Reclaiming Bossy

What does good strategy actually look like, and why do so many businesses get it wrong?

In this episode, we’re talking about business strategy and why it is often the difference between growth and stagnation. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the idea of strategy, or wondered how founders and companies actually make clear decisions about where they are going, this conversation is for you.

I’m joined by Sam Cooper Gray, the founder and Chief Owl of The Wisdom Studio, a strategy consultancy that helps scaling SMEs and global organisations design practical strategies that actually get implemented. She is also the founder of the national campaign Women Are Good Business, which reframes women not as a diversity initiative but as one of the biggest economic opportunities of our time.She is the Chair of The Gender Index and sits on the board of the Invest in Women Taskforce, where she works to increase funding and opportunities for female founders.

In this conversation we talk about the investment gap facing female founders, why more women starting businesses could transform the economy, and the role strategy plays in building sustainable, profitable companies. We also get practical about cashflow, delegation, attracting female clients, and the mindset shifts that happen when you move from being an employee to running a business.

This episode is for anyone who wants to better understand strategy, build a stronger business, or rethink how women are valued in the economy.

Timestamps

00:01:00 Why is there an investment gap?

00:04:00 What about if you don’t think business is for you?

00:10:00 Being an employee vs being a CEO

00:12:00 Attracting female clients

00:19:00 Strategy and why it matters

00:23:00 Troubleshooting your strategy

00:29:00 Talking about money

00:35:00 Cashflow

00:38:00 The skillset of a female founder

00:41:00 Delegating

00:47:00 A Beginner’s Guide to Being a Grown Up

Connect with Sam

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samcoopergray/

The Wisdom Studio: https://www.thewisdomstudio.co.uk

Women Are Good Business: https://www.womenaregoodbusiness.com

Podcast: A Beginner’s Guide to Being a Grown Up – https://www.youtube.com/@ABeginnersGuidetoBeingaGrownUp

The Gender Index: https://www.thegenderindex.co.uk

BUILD YOUR BOLDEST + BOSSIEST LIFE/ CAREER

Bossy Behind the Scenes: Essays, reflections, resources and all the behind-the-scenes of building a bold, bossy life.

⁠https://substack.com/@bossybehindthescenes⁠

WORK WITH ME

Creator/Founder Office Hours: Bring me your ideas, questions or whatever you’re stuck on, and we’ll turn it into a plan.

⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/mentoring?back=1⁠

Founders + brands: Work with me on storytelling, personal branding, content and strategy through Empower Sounds Media.

Book a Strategy Session : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/branding-strategy-session?back=1&month=2026-07⁠

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If you are an Olympic over-thinker, this episode is for you. Give me 19 minutes and I will help you overthink less.

These are 10 antidotes that have helped me as someone whose brain can spiral, analyse, catastrophise, and create five parallel universes before breakfast. In this episode, I share the exact exercises I come back to when I am spiralling, procrastinating, doubting myself, replaying conversations, or creating worst-case scenarios that have not even happened.

In this episode, I talk about: 

1. The worst case vs best case scenario exercise (and why setting a literal timer changes everything)
2. The limiting belief reframe that exposes the story under the spiral
3. Why your environment is a cue for your thoughts and how to interrupt the pattern
4. Somatic regulation tools like EFT tapping, breathwork and movement
5. Why doing the one thing you are procrastinating on calms your nervous system instantly
6. voice-noting or journalling before sharing with others (yes, I have a 57 minute voice note on my phone)
7. Why getting out of your head and into your body is non-negotiable
8. How to build a “portfolio of proof” when imposter syndrome hits
9. Why almost no decision is irreversible
10. The 51 percent rule for making aligned decisions without perfect certainty

Timestamps:

00:02:00 - 1: entertain your overthinking

00:03:00 - radical optimism 

00:05:00 - 2: reframing limiting beliefs 

00:06:00 - 3: write things down

00:07:00 - 4: the 51% rule

00:07:30 - 5: no decision is irreversible 

00:08:30 - 6: collect data on yourself 

00:09:20 - 7: don’t rush

00:10:40 - 8: leave your environment

00:12:10 - 9:  anxiety is physiological 

00:13:30 - 10: create a procrastination list

00:18:30 - 11: acting is not completing

Breathwork episode mentioned : https://youtu.be/RHavhtLMC7c?si=RQwvrxKNprYSKFrv

If this helped you even a little bit, send it to a friend who lives in her head too.

BUILD YOUR BOLDEST + BOSSIEST LIFE/ CAREER

Bossy Behind the Scenes: Essays, reflections, resources and all the behind-the-scenes of building a bold, bossy life.

⁠https://substack.com/@bossybehindthescenes⁠

WORK WITH ME

Creator/Founder Office Hours: Bring me your ideas, questions or whatever you’re stuck on, and we’ll turn it into a plan.

⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/mentoring?back=1⁠

Founders + brands: Work with me on storytelling, personal branding, content and strategy through Empower Sounds Media.

Book a Strategy Session : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/branding-strategy-session?back=1&month=2026-07⁠

Book a discovery call : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/discovery-call?back=1⁠

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My Instagram: @maahika.s

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Collaborations + enquiries: [email protected]

On this week’s episode of Reclaiming Bossy, we’re joined by sex and relationship therapist Chantal to answer the questions our community is sent in by our listeners. The awkward ones. The quiet ones. The ones you might not say out loud.

We talk about sex, shame, confidence, solo pleasure, porn, hookup culture, desire changes, communication, condoms, consent and everything in between. This is honest, grounded and judgement free. If you’ve ever felt confused, behind, insecure or just curious about your sex life, this episode is for you.

WHAT WE COVER

• What sex and sexology actually mean

• Solo sex and self connection

• Shame around desire

• Body confidence and performance anxiety

• Orgasm and desire difficulties

• Porn and media expectations

• Dating in your twenties

• Communication and consent

• Condoms, contraception and sexual safety

• Rapid fire most Googled sex questions

TIMESTAMPS

00:01:00 - what is sexology?

00:02:00 - how did you get into it?

00:05:00 - what do you wish everyone knew?

00:06:00 - solo sex

00:09:00 - reclaiming our pleasure

00:12:00 - the backpack

00:13:00 - the secrecy 

00:18:30 - the wheel of consent 

00:22:00 - what is chemistry?

00:27:00 - comparison and social media

00:31:00 - myth busting

00:36:00 - gadgets 

00:47:00 - condoms

00:50:00 - stealthing

00:56:00 - rapid fire questions

CHANTAL’S LINKS

Things mentioned:

https://thepelvicpeople.com/collections/all-products/products/ohnut-depth-limiting-rings

https://calexotics.com/inspire-silicone-dilator-kit-5-piece-set/

https://uberlube.com/collections/our-products

https://www.wheelofconsent.org/about

Chantal’s Website: https://chantalgautiertherapy.com 

BUILD YOUR BOLDEST + BOSSIEST LIFE/ CAREER

Bossy Behind the Scenes: Essays, reflections, resources and all the behind-the-scenes of building a bold, bossy life.

⁠https://substack.com/@bossybehindthescenes⁠

WORK WITH ME

Creator/Founder Office Hours: Bring me your ideas, questions or whatever you’re stuck on, and we’ll turn it into a plan.

⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/mentoring?back=1⁠

Founders + brands: Work with me on storytelling, personal branding, content and strategy through Empower Sounds Media.

Book a Strategy Session : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/branding-strategy-session?back=1&month=2026-07⁠

Book a discovery call : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/discovery-call?back=1⁠

Join the next personal branding sprint : ⁠https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNPFNgdt02CyvYsb6n9i8kmvEJRxQDmTwOVusTxII_tMoJ7Q/viewform?usp=header⁠

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Podcast Instagram: @reclaimingbossy

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My Instagram: @maahika.s

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Collaborations + enquiries: [email protected]

What if I told you that you can actually have it all at once, just not in the way we have been taught to think about work life balance?

If you constantly feel behind, overwhelmed, or like you are failing at having it all, this episode is for you. In 2026, in our hyper connected world, the traditional idea of work life balance feels like a constant tug of war. We have been sold this image of perfect equilibrium. But life does not work like that.

In this episode, I unpack why chasing work life balance might actually be the thing keeping you stuck and burned out. I talk about a different way of thinking about time, energy, and focus that feels far more sustainable. Instead of trying to balance everything at once, we talk about flow. About seasons. About designing your life around your actual energy rather than an unrealistic standard.

Inside this episode, I talk about 

•  Why work life balance is outdated
• How to do a life audit and see what is actually draining you
• Why life works in seasons and how to stop fighting that
• How to do an energy audit using the theatre theory for relationships
• How to spot a calendar mismatch that is quietly exhausting you

Timestamps 

00:01:20 - do a life audit 

00:02:30 - life works in seasons

00:08:30 - do an energy audit and the theatre theory

00:11:40 - calendar mismatch

I hope this resonates and that you are kinder to yourself after this. If you have any questions or stories you want to share, reach out to me on socials :)

BUILD YOUR BOLDEST + BOSSIEST LIFE/ CAREER

Bossy Behind the Scenes: Essays, reflections, resources and all the behind-the-scenes of building a bold, bossy life.

⁠https://substack.com/@bossybehindthescenes⁠

WORK WITH ME

Creator/Founder Office Hours: Bring me your ideas, questions or whatever you’re stuck on, and we’ll turn it into a plan.

⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/mentoring?back=1⁠

Founders + brands: Work with me on storytelling, personal branding, content and strategy through Empower Sounds Media.

Book a Strategy Session : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/branding-strategy-session?back=1&month=2026-07⁠

Book a discovery call : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/discovery-call?back=1⁠

Join the next personal branding sprint : ⁠https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNPFNgdt02CyvYsb6n9i8kmvEJRxQDmTwOVusTxII_tMoJ7Q/viewform?usp=header⁠

Follow The Podcast/ Connect With Me

Podcast Instagram: @reclaimingbossy

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My Instagram: @maahika.s

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Collaborations + enquiries: [email protected]

This episode is a bossy girl’s guide to overwhelm…

I get overwhelmed really easily as a neurodivergent founder juggling a business, a podcast, admin, friendships, life and about a million open tabs in my brain.

This episode is for anyone who gets overwhelmed easily, is juggling a lot, feels mentally overloaded, struggles with perfectionism, or just wants some simple ways to feel better without fixing their whole life.

Links mentioned:

AI Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-V2Bz67k50London

Coffee shop Recs : https://www.empowersoundsmedia.com/product-page/the-cafe-nomad-database

Timestamps For This Episode

00:01:30 - 1: prioritise

00:04:00 - 2: admin hour

00:05:00 - AI to help with overwhelm

00:07:00 - 3: energy accounting

00:08:00 - 4: make a second brain

00:11:15 - 5: regulate your nervous system

00:15:44 - 6: morning pages

00:17:00 - 7: reframing exercise

00:21:00 - 8: body doubling

I hope these help, comment down your favourite ones below and let me know what your antidotes to overwhelm are. If you have any questions or stories you want to share, reach out to me on socials :)

BUILD YOUR BOLDEST + BOSSIEST LIFE/ CAREER

Bossy Behind the Scenes: Essays, reflections, resources and all the behind-the-scenes of building a bold, bossy life.

⁠https://substack.com/@bossybehindthescenes⁠

WORK WITH ME

Creator/Founder Office Hours: Bring me your ideas, questions or whatever you’re stuck on, and we’ll turn it into a plan.

⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/mentoring?back=1⁠

Founders + brands: Work with me on storytelling, personal branding, content and strategy through Empower Sounds Media.

Book a Strategy Session : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/branding-strategy-session?back=1&month=2026-07⁠

Book a discovery call : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/discovery-call?back=1⁠

Join the next personal branding sprint : ⁠https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNPFNgdt02CyvYsb6n9i8kmvEJRxQDmTwOVusTxII_tMoJ7Q/viewform?usp=header⁠

Follow The Podcast/ Connect With Me

Podcast Instagram: @reclaimingbossy

Podcast TikTok: @reclaimingbossy

My Instagram: @maahika.s

My TikTok: @maahika.s

Collaborations + enquiries: [email protected]

What if success didn’t mean burnout?

In this episode, we’re talking about building a business that works for you, not against you. If you’ve ever felt resistance to hustle culture, rigid 9–5 structures, or the idea that growth has to come at the expense of your wellbeing, this conversation is for you.

Sam shares her journey of creating a home-based domestic cleaning business designed around flexibility, and how that business later evolved into a franchising model that allows other women to build sustainable, values-led businesses in their own way.

We talk honestly about courage, limiting beliefs, emotional regulation as a founder, self-validation, and what it really looks like to design work around your life (especially as a mum), rather than forcing your life to fit your work.

This episode is especially for anyone who wants to create a business that feels aligned, calm, and supportive without buying into hustle culture.

Timestamps

00:01:00 – The backstory: how the business began and why flexibility mattered from day one

00:06:00 – How did you find the courage to do it your own way?

00:12:30 – Limiting beliefs that show up as you grow

00:15:00 – How to regulate your emotions and stay sane as a founder

00:19:30 – Learning to self-validate instead of seeking external approval

00:28:00 – Being a founder mum

00:31:00 – Work-life balance (what it actually looks like)

00:37:00 – Franchising: a different way to grow

00:53:00 – What I wish I knew before getting into franchising

Connect with Sam

Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-acton/

Domestic Angels: https://domestic-angels.com

BUILD YOUR BOLDEST + BOSSIEST LIFE/ CAREER

Bossy Behind the Scenes: Essays, reflections, resources and all the behind-the-scenes of building a bold, bossy life.

⁠https://substack.com/@bossybehindthescenes⁠

WORK WITH ME

Creator/Founder Office Hours: Bring me your ideas, questions or whatever you’re stuck on, and we’ll turn it into a plan.

⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/mentoring?back=1⁠

Founders + brands: Work with me on storytelling, personal branding, content and strategy through Empower Sounds Media.

Book a Strategy Session : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/branding-strategy-session?back=1&month=2026-07⁠

Book a discovery call : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/discovery-call?back=1⁠

Join the next personal branding sprint : ⁠https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNPFNgdt02CyvYsb6n9i8kmvEJRxQDmTwOVusTxII_tMoJ7Q/viewform?usp=header⁠

Follow The Podcast/ Connect With Me

Podcast Instagram: @reclaimingbossy

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My Instagram: @maahika.s

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Collaborations + enquiries: [email protected]

This episode is for anyone going through a breakup who feels like they don’t have a big sister to sit them down and tell them it’s going to be okay.

I don’t have a sister myself, but I’m incredibly lucky to have the most supportive friends and community of bossy gals around me. A lot of the things I share in this episode are things I learned through those conversations, through experience, and through sitting with the discomfort instead of running from it. I wanted to share this episode for anyone else who is going  through heartbreak feeling overwhelmed, ashamed, or alone.

In this solo episode of Reclaiming Bossy, I’m sharing my first-ever breakup,  Before I talk about how I’m working through the breakup now, I walk through the things that really helped me go into the difficult conversation with more regulation, clarity, and compassion. This isn’t about blame or revenge bodies or  glow-ups, or “bouncing back.” But on how to trust that everything will work out.

If you’re heartbroken, trying to hold it together, or quietly grieving the future you imagined, this episode is for you. You don’t have to do this alone. You can do it with me.

If you have a friend going through it right now send this episode to them as a digital hug.

Timestamps:

00:01:30 - shame

00:02:30 - how to get into it

00:03:00 -  emotionally regulate yourself

00:05:00 - boundaries

00:06:30 - it’s okay to feel grief

09:30:00 - gratitude is important

00:10:30 - you can’t fail if don’t try

00:14:00 - forgive yourself

00:16:30 - let yourself lean on your friends

00:20:00 - be a better friend and person yourself

00:23:00 - there’s no point winning a break up

00:28:00 - harvest season is coming

If you have any questions or stories you want to share reach out to me on socials :)

BUILD YOUR BOLDEST + BOSSIEST LIFE/ CAREER

Bossy Behind the Scenes: Essays, reflections, resources and all the behind-the-scenes of building a bold, bossy life.

⁠https://substack.com/@bossybehindthescenes⁠

WORK WITH ME

Creator/Founder Office Hours: Bring me your ideas, questions or whatever you’re stuck on, and we’ll turn it into a plan.

⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/mentoring?back=1⁠

Founders + brands: Work with me on storytelling, personal branding, content and strategy through Empower Sounds Media.

Book a Strategy Session : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/branding-strategy-session?back=1&month=2026-07⁠

Book a discovery call : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/discovery-call?back=1⁠

Join the next personal branding sprint : ⁠https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNPFNgdt02CyvYsb6n9i8kmvEJRxQDmTwOVusTxII_tMoJ7Q/viewform?usp=header⁠

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In this episode we are joined by Hanan Tantush, award winning founder of Intotum, an adaptive fashion brand dedicated to creating clothing that works with disability. Hanan started Intotum after seeing her grandfather struggle to find clothes that worked around his disability and stoma bag. What began as a personal insight turned into a pioneering inclusive fashion business recognised on Drapers 30 Under 30, featured at London Fashion Week, and awarded major startup prizes.This conversation is for founders, creatives, designers, and anyone with an idea but no blueprint. Hanan shares exactly how she built something that did not exist, including how she approached market validation, pitching, and building with grant fundingYou’ll learn how to:• identify and validate a problem that others haven’t solved• frame and pitch your idea to win grant funding at multiple stages• fund your business through competitions and grants • design with and for the community you serve• overcome self doubt and build credibility without a pre existing marketThis episode combines strategic insight and lived experience to help you think differently about creating and funding your first product or startup.

Time stamps:

00:01:00 - what’s adaptive clothing

00:05:00 - learn by talking to people

00:06:30 - the jump from designer to founder

00:10:30 - how to tackle the founder blues

00:12:30 - the arrival falacy 

00:19:30 - pitching

00:27:00 - criticism 

00:30:00 - fashion week

00:37:00 - finances

00:41:00 - refining your delusion

BUILD YOUR BOLDEST + BOSSIEST LIFE/ CAREER

Bossy Behind the Scenes: Essays, reflections, resources and all the behind-the-scenes of building a bold, bossy life.

⁠https://substack.com/@bossybehindthescenes⁠

WORK WITH ME

Creator/Founder Office Hours: Bring me your ideas, questions or whatever you’re stuck on, and we’ll turn it into a plan.

⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/mentoring?back=1⁠

Founders + brands: Work with me on storytelling, personal branding, content and strategy through Empower Sounds Media.

Book a Strategy Session : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/branding-strategy-session?back=1&month=2026-07⁠

Book a discovery call : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/discovery-call?back=1⁠

Join the next personal branding sprint : ⁠https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNPFNgdt02CyvYsb6n9i8kmvEJRxQDmTwOVusTxII_tMoJ7Q/viewform?usp=header⁠

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Podcast Instagram: @reclaimingbossy

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My Instagram: @maahika.s

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Collaborations + enquiries: [email protected]

If you add one thing to your 2026 reset, let it be breathwork.

In this powerful and grounding episode, I’m joined by Lucy a breathwork and mindset coach who works with executives, leaders, and global companies to help them regulate their nervous systems, shift deeply ingrained patterns, and lead from a more embodied place.

Lucy specialises in conscious connected breathwork, but in this conversation we go far beyond just one technique. We explore how different styles of breathing impact the mind, body, and nervous system, how breathwork connects to different centres in the body, and why real, lasting change isn’t just something you think your way into, it’s something you embody.

This is a conversation about why breathwork is having such a moment, how breath can shift your mindset faster than thought alone, the link between breath, emotional regulation, and leadership, and why embodiment is missing from so many “mindset” conversations.

This episode was something I personally needed as I build my 2026 reset, and breathwork is now a non negotiable practice I’m bringing into my year.

If you’ve been doing the mindset work but still feel stuck, dysregulated, or disconnected from your body, this episode will change how you think about change itself.

Connect with Lucy

Instagram: @lucyscarlettcoaches

https://beacons.ai/lucyscarlettcoaches

BUILD YOUR BOLDEST + BOSSIEST LIFE/ CAREER

Bossy Behind the Scenes: Essays, reflections, resources and all the behind-the-scenes of building a bold, bossy life.

⁠https://substack.com/@bossybehindthescenes⁠

WORK WITH ME

Creator/Founder Office Hours: Bring me your ideas, questions or whatever you’re stuck on, and we’ll turn it into a plan.

⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/mentoring?back=1⁠

Founders + brands: Work with me on storytelling, personal branding, content and strategy through Empower Sounds Media.

Book a Strategy Session : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/branding-strategy-session?back=1&month=2026-07⁠

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Collaborations + enquiries: [email protected]

Inspired by Spotify wrapped, this is my 2025 wrapped. Instead of stats or numbers, I’m sharing the 12 biggest lessons I learned this year, one from each month.

2025 was a full year. I launched my company, grew and evolved this podcast, brought it into video, built a team, graduated university top of my class, ran a half marathon, travelled across different countries, and got into my first relationship. A lot changed, quickly. But more than the milestones, this year taught me things I couldn’t have learned any other way. About starting before you feel ready. About choosing yourself. About rejection, self talk, receiving, failure, and taking space when you need it.

I wanted to share these lessons not as advice, but as reflections I wish I’d heard earlier and that I think might be useful wherever you are right now. Whether you’re building something, navigating change, or figuring yourself out as you go, I hope this episode gives you clarity, perspective, or simply the reminder that you’re not behind.

If this episode resonated, I’d love to know, What was one lesson 2025 taught you? Comment below and let me know :) 

Lastly a massive thank you for being part of my 2025, I cant wait for 2026, let me know what else you want to see/hear on the pod! 

Timestamps

00:03:19 January You have to get going and then you get good

00:04:30 February There’s a difference between I love you and I choose you

00:08:49 March You get to choose who you are

00:14:10 April There’s no one grading your work

00:16:49 May Rejection is redirection

00:23:12 June For life to surprise you, you have to make space

00:27:02 July Personas Vitiminas

00:28:25 August Learn how to receive

00:31:13 September Leave your environment and reflect

00:31:20 Dean’s List episode mentioned

00:36:00 October The way you talk to yourself is so important

00:39:00 November Depersonalising failure

00:42:00 December Congratulate yourself

BUILD YOUR BOLDEST + BOSSIEST LIFE/ CAREER

Bossy Behind the Scenes: Essays, reflections, resources and all the behind-the-scenes of building a bold, bossy life.

⁠https://substack.com/@bossybehindthescenes⁠

WORK WITH ME

Creator/Founder Office Hours: Bring me your ideas, questions or whatever you’re stuck on, and we’ll turn it into a plan.

⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/mentoring?back=1⁠

Founders + brands: Work with me on storytelling, personal branding, content and strategy through Empower Sounds Media.

Book a Strategy Session : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/branding-strategy-session?back=1&month=2026-07⁠

Book a discovery call : ⁠https://calendly.com/maahika/discovery-call?back=1⁠

Join the next personal branding sprint : ⁠https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNPFNgdt02CyvYsb6n9i8kmvEJRxQDmTwOVusTxII_tMoJ7Q/viewform?usp=header⁠

BUILD YOUR BOLDEST + BOSSIEST LIFE/ CAREER

Bossy Behind the Scenes: Essays, reflections, resources and all the behind-the-scenes of building a bold, bossy life.

⁠https://substack.com/@bossybehindthescenes⁠

WORK WITH ME

Creator/Founder Office Hours: Bring me your ideas, questions or whatever you’re stuck on, and we’ll turn it into a plan.

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