The Soulful Business Show™ with Cailen Ascher

I'm here with my first ever "Dose of Clarity" podcast episode delivered directly from me to you.

In these "Dose of Clarity" episodes, I'll be confessing the stuff I'm personally working on in my own life in case it might help you too. And, sometimes I might even invite my brilliant, talented friends to join me for some soulfully expansive (and entertaining) conversation. Enjoy!

So, with that said, let me start with this…

There's a reason you've been given the dreams you have.

They are meant for you alone, and they are an integral part of you Soulful Expansion.

What is meant for you will not pass you.

P.S. Don't worry, The Clarity Confessions aren't going anywhere! I'll still be bringing you amazing interviews every other week, but these Dose of Clarity episodes will give you a chance to learn more about my personal (never-ending) journey towards Clarity :-)

P.P.S. Feel like you're right on the cusp of something BIG? I would love to explore working together to guide you into your next phase of Soulful Expansion. There are just 2 spots left for Summer Sessions with me. Fill out the application here, and we'll set up a time to chat!

Melissa Aguirre is a Nationally Certified Yoga Therapist, Author, Certified Energy Medicine and MBSR Practitioner specializing in evidence-based holistic practices and education. She has created mindfulness-based yoga therapy programs that serve the military population along with multiple wellness workshops and classes in holistic healing to her national audience. Melissa is a wellness speaker and contributing author for yoga therapy case studies continuing to impact optimal patient care and sustainable lifestyle choice. Melissa loves the little things; cozy evenings, journaling, her faith, movement, chai, her daughter's snuggles, spending time with husband who keeps her rooted and inspired. Melissa's entrepreneurial path was born out of a creative effort to do what she loved and to earn money by doing it. After receiving her first yoga teacher training certification in therapeutic yoga, she began taking any teaching opportunity available to me. In the midst of a storm of life changes - dropping out of college, marrying the love of her life, and moving to a brand new town - Melissa began immersing herself in the healing community. Following her heart has allowed Melissa to stay aligned with her authenticity, do the work that calls to her soul, and help others in their journey of healing.

Listen to Melissa's Clarity Confession to learn:

• How Melissa found her mentor through a Craigslist listing and unconventional interview process
• More about Yoga Therapy and the benefits for military members, entrepreneurs and new moms
• How Melissa used her Yoga Therapy training during the birth of her daughter
• Why you shouldn't wait for permission or validation to go after your dreams

Melissa is currently hosting a self care campaign that embodies the intentions of MelMarie jewelry on Instagram with sweet giveaways. Follow @melmarieyoga for more information, inspiration, along with the art of living well through yoga, mindfulness, and self care practices.

If you order any MelMarie Mala and mention that you heard Melissa on the Clarity Confession Show, you will receive a free MelMarie Jewelry Stack of your choice! She is doing a special now through Christmas where all Malas (custom included) are $65!

P.S. Are you ready to stop waiting for success to "find you" and instead want to create success on your terms? If that's YOU, complete this application for my 1x1 summer coaching sessions starting soon. I would LOVE to explore working with you xo

If you want your blog to actually make an impact for your business -- it starts with strategy, and Lacy Boggs is your go-to gal for that. Lacy Boggs is a content marketing strategist, author of the bestselling, "Make a Killing With Content," and director of The Content Direction Agency.

Lacy's journey is fascinating - from her start as a food writer/editor at a small magazine in Colorado to building The Content Direction Agency after finally getting clear about who she was blogging for and what she was actually blogging about. Lacy shares the mistakes she made and what she learned the hard way while starting her business, and tips for connecting your blogging efforts to your sales process - something many business owners often forget!

Tune in to Lacy's Clarity Confession to learn:

• how to figure out if you're blogging to the wrong audience and stifling your business growth + sales
• why working backwards from your goals will help you build a content strategy that bring in perfect-for-you clients
• why your audience is more interested in what you're saying that what you're selling
• that it's ok to pivot - and how that can actually be a good thing for your business

After you listen to Lacy's confession, head over to lacyboggs.com/undercover to learn more about her and her services.

P.S. Are you ready to stop waiting for success to "find you" and instead want to create success on your terms? If that's YOU, complete this application for my 1x1 summer coaching sessions starting soon. I would LOVE to explore working with you xo

Leimomi Keliikuli is an Intuitive Soul Alignment Coach, who helps soul-driven women to uplevel with ease and in epic time by teaching them how to align to their soul's divine soul blueprints, to manifest whatever they desire, and clear their invisible soul level blocks to success using the Akashic Records. She shows them how to have it all, while stepping into their soul aligned leadership and staying in alignment to their soul's design. Starting out as a Psychic Monk for 10 years from the age of 21, she successfully grew and managed several yoga and metaphysical storefronts for a spiritual group. When she realized she was living an unaligned path, she left her title, status, and everything behind, married her soulmate, and built a successful full online business from scratch.

Her story of misalignment of expressing an "unaligned" purpose driven path has lead her to help hundreds of soulful entrepreneurs to become the embodiment of Source and step into their Soul Aligned Leadership into Soul and Business Alignment. Discovering that her soul blueprints were the key to allowing abundance and upleveling in her life, she founded the Soul Aligned Manifestation Method™, Being Alohi Method™, 3 Main Gifts Concept ™ and the Activating and Expanding Your Highest Psychic Gifts System™, which are programs that can help you create a soulful brand in soul and business alignment. She has been featured on several media spotlights such as Coached or Poached.com, Woman of the Western World Series, Thrive Global, Kharisma Magazine, Sleep Like a Boss Podcast, Heart Soul & Hustle Podcast, Entrepreneur on Fire Podcast, and more!

Listen to Leimomi's confession to learn:

• How she held her first webinar without any real business idea, and turned it an $80K launch
• The steps she took to retire her husband from his 9-5, to become to sole breadwinnner of the family.
• How to connect with "Source" to overcome obstacles and challenges in your way
• Tips for discovering your Soul's gift.

Connect with Leimomi and discover your Business Gifts Type with her new quiz right here.

Jennah Lear is a Cleveland State University graduate with a business background from The Kauffman Foundation. She owns Blue Loui Studio, located in Lakewood, OH. As a Branding Designer, she works with business owners and entrepreneurs to co-create impactful design for purpose-driven brands that tell their story, attract soul-aligned clients, AND increase their bottom line. Jennah is fiercely devoted to empowering women and promoting confidence in all aspects of life and business. She knows it starts with believing in yourself; when you do that, magical things start to happen.

And, in her Clarity Confession, Jennah open-heartedly shares what it takes to become (and stick with being) an entrepreneur.

She's honest, totally relatable and offers a ton of great advice for any aspiring or struggling entrepreneur who questions whether or not they'll ever "make it".

Tune into this month's Clarity Confession with Jennah to learn...

• Why you can't create from a place of scarcity
• How "walking away" from a problem can sometime be the best solution
• Why it doesn't matter where the money comes from
• The best investment she's ever made
• Why having support is a MUST

Want to connect with Jennah? You can find her online at Blue Loui Studio, and join her Facebook group, Semi-Charmed Business Circle, right here.

I first met Jen a few years ago at an amazing mastermind event at The Plaza in New York City. We instantly hit it off (as I'm sure you'll be able to tell from our conversation!), and I knew she would have so much to bring to The Clarity Confessions. Jennifer Jayde is an international dream-business coach, speaker and mentor for female entrepreneurs who desire worldwide impact with their purpose-driven business. After a significant loss in her family, she awakened to the fact that life was meant to be lived on our own terms, in alignment with our highest calling. A common thread throughout Jennifer's story is that she consistently followed the familiar "tap on the shoulder" to follow her passion . From a full-time, 100% commission-based mortgage broker at the age of 22 to an esteemed wedding photographer winning regional awards at 26, Jennifer uses her years of business experience to help women around the world find their purpose and live it.

In the first 6 months of her coaching business, Jennifer grew from 0 to 6 figures, is consistently sold out of her 1x1 program, and at the time of this interview, had recently sold out her brand new signature Dream Starter Program.

When you listen to Jen's Clarity Confession, you'll learn...

• The secret to becoming an "overnight success" story
• The best investment she's ever made
• How to serve from the overflow
• Why listening to nudges is essential for business success
• How to get her 8 min morning ritual for better energy

Want to connect with Jen and grab her new Find Your Purpose Meditation + Workbook? You can find her here.

Today on The Clarity Confessions, I am so excited to introduce you to Amy Mewborn. As a business strategist, Amy helps simplify technology and automation for women business owners to make more money and have more freedom in their businesses and lives! She is a CEO, author, and has 20+ years experience as a business advisor in finance, marketing, and operations.

Amy has worked with business owners of large organizations such as Ford, Chuck E. Cheese, & Vinturi Wine Aerator, as well as new entrepreneurs just like you. During her Clarity Confession, Amy gives us a look inside her first coaching program and guides us through what worked, and what didn't, in building her own business.

Tune into Amy's Clarity Confession to learn…

• The importance of target market research and using your wording to address your audience's pain, fear, hopes and aspirations
• How to design a program with your ideal customer in mind
• How to truly embrace the laptop lifestyle
• Why you should seek professional legal support for your business
• The need for team members when growing and scaling your business
• Why great customer service is imperative to your success

After you listen to Amy's session, you can connect with her + grab her tools for launching your online business at her site amymewborn.com

Nagina Abdullah is the founder of MasalaBody.com and creator of the weight-loss program "Spice Yourself Skinny". Through her programs and her coaching, Nagina helps women lose weight without feeling deprived.

Nagina's entrepreneurial path started with a personal transformation. After losing 40 pounds while maintaining a demanding career and after having two kids, women around her began to ask for recipes and advice on how to get the same results. But, she found that they were having trouble making changes to their behavior. By learning about the psychology of behavior, she has been able to help other women make positive behavioral changes to experience similar results.

Tune into Nagina's Clarity Confession to learn…

• How to get your clients to use your advice and see results
• Why confidence in yourself is the first step to building a thriving business
• The importance of self-care and tips for making time for yourself
• How mindset practices can help to shift your business from amateur to pro
• Tips for reverse-engineering your goals so you can actually achieve them

After you listen to Nagina's honest and inspiring Clarity Confession, you can connect with her further at MasalaBody.com.

P.S. Tired of feeling unclear, overwhelmed and STUCK? Join my upcoming Mindset Reset Challenge for 5 soul-nurturing days that'll launch you into a new phase of life + business with filled clarity, ease and abundance. Good stuff! Join this FREE event here.

With her bright blue hair and punk rock style, Kimra Luna is probably the last person you'd expect to have become a millionaire, or to be profiled in The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Yahoo! or Forbes.com.

In a modern day "rags to riches" story, 30-year-old mother-of-three Kimra went from growing up on welfare to becoming a highly-sought after personal branding and social media expert -- earning over a million dollars in her first 18 months in business. She now leads a community of over 90,000 entrepreneurs.

Since starting her business in May 2014, she has been interviewed by some of the biggest names in the online business world including Gary Vaynerchuk, Pat Flynn and Lewis Howes. She speaks on topics such as social media marketing, personal branding, and how to create customers and clients that are raving fans.

Listen to Kimra's Clarity Confession to learn:

• How she made $100k in her first year of business at the age of eighteen (and what she spent it on)
• The importance of following your instinct and making decisions in your business (and life!) on your own terms
• How one lightbulb moment led to a complete overhaul of her business
• Why you shouldn't hold anything back when providing free, valuable content to your audience.

After you listen to Kimra' Clarity Confession, head over to FreedomHackers.com to find lots of free trainings and join Kimra's thriving community!

P.S. Tired of feeling unclear, overwhelmed and STUCK? Join my upcoming Mindset Reset Challenge for 5 soul-nurturing days that'll launch you into a new phase of life + business with filled clarity, ease and abundance. Good stuff! Join this FREE event here.

Jamie is a talented coach who helps high-achieving women balance their lives so that they can be more productive. She teaches them how to break free of stress, overwhelm, and negativity so that they can reconnect with the radiant bliss from within and create the beautiful, balanced, blissful life that they deserve.

We had a fantastic time chatting during her Clarity Confession, and there is so much good stuff that you'll take away from her interview.

When you listen to Jamie's Clarity Confession, you'll learn...

• Why selling is helping (and how to starting believing that!)
• The importance of Business Clarity and how to find it
• Why you need self-care for your business (and yourself!)
• The importance of "pleasant persistence"
• What her first year in business really looked like

Head over to YourBlissedOutLife.com to connect with Jamie, and grab some of her all-time favorite resources.