Are you running yourself into the ground in the name of ambition, when really your nervous system is so wired that slowing down feels dangerous? Have you tied your worthiness so deeply to your output that rest feels like a threat? What if the exhaustion, gut issues, and hormonal chaos aren't signs you need to push harder but signals from a body screaming for you to cultivate safety around stillness?

In this episode, I sit down with Hope Pedraza, a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and Human Design Guide, to unpack how worthiness wounds show up as overwork and ambition. I share why functional labs reveal the physical cost of emotional suppression, how Hope's own adrenal burnout became her wake-up call, and why the paradigm shift we're seeing is about discovering what freedom and success actually mean for you as an individual.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• Why productivity and ambition are often trauma responses masking the fact that rest doesn't feel safe in your nervous system, and how Hope ran herself into severe adrenal burnout before recognizing she'd spent years tying her worthiness to her output.
• How your Human Design centers connect directly to physical systems like your root center governing adrenals and the pressure driving burnout, your sacral tied to reproductive organs and life force energy, and your throat center connected to thyroid function and the ability to speak your truth (as evidenced by two clients in narcissistic relationships who both had thyroid issues).
• Why the paradigm shift accelerating in 2027 isn't just about doing less but discovering what freedom and success actually mean for you as an individual, and how COVID sparked people questioning whether the life they'd been building was the one they actually wanted.

And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @creativelyowned for more daily inspiration on effortlessly attracting the most aligned clients without spending hours marketing your business or chasing clients. Also, make sure to tag me in your stories @creativelyowned.

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Selling the Invisible: Exactly how to articulate the value of your cosmic genius even if your message transcends the typical “10k months” & “Make 6-figures” types of promises.

Free on-demand training >>> https://www.creativelyowned.co/watchnow

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hopefulandwholesome.com

facebook.com/thehopepedraza

instagram.com/thehopepedraza

Rebecca Matchett is a seasoned entrepreneur known for identifying market gaps and creating innovative solutions that transform industries

With over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, she has founded and led successful fashion companies including the global powerhouse alice+olivia and the groundbreaking fitness apparel brand TrioFit.

Driven by her passion for fostering inclusive communities, Rebecca co-founded synchrony, an innovative social app designed to empower neurodivergent adults through genuine connections and supportive technology. At synchrony, Rebecca blends her business acumen with her commitment to social impact, redefining the role of entrepreneurship in creating meaningful, inclusive spaces.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• Why the neurodivergent community has been overlooked by every major social app on the market and how synchrony finally fills that gap.
• The three essential elements Rebecca looks for in any venture (problem-solving, market gap, and mission) and why combining all three gave her the confidence to leave fashion behind and step into unfamiliar tech territory.
• How synchrony's verification process and AI chat assistant Jesse create authentic community and safe communication without replacing human connection and why this is "the proper use of AI" according to every developer they interviewed.
• The surprising reason Rebecca believes a little ignorance is bliss when launching in a new industry, and why not having all the technical expertise upfront allows you to stay nimble and responsive to real community needs.
• How to balance a big 10-year vision with intentional execution by perfecting one step at a time, even when it means saying no to opportunities that could compromise serving your community well.

And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @creativelyowned for more daily inspiration on effortlessly attracting the most aligned clients without spending hours marketing your business or chasing clients. Also, make sure to tag me in your stories @creativelyowned.

To get Wispr Flow the crazy handy voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in every app. click here.

Selling the Invisible: Exactly how to articulate the value of your cosmic genius even if your message transcends the typical “10k months” & “Make 6-figures” types of promises.

Free on-demand training >>> https://www.creativelyowned.co/watchnow

To find out how to own your unique edge, amplify who you truly are (& get paid for it), take your business to cosmic proportions, and have fun doing it, grab it here!!

https://www.creativelyowned.com/quiz

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https://www.intothehumm.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mysticdreamschool/

Have you ever felt like you’re giving your gifts away for free because you love what you do but deep down, you know something’s out of energetic balance? Maybe you’ve built your business around what feels safe or familiar, while the work that actually lights you up feels “too risky” to sell. What if the success you’ve been chasing isn’t about learning a new strategy but about trusting what’s already working through you, your design, your dreams, and your deeper calling?

After years of teaching for free, Megan Kaun turned her intuitive gift for Dreamwork into a sold-out program in less than 90 days. In this episode, we unpack how she overcame resistance, simplified her strategy, and learned to trust the work that was already calling her. And proof that your most aligned path is often the one you’ve been avoiding.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL DISCOVER:

• Why giving away your gifts “for free” can signal a deeper imbalance between your purpose and prosperity and how to bring them back into alignment.
• The simple energetic principle that helped Megan go from undercharging and over-teaching to selling out her first paid program in just eight weeks.
• How resistance often hides right behind the thing you’re meant to be doing and why following what feels uncomfortable is usually the portal to success.
• The difference between analytical dreaming and intentional Dreamwork and how asking the right questions before bed can unlock clarity, creativity, and new directions in your business.
• Why trusting your intuitive path doesn’t mean abandoning structure but refining it to support your natural design and energy type.

And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @creativelyowned for more daily inspiration on effortlessly attracting the most aligned clients without spending hours marketing your business or chasing clients. Also, make sure to tag me in your stories @creativelyowned.

To get Wispr Flow the crazy handy voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in every app. click here.

Selling the Invisible: Exactly how to articulate the value of your cosmic genius even if your message transcends the typical “10k months” & “Make 6-figures” types of promises.

Free on-demand training >>> https://www.creativelyowned.co/watchnow

To find out how to own your unique edge, amplify who you truly are (& get paid for it), take your business to cosmic proportions, and have fun doing it, grab it here!!

https://www.creativelyowned.com/quiz

Offer Architect: TURN YOUR ‘INVISIBLE’ WISDOM INTO A COMPELLING OFFER THAT WILL SELL WITH A SINGLE EMAIL.

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To connect with Megan Kaun:

https://www.intothehumm.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mysticdreamschool/

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Have you done all the introspective work to understand what you want, identified your limiting beliefs, and expanded your worldview but now you're stuck on how to actually translate that into a business structure that works?

In this fourth and final episode of the Building From Your Design series, I'm showing you how to take everything from the previous three episodes and turn it into practical business decisions about your offers, who you serve, and how you market. I share why my resistance to social media and content creation was actually a portal showing me I'm not wired for that type of communication, how to factor in your own time as an expense so you don't end up paying yourself a dollar an hour, and why no expert should be telling you what your offer is, that's your role as an entrepreneur, and outsourcing it means you're building their business, not yours.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• How to pull together your success clues, your vision for expression and time, your limiting beliefs, and your expanded worldview into practical business decisions about what you offer, who you serve, and how you get visible and why this is about ruthlessly subtracting what doesn't align, not adding more to prove you're doing enough.
• The critical questions to ask about any offer like does this align with who I'm here to be? Does it compromise the time I want to spend on what matters most? Does the math work when I factor in taxes, tech expenses, AND my own hourly rate and if any of those answers are no, you have to revamp it or you're building on the wrong foundation again.
• Why resistance is actually a portal, not a block you need to overcome, my own disenchantment with social media and short-form content wasn't something I needed to push through, it was showing me I'm wired for depth, variety, and nimble pivots, not heavy structured funnels with ads running every month that keep my foot on the gas like my brick-and-mortar business I sold to escape.
• The membership math trap … if you're selling a $50 membership and need $5K/month, that's 100 people just to hit the number but then you have to factor in taxes, tech costs, and all the time fielding questions and cancellations, which means you actually need 150-200 people, and if you have a small audience that requires playing the volume game through mass visibility, which might be completely misaligned with your wired preference for quality over quantity.

And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @creativelyowned for more daily inspiration on effortlessly attracting the most aligned clients without spending hours marketing your business or chasing clients. Also, make sure to tag me in your stories @creativelyowned.

To get Wispr Flow the crazy handy voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in every app. click here.

Selling the Invisible: Exactly how to articulate the value of your cosmic genius even if your message transcends the typical “10k months” & “Make 6-figures” types of promises.

Free on-demand training >>> https://www.creativelyowned.co/watchnow

To find out how to own your unique edge, amplify who you truly are (& get paid for it), take your business to cosmic proportions, and have fun doing it, grab it here!!

https://www.creativelyowned.com/quiz

Offer Architect: TURN YOUR ‘INVISIBLE’ WISDOM INTO A COMPELLING OFFER THAT WILL SELL WITH A SINGLE EMAIL.

>>>

What if the only thing standing between you and building what you actually want is a limited worldview of what’s possible?

In this third episode of the Building From Your Design series, I'm walking you through the uncomfortable work of confronting why you think what you want isn't possible. I share the story of a client with a Virgo stellium who was being pulled to make her burnout work more playful and creative (even though that felt impossible), why spiritual bypassing around financial security will keep you perpetually sacrificing alignment, and the critical step most people skip that keeps them repeating the same patterns over and over.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• Why rushing through this process reveals the exact conditioning you need to unpack, our hyper speed-obsessed culture that wants shortcuts and bypasses the emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual experience you're actually here to have as a human and why I'm speaking from lived experience of creating success on misaligned foundations that wrecked havoc in my life.
• The critical distinction between doing this foundational work from a grounded place versus trying to do it while in financial stress or survival mode, where desperation causes you to sacrifice alignment for security and perpetuate the exact cycle you're trying to break, and why getting a job you don't want might actually be the aligned move that allows you to build properly.
• How to take your list of why your past success isn't transferable and your vision of expression, time, and money from the previous episodes, and confront the limiting beliefs blocking you like thinking you can't merge being scientific and spiritual, or that people won't get it if you integrate astrology with marketing, or that you have to sacrifice time to make money because that's what society has conditioned into you.
• The essential step most people skip…expanding your worldview by finding people who prove your limiting beliefs wrong, consuming their work without comparison or emulation, and then having the courage to reach out to 2-3 of them to start conversations.

And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @creativelyowned for more daily inspiration on effortlessly attracting the most aligned clients without spending hours marketing your business or chasing clients.

To get Wispr Flow the crazy handy voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in every app. here.

Selling the Invisible: Exactly how to articulate the value of your cosmic genius even if your message transcends the typical “10k months” & “Make 6-figures” types of promises.

Free on-demand training >>> https://www.creativelyowned.co/watchnow

To find out how to own your unique edge, amplify who you truly are (& get paid for it), take your business to cosmic proportions, and have fun doing it, grab it here!!

https://www.creativelyowned.com/quiz

Offer Architect: TURN YOUR ‘INVISIBLE’ WISDOM INTO A COMPELLING OFFER THAT WILL SELL WITH A SINGLE EMAIL.

>>>https://creativelyowned.com/offer-architect

Join the waitlist for the Selling the Invisible AI-Powered Conversion Copywriting System and be the first in line when the doors open again!

>>>https://www.creativelyowned.co/waitlist

Are you clear on what freedom, autonomy, or meaningful work actually means for YOU or are you chasing surface-level values that sound good but don't capture the nuanced reality of how you want to live and work? Have you been building toward an arbitrary income goal because that's what you see advertised everywhere, even though it's not actually the number that would allow you to live the way you want? What if the reason you can't articulate what you want isn't because you don't know but because you're designed to discover it through experiencing the world rather than sitting in isolation trying to answer abstract questions?

In this second episode of the Building From Your Design series, I'm breaking down the three critical pillars you need to get clear on before building anything. I share why values work often stays surface-level and doesn't get to the crux of why things matter to you, how my client's love of video games revealed exactly what kind of world she's meant to create in her brand, and why spiritual bypassing around money and math will keep you grinding to reach a financial threshold that sacrifices the very freedom you're building for.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• The three pillars that matter most when building from alignment, expression (who you want to be in your business and life, not compartmentalized), time (how you want to spend it in this season), and money (what you need to receive to make the first two sustainable) and why values work often misses the nuanced reality of what freedom or autonomy actually means for you specifically.
• Why many of us can't answer abstract questions like "where do you want to be in 10 years" or "how much money do you want to make" in isolation, and how going out to experience brands, restaurants, people you're drawn to give you the breadcrumbs to understand your own desires through what resonates (or triggers) you about their expression.
• The real story behind a client who spent significant time playing video games with her husband and what that revealed about her being wired for imagination, creativity, gamification, and creating experiential worlds, not the info-based, thought-leadership-heavy content I might have prescribed if I'd just told her what to do without understanding how she's designed.
• Why spiritual bypassing around money and basic mathematics will sabotage your foundation like wanting to build a $20 membership for accessibility while also wanting freedom to spend time with your kids, without acknowledging that reaching your financial threshold with that model requires mass appeal, massive visibility, and working yourself to the bone, creating the exact opposite of what you're trying to build.

And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @creativelyowned for more daily inspiration on effortlessly attracting the most aligned clients without spending hours marketing your business or chasing clients. Also, make sure to tag me in your stories @creativelyowned.

To get Wispr Flow the crazy handy voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in every app. click here.

Selling the Invisible: Exactly how to articulate the value of your cosmic genius even if your message transcends the typical “10k months” & “Make 6-figures” types of promises.

Free on-demand training >>> https://www.creativelyowned.co/watchnow

To find out how to own your unique edge, amplify who you truly are (& get paid for it), take your business to cosmic proportions, and have fun doing it, grab it here!!

Are you pivoting your business, launching something new, or feeling like everything you've built no longer aligns with who you are? Have you tried following expert blueprints and guru strategies, only to find yourself successful but unfulfilled or worse, stuck in a business that requires you to sacrifice parts of yourself to maintain it? What if the problem isn't that you need a new strategy, but that you've been building on someone else's foundation instead of your own?

In this first episode of a micro-series on building from alignment, I'm walking you through a completely different approach to evolving or starting your business. After selling my brick-and-mortar in 2020 and navigating my own misaligned pivots into the online space, I've developed a process that helps you lay the foundation BEFORE you build so you don't end up creating success on ground that isn't yours.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• Why the personal brand and guru culture model is shifting dramatically as AI makes thought leadership easily replicable, and what's emerging instead… taste, authenticity, embodied mastery, and wisdom that can't be manufactured by the thinking mind alone.
• The critical mistake of building your business on someone else's success blueprint like trying to force yourself into funnels and email list building when that's fundamentally misaligned with how you're naturally wired and why this creates businesses that feel heavy even when they're "working."
• How to identify your actual success codes by documenting every way you've created success throughout your entire life (not just in business), and why this 25-minute exercise will save you years of time and resources compared to building on a foundation that isn't yours.
• Why you must have financial security at the base before building from alignment, the dangers of spiritual bypassing when you're operating from survival mode, and how I built three businesses on misaligned foundations because I was desperately trying to escape my current situation rather than creating from a grounded place of safety.

And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @creativelyowned for more daily inspiration on effortlessly attracting the most aligned clients without spending hours marketing your business or chasing clients. Also, make sure to tag me in your stories @creativelyowned.

To get Wispr Flow - click here.

Selling the Invisible: Exactly how to articulate the value of your cosmic genius even if your message transcends the typical “10k months” & “Make 6-figures” types of promises.

Free on-demand training >>> https://www.creativelyowned.co/watchnow

To find out how to own your unique edge, amplify who you truly are (& get paid for it), take your business to cosmic proportions, and have fun doing it, grab it here!!

https://www.creativelyowned.com/quiz

Offer Architect: TURN YOUR ‘INVISIBLE’ WISDOM INTO A COMPELLING OFFER THAT WILL SELL WITH A SINGLE EMAIL.

>>>https://creativelyowned.com/offer-architect

Join the waitlist for the Selling the Invisible AI-Powered Conversion Copywriting System and be the first in line when the doors open again!

>>>https://www.creativelyowned.co/waitlist

Do you keep overcommitting to impossible timelines and attracting boundary-pushing clients no matter how much you refine your messaging or raise your prices? Have you done the mindset work and tried all the hacks, yet the same patterns keep showing up? What if the real issue isn't your marketing strategy—but the internal landscape that's magnetically pulling these situations into your reality?

In this deeply personal episode, I pull back the curtain on my own patterns of people pleasing and overextension. After 25 years of working across every business level—from brand new entrepreneurs to eight-figure founders—I've learned these patterns present the same way regardless of where you are in your journey. I share why tweaking your external strategy won't change what you attract, where I kept looking in the wrong places for answers, and the core belief that kept me stuck: the internalized idea that being "difficult" is negative and being "agreeable" is more valuable.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• Why clients with no concept of time and unrealistic deadlines kept appearing in my business across every price point and business level, and how I finally realized that external tweaks to messaging, offers, and pricing couldn't shift the internal pattern that was magnetically attracting them.
• The critical difference between knowing you're a people pleaser on a mental level versus feeling safe in your body to say no, state boundaries, and disagree and why awareness alone won't stop the pattern from repeating if your nervous system still perceives setting boundaries as dangerous.
• How the belief that being "difficult" is negative and being "agreeable" is more valuable was running my business decisions behind the scenes, causing me to open doors that invited scope creep, boundary violations, and inherited responsibilities that were never mine to carry in the first place.
• Why habit hacks like waiting 48 hours before responding or setting clearer contracts are just band-aids that don't address the root cause, and what actually needs to shift internally so you stop attracting the same frustrating situations before they even enter your world, transforming not just how you respond, but who shows up at your door.

And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @creativelyowned for more daily inspiration on effortlessly attracting the most aligned clients without spending hours marketing your business or chasing clients. Also, make sure to tag me in your stories @creativelyowned.

Selling the Invisible: Exactly how to articulate the value of your cosmic genius even if your message transcends the typical “10k months” & “Make 6-figures” types of promises.

Free on-demand training >>> https://www.creativelyowned.co/watchnow

To find out how to own your unique edge, amplify who you truly are (& get paid for it), take your business to cosmic proportions, and have fun doing it, grab it here!!

https://www.creativelyowned.com/quiz

Offer Architect: TURN YOUR ‘INVISIBLE’ WISDOM INTO A COMPELLING OFFER THAT WILL SELL WITH A SINGLE EMAIL.

>>>https://creativelyowned.com/offer-architect

Join the waitlist for the Selling the Invisible AI-Powered Conversion Copywriting System and be the first in line when the doors open again!

>>>https://www.creativelyowned.co/waitlist