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The $20,000 Website I Built for Almost Nothing
Episode 2227th May 2026 • Seed and Society | AI, Agents, and Automation • Makeda Boehm
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If you've spent thousands on a website that still takes forever to update and still doesn't reflect what your business is worth, this episode is the way out. No developer, no five-figure invoice.

I lived this exact problem. A year and a half of bouncing between Squarespace, Wix, Showit, WordPress, Framer, and every new A.I. builder that launched. Contractors on Upwork and Fiverr. Thousands spent on a site that still didn't work right. There was a weekend I sat at my table and cried over it. Then I rebuilt my entire brand site on a single flight from Nashville to San Francisco, with zero monthly hosting and no code, and in this episode I walk you through exactly how, so you can own yours the same way.

In this episode:

  • Why your website is your digital front door, and the exact moment a client decides what you're worth
  • The real cost of the Showit plus WordPress setup: templates, designers, hosting, and update headaches that never end
  • Every tool and platform I tried over more than a year, and why none of them stuck
  • How I rebuilt seedandsociety.com on one plane ride, start to finish
  • Why owning your infrastructure is now the cheaper option

Who this is for: Service-based business owners who are done renting their website and ready to own it.

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