In this episode of the Expand Your Empire Podcast, we sit down with jewelry designer, entrepreneur, and educator Meaghan Young. Meaghan's journey takes us from a serendipitous necklace sale to building a global business and empowering women to combine creativity with wealth-building strategies. We explore how Meaghan's love for jewelry turned into an innovative business model, her approach to financial resilience, and why she believes jewelry is the ultimate wealth vehicle. If you’ve ever wondered how to turn a creative passion into a legacy, this episode is a must-listen!

In this episode, we discuss:

- The "Serendipitous Bar Moment": How Meaghan's jewelry career started by accident and led to a professional education in metalsmithing.

- Jewelry as a Wealth Vehicle: Why the jewelry industry is the best in the world for building wealth due to access to precious metals as a supply expense.

- The Bitcoin Mindset: How Meaghan uses Bitcoin as a "treasury" to back her business risks and why she believes it’s an essential tool for the modern entrepreneur.

- The Pain of Scaling: Why Meaghan closed her physical schools in Colorado and Sedona to launch a scalable, global digital brand.

- Zero Inventory: The business model saves designers from the rising costs of raw materials.

Where to find Meaghan:

Website: JewelryBusinessSchool.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crestedbuttejewelry/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheCrestedButteJewelrySchool

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meaghan-young-1342b31a/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MeaghanYoung

Empire Links: https://elevate365.biz/amanda-biz-141848

If you are new to the Expand Your Empire world, this is the episode to start with. Amanda Taylor pulls back the curtain on why most successful-looking businesses are actually "wealth traps." She explains the exact framework she uses to help high-achieving entrepreneurs stop the profit leaks, reclaim their time, and turn their business revenue into a compounding wealth engine. If you've ever felt like you’re on a "hamster wheel in a higher tax bracket," this episode is your exit strategy.

• The Difference Between Revenue and Wealth: Why your top-line number is lying to you.
• The 3 Profit Leaks: How "people pleasing" and "over-delivering" are silently killing your margins.
• Move #1: The Margin Audit: How Amanda identifies 8-12% "hidden" profit without increasing prices.
• Move #2: Delivery Boundaries: The "Scalable Excellence" model—moving from on-call to automated systems.
• Move #3: Profit-First Cash Flow: The banking structure Amanda uses to ensure her clients build reserves systematically.
• The Wealth Engine: How Amanda’s clients transition from "Self-Funded" (relying on work) to "Smart-Funded" (relying on investments).

This episode explains the "What" and the "Why." If you’re ready for the "How," Amanda offers a Profit Discovery Audit. This is her signature deep-dive where she maps out your specific leaks and builds a plan to deploy your first $50k-$150k into wealth-building assets.

Book Your Profit Discovery Audit

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This episode is a departure from our typical conversations, and it’s one of the most important.

We’re exploring a dimension of wealth building that rarely gets discussed: your capacity to receive.

So many high-achieving women can execute strategy, build income, and hit goals, yet still feel disconnected, over-controlled, or stuck in cycles of hustle and self-sabotage. In this conversation, Sharon and I unpack why that happens and how your relationship with your body, pleasure, and sensation can mirror your relationship with money, success, support, and abundance.

We talk about:

- Why relief isn’t the same as pleasure (and why that matters for burnout and overwork)

- How “functional freeze” shows up in business, relationships, and your financial life

- The subtle ways we deflect receiving compliments, help, rest, money, and opportunity

- A grounded starting point for expanding capacity without overwhelming your nervous system

- What it looks like to build wealth that feels sustainable, embodied, and sovereign

Content note: This episode includes mature themes and explicit discussion related to sexuality and trauma. Please listen with care and skip if this isn’t supportive for you right now.

If you’ve been building wealth but losing yourself in the process, this conversation offers a perspective you won’t find in traditional financial education, and a reminder that true wealth is a full-life experience.

About The Guest:

Sharon Marie Scott is an embodiment educator, author, and the architect of The Pleasure Renaissance, a movement focused on sovereignty, nervous system capacity, and embodied leadership.

Her work draws from years of teaching in embodiment, conscious relating, and emotional intelligence. She has lectured graduate-level psychology interns, facilitated group programs on sovereignty and self-trust, and supported high-achieving individuals in reconnecting to their bodies as a foundation for sustainable success.

Sharon teaches that pleasure is a form of embodied intelligence, a signal that expands capacity to receive, supports nervous system regulation, and deepens how we experience wealth, creativity, and life itself.

Connect With Shannon Below:

Website - www.sharonmariescott.com

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sharonlifeturnedon/

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonmariescott/

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@lifeturnedon/

Connect beyond here with the Host Amanda Taylor:

https://elevate365.biz/amanda-biz-141848

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