The Spiritual Hustler

“If you don't trust yourself, who's gonna trust you? Who's gonna buy from you?” —Allyse Cirillo

What happens when the career you've spent years building starts costing you your sense of self? Jess sits down with Allyse Cirillo, founder of SAINT Jō, for an inspiring conversation about overcoming burnout, trusting yourself, and turning personal transformation into a purpose-driven business.

After more than 15 years in corporate America, Allyse reached a breaking point. She shares how she spent 18 months preparing to leave her career, rebuilding her relationship with herself, and quietly creating the skincare brand she wished existed. Together, Jessica and Allyse explore the realities of entrepreneurship, the importance of clean beauty, and why becoming the woman behind the business is just as meaningful as building the business itself.

CONNECT WITH ALLYSE CIRILLO

• Discover SAINT Jō, Allyse’s skincare brand offering clean, effective products designed to simplify your routine and help you feel radiant.
• Get 25% off your first order using the code JZ25!

Key Topics:

1. From Corporate Burnout to Personal Reinvention

• How Allyse recognized she was sacrificing her health, values, and identity for career success
• Why she chose to spend 18 months saving money, building connections, and preparing for entrepreneurship

2. Building SAINT Jō & Redefining Clean Beauty

• How Allyse transformed her experience in product development into a skincare brand focused on simplicity and ingredient transparency
• Why she created a five-step skincare system designed to work together rather than overwhelm consumers

3. Authentic Storytelling, Visibility & Sustainable Success

• Why personal storytelling and genuine customer experiences are essential for building trust in an AI-driven marketplace
• The pressure female founders face to constantly create content while managing their businesses

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If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow The Spiritual Hustler Podcast for new episodes on Tuesdays on Spotify and iTunes. Video episodes drop on Jessica Zweig’s YouTube channel every Tuesday. Follow her on Instagram for updates and behind-the-scenes content: @jessicazweig

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“Are they helping me return my power to me, or are they asking me to hand it over?” —Christy McCranie

What happens when the life you've spent decades building no longer feels like your own? Jessica sits down with Christy McCranie, founder of The Third Truth, for a powerful conversation about breaking free from limiting beliefs, reclaiming personal freedom, and discovering that it's never too late to completely reinvent yourself.

Christy shares her extraordinary journey from co-founding a business that eventually sold for $24 million, raising and homeschooling five children, and living within a rigid religious framework to navigating divorce, losing friendships, and rebuilding her identity. She also opens up about her experiences with Kambo, an Amazonian frog secretion used in traditional healing ceremonies, and how those experiences inspired her to become a practitioner and create a purpose-driven business.

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CONNECT WITH CHRISTY McCRANIE

• Discover Christy’s journey of breaking free from limiting beliefs and embracing personal transformation through her website and Instagram.

Key Topics:

1. Breaking Free From Binary Thinking & Reclaiming Your Power  

• How Christy's strict religious beliefs shaped her marriage, motherhood, and sense of identity
• The emotional cost of abandoning her own needs to fulfill other people's expectations 

2. Kambo, Emotional Healing & Returning to Yourself  

• How Christy's personal experiences with Kambo became a turning point in her journey of self-discovery
• What Kambo ceremonies involve, including the physical intensity, emotional experiences, and importance of practitioner screening



3. The Third Truth, Reinvention & Creating a New Life 

• Christy's philosophy of looking beyond two obvious choices to discover possibilities you haven't considered
• How she reinvented herself in her fifties and built The Third Truth around her passion for helping others

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“The fire does not actually incinerate; it regenerates.” —Jessica Zweig       

What if everything that fell apart this year was actually making room for something greater? In this deeply personal Unlocking episode, Jess reflects on the unexpected destruction of the Year of the Fire Horse, the challenges women have faced in business and life, and why she believes this season of chaos is inviting us into a new era of feminine leadership.

Jessica opens up about the fires that have moved through her own business, relationships, and community, and challenges women to stop measuring success against someone else's expectations. Instead, she invites us to reconnect with our bodies, trust our intuition, and create from our own unique feminine frequency.

STATE OF THE FEMININE

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Key Topics:

1. The Fire Horse & the Power of Destruction      

• Why 2026 has felt more like a year of fire and transformation than momentum and expansion
• How unexpected challenges can reveal what is no longer aligned

2. Breaking Free From the Borrowed Race  

• Why women are exhausted from chasing definitions of success they didn't create
• How comparison, social media, and the pressure to constantly produce disconnect us from our intuition

3. The Future of Feminine Entrepreneurship  

• Why Jessica believes women are being called to redefine ambition, wealth, and leadership
• Moving beyond traditional business models to create from intuition, purpose, and alignment

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If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow The Spiritual Hustler Podcast for new episodes on Tuesdays on Spotify and iTunes. Video episodes drop on Jessica Zweig’s YouTube channel every Tuesday. Follow her on Instagram for updates and behind-the-scenes content: @jessicazweig

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“You can't recognize the gold in your life until and unless you move through the fire.” —Christine Thompson

What if the chaos you're trying so hard to avoid is actually the thing leading you toward your greatest transformation? Jessica sits down with executive advisor and author Christine Thompson for a powerful conversation about surrendering control, trusting the unknown, and turning life's most challenging moments into opportunities for growth.

Christine shares her journey from studying international business and hostage negotiation to advising influential executives, and how a moment of inspiration during the pandemic became her book, The Alchemy of Chaos. She also opens up about the personal upheaval, divorce, and unexpected challenges that forced her to live the very lessons she was writing about.

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CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE OWENEL

• Learn to turn chaos into growth and trust yourself with Christine’s new book, Alchemy of Chaos, now available! 
• Explore Christine’s work in leadership and personal transformation

Key Topics:

1. The Alchemy of Chaos & Finding Gold in the Fire  

• Why chaos isn't something to escape but an essential ingredient in transformation
• How embracing uncertainty, failure, and discomfort can unlock new possibilities  

2. Releasing Control & Learning to Trust Life  

• How our desire for safety, certainty, and control can keep us from fully experiencing life
• Christine's transformative experience in Iceland and the courage to step into the unknown

3. Personal Transformation, Intuition & Divine Timing 

• How Christine's intuitive knowing about her marriage eventually led her to make a life-changing decision
• The unexpected publishing challenges that delayed her book and became part of her own alchemical journey

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If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow The Spiritual Hustler Podcast for new episodes on Tuesdays on Spotify and iTunes. Video episodes drop on Jessica Zweig’s YouTube channel every Tuesday. Follow her on Instagram for updates and behind-the-scenes content: @jessicazweig

Visit jessicazweig.com for her book, podcast, programs, and resources to step into your purpose and power.

“Ambition is a desire for more life, a wish to grow, a wish to unfold.” —Amina AlTai   

What if ambition isn't the problem, but the way we've been taught to pursue it is? Jess sits down with executive coach and author Amina AlTai for a powerful deep dive about redefining success, breaking free from burnout, and building a life where ambition, joy, and well-being can all coexist.

Amina shares the health crisis that forced her to reevaluate everything, how childhood programming and societal expectations shape our relationship with achievement, and why she believes ambition should be purposeful rather than painful. Together, they explore what it means to honor your natural seasons, set boundaries without guilt, and create success that actually feels good.

CONNECT WITH AMINA ALTAI

• Discover how to redefine success and embrace purposeful ambition in Amina’s book, The Ambition Trap.
• Explore Amina’s coaching and programs to build a more aligned, fulfilling, and sustainable career or business.

Key Topics:

1. Redefining Ambition & Breaking the Burnout Cycle  

• How Amina's health crisis revealed the hidden cost of constantly pushing for success
• The difference between painful ambition driven by old wounds and purposeful ambition rooted in growth

2. Boundaries, Embodiment & Living Above the Resentment Line  

• Recognizing when overgiving, people-pleasing, and overworking are taking you out of alignment
• Amina's “resentment line” framework and practical ways to reclaim your time, energy, and boundaries

3. Joy, Purpose & a New Paradigm of Feminine Leadership 

• Why ambition doesn't have to mean working harder and can be directed toward relationships, health, community, and purpose
• Making joy a meaningful measure of success instead of focusing solely on revenue, recognition, and achievement

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If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow The Spiritual Hustler Podcast for new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Spotify and iTunes. Video episodes drop on Jessica Zweig’s YouTube channel every Tuesday. Follow her on Instagram for updates and behind-the-scenes content: @jessicazweig

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“Whenever we are out of integrity with why we’re doing something, you are always going to fail. When you are 100% in integrity… God will not let you fail.” —Samantha Skelly   

What if the real key to building a powerful business is teaching your body that it’s safe enough to fully become who you are? Jess sits down with Samantha Skelly, founder of Pause Breathwork, for a conversation about nervous system regulation, integrity as a guide, entrepreneurship, breathwork, and creating a life from alignment instead of survival.

Samantha shares how her own struggles with anxiety, body image, and disordered eating ultimately led her to breathwork, and how that experience became the foundation for a mission to bring breathwork to the world. She also opens up about building Pause, appearing on Shark Tank, navigating profound personal loss, and learning to stay grounded when life doesn’t go according to plan.

CONNECT WITH SAMANTHA SKELLY

• Become a certified coach through Samantha’s Breathwork & Somatic Coaching Certification.
• Join Samantha Skelly at Women & Wealth in San Diego

• Samantha Skelly’s unaired Shark Tank pitch: “Samantha Holds Firm at 15%, but ‘Kev’ Won’t Budge.”

Watch here: https://youtu.be/3l_WTsh1V3c?si=i04sw_NdCfox0RVn

Key Topics:

1. Breathwork, the Nervous System & Moving Beyond Survival    

• How Samantha’s first breathwork experience in Bali transformed her relationship with her body and self-love
• Using conscious breathing to replace survival strategies and create a greater sense of safety in the body

2. Integrity, Coherence & Building a Business That Lasts  

• Why Samantha believes chasing money without loving the work ultimately creates an unsustainable business
• Bringing the coaching industry back to focusing on service, results, discernment, and integrity

3. Choosing Your Reality When Life Gets Hard 

• How Samantha stayed regulated and chose to experience getting stranded on a mountain as an adventure instead of an obstacle
• The devastating pregnancy loss she experienced while leading hundreds of women at her live event and how she found enough regulation to continue leading while still honoring her grief

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If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow The Spiritual Hustler Podcast for new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Spotify and iTunes. Video episodes drop on Jessica Zweig’s YouTube channel every Tuesday. Follow her on Instagram for updates and behind-the-scenes content: @jessicazweig

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“Coherence is deeper than authenticity. Authenticity says, ‘This is who I am.’ Coherence asks, ‘Does every aspect of my life align with that story?’” —Jessica Zweig       

What if the next evolution of leadership isn’t about becoming more visible, successful, or influential, but becoming more coherent? In this Unlocking episode, Jess reflects on stepping away from social media and realizing how much of the online world has become driven by attention, performance, control, and the pressure to constantly produce.

Jess explores what it means to align your human experience, your shadow, your heart, and your soul, and why she believes coherence will become one of the most valuable currencies in an increasingly AI-generated world.

Listen to Jessica’s conversation with Lauryn Henley, Why You’re Supposed to Get Excited When Life Falls Apart

Key Topics:

1. Coherence as the New Currency      

• Becoming less interested in popularity, virality, and external validation 
• The difference between appearing authentic and living in true alignment across every area of your life

2. Integrating Your Human, Shadow, Heart & Soul  

• Jessica’s framework for understanding the 3D, 4D, 5D, and 7D aspects of ourselves
• Meeting the controlling, fearful, and protective parts of yourself with awareness instead of rejection

3. A New Paradigm of Feminine Leadership  

• Why real leadership requires accountability, self-awareness, and a willingness to examine your own triggers
• Choosing to do your inner work instead of projecting unprocessed emotions into the public square



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If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow The Spiritual Hustler Podcast for new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Spotify and iTunes. Video episodes drop on Jessica Zweig’s YouTube channel every Tuesday. Follow her on Instagram for updates and behind-the-scenes content: @jessicazweig

Visit jessicazweig.com for her book, podcast, programs, and resources to step into your purpose and power.

“You’re not the seeker. You’re the thing you’re seeking.” —Frank Elaridi   

What happens when you stop searching outside yourself for the answers and realize that what you’ve been seeking has been within you all along? Jess sits down with Emmy Award-winning former journalist and energy healer Frank Elaridi for a deeply spiritual conversation about consciousness, healing, self-realization, and remembering who you truly are.

Frank shares the intuitive pull that led him away from journalism and into energy healing, the extraordinary spiritual experience that radically changed his understanding of himself, and why he ultimately walked away from many of the practices he once believed would lead him closer to enlightenment. Together, he and Jess explore what exists beyond identity, the body, and even the idea of the spiritual “seeker.”

CONNECT WITH FRANK ELARIDI

• Pre-order Frank’s upcoming novel, dropping October 6th, Witches of Calabasas
• Book an energy healing session with Frank
• Join Frank’s Awaken the Healer Within community

Key Topics:

1. From Journalist to Energy Healer      

• How Frank followed an intuitive calling away from a successful career in media and into healing work
• Developing his clear cognizance and learning to trust what he intuitively knows during sessions   

2. Annihilating the Seeker & Remembering Who You Are  

• Why Frank stopped trying to spiritually “attain” something and began questioning the identity of the seeker itself
• Exploring consciousness, the witness, the body, and the experience of “I am” 

3. Spiritual Awakening, Saint Germain, & the Violet Flame 

• Frank’s experiences at the Monroe Institute and the encounter he describes with the Elohim
• The synchronicities involving purple light, Mount Shasta, Saint Germain, and the Violet Flame  

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If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow The Spiritual Hustler Podcast for new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Spotify and iTunes. Video episodes drop on Jessica Zweig’s YouTube channel every Tuesday. Follow her on Instagram for updates and behind-the-scenes content: @jessicazweig

Visit jessicazweig.com for her book, podcast, programs, and resources to step into your purpose and power.

“The humans in my company are doing irreplaceable work. AI is doing replaceable work.” —Callan Faulkner   

What if AI isn’t here to make us less human, but to give us the time and space to become MORE human? Jess sits down with Callan Faulkner, founder of The Uncommon Business, to explore what it actually looks like to build an AI-powered business without sacrificing your creativity, intuition, values, or soul. They unpack the difference between simply “using ChatGPT” and actually training AI employees, why the work that only YOU can do is becoming more valuable, how AI can give founders back hours of their lives, and why conscious entrepreneurs have an opportunity to use this technology in service of greater freedom, abundance, impact, and human connection. 

If this conversation blows your mind open to what’s possible, don’t stop here. Jess experienced the same shift when she took Callan’s AI Employee Bootcamp earlier this year, and Callan is bringing it back for three live, 90-minute virtual sessions on September 29, October 1, and October 6. You’ll go behind the scenes of real AI-powered business systems, see how AI employees work across different kinds of businesses, and leave with your first two AI employees already working. 

Join Jess at The AI Employee Bootcamp here!

Key Topics:

1. Building an AI-Powered Business      

• Why AI should handle replaceable work so humans can focus on what makes them irreplaceable
• Moving beyond basic prompting to training AI projects, skills, and specialized “employees” 

2. Scaling, Leadership & the $19.5M Launch  

• How Callan prepared mentally and financially for a level of growth beyond her original goal
• Transitioning from being the doer in your business to becoming the true visionary 

3. Using Technology to Create More Life 

• How AI can create more space for relationships, creativity, spirituality, family, travel, and presence
• Why scaling doesn’t have to mean working harder, longer, or sacrificing your peace  

If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow The Spiritual Hustler Podcast for new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Spotify and iTunes. Video episodes drop on Jessica Zweig’s YouTube channel every Tuesday. Follow her on Instagram for updates and behind-the-scenes content: @jessicazweig

Visit jessicazweig.com for her book, podcast, programs, and resources to step into your purpose and power.

“The future isn’t asking humans to become more artificial. It’s challenging us to become even more intentional about what deserves our human energy.” —Jessica Zweig       

What if AI isn’t here to take you further away from your humanity, but to give you MORE time to experience it? In this Unlocking episode, Jess shares how her relationship with AI transformed from resistance into partnership, fundamentally changing the way she runs her business, protects her creativity, and spends her most valuable resource: her time.

This isn’t about blindly adopting technology. It’s about consciously using AI to handle what’s repeatable so you have more space for what makes you irreplaceably human: your creativity, discernment, leadership, relationships, spirituality, and magic.

Sign up for The AI Employee Bootcamp Here!

Key Topics:

1. Using AI vs. Partnering With AI      

• Why simply asking ChatGPT questions is different from redesigning your workflow with AI
• Identifying the repetitive work that doesn’t actually require your consciousness or creativity 

2. Control, Creativity & Conscious AI  

• Why doing everything yourself isn’t always authenticity… it can be control disguised as high standards
• Approaching AI with boundaries, ethics, intentionality, and human discernment

3. Buying Back Your Time & Becoming More Human  

• Why time and human energy are two of our most valuable nonrenewable resources
• Using increased efficiency to create more space for relationships, creativity, leadership, prayer, and presence

Join The Living Room, my FREE personal letters from my desk, or maybe my porch swing, where I share the stuff that never will make it onto social media! 

If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow The Spiritual Hustler Podcast for new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Spotify and iTunes. Video episodes drop on Jessica Zweig’s YouTube channel every Tuesday. Follow her on Instagram for updates and behind-the-scenes content: @jessicazweig

Visit jessicazweig.com for her book, podcast, programs, and resources to step into your purpose and power.