The job market is intense right now — layoffs, thousands of applicants per role, ghost listings, and a whole lot of fear. But women are landing dream jobs, and in this episode, I break down exactly how they’re doing it.

If you're discouraged, burned out, or wondering if your best work is still ahead of you, take a deep breath. You’re not behind — you’re in a realignment. And today I’m sharing the strategies that actually work in this market, so you can stop settling and start moving toward a career that fits who you’ve become.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why the online application route barely works anymore

How to tap into the hidden job market through genuine connection What your résumé MUST look like in 2025 to stand out How hiring managers really use LinkedIn — and how to optimize yours
The 1 thing women struggle to claim… that changes everything
Why “alignment” isn’t fluffy — it’s your competitive advantage
What to say in your elevator pitch to instantly elevate your presence
How to confidently position yourself as an expert (even if that feels uncomfortable)

This episode is for you if:
— You feel invisible in the job search
— You’re terrified of layoffs or looking at your current role thinking “I can’t do this anymore”
— You're craving clarity about your next chapter
— You want a career that energizes you instead of draining you
— You’re considering a pivot, new role, or even starting your own business

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On this episode of The Ambitious Chick Podcast, I talk with Renee Moten, a personal trainer and massage therapist who turned her own knee pain into a thriving business helping women heal without surgery, drugs, or shots.

Renee shares how years of pain and frustration led her to discover what doctors often miss — that real healing starts from the ground up — and how that revelation inspired her to leave corporate America and build a purpose-driven company serving women all over the world.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, burnt out, or aching (literally or metaphorically) for change, this conversation will remind you that pain can be your greatest teacher and alignment your most powerful medicine.

🎧 You’ll learn:

• Why most midlife knee pain isn’t really about your knees

• The surprising link between ankle mobility, alignment, and pain relief

• How to pivot from corporate burnout to purpose-driven work

• The mindset that helps you turn obstacles into opportunity

✨ Ready to align your career with your purpose?
Take my $27 self-paced course, Nail Your Freedom Niche — a step-by-step guide to discover your soul-aligned niche so you can build freedom and fulfillment on your own terms.

Renee is a Certified Personal Trainer with over 27 years of experience, a Massage Therapist, an Author, and an Inventor. She formerly served as the Fitness Director at Columbia Country Club in Bethesda.

Since 2007, Renee has been a passionate entrepreneur, delivering more than 25,000 one-on-one fitness sessions and teaching over 5,000 class hours—specifically focused on helping women with knee pain. Her groundbreaking approach has helped countless clients reduce, and in many cases eliminate, chronic knee pain.

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https://www.tiktok.com/@reneemoten47 https://www.youtube.com/@reneemoten7697

On this week’s episode of The Ambitious Chick Podcast, your host and purpose clarity strategist, Tamara Wamsley, is joined by author and narrative coach Carrie West.

We explore how the stories we believe shape our confidence, career, and income. You won't want to miss Carrie's tips on how to spot the patterns that keep you playing small and how “micro-moments of change” can rewrite your beliefs around worth and money.

You’ll hear how to:
✅ Identify repeating plotlines that block your next chapter
✅ Shift old stories about success, visibility, and money
✅ Create a new narrative that attracts opportunity and abundance

💫 Next Step:
If you’re craving clarity, accountability, and a circle of women who get it, join The Freedom Seekers Circle—my weekly membership where we turn insight into aligned action.
➡️ Join The Freedom Seekers Circle

Connect with Tamara: TamaraWamsley.com

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Guest:
Carrie KC West is a Bestselling Author, Speaker, and Narrative Coach who helps individuals and businesses rewrite the internal stories that shape their lives. With a background in filmmaking from the prestigious American Film Institute and a degree in counseling psychology, she blends the art of storytelling with deep insight into human behavior.

Her book, Life Rewritten (March 2025), draws from her journey through personal healing, professional storytelling, and decades of coaching to show how changing your narrative can change your life. Carrie works with women ready to step into leadership, writers ready to refine their craft, and anyone ready to reclaim authorship of their story.

• Connect with Carrie → carriekcwest.com to grab your free 30-minute Story Breakthrough Session

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Are you successful on paper—but secretly wondering if you’re meant for something more?

In this episode of The Ambitious Chick Podcast, Life and Business Strategist and Freedom and Fulfillment Coach Tamara Wamsley, shares how true freedom begins with clarity—and how discovering your calling can completely transform your career, your confidence, and your life.

Tamara is joined by former journalist turned publicist Mercedes Barba, who shares her own story of walking away from a six-figure media career to build a business that finally felt aligned. Together, they reveal what it really takes to move from corporate burnout to soul-led success.

You’ll learn:
✅ Why clarity—not hustle—is the missing piece in most reinventions
✅ How to recognize the signs your soul is craving “something more”
✅ The mindset shift that makes leaving corporate possible
✅ Simple ways to share your story and get visible (without chasing algorithms)

Mercedes Barba spent nearly 15 years as a journalist covering entertainment, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. She's seen firsthand the power the media has to elevate small businesses. She launched Mercedes and Media to help entrepreneurs and small business owners get featured in the media to get the visibility they deserve. If you're ready to get your business featured in Forbes, Business Insider and more.

Connect with Mercedes:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/mercedesandmedia/?hl=en

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHVwwtPNdbyc-GJKmoItILQ

Grab the guide: https://www.mercedesbarba.com/guide

If you’re feeling stuck between success and satisfaction, this conversation will help you reconnect with who you’ve become and find the courage to create work that truly fits.

Ready for your next chapter?Join Tamara inside Discover Your Soul’s Purpose™, her 6-week live experience that helps women over 40 clarify their calling, align with their natural genius, and design a life that finally feels like freedom.👉 https://www.tamarawamsley.com/soulpurpose

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Have you ever looked around at the life you built and thought, “I should be happy… so why does this feel so heavy?”

In this powerful episode, Tamara Wamsley—Fulfillment Strategist, Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, and host of The Ambitious Chick Podcast—shares the story behind her own awakening from burnout and misalignment, and what it really takes to find clarity again when success no longer feels fulfilling.

You’ll learn:
• Why feeling “stuck” is actually a sign of growth, not failure
• The difference between burnout and misalignment
• How to reconnect with your soul’s calling and step into your next chapter with purpose and freedom

Plus, Tamara announces the launch of her brand-new live group coaching experience, Discover Your Soul’s Purpose™—a 6-week journey designed to help women 40+ uncover what they’re truly meant to do next.

Because you’re not behind. You’re becoming.

Listen now and rediscover the clarity, confidence, and fulfillment you’ve been craving.

Join Now at:

https://www.tamarawamsley.com/soulpurpose

and use the code Purpose 25 to get your 25% off!Connect with Tamara:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamarawamsley/

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If you’ve been told the secret to growth is more content, more funnels, more…everything—you’ll love this refreshing take.

In this episode, I talk to Kristi Chaves and we unpack how authentic marketing, human-based sales, and nervous-system-safe visibility create consistent revenue. You’ll learn why Kristi believes client retention is the most underrated strategy, how to design a legacy offer people stay in, and the difference between busywork and true income-generating tasks. We also talk offline vs. online growth, running values-aligned programs, and building a freedom-based life—on your terms.

You’ll learn

• Why client retention beats constant lead chasing

• How to architect a legacy signature offer that grows with your clients

• Somatic & nervous system tools to feel safe being visible online

• The difference between IGTs (income-generating tasks) and busywork

• Using offline + online strategies to build real relationships

• Picking a marketing channel that matches your natural genius

Highlights

• 95% client retention and what drives it [00:04:40–00:05:20]

• Somatics & safety to be seen online [00:09:15–00:10:30]

• Workshops that actually convert (connection > cookie-cutter arcs) [00:12:20–00:13:25]

• IGTs: the weekly habit that stabilizes cashflow [00:20:15–00:21:10]

• Offline opportunities most coaches ignore [00:17:20–00:18:30]

Chapters

• 00:00 Intro & guest setup

• 02:00 Falling into coaching + early wins

• 04:00 Building a legacy offer & 95% retention

• 06:30 Normalizing struggle & staying in alignment

• 09:00 Somatics for visibility & authority

• 12:00 Authentic workshops & relationship-first selling

• 16:00 $10k months: offer → channel → IGTs

• 18:00 Offline + online community building

• 21:00 Data-driven ops & retention artistry

• 26:00 Freedom-based business design

• 27:30 What’s next & where to connect

Kristi Chaves is a business mentor and embodiment-based coach who helps women grow and scale soul-aligned businesses that actually support the life they want to live. Raised by two transformational coaches, Kristi grew up immersed in personal development, truth-telling, and the belief that freedom is something you can build on your own terms. At just 21, someone approached her and asked to hire her as a coach not because of what she was teaching, but because of how she was living: connected, grounded, and fully herself.

After seven years of private coaching, Kristi's business grew through word of mouth clients kept re-signing, and others began asking what she was doing to create such easeful success. That's when she leaned into the business side, deepened her training, and discovered the true power of client retention and designing offers that create legacy-level impact.

But it was after her father passed away that everything crystallized. It became clear that wealth isn't just about how much money you make it's about how you're living. If your business isn't built to support the life you actually want, you'll always feel like you're chasing it. That realization shaped everything.

Now a mom herself, Kristi helps women build businesses that are scalable, strategic, and deeply rooted in who they are. She's supported hundreds of women in creating sustainable six- and multi-six-figure results by helping them design signature offers, build systems that work, and lead in a way that feels true.

Ready to clarify your purpose so your niche and offers click into place?
Start here → Discover Your Soul’s Purpose (self-paced).
Connect with Tamara:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamarawamsley/

https://www.tiktok.com/@tamarawamsley

https://www.youtube.com/@tamara_wamsley

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Do you ever feel like you’re working harder than ever… but still wondering why it doesn’t feel right?

In this powerful solo episode, Tamara Wamsley — The Fulfillment Strategist and host of The Ambitious Chick Podcast — shares the moment she realized “success” wasn’t the same as fulfillment, and how that realization sparked what she now calls The Soul Shift™.

You’ll learn:
✅ Why burnout and confusion are really symptoms of misalignment
✅ How to stop chasing strategy and start realigning your work with your soul
✅ The simple mindset shift that brings back clarity, energy, and purpose
✅ How tools like CliftonStrengths can reconnect you to your natural genius

Whether you’re stuck in a career that no longer fits or a business that’s lost its spark, this episode will remind you:
You’re not behind — you’re becoming.

🎧 Listen now and begin your Soul Shift™.

Have you ever felt stuck in a career that drains you—but terrified of what’s next? If you’ve been spinning in burnout and secretly dreaming of freedom, this episode is your permission slip.

I sat down with Julie Beck, a former teacher turned podcast manager, who shares her journey from crying on the edge of the bed before school…to building a soul-aligned business that gives her freedom, fulfillment, and more time with her family.

We unpack what it really takes to transition from burnout to business clarity—and why waiting for the “perfect plan” keeps you stuck.

✨ What you’ll learn in this episode:

• ✅ The truth about teacher burnout and how to break free

• ✅ Why messy action leads to clarity, confidence, and fulfillment

• ✅ How to redefine success around family and freedom—not someone else’s standards

• ✅ The role of coaching, community, and support in finding your calling

• ✅ Practical advice if you’re still in corporate (or the classroom) and wondering what’s next

• 👉 Tamara’s next step for you: If you’re ready to clarify your calling and move toward freedom without burning out, check out my self-paced course Discover Your Soul’s Purpose.

  
  

  Connect with Tamara:

  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamarawamsley/

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  https://www.youtube.com/@tamara_wamsley

  Guest resource: Julie is offering 15% off podcast management for new clients with code AMBITIOUSCHICK at juliebeckllc.com

  Connect with Julie:@JulieBeckLLC

  This episode is all about teacher burnout, business freedom, midlife career change, find your calling, clarity and confidence, family and fulfillment, women over 40 entrepreneurs