# 271: The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship: Difficult Clients, Refunds & the Messy Middle (Roundtable)

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Podcast: [Creator's MBA: Marketing Tips for Digital Product Entrepreneurs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/creator-s-mba-marketing-tips-for-digital-product-entrepreneurs-1164125)
Published: 2026-04-25T12:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail This one's a little different. What you're about to hear is a recording straight from our Weird Hermits Roundtable, a mastermind group discussion where we got real about the stuff nobody likes to talk about publicly. Difficult clients. Refund requests. Payment plans that ghost you. Employees who snap. Customers who buy domain names to smear you. Yes, that actually happened. The conversation goes deep on what everyone's refund policies actually look like, the boundaries we've ...

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