The Cycle Advantage

If I'm being honest… there's no part of me that thrives on pretending I have it all together.

There's no finish line when it comes to growth.

We spend so much time trying to "get there," whatever there means. But real growth isn't about arriving, it's about learning how to hold curiosity and compassion for yourself while you're in the middle of it.

You can change your mind.
You can get it wrong.
You can evolve while still loving who you already are.

And that's exactly why this week's conversation with Renae Saager is so freaking good.

We sat down and had a real conversation about addiction, recovery, navigating judgment (especially from yourself), and learning to embrace growth even when it's messy, uncomfortable, and makes zero sense in the moment.

Because here's what we both know:

Self-acceptance doesn't show up when life's picture-perfect. It shows up when you decide you're allowed to evolve, even while things feel unfinished.

✔️ Why honest to goodness real self awareness is the first step toward any real growth

✔️ How to handle judgment both from others and from yourself

✔️ What personal evolution really looks like (spoiler: it's not a straight line)

✔️ The tension between intuition and logic especially in big life decisions

✔️ Why embracing discomfort is a sign you're on the right path

✔️ How slowing down feels hard but might be exactly what you need

✔️ Why "enoughness" isn't something you find (it's something you choose)

✔️ The balance between worthiness, fun, and personal responsibility

If You've Ever Felt Stuck Between Self-Acceptance and Wanting More...

This episode is for you if:

✨ You're craving more growth, but don't want to lose yourself chasing it
✨ You've struggled with slowing down and trusting your own timing
✨ You want permission to pursue life with more curiosity, fun, and enoughness
✨ You know there's more ahead, but you're learning how to love right where you are

This is your reminder that you're already doing enough, even while you grow.

If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step…

✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage:

A 6-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout.

For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth…

✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind:

A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership

For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business…

✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book:

A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.

So many of us grew up absorbing the message that being a "good girl" means being quiet, agreeable, non-needy, and definitely not too sexual.

But that version of womanhood has expired.

Because when we stay silent about our sexual health, we disconnect from our own power.

We make ourselves small. And we miss out on the deeply fulfilling, body-connected, wildly radiant life that's meant for us.

In this powerful, soul-stirring episode, Dr. Stephanie and I went deep into the real talk about how your hormones influence desire, arousal, and emotional connection throughout your cycle and life seasons. We also opened the door to conversations most of us never got to have growing up but desperately need as grown women now.

Inside This Episode, We Dive Into:

✨ The shifting narrative around sexuality and why it's finally happening

✨ What different generations really learned about sex (and what they didn't)

✨ How to talk to your kids about sex without the shame you were raised with

✨ Breaking the taboo around sexual wellness (and why silence is harming us)

✨ The power of safe, open dialogue in getting the care you need

✨ Why intimacy looks different for everyone and how to own your unique experience

✨ Why seeking help for your sexual wellbeing is not a failure

✨ How your hormonal shifts impact your body, brain, and libido

✨ What the future of sexual wellness and education could look like

✅ You were never taught how to talk about sex, and now you're trying to figure it out
✅ You've felt "off" hormonally but were told to just push through
✅ You carry shame around desire, pleasure, or even asking for what you want
✅ You want to raise empowered kids but don't know where to start
✅ You're ready to break generational patterns and lead from self-trust
✅ You're craving wholeness in your body, your relationships, and your voice

Meet Dr. Stephanie Z

Dr. Stephanie Zwonitzer, DNP, CRNP is originally from Wisconsin but now calls the East Coast home.  She has her bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees in nursing.  Dr. Z has worked in health care for over 20 years and has been practicing urology and sexual medicine since 2021. The most fulfilling part of her practice is helping people enrich their sexual wellness and experiences, both individually and with partners. 

When Dr.Z's not in the office you can find her hosting the Between the Sheets podcast, snuggling her fur baby Milo, hanging out with her two nearly adult children, or dancing in the kitchen while cooking.

If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step…

✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage:

A 6-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout.

For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth…

✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind:

A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership

For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business…

✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book:

A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.

You've probably heard it a hundred times: 

"Just be consistent."

Show up every day. Push through resistance. Stay in momentum.

But what if your "lack of consistency" isn't the problem?

What if the real issue is trying to force a rhythm that was never meant for your body, your energy, or your season?

Let's stop pretending business growth is a straight line. It's not.

It's layered. Emotional. Cyclical.
It mirrors you.

If you've ever felt like you're evolving faster than your brand, or craving space in a world shouting "more, faster, now"... you're not alone.

Julie Chandler and I sat down for the kind of conversation that entrepreneurs need but rarely hear.

This one's for the woman who's done building a business that drains her and ready to create one that reflects her.

➡️ How your intuition is a business strategy (and why it's often more accurate than analytics)

➡️ The behind-the-scenes of navigating personal growth while scaling a business

➡️ Why integrity in marketing is a non-negotiable and how to spot when it's missing

➡️ How to blend heart and structure without burning out or selling out

➡️ The psychology behind why people buy and what they actually want from you

➡️ The underestimated power of brand trust + emotional resonance

➡️ How to lead with transparency in your sales without diluting your value

➡️ The real shift happening in consumer behavior and how to adapt with grace

➡️ How to honor your energy, cycles, and intuition without sacrificing momentum

🌀 Stop chasing strategy and start trusting your seasons
💭 Reclaim your voice in how you sell and serve
🔥 Align your offers with integrity and emotional resonance
🌗 Build momentum without sacrificing your wellbeing
💡 Create success that feels sustainable, soulful, and real

Meet Julie

Julie sees the unseen... from dead people to energy blocks and leaks in your business! With over 20 years of working with energy she brings a down-to-earth approach to traditional spiritual wisdom with zero fluff, she helps purpose-driven coaches + healers in business clear their biggest blocks and create the impact that can change their lives with ease. Practical strategy meets powerful energetic work, helping you breakthrough to your next level faster (without the dreaded hustle!)

If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step…

✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage:

A 6-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout.

For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth…

✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind:

A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership

For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business…

✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book:

A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.

How often do you check in with how you're feeling while running your business?

If you're anything like I used to be, it's easy to get caught up in the strategy, the numbers, the next thing on your to-do list… and completely forget about actually feeling good while doing it.

I grew up believing pleasure was selfish. Indulgent. Distracting. Especially as a woman and especially as someone raised in a conservative Christian household.

But here's what I've learned and what I break down in this week's episode of the Cycle Advantage Podcast:

Feeling good isn't just a bonus. It's essential.
For your energy.
For your magnetism.
For your business success.

➡️ Why I believe in building a Pleasure First Business and how that connects to cycle syncing and feminine leadership

➡️ How feeling good directly impacts sales, client attraction, and business growth

➡️ Why so many women feel guilty about pleasure and how to rewrite that story

➡️ The science behind pleasure: dopamine, creativity, and energetic magnetism

➡️ What embodiment and presence really mean 

➡️ How to balance masculine business strategy with feminine flow

Instead of chasing the next strategy or viral post, what if you started with one question:

How do I want to feel today?

That's where it begins.
Not just in business but in life

When you focus on feeling good first, everything else follows.
Better ideas. More clarity. Stronger client connections. True success.

This Episode Is For You If You've Ever:

✨ Felt burnt out from trying to "do all the things" in your business
✨ Wondered how to balance structure and flow as a woman entrepreneur
✨ Struggled to own your desires or felt guilty for wanting more
✨ Needed permission to slow down and reconnect with what actually lights you up

You don't have to sacrifice pleasure for productivity.
In fact when you prioritize pleasure, that's where real productivity starts.

If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step…

✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage:

A 6-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout.

For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth…

✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind:

A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership

For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business…

✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book:

A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.

We've been told a thousand times over to "know our worth."

But what happens when we start actually charging it?

What happens when our business grows… and so does our income… and suddenly, we're navigating tax brackets, money guilt, and a silent fear that we'll be judged for wanting more?

In this episode, I'm joined by Tiffany Phillips, a powerhouse CPA and Tax Strategist, for one of the most liberating money convos I've ever had. We peeled back the layers on ambition, guilt, and what it really looks like when women claim their financial power.

We had the kind of conversation that most women crave but rarely get to hear: real talk about money, the guilt that lingers under success and how to build wealth without burning out or playing small.

Also, if the word taxes makes you want to run and hide, this episode is for you.

✔️ Why women still feel guilty about ambition and how to rewrite that story

✔️ How to actually use tax strategy to your advantage (instead of avoiding it)

✔️ What your CPA should really be doing for you (hint: it's more than filing)

✔️ Why understanding your finances is power, not pressure

✔️ How political shifts impact your taxes and why you can't afford to ignore it

✔️ The truth about tax incentives (and how they're often built for the already-wealthy)

✔️ Why so many of us feel "bad with money" and how to reclaim our financial literacy

✔️ The critical mindset shift from fear-based finance to empowered wealth creation

Meet Tiffany
Tiffany Phillips is a trusted tax strategist and founder of Phillips Business Group, where she helps women entrepreneurs take control of their biggest expense—taxes—so they can build profitable, sustainable businesses with confidence. As a CPA and MBA, Tiffany specializes in showing six- and seven-figure business owners how to legally and strategically reduce their tax bills by 30% or more—without the confusion or overwhelm.

Her mission is clear: to empower entrepreneurs with the financial clarity they need to scale, hire, invest, and grow generational wealth. Tiffany is also the author of Your Biggest Expense: How to Legally Pay Less in Taxes and Keep More Wealth and the creator of practical, approachable courses that make complex tax topics simple and actionable—whether it's deciding on an S Corp election, planning estimated payments, or uncovering powerful tax-saving strategies.

Beyond the spreadsheets, Tiffany is a wife, mom of two, wellness advocate, and speaker who believes women deserve financial freedom and the tools to build businesses on their terms. Her work is rooted in helping women keep more of what they earn so they can lead, give, and live more boldly.

If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step…

✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage:

A 6-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout.

For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth…

✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind:

A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership

For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business…

✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book:

A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.

They say motherhood changes you but what they don't tell you is that it reveals you.

Every trigger, every tantrum, every moment you snap and feel guilt bubbling under your skin. It will hold up a mirror to the parts of you you've spent years avoiding. 

The parts that feel tender, reactive, and raw.

And that's exactly what this week's episode is all about. I sat down with Carly Ely, and we cracked open the truth about what motherhood is really asking of us. Not the Pinterest-perfect version but the real, soul-stretching journey of learning how to parent while still discovering who you are.

If you've ever wondered why motherhood feels like a spiritual awakening (but no one gave you a guidebook for it), you're going to feel so seen in this conversation.

✨ The way triggers point to unhealed parts of you and have nothing to do with your child's behavior

✨ Why your worth has nothing to do with how well your child performs

✨ The grief that hits when you realize time is moving way too fast

✨ How motherhood becomes the mirror for your own emotional growth

✨ What it actually means to break generational cycles (without perfection)

✨ The shift from control to connection and how to let your guard down

✨ The quiet shame we carry and how self-compassion sets us free

✔ Felt like motherhood was asking you to do deep inner work (but didn't know where to start)
✔ Needed a reminder that growth and grace can coexist
✔ Been trying to break cycles without burning out
✔ Felt like your kids were showing you what you still needed to heal
✔ Struggled with shame and wondered if you were the only one

This conversation will validate your journey, soften your shame, and remind you that you're not alone in the messy middle.

Meet Carly

Carly Ely is a conscious motherhood coach, subconscious reprogramming expert, and neurodivergent mom of two. She combines her background as a school psychologist along with her training and study of the reparenting and spirituality to guide women through the process of healing and rediscovering themselves in motherhood.

If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step…

✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage:

A 6-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout.

For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth…

✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind:

A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership

For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business…

✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book:

A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.

In this solo, from-the-heart episode, I'm sharing something completely unplanned, but too important not to record. After a powerful call with a client (and some serious energy downloads), I had to jump on and unpack what might just be the missing piece in your coaching, content, and conversions:
✨ The energy you hold for your clients.

We're talking about the frequency behind your coaching sessions, sales calls, emails, and content and how the way you see your audience changes how they rise.

✔️ How your unconscious fears may be projecting onto your clients

✔️ The practice I use before touching babies in the NICU and how it applies to your business

✔️ Why holding a frequency of abundance and wholeness makes you magnetic

✔️ What it looks like to truly see your people in their limitless potential

✔️ How to shift your energy before every post, pitch, or coaching call

✔️ How energetic alignment became my biggest business breakthrough in 2025

✔️ Behind the scenes of why I'm transitioning Your Cycle Advantage back into a high-touch group coaching experience

🌀 You're feeling disconnected from your clients or content
💡 You're craving more depth, alignment, and magic in your business
🧠 You've mastered the strategy but still feel something's missing
💞 You want to lead in a way that feels intimate, intentional, and impactful
🔥 You're ready to stop operating from scarcity and start creating from soul

If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step…

✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage:

A 6-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout.

For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth…

✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind:

A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership

For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business…

✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book:

A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.

There was a time in my business journey where I truly believed that more effort = more results. 

That if I could just master the strategy, stick to the schedule, and keep showing up consistently, I'd finally "make it."

But then my body started whispering.

Then it started screaming.

And that's where this week's guest, Brianna Rose, comes in because this conversation cracked wide open the illusion of success we've been sold as female entrepreneurs… and offered something so much deeper in return.

We talked about the things most people aren't saying out loud including:

➡️ How contraction is a sacred part of creation

➡️ Why "overnight success" is often just smart marketing

➡️ The real weight of launching and why it's okay to slow down

➡️ Why your slower seasons are where your greatest ideas are born

➡️ Why who you are matters more than what you offer

➡️ The energetic reality of passive income (because it's never actually passive)

➡️ Why internal trust beats strategy every single time

➡️ The truth about what coaching is really about

💭 Ditch the rigid formulas and build from your body's wisdom
🌗 Embrace the slow seasons as sacred
🌀 Work with your energy, not against it
🔥 Redefine success on your terms not Instagram's
💞 Lead with softness, depth, and unshakable trust

Meet Brianna 

Brianna Rose is a somatic leadership mentor and creator of the Light Leader® Movement. She trains coaches, healers, and therapists how to facilitate deep, body-based transformation using the Meridian Mapping Method™ (MMM).

As a former marketing executive turned industry leader, she has built a 7-figure global brand helping high-performing women unlock their full potential through somatic intelligence, nervous system regulation, and embodied leadership. Her work bridges the gap between business strategy and the body, showing women how to lead with their energy, expand their impact, and create sustainable success—without burnout.

Through her signature programs, including the Academy of Light™ and the Light Leader® Certification, she has helped thousands of women step into aligned, powerful, and profitable leadership. When she's not teaching, you'll find her exploring the intersection of somatics, success, and the future of feminine leadership.

If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step…

✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage:

A 6-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout.

For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth…

✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind:

A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership

For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business…

✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book:

A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.

If you're dragging yourself out of bed before your body's ready, ignoring your hunger cues, and skipping presence for performance… it's no wonder you feel like you're running on fumes.

It's not that you're doing it wrong.

It's that the rules you're following weren't designed for a woman like you.

In this episode, I break down:
✔️ How cortisol + blood sugar can make or break your mornings
✔️ Why gratitude and visualization work (and how to do it in under 3 minutes)
✔️ The signs your morning routine is hurting more than helping
✔️ How to sync your mornings to your cycle not your to-do list

You deserve a morning that supports the woman you're becoming, not the one the world expects you to be.

Tune in now and DM me "MORNINGROUTINE" if you want a free template to cycle-sync your daily routine.

If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step…

✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage:

A 6-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout.

For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth…

✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind:

A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership

For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business…

✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book:

A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.

What if I told you your power doesn't come from being strong, but from being safe?

In this week's podcast episode, I sat down with Laurien Zurhake, a martial arts expert, educator, and absolute powerhouse and we cracked open a conversation that completely flipped the narrative around self-defense, trauma, and what it really means for women to reclaim their bodies.

We talked about trauma-informed spaces, patriarchal systems in martial arts, and how competition without collaboration has hurt more women than it's helped.

And if you've ever felt like the world wasn't built for your softness, your intuition, your rhythm.. this one's for you.

We didn't just talk about martial arts… We also dove into:

✨ Why trauma-informed practice isn't optional (it's the foundation for true growth and safety)

✨ How martial arts can be a powerful tool for healing but only in the right environment

✨ Why women still face invisible barriers in male-dominated training spaces and how we can change that

✨ How ecological dynamics reshape the way we learn, move, and relate to our bodies

✨ How collaboration beats competition (and why a scarcity mindset is keeping women small)

✨How healing starts when the nervous system finally feels safe enough to exhale.

✨ How even children pick up on safety cues and what that tells us about the environments we create

✨ Why women make incredible leaders in martial arts and why it's time we stop asking for permission

This conversation is a must-listen if you:
👉 Want to understand how trauma impacts performance + confidence
👉 Are craving safe, supportive spaces to grow your strength
👉 Believe in business (and life) that honors both power and softness

Meet Laurien

Originally from the Netherlands, Laurien studied (Ancient) History in Nijmegen and at Oxford University (Brasenose College) and pursued a PhD in Munich (topic was Pain Behaviour). She met there her husband on the martial arts mats and due to sexual harassment by their headcoach, Laurien and her husband Alex decided to open their own Trauma Informed Martial Arts and Yoga School. Since that approach is still in its infancy in the martial arts domain, Laurien created her online platform Off the Zone, where she helps martial arts coaches, athletes and gym owners become trauma informed and how to implement effective safeguarding measures so that everyone can train hard and thrive safely.

If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step…

✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage:

A 6-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout.

For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth…

✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind:

A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership

For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business…

✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book:

A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.