Your business plan can look tidy while your actual week is full of school runs, paid work, energy dips, decision fatigue, and the invisible load. Karen Dennett shares how to build a sustainable microbusiness that fits real life.

Most business growth advice assumes unlimited time, steady energy, and a clean calendar. That is not the reality for many women building a microbusiness around caregiving, paid work, school logistics, financial pressure, and the invisible load.

In this episode, I’m joined by Karen Dennett, educator and award-winning business mentor behind Hello Monday  , to talk about sustainable business growth, decision fatigue, and building a business that fits real life.

You’ll hear:

• Why hustle-based business models often fail women
 • How one focused hour can create clearer business decisions
 • Why clarity makes growth feel less scattered

Click here to download Karen Dennett’s Customer Matching Worksheet & Explainer Video 

* A practical clarity tool to help women get clear on who they’re actually speaking to in their business

* Guides users to match their offers with the right customers and articulate the real value they bring

* Designed to be completed in under an hour and drawn from Hello Monday’s weekly clarity framework

And, if your business still feels tied to pressure, overgiving, or full-capacity output, Rewired to Rich is my 3-month private coaching experience for money patterns, nervous system regulation, and Miracle Coding. Click here to learn more 

The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you’re looking for an all in one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo with the awesome team at JuicyCRM
 

Working less sounds good in theory. Most people either cannot trust it or try it and watch their results slide. Allan Ngo explains what actually has to change first.

Most solo business owners are doing more than they need to. The problem is they cannot tell which parts actually move the needle.

In this episode, Michal speaks with Allan Ngo, founder of Digital Solopreneur, about the minimum viable workday: the concept of identifying the smallest set of daily actions that genuinely drive results, and building your business around those instead of around maximum output.

What you will take away:

• How to identify the 20% of your work that creates most of your revenue
• Why hiring or outsourcing often fails without documented processes and clear direction
• How to use life commitments as an acid test for what to cut from your business
• Why doing less requires more clarity, not more discipline

 This episode is for the solo business owner who is capable and hardworking but whose business still depends on the version of them who can always push.

If you recognise yourself in that last line, Rewired to Rich is my 3-month private coaching experience where we work with the money patterns and nervous system responses that keep your income tied to full-capacity effort. Together, we use Miracle Coding, money pattern work, and nervous system regulation to help your body feel safer making, receiving, and holding more money, so you can build a business that supports your life rather than one that quietly consumes it. 

Click here to learn more 

• Click here to access Allan Ngo’s Revenue Relay GPT 

- Writes customer re-engagement messages that feel like helpful offers, not sales pitches—by honoring past purchases, rewarding loyalty, and timing offers with care

- Helps you turn one-time buyers into repeat customers by offering the right thing at the right time without feeling pushy or salesy

- Guided step-by-step process that creates ready-to-send emails or DMs based on your specific offers, customers, and timing

The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all in one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo with the awesome team at JuicyCRM. 

Your money decisions are not coming from logic. They are coming from a story you did not consciously choose. 

Here is how to see it clearly.

Most money patterns do not start with strategy. They start with a story, one you absorbed before you had language for it.

In this episode, Michal McCracken is joined by Carrie KC West, founder of the Rewritten Collection and author of Money Rewritten. Drawing on her background in story analysis, Carrie helps people identify the hidden narratives shaping their financial lives and consciously choose new ones.

What you will take away:

• How to recognise when you are inside a money story, including the avoidance patterns most people mistake for practical decisions
• How generational and cultural conditioning shapes your current relationship with money
• Why major life events like selling a business, getting married, or changing careers tend to surface the patterns you did not know you were carrying
• How stripping money back to its baseline can help reduce the fear and noise around it
• What it actually looks like to start rewriting a money narrative in a grounded, sustainable way

 This conversation is for the woman who knows her money behaviour does not fully match her intentions, and wants to understand why.

You can buy Carrie’s book here

Amazon Australia 

And Amazon US 

Speaking of money patterns that run beneath the surface, if you are building something meaningful but still feel stress, pressure, or contraction around money, Rewired to Rich is my 3-month private coaching experience where we work with your money patterns at the root. 

Together, we use Miracle Coding, money pattern work, and nervous system regulation to help your body feel safer making, receiving, and holding more money, so you can stop returning to the same income ceiling and create more financial stability without needing to earn through pressure, overwork, or constant stress. 

Click here to learn more 

The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all in one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo with the awesome team at JuicyCRM. 

You have taken all the action and followed all the right advice. Here is why your results are still not matching your effort.

This episode is for the high-achieving woman who keeps taking action but keeps hitting the same income ceiling.

Michal McCracken unpacks why doing more stops working, and why the issue is rarely strategy or discipline. 

When your nervous system has learned to associate more money with more pressure, more over-delivery, or more responsibility, it will pull you back to familiar income regardless of what you add on top.

What you will take away:

• Why action-taking can create more resistance instead of more progress
• How nervous system dysregulation shows up in capable, high-functioning women
• Why money mindset is not about changing your thoughts if your body still feels unsafe
• What Miracle Coding is and how it works at a physiological level to shift income patterns
• Why the behavior that got you here may now be what is keeping you stuck

 If this episode is landing for you, Rewired to Rich is my 3-month private coaching experience combining nervous system regulation, money pattern identification, and Miracle Coding to help your body feel safer making, receiving, and holding more money. 

Click here to learn more 

The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you are looking for an all in one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo with the awesome team at JuicyCRM. 

Health, wealth, and self-worth are deeply connected. Nancy Griffin shares how women can stop delaying themselves, ask better questions, and build a wealth plan that supports health, legacy, and long-term impact.

Health, wealth, and self-worth are often treated as separate conversations. In real life, they are deeply connected, especially for women carrying responsibility, building businesses, and planning for the future.

In this episode, Nancy Griffin joins me to talk about where women lose alignment between self-worth and net worth, why health is your first asset, and how to think about wealth, stewardship, philanthropy, and legacy.

You’ll hear:

• Why women delay health and wealth planning
 • How to choose advisors who explain, not intimidate
 • Why wealth planning is about more than investments
 • How values shape legacy, giving, and family conversations

If money feels pressured or unsafe to hold, Rewired to Rich is my 3-month private coaching experience where we work with money patterns at the root. Click here to learn more 

Email Nancy at  [email protected] to get a copy of the workbook she mentioned during the episode

The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all in one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo with the awesome team at JuicyCRM
 

You know delegation would help. So why does it keep getting pushed to the back of the list? Kristy Yoder, CEO of a 70-person, seven-figure business, explains what is really in the way.

This episode is for the entrepreneur who knows they need to delegate but cannot quite bring themselves to do it, or keeps delegating the wrong things and wondering why nothing changes.

Kristy Yoder started as a freelance VA and now leads a team of more than 70 people. She built Smart VAs to seven figures while keeping time freedom and sustainability at the centre of how she operates. In this conversation, we get into what delegation actually requires, why vision matters more than systems, and how to identify which tasks are genuinely yours to keep.

In this episode:

• Why founders who delay delegation are usually not serious enough about their vision
• How to create a task inventory and delegation quadrant that actually works
• Why staying busy often looks like taking action but keeps you stuck
• What changes when you stop holding tasks your body does not want to do

 Click here to download Kristy’s gift  and get your freedom and life back!

You're a few steps away to getting your freedom and life back. Let's get started by collecting some basic information about you and your business.

If this conversation is bringing up questions about why growth still feels like it costs you, Rewired to Rich is my 3-month private coaching experience where we work with your money patterns at the root. 

Together, we use Miracle Coding, money pattern work, and nervous system regulation to help your body feel safer making, receiving, and holding more, so you can stop returning to the same income ceiling and create more financial stability without needing to earn through pressure, overwork, or constant stress. 

Click here to learn more 

The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you are looking for an all-in-one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo with the awesome team at JuicyCRM. 

Your strategy isn’t broken. Your nervous system may just be protecting you from burnout. In this episode, we unpack why capable entrepreneurs suddenly stall and how nervous system regulation restores clarity, momentum, and sustainable business growth.

There’s a moment in many businesses where strategy suddenly stops working even when the plan is right. 

In this episode, Michal McCracken explores why experienced entrepreneurs can suddenly feel stuck, overwhelmed, or hesitant even when they know exactly what to do. 

When the body perceives growth as pressure, it begins protecting you through distraction, overthinking, procrastination, or exhaustion.

If you have ever delayed a launch, lowered your prices without a clear reason, or questioned your own clarity mid strategy, this conversation will likely resonate.

This episode is for high performing women building businesses who want sustainable growth without burnout.

You will learn:

• Why you can know exactly what to do in your business and still feel stuck
 • The sneaky ways your nervous system stalls you out when pressure gets too high
 • Why adding more strategy often makes burnout worse, not better
 • What actually helps you grow your business without constantly pushing

Michal also shares the deeper work behind Rewired to Rich, where entrepreneurs rebuild their relationship with money, pressure, and growth so their business can expand without constant stress

Click here to learn more about Rewired To Rich 

The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all in one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo with the awesome team at JuicyCRM.

You know exactly what to do. So why does the pattern keep repeating? Hypnotherapist Paul Salter explains what strategy alone cannot fix.

This episode is for the entrepreneur who has done the inner work, read the books, and still finds themselves cycling between pushing hard and shutting down.

Paul Salter is a high-performance hypnotherapist who has spent 16 years working with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and professional athletes. His work focuses on the subconscious identity programs that drive self-sabotage in high-capable people.

In this conversation, we examine:

• Why execution problems are rarely strategic failures
• How nervous system dysregulation shows up as inconsistency and burnout
• The role childhood experiences play in income ceilings and self-worth
• How hypnosis accesses the subconscious patterns that conscious effort cannot reach
• What it actually takes to feel safe holding more success

Listen to Paul’s podcast here 

Follow Paul on Instagram

Check out Paul’s YouTube channel @thepaulsalter 

If this conversation is showing you how deep the pattern runs, Rewired to Rich is my 3-month private coaching experience where we work with your money patterns at the root. 

Using Miracle Coding, money pattern identification and nervous system regulation, we help your body feel safer making, receiving, and holding more money, so you can stop returning to the same income ceiling and build financial stability without needing pressure, overwork, or constant stress to create it. 

The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all-in-one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo with the awesome team at JuicyCRM.

Burnout often shows up in the way we respond, avoid, overthink, or shut down. In this episode, Lori Rogers shares simple practices to reset your energy, calm mental clutter, and build a steadier relationship with work and money.

In this episode of Space and Grace, Michal McCracken speaks with Lori Rogers, co-founder of Positive Activity and VP of Rogers Marketing, about burnout, balance, mindset, and the simple daily practices that help people reset their energy and think more clearly.

This conversation is for business owners, leaders, and women entrepreneurs who feel mentally overloaded, emotionally reactive, or caught in old patterns around stress, money, and responsibility.

You’ll hear about:

• How burnout can show up in communication, avoidance, and non-response. 
• Simple practices for lowering stress and clearing mental clutter. 
• The connection between money stories, scarcity, and emotional safety. 
• Why small daily resets can support better business decisions. 
• How appreciation, stillness, and conscious recall can shift your state. 

If this episode made you notice the patterns you’re still carrying around money, pressure, or overworking, Rewired to Rich is my private coaching program where we work with the nervous system and money patterns underneath those loops 

Click here to download Lori Rogers’ Free Guides

- Positive Activity Playbook

- Greeting & Active Listening Guide

- Ask -- Believe -- Welcome Tool

- FREE 3-Minute Reset

The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all in one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo with the awesome team at JuicyCRM.

What if the biggest barrier to financial freedom isn't your spending habits, but a banking system that doesn't understand how you actually work? Tamara Laine built an AI platform to solve this exact problem for gig workers and underserved communities.

For the ambitious woman who's building something meaningful but struggling with the financial realities of entrepreneurship.

Traditional banking wasn't built for today's economy. If you're a gig worker, small business owner, or part of Gen Z, accessing capital feels impossible even when you're earning well.

My guest Tamara Laine went from Emmy-winning investigative journalist to FinTech founder, creating MPWR, an AI platform that helps lenders understand and serve the new economy. She's also building tools that act like a financial coach in your pocket.

What we cover:
• Why traditional credit scoring fails gig workers and small business owners
• How to bootstrap a FinTech startup while maintaining your sanity
• Tamara's non-negotiable morning routine that keeps stress manageable
• The shift from raising capital early to proving market fit first
• Daily money tracking and why looking at your finances matters

Key insight: Your business generates revenue, otherwise it's an expensive hobby. Tamara shares how she manages the psychological pressure of money flowing out while building something that will eventually flow back in.

Perfect for anyone building something bigger than themselves while navigating the financial stress that comes with creating real change.

Click here to connect with Tamara Laine and learn more about MPWR 

If this episode speaks to the part of you that is building something meaningful, but still feels stress, pressure, or contraction around money, Rewired to Rich is my 3-month private coaching experience where we work with your money patterns at the root.

Together, we use Miracle Coding, money pattern work, and nervous system regulation to help your body feel safer making, receiving, and holding more money, so you can stop returning to the same income ceiling and create more financial stability without needing to earn through pressure, overwork, or constant stress.

Click here to learn more about Rewired to Rich
 

The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all-in-one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo with the awesome team at JuicyCRM.