Why Your Agency Can't Scale Until You Stop Being the Doer with Matt Kovacs Ep #893

Have you ever wondered how to strike that balance between managing your team and ensuring success for your clients? Today's featured guest is here to talk about what it actually takes to evolve from doing the work to building a team that can win without you. The conversation cuts through common agency myths, like hiring better clients first or relying on RFPs, and instead exposes the real drivers of growth: team strength, leadership evolution, and structural leverage. Matt Kovacs is the president of Blaze PR , a boutique agency for lifestyle brands hungry for a piece of the market share. Kovacs brings a grounded, operator-to-leader perspective shaped by years of building and scaling a lifestyle PR agency across industries like CPG, restaurants, and real estate. His focus is on people, systems, and the subtle shifts that move an agency from founder-reliant to team-driven. In this episode, we'll discuss: Which comes first, better clients or a better team? The founder evolution from doer to developer of people How Matt's team is integrating AI

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Why Your Agency Can't Scale Until You Stop Being the Doer with Matt Kovacs Ep #893 is an episode from Smart Agency Masterclass with Jason Swenk: Podcast for Digital Marketing Agencies by Jason Swenk.

This episode is 31:22 long.

This episode was published on Apr 1, 2026.

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