brand confidence shifts client dynamics, and what it takes to make premium pricing feel steady instead of stressful.

🎧 Tune into episode 69 of Inspired by Design

Let this episode remind you that your price is not just a number, it’s a reflection of how firmly you stand in the value you provide. When your brand fully holds that value, you no longer have to.