Business Strategy
Episode 352: The Achievement Wound — Why Success Never Feels Like Enough
The Achievement Wound: Why High-Achieving Women Keep Asking “Is This Enough?” There’s a specific feeling that hits about 45 seconds after something great happens. Maybe you have a great launch, reach a new milestone, or get a raise. Then, almost right away, your brain starts asking, “What now? Was this enough?” That gap is what…
Read MoreEpisode 351: How to Give Yourself Permission (and Practice Self-Compassion), with Charlotte Jukes
How to Give Yourself Permission When You’ve Spent Years Caring for Everyone Else Some of us have spent years being the person everyone calls when something goes wrong. We answer, we help, and then we do it all again tomorrow. When it’s time to make a decision for ourselves, though, we hesitate and wait for…
Read MoreEpisode 350: The Real Reason You’re Afraid to Sell (Sell With People, Not To Them), with Nikki Rausch
Why We’re Afraid to Sell (And What the “Mom Voice” Has to Do With It) There’s a voice a lot of us slip into the second we have to say a price out loud. I call it the mom voice. You’ve done it: “It’s $300,” said in this careful, coaxing tone, like you’re trying to…
Read MoreEpisode 349: Why Strength Training in Midlife Isn’t Optional, with Mary Ellen Loranger
A Childhood Nickname She Buried, and Why It’s Back My guest this week had a childhood nickname: Muscles. She wasn’t the smallest kid on the block. But she could always outrun the boys, and she could knock a softball clean out of the park. Somewhere along the way, she buried that name under what she…
Read MoreEpisode 348: The Mother Line — The Real Block to Receiving, with Sabine O’Laughlin
The Mother Line Starts Closer to Home Than You’d Think My guest this week studies something most of us avoid: death. She’s spent forty years at it, as a pathologist performing autopsies. What she found along the way wasn’t morbid. It was the opposite — she found more life force in a room full of…
Read MoreEpisode 347: Finding Your Fit — A Lesson in Self-Discovery, Strengths, and SEO, with Lindsey Busfield
What Finding Your Fit as an Entrepreneur Looks Like My guest this week has had five jobs that don’t look like they belong on one resume. Barista. English teacher. Chicken barn auditor. SEO strategist. Now she’s the vice president of one of the country’s top legal marketing firms. None of it was planned, and for…
Read MoreEpisode 345: Joy as a Default Setting — A Lesson in Ease, Energetics, and The Joy Experiment, with Roberta Ravella
What Golden Bricks Taught Roberta Ravella About Building a Business in Joy My guest this week spent 25 years in the mortgage business, and by her own account, she was good at it. She had the tools, the strategy, and sticky notes covering an entire wall. Still, she told me, there came a point where…
Read MoreEpisode 343: From Voice Actor to Real Estate Founder — How Abi Horton Took One Step at a Time
What Happens When You Stop Waiting to Have It All Figured Out For a long time, Abi Horton thought real estate investing wasn’t accessible to her. Not enough money, not enough time, not the right background. So it felt like something that might happen someday, in some other version of her life. That’s where my…
Read MoreEpisode 342: The Energy Drains for Women Entrepreneurs No One Warns You About
Why This Kind of Tired Sneaks Up on You Energy drains for women entrepreneurs rarely look like burnout at first. They look like a Tuesday where you did everything right and still feel emptied out by 3 p.m. You’ve got the business you built, the goals you hit, the life that looks good on paper…
Read MoreEpisode 341: How to Increase Your Capacity for Happiness — A Conversation with Dr. Peggy DeLong, The Gratitude Psychologist™
What If Happiness Isn’t Something You Chase — It’s Something You Build? Most of us have been told, in one way or another, to just be happy. Just let it go. Just choose joy. And if you’ve tried that and found it deeply unhelpful, you are in very good company. Dr. Peggy DeLong is back…
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