Episodes

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Aug. 12, 2025

Why I Shut Off My High-Performing Sales Funnel (After 2.5 Years of Success)

Everyone told me I was crazy. I had a funnel that performed exceptionally for 2.5 years, 80% show-up rates on sales calls, 6-8x return on ad spend, metrics people would die for. But I felt like I always had my foot on the gas, never able to truly step away. My mentor kept showing me the data… "Kathryn, these numbers are exceptional!" But my system was screaming for something different. This episode is about those threshold moments where you choose alignment over metrics, integrity over external...
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Aug. 5, 2025

Why You Flinch When People Give You Feedback (And How to Stop)

When you're naturally a people-pleaser or perfectionist, it's so easy to flinch the moment someone gives you critical feedback. One complaint and suddenly you're questioning everything, ready to completely revamp your business to avoid future criticism. I spent years turning myself inside out every time someone wasn't 100% satisfied. The constant bracing for complaints kept me in an exhausting state of reactivity. So I developed a completely different approach to receiving feedback. One that ...
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July 29, 2025

The Heart-Centered Way To Handle Money Objections on Sales Calls

Most sales trainers tell you to "bust objections" and never take no for an answer. I always thought that approach was cringy and manipulative. But I struggled with how to handle money objections without being pushy. After being on both sides of sales calls that felt gross and transactional... I realized there had to be a better way. One that actually honors people's truth while still leading powerful conversations. So I developed a completely different method. One that creates space for genui...
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July 22, 2025

Why I Had to Unlearn Everything I Was Taught About Business

Hustling isn't indicative of success. And I've got proof. I spent 12 months posting on Instagram five days a week, sending multiple emails, and following a framework that didn't feel authentic. Despite investing heavily, my online business wasn't paying off like my brick-and-mortar one. So I decided to try a different way. I threw out the hustle mentality completely. What happened next changed how I looked at business in general. This episode proves that hustling harder doesn't equal more suc...
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July 15, 2025

Why High Achievers Miss Their Own Success and How to Stop

High achievers often get caught in a pattern of hypercritical focus that prevents them from celebrating success. In this eye-opening episode, I reveal how our ability to spot improvements becomes our Achilles heel when we obsess over the 1% that isn't working instead of celebrating the 99% that is. I share my personal experience launching my AI-powered conversion copywriting system and the critical "silence" moment after launch where high achievers typically begin doubting themselves. I explore ...
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July 8, 2025

Client Success Stories How Authentic Alignment Drives Business Breakthroughs

Creating success is about alignment, not just strategy. In this revealing episode, I share authentic client success stories from my Spellbound coaching program, demonstrating how genuine messaging and personal alignment collapse business growth timelines. Starting with the observation that both tangible results (sales, ROI) and intangible transformations matter equally, and illustrate how different entrepreneurs thrive using completely different approaches when they honor their natural strengths...
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July 1, 2025

Healing Trauma Through Somatic Practices and Body Wisdom with Dr. Natalie Green

From trauma to transformation, Dr. Natalie Green shatters the myth that healing happens only in our heads. Drawing from her harrowing personal survival story and 30+ years as a trauma expert, the bestselling author and Growing Tall Poppies podcast host reveals why so many high-achievers remain stuck despite years of talk therapy. Dr. Green illuminates how trauma fractures our internal communication system, disconnecting our thinking brain from our feeling heart and intuitive gut. Through her pio...
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June 24, 2025

From Dorm Room to Trading Floor: How Market Psychology Reveals the Mindset Secrets Every Entrepreneur Needs with Anmol Singh

"Trading is like the biggest personal development course you will ever take." This insight from bestselling author Anmol Singh reveals how market psychology mirrors entrepreneurial mindset challenges. Starting as an introverted college student in his dorm room, Anmol discovered that successful trading requires the same emotional discipline that drives business success. He shares how he developed "robotic indifference" – staying loyal to his predetermined plan rather than letting fear and gree...
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June 17, 2025

Why High-Achieving Women Underearn (And How to Break the Cycle) with Lisa Kalmin

"Money is energy, and we're either blocking it or attracting it." This powerful insight sets the tone for our conversation with Lisa Kalmin, who challenges conventional views on prosperity. Lisa shares profound insights about our relationship with money, time, and self-worth. She explains how cultural messaging and family patterns create "wealth set points" that limit our potential, while offering practical strategies to break free from scarcity mindsets. For 38 years, Lisa has supporte...
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June 10, 2025

How to embrace nuance and move beyond all-or-nothing thinking in business and life

In this thought-provoking episode, we dive into the internal struggles that emerge when we feel pulled toward paths that seem to contradict our established values or public image. I’m sharing my personal journey with artificial intelligence, from initial resistance to curious exploration and how this evolution challenged me to examine the "all-or-nothing" thinking that often limits our authentic expression. Through vulnerable reflection, I reveal how an influencer's anti-AI stance triggered dee...
210
June 3, 2025

How energy healers can market without losing their soul with Jayne

In this illuminating conversation with Jayne, a sovereign Reiki reclamation mentor, we explore the profound disconnect many intuitive practitioners feel when trying to market their transformational work in today's digital landscape. Jayne shares her journey of dismantling what no longer serves her, and reveals how conventional marketing tactics left her feeling inauthentic and misaligned with her core values. Rather than continuing to contort herself into prescribed formulas, she chose to ground...
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May 27, 2025

Copy that converts for practitioners who are Selling the Invisible®

Building off last week's client story, this episode dives into the practical differences between marketing skills versus experiences and why most online marketing advice doesn't work for energy healers, Reiki practitioners, and transformational workers. I break down the fundamental shift from describing what you do to helping people feel what their life will be like after working with you, complete with real examples you can apply immediately. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE,...
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May 20, 2025

Why Selling Experiences Requires Different Marketing Than Teaching Skills

In this powerful episode, I delve into the critical distinction between selling an experience versus teaching a skill or knowledge-based product and why traditional marketing approaches often fail for experience-based businesses. This insight is especially valuable if you're an energy healer, or someone who provides transformative experiences rather than teachable frameworks. I share a revealing client case study about a practitioner in women's holistic health who wanted to launch a new offering...
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May 13, 2025

Beyond the Guru Era: The Shift to Authentic Business and Creative Expression

Are you sensing a shift in the online business world? In this episode, I share profound insights about the direction business is headed, particularly in the coaching, consulting, and knowledge-based industries. This isn't about tactical predictions like "Instagram is launching a new feature." Instead, I'm revealing deeper shifts in what people value and how we'll need to adapt as business owners. I explore why we're witnessing the end of the "guru era" and information overload, and why your inna...
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May 6, 2025

Releasing the ROI Mindset and Letting Creative Play Lead the Way For Your Business Strategy

Are you feeling stuck between your authentic creative expression and the pressure to monetize everything in your business? In this episode, I explore the internal blocks that arise when our intuition calls us to create freely, but our business-trained minds demand immediate ROI. I share my personal struggle with allowing myself to simply create without attaching expectations of monetization or productivity. Through my experience and client stories, I reveal how shifting environments and releasin...
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April 29, 2025

Your Marketing Resistance is the Gateway to Authentic Expression Not An Obstacle to Overcome

Do you feel like you're constantly forcing yourself through marketing formulas that don't reflect who you truly are? That resistance you're feeling isn't something to push through, it's actually pointing you toward your authentic voice. In this episode, I reveal how one client's frustration with conventional marketing rules became her pathway to discovering her most powerful and genuine expression. I'll walk you through the exact process I use to help entrepreneurs strip away the layers of "s...
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April 22, 2025

Finding Your Authentic Business Path Through Astrology, Human Design, and Gene Keys

In this episode, I dive deep into how I've used astrology, human design, and gene keys to understand my resistance to traditional marketing approaches and to gain clarity on my next business evolution. If you're feeling stuck in the "void state" - unsure about your next move, outgrowing your offers, or experiencing resistance to what you think you should be doing - this episode offers a framework for finding your authentic path forward. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL...
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April 15, 2025

Beyond Polarizing Content: Authentic Marketing That Unites Rather Than Divides

Ever caught yourself writing marketing content that subtly puts down other approaches to make yours shine brighter? That nagging feeling you get afterward might be trying to tell you something important. In this thought-provoking episode, I reveal why the "put a stake in the ground" marketing advice we've all been taught might actually be keeping us trapped in an exhausting cycle of opposition, and how I discovered a more powerful alternative that feels genuinely authentic. BY THE TIME YOU FIN...
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April 8, 2025

How Embracing Random Interests Unlocked My Next Business Evolution

Conventional advice or wisdom can sometimes limit our field of possibility if we don’t get curious about WHY certain things keep popping into our awareness. In this episode, I share my personal journey of transformation and how following seemingly unrelated interests led to unexpected clarity in my business. I explore the counterintuitive nature of growth and how conventional business wisdom often keeps us stuck in patterns that no longer serve us. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPIS...
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April 1, 2025

Intentional Growth: Why All Attention Isn't Created Equal in Business

Ever feel like popular business strategies just don't fit you? In this episode, I reveal why all attention and visibility isn't measured equally in business. Through real-world examples—like an artist with 200,000 followers but no financial stability, and comparing my brick-and-mortar wine business success with just 700 email subscribers to the challenges of online businesses focused on vanity metrics—I demonstrate how entrepreneurs get derailed by focusing on micro details rather than aligni...
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March 25, 2025

Express Your True Nature: Building a Business That Honors Your Authentic Design

Ever feel like popular business strategies just don't fit you? In this episode, I reveal insights from my "Aligned Business Evolution Sessions" where I use human design, astrology, and intuition to help entrepreneurs build businesses true to their nature. Through client stories—like a creative who discovered her discovered her resistance to standard "5 steps to..." content wasn't laziness but alignment with her Leo north node calling for bold creative expression, and a nutritionist who learne...
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March 18, 2025

The Power of Co-Creating with the Universe Instead of Forcing Solutions through Mental Effort with Katie Hunt

Tired of hustling hard with little to show for it? In this inspiring episode, Katie Hunt returns to share her remarkable journey from business burnout to finding a path that feels effortlessly aligned. Katie reveals how letting go of her previous niche and following her intuition led to creating a love attraction coaching business that's bringing in more clients with less effort than ever before. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL DISCOVER: How Katie pivoted from anxiety c...
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March 11, 2025

How Driven Business Owners Thrive without Sacrificing Their Time, Freedom, or Joy with Dana Earhart

Ever wonder how some entrepreneurs manage to build thriving businesses while maintaining a rich personal life? In this episode, Dana Earhart reveals the surprising truth about scaling your business without sacrificing your sanity. From corporate workaholic to successful entrepreneur and present parent, Dana's journey challenges everything we thought we knew about "hustle culture.” And as a business growth strategist and leadership mentor, Dana Earhart transforms driven business owners into thri...
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March 4, 2025

Magnetic Over Megaphone: Reimagining Influence and How We Get Seen and Heard in Business

Ever feel like all the marketing "rules" just don't fit your style? You're not alone. In this episode, I'm diving deep into something that's been on my mind lately - the whole idea of influence and how we show up in business. Building on some amazing conversations from recent episodes about client success stories, I'm sharing my raw thoughts about what it really means to have influence beyond all the usual marketing tactics we're taught. We're questioning everything - from why we feel the nee...