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Raise Your Prices: Your Number Was Set by Someone Who No Longer Exists

The Trust Engine··3 October 2026·18 min

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I found $14 million sitting idle at the bank where I worked, got a "good job"... and that same season rehearsed for weeks to ask for a $10,000 raise. An employee prices against his paycheck, not the value he creates. Most owners never stop. This episode is one idea taught deep: your prices are anchored to yesterday's identity... the $200 arrival, the 18% car loan, the pantry years priced by a scared kid, the solo CPA charging $1K for work his client had happily paid $5K for. Then the fix, which is a calendar and not courage: the Annual Reprice Ritual. Your price has a birthday. The three-client test. The napkin math (a 10% raise is a 33% profit increase). And the one sentence to send... no essay, no apology. You're allowed to be paid like the person you've become.🎁 Free: DM "AUDIT" on Instagram @johnnyterracpa for the Elimination Audit. No strings. 📬 The letter: The Intentional Operator... one installable system every Tuesday, free. https://intentionaloperator.substack.com 🔔 Follow and subscribe... I build all of this in public.🎙 Text the show — your question might end up on air I just released a doc called the Elimination Audit... the exact walkthrough I use to find ten-plus hours hiding inside a normal week. DM me the word "AUDIT" on Instagram @johnnyterracpa, and it's yours. Free, no strings, no pitch coming afterward.  📬 The letter mentioned in this episode: The Intentional Operator — one installable system every Tuesday, free. intentionaloperator.substack.comSupport the showText OPERATOR to 806-337-0141 to talk about The Intentional Operator Mastermind.