Alchemy & Action (formerly Wellpreneur): Nature-based Personal Growth for High-Achieving Women

“When you are looking at creating more freedom in your life and business, it starts with knowing what freedom looks like for you, how freedom sounds to you, how freedom feels to you.” Amanda Cook

Welcome to the brand new Season 7 of the Wellpreneur podcast! In today’s episode, Amanda is going way back to the essentials of being a “well” entrepreneur. You will learn about misconceptions that are related to freedom, why you should do less to reach more, why feelings are a compass, how to explore your strengths, and ultimately how to build freedom if you are just starting out or you are already in the business. Moreover, find out who is the new sponsor of the podcast and what kind of quiz Amanda prepared for you!

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links: https://wellpreneur.com/wellpreneur-essentials-designing-freedom-in-your-business-s07e01/

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“To me, alignment is being in the state of total integrity.”, Eleanor Beaton

This week Amanda interviews Eleanor Beaton, an internationally-recognized expert in women’s leadership, and an advisor to growth-oriented women entrepreneurs. She has served as chair of the Visiting Women’s Executive Exchange Program at the Yale School of Management and sits on the board of directors of two Canadian venture capital organizations. Furthermore, Eleanor is the host and executive producer of a top-ranked podcast for women entrepreneurs, Fierce Feminine Leadership.

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links: https://wellpreneur.com/visibility-alignment-with-eleanor-beaton-s06e12/

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This Monday, Amanda is joined with Daniel Foor, Ph.D., a licensed psychotherapist based in Asheville, North Carolina, a host of ancestral and family healing intensives since 2005, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He has lived in the Czech Republic, Mexico, Ecuador, Egypt, Morocco, and Nigeria. Daniel is an initiate in the Ifá/Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has trained with teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and different indigenous paths, including the older ways of his European ancestors.

In this episode, we are focusing mainly on genealogy and stepping into Daniel’s work and his understandings of ancestral medicine. Tune in and learn what impacts our ancestors have on our lives nowadays, why we should connect with our heritage first, why we should heal our ancestors, how to connect with them, and in general why people should be more aware of genealogy and its impact on our well being.

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links: https://wellpreneur.com/daniel-foor-ancestral-medicine-s06e11/

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This week, Amanda interviews Deborah Hanekamp, a founder of Mama Medicine who facilitates medicine reading out of her space in NYC and hosting ceremonies that integrate over 17 years of her experience and wisdom in healing arts.

Learn about Deborah’s transition from shutting down her yoga studio to founding Mama Medicine, why she simplifies her business, and what is disempowering teaching for her. Also, Deborah talks about simple practices to step into your inner guidance, how natural cycles affect her rhythms of work, and how working hard is linked with her lineage. At the end of the interview, our guest shares her experience of visiting Ireland, a homeland of her ancestors. More specifically, she reveals what ancestral practice she experienced there as well as the biggest takeaway from the whole trip.

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links: https://wellpreneur.com/mama-medicine-founder-deborah-hanekamp-s06e09/

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“The most you can give is when you are filling yourself up.”, Selina Barker

This Monday, Amanda is joined by Selina Barker, a coach, online course designer, writer, podcaster, and co-founder of Project Love. For the past 12 years, she has helped people design their lives and create careers they love.

In this episode, you will find out how Selina and her team started Project Love and how her business looks today, why self-care is so important to her success, and how she approaches it. You’ll also learn the importance of loving yourself and allowing yourself to dream big. You’ll see how through self-love a modern woman breaks ancestral patterns, and why it’s very important to tap into your dreams and take them seriously.

A lot of wisdom is on the air this week! Grab your headphones and get into the flow!

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links: https://wellpreneur.com/love-your-life-with-selina-barker-s06e08/

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In this week’s episode, Amanda hosts Toni Newton-Acquah, founder of Flowers & Moondust, an African wellness company that raises the profile of African wellness ingredients such as Baobab, Moringa, Shea and Cocoa. Toni is also the daughter of Ghanian immigrants to the USA who returned to her ancestral homeland to start her business in 2017. 

Toni and Amanda discuss the pull of reconnecting with our ancestors and returning to our ancestral homes, the value and wisdom in rediscovering the medicine of our people, how to learn traditional medicine from other cultures, and the right way to approach it, as well as how much wellness industry can be diversified around the globe.

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links: https://wellpreneur.com/returning-to-ancestral-homelands-with-toni-newton-acquah-s06e06/

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What does success look like for you? It’s so easy to get swept up in what you think you “should” want: $100k in revenue, to fit into your old jeans, to have a big house or the “perfect” family. In this week’s episode, Amanda leads a guided meditation to find your ideal day!

Find a quiet place to listen, close your eyes, and see what comes up. Don’t overthink it. You might be a lot closer to your ideal life & work that you realized.

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links: https://wellpreneur.com/ideal-day-meditation-s06e05/

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“You have one life to live and spending time on social media is one of the worst ways you can use your time for success.”, Dr. Josh Axe

This Monday, Amanda is joined with Dr. Josh Axe, a chiropractor who started developing his online business with the paper newsletter that turned out into a natural health website draxe.com. His brand has over 70 million online visitors per month and counts an incredible team of 150 employees, offering both written content and physical products. He talks about his business journey, how he developed his traffic, and gathered a team. Tune in and find out his insights on running online business in the past when he was starting and today, what is Biblical and Chinese medicine, how we can connect with ancestors, and why social media can be the biggest threat to your personal and business development.

Besides, find out about new discounts at Wellpreneur and what can you expect from them!

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links: https://wellpreneur.com/josh-axe-ancient-nutrition-and-draxe-com-s06e04/

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“You want to be the person who is doing the thing, not the one that is talking about doing it!”, Marianne Cantwell

In today’s episode, Amanda hosts Marianne Cantwell, the author of the bestselling book Be a Free Range Human, and founder of Free Range Humans blog that developed into a worldwide movement. Marianne reveals what brings meaning to her work, how she structures it, and what is her main focus in business. Learn how to bring the uniqueness and weirdness to your brand, why you should keep testing yourself, and when you can expect the hugely reinvented edition of her book Be a Free Range Human.

In addition, Amanda has started a new online program, Find your Flow, the 6 days of bite-sized rituals, remedies, and actions to help you get more done with ease. This program will help you to enhance your focus and productivity. Feel free to check it out, sign up is free!

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links: https://wellpreneur.com/be-a-freerange-human-with-marianne-cantwell-s06e02/

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This week we’re back with another installment in Real Wellpreneur series, I’m speaking with Susi Hately, yoga teacher and therapist with background in Kinesiology with a focus on Exercise Physiology, who trains teachers and health professionals on how to approach healing. We talked about burnout, how she developed her business, and also how her business has changed since having twins, (and how she manages to get it all done working 6-12 4 days per week!). I also have a little update from Wellpreneur’s HQ As you could have noticed my work is really shifting towards connecting with the seasons, and using this connection with the nature around us, seasonal rhythms and just the natural cycles of the world to make our life and work easier. And this spring I ran a brand new beta version of the program called Alchemy & Action. It was fantastic! Now it’s almost time for Summer and I’m just putting the final touches on Alchemy & Action: Summer Edition, I’d love to invite you to join us for it, we start Monday June 3!

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links: https://wellpreneur.com/real-wellpreneur-susi-hately/

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