The Profit Leak Audit: Why You’re Booked but Still Stressed

Revenue is vanity. Profit is oxygen. And if your business is booked but you’re still stressed, still scrambling, still wondering where the money went… you’re not “bad at business.” You’ve got a leak.

In this Season 1 finale of Curated & Crafted, Dom + Kinsey run a rapid-fire Profit Leak Audit for experience-based businesses — event planners, beverage teams, hospitality, creatives, and high-touch service founders who keep saying yes… then pay for it later.

In this episode, we break down:

• The real difference between hard costs vs soft costs
• Why “quick favors” quietly destroy margin (and team morale)
• How revisions + rework become unpaid labor
• The hidden killer: last-minute changes (and how to price/protect against them)
• Mental scope creep: when you become mediator/therapist instead of operator
• Funding convenience + waste: fronting costs, emergency runs, inventory bleed
• What to change immediately: change orders, buffers, deadlines, approvals

Your challenge:

Audit one recent job. Track the hours. Track the changes. Track the “just real quick” moments. Then plug ONE leak this week.

Send this to a founder friend who’s always busy and never relaxed.