She scaled to $9 million. Then watched it disappear in three months. And she spent six months trying to rebuild the exact same broken thing.

Tara Stubbins didn't plan to be a CEO. She left high school at 15 to chase rock bands across Canada. Two decades later, after managing world tours with the Rolling Stones, Lady Gaga, and Drake, she fell backwards into entrepreneurship. And she built something real.

Then she lost it. Fast.

What came next was harder than the collapse. It was the six months of brute-forcing a restart, blaming everyone around her, and refusing to look at what was actually happening. The market was different. The time was different. She was different. But she kept trying to run the same play. And it kept breaking in the same place.

The moment she stopped asking "whose fault is this?" and started asking "how did I create this?" is where this episode begins.

Here's what nobody tells you about rebuilding a business that failed:

🔹 The six-month restart that proved the problem was never the strategy

🔹 Why she kept saying yes to the wrong clients, and what scarcity was really costing her

🔹 The moment her inner voice told her to go back to her roots, and why she almost didn't listen

🔹 How money became the flashlight that finally showed her the truth she had been avoiding

If you have ever tried to fix something from the outside that was broken on the inside, this conversation will stop you in your tracks.

Listen now. This is the one you needed.

About Tarra:

Tarra Stubbins is the visionary founder and CEO of two multi-million-dollar service-based organizations,

built entirely through her dedication to goal-setting and unwavering determination despite having no

formal business background. With over two decades of diverse experience, she has managed the lives of

and worked alongside legendary musicians like Mick Jagger and Drake and high-profile CEOs such as

Richard Branson.

Known for her no-nonsense, purpose-driven approach, Tarra specializes in empowering individuals to

achieve their personal and professional goals. She transforms daily lives by eliminating ineffective

multitasking habits and introducing proven techniques utilized by the world's most successful people.

Passionate about helping others unleash their inner potential, Tarra continues to inspire countless

individuals to live the lives they've always dreamed of.

Connect With Tarra:

Website www.takeiteasygroup.com

Instagram handle https://www.instagram.com/tarrastime/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarrastubbins/

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There's a version of success that looks like you're winning and feels like you're drowning. This episode is about that.

Genea Barnes just returned from hiking to Everest Base Camp. She trained. She paced herself. She chose slow and steady when everyone else was sprinting. And still, at altitude, her body said no. Her oxygen dropped to 62. She got helicoptered out.

But here's what she came home knowing: the way she showed up on that mountain was the opposite of how she’d spend her life showing up in our businesses, our relationships, and our health. Push, crash, recover, push again. Call it hustle. Call it drive. The body knows what it really is. Instead, she showed up steady, consistent, and she was willing to listen.

This is not an episode about giving up. It's about what becomes possible when you stop performing endurance and start building real momentum.

The altitude stripped everything back and left four truths that are going to stay with you:

🔹 Why consistency has nothing to do with pushing harder and everything to do with the pace your nervous system can actually sustain

🔹 The tortoise and the hare story, lived out in the Himalayan Mountains with real altitude, real sickness, and real consequences

🔹 How taking her foot off the gas in business always cost her more than keeping a slow, steady pace ever would have

🔹 What it means to play the infinite game in a world that keeps selling you finish lines

If you're tired of the crash cycle and ready to move differently, this one is for you. Watch or listen now.

About Genea

Genea Barnes is a mentor, coach, and speaker whose early life was rooted in deep trauma and neglect. To stay safe, she learned to make everyone else feel good and put their needs first.

It worked to survive, but it came with a cost. She lost her ability to discern what was truly right for her. And getting what she wanted came with the anxiety that it would be lost or taken away.

She was great at making other people’s dreams come true, but when it came to what she truly wanted, she self-sabotaged and procrastinated … always putting something else first.

She spent decades exploring and studying every modality under the sun to break free from those patterns and create a life that felt like joy, ease, and freedom.

Today, she empowers people to move away from and resolve conflict rooted in trauma, generational trauma, and sacrifice of self … so they can create the life they crave and access greater peace and freedom in all areas of their life.

This gives them access to loving, authentic relationships, consistent healthy habits, and success in business, finance, and career that feels like fulfilment and freedom.

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She sat down at a piano at seven years old and played a song she had never learned. Both hands. First try. Every adult in the room went silent.

That was the moment Debby Meadows discovered what she was made of. And it was the moment other people decided what that gift was for.

In this episode, Genea sits down with artist, musician, and educator Debby Meadows for a conversation about what happens when the most alive part of you becomes someone else's resource.

Debby grew up in a high-control religious environment where her extraordinary musical gift was celebrated and claimed in the same breath.

She gave everything she had, for free, to a system that called it holy. And somewhere along the way, the music stopped being hers. Then it stopped altogether. For almost twenty years,

Debby didn't touch an instrument. Not because life got busy. Because owning her gift had become too dangerous.

This is the conversation for the creative, the over-giver, the devoted one who has quietly wondered why the thing that once made them feel most alive now feels like a distant memory.

Here is where this episode cracks open:

🔹 The moment Debby's father tore up a job offer from Kings Island and threw it in the trash … and how that single act became the blueprint for every upper limit that followed

🔹 How a televised praise and worship stage, an unwanted marriage, and government housing while giving away $200 a paycheck, taught her body that her gift, her money, and her choices were never really hers to keep

🔹 The nearly two decades she spent unable to touch a piano … and what the silence inside that absence was actually trying to say

🔹 How a cervical fusion surgery, a YouTube rabbit hole about Steve Perry, and a single morning of stillness in nature cracked open a creativity she had believed was gone forever

If you have ever given the best of yourself to something that couldn't hold you, this episode will meet you exactly where you are. Come listen.

About Debby:

Musician. Artist. Writer. Educator. Multi‐instrumentalist and visual artist turned memoirist, exploring what happens when performance becomes a cage, and what it takes to walk out. I spent 15 years in creative exile after high‐control religion and relentless service broke my relationship with music. Now I’m writing about reclaiming the gift, healing the mind/body that carried it, and creating from sovereignty instead of obligation.

Currently writing Tell Me Something True: The Perry Parallax—a memoir about creative burnout, religious trauma, and recovery that doesn’t skip the shadow work. Using Steve Perry’s archetypal journey as a mirror for my own 15‐year exile from music, I’m mapping what it really costs to step away and what it requires to return whole, owning your art, your story, and your life.

I write at the intersection of embodied creative practice, somatic integration, and deconstruction: how to listen to the nervous system, metabolize grief and shame, and make work that’s authentic instead of merely performative. My lens is part musician, part artist, part educator, part mystic, part farm‐raised Kentucky girl who refuses to abandon either rigor or wonder.

Connect with Debby:

Website: Substack.debbymeadows.com

Instagram handle: debbymeadowsstudio

TikTok: debbymeadowsstudio

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