The Amy Porterfield Show

Why the Right People Want You to Ask Them to Buy In this Hey Amy episode, I coach you in real time on the business questions you leave me by voicemail, starting with one I hear constantly: why isn't my content engagement turning into sales? The questions covered are: Why isn't my content engagement turning into sales, asked by Sarah [00:39] How do I retire an offer that still has paying members, asked by Jessica [04:23] How do I figure out my ideal customer avatar when my audience has changed, asked by Myron [10:47] RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Leave me a voice message for Hey Amy The Milly Club Click here to try Manychat Pro free for 30 days with code AMYPORTERFIELD You want to hit your first million dollar year. I've watched a lot of women get close and plateau. My Free Training teaches the one framework that took me from half a million to my first million (and now $139M in revenue). If you're ready to break through that plateau, click here to save your spot. MORE FROM ME Follow me on Instagram…

How to Find the Private Truths That Make Buyers Say "How Did You Get in My Head?" What's your best buyer thinking about herself that she'd be mortified to say out loud? I call it her private truth, and once you find it, your copy starts sounding like no one else's online. I'm sharing the three steps I use to uncover it, plus what I learned when my webinar comments filled up with "I can't afford it" from women who had the money. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Click here to try Manychat Pro free for 30 days with code AMYPORTERFIELD You want to hit your first million dollar year. I've watched a lot of women get close and plateau. My Free Training teaches the one framework that took me from half a million to my first million (and now $139M in revenue). If you're ready to break through that plateau, click here to save your spot. Claude MORE FROM ME Follow me on Instagram @amyporterfield SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW If you loved this episode, please take a moment to subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts! Your…

How to Keep the Trust You Spent Years Building Ryan Levesque sent one-third the emails last Black Friday and doubled his revenue. He's a seven-time Inc. 5000 CEO who's built businesses across 23 markets and sold his software company, and his new book, Return to Real, is out now. You'll walk away knowing where AI belongs in your business and where it's costing you trust you spent years building, plus his Category of One framework for becoming the only option in your market. Slop is cheap, real is rare, and your audience already knows which one you're handing them. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Click here to try Manychat Pro free for 30 days with code AMYPORTERFIELD You want to hit your first million dollar year. I've watched a lot of women get close and plateau. My Free Training teaches the one framework that took me from half a million to my first million (and now $139M in revenue). If you're ready to break through that plateau, click here to save your spot. Return to Real by Ryan Levesque The Digital…

I Coach You Through Your Real Business Questions Welcome to Hey Amy, where you send me your business question by voice message and I coach you through it on the show. Want to be next? Leave me a voicemail at http://amyporterfield.com/heyamy. Today’s Lineup: 00:47 Rebecca: Why does my launch open strong and then stall with no last-day surge? 05:59 Stephanie: What topics should my first challenge cover? 08:47 Brenda: How can I market my course better now that it's on evergreen? RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Leave Me a Hey Amy Voicemail MotionMail Deadline Funnel Click here to try Manychat Pro free for 30 days with code AMYPORTERFIELD You want to hit your first million dollar year. I've watched a lot of women get close and plateau. My Free Training teaches the one framework that took me from half a million to my first million (and now $139M in revenue). If you're ready to break through that plateau, click here to save your spot.MORE FROM ME Follow me on Instagram @amyporterfield SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW If you…

How My Team Uses Claude, Wispr Flow, MacWhisper, and Granola Every Single Day You talk at 150 words a minute. You type at 40. No wonder every email, brief, and recap takes four times longer than it should. Four tools can hand you that time back. By the end of this episode, you'll know which job to give each one this week. You'll walk away with three things: a week of content ideas pulled from a recording already sitting on your computer, a way to find out what's stopping your buyers from saying yes, and meeting notes that write themselves while you stay in the conversation. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Click here to try Manychat Pro free for 30 days with code AMYPORTERFIELD You want to hit your first million dollar year. I've watched a lot of women get close and plateau. My Free Training teaches the one framework that took me from half a million to my first million (and now $139M in revenue). If you're ready to break through that plateau, click here to save your spot. Claude Wispr Flow MacWhisper…

Digital Course Academy earned over $60 million and served more than 100,000 students. About six months ago, I retired it. This is the update. I'm taking you inside the three coaching programs I run now, the Monday Live masterclass everything flows through, the messaging problem that took me months of rewrites to solve, and the emotional cost of rebuilding a business I'd already built once. Revenue and profit are both on track. There have still been days where I've wanted to come out of my skin, and that discomfort has taught me more about the women I serve than 17 years of teaching ever did. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The Milly Club Jess Zweig on social media My pivot episode Click here⁠ to try Manychat Pro free for 30 days with code AMYPORTERFIELD You want to hit your first million dollar year. I've watched a lot of women get close and plateau. ⁠My Free Training⁠ teaches the one framework that took me from half a million to my first million (and now $139M in revenue). If you're ready to break…

How Hyper-Independence Caps Your Revenue, and What to Hand Off First Being good at something has never been a reason to keep doing it. Nedra Glover Tawwab has three questions that tell you what should stay yours, and she asks them in this episode. You can build a business where every decision waits on you and still call that a strength, because it worked for a long time. Nedra calls it hyper-independence, and she says nobody's born with it. You picked it up back when handling everything yourself was the safest option you had. Nedra's been a licensed therapist for almost 20 years and was named to the TIME 100 list of Most Influential People in Global Health. She lays out her sequence for handing work off and how far to step back once you do, then she goes after the self-made badge that so many women in this space wear with pride. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Click here to try Manychat Pro free for 30 days with code AMYPORTERFIELD Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab The Balancing Act by…

How to Attract A-Players as Employees Every quarter I open the books. My team sees the revenue, the profit, all of it.Most founders assume their people would head for the door if they saw the full picture, and mine treat those numbers like they belong to them. None of what keeps great people costs you a dollar. It comes down to four things: how you bring someone in, how much you let them own, how clearly they see where you're headed, and how you treat them on the way out. I'm walking you through all four, including the ownership shift that stopped me from doing my assistant's job with extra steps and the weekly check-in that catches burnout before it turns into a resignation. Every piece of it sizes down to one contractor and fifteen minutes. The team you'll have in three years is being shaped by how you lead the one person in front of you right now. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Click here to try Manychat Pro free for 30 days with code AMYPORTERFIELD What the Heck is EOS? by Gino Wickman and Tom…

Why the Voice Telling You to Play Small Belongs to Someone Else The sentence that makes you shrink in rooms you earned your way into came out of someone else's mouth first. A teacher, a parent, a boss, an ex. Jam Gamble calls those your "Kanyes," and she's spent her career getting them out of women's heads. Jam spent 15 years in special education learning to read what people communicate without words, and she now coaches founders, executives, and politicians. She'll teach you how to name the person who planted your Kanye, what to do at 2am when you're replaying a meeting that went south, how to hold your number on a sales call without talking yourself down, and how to stop leaving escape hatches in conversations you meant to end. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: You want to hit a million in revenue. I've watched a lot of women get close and stall out there, and it's rarely because they weren't working hard enough. My Live Free Training shows you whether it's your offer, your messaging, or your lead gen…

The Sorting Exercise That Makes Your Next Hire Obvious I was making millions and still editing my own training videos. For years. I was fast at it and I was saving money, which is how I justified hoarding work someone else should have owned. Hiring feels impossible because your work sits in one giant pile in your head, and you can't hand off what you can't see. Today I'm giving you the sorting exercise that pulls that pile apart. Your only-I-can-do-this column comes out smaller than it feels, and who to hire gets obvious fast. I name the role that lifts the ceiling and what it costs, which is less than you think because you're already paying for most of it in pieces. Not ready for that hire? I'll give you the one hand-off to make this month. Doing it yourself buys you twenty minutes today and charges you those same twenty minutes every single week from now on. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: You're a multi-six-figure female founder with a coaching, course, or membership business, so you've already…

How Much to Spend on Ads, and Where 95% of It Should Go Every business you're watching win right now is paying to be found. 17 years in business, and I've paid for ads every single one of them. I've watched women wear "I've never paid for ads" like a badge of honor while the money sat on the table. Ashley Brock has managed over $200 million in ad spend, and she teaches founders to run their own ads in-house. In this episode, we cover how to write a specific ad when you're not a copywriter, the two places she puts AI to work, which Advantage settings you can still turn off, and the column that tells you whether the ad you're about to pause is one step from converting. Ashley won't go below $1,000 a month, and she wants it running 90 days before you judge it. $380 a month never gives the algorithm enough time or budget to learn who's buying from you. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: You're a multi-six-figure female founder with a coaching, course, or membership business, so you've already proven the model…

How to Run a Promo With Something You've Already Built You can bring in meaningful revenue this Black Friday without building anything new. Up to 70% of Black Friday search activity happens before the day arrives, so your buyers start getting ready in October, and the lead time you give yourself now is what makes the promo easy to run later. You take one offer you've already created and sold, and you give it a reason to sell during the holidays. I walk you through choosing which one, and the two questions that decide your messaging and your pricing before you write a single email. This can close a revenue gap before December 31. Last year my team sold a planning session at $197 with a $47 add-on, and we shut it off the Wednesday before Black Friday on purpose. Both reasons are in here, along with the one decision I'd take back. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: You're a multi-six-figure female founder with a coaching, course, or membership business, so you've already proven the model works. But your…

In the process of building my business, I’ve made more than my share of mistakes. The silver lining is that I get to pass the wisdom I’ve learned on to you. It’s always easier to do something right when you’ve got someone guiding you past the ways it can go wrong. However, today’s post is all about something that recently worked really well in my business. It’s something you can apply quickly to your next promotion. Ready? Let’s talk about upsells! What Is an Upsell? First, let’s get our definitions straight. Say someone buys a program or product from you online. They fill in all the credit card details and finish the transaction completely. They are officially now a member of your program. Before you take them to the purchase thank-you page that’s when you can offer an upsell. You are giving your new purchaser one more opportunity to buy from you within the same interaction. Pretty cool, right? Putting Together Your Upsell Offer Three vital things to consider when doing upsells: What is the best upsell you…

How She Built Million-Dollar Months Without Sales Calls or Live Launches The soft girl era is keeping women broke. Leanne Lopez Mosley built million-dollar months with no sales calls and no live launches, and to her, soft girl millions means you stop being the most expensive line item in your own business. If you keep attracting clients who can't afford you, it's because you're talking to them. Lead with how to make more money and you speak to every revenue level at once, including someone brand new, while your best-fit client scrolls right past because you never named her specific problem. We get into her three internal buying triggers and why she killed her free masterclasses for good. If your gut says do more this year, Leanne makes the case for going deeper on the clients already in front of you, because they're the ones who'd pay you ten times more. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Find the one thing dragging down your conversions, and the exact fix to turn this month around, in about 45 minutes.…

How Seven-Figure Founders Generate Revenue Without New Leads There's money sitting inside the business you've already built, and you've stopped seeing it because you're busy chasing the next thing. So I asked a room of seven-figure founders at a recent Milly Club event one question: if you couldn't get a single new lead for the next 90 days, could you still generate revenue? Hands flew up before I finished asking. One founder realized that trimming her churn by two percentage points was worth an extra $10,000 a month, all from members already paying her. Another ran the math on her funnel and found $100,000 a year sitting in a conversion rate she'd never mapped, with no new traffic. I'm walking you through five places to look in your own business this week, starting with the buyers who already trust you and pulled out a credit card once. By the end you'll know which numbers to pull up before you spend another dollar getting found. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Find the one thing dragging down your…

How She Built a Team of 150 AI Employees Without Letting Anyone Go Look at your to-do list right now. How much of what's on it could be done by something that isn't you? My guest this week, Callan Faulkner, has 30 people on her team and 150 AI employees, and she hasn't let a single person go to make room for them. Callan built The Uncommon Business teaching founders how to hire AI employees, meaning an AI that owns a task or a whole outcome and does it as well as a person would. In three years she's gone from a kitchen-table experiment with ChatGPT to a $19.5 million launch. In this conversation she breaks down exactly how she gets her team to hand the repeatable work to AI and keep only what needs a human, and how you can start doing the same this week. So much of our worth is tied up in effort, in how long something took and how much we carried alone. AI pokes a hole in that story, and for a lot of women it feels like cheating. Callan's reframe: the hours were never what your buyers paid for. Hand off the…

Revenue Is the Wrong Number to Watch The Leading Numbers That Tell You What Your Revenue Is About to Do Before It Does It My business coach asked me a simple question about my funnel, and I couldn't answer it. Not because I didn't care. Because I'd stopped tracking it. She stopped me right there and told me something I needed to hear: to succeed with this business model, I have to know my numbers every single week, until they're burned in my brain. Revenue is a lagging number. By the time your bank account tells you something is off, the problem happened weeks or months ago. What actually predicts where your business is headed are your leading numbers, the three or four points in your funnel that move before revenue does. And they look different depending on your business model, so there's no universal list to copy. In this episode, I walk you through the numbers I tracked during my live launch years versus the four I watch now, give you the simple test that tells you whether a number belongs on your list…

The Stage of Business Almost Nobody Names and the Decision That Moves You Through It Only 1 in 10 female-owned businesses earning between $250K and $499K ever reach a million, according to the JPMorgan Chase Institute. Not the ones who didn't try hard enough. All of them. If you're in that range and the effort isn't adding up the way it should, here's what I want you to see: there's a stage between $100K and $500K that almost no one has named. I'm naming it the Quiet Climb. It's the most structurally demanding chapter of building an online business, and because nobody told you it existed, the years of effort that haven't matched your results have probably felt like a personal failure. They're not. They're the signature of the stage. What creates your next jump isn't more work. It's alignment between what you're doing and who you and your buyer have become. Getting there is harder than working harder. It means stopping long enough to look honestly at the business you've built. I close with six exercises you…

The tell-all you've been waiting for, straight from the man behind the stories After years of being the guy you only hear about, Hobie is finally in the studio, and his first order of business is telling on Amy. This is a no-strategy, no-homework hang that's just for fun. You'll get the story behind the wedding-ring tattoo he got before they were even married, plus the most ridiculous thing Amy's ever made him do for content. There's also a newlywed game that proves they still crack each other up after 18 years. It's a peek behind the curtain at the real Amy and Hobie, dorky karaoke picks and all. If you've been with the show for a while, you've earned this one. Meet the real Hobie Porterfield. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you are a female founder making six figures or more annually, the problem isn't that things aren't working. It's that you can't yet see what is. And you can't repeat what you can't see. My Free Live…

What Every Founder Gets Wrong About Growing a Personal Brand Nobody got rich from multiple streams of income. They got rich from one amazing stream, and then they diversified. Bezos had Amazon. Sara Blakely had Spanx. Yet the advice you keep hearing is to build seven of everything, and it's keeping you smaller, not bigger. My guest Rory Vaden, New York Times bestselling author and co-founder of Brand Builders Group, explains why every new revenue stream isn't just more money, it's eight more jobs you have to fill. In this episode you'll learn what your brand actually is (it's not your logo or your colors), the one-word question that clarifies your entire business, and why the reason you feel busy but stuck has a name: priority dilution. If you've been adding offers and wondering why nothing's gaining traction, this conversation will change how you decide what to say yes to. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you are a female…

What 23 Multimillionaire Founders Have in Common The women doing eight and nine figures? They started exactly where you are. I just spent a weekend with 23 of them and came home with three things I've been too polite to say. If you've been putting in the hours and the results still don't reflect it, at least one of these three is going to explain why. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you are a female founder making six figures or more annually, the problem isn't that things aren't working. It's that you can't yet see what is. And you can't repeat what you can't see. My Free Live Training fixes that. Click here to join. High-six-figures is a ceiling for a reason. What got you here stops working here. If you're a female founder earning $500K or more annually and you've already tried it all, what you need next isn't another strategy. It's someone inside your business showing you the way forward. The Milly Club is my private…

The Systems Behind a $2.2M Maternity Leave Natalie Ellis took three months completely offline after her second daughter was born. No Slack, no email, no podcast. Her team did $2.2 million in revenue during that window with zero ad spend. Natalie is the founder and CEO of BossBabe, she's crossed $40 million in lifetime revenue on under $3 million in total ad spend, and her brand-new book The Freedom-Based Business Method is out now. In this conversation, Natalie walks me through the exact systems she built so her business could run on its own. She also gets honest about the moment she realized her million-dollar business had quietly become a job she couldn't quit. We dig into the alignment audit she has every founder run before touching a funnel, the "one number" that makes revenue predictable, and why she's never been willing to burn out her audience for a sales spike. Natalie pulls back the curtain on all of it, including the Walmart licensing deal she rarely talks about and the exact rhythm her team runs…

The Real Reason More Offers Means Less Revenue 92% of the people I thought I was preparing for my signature offer never bought it. For years, I sold List Builders Society as the on-ramp into Digital Course Academy. Only 8% of them made it there. The program I'd built specifically to bridge my buyers into my biggest offer was actually a dead end for the other 92%. You may have a version of this in your business right now. The course came first. The membership came later. The coaching program came in when your most committed buyers wanted more access to you. Every decision was right when you made it, and now they're all on the menu at once, quietly competing for the same buyer. In this episode, I'm walking you through the three signs your offers are working against each other, the four-question audit that shows you your entire offer ecosystem in under an hour, and the one repositioning move that brings every program in your business back into a clear path your customer can follow. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS…

Why Earning More Hasn't Made You Feel Safer You've hit the income you used to dream about and money still keeps you up at night. Tori Dunlap has helped over 5 million women figure out why, and it has almost nothing to do with math. She's the founder of Her First $100K, host of the Financial Feminist podcast, and a New York Times bestselling author. In this conversation, she names the money story you absorbed by age seven that's still running your decisions, the guilt ambitious women feel about wanting more, and the line that stopped me cold: women who avoid building wealth stay controllable. If you've been avoiding your profit margin or telling yourself you're "just not good with numbers," you need to hear this one. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you’re a female founder and your coaching, course, or membership business is making six figures or more annually, the problem isn't that things aren't working. It's that you can't…

How to Find the Sentence That Makes Buyers Stop Scrolling Your offer is solid. Your audience is there. So why are the right people still scrolling past you? Your messaging isn't giving them a reason to stop. Donald Miller, founder of StoryBrand, walked into a $300 million oil and gas company, gave them a three-word tagline, and drove a 99% lift in their test market. In this episode, he shares his PEACE framework, the five soundbites every business needs, and the three questions buyers silently ask in the first five seconds on your homepage. Your messaging fix starts here. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If your coaching, course, or membership business is at $150K or more, the problem isn't that things aren't working. It's that you can't yet see what is. And you can't repeat what you can't see. My free Live training, The Revenue Consistency Formula, fixes that. Click here to learn what's actually behind your numbers and how to…

The Layer Underneath Every Six-Figure Plateau You've rebuilt the funnel, rewritten the sales page, added another bonus, and tested every subject line. But when your launch numbers come in… your revenue hasn’t budged. There's a layer sitting underneath every funnel and every sales page. It's a strategic decision most six-figure founders have never been taught to examine, and when it's off, it creates a very specific pattern of revenue inconsistency that no amount of optimization can fix. It's called positioning. In this episode, I'm walking you through what positioning actually is, how it's different from messaging, and three signals that tell you it's the layer that needs your attention first. By the end, you'll know where the leak in your business actually lives, and you'll have three concrete starting actions to take before your next launch. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If your coaching, course, or membership business is…

The Three Assets That Close the Sale Before the Cart Opens Your sales page isn't what closes the sale. By the time someone clicks it, they've already decided. That decision happened weeks earlier on a podcast, in an email, during a free training where something clicked and they thought, I trust her. Your sales page just confirms what they already believe. It doesn't convince anyone of anything. So if you've been rewriting it for the tenth time, obsessing over every headline, that was never the real work, which is actually good news. It means your launches feel hard because you're focusing on the wrong thing, and that's fixable. In this episode, I'm covering the three assets that actually drive conversions, the audit to run before your next launch, and how I hit 300% of my Calibrae Collective launch goal in month one. By the end, you'll know exactly where to put your energy so when you open your cart, your audience is already ready to buy. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Ever have a month where your…

The Founder Pattern Behind Unpredictable Revenue Every female founder I've ever coached is running as one of three types. The Resourceful Founder, the Abundant Founder, or the Calibrated Founder. Two of them are working themselves into the ground. One of them is quietly scaling. And by the end of this episode, you will know exactly which one is running your business right now. The pattern you're in right now is the reason your revenue is inconsistent. It's not your work ethic. It's not your offer. It's not your niche. It's the way you instinctively respond when something in your business underperforms, and that instinct is either compounding your growth or quietly costing you everything you've built toward. I was the wrong one for almost a decade before I saw what I was doing to myself. I'll tell you exactly what it cost me, walk you through three business scenarios so you can diagnose yourself in real time, and give you a clear first step to start operating like the founder who actually gets where you want…

How to Get Found on ChatGPT Before Your Competitors Do A complete stranger asked ChatGPT how to explain binge eating to their partner. ChatGPT recommended one woman's podcast. That stranger listened, fell in love with her work, and showed up to the consult call already knowing the price and ready to sign. She made $3,500 from a conversation that happened without her. This is what's happening in search right now. AI tools are recommending specific businesses by name, and the businesses getting named are the ones who figured this out first. Rachel Lindteigen spent 25 years in marketing, Fortune 500s and ad agencies, before turning that expertise toward one question: how do small businesses get found? She now teaches entrepreneurs how to show up in both Google and AI search. One of her students found a single keyword, optimized her homepage around it, and made $150,000 in six months. No launches. No ads. In this episode, Rachel breaks down how AI tools decide which businesses to recommend, how to find the right…

What Actually Needs to Be True Before Your Higher Price Converts I went from 50 sales to one overnight. Same offer. Same audience. Same launch. The only thing that changed was my price. I blamed the number for months before I finally admitted what actually went wrong. It was me. I didn't believe in the price, and my audience could feel it. Every word I used to sell that offer was drenched in doubt. I over-explained. I piled on bonuses. I practically apologized for what I was charging. And here's the thing nobody tells you: your audience doesn't decide your price. Your confidence does. This episode is the conversation I wish I'd had before that launch. I'm breaking down what has to be true before a higher price converts, and it's not a new offer, a redesigned sales page, or a better number. It's three specific things, and once you see them, you'll understand why every pricing problem you've ever had was never really about the price at all. I also get into payment plans, how to handle existing clients when you…

How to Lead Under Pressure Without Losing Yourself in the Process There's a version of you that is not built to lead. And every time you drag her into a high-stakes meeting, a hard decision, or a moment where your team needs you to be their leader, you pay for it. Your team pays for it. Your business pays for it. You walk away exhausted and wonder why running a company you built feels so relentlessly heavy. That weight has a name, and this episode is where you finally figure out what to do about it. Dr. NaTasha Jordan has worked with Fortune 500 executives and seven and eight-figure entrepreneurs, and she's watched the same pattern play out at every level: the more you've built, the more you're leading from a version of yourself that was never meant to carry it. I'll tell you something I don't love admitting. When Dr. NaTasha spoke at my Made to Scale Mastermind and asked the room "do you know who you are?", I raised my hand during Q&A, which I almost never do with my own guests, because I genuinely didn't…

A Look Into The Rooms That Build 7-Figure Businesses I've watched it happen over and over again. Smart, talented women putting in the hours, showing up, and still not seeing the growth they deserve. Almost every single time, what gets them to the next level is getting the right people around them. The biggest leaps I've made in 17 years of entrepreneurship came from being in rooms with people who could see what I couldn't see and who asked the questions I wasn't asking myself. One conversation saved me from a hire that would have been a disaster. Another completely changed how I priced my offers. And more than once, I've walked out of a room thinking bigger than I ever would have allowed myself to think on my own. You can't ChatGPT your way to the next level. At some point, you need proximity. And if you've been feeling like everything is harder and slower and lonelier than it should be, this episode will show you exactly how to find and walk into the right room for you. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:…

Running ads shouldn’t feel like a money pit. I hear this all the time from six-figure founders. You know you need to run ads. You know that's how you're going to reach more people, grow faster, and stop relying on the algorithm to get in front of the right audience. But every time you think about actually doing it, you just don’t. Maybe you've lost money on ads before. Maybe you've heard horror stories. "Just test it and see what happens" feels reckless. So you put it off. I get it. And while I'm not here to tell you to ignore that instinct, I am here to show you a smarter way. In this episode, I'm walking you through a concept called self-funding your growth. The idea is simple: you use a low-priced offer to offset the cost of your ads so that by the time someone buys your bigger offer, you've already covered most or all of your ad spend. You're not spending money now and hoping it pays off later. You're building a list of buyers from day one, and the math works from the beginning. I’ll break down the…

Two years. That's how long it's been since Anna Konchar went live in front of an audience. No webinars. No launches. No "doors closing in 24 hours" panic. And she's built a seven-figure business in that time. I know a lot of you have tried evergreen. You set it up, you waited, and nothing happened. The same happened to Anna, her sales tanked in 2023. So I wanted to know exactly what she did to turn it around. And what she shared with me? It completely changed how I think about evergreen funnels. Most people are still running evergreen funnels the way we did in 2020. But the way people consume content has changed. The way the algorithm works has changed. The way cold audiences need to be sold to has changed. Anna rebuilt her entire approach from the ground up, and now she's going to walk you through exactly how she did it and what's working today. In this episode, we talk about why giving people instant access to your webinar is killing your conversions, why shorter funnels are outperforming longer ones, the…

Delete These Subscribers Now Why a Smaller Email List Makes You More Money If you've followed me for any length of time, you know I've built my entire business on the fact that your email list is everything. I've been saying it for 17 years. Grow your list. Nurture your list. The money is in the list. So what I'm about to say might shock you. I want you to delete people from your email list. Not one or two. Hundreds. Maybe thousands. I know. Coming from me, that sounds almost blasphemous. But here's what’s 100% true… that list you've worked so hard to build might actually be working against you. A big list full of people who never open, never click, and never engage isn't the asset you think it is. It's dragging down your open rates, destroying your deliverability, and sneakily convincing Gmail to send your emails straight to spam. Every single time you hit send, those lurker subscribers are making it harder for the people who actually want to hear from you to see your emails. A few years ago, I was looking…

Why High Performers Swear By Journaling Your brain never stops. Emails, decisions, fires to put out, ideas that won't leave you alone at 2 am. And most of that thinking? It stays trapped in your head, never actually going anywhere. What if there was a way to get it out? To think more clearly, make better decisions, and finally feel like you're operating from a place of clarity instead of chaos? That’s what this episode is about. I'm sitting down with Laura L. Rubin, creative coach and author of The Big Unlock, to talk about why journaling isn't a floofy self-care ritual. It's a strategic tool that high performers at Google, Netflix, and beyond are using to sharpen their thinking and lead with more intention. Laura has worked with executives, pro athletes, venture capitalists, even special forces veterans. And what she's found is that the most visionary leaders all have one thing in common: they make space to reflect. We talk about why writing by hand activates your brain differently than typing, how to build…

The Truth About What It Takes (And What No One Tells You) Everyone talks about the four-day workweek like it's some magical finish line. Work less, live more, finally breathe. But nobody talks about what it actually takes to make it work when you're running a real business with real responsibilities and a team that's counting on you. I've been doing this for years now, and I'm going to tell you exactly what it looks like. Some Fridays I work and some Fridays my team does too. There are seasons where everything spills over and four days just aren't enough. To accommodate more off time, we had to rebuild how this entire company operates. How we run meetings, how we communicate, how we protect our time, all of it. And that's the part nobody tells you. I went to my team and asked them to be honest about what's actually working about a four-day workweek and what's genuinely hard. Their answers surprised me. One person said she feels like she did something wrong when she has to work a Friday, even when that's not…

The Pre-Launch Strategy That Changes Everything What if your audience was already excited to buy before you ever opened the cart? That's the dream, right? No scrambling in the final hours. No sending more emails than you planned. No pushing harder than feels good and still wondering why it's not converting. I'm sitting down with Brenna McGowan, launch strategist and creator of Anticipation Marketing®, to talk about the phase of launching most people skip over entirely. And honestly, it's the phase that makes or breaks your results. Here's what I've learned from my own launches and from watching thousands of my students do theirs: most people think they're doing the pre-launch part right. They mention what's coming in the P.S. of an email. They post about it on social and put up a waitlist. They feel like they're doing everything they're supposed to be doing. But then the cart opens and it still feels harder than it should. They're white-knuckling their way through launch week, and by the end of it, they're…

The Profit Lesson I Learned Way Too Late I had a $100K month and couldn't pay myself. And the worst part? I didn't even know until it was too late. I was out celebrating what I thought was a massive win, telling myself I'd finally made it. And the whole time, I was actually in the red. Moving backward. I didn't find out until weeks later when I finally sat down and looked at the real numbers. How did this happen? I was so focused on revenue that I never stopped to ask what I was actually keeping. If you've ever looked at your business and thought, “I'm making money, so where is it all going?”, most of us have been there. So in this episode, I'm breaking down the actual difference between gross revenue, net revenue, and profit, why chasing revenue almost cost me everything, and five strategies to actually keep more of the money you're working so hard to make. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: You’ve built something real. Revenue, audience, offers that work. But the results still don’t match what you know…

The Money Mindset Shift Every Woman Entrepreneur Needs There are more men named John running Fortune 500 companies than there are women. Total. Let that sink in for a second. That's just one of the things Vivian Tu, aka Your Rich BFF, dropped in this episode that made me go, wait, what? She went from being told she was "too girly for Wall Street" to becoming one of the most trusted voices in personal finance. And the way she breaks down money will make you rethink everything you thought you knew. We get into why women who are crushing it in business still let their money sit in a savings account earning 0.39%, the simple equation that tells you whether something is actually worth buying, why women fight over 2% of the pie when there's 98% sitting right there, and how to stop working around the clock and let your money do the work instead. Vivian also gets real about running her business at a sprint pace for years and what she's doing to finally build something sustainable. This is the money conversation I…

The Mindset Shift That Separates Burnout from Breakthrough You've been told self-care is bubble baths and boundaries. But what if the real self-care is becoming the kind of person who doesn't need to recover from their own emotions every week? That's exactly what Dr. Gabrielle Lyon and I dig into in this episode. Dr. G is a board-certified physician and New York Times bestselling author who has worked with some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. And she says the ones who sustain success over time have one thing in common: they stay neutral. Big win? Neutral. Big problem? Neutral. It's just another Tuesday. We go way beyond nutrition and fitness in this conversation. We're talking about why emotional neutrality is one of the most underrated entrepreneurial skills, why discipline is actually the new self-care, and why your health quietly determines how far your business can go. Dr. G also shares how to catch yourself before old patterns start creeping back in and how to use your physical body…

The Visibility Shift That Can Fast-Track Your Business Growth I’ve said it for years: I don’t like recording video.And yet… I’m officially going all in on YouTube. After looking at our analytics, I saw a discoverability gap I couldn’t ignore. Podcasting still nurtures beautifully, but it’s no longer the growth engine it once was. And if the people who need your message can’t find you, none of it matters. In this episode, I’m breaking down why I’m betting big on YouTube in 2026, what finally changed my mind, and how you can build visibility without overcomplicating your content or burning yourself out. HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: 1️⃣ Discoverability Is the New Growth Strategy – Podcasting is incredible for nurturing your audience, but it’s no longer the growth engine it once was. YouTube is a search engine, which means your content can be discovered long after you hit publish, helping you reach the people actively looking for solutions. 2️⃣ Your Comfort Zone Can’t Be Your Strategy –…

The Ethical, Time-Saving AI Framework Every Woman Entrepreneur Needs I'll be honest… I've had at least three separate panic spirals about whether using AI makes me less authentic. Turns out, I'm not the only one losing sleep over this. That's why I brought in AI expert Natalie MacNeil for a conversation about how women can use AI in a way that protects their voice, values, and integrity. In this episode, Natalie breaks down why so many women feel resistance around AI, and why that hesitation is actually a strength. We talk about the real benefits: getting your time back, having support through busy seasons, and scaling without burning out or hiring a massive team. Then we get tactical. Natalie walks through her frameworks for prompting, building an AI dream team, and using AI to handle productivity, creativity, and decision-making without losing the human parts of your business that matter most. HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: 1️⃣ Using AI With Integrity Is a Leadership Skill – Women aren’t…

How to Design Intentional Self-Learning That Actually Sticks Sometimes the best ideas don’t come from articles or books. They come from scrolling TikTok late at night and thinking, wait… that’s actually really smart. That’s exactly what happened when I stumbled across the idea of a personal curriculum. At its core, a personal curriculum is about intentional self-learning. Instead of consuming random podcasts, books, and content and hoping it all adds up, you decide what you want to learn, why it matters right now, and how you’re going to approach it in a way that fits your real life. In this episode, I’m sharing how I took the traditional, academic version of a personal curriculum and reimagined it into something relaxed, supportive, and actually enjoyable. I’ll walk you through the simple quarterly framework I’m using, the three categories I chose for myself, and how you can create your own without pressure, guilt, or overwhelm. HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: 1️⃣ Intentional Learning Beats…

What Most People Get Wrong About Public Speaking (And How to Do It Strategically) What’s the secret to getting paid for your perspective? From virtual events to in-person stages, paid speaking is an incredible way to grow your authority, gain visibility, and win over new subscribers and customers. But how do you land a quality gig? In today’s episode, I’m sitting down with Jess Ekstrom, bestselling author, professional keynote speaker, and founder of Mic Drop Workshop to talk about just that. Jess is sharing exactly how speaking works today, how to price yourself with confidence, and how to turn speaking into a powerful growth lever for your business. We talk about what event planners actually pay for, why your story matters more than your pitch, how women can close the pay gap in speaking, and the smartest ways to negotiate so every speaking gig creates momentum beyond the stage. HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: 1️⃣ Speaking Isn’t About Selling Your Business, It’s About Sharing the Lesson –…

How to Know If You’ve Earned Your Next Big Move I’m about to share something I never thought I’d say out loud. After nearly a decade of launching Digital Course Academy, I’ve decided to retire the program. That’s right. I am no longer launching a product that has helped over 28,000 business owners and earned my business $54 million. In this episode, I’m sharing the full story behind this pivot, the moment I knew it was time, and the framework I used to decide whether this big move was the right one. If you’ve ever felt pulled toward something new but weren’t sure if it was premature excitement or intuition, this conversation is for you. HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: 1️⃣ Not All Pivots Are Created Equal – There’s a big difference between an impulse pivot and an earned elevation. One comes from boredom or comparison. The other comes from putting in the reps, building something solid, and feeling genuinely called forward. 2️⃣ The Right Pivot Requires Hard Questions – Before making a move, you…

The Webinar Strategy That's Boosting Sales (Even in a Trust Recession) If you've been hearing that webinars are dead or that they don't work anymore, I'm here to tell you that's absolutely not true! In fact, webinars are working better than ever, and I just saw that firsthand during my Digital Course Academy launch. In this episode, I’ll pull back the curtain on what worked (and what didn't) during my recent launch, and share the exact webinar strategies that made all the difference. From perfect timing to messaging shifts that met my audience where they are right now, I’ll break down everything you need to know about making webinars work in today's landscape. You'll hear why showing up live has a higher perceived value during this trust recession we're in, plus I share the three powerful questions (inspired by Alex Hormozi) that helped me close sales on the spot. Whether you've done webinars before or you're thinking about adding them to your strategy, this episode will show you exactly how to make them…

Before You Close Your Books This Year, Make These 3 Tax-Saving Moves When it comes to taxes, most entrepreneurs are winging it and paying the price. I’m joined by my friend and tax attorney, Braden Drake, who breaks down the must-know tax strategies that can save you thousands and help you feel confident about your business accounting. Whether you’re already making six figures or simply want to feel prepared when it comes to bookkeeping, Braden is here to demystify LLC vs. S Corps, deductions, and the smartest year-end money moves you can make. In this episode, we tackle the common tax mistakes online business owners make, how to structure your business for long-term savings, and what you can do right now to set yourself up for a stress-free tax season. HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: 1️⃣ Stop Mixing Business & Personal Finances – One of the most common (and expensive) mistakes entrepreneurs make is skipping a separate business bank account. Keep your finances clean and organized to avoid…

Map Out Your Most Profitable Year Yet When I started planning my year 12 months in advance, everything changed. I finally knew where my revenue was coming from, my team knew exactly what we were doing, and I stopped feeling like I was constantly scrambling. Today, I'm sharing the six-step process I swear by for planning your year… from choosing your revenue drivers to getting every launch date on the calendar. And the best part? You can plan ahead and still stay flexible! You don't need to know every single detail or the "how" behind everything. Instead, we'll focusing on the "what" and the "when." Whether you're planning for 2026 or mapping out your next six months, this episode will help you predict your revenue, feel more in control, and finally know if you're on track to hit your goals. Trust me, this planning method changed my business, and I know it can transform yours too! HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: 1️⃣ Reflect Before You Plan – Before mapping out your year, look back at what…

The Low-Ticket Strategy That’s Quietly Powering High-Ticket Sales In this episode, I’m joined by Tiny Offer® expert Allie Bjerk to uncover why small, low-ticket digital products are one of the smartest ways to grow a warm, buying audience in 2025. If your sales funnels aren’t converting like they used to (or you’ve noticed your launches feel harder), it’s not just you. Allie breaks down how the trust recession is changing the online marketing landscape and how Tiny Offers can help rebuild connection, grow your email list with qualified buyers, and even lead to $10K+ offers. You’ll learn the difference between tripwires and Tiny Offers, how to price and position them strategically, and why these offers are converting higher than traditional freebies. This conversation will help you refresh your funnel and start turning small transactions into returning customers. HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: 1️⃣ Tiny Offers Are Trust Builders – This isn’t about quick cash, it’s about creating a meaningful…