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You think you're building your business.
But somewhere along the way, the business starts building you.
Christina Olivarez hit her ten-year mark and called it the hardest year of her career. Her husband was laid off, her body was recovering from major surgery, and the funding for the conference she'd poured seven years into disappeared overnight.
For the first time, she asked herself a question that changes everything: if no one was watching, what would I actually build?
This conversation is about the identity work underneath scaling. The grief no one warns you about. The self-trust that has to come before the team, the pricing, the visibility.
If you've ever felt successful on paper and quietly misaligned underneath it, this one is for you.
What You'll Hear:
Why does hitting a major milestone sometimes break you instead of freeing you? [00:02:00]
What happens to your revenue when your nervous system can't hold your expansion? [00:03:00]
How do you move through the grief of not being where you thought you'd be by now? [00:17:00]
Who do you actually have to become to lead yourself when everything is falling apart? [00:19:00]
Why does becoming visible feel like such a threat, and what's really underneath that fear? [00:22:00]
What does values-based visibility look like when it feels risky to be seen? [00:27:00]
How can you start speaking up as a leader without doing the big, all-or-nothing version? [00:31:00]
What's the most common leadership struggle Christina sees in her clients? [00:33:00]
Resources:
The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
Connect with Christina:
Christina Olivarez is an award-winning Strategic Leadership Coach, TEDx speaker, and host of the Unapologetically Visible™ podcast, whose work has been featured in USA Today, CNN, and by the San Antonio Business Journal as a Top Executive Coach. She helps established Latina and Women of Color founders recalibrate their identity, authority, and visibility so their business reflects who they've become, not who they had to be to survive.
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There is a woman who will sit and listen to you for $75 an hour. She's not a therapist. She's not trained. She says nothing. And people pay her.
So when you're sitting there, second-guessing your prices, quietly wondering if anyone will actually pay what you want to charge, Jillian has one question for you: why do you have the audacity to doubt your own worth?
In this solo episode, Jillian blows up the story that "no one will pay premium." Because the market has already proven you can charge almost anything. Coffee at 7-Eleven or coffee delivered to your suite on a Ritz Carlton yacht. A handbag at Walmart or a $30,000 bag with a waitlist. There is a buyer at every price point, which means there is a buyer for you.
The truth? Premium pricing was never about what the market will pay. It's about you, your pricing, and how you feel holding it.
Jillian shares the exact moment she quoted a speaking fee four times higher than before and heard "done" the very next business day. She unpacks why the safe, comfortable number is the one that keeps you in scarcity, and why getting into your client's wallet is quietly costing you clients.
If you're an established entrepreneur ready to charge at your actual level, this one is your permission slip.
What You'll Hear:
Why does every price point already have a paying market waiting for it? [00:01:30]
What actually drives someone to buy premium (and why it's never fully logical)? [00:03:30]
What happened when Jillian quoted a speaking fee four times higher than before? [00:04:30]
Why does the "safe" price keep you stuck in scarcity and resentment? [00:05:30]
What price do you truly want, and how do you hold it so others will pay it? [00:09:00]
How does getting into your client's wallet quietly cost you sales? [00:09:30]
Which money beliefs did you inherit that were never actually yours? [00:10:30]
Resources:
Raise Your Prices Workshop
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You're in flow. The conversation is clicking. You know your offer can help this person. And then they ask the price... and your confidence just drops.
If your voice tightens the second it's time to say a number, this one's for you.
Because here's what most business owners get wrong: it was never about the number. It's about the energy behind it. You can say $5 or $5,000 with the exact same power once you fix what's happening underneath.
In this episode, Jillian breaks down the energetics of pricing, why obsessive competitor research is quietly keeping you stuck, and the deeper root cause that makes saying your price feel so hard in the first place.
What You'll Hear:
What actually happens in your body the moment you say your price out loud? [00:03:00]
Why did Jillian stop researching her competitors entirely, and what changed when she did? [00:05:00]
What's the "three competitors" rule, and how do you know when research has become a crutch? [00:06:00]
Why will people pay almost any price when they truly believe you're the solution? [00:07:00]
How can you say a number and feel calm instead of clenched? [00:08:00]
Why does undercharging with confidence beat overcharging with dread? [00:09:00]
What's the hidden root cause underneath pricing that most coaches never touch? [00:11:00]
Resources:
Raise Your Prices LIVE Workshop
AI Pricing Strategist (Free)
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Most entrepreneurs chasing more income are asking the wrong question.
They're focused on how to get more, when the real key to receiving is something almost no one talks about.
In this episode, Jillian flips the script on everything you've been taught about making money. She shares the law of giving and receiving, and why the willingness to give more is what actually opens you up to receive more.
She tells the story of two very different conversations she had on the same day at a conference. One woman gave freely with no pitch. The other walked back a yes and asked for something in return. The contrast reveals everything about how money really flows.
If you're in a launch, selling something, or simply ready to build wealth from abundance instead of scarcity, this is the mindset shift that changes your business and your bank account.
What You'll Hear:
Why the question "How can I receive more?" is the wrong one to start with, and what to ask instead. [00:00:00]
What the law of giving and receiving actually means, and why money needs to stay in motion. [00:01:00]
The two conference conversations that reveal how generosity builds real relationships. [00:02:00]
How giving from abundance versus giving to get changes what you manifest. [00:06:00]
The surprising ways the universe delivers money back when you give openly. [00:09:00]
Why your "money thermostat" determines how much you're actually available to receive. [00:12:00]
Resources:
Money Thermostat Tracker
Quantum Wealth Academy
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You set the goal. You did the energy work. And then... the money didn't show up on your timeline...
Here's what most manifestation teachers won't tell you: the delay isn't proof it's not working. It's often proof that it is.
In this episode, Jillian flips the script on the quantum leap and talks about the part no one glamorizes on Instagram: the messy middle. The waiting. The delayed gratification that actually speeds up your results.
She shares real client stories from her 10K Without Trying Challenge, including the woman who manifested $143,000 one week "late," and unpacks why patience, faith, and surrender are the exact muscles that make you a more powerful manifestor.
If you've been staring at a goal that hasn't landed yet, this is the reframe you need to keep the faith and let it come.
What You'll Hear:
Why is delayed gratification the "flip side" of the quantum leap, and why does no one talk about it? [00:00:45]
How does today's instant-gratification culture quietly sabotage your manifestations? [00:02:30]
What really happened behind the scenes of the 10K Without Trying Challenge? [00:03:30]
How did one client manifest $143K just one week after the challenge ended? [00:07:15]
Why does the universe seem to hand us almost exactly what we ask for, and not a dollar more? [00:09:00]
What can an 80K goal that became 84K teach you about setting "delusional" numbers? [00:13:30]
How did another client land her first six-figure month and her dream client, 21 days later? [00:14:15]
Why is the waiting period actually building your capacity to receive? [00:16:00]
What does it really mean to surrender, and why can't you fake it? [00:18:30]
What's the one reframe to hold when your manifestation feels "late"? [00:21:00]
Resources:
Magic Money Makeover
Quantum Wealth Academy
Connect with Jillian:
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What if the fastest way to hit your biggest goal was to say it out loud — before you have any idea how you'll get there?
Steph Crowder is going for her first million-dollar year. That's nearly triple her best 12 months ever, and she's telling everyone.
In this episode, Steph joins Jillian to share why declaring an impossible goal changes who you become, not just what you earn. She calls it interning for your future self.
They also get into why strategy alone won't scale you, the surprising reason Steph once quit her business at its most successful point, and the pricing question that finally set her free.
What You'll Hear:
What is an impossible goal, and why is Steph shooting for her first $1M in 12 months? [00:03:00]
What does it mean to "intern for your future self"? [00:04:30]
Why did Steph quit her business at its most successful point, and what does that reveal about mindset? [00:07:30]
How did one podcast episode turn Jillian into Steph's newest client? [00:09:30]
What is "launch magic," and why can you never reverse engineer your biggest wins? [00:12:00]
What should you say to yourself when you miss a goal? [00:14:30]
How is Steph teaching her 9-year-old daughter the value of a stretch goal? [00:17:30]
What's the smartest way to price your offer at every stage of business? [00:27:00]
What's really hiding behind the objection "I can't afford it"? [00:31:30]
What does the million-dollar version of you actually feel like day to day? [00:39:00]
What's the biggest money mindset shift Steph has ever made? [00:42:30]
Steph Crowder is a business and sales coach, host of The Courage and Clarity Podcast, and creator of the year-long mastermind Sold Out Group Programs. A former sales training director at Groupon, she nearly got fired from her first sales job before turning things around and building an 11-year coaching career.
Connect with Steph:
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The Courage and Clarity Podcast
15 Minute Planner Method (Free Resource)
Sold Out Group Programs
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"I don't have time" might be the most expensive sentence you say all day.
Because every time you say it, you're handing your power to your calendar — and quietly choosing the timeline where there's never enough.
In this episode, Jillian dismantles time scarcity the same way she dismantles money scarcity: as a story, not a fact.
You'll learn why "I'm too busy" is a frequency you're broadcasting, not a truth you're living — and the simple reframes that shift you from depleted to abundant, starting today.
Your life isn't too busy. It's full. And that changes everything.
What You'll Hear:
Why "I don't have time" is a lie that hands away your power — and what to say instead [00:00:00]
How your thoughts calibrate your frequency, and what that means for everything you're trying to manifest [00:02:30]
What the quantum field reveals about the timeline you're choosing every time you say you're too busy [00:03:30]
How Parkinson's Law is secretly stretching your tasks — and how to use it in your favor [00:05:00]
The one reframe that instantly exposes whether you're actually out of time or just not prioritizing [00:06:30]
How your RAS (reticular activating system) hunts for proof that you're right — so why not make it work for you? [00:09:00]
What it really means to be abundant with time (hint: it's enough, not everything) [00:16:30]
Why buying back your time is one of the smartest ways to spend money [00:18:00]
The heart-on-chest exercise to do right now to find out what's actually a priority [00:22:00]
Resources:
Free EFT Tapping — the money tapping Jillian mentions; swap "money" for "time" to shift from scarcity into abundance
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You know that thing you keep telling yourself about why your success happened? The lucky break, the right timing, the person who helped you?
Jillian's coach called her out on it — mid-session, mid-breakdown, at a conference she never expected to run into her in.
This episode is the real-time story of that conversation, and the belief it cracked open. Because if you've ever quietly given credit for your success to everything except yourself, this one's for you.
What You'll Hear:
What happens when your own coach calls out the story you've been telling yourself about your success? [00:03:00]
Why do even wildly successful entrepreneurs still need a coach — yes, even Simone Biles? [00:04:00]
What does it mean to be "the magic wand," and why had Jillian stopped believing she was hers? [00:05:00]
Why does everything you've created — good, bad, and hard-won — prove you can create what's next? [00:07:00]
Where might you be quietly outsourcing your own power? [00:09:00]
How can you build the daily practice of remembering you're the one creating it all? [00:10:00]
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What's actually stopping you from pitching yourself for the keynote, raising your hand for the workshop, or walking up to the person in the room you most admire?
Spoiler: it's not your skill set.
Jillian is joined by her business bestie Hayleigh of Espresso Podcast Production, recording live from Boise, Idaho after wrapping the Craft & Commerce conference.
This is part two of a two-part collab episode — head to Podcast Cafe (Hayleigh's podcast) to listen to part one first, then come back here.
In this conversation, Jillian and Hayleigh unpack the real reason some people leave a conference with momentum and others go home with nothing but a tote bag. They talk delusional confidence, networking your way, what it means to have your own back, and why the only person standing between you and that stage is you.
What You'll Hear:
Why giving real value — not just selling — is what makes people stay in your world [00:02:00]
What Jillian's most unexpected conference takeaway was and why it changed everything [00:03:00]
The truth about the people on stage — they're not smarter, they just pitched themselves [00:04:00]
Why "fail publicly" might be the best business advice you'll hear all year [00:05:00]
How to stop telling yourself no before anyone else gets the chance [00:06:00]
Why not showing up is doing your potential clients a disservice [00:07:00]
How Jillian and Hayleigh network completely differently — and why both work [00:08:00]
The Kit features that are changing the game for email list growth and content strategy [00:13:00]
Resources:
Sign up for KIT
Connect with Hayleigh:
Listen to Part 1 on Podcast Cafe
Espresso Podcast Production
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You're more likely to get canceled for staying silent than for speaking your values. Let that land for a second.
In a time when companies are quietly rolling back their commitments and entrepreneurs are choosing neutrality to protect their bottom line, Jillian sits down with Simone McNish — Seattle-based certified diversity practitioner and marketing consultant — for a conversation that is equal parts timely, challenging, and deeply necessary.
This isn't a politics episode. This is a money episode. A brand episode. A values episode. Because as Simone says, money has always been political — and the entrepreneurs who are building the most trusted, loyal businesses right now are the ones willing to say something.
If you've been wondering whether it's safe to speak up, whether your values belong in your marketing, or whether inclusion even matters for your bottom line — this episode will reframe everything.
What You'll Hear:
Why the most trusted businesses right now are the ones who never stopped talking about their values — even when it got quiet. [00:03:30]
How Simone went from marketing consultant to DEI practitioner — and what she noticed about who was getting visibility and who wasn't. [00:05:00]
How to navigate platforms and companies that no longer align with your values without going all-or-nothing. [00:24:30]
What inclusive marketing actually looks like in practice: language, accessibility, imagery, and pricing. [00:28:30]
Why inclusive pricing isn't about undercharging — it's about building a product suite that serves everyone without burning you out. [00:31:00]
What Simone lost — clients, money, opportunities — from speaking up, and why she'd do it again. [00:42:00]
Resources:
We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers
Connect with Simone McNish:
simonemcnish.com
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