Wickedly Smart Women

We've been conditioned to believe that success comes with hard work, hustle and grind. That if our work is too easy, we must be doing something wrong. But what if business can be about flow and ease? What if we can make work fit into our life? What if this kind of graceful approach actually allows us to show up as our best selves and serve at the highest level?

Christine Kloser is the bestselling author, coach and publisher behind The Transformation Quadrant, a system for helping entrepreneurs and leaders write their transformational books. Since 2004, she's supported 80K aspiring authors in 127 countries in signing publishing deals, promoting their work on major media outlets and keynoting on stages worldwide. Christine's life-changing process for becoming a Transformational Author allows her to deliver more than a published book. In fact, she helps her clients fully embody their authentic selves and share their powerful message with the world.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Christine joins Emerald to share what called her to this role, walking us through her journey from helping her husband get published to coaching thousands of transformational authors. Christine describes how being conditioned to work hard led her to bankruptcy and explain what steps she took to trust the ease and grace of doing business on her terms. Listen in to understand how self-care serves as fuel for us to serve at the highest level and learn how YOU can use Christine's methodology to initiate your own personal transformation!

Christine's introduction to publishing through her husband's book

How saying YES to what showed up inspired Christine's current work

How being conditioned to work hard led Christine to bankruptcy

Why self-care serves as fuel for being able to serve at the highest level

How Christine learned to trust the ease + grace of doing business on her terms

Christine's exercise for creating a blueprint for your book or course

What Christine did to get clear on her next steps and build a new business

The process Christine uses to help authors embody their true self

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Wicked-smart women understand that our disconnection from the earth has created a number of problems. But did you know that we can leverage an understanding of astrology to get attuned to cosmic forces and reconnect with what Simone Butler calls the world soul, harnessing the ancient secrets of the sky to make a difference in modern life?

Simone is the creator of Astro Alchemy, a platform designed to help people find their purpose and passion through the ancient practice of astrology. With more than 30 years of experience as an astrological guide, her work has appeared in Starscroll and Tarot.com, among many other media outlets. Simone is also the author of Astro Feng Shui: Making Magic in Your Home and Life and Moon Power: Lunar Rituals for Connecting with Your Inner Goddess and host of the weekly Patreon show Simone Sez.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Simone joins Emerald to discuss the ancient roots of astrology as a way of understanding ourselves and the world and explain how millennials are rediscovering these traditional astrological techniques. She describes how to bring the divine feminine energy of the full moon into our body and offers insight around some the sacred sites where the land still has power. Listen in for Simone's call for us to reconnect with the earth and learn why 2020 is the year to rise up into our true power and become a force for change.

What called Simone to explore the world of astrology

The ancient roots of astrology as a way to understand the world

Simone's call for us to reconnect with the earth

How millennials are discovering traditional astrological techniques

How to bring the energy of the full moon into your body

Simone's insight on sacred sites where the land has power

The two major outer planet conjunctions taking place in 2020

Why 2020 is the time to rise up into our true identity + power

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The Astro Alchemy Blog

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Project Hindsight

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Moon Power: Lunar Rituals for Connecting with Your Inner Goddess by Simone Butler

Simone's Moon Sign Finder

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As women, we've been conditioned to give our time and talent away for free. But if we want to build a sustainable business, we HAVE to align our pricing with the value we provide. So, how do we lose the shame around money and start asking for what we're worth?

Lori Lyons is the Founder and CEO of Ignite Marketing, a web design and marketing company that helps small businesses clarify their message and connect with a target audience online. With 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and marketer, Lori marries the woo and the doo, using stories and analogies to make the complex simple. Beyond building websites, Lori and her team support small businesses in the area of social media management, sales funnel design and branding.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Lori joins Emerald to share her journey in and out of entrepreneurship and explain how building a website for a friend led to the creation of Ignite Marketing. She walks us through the process of practicing a proposal without apologizing for the price, discussing why it's crucial to charge what we're worth and how to know when it's time to give ourselves a raise. Listen in for Lori's insight on giving yourself permission to take a risk and get her advice around building a profitable business that will feed and nourish you and your team!

How building a website for a friend led Lori to create Ignite Marketing

Lori's journey in and out of entrepreneurship over the years

Lori's challenge for women to give ourselves permission to take risks

How to practice your proposal without apologizing for the price

Lori's tips for knowing when it's time to give yourself a raise

How to avoid burnout and create a profitable business that feeds you

How Lori makes decisions around what to delegate to her team

Lori's work helping clients get to the heart of their marketing message

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When it comes to marketing your business, the choices are overwhelming. And what works for another entrepreneur may not be a good fit for YOU. Is there an easy way to discern a marketing strategy that plays to your strengths and gets results?

Milana Leshinsky is the business strategist behind Simplicity Circle, a platform dedicated to helping entrepreneurs create simple but lucrative businesses that work for their lives. She is also the architect of the Marketing Superskills Personality Assessment, the inventor of the telesummit, and the former cofounder of a seven-figure online coaching business. Milana is passionate about supporting coaches, authors and speakers in focusing their marketing efforts, and she is the author of Simplicity Entrepreneurship: Escape Burnout, Find Flow, and Discover Your Shortest Path to Profit.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Milana joins Emerald to explain how she got her start in online business and introduce us to the distinction between sales and marketing. Milana describes the burnout that inspired her to walk away from a lucrative business partnership, discussing how she designed Simplicity Circle to help entrepreneurs build successful, sustainable businesses. Listen in for Milana's insight on choosing the best marketing approach for your personality and learn how to stretch outside your comfort zone—in the right direction for YOU.

What inspired Milana's invention of the telesummit

How Milana got her start online with eBooks + her transition to coaching

The distinction between sales and marketing

Why Milana walked away from a seven-figure business partnership

What called Milana to create Simplicity Circle

Milana's commitment to helping entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses

How to choose the best marketing approach for you and your personality

How to stretch outside your comfort zone in the right direction for you

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Milana's Free Marketing Superskills Tool

Coaching Millions: Help More People, Make More Money, Live Your Ultimate Lifestyle by Milana Leshinsky

Simplicity Entrepreneurship: Escape Burnout, Find Flow, and Discover Your Shortest Path to Profit by Milana Leshinsky

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Our pets are valued members of the family, offering us comfort, companionship and unconditional love. But if their health is in jeopardy and our vet doesn't have answers, where do we turn? And what can we do to be proactive in keeping our furbabies happy and healthy for the long term?

Rachel Augusta is a certified Advanced Proficiency Healing Touch for Animals practitioner who serves animals all over the world. She works in hospitals, veterinary clinics, rehab facilities and shelters, supporting pets who are sick, injured or suffering from a terminal illness, age-related issues or trauma resulting from previous abuse. Rachel's work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, the BBC and People magazine, among many other media publications.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Rachel joins Emerald to explain how a difficult experience with her own cat's health inspired her current work and why she can help more animals now that she's not over-giving. She discusses what she does to get an animal's body and brain in alignment, introducing us to the science behind the power of relaxation and happiness. Listen in for Rachel's insight on how our emotions impact our pets and learn what you can do to keep your entire family healthy—and that includes your furbabies!

How animals have evolved to mask their illness

How Rachel's experience with her own cat inspired her current work

What Rachel does to get your pet's body and brain in alignment

Why Rachel can help more animals now that she's not over-giving

The science behind the power of relaxation and happiness

The process of working with Rachel

1. Initial consultation to learn full story
2. Examine what's happening in YOUR life
3. Explore what's in house (potential hormone disruptors)
4. Hourlong private sessions

Rachel's favorite success story of a Golden Retriever with an abdominal tumor

What Rachel's membership site offers in terms of proactive care

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Are you fed up with your life but struggling to make a change? If you feel stuck, it's time to get out of your own way and launch what Kimberly Seltzer calls a confidence makeover.

Kimberly is the CEO of Seltzer Style, a platform dedicated to helping people feel good about who they are and learn to embody it. Kimberly leverages her knowledge and experience as a therapist, certified confidence trainer and dating coach to help clients build valuable relationships and attract success via her unique 'confidence makeover.' She is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Oprah Magazine and HuffPost, among many other media outlets. Kimberly serves as the leading love expert on The Great Love Debate and The Romance, and she hosts The Charisma Quotient podcast.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Kimberly joins Emerald to share the Red Dress Moment that inspired her current work around confidence and explain how it informed her outside-in approach to transformation. She offers advice on building courage through action, exploring the fears that keep us stuck and the value in developing a willingness to receive help. Listen in for Kimberly's insight on the relationship between internal and external transformation and learn to say YES to your own confidence makeover!

The Red Dress Moment that inspired Kimberly's work around confidence

What inspired Kimberly's shift to an outside-in approach to transformation

How Kimberly got comfortable with being seen and making connections

Kimberly's advice on building courage through ACTION

How Kimberly defines confidence as positive experience

The fears that keep us stuck and where to find the motivation to change

How a coach can help you develop a plan for transformation

Kimberly's insight around embracing the 'beauty in the grey'

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When you've been betrayed, it's natural to build armor around your heart. But if you want to heal and live fully once again, it's necessary to let go. To allow relaxation, ease and peace to drop away the armor. To trust yourself enough to let love in and give yourself permission to feel FABULOUS every day.

Kamala Murphey is a mystic, spiritual teacher and transformational healer. She is committed to helping women devastated by a Plan A gone awry awaken to the possibilities and nurture a relationship with Spirit that lifts them to their highest good. Kamala holds a Master's degree in Counseling and Theology, and she is the host of the She Moves Mountains Podcast.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Kamala joins Emerald to discuss her deep connection with the Divine, explaining how she kept her faith when her own Plan A went sideways and what she does to support women who've had the rug pulled out from under them. She shares the process of allowing peace and ease to drop away the armor around our hearts and introduces the idea that asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness. Listen in for Kamala's insight on using active imagination to communicate with Spirit and learn to give yourself the freedom and license to feel FABULOUS every day!

The moment when God signed His name on Kamala's heart

Kamala's experience with having her own Plan A go awry when her marriage ended

Kamala's gift for putting people at ease

The process of allowing ease and peace to drop away the armor around our hearts

The connection between betrayal and the hesitance to ask for help

Why asking for help is a sign of strength

How to give yourself permission to feel FABULOUS every day

Kamala's practice of using active imagination to communicate with spirit

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She Moves Mountains Podcast

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What would you do differently if you had absolute faith in yourself and your mission? Is fear and self-doubt keeping you (and your business) from getting to the next level? Are you ready to get f'n real, stop hiding and start serving your purpose in a bigger, more profound way?

Lisa serves as the host of the groundbreaking Get F'n Real (GFR) Podcast, a confession-based show featuring soulful entrepreneurs, and the creator of the 12 GFR Commandments. She has 20-plus years of experience mentoring millionaire business owners and spent 15 years building a successful business as the Juicy Marketing Expert before she got f'n real and got aligned with her true purpose. Today, she is committed to helping other mission-inspired entrepreneurs get out of their own way, help more people and make more money!

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Lisa joins Emerald to explain what inspired her to build a seven-figure business and why she walked away when it wasn't making her happy. She shares the messy process of dismantling a business, describing how she got comfortable with not knowing what was next and how the 12 GFR Commandments emerged during that difficult time. Listen in to understand how fear and self-doubt impact cashflow and take on Lisa's challenge to get f'n real and be unapologetically YOU!

Lisa's insight around owning your mastery, expertise and beingness

What inspired Lisa first to build a seven-figure business and then let it go

How Lisa relaxed into not knowing as she dismantled her business

How Lisa came to create the 12 GFR Commandments

Why stopping is sometimes the most lucrative action we can take

Lisa's belief that being unapologetically YOU leads to cashflow

Why it's crucial to have faith in yourself and your mission

GFR

GFR Podcast

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Are you ready to step into the spotlight and share your message with the world? There's a good chance that putting yourself out there will require some healing work on your part. In fact, Debbi Dachinger contends that visibility is an inside and outside job, requiring both practical strategies AND spiritual growth to break free of limitations and become ALL of yourself for an audience.

Debbi is an award-winning radio and podcast host, media personality and keynote speaker. An authority in the realm of visibility, she coaches clients on how to position themselves as the go-to expert in their field, write a bestseller and/or land interviews that get results. Debbi's work has been featured on 1,000-plus media outlets, and she has been recognized with the Broadcasting Industry Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted into the Who's Who Hall of Fame for Entertainment, among many other accolades and honors.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Debbi joins Emerald to share the healing journey that allowed her to step into the spotlight and explain why visibility requires both inner work and a practical system to achieve results. She describes how she discerns whether an opportunity is the next right step, offering insight on how to stay committed to a vision—yet fluid in how your creativity expresses itself along the way. Listen in for Debbi's advice around focusing your efforts where you shine and learn how to leverage The Law of Reversibility to manifest your big, badass dreams!

The healing journey that allowed Debbi to step into the spotlight

How visibility requires both a practical system AND inner work

The three ways Debbi helps clients position themselves as experts

Debbi's extrasensory capacity to see other's strengths

How Debbi discerns whether an opportunity is the next right step

How to stay fluid around how your creativity expresses itself

Debbi's advice on focusing your efforts where you shine

How Debbi leverages The Law of Reversibility to achieve a vision

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For wicked-smart women who are highly creative, it can be challenging to harness that creativity and turn it into cashflow. How do we balance the structure of running a business with the unpredictability of our creative imagination? How do we make time to play yet hold ourselves accountable for reaching our creative goals?

Jennie Edwards is the creator of Your Dynamic Story, a platform designed to help entrepreneurs craft and share their message to make a bigger impact in the world. She teaches clients how to show up with confidence and vulnerability, in alignment with their values. Jennie is passionate about empowering others to grow their audience, connect authentically and drive sales. She is also a successful photographer and videographer with 12 years of experience running her own business as a creative.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Jennie joins Emerald to share her calling as a creative leader and explain how she is inspiring others to take their mission to the next level. She introduces us to the idea of leveraging stillness to make big decisions and bringing a vision to life through strategic manifestation. Listen in for Jennie's insight on scheduling time for creativity and learn her top affirmations for creating abundance in your business and life.

Jennie's calling to use her creative gifts to elevate others

What inspired Jennie's move to San Diego to pursue her best life

How Jennie leverages stillness + embodiment to make decisions

Jennie's practice of strategic manifestation to realize her goals

How clearly defined values help us know when to change

Jennie's advice on holding yourself accountable to creative goals

The individual and group coaching options Jennie offers

How Jennie's relationship with money has evolved over time

· Conversation with inner critic re: self-worth

· Affirmations to generate abundance

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