How do you keep building a business when you're grieving a life you never imagined losing?

Hope Alcocer joins Amanda Magho for Episode 27 of The Building Well Podcast to share how losing her daughter and mother transformed her perspective on success, purpose, and entrepreneurship. After 15 years of building Wonder Woman Media, Hope opens up about knowing her worth, navigating motherhood and grief, creating the Mia Joy Foundation, and learning that peace matters just as much as profitability.

A heartfelt conversation about holding grief and growth together while continuing to build a life and business.

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Katiya Plummer spent years climbing the corporate ladder, eventually leading a team of 65 people, but the higher she climbed, the further she felt from the creativity and enjoyment she wanted in her life.

In this episode of The Building Well Podcast, Katiya shares what happened when she left corporate and began building The Katiya Experience full time. Amanda Magho and Katiya talk about corporate conditioning, fear of leaving a stable paycheck, learning to promote your own business, the realities of building a client base from scratch, meaningful travel, and why we sometimes work harder for someone else’s vision than our own.

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At 54, Deb Boulanger walked away from a successful corporate career while navigating divorce, menopause, an aging parent, and life as a mom. But leaving meant more than changing jobs. It meant figuring out who she was without the title, paycheck, and recognition she had spent decades building.

In this episode of The Building Well Podcast, Amanda Magho interviews Deb, founder and CEO of Life After Corporate, as they talk about starting over, rebuilding self-trust, finding clients through community and speaking, creating recurring revenue, and building a business that can eventually operate without her.

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You do not need more followers, more automations, or a more complicated marketing strategy to create meaningful growth.

Jordan Gill, Senior Affiliate Marketing Manager at Kit, joins Amanda Magho to unpack what established business owners should know about email marketing, audience engagement, affiliate relationships, and brand partnerships right now. They talk about simplifying your email strategy, making your personality part of your marketing, building relationships with brands before pitching them, and why a smaller but well-matched audience can still open the door to valuable opportunities.

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What if business success was measured by how often you didn’t have to rush?

In Episode 23 of The Building Well Podcast, Amanda Magho sits down with Operations and business strategist Faith Morris joins for a candid conversation about scaling, motherhood, marriage, context switching, boundaries, and building a business around the life you actually want. Faith shares what running two businesses taught her about hard work, slowing down, protecting her time, and defining success beyond revenue.

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What if the hardest part of growing your business is realizing you cannot keep building it the same way you always have?

Megan Dupuis started what she thought would be a small local coffee meetup for women after struggling to find the kind of professional community she wanted herself. Fifty women showed up to the first event. Today, ExpandHer Society is growing beyond the Austin area, with chapter leads helping bring the community into new cities and states.

In Episode 22 of The Building Well Podcast, Megan Dupuis joins Amanda Magho for an honest conversation about what happens personally when a business starts asking more of you.

Megan shares why relinquishing control has become necessary as the community grows, how hiring the right support changed her operations, and why she is working to outgrow the people-pleasing tendencies that can make leading a community especially difficult.

She also opens up about motherhood and the tension many women experience between professional ambition and being present at home.

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When you're building a business while working full time, it can feel like every free hour should be spent making progress. Texture Skin founder Aida Toure learned that constantly working was not the answer.

In this episode, Amanda Magho sits down with Aida Toure as she shares how a personal struggle with underarm hyperpigmentation became a body care brand, what it took to start seeing herself as a real founder and CEO, and how she is balancing entrepreneurship with a career in tech. Amanda and Aida talk about over productivity, founder confidence, routines, asking for help, and more.

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What happens when you are ambitious enough to build more, but already carrying a full-time career, relationships, responsibilities, anxiety, and a mind that rarely stops moving?

Ricki Wax knows that tension well. She is a holistic career coach, founder of Empress Retreats, author, and Cloud AI Program Manager who has spent years building what she calls “integrated ambition,” pursuing her entrepreneurial vision without waiting to leave corporate life first.

In this episode, Amanda Magho interviews Ricki as she opens up about being diagnosed with high anxiety and ADHD as an adult, confronting the perfectionism tied to her anxiety, and learning to create boundaries and systems that better support how she operates. She and Amanda also discuss building a business alongside a 9-to-5, and much more.

For anyone wondering whether there is room to start building while life is already full, this conversation offers a refreshingly realistic answer.

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