Is your podcast actually helping grow your business—or has it become another time-consuming passion project?

In this episode of Unbreakable Mompreneurs, host Charisse Walker sits down with Virginia Elder, founder of Podcast Abundance and host of Podcasting for Financial Professionals, to talk about turning a podcast into a strategic business asset that attracts the right audience, supports your marketing, and ultimately generates opportunities for your business.

Virginia shares why successful business podcasting starts with one critical question: What is the goal of your show? She explains the difference between podcasting as a hobby and podcasting as a long-term marketing strategy—and why simply producing more episodes isn't necessarily the answer.

You'll discover how to:

🎙️ Create a podcast with a clear business purpose
🎯 Define exactly who your show should serve
📈 Use podcasting as part of your lead-generation strategy
💡 Choose topics that connect your audience to your services
✂️ Know what to edit out to keep listeners engaged
👥 Build a team without immediately hiring full-time employees
⏰ Balance entrepreneurship, motherhood, and growing a business
💰 Think about the ROI of the time you're investing in your podcast

Virginia also shares her own entrepreneurial journey—from an accounting background and paying off $80,000 in debt to unexpectedly building a business helping financial professionals launch and strategically grow their podcasts.

Whether you're thinking about starting a podcast, already have 20 episodes—or you've produced hundreds and you're wondering “What should I do next?”—this conversation will help you rethink the role your podcast plays in your overall business.

🎙️ Connect with Virginia Elder

Virginia is the founder of Podcast Abundance and provides podcast strategy services for business owners and financial professionals.

🎙️ About Your Host, Charisse Walker

As the host of Unbreakable Mompreneurs, Charisse empowers ambitious moms to build businesses, create financial independence, strengthen relationships, and pursue success without losing sight of what matters most.

🌎 Website: charissewalker.com📲 Instagram: @charissewalker1

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Your next stream of income may already be hiding inside something you know, enjoy, need, or have experienced.

In this episode of Unbreakable Mompreneurs, Charisse Walker sits down with Bart Merrell, the “Side Hustle Samurai,” to explore how ordinary skills and life experiences can become meaningful sources of income.

Bart helps people identify their ideal side hustle by examining what they enjoy, what they need, and what they are already doing. Instead of pushing a predetermined opportunity, he helps people discover possibilities within their own unique lives.

Bart has created multiple income streams through dog training, international exports, rental real estate, AI-generated music, app development, and other ventures. He also shares the moving story of having his lower left leg amputated and transforming that difficult experience into an opportunity to support other amputees. Today, a prosthetist compensates Bart to help patients prepare for and adjust to life after an amputation.

Bart and Charisse discuss how to recognize potential income opportunities, use AI to create new services and products, evaluate whether an idea fits your desired lifestyle, and become comfortable with failure. Bart also explains why a side hustle does not necessarily mean small income—it simply means the venture began on the side.

You will hear why Bart turned down an opportunity with nearly risk-free funding, how adopting an untrained Rottweiler led to a dog-training business, and why asking “How can I monetize this?” can completely change how you see your skills and circumstances.

Take Bart’s free First $1K Blind Spot Assessment to discover what may be preventing you from earning your first $1,000 through a side hustle:

https://youridealsidehustle.com

Connect with Bart:

YouTube: Bart Merrell – The Side Hustle Samurai
Website: https://youridealsidehustle.com

About your host:

Charisse Walker is a mother of six, entrepreneur, author, Realtor, mortgage loan officer, real estate investor, coach, speaker, and host of Unbreakable Mompreneurs. She is the author of Flipping the Iceberg: Discovering and Celebrating What Lies Beneath the Surface in Your Relationships and the creator of the Flipping the Iceberg™ Method. As a Marriage and Relationship Strategist, Charisse helps individuals and couples identify the hidden beliefs, wounds, expectations, and patterns influencing their relationships and personal growth.

Connect with Charisse:

charissewalker.com
flippingtheiceberg.com
chalkerhomes.com
Instagram: @charissewalker1

Are you truly growing—or are you using constant learning, coaching, and healing to avoid what your life is trying to show you?

Natalie Bouchard joins Charisse Walker to discuss how women can stop seeking permission, return to their center, and reclaim their inner authority. Natalie is a Cohesion Architect who helps women move beyond fragmentation, outside validation, and survival mode so they can trust their own direction.

After spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on personal development, earning 12 healing designations, losing a significant amount of money in a business scam, becoming a single mother, and facing serious health concerns, Natalie watched nearly everything in her life collapse. Through that experience, she realized she had accumulated tremendous knowledge while continuing to borrow other people’s methods, answers, and authority.

In this candid conversation, Natalie and Charisse explore why women often look to coaches, partners, and outside experts for containment; how survival mode can appear as endless self-improvement; and why facing reality without judgment or avoidance can lead to greater clarity and stability.

They also discuss motherhood, divorce, generational patterns, transparent parenting, telling children the truth without controlling their choices, and allowing real-life consequences to become powerful teachers.

Natalie shares her free three-module experience, Bump It Like It’s Hot, which introduces her process for facing life’s “bumps,” returning to center, and reconnecting with natural authority.

Connect with Natalie Bouchard:

Bump It Like It’s Hot: [Insert Natalie’s link]
Website and social media: [Insert links]

About your host:

Charisse Walker is a mother of six, entrepreneur, author, real estate broker, mortgage loan officer, investor, coach, speaker, and host of Unbreakable Mompreneurs. She is the author of Flipping the Iceberg: Discovering and Celebrating What Lies Beneath the Surface in Your Relationships and the creator of the Flipping the Iceberg™ Method. As a Marriage and Relationship Strategist, Charisse helps people uncover the hidden wounds, beliefs, expectations, and patterns affecting their relationships and personal growth.

Connect with Charisse:

charissewalker.com
flippingtheiceberg.com
chalkerhomes.com
Instagram: @charissewalker1