Raw & Real with Clare Garner | With Women Who Are Doing The Damn Thing

What if the reason your business isn’t working… is because you’ve spent too long trying to do it someone else’s way?

In this episode of Raw & Real, I sit down with artist, podcaster, writer and somatic coach Clenda Sabrina Lahr for a conversation that felt like looking into a mirror. From crystal businesses and coaching pivots to burnout, nervous system healing and finding our way back to ourselves, this episode is for every entrepreneur who has ever felt lost in the noise of the online world.

We dive into the pressure of constantly chasing success, the obsession with timelines, the belief that everyone else knows better than you, and what happens when you finally stop trying to fit into someone else’s box.

We talk about:

✨ Burnout and losing yourself in online business
✨ Why nervous system regulation changes everything
✨ The difference between resistance, fear and genuine rest
✨ Learning to trust your own inner compass
✨ Letting go of rigid goals and following the pull instead
✨ Why freedom is the real goal (not the milestone)
✨ The pressure entrepreneurs place on themselves to "make it"
✨ How creativity, artistry and authenticity can become your greatest assets
✨ What it really means to do it the fuck your way

This conversation is a reminder that success isn't found in another strategy, another course or another guru.

It's found when you stop abandoning yourself.

If you've been feeling burnt out, disconnected, frustrated or questioning your path, this episode will feel like a deep exhale.

🎧 Listen now and let us know your biggest takeaway.

And if this episode resonates, please take 30 seconds to follow the show, leave a review and share it with someone who needs the reminder that there is no destination... only the journey.

Connect with Clare:
Instagram: @claregarnerofficial

What happens when you're the woman who can do it all...

But secretly, you're exhausted from carrying it all?

In this episode of Raw & Real, I sit down with entrepreneur, real estate leader, podcaster and soon-to-be author Mackenzie Shelton for a powerful conversation about motherhood, burnout, ambition, faith, resilience and the pressure so many women place on themselves to be everything to everyone.

Because let's be honest...

So many high-achieving women are building successful businesses, leading teams, raising families and holding everything together on the outside...

While feeling completely overwhelmed on the inside.

Together we dive into:

✨ Motherhood and entrepreneurship

✨ Burnout in high-achieving women

✨ Why successful women struggle to ask for help

✨ The pressure of trying to "do it all"

✨ Building systems that create more peace and less chaos

✨ Faith, surrender and letting go of control

✨ Resilience, nervous system regulation and emotional wellbeing

✨ Stepmotherhood, parenting and identity

✨ Why hustle culture isn't the answer

✨ Creating a life that feels successful and sustainable

Mackenzie shares her journey from building a thriving real estate business and raising four children to answering a much deeper calling: helping women stop living in survival mode and start creating lives that feel calmer, more aligned and more fulfilling.

We also talk about something I know so many women will resonate with:

The belief that if we just work harder...

If we just try more...

If we just become better...

Then everything will finally feel easier.

Except that's rarely how it works.

Because burnout isn't usually caused by doing too little.

It's often caused by trying to carry far more than we were ever meant to carry alone.

This conversation is a reminder that success doesn't have to come at the expense of your peace.

And that building a beautiful life isn't about doing more.

Sometimes it's about letting go of what was never yours to hold in the first place.

🎧 Listen now and then come and tell me:

What's one thing you're carrying right now that you're ready to put down?

Send me a DM on Instagram @claregarnerofficial — I read every message personally and I'd love to hear your biggest takeaway from this conversation.

What if the thing you've been told is essential for growing your business... is actually the thing keeping you stuck?

In this episode of Raw & Real, I'm joined by ADHD marketing and sales mentor Polly, and we dive into a conversation that completely challenges the narrative most entrepreneurs have been sold about business growth, visibility and social media.

Because here's the truth:

More content doesn't automatically create more clients.

More followers don't automatically create more freedom.

And being constantly online doesn't automatically create a sustainable business.

Together we explore what happens when you stop building your business around algorithms and start building it around alignment, strategy, trust and real human connection.

We talk about:

✨ Why Polly completely stepped away from social media

✨ The hidden addiction many entrepreneurs have to Instagram

✨ Building a business without relying on content creation

✨ ADHD entrepreneurship and creating a business that works for your brain

✨ Freedom-based business models

✨ Why social media isn't the only way to generate leads and sales

✨ The difference between visibility and authority

✨ Marketing strategies beyond Instagram

✨ Building trust in an increasingly sceptical online world

✨ Why so many business owners feel trapped by the very business they've created

We also dive into something that has been a huge theme in my own life recently:

Freedom.

Not freedom as a buzzword.

Not freedom as a marketing slogan.

But real freedom.

The freedom to travel.

The freedom to relocate.

The freedom to spend your time how you choose.

The freedom to build a business that supports your life instead of consuming it.

Because if your business relies on you constantly posting, constantly creating and constantly being online...

Is it really freedom?

This is a conversation about questioning the rules, trusting yourself, creating success on your own terms and remembering that there is never only one way to build a business.

If you've been feeling burnt out by social media, exhausted by content creation, or questioning whether there might be another way, this episode is your permission slip to explore what that could look like.

🎧 Listen now and then come and tell me:

If social media disappeared tomorrow...

How would your business grow?

Send me a DM on Instagram @claregarnerofficial and tell me your answer. I read every message personally and I'd love to hear what this conversation sparks for you.

What if the life you've been told to want... isn't actually the life you want at all?

In this episode of Raw & Real, I sit down with entrepreneur, author and world-schooling mum Amanda Furgiuele for a conversation about freedom, entrepreneurship, motherhood, travel, and creating a life that genuinely feels aligned.

Amanda shares how she sold everything, moved across the world with her son, built businesses that don't rely on her being in one place, and created a lifestyle most people only ever dream about.

But this isn't just a conversation about travel.

It's a conversation about choosing your own path.

About questioning the rules.

About refusing to settle for a life that looks good on paper but feels completely wrong in your soul.

Together we dive into:

✨ Building a location-independent business

✨ Entrepreneurship and freedom-based living

✨ Homeschooling vs world-schooling

✨ Raising children outside traditional systems

✨ Creating a business that supports your lifestyle (not the other way around)

✨ The power of in-person events, retreats and real-life connections

✨ Collaboration vs competition in business

✨ Trusting your intuition when life no longer feels aligned

✨ Why so many entrepreneurs feel trapped after creating success

✨ Redefining what "normal" looks like

We also talk about something that has been deeply present in my own life recently:

The difference between existing and truly living.

Because there comes a point where you realise you're no longer willing to wait.

No longer willing to postpone the life you want.

No longer willing to build a business that keeps you stuck in one place.

This episode is your permission slip to think bigger, dream wider, question everything, and create a life that actually feels like yours.

If you've ever felt the pull towards more freedom, more travel, more adventure, more alignment, or simply a different way of living and working, this conversation is for you.

🎧 Listen now and then come and tell me:

If there were no rules, no expectations and no limitations...

What would your life actually look like?

Send me a DM on Instagram @claregarnerofficial — I read every message personally and I'd love to hear what this episode unlocks for you.

Have you ever walked into a room and instantly felt like you were back in the school playground?

Because same.

In this raw, unfiltered conversation with Bex, we dive into something that affects far more female entrepreneurs than people realise: bullying, rejection, exclusion, sisterhood wounds, and the subconscious stories we carry into adulthood and business.

We explore how childhood experiences shape the way we show up as women, leaders, business owners, partners and friends—and why so many successful women are still carrying the belief that they're "not chosen", "not liked" or somehow not enough.

Together we unpack:

✨ How bullying impacts confidence and visibility in business

✨ The hidden connection between childhood rejection and self-sabotage

✨ Why female friendships can feel so triggering

✨ The "best friend wound" many women don't realise they're carrying

✨ How sisterhood wounds show up in entrepreneurship

✨ Dealing with trolls, criticism and online bullying

✨ Why hurt people hurt people

✨ The healing power of self-awareness and emotional resilience

✨ Learning to stop making other people's behaviour mean something about you

✨ How to protect your peace without closing your heart

This isn't a conversation about becoming fearless.

It's a conversation about becoming free.

Free from the stories.

Free from the patterns.

Free from the wounds that have been quietly running the show for years.

If you've ever felt excluded, rejected, overlooked, bullied, criticised or like you never quite belonged, this episode will hit home.

🎧 Listen now and send me a DM on Instagram @claregarnerofficial with your biggest takeaway. I read every message personally and I'd love to hear what resonated most with you.

This episode is SUCH an important conversation for anyone who has ever built a business that looked successful on paper… but secretly felt completely disconnected from who they really are.

Pujah joined me on the Raw and Real podcast and we went DEEP into entrepreneurship, identity shifts, motherhood, branding, intuition, scaling a business sustainably and the pressure so many women feel to become everything to everyone.

And honestly?

This conversation felt like therapy for ambitious women.

We talked about:

• Building a business as a mother
• Entrepreneurship after motherhood
• Branding, websites and creating a business identity that actually aligns
• Why trying to be “for everyone” kills your magnetism
• The difference between profit and fulfilment
• Burnout, hustle culture and redefining success
• Why some of the most profitable things in your business still need to be released
• Collaboration vs competition in online business
• Creating authority through values, movement and messaging
• Letting go of services that no longer align
• Scaling a business without building a huge team
• Automation, outsourcing and creating freedom in business
• Luxury, intuition and what success actually means now

We also went DEEP into:

• why niching isn’t what most people think it is
• how to stop diluting yourself online
• attracting aligned clients instead of chasing everyone
• why your business should evolve as you evolve
• the reason some offers stop feeling good even when they make money

And this line?

“The woman who walks through the door is never the same woman who leaves.”

Yeah. This episode is FULL of moments like that.

Because here’s the truth:

The businesses that scale sustainably are not built from forcing yourself to fit inside someone else’s version of success.

They’re built from clarity.

Alignment.

Values.

Expression.

And having the courage to fully be seen as yourself.

If you’ve been:

• questioning your business direction
• feeling disconnected from your work
• craving more freedom and fulfilment
• wanting to scale without burnout
• trying to attract more aligned clients
• navigating motherhood and entrepreneurship
• rebuilding your identity
• pivoting in business
• feeling scared to fully show up online

…this episode is going to hit HARD.

And yes… we also spoke about Sedona, raw expression, heartbreak, healing, movement-led businesses and the kind of deep connection that changes you forever 👀

Hit play now and come binge the rest of the Raw and Real podcast after because this conversation will completely shift how you think about success, branding and what it actually means to build a business that feels like YOU.

✨ Connect with me:
Instagram: @claregarnerofficial
Facebook: Clare Garner

✨ Want to build authority, create a movement-led business and stop trying to force your way into someone else’s blueprint?

DM me the word “RAW” on Instagram.

This episode is for the women who know there has to be more than living for the weekend.

Sarah joined me on the Raw and Real podcast to talk about what it really looks like to leave the “safe” life behind, build an online business, move countries and create a freedom-based life that actually feels aligned.

And honestly?

This conversation felt like one giant permission slip.

We talked about:

• Leaving a soul-sucking 9–5
• Building a virtual assistant business online
• Becoming a digital nomad and relocating to Portugal
• Freedom-based entrepreneurship
• Fear vs desire and why both can coexist
• Moving abroad, trusting intuition and following the pull
• Why “what if?” is more dangerous than failure
• Entrepreneurship, loneliness and finding your people
• Building a life that actually feels good instead of one that just looks successful
• Human Design, freedom, alignment and online business
• Why proximity matters when you’re trying to create a different life
• The importance of surrounding yourself with people who expand your reality

We also went DEEP into the identity shifts that happen when you stop living the life everyone expects of you… and start building the one your soul actually wants.

Because here’s the truth:

Most people will not understand your vision before you live it.

And if you keep waiting for permission, certainty or the “perfect time” — you’ll stay exactly where you are.

This episode is your reminder that the desire keeps coming back for a reason.

If you’ve been dreaming about:

• moving abroad
• starting an online business
• becoming a digital nomad
• creating more freedom
• escaping hustle culture
• building a life on your terms
• making money online
• starting over
• trusting yourself more deeply

…this conversation is going to hit hard.

And yes, we also spoke about my own journey with Egypt, worldschooling, entrepreneurship, freedom and the kind of life I’m now choosing to build for myself and my daughters too 👀

Hit play now and come binge the rest of the Raw and Real podcast after because this episode will expand your entire perspective on what’s actually possible for your life.

✨ Connect with me:
Instagram: @claregarnerofficial
Facebook: Clare Garner

✨ Want to build a freedom-based business, launch your podcast or create a life that doesn’t revolve around burnout and social media 24/7?

DM me the word “FREEDOM” on Instagram.

This episode felt like a full-body exhale.

Simona joined me on the Raw and Real podcast to talk about what happens when you stop trying to fit into who the world told you to be… and start reconnecting with the version of you that was always there underneath the fear, rejection and overthinking.

We went DEEP into:

• Rejection wounds and feeling disconnected from your voice
• Somatics, movement healing and nervous system work
• The link between feminine energy and self-expression
• Why so many women are stuck overthinking instead of moving
• Desire, intuition and creating a life that actually feels good
• Building a movement-led business instead of constantly burning everything down
• Podcasting as a strategy for authority, inbound clients and freedom
• Perfectionism, procrastination and why “the right time” doesn’t exist
• Following your intuition before you have proof
• Why your business should support your life — not consume it

And honestly?

This episode became one giant permission slip to stop waiting.

To stop trying to make everything perfect.

To stop overcomplicating the thing your soul already knows it wants.

Because the women who create the biggest impact aren’t the women who overthink for years.

They’re the women who decide.

This is one of those conversations that will have you questioning where you’re still holding yourself back… and what could happen if you finally trusted yourself enough to move.

If you’ve been craving more freedom, more ease, more expression, more alignment and a business that actually reflects who you are now — this episode is going to hit hard.

And yes… we also went deep into why podcasting is becoming one of the most powerful authority-building tools for entrepreneurs who are DONE with relying on social media 24/7.

Hit play now and come binge the rest of the Raw and Real podcast after because this conversation opens doors.

✨ Connect with me:
Instagram: @claregarnerofficial
Facebook: Clare Garner

✨ Want to launch a podcast that actually grows your authority, builds your movement and brings inbound clients into your world?
DM me the word “PODCAST” on Instagram.

This episode felt like one giant confirmation from the universe.

Ashley came onto the Raw and Real podcast after following an intuitive pull… and what unfolded was one of the deepest conversations we’ve had around feminine energy, entrepreneurship, surrender, intuition, spiritual awakening, business strategy and trusting the path before you can fully see it.

We talked about:

• Leaving behind the “normal” life that looked successful but felt deeply unfulfilling
• Spiritual awakenings, energy healing and intuition
• Building a business as a mother whilst navigating identity shifts
• Masculine vs feminine energy in business
• Why hustle culture keeps women disconnected from themselves
• Following downloads without forcing timelines
• Trusting divine timing instead of obsessing over the “how”
• Podcasting, self-expression and building a movement-led business
• The moment I realised my next level of artistry was being birthed through poetry, dance and raw expression
• Why surrender doesn’t mean doing nothing
• How aligned action changes everything

And honestly? This conversation became a real-time example of what happens when two women stop trying to control every outcome and instead trust what’s unfolding in front of them.

If you’ve been feeling stuck…
If you know you’re meant for more…
If you’re craving freedom, expression, creativity, expansion and a business that actually feels aligned…

This episode will hit.

BIG time.

And yes… we also accidentally announced a brand new Raw and Real live event during this conversation too 👀

Hit play now and come and binge the rest of the Raw and Real podcast afterwards because this one opens portals.

✨ Connect with me:
Instagram: @claregarnerofficial
Facebook: Clare Garner

✨ Want to work together, attend a retreat, book a VIP day or join an upcoming live experience?
DM me the word “RAW” on Instagram.

Building a business changes you.

Not just your bank account.

Not just your confidence.

You.

The way you think.

The way you trust yourself.

The way you make decisions.

The way you see what actually matters.

And I think that’s the piece people don’t talk about enough.

In this episode of Raw & Real, I’m joined by therapist, entrepreneur and founder April Thorndyke for one of those conversations that starts in one place… and ends somewhere completely different.

We talk about building purpose-led businesses.

Leaving behind versions of ourselves that no longer fit.

The reality of entrepreneurship.

Mental health.

Human connection.

Growth.

Identity.

And learning to trust yourself enough to stop forcing life into boxes you’ve outgrown.

April shares her journey from personal training into mental health, opening therapy practices across multiple states, building a team and creating something rooted in genuine impact rather than simply growth for growth’s sake.

We also dive into:

✨ Entrepreneur mindset and founder growth
✨ Building purpose-led businesses
✨ Personal branding and becoming known for what you stand for
✨ Human connection in business growth
✨ Mental health and entrepreneurship
✨ Speaking, visibility and building movements
✨ Why business growth often starts with personal growth
✨ Trusting the next step without needing the full plan
✨ Identity shifts as entrepreneurs evolve
✨ Building businesses that align with your actual life rather than consume it

One of my favourite moments from this conversation was talking about movements.

Not what you do.

Not your offer.

Not your service.

What you stand for.

Because people connect to belief.

Identity.

Mission.

And when you build from there…

Everything changes.

If you’re currently building something…

Pivoting.

Expanding.

Starting again.

Questioning things.

Or becoming a completely different version of yourself whilst trying to build a business alongside it…

This one is for you ❤️

🎧 Tune in now.

And if this lands with you, screenshot the episode, tag me @claregarnerofficial and let me know your biggest takeaway 🤍

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