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- The Magic That Comes After Losing Yourself (Is this a "Quantum Leap?")
If you've been listening to the podcast this year, you've heard me actively exploring losing sight of myself, my vision, my stated mission, what's important, and the spiral that came along with it. But in losing myself, I've been forced to find myself again, and that has been so empowering that it feels like a ... dare I say it?... Quantum Leap. My friend and guest Courtney is joining me this week to talk about what she calls the "goo eras" of our lives and how that impacts our relationship with our businesses.
Meet the Speakers
Sarah K. Heeter is the CEO of Podfox Media and host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast. Her work sits at the intersection of ethical entrepreneurship, podcasting strategy, and inclusive leadership. She also teaches public policy at Arizona State University.
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https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness
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Courtney Chaal is the founder of Yay for Clients, a business coaching company that helps service providers, coaches, designers, copywriters, and consultants build six-figure businesses with consistent clients. Over 15 years, she's helped hundreds of entrepreneurs stop the feast-or-famine cycle and start running businesses that actually work. Her philosophy? Your business should be a machine, not a job.
www.courtneychaal.com
45 min - External Metrics for Success vs Internal Alignment
What happens when you realize from the outside, everyone sees a success story, but inside, you're suffering? My guest today is Lillian Rafson, and her story is astounding. From a business start up that scaled so rapidly before and during COVID that her company was recognized as the #2 fastest growing business in Pittsburgh to a massive unraveling and excavation, Lillian is sharing it all. We are talking about growth at all costs and the shame attached to choosing something smaller or slower, other people's vision-casting for your business, and the idea that it's allowed to just be easy.
Meet the Speakers
Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation.
Launch Your Own Podcast:
Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast.
https://launchmyshow.com/
Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business:
https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/
https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter
https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness
https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness
Lillian Rafson is the founder + CEO of Pack Up + Go, a travel agency specializing in surprise vacations around the U.S. She launched the bootstrapped business at 23 years old, and the company has now sent 43,000+ travelers to 300+ destinations nationwide. The company spreads the economic benefits of tourism to thousands of small + minority-owned businesses around the country, while encouraging spontaneity, exploration, and adventure among American travelers. Pack Up + Go has partnered with brands like Ford, Cap’n Crunch, Heineken, and Chase, and has been featured on Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, The New York Times and Vogue.
packupgo.com
lillianrafson.com
41 min - What Anti-Capitalist Business Coaching Looks Like
Whose idea of success am I even chasing? My guest this week is Lauren Glynn, and we are chatting about capitalism's grip on identity, worth, and even desire; the internal pressure to make your gifts count; ethical leadership in an unethical system; and so much more.
Meet the Speakers
Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation.
Launch Your Own Podcast:
Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast.
https://launchmyshow.com/
Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business:
https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/
https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter
https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness
https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness
Lauren Glynn helps established serviced-based founders stop being the bottleneck in their own businesses and start strategically leading them.
https://laurenglynn.com
https://www.threads.net/@laurengconsulting
48 min - Business is So Lonely It's Threatening Our Humanity
Individualism is a tool of white supremacist, patriarchal capitalism, and it's caused an isolation mental health crisis for founders. My guest today, Maggie Arai, joins me to talk about why community is protection for humanity at every scale.
Meet the Speakers
Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation.
Launch Your Own Podcast:
Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast.
https://launchmyshow.com/
Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business:
https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/
https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter
https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness
https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness
Maggie Arai is a serial entrepreneur obsessed with helping humans connect in an increasingly disconnected world. She helps companies host non-boring corporate events, and runs Founders Who Give A F*ck, a global community for women solopreneurs running service-based businesses.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggie-arai/
fwgaf.com
48 min - Your Business Isn't Actually Important, It's a Modality
Who are you without your business? This week, my guest is Emelie Sanders, who you might know better online as Pass the Queso... which is exactly the type of identity trap we are talking about in the episode today. We touch on redefining success and failure, entrepreneurship as survival within and escape from broken systems, business literacy and the coaching industry problem, and so much more.
Meet the Speakers
Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation.
Launch Your Own Podcast:
Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast.
https://launchmyshow.com/
Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business:
https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/
https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter
https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness
https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness
Emelie Sanders is the strategist behind Pass the Queso. She's built businesses across 11+ different industries, both online & IRL. She's hellbent on raising the standard of business literacy in the online space, and writes emo business pieces in her publication, Cheese Daddy.
passthequeso.com
instagram.com/pass.the.queso
45 min - Are You Failing or Are You Grieving? We Need to Talk About Grief in Business
One thing I just don't think we talk about enough is the grief that is part of the entrepreneurship roller coaster. In this episode, my friend Diane joins me to talk about the massive pivot she's going through in her career which has opened up the opportunity to talk publicly about grief in transition. No matter what, we all face change and transition in our lives and businesses, and that means a level of grief that we need to talk about and make space for.
Meet the Speakers
Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation.
Launch Your Own Podcast:
Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast.
https://launchmyshow.com/
Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business:
https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/
https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter
https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness
https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness
Dr. Diane Ortega spent the last 20 years as a Doctor of Nursing Practice and Certified Nurse-Midwife- in the room for the most transformative moments of women's lives. What she learned inside those birth rooms, she now
brings to a different kind of transformation: the identity shifts, the burnout, the seasons where everything a woman built no longer fits who she's becoming.She doesn't help women survive their unraveling. She teaches them to use it, because she knows the falling apart was never the problem. It was always the beginning.She is the host of The Midwife Life Podcast and the creator of The Rebirth Journey™- a transformational experience for women who are done surviving their lives and ready to start living them.www.themidwifelife.co
instagram.com/diane.ortega
51 min - Business is Personal: Is Your Business Life-Proof?
In this episode, my friend AnnMarie Rose returns to talk openly about her two-year income dip and what it taught her about untangling her self-worth, and even her business's worth, from the numbers on the page. We dig into the shadow side of being a high-performing overachiever, the glasses we wear that fog our definition of success, and how a life-proof business is structured so it can get what it needs from you while still leaving enough of you for the people and things that matter most. We close on something tactical, learning to treat your body as data and giving yourself the same grace you so freely extend to everyone else, because for most of us, almost nothing in business is the emergency our nervous systems make it out to be.
Meet the Speakers
Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation.
Launch Your Own Podcast:
Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast.
https://launchmyshow.com/
Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business:
https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/
https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter
https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness
https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness
AnnMarie Rose is an Online Business Scaling Strategist with nearly a decade of experience helping coaches, consultants and service providers leverage their zone of genius to scale with clarity, confidence and flexible, personalized strategy.
She has helped hundreds of service-based leaders navigate scaling mode with ease by refining their offer suite to support their vision and personal strengths and streamlining their marketing and sales systems so they can impact and earn millions online without overwhelm or burnout -- even as their life and desires evolve.annmarierose.com
Https://www.instagram.com/askannmarierose/
52 min - Fear of Change in Online Business and the Age of AI
In this episode, my friend Jaryn Dominique joins me to cut through the rage and fear dominating so much of the AI conversation, and to talk honestly about what it actually means to run an ethical business in the AI age. We get into why AI is a tool rather than a job-killer, why the human element still matters more than ever, and how the environmental conversation around data centers is more nuanced than the headlines suggest. We close with practical encouragement to fact-check before you share, look for the use cases nobody's marketing, and stay brave enough to adapt rather than letting the fear paralyze you.
Meet the Speakers
Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation.
Launch Your Own Podcast:
Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast.
https://launchmyshow.com/
Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business:
https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/
https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter
https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness
https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness
Jaryn Dominique is the Chief “Deviant” Officer (CDO) of Deviant Digital Services. With a rich background spanning over a decade in the digital marketing landscape, Jaryn has meticulously crafted her reputation and honed her expertise within some of the nation’s largest digital agencies. From international brands to small enterprises, her journey has been an odyssey of mastering search engine optimization/AI optimization, Local SEO, content strategies, paid campaigns, and social reputation management.
In addition to her business Deviant Digital Services, Jaryn also contributes to the advancement of digital marketing as a member of the Google Research Advisory Board, working to improve the Google platform. Jaryn's expertise is further recognized by her Google Certification and status as a Google Partner, underscoring her commitment to staying at the forefront of industry innovations.https://www.deviantdigitalservices.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5AneLI30AkPAPO7P0nfzqQ
41 min - You Don't Have to Suffer to Be Good (or Successful)
In this episode, my guest Alison and I challenge the idea that success has to be tied to a revenue number, exploring what it really looks like to redefine success around how you feel and who you're being rather than what you're earning. We dig into measuring success through markers like time freedom, happiness, safety, learning, rest, and good company, and talk through how learning to trust your gut matters more than chasing the milestones everyone tells you to want. Alison shares the distinction between pain, which is inevitable, and suffering, which is optional, and together we explore how contentment and presence can become a more sustainable foundation for both your life and your business.
Meet the Speakers
Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation.
Launch Your Own Podcast:
Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast.
https://launchmyshow.com/
Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business:
https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/
https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter
https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness
https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness
Alison Réaume is a Whole Human Fractional COO, systems strategist, and yoga teacher trainer helping entrepreneurs, creatives, and leaders build businesses that honour their nervous system, values, and real capacity. Blending 20+ years in operations with 15+ years in yoga and nervous system work, she designs sustainable systems, rhythms, and strategies that replace burnout with clarity, structure, and a more human way of working.
https://alisonreaume.com/
https://www.instagram.com/thesystemsseat/
45 min - Redefining Success as an Anti-Capitalist Entrepreneur
How can we describe success beyond just revenue? I'm not talking about being small or cozy necessarily, but what other ways can we measure whether or not we are "success stories" through an anticapitalist lens?
Meet the Speakers
Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation.
Launch Your Own Podcast:
Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast.
https://launchmyshow.com/
Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business:
https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/
https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter
https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness
https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness
Elaine Timms is a Pinterest strategist and expert, and founder of Elaine Timms Creative, a boutique Pinterest marketing and management agency that helps businesses and content driven brands build Pinterest- powered systems to keep their best work in circulation.
https://elainetimms.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elaine-timms
42 min
About Big Brave Business: Business Ethics, Revolutionary Leadership and Human-First Entrepreneurship with Sarah Heeter
From the publisher's feed
Big Brave Business is a podcast where we challenge the status quo of traditional business practices. If you're ready to challenge norms, rewrite the rules, and redefine what it means to lead with…
courage and integrity, then this show (and community) was built for you.
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