This episode is about risk.

Not the dramatic, reckless, burn-your-life-down version. The real version.

In this episode, I break down what risk actually is and why most people are not playing to win—they’re playing not to lose. And those are two completely different games with completely different outcomes.

I share a moment where I caught myself calling something a “big move” when really, I had built safety nets all around it. It wasn’t risk. It was controlled exposure. And once you see that pattern, you can’t unsee it.

We talk about the difference between risk memory and risk intelligence, and why past experiences that “didn’t work” are often misinterpreted as wisdom instead of unprocessed data.

I walk through what it actually looks like to take aligned, intentional risk—and why staying in the energy of risk matters more than taking one bold step.

I also bring in real examples—Sarah Blakely, Oprah, Reese Witherspoon—to show how risk isn’t one move. It’s a relationship.

And we go into the piece that most people don’t want to look at: money.

Because most people aren’t afraid of risk. They’re afraid of what the outcome will require them to become—and what it might mean about them if it doesn’t work.

Energy first. Strategy second.

✨ Takeaways:

✨ From This Episode

Risk Breakthrough Activation
If you’re ready to move from circling decisions to actually leading your next level, this is your moment to step in. Trust what’s pulling you—and say yes here. https://www.jessicacerato.com/offers/LqUQWAvt/checkout

Abundance Codes
If you’re ready to stop overthinking money and start understanding how you’re actually designed to receive, hold, and grow it—Abundance Codes will show you exactly how. This isn’t about making more money. It’s about becoming the version of you who knows what to do with it. https://www.jessicacerato.com/sales-page-abundance-code

The Calendar
Align your marketing with the energy of the month using The Calendar. Get daily insights, content hooks, and power dates to elevate your communication and grow your business—no guesswork, just clarity. https://www.jessicacerato.com/offers/tPKS4dUQ/checkout

✨ Connect With Jessica
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jessica.cerato
Website: www.jessicacerato.com

This episode is about humor.

Not as a personality trait. As a tool.

In this episode, I talk about why humor and levity are not separate from deep energetic work—they are part of it. Somewhere along the way, we started to believe that depth had to mean heaviness. That if the work was real, it had to be serious.

I don’t agree.

I share how approaching life and energy work with only seriousness creates unnecessary weight. Everything starts to feel personal. Every challenge becomes a problem to solve. And eventually, the work becomes exhausting.

But humor changes that.

I walk you through how laughter actually shifts your nervous system, expands your perspective, and opens you up to more options. If you can laugh, you can shift. If you can laugh, you can transform.

I also share real stories—from bird poop in Venice leading me to a nunnery, to a bachelorette party reading where “no pickles” became a message from beyond—to show how humor is often the delivery system for truth.

Because humor isn’t the opposite of depth.

It’s how the message lands.

Energy first. Strategy second.

✨ Takeaways:

✨ Connect With Jessica
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jessica.cerato
Website: www.jessicacerato.com

This month is about curiosity

Not overthinking. Not waiting. Not trying to get it right.

In this episode, I walk you through the energy of April and why it’s a turning point. We’re moving from structure into experimentation—where the goal isn’t certainty, it’s discovery.

April carries the energy of the five, which means movement, connection, and a lot of potential distraction. You’ll feel pulled in different directions, and your job is not to figure everything out—it’s to get curious enough to find out what’s actually true for you.

We shift from confirmation-seeking into real questions. From asking your mind into listening to your body. From needing the right answer into creating experiences that give you feedback.

I also share how to work with risk, how to avoid getting stuck in indecision, and a simple tool—the “parking lot”—to help you hold ideas without losing momentum.

April doesn’t give you answers.

It gives you data.

Energy first. Strategy second.

✨ Takeaways:

✨ From This Episode
The Calendar
Align your marketing with the energy of the month using The Calendar. Get daily insights, content hooks, and power dates to elevate your communication and grow your business—no guesswork, just clarity. https://www.jessicacerato.com/offers/tPKS4dUQ/checkout

Q2 Energy Forecast: Play to Prosper
Join me live for the Q2 Energy Forecast: Play to Prosper and learn how to move with the energy of April, May, and June instead of forcing it. For $17, you’ll get the live experience, replay, workbook, and the clarity you need to make this your most expansive quarter yet.

Spots are open now — and if you’re feeling bold, grab one of the 9 VIP Personal Forecast upgrades before they disappear. https://www.jessicacerato.com/offers/NBrDxE8i

The Quantum Quarter
Step into your next level of leadership with The Quantum Quarter—where strategy meets energy and your next results are already in motion. If you’re ready to collapse timelines and lead what’s next, start here. https://www.jessicacerato.com/the-quantum-quarter

Instagram: www.instagram.com/jessica.cerato
Website: www.jessicacerato.com

What rules are you living by right now?

Not the obvious ones. The invisible ones about success, healing, time, purpose, and what you believe is possible for your life.

In this episode, I sit down with Kiki Shiple to talk about the unconscious rules that high achieving women often inherit without realizing it and what happens when you start rewriting them.

Kiki shares her journey from working as a physician assistant inside the structure of Western medicine to guiding women through deep embodiment, subconscious work, and frog medicine. What began as a personal health crisis ultimately became a path back to her body, her intuition, and a completely different way of living and leading.

We explore why purpose is not something you find but something you are already living, why perfectionism may actually be a superpower, and how the rules we carry about time, worthiness, and readiness quietly shape our decisions.

We also talk about what happens when you question those rules in real time and choose something new.

Because the moment you realize the rules were never yours…

You can rewrite them.

Energy first. Strategy second.

✨ Takeaways

✨ More about Kiki
Kiki Shiple is a Kambo practitioner and visionary mentor devoted to helping high-achieving women unplug from societal conditioning, reclaim their magic, and step all the way into living. Her lived experience includes 13 years in the medical field and 8 as a hormone specialist physician assistant. Through Kambo frog medicine, energetic work, subconscious reprogramming, and embodiment, she guides women into lives of overflow, devotion, and impact.

Find Kiki on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kikishiple

This episode is my real answer to the question I get all the time: what exactly do you do?

I don’t tell the future. I forecast it.

There’s a difference between prediction and participation. Prediction encourages waiting. Forecasting creates orientation and activation. I share real client stories that might sound like “seeing the future,” but what I’m actually doing is reading early signals and helping people move with the energy instead of freezing in it.

Time is not fixed. It responds to focus, readiness, and willingness to act.

This is timeline activation.

Energy first. Strategy second.

✨ Takeaways

✨ Resources
If you want to experience this work instead of just hearing about it, I offer a limited number of one off sessions. These are designed to activate what is already trying to move in your life and business. https://www.jessicacerato.com/quantum-calibration

If you are new to me and you are a podcast listener, use the code “podcast” for a special rate.

This conversation is about your body as the container for your leadership.

In this episode, I sit down with Chelsea McLeod, integrative health practitioner and former corporate leader, to talk about what happens when your energy is powerful but your vessel is depleted. Because energy is not just a vibe. It lives in form, and if your body is inflamed, dysregulated, or ignored, leadership starts to feel heavy, visibility gets harder, and your energy leaks.

We talk hormones, gut health, cortisol, sleep, and the symptoms high achieving women normalize for years. We also go into the deeper layer: how weight can reflect emotional stagnation, why “pushing harder” backfires, and why so many women are unconsciously afraid of feeling better because they know it will force bigger life decisions.

Chelsea keeps this insanely practical, and I share my own lived proof that you do not need perfection or a new personality to get results. You need the right inputs, real structure, and a commitment to treating your body like the asset it is.

Energy first. Strategy second.

✨ Takeaways

✨ More about Chelsea
Chelsea McLeod is a corporate dropout turned integrative hormone and health strategist for busy, driven women with big careers.

After spending over a decade leading ecommerce teams for global brands and running high-pressure businesses, she left the corporate world to help women heal. Today, she has helped over 250 entrepreneurs, executives, and high-performing women lose weight quickly and heal underlying sleep, gut, energy and metabolic issues using extremely effective holistic strategies. As a result her clients see a huge impact on their career and leadership abilities. Her work bridges science, strategy, and energy, helping women build bodies that actually feel good to live inside.

Grab her free ebook - Busy Girl Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss: https://chelseamcleod.com/busy-girl-guide

Book a 15 min hormone reset strategy session where she'll triage your symptoms, see if your hormones are contributing, and make you a mini protocol on the spot to start getting rapid results: https://calendly.com/healthyhustlecall/hormone-balance

In this episode, I’m diving into the energy of March and what’s ahead for visionary leaders. March is all about materialization—the physical manifestation of your visions. No more just dreaming or vibing; it's time to get real. I talk about the importance of structure, both internally and externally, and how to move from manifestation to materialization.

We explore the theme of "show me the receipts"—the tangible, grounded evidence that you’ve been doing the work and bringing your dreams into reality. We also discuss the powerful metaphor of the soil, as this month is about checking if the foundation you've built is strong enough to support your growth. Are you ready to plant in fertile ground, or is your soil still in need of nurturing?

In addition, I introduce the concept of the energetic boardroom, where you’re the chair of your decisions and calling in the right energies and guides for your life and business. I share how to tap into your inner compass, rather than relying on external maps, to navigate the twists and turns ahead.

It’s time to trust your inner knowing and make aligned choices that reflect the true direction you want to head in. And as always, I give you tools to work with, including how to ask yourself the right questions and how to stay anchored in your energy, no matter what’s happening around you.

✨ Takeaways

✨ From This Episode

The Calendar
Align your marketing with the energy of the month using The Calendar. Get daily insights, content hooks, and power dates to elevate your communication and grow your business—no guesswork, just clarity. https://www.jessicacerato.com/offers/tPKS4dUQ/checkout

2026 Year Ahead Forecast
Co-pilot your destiny in 2026 with your personalized Year Ahead Forecast. Get your roadmap to navigate the year with ease and make 2026 your best year yet! https://www.jessicacerato.com/yearoftheVisionaryLeader-2026

Q2 Energy Forecast: Play to Prosper
Join me live for the Q2 Energy Forecast: Play to Prosper and learn how to move with the energy of April, May, and June instead of forcing it. For $17, you’ll get the live experience, replay, workbook, and the clarity you need to make this your most expansive quarter yet.

Spots are open now — and if you’re feeling bold, grab one of the 9 VIP Personal Forecast upgrades before they disappear. https://www.jessicacerato.com/offers/NBrDxE8i

This conversation is about sovereignty.

Not the buzzword version. The embodied version.

In this episode, I sit down with Nicole Cherie Hesse to talk about self-leadership, energetic alignment, scaling from identity, and what it actually takes to expand in a way that is sustainable.

We explore what sovereignty feels like in the body, what breaks first when you are operating without it, and why scaling without self-leadership will always create collapse somewhere else.

Nicole shares how she built a multi seven figure business from a place of inner knowing instead of permission. We talk about timelines, future self guidance, resistance, capacity expansion, and why some growth feels like climbing steps and some growth feels like climbing a rope.

We also dive into in-person experiences and why they are not optional in the next era of leadership. AI can replace education. It cannot replace embodiment.

And at the end of this episode, Nicole guides a live activation. Not to give you answers. But to return you to the only guidance that matters.

You are the adult.
You are the leader.
No one is coming to save you.

Energy first. Strategy second.

✨ Takeaways

✨ More about Nicole

Nicole Cherie Hesse is the founder of Wonder World Marketing, a top-rated podcast host, a Forbes featured self made millionaire who went from being a mouthy bartender to building a multi-seven figure international marketing empire in her first year.

She has empowered thousands of high vibe entrepreneurs to monetize their skill sets and strategically aligning their systems to crush consistent five and six figure months while expanding the Wonder Ripple of impact.

Using her proprietary & highly innovative strategy of Catalyst Marketing, she easily sells 6+ figures per month from her highly optimized Unicorn Sales Funnel. She loves showing her unicorn clients how to do the same. Her proprietary mindset strategy, The Seven Layer Transformation™️, has changed the way entrepreneurs rewire their thought patterns for rapid success by putting fulfillment first.

When she is not running her companies, writing her books or coaching her clients, you can find her floating in a salt tank or lounging in an airport with her husband and two teenage children on their way to their next big adventure. Nicole has big plans to expand Wonder World to entrepreneurial theme park proportions. She will be the first to tell you that this is just the beginning…

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In this episode, I unpack one of the most subtle but powerful games we are taught to play early in life: this or that.

It starts innocently. Ice cream or cake. Snow or ocean. But over time, that binary thinking quietly shapes the way we approach the biggest decisions of our lives. Love or money. Business or family. Success or peace. Visibility or privacy.

I share a personal story about a moment when a major business opportunity directly conflicted with a commitment I had already made to my daughter. What looked like a forced choice was actually an initiation. Not a test. Not a punishment. An invitation to prove to myself who I was when the stakes were real.

This episode is about dissolving false binaries, releasing the pressure to choose, and learning how integration actually works. Not by force. Not by strategy. But by trust. February’s energy asks us to go beyond logic and stop collapsing parts of ourselves that were never meant to compete.

You do not get both by trying to have both. You get both by becoming someone who will not abandon themselves for either.

✨ Takeaways

✨ Explore Your And
If this episode stirred something for you, if you can feel where you’ve been living inside a this or that, you don’t have to figure out how to integrate it on your own.

In my 1-1 work, we look at where your life has been pulled into compartments, what’s actually active in your chart right now, and how the parts of you that feel like they’re competing can start working together instead. This isn’t about choosing one side or forcing a decision, it’s about finding the sweet spot where things meet and letting a new configuration emerge.

If you’re ready to explore your own this or that story and learn how to bring it together in a way that feels honest, grounded, and aligned, you can learn more about working with me one-on-one here → https://www.jessicacerato.com/work-with-me

This episode is a conversation about leadership beyond the noise.

Not louder leadership.

Not faster leadership.

Well resourced leadership.

I’m joined by Mandy Balak, Experience Designer for Well-Resourced Leadership, president of The Gathering Festival, author of Chasing Enough, and the host of The Well Podcast. We talk about what it actually takes to lead with capacity instead of performance, and why you cannot outwork what you will not feel.

Mandy breaks down her leadership equation, resources vs demands, and how to tell when you are spiraling into creativity or spiraling into reactivity. We talk about why a spa day does not fix chronic depletion, why leadership is clarity and questions more than it is answers, and what it means to become the CEO of your life internally, not just on paper.

We also go deep on phones, distraction, and what happens when you finally unplug. Not as an escape from your life, but as part of the work. Presence is the advantage.

✨ Takeaways

✨ After This Episode

Head back to episode 3 and listen with the layer of Mandy’s insight on who you are as a leader and what you choose to track https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/003-metrics-that-matter/id1869518579?i=1000746006193

✨ More about Mandy

Mandy Balak is an Experience Designer for Well-Resourced Leadership, the author of Chasing Enough, and the creator of The Well-Resourced Method™. She’s also the President of The Gathering Festival, a 10,000-plus person community growing at 25% year over year, and the host of The Well Podcast.

For over 15 years, Mandy has guided hundreds of leaders to build capacity before they need it—integrating nervous system regulation, strategic design, and embodied leadership so their impact doesn’t come at the cost of their health, clarity, or humanity.

Mandy designs experiences where high-performers stop surviving their leadership and start building leadership that actually lasts.

Join the waitlist for her upcoming book Chasing Enough and take your capacity audit and get more resources here:  www.mandybalak.com