Ep 33: Saying “I do” changes everything—sometimes in ways you don’t expect. Relationship coach Monica Tanner dives deep into what really shifts after marriage, how faith and religious differences impact relationships, and why showing healthy conflict in front of your kids can actually strengthen your family. Monica gets real about communication, conflict resolution, and creating lasting connection.

Monica shares her own journey from childhood divorce to building a strong marriage across different religious backgrounds, and how she now helps thousands of couples ditch resentment, and create a thriving love life. Learn powerful tools like HALT, WAIT, and contracting to navigate conflict, grow through change, and model emotional resilience for your kids.

Why listen?

🔥 What really changes when you get married (and why it matters).

🔥 How faith and religious differences affect marriage, and how to handle them.

🔥 Why healthy conflict in front of kids can actually be good for them.

🔥 Practical tools to strengthen connection and intimacy in your relationship.

🎧 Press play and learn how curiosity, communication, and collaboration can transform your marriage into your greatest adventure.

Resources & Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Monica Tanner' website

Monica Tanner’s Podcast: The Secrets of Happily Ever After

Emily Nagoski: Come Together or Come as You Are

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Ep 32: Feeling stuck in your career or like the world’s moving too fast for your creative spark to keep up?

Alyssa Aviles, Canva and ClickFunnels ambassador, creative director, and educator, gets raw about creative struggles, the AI boom, and what it really means to rebuild when life doesn’t go as planned.

From freelancing fails to designing for 7- to 9-figure entrepreneurs, Alyssa’s story is anything but linear. She opens up about the silent millennial midlife crisis: that moment when you realize you’ve checked all the boxes and still feel behind, exhausted, or completely lost.

Alyssa also dives deep on the fact that creativity isn’t frivolous, it's foundational. She also shares how faith, curiosity, and the right mentor helped her go from overwhelmed freelancer to working with Pedro Adao, Tony Robbins, and Damon John, without losing her creative soul.

If you've ever questioned your path, your pace, or your place in a world dominated by tech and timelines, this convo is for you.

Why listen?

If you’re a millennial creative navigating burnout, business pivots, or the fear of becoming obsolete, this episode is your reset button. Alyssa shares:

🔥 How to find mentors that align with your values (not just your goals)

🔥 The mindset shift that saved her creative career

🔥 What to do when AI threatens your creative job

🔥 Why millennials are hitting a midlife wall way earlier

🔥 Why your soul still matters even in the age of algorithms

Press play, feel seen, and learn how to reclaim your creative voice in a world that moves too fast.

Connect with Lyss + Resources Mentioned:

Website

The Artist Way - Julia Cameron

Redeeming Your Time - Jordan Raynor

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Ep 31: Ever wonder why some entrepreneurs skyrocket while others stall out?

Vince Green, business coach, revenue strategist, creator of The Vince OS, and Two Comma Club Award winner, breaks down the real mindset, systems, and strategy behind unstoppable business growth.

From navigating layoffs to launching a SaaS without knowing how to code, Vince shares his raw, behind-the-scenes journey through entrepreneurship—from rock bottom to building a powerful coaching empire.

Vince brings a no-fluff, deeply human take on what it really takes to build, scale, and stay in the entrepreneurial game.

If you've ever felt like you're doing “all the right things” but still not moving the needle, this conversation is your wake-up call.

Vince doesn’t hold back on the transformative insights — this is one episode you’ll want to rewind and relisten to with a notebook in hand.

Why listen?

If you’re building something big—or dreaming about it—this episode is your roadmap. Vince dives into:

🔥 How to get unstuck by working backwards from your win

🔥 Why “easy” is a four-letter word—and what to do instead

🔥 The power of coaching that meets people where they are

🔥 The messy truth about entrepreneurship (and why it’s worth it)

🔥 Why planning isn’t optional if you want real freedom

🎧 Hit play, shift your mindset, and design your future on purpose.

Book Mentioned:

Be Your Future Self Now by Dr. Benjamin Hardy

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Ep 30: Ready to ditch the labels and finally understand who you really are?

Mandy Keene—master coach, DISC expert, and co-creator of the world’s leading personality software—unpacks the truth about self-awareness, shadow work, and radical self-love. From being the awkward new kid to coaching with Tony Robbins and building life-changing tools with Russell Brunson, Mandy’s story is raw, relatable, and refreshingly real.

She gets honest about the insecurities she faced as a young woman, how personality assessments changed her life, and why learning who you are isn’t putting you in a box—it’s setting you free. If you’ve ever felt like you’re too much, not enough, or just out of sync with yourself, this conversation will feel like a deep breath and a nudge toward wholeness.

Mandy shares how embracing her wiring helped her find her voice, heal generational wounds, and love herself in a way that few people dare to.

Why listen?

If you're craving clarity, stuck in self-doubt, or ready to live more aligned, this episode is for you. Mandy reveals:

🔥 Why “not knowing who you are” is the real box we get stuck in

🔥 How to identify your superpowers and stop second-guessing them

🔥 Why alignment feels like peace (and misalignment like agitation)

🔥 How to stop hiding your voice—and use it to lead

🔥 Feminine leadership, self-worth, and why loving yourself is an act of rebellion

🔥 Tools to move from “doing more” to being more

🎧 Press play to reconnect with your truth, own your gifts and finally get out of your own way.

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Ep 29: What happens when a Star Wars–obsessed entrepreneur decides to ditch the grind, scale smarter, and bring a lightsaber to leg day? Enter Shawn Quintero.

In this fun, fresh, and unexpectedly deep episode, Sarah welcomes Shawn Quintero — serial entrepreneur, master coach, and the genius behind an exploding Star Wars fitness channel — for a conversation that’s part strategy, part heart, and 100 percent real talk.

Shawn reveals how he went from volunteering at conferences he couldn’t afford to leading six- and seven-figure businesses, all while refusing to compromise his most important role: being a present husband and father. You’ll hear his powerful take on resourcefulness, why systems beat hustle, and why your personal brand should never be your entire business.

Plus, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at how Shawn turned a 75 Hard challenge into a community of Jedi fitness fans — complete with lightsabers and a few surprises along the way.

This conversation is packed with game-changing lessons for entrepreneurs who want unreasonable results without losing themselves (or their families) in the process.

💡 Why listen? If you’re an entrepreneur who:

• feels stuck in hustle mode

• wonders how to balance a big mission with an even bigger family vision

• is curious about scaling a brand that could actually run without you

• or just wants to nerd out on Star Wars and lightsabers

— this episode is a must.

🎧 Listen in to discover:

⚡ The real story of how Shawn went from broke to backstage to business mogul

⚡ The power of saying “I’ll figure it out” when the resources just aren’t there

⚡ Why your family needs a mission statement (yes, really!)

⚡ How to protect your relationship while building an empire

⚡ And the surprising way a lightsaber can change your fitness motivation

🔗 Connect with Shawn: https://offers.abundanceworldwide.com/coach-to-ceo-masterclass

👉 Ready to build a life that’s unreasonable, unstoppable, and undeniably yours? Hit play.

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Ep 28: What happens when the industry you’ve built your career in suddenly changes, thanks to AI? And what if the hustle starts to feel like you're shouting into a void?

In this powerful conversation, Brittany Lynn Lewis—producer, writer, actress, and co-founder of Just US Studios—shares what it really felt like to watch her freelance copywriting work slowly evaporate. She was a thriving copywriter with dream clients, consistent referrals, and six-figure launches... until AI stepped in. But instead of chasing the algorithm, Brittany chose to pivot, and what happened next surprised even her.

We talk about the quiet collapse of stable work, the myth of being “booked and blessed,” and the creative clarity that comes when you stop forcing what’s not working. Brittany also reflects on her decision to move to NYC, the importance of proximity for creatives, and why not every controversial post is worth your energy.

Whether you’re a creator navigating change, a freelancer wondering if it’s you or the market, or someone rethinking what success really looks like, this episode is your permission slip to pivot and pursue what lights you up.

Why listen?

If you’re navigating change, doubting your path, or wondering how to stay human in a high-tech world, Brittany delivers:

🔥 What happens when AI actually does take your job

🔥 How to pivot with purpose instead of panic

🔥 The power of proximity and showing up in the right rooms

🔥 When (and when not) to post polarizing content

🔥 Real talk on freelancing, failure, and the myth of being “booked and blessed”

🎧 Press play to hear a story that’s raw, real, and ridiculously relevant for the modern creative.

Connect with Brittany:

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Ep 27: What if the key to your next breakthrough is hidden in your biggest failure? Jared Erni, once a golf ball diver, now a 7-figure business mentor, gets real about the winding road to success. In this episode, he opens up about failed ventures, bold reinventions, and how embracing decisiveness and resilience changed everything.

From ad space in barbecue joints to building a $2M+ digital marketing company for local businesses, Jared shares the behind-the-scenes truth about entrepreneurship: mental health breakdowns, client burnout, and why he ditched the hustle to travel the country with his family.

If you’ve ever questioned the path you’re on, struggled with shiny object syndrome, or felt burned by broken marketing promises, this one’s for you.

This isn’t your typical “rise and grind” story. It’s about choosing your definition of success, and building it on your terms.

Why listen?

Jared gets brutally honest about what it really takes to create a business and life you don’t need a vacation from.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

🎯 The surprising career that launched Jared’s entrepreneurial journey

🎯 How one bold ask landed him a mentor (and a job!) on day one

🎯 The most expensive lesson he learned (hint: it took 8 years)

🎯 The Google Maps + Funnel strategy he used to scale to 7 figures

🎯 What finally pushed him to redesign his business and life

🎧 Hit play to learn how choosing purpose over pressure changes everything.

Jared's Contact:

Website: Get Lead Max

FREE - 8 Simple Tricks To Get More Clients In The Maps Section

Books mentioned:

Million Dollar Offers by Alex Hormozi

Million Dollar Leads by Alex Hormozi

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Ep 26: What do selling salamanders as a kid and growing a million-subscriber YouTube channel have in common? For Kristen Hills - everything.

In this lively and candid conversation, Kristen shares her wild entrepreneurial journey, from humble beginnings with her sisters' recipe blog (Six Sisters' Stuff) to becoming one of the go-to experts helping YouTubers create and launch profitable products.

You’ll hear how she listened to divine nudges, hustled through countless 4 AM mornings, navigated sibling dynamics in business, and carved out a space in the male-dominated YouTube world. Kristen also opens up about raising daughters with grit, why she’s passionate about teaching moms to earn money from home, and how she balances ambition with faith and family.

If you’ve ever felt intimidated by YouTube, doubted whether your business could scale, or wondered how to juggle it all, this episode is pure gold. Kristen brings a refreshing mix of strategy, humility, and heart.

🎧 Listen in to discover:

✔️ The unexpected moment that sparked Kristen’s first business idea

✔️ How Six Sisters’ Stuff grew from a family blog to a media powerhouse

✔️ The divine prompting that led Kristen into YouTube (before it was cool)

✔️ How she broke into male-dominated rooms and gained powerful mentors

✔️ Her mission to help moms create income streams from home (and why it matters now more than ever)

✔️ The core belief that keeps her grounded as her business grows

Whether you're a YouTube creator, entrepreneur, or simply someone trying to figure out your next move, Kristen’s story will inspire you to start before you’re ready and trust the process.

🔗 Connect with Kristen on Instagram

🔗 Mentioned Book: The YouTube Formula by Derral Eves

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