Paid to Know
Paid to Know is a business podcast by Ricka Raga for creatives, freelancers, service providers, and business owners who are done guessing their way through pricing, clients, marketing, systems, and growth. Through personal stories, honest lessons from real client work, and reflections from building a creative business, each episode explores what it really takes to become visible, trusted, structured, and paid.
Episodes
Ep 5: 7 Client Red Flags I No Longer Ignore
After taking a month off to recover from surgery, Ricka Raga is back behind the mic.
In this episode of Paid to Know, Ricka shares seven client red flags she no longer ignores after more than a decade of working with founders, creatives, service providers, local businesses, and international teams.
From clients who expect you to read their minds to businesses where everything is urgent but nothing
Ep 4: Why More Inquiries Don’t Always Mean More Clients
Someone recently found Ricka through Claude AI — not Google, not Instagram, not a referral, and not a paid ad. That moment became a signal that visibility is changing. People are no longer just searching; they are asking AI who to trust, who to hire, and who is credible enough to recommend.
In this episode of Paid to Know, Ricka breaks down how inquiries work inside Ricka Raga and The Digital Auth
Ep 3: Client Feedback Is Not a Personal Attack
I used to take client feedback so personally. Every revision felt like rejection, every unclear comment felt like proof that I failed, and every “something feels off” made me question my talent, my process, and my entire business.
But over the years, I learned that client feedback is not always instruction. Sometimes it is confusion. Sometimes it is fear. Sometimes it is a lack of trust in the pro
Ep 2: Pricing Is a Container, Not Just a Number
In this episode of Paid to Know, Ricka Raga talks about one of the biggest business lessons she learned from client pricing: your price is not just what people pay — it is the container that decides how well the work can be delivered.
She breaks down what different yearly client containers taught her, why smaller budgets cannot always hold the same level of strategy, and why The Digital Authority’
Ep 1: Welcome to Paid to Know
Welcome to Paid to Know, the first official episode where Ricka Raga introduces the world of the show — what it is, who it is for, and what listeners can expect moving forward.
In this episode, Ricka lays out the heart of Paid to Know: honest conversations about creative work, client work, pricing, business, visibility, systems, strategy, and the lessons you only learn when people start paying you
Teaser: I Almost Didn’t Do This
I almost didn’t launch this podcast. Or the book. Or move to the US. Or say yes to any of the things that changed my life.
Welcome to Paid to Know — a podcast by Ricka Raga about the personal stories, client lessons, business mistakes, pricing decisions, marketing systems, and hard-earned truths behind becoming visible, trusted, structured, and paid.
This teaser is a little hello, a little confess
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