Revenue ≠ Resonance

How to tell if your business is still you — or just your numbers

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Justin Glover
October 02, 2025

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Today’s Perspective Shift

From: Chase income
To: Track resonance

Theme for the Quarter: Tools With Soul
Theme for the Week: When Growth Feels Good Again

Quote of the Week:
“Alignment isn’t a luxury. It’s what makes achievement feel like success.”

✨ In Today’s Episode:

  • Why “good money” can come from the wrong things

  • The 4 signs revenue and resonance have split

  • A practical way to track both without self-sabotage

  • How to realign without a full rebuild

Revenue ≠ Resonance

How to tell if your business is still you — or just your numbers

🧠 ONE Smart Idea

Profit is a scoreboard.
But resonance? That’s the signal.

Most founders only track what pays — not what aligns.

The danger?

“You’ll scale what sells… even if it’s slowly silencing you.”

Resonance means:

  • You're proud of what you're putting out

  • The market response feels energizing, not just efficient

  • Clients say, “This is so you”

Here’s the kicker:
Revenue and resonance usually start in sync.
But as you scale? They diverge.

One grows your bank account.
The other grows your sense of self.

Your job is to watch the gap.

📖 Story Spark

I once worked with a founder whose B2B agency exploded during the AI boom.

MQLs flying in. Sales calendar packed.
But when I asked how he felt?

“Like I’m running someone else’s company… in my own name.”

The offers weren’t wrong.
They just weren’t his anymore.

We looked closer and found the divergence:

  • Revenue: ✅ Up 42%

  • Resonance: ❌ DMs from dream clients vanished

  • Podcast: off-brand

  • Team: all ops, no vision

  • Vibe: gone

He made one key move:
Reinserted himself into the narrative.

New brand story.
One flagship offer, re-written in his voice.
Weekly newsletter, back to truth.

His numbers dipped 10%.
His calendar cleared up.
He started smiling on calls again.

That’s resonance.

⚙️ Tactical Application: Track the Gap

Try this two-column check-in:

🔢 Revenue

🎯 Resonance

What offers are performing?

What offers feel most you?

Who's buying consistently?

Who do you want to work with more?

What content converts best?

What content felt amazing to make?

What channels bring cash?

What channels bring joy?

Now ask:

  • Where is there alignment?

  • Where is there drift?

If revenue and resonance are aligned → amplify.
If they’re diverging → recalibrate.

🎁 Today’s Sponsors:

🧭 Intelligent Elevation

In the AI age, it's easy to chase optimized outcomes.

But here’s the truth:

“What works isn’t always what’s worthy.”

If you scale things that don’t reflect you,
you’ll eventually resent the success you built.

Revenue can’t validate you.
Only resonance can.

Track both.
Honor both.
But let resonance lead.

🧵 What’s Happening in AI

Beehiiv drops “Brand Voice Guardrails”
Helps you detect when your tone drifts too far from your values.

Castmagic AI adds Emotional Resonance Scoring
Now your podcasts get graded on how connected you sound—not just transcript accuracy.

ConvertKit AI tests “Joy-Based Lead Scoring”
Track which lead sources match your long-term alignment goals, not just short-term revenue.

💬 Closing Insight

Revenue is a result.
Resonance is a relationship.

One feeds your business.
The other feeds your soul.

Don’t chase numbers that don’t feel like you.

“If your work echoes back your values, you’re already rich.”

🧠 Reply with one area where revenue and resonance diverged
💾 Save this tip for your next quarterly check-in
➡️ Forward to a founder chasing metrics, not meaning

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— Justin Glover