The Amanda Bucci Show (Formerly Bucci Radio)

Everything is made of energy--as human beings, we have anatomical, biological, physiological, chemical, neuronal, and more matter-based systems we study in Western Science. In the quantum realm, science has proven we actually made of 99.9999% "empty space," (due to the structure of an atom), or: energy.

Today's guest is Dr. Sheila Marie Campbell. She is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine with a focus in Herbology and Sacred Sexuality) and owns her own company called Nuchi. She's here to jam with us on all things Eastern Medicine and healing, and to teach us all about Energetics (which we will break down for you).

In this episode, we cover the science of Energetics and attraction, lineage and how experiences from generations get passed down to us, Chinese Medicine, paying attention to our bodies and becoming aware of our own energy dynamics, honoring cycles of emotions, feeling your boundaries and edges, power struggles and dynamics, taking responsibility for our own energy, transferring energy, imbalances in the body, and having a mindfulness practice with elements.

Find Dr. Sheila Marie Campbell on Instagram @drsheilamariecampbell and find her Sacred Sexuality course at https://www.nuchi.us/course/sacred-sexuality

MOMENTS

• [4:20] Dr. Campbell gives us context about her gifts, and cliff notes on how she got to be a master in her field
• [11:56] How Sheila went to Mystery School and started meditating
• [16:24] Sheila breaks down what energy and energetics is
• [27:56] Amanda asks Sheila to describe lineage and how things get passed down to us.
• [35:24] Sheila discusses power dynamics and how our power can be gained or taken from us
• [39:24] How to be discerning with your energy and not compare your energy to others
• [42:40] How can we be the most powerful with our energy?
• [49:25] Sheila explains the 5 elements of energy
• [54:53] Amanda asks Sheila to break down the energies of the 4 Entrepreneurial Archetypes

n today's episode, we're diving into how to bridge the race gap in the online coaching space! Our guest--Topsie Vandenbosch--is a mindset coach for female entrepreneurs, a clinical mental health therapist who has focused on ambitious women that struggle with anxiety and depression, and the "truth teller" as she's known by her audience. Topsie has an extremely powerful voice and speaks on mindset shifts we can use to be an anti-racist and bridge the race gap in the coaching industry.

In this episode, we discuss how the experience of Black coaches and entrepreneurs differs from that of white coaches, how to create equal opportunity for Black coaches in the space, and the roll spiritual bypassing plays in keeping white supremacy alive. We also dive into how white brands and influencers can come across as privileged and unrelatable to audience members who may not look like them, the harmful effects of avoiding negativity and uncomfortable conversations or emotions, validation and creating safety, standing on the side of what's right and holding your integrity, and mindset shifts we can all practice moving forward to bridge this gap.

#BlackLivesMatter

Connect with Topsie at: https://www.instagram.com/topsievandenbosch/?hl=en

Work With Topsie: www.topsievandenbosch.com/apply

• [5:41] Topsie discusses not seeing black coaches on podcasts and the conversation, talking to people in your bubble
• [8:30] Topsie and Amanda discuss how brands can feel unrelatable
• [13:12] Topsie explains the beauty and benefits of the revolution that is happening now and how White coaches can check their privilege
• [14:47] Being private as an influencer vs. holding space
• [18:05] Amanda discusses her ego death and shutting "perceived negativity" out to stay in a high vibration
• [19:15-]Topsie explains spiritual bypassing and how it plays a roll in racism
• [24:06] Validating emotions to create a safe container and experience
• 2[6:59] Amanda asks Topsie some specific things that may cause someone to feel unsafe in a space or brand
• [30:00] Topsie goes through 6 mindset shifts we can all practice to become an anti-racist ally and bridge the race gap in the coaching industry.
• [41:00] Topsie talks about the trauma that Black people experience every day to simply exist

Today, we're here to talk about two Entrepreneurial Archetypes--The Teacher and The Coach. The Teacher and the Coach can show up both a healthy dynamic and an unhealthy dynamic, and both of these Archetypes can get into the healthier dynamic by using lessons from the other. When you are integrating these two archetypes into your work and practice, you can charge exactly what you want and clients will be ready and willing to pay.

In today's episode, we break down the shadow-side of the Coach and how to call upon the teacher to create balance; and vice versa.

Learning about the shadow sides of these Archetypes, the inner child needs, boundaries the Coach and Teacher can implement, how to better communicate with clients, and create powerful relationship dynamics between you and your clients/audience will make you unstoppable.

To find out your Entrepreneurial Archetype and take our 12 question quiz, visit: www.entrepreneurialarchetype.com

To get Four Sigmatic with our Bucci Radio discount: www.foursigmatic.com/bucci

MOMENTS

• [5:34] Diving into the Teacher Archetype
• [7:07] How we view the Teachers
• [9:54] How the Teacher can come across to others
• [11:54] How you might experience the Teacher as a client
• [15:00] The persona the Teacher likes to create
• [19:24] Diving into the Coach Archetype
• [21:38] When the Coach is unhealthy
• [24:00] The main goal of the Coach/Client relationship
• [25:31] How the client experiences the Coach
• [27:00] Boundaries for the Coach and the Teacher

What does it really mean to give 100%? What does it take to make a big idea happen? How can we commit to taking confident action for our ideas and get out of our own way?

Today we have an incredible guest; Community Builder, Business Mentor, and Author: Lindsey Schwartz. Lindsey is an incredible entrepreneur who helps women launch + scale their big ideas through community and collaboration. Lindsey is the host of the Powerhouse Womens podcast and Powerhouse Women event, and author of her first book, Powerhouse Women.

In today's episode, we discuss how to get into action around your big ideas, getting out of your own way, the truth of the entrepreneurial journey, what it means to take 100% full ownership of what you are put here to do, creating confidence around your ideas, quitting vs. doing the uncomfortable thing, listening to your highest self, and the role of community and how to build one.

Find Lindsey on Instagram @llindseyschwartz and @powerhouse_women

Moments

• [4:04] Lindsey tells us her background and her brand and mission got to be
• [9:14] How Lindsey felt inspired to make a pivot
• [12:44] Why do you think women feel scared to go full the 100% for themselves?
• [19:40] Amanda asks Lindsay what parts of herself she had to let go of to become who she is now
• [27:24] How does it feel to host an event with people depending on you?
• 35:44] Lindsay gives tips in helping you to become confident in your ideas and your mission
• [40:53] Amanda and Lindsey discuss the role of community and how to build one
• [46:00] What questions can we ask ourselves to make an idea happen?

We all love to discuss Self-Mastery as if it's something we can add to our list of accomplishments. Today's guest reminds us that self-mastery is an art--and the true power is through keeping a student mentality throughout life.

Jessica Benstock is a Soul Advisor to female leaders, and an expert in the Art and Science of Transformation. After spending 10 years in the depths of training under various spiritual teachers and through different modalities, Jess has recently come out into the world as a guide in teaching the way of the Feminine.

Her experience is in the self-mastery space--practicing, learning and facilitating transformational techniques such as somatic healing, human emotional intelligence, subconscious mind, mental health, subtle energies, transformational healings, consciousness, therapy, relationship healing, trauma healing, somatic practices, and meditation.

In today's episode, we cover the power of staying a student, emotional intelligence, authenticity, vulnerability, and being in touch with where you actually are. We discuss what it means to have a spiritual awakening, spirituality as a science vs. woo woo, western culture vs. eastern culture, the rise of the "ambitious woman", the concept of mindset, dropping into your feeling and emotions.

https://www.jessicabenstock.com/yin-advantage-waiting-list

Moments

• [4:40] Amanda and Jess discuss the art of mastery and being a student
• [7:00] Jess explains the third perspective and how to get in touch with it
• [11:11] What is a definition of a spiritual awakening and why ius it important
• [18:23] Approaching with a space of curiosity and wanting to learn
• [22:04] Jess explains the rise of the ambitious woman and masculine vs. feminine energy
• [28:00] Scientific spirituality and natural intelligence (spiritual is woo woo)
• [33:50] How can women get more intouch with their emotions and feminine energy
• [41:00] The concept of mindset
• [47:00- Jess gives us tips on how to drop into a feeling and emotion
• [01:07] Jess gives us information on her masterclass, Yin Advantage

Follow @jessica.benstock on Instagram

Been wondering whether or not to hop on the TikTok bandwagon? Concerned about getting looped into the scroll-hole for an hour or more? Not sure how to use it, or if you can find real customers on there?

Well today--we're diving into to All Things TikTok.Today, we're here to talk about Tik-Tok. Once I got through my own resistance to joining and becoming a TikTok creator, my creativity and observational eye got to work and I'm bringing my best insights on the Power of TikTok to you in this episode!

In today's episode we cover TikTok as a platform, why I decided to get on TikTok , ways to make TikTok work for you, having attachments to platforms you're already used to, resistance to using a new platform, and why using new platforms and having experiential knowledge is important as a content creator.

MOMENTS

• [3:00] Amanda discusses how she was experiencing a drain in energy prior to quarantine
• [4:45] Amanda explains her process of deciding to do tik-tok
• [7:00] A few ways to make tik-tok work for you
• [10:23] Why we have resistance to using a new platform
• [15:40] How the tik-tok algorithm works and how to use it
• [17:46] Amanda talks about why tik-tok could be essential if you're trying to pivot your business
• [21:58] Amanda goes through some benefits of a getting on a new platform
• [25:00] Amanda describes her first viral video and how she did it
• [28:17] Amanda's thoughts on Tik-Tok and she likes it

Our breath is the one tool we always have available to us to connect inward, unhook from the mind, and transform. Breathwork can break down barriers, illusions of separation, judgments, and help us connect to our own being as the pure souls that we are. If you've never experienced the power of breathwork (or are looking to enhance your ability to transform your clients) this episode is for you.

Our guest today is Sam Skelly--a wonderful friend of mine and founder of both Hungry for Happiness and Pause Breathwork. Her work helps people learn how to do the most basic human things: eat, breathe, and feel.

In today's' episode, we discuss what breathwork is, how we can use it in our lives, the benefits and common misconceptions, the difference between personal development and embodiment, why it's important to be certified in order to teach or lead breathwork, and what getting certified for breathwork looks like.

To become a Breathwork Facilitator and Enhance your work with your clients, apply for The Pause Breathwork Facilitator Program at >>> http://www.pausebreathwork.com/bucci (put my name on your application!)

IMPORTANT MOMENTS

• [2:00] Sam discusses what made her realize she needed to create a breathwork company
• [3:37] Amanda and Sam discusses what breathwork is through a story and her background in discovering it
• ]12:18] Sam discusses the 3 pillars of connection and intuition
• [14:13] How breathwork works in our brain and our body
• [17:15] What is personal development and embodiment?
• [19:49] What are some misconceptions people have about breathwork?
• [23:00] How do we get coaches to utilize tools like breathwork? Why is it important to have a certification like this?
• [29:00] What can happen if someone is using breathwork when they shouldn't be and why it's unsafe to anyone to do breathwork without proper training
• [32:00] Sam walks us through her program on how to become a Breathwork Facilitator

Experiencing how you're showing up in this pandemic is giving every single human the opportunity to do what's called ego work. I'm going to first define this concept and introduce it to you, provide examples, and move into how we can heal and use it to our advantage.

However you're showing up is completely okay, but what happens psychologically is this:

The pandemic ensued, and every human on the planet began feeling the uncertainty that's really always there.

Uncertainty is essentially the fear of the unknown, fear of dying, fear of the dark, etc.

The EGO is a function of the mind that identifies as "I." I am this, I feel this, I think this, I believe this.

It tells stories, runs narratives, and assigns meaning to you, the world, and other people based on its experiences so far. It helps us make sense of things. It also gives us a sense of identity. Having a sense of identity makes us feel like a human, with a purpose.

That's why it likes to keep us in the familiar, predictable, and safe patterns. It protects us from painful emotions that might be too overwhelming to feel. Anything that ISN'T familiar is a THREAT to the ego.

MOMENTS IN THIS EPISODE:

• 1:39- Amanda discusses how we are experiencing showing up right now, and what ego work is
• 5:30- How does the ego work and what is its purpose?
• 8:57- Amanda leads us through a meditation
• 13:34- Questioning our belief systems and why it's uncomfortable for us
• 14:50- Uncertainty and why our ego hates it
• 17:00- Amanda talks about an argument between her and her partner related to ego
• 24:00- How uncertainty makes us respond and why how you're responding right now is okay
• 26:43- What is an ego death and how do we respond to it?
• 28:57- Amanda describes some different ego structures
• 33:59- How we are currently mourning the loss and grieving the fact that things have changed so much

The ego work is through self-observation and witnessing.

So with the coronavirus pandemic…

We are all going through a major bout of uncertainty, which the ego absolutely HATES.

It's identity is being threatened. It's sense of self. Believes about itself, other people, and the world.

A few examples:

• story about privilege, spirituality, and sense of self were being threatened
• needing to be right about how he reacted when it came to Cooper.

And how you are responding to the virus right now is how you likely respond to all ego-related things, except AMPLIFIED—because survival and safety is involved, quite literally—financial or health wise.

Are you getting angry?

Are you feeling anxious?

Are you avoiding feeling?

Are you coping, numbing out?

I want to tell you: however you're responding right now, is absolutely okay. If you don't enjoy how you're responding and feel as though you need help, reach out to me and I can point you in the right direction—mental health, wellness, or otherwise—I'm here.

And if you're responding by having a few extra drinks, eating a bit more food, sleeping more, etc. — I just want you to know that you make sense.

The ego is feeling deeply uncertain, and deeply needing to cling on any sense of certainty and feel good it can.

It resists being shattered into pieces.

If you look at people who are discussing conspiracy theories—I'm not falling on one side or the other in this episode, but you see the anger people have on both ends. To me, i'm observing a few different places in the grief stages.

Denial. —> even if none of it's true, it's triggering because it's threatening.

An ego death is what occurs when you let go of a part of yourself that believed it was the way it was.

I'm personally experiencing many mini-ego deaths.

Small examples:

• I believed I would never run. Now I run.
• I didn't think I'd ever get myself to cook because I was so stuck in the habit. Now I do.
• I didn't think I'd ever get angry, because my coping mechanism has been shut down. Now, I'm letting myself feel anger when it arises. God, my ego HATED that one. It was so painful. It still makes me want to vomit. But psychologically, anger is a step up from shut down. Shut down is an emotional turn off where you numb out.

Things we automatically trusted were okay, are now not:

• grocery store
• potentially the government
• our goals and plans we thought would make us happy
• the things we felt safe doing and moving toward

What's HAPPENING is that there is SO MUCH uncertainty, which leads to so much chaos, and therefore…destruction

Destruction is not bad. It's just the ego that doesn't like it. It fucking HURTS. If you've ever had what you could only describe as a death of part of yourself…you know. It feels messy and gross. But what comes out is a rebirthed version of the self, and the collective.

And rebirth can be beautiful.

Examples of how things are changing and what they never thought could change without necessity:

• universities going online and serving more people
• studios and classes hosting things online
• hand shaking? how does that change the conversation around intimacy with strangers?
• the environment? how does it change?
• home? how do you relate to your home?

For me, here's what I'm changing:

• One thing this is truly forcing me to do is get clear on what beliefs are mine and what aren't.
• My partner is huge into social justice and politics. He reads a lot.
• I've let him be my filter for the last few years.
• And, I personally can allow that to take over my thought process and belief systems.
• Turns out, that's a part of my EGO STRUCTURE.
• As an enneagram 9 (there's an AMAZING book—roaming free inside the cage…..) my ego structure makes peace, avoids conflict, and when unhealthy—allows for others opinions to turn into their own.
• Chameloning is easy for me. I've let that happen most of my life. Emo friend in middle school, I became emo. etc.
• Living with a highly opinionated and well studied person is forcing me to check in with my own beliefs and see if I agree, or I'm just agreeing because it's him.

Reminders of this episode:

• It's okay if you're coping a bit with things that feel comfortable. that's naturally what might need to happen. Eating a little extra, whatever—the ego is so resistant.
• How you do one thing is how you do everything.
• You may be in the beginning stages of grief of a loss of sense of self, others, and the world.

If you are struggling to handle what's happening right now, please reach out to me on Instagram @amandabucci

Amanda Bucci and Angie Lee…back together again! Angie is one of my best friends and an epic marketer, podcast host, and event host who has grown a massive brand by being silly and mastering the art of organic marketing. Join us as a fly on the wall, overhearing a catch-up convo between two friends who happen to have some epic marketing and business advice. Sometimes people are not willing to try something because of the fear of looking stupid, or failing. What would happen if you just jumped in and tried it all? There are no overnight successes.

Today's guest is an expert at jumping in headfirst and making her own way. If you don't know Angie Lee, she's one of my good friends and podcaster, speaker, author, and marketing ninja, and creator of Pays to Be Brave.

In today's episode, we discuss trying all the things, how the internet has created opportunities for us, taking a stance, seasons in business and perfecting a craft, growing an audience vs. growing a business, our journeys to where we are today, and our core motivators.

MOMENTS:

• [4:18] Angie and Amanda discuss trying all the new things and jumping in headfirst, and what the internet has done to create opportunities for us.
• [10:00] A & A discuss pivoting and taking a stance on something.
• [15:30] Amanda and Angie discuss different archetypes, and Angie gives advice on how to run multiple businesses.
• [17:43] Discussing seasons in business and spending your time perfecting something.
• [22:00] Growing an audience vs. growing a business
• [26:30] Amanda asks Angie the core motivator for PTBB
• [30:00] Amanda discusses her start with fitness and Youtube
• [38:12] Amanda explains her Archetype Quiz and the four different Entrepreneurial Archetype
• [48:00] Creating content that's not about you, but about your audience.
• [54:15] Amanda and Angie discuss finding a niche and the art of a personal brand.
• [57:17] Amanda asks Angie how to bridge the marketing gap between yourself and your clients

QUOTES:

"Nothing is cooler than just owning what you want to do and who you are. I'd rather have fewer people who get it than love it, than a ton of people who don't really understand it."

What would happen if you could manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams? What belief systems are you holding onto that are creating misalignment in your life? How much are you trying to control outcomes versus trusting in the universe?

I am so stoked to bring you today's guest, Gabby Bernstein. Gaby is a best-selling author and has been a spiritual teacher since she was a teenager. She's a true example of living through spiritual design and following what has brought her the most joy along the way.

On today's episode, we discuss Gabby's new book "Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams", how to let go of control, how to create more of what you want, doing less and attracting more, feelings of worthiness and comparison, emotional scales, and the Spiritual Alignment Action method.

Get Super Attractor on Amazon or visit www.gabbybernstein.com

MOMENTS

• [3:15] Gaby talks about her rock bottom experience and her personal spiritual journey
• [6:00] Gaby talks about the meaning of a wild turkey???
• [8:40] Amanda and Gabby talk about detaching from outcomes and trusting the universe
• [12:46] Gabby shares the emotional scale model and how to utilize it to create more of what you want to manifest.
• [15:04] Amanda and Gabby discuss trying to control an outcome, doing less and attracting more, and the spiritually aligned action method.
• [19:23] Gabby's perspective on social media, comparison, and worthiness
• [23:21] Gabby and Amanda talk about how to recognize your worth
• [26:46] Gabby tells us how we can overcome being hung up on outcomes
• [28:00] Gabby references a time she felt out of alignment in her own life
• [36:14] Amanda asks Gabby how her perception of the coaching space has changed and where people can shift their focus.
• [40:27] Gabby tells us her main message on attraction