What happens when you stop outsourcing your authority, drop the invisible armor, and realize that a business running on constant friction isn't the badge of honor you thought it was?

Tara Barot is a member of Bunny’s signature program, DEFY, and the founder of Wild Hearted Living. She's a very particular business owner.

Her life is filled with moments where she chooses a "yes, and" life regardless of whether it makes rational sense.

In this podcast episode, Bunny and Tara talk about the messy and profound journey it takes to become the woman who can hold a growing business from a place of freedom, passion, and intuition.

If you're on your journey of embodying the version of you who already has the success in business and life that you dream about, this podcast episode might be the exact call to action you need.

Listen up, and if you love it (which we know you will), don't forget to follow and leave a review.

Let's share the magic!

Timestamps

00:00 Yes, And! Podcast intro

05:00 The Reality of Living a Life That Doesn't Make "Rational" Sense

10:15 Breaking Free from Second-Guessing Every Business Move

16:30 The DEFY Transformation and Radical Self-Trust

23:00 Growing a Business Without Crushing Your Nervous System

30:15 What a True "Yes, And" Life Looks Like in Daily Entrepreneurship

**Resources & Links Mentioned:**

Connect with your host, Bunny Young:

DEFY: https://www.abetterplaceconsulting.com/defynow

Website: https://www.abetterplaceconsulting.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebunnyyoung/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bunnysumneryoung/

Connect with Tara Barot:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarabarot/

Website: https://www.wildheartedliving.com/

It’s time to face the truth: No matter how many zeroes are in your bank account, if your business only works when you are exhausted and available around the clock, your business might just be a different version of a golden cage. 

In the first episode of season 3 of the Yes, And! Podcast, I’m chatting with multi-industry entrepreneur, bestselling author, and powerhouse operator Kelsea Koenreich.

And her story is one for the books. Kelsea spent her early twenties in and out of jail, drinking every night, and watching her life completely unravel. Instead of staying stuck, she chose radical responsibility, rebuilt from rock bottom, and spent the last 15 years going inside the businesses of high-achieving multi-six and seven-figure women as their right-wing woman. 

In this conversation, we’re talking about the messy reality of breaking the mold, dropping the performance trap (yes, even the business blazers), dealing with unspoken rules in female entrepreneurship, and realizing that a business running on your constant burnout isn't freedom at all.

If you’re ready to stop performing and start building a business that actually supports your life, press play.

Timestamps

00:00 Yes, And! Podcast intro with Kelsea Koenreich

05:00 Underestimating Yourself, and Overcoming Early Shame 

09:30 Jail Time and Finding a Way Out

14:15 No One Is Coming to Save You: Radical Responsibility

19:40 Why Fitting Into Traditional Business Boxes Keeps You Stuck

24:30 The Performance Trap

29:10 Sister Wounds in Female Entrepreneurship

34:00 Shifting from Multi-Six Figures to Seven Figures Without Burning Down Your Life

38:15 Final Truth Bombs

Connect with your host, Bunny Young:

Website: https://www.abetterplaceconsulting.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebunnyyoung/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bunnysumneryoung/

Connect with Kelsea Koenreich:

Instagram: https://instagram.com/kelseakoenreich 

Website: https://www.kelseakoenreich.com/

What if building a successful business didn’t have to cost you everything?

Welcome to Season 3 of Yes, And! w. Bunny Young, where entrepreneurship, wealth, strategy, identity, and the nervous system come together to challenge the way we think about success.

Bunny Young is a retired therapist, third-generation entrepreneur, mother of four, and founder of nine companies. After years of building businesses and learning how to create more while doing less, she’s taking you behind the scenes of what it really takes to build wealth, grow a business, and create a life that actually supports you.

Expect honest conversations about money, identity, patterns, entrepreneurship, leadership, and the real transformation required to stop building your business according to someone else’s definition of success.

You don’t have to do it all to have it all!

If you’re ready to question the rules of hustle culture, rethink what success can look like, and build a business that supports the life you actually want, you’re in the right place.

Subscribe to Yes, And! and follow Bunny Young for more conversations, coaching, and insights on entrepreneurship, business growth, wealth, and creating your own version of success.

Connect with Bunny:

Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Website

This is going to sound hard, but trust me, it’s an important wakeup call: AI won't go anywhere, but neither will you if you keep outsourcing your power to an LLM.

This podcast episode is Part 2 of Woo & AI, a two-part series where Bunny talks about why AI won't replace you if you know what tasks to outsource and where to protect your uniqueness in a world that seems more vanilla than ever before.

In this second part, Bunny shares an overview of her AI tech stack and offers coaching insights on how to make the most of AI to expand your reach and amplify your magic.

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome back to Part 2

02:35 Why AI is a vehicle, not the problem

07:00 The "house manager" analogy

10:35 Why AI should support your ideas, not create them

12:43 Bunny's AI framework: See It, Do It, Be It

18:20 The AI tools Bunny uses every day

21:38 The inbox AI that's saving hours every week

23:26 What's next in AI and autonomous agents

27:12 The future is both AI and intuition

Links & Resources

⁠Watch Part 1 on YouTube

⁠Join our DEFY community here

⁠Instagram

⁠LinkedIn

⁠Website

Everyone keeps saying that AI is here to replace people in their jobs. That AI is this cold learning machine that's so advanced that humans won't be able to keep up with the pace.

But in this episode, Bunny makes it clear that no amount of technological advancement could ever replace your authenticity and magnetism. What AI can do, however, is support your expansion and reach.

In Part 1 of this two-part series on the Yes, And! Podcast, Bunny goes deep into what happens when entrepreneurs stop seeing AI as a threat and start seeing it as a tool.

In this episode, Bunny shares her perspective on the growing fears many online entrepreneurs have about being replaced, and why she believes this moment represents a real opportunity.

She also pulls back the curtain on how she's using AI inside her own businesses, why strategy and energetics are not opposites, and what entrepreneurs need to understand before handing over their voice, content, or decision-making to technology.

If you've been curious about AI, skeptical of it, or wondering how to integrate it into your business without losing what makes you unique, this episode is for you.

Timestamps

00:00 Yes, And! Podcast intro 

00:36 Why Bunny wanted to talk about AI now

03:35 AI, energetics, and the problem with either-or thinking

05:52 Is AI bad for the environment? A different perspective

10:28 Will AI replace entrepreneurs?

14:24 How to use AI without losing your authenticity

18:47 Why AI should never be making decisions for you

20:15 What ideal client interviews teach us that AI can't

25:51 What losing a business partnership taught Bunny about growth

27:10 Why AI became part of the DEFY conversation

28:13 What to expect in Part 2

Connect with your host, Bunny Young:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bunnysumneryoung/

Website: https://www.abetterplaceconsulting.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebunnyyoung/

Join DEFY: https://www.abetterplaceconsulting.com/defynow

In this episode of the Yes, And! Podcast, Bunny talks with entrepreneur and business mentor Cait Scudder for a conversation about identity shifts, risk, reinvention, and what happens when you finally stop building a life that no longer fits you.

Before building a multi-seven-figure company, Cait was making $38,000 a year as a teacher, overworked, exhausted, and quietly realizing she couldn’t keep forcing herself into a version of success that looked good on paper but felt completely disconnected from who she was becoming.

What followed was not some perfectly mapped out business plan.

It started with a resignation letter sent from Spain before taking a group of students to an EDM rave in Barcelona. Then came Bali, a complete life pivot, meeting her now husband by chance, and eventually building a business rooted in both strategy and personal transformation.

Bunny and Cait talk about what it actually looks like to grow a business organically, why relationships matter more than most marketing strategies, and how many entrepreneurs get stuck building businesses that simply become demanding jobs.

This conversation also moves into motherhood, identity, and the parts of growth people don’t talk about enough.

The void seasons.

The cave.

The moments where everything old stops fitting before the next version of you fully arrives.

And maybe most importantly, the permission to let your life evolve without needing every next step perfectly figured out first.

This episode is for the person standing between safety and expansion, wondering if they’re allowed to want something different.

Because sometimes the biggest shift starts with finally admitting you’ve outgrown the life everyone expected you to keep.

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome to the Yes, And! Podcast

01:00 From a $38K teaching salary to entrepreneurship

04:00 Sending the resignation letter from Spain

08:00 Moving to Bali and meeting her husband

10:30 Starting her first coaching business

13:00 How Cait got her first clients organically

14:30 Scaling to multiple seven figures without paid ads

17:00 Why relationships matter more than marketing hacks

20:00 Motherhood, identity shifts, and business growth

24:00 The importance of “the cave” seasons in life and business

26:00 Final reflections and permission to evolve

Connect with your host, Bunny Young:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bunnysumneryoung/

Website: https://www.abetterplaceconsulting.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebunnyyoung/

Connect with Cait Scudder:

Website: https://caitscudder.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themillionairemother

What does wealth actually look like once you’ve built enough to realize money alone isn’t the point anymore?

In this episode of the Yes, And! Podcast, Bunny chats with commercial real estate broker, entrepreneur, and investor Joe Killinger for a conversation that moves far beyond buying property or chasing money.

Joe shares the story of building a company while surviving the pressure of entrepreneurship with barely any money in the bank. The ace up his sleeve? Growing businesses through relationships, consistency, and long-term thinking.

Bunny and Joe talk about what wealth actually means when freedom becomes more valuable than status. They talk about building companies instead of jobs, surrounding yourself with people smarter than you, burnout, entrepreneurship, investing, leadership, and the responsibility that comes with success.

And somewhere in the middle of all of it, this episode becomes a conversation about legacy. About building something bigger than yourself. About creating a life that feels meaningful while you’re living it, not just impressive from the outside.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro Yes, And!

02:30 Why the best CEOs surround themselves with smarter people

06:40 The insane story behind 410 acres in Malibu

12:30 Renting vs buying and how entrepreneurs should think about wealth

21:30 How Joe would build $5 million again in today’s market

25:30 Entrepreneurship, burnout, and staying in the game long term

28:30 What wealth actually means beyond money

34:30 The definition of a “Yes, And!” lifestyle

Connect with your host, Bunny Young:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bunnysumneryoung/

Website: https://www.abetterplaceconsulting.com/

Instagram: @thebunnyyoung

Connect with Joe Killinger:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-killingerrealestate/

Website: https://www.joekillinger.co/

YouTube: ⁨@JoeKillinger⁩

What happens when the very thing you spent years building successfully starts asking you to become someone new?

In this episode of Yes, And! Bunny chats with long-time creative collaborator and tech founder Cathy Olson to unpack the often uncomfortable evolution that happens inside a business when it grows out of its original container.

This conversation moves past surface-level marketing advice to land in the emotional landscape of entrepreneurship. Cathy shares open, vulnerable reflections on shifting her business model, navigating massive identity transitions alongside a long-term partner, and the vulnerable process of staying grounded when the structures around you are in constant motion.

Underneath the logistics of funnels, platforms, and programs is a much deeper work that needs to be done, and it's about trusting your intuition and finding the permission to let your identity change as your vision expands.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro Yes, And!

04:15 Feeling the identity shift friction

10:30 Navigating systemic business changes

16:45 When partnerships face new structures

23:10 Nervous system cost of adaptation

31:15 Trusting the slow evolution process

39:40 Balancing alignment with scaling needs

48:20 Mid-transition business vulnerability

54:10 Creativity bringing us back home

54:10 Finding comfort in the strange, beautiful ways creativity brings us back to ourselves

Connect with your host, Bunny Young:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bunnysumneryoung/

Website: https://www.abetterplaceconsulting.com/

Instagram: @thebunnyyoung

Connect with Cathy Olson:

Instagram: @funnelgorgeous

Website: https://funnelgorgeous.com

In this episode of the Yes, And! Podcast, Bunny brings TEDx speaker, executive coach, author, and educator Doug Kirkpatrick to talk about self-management at work.

Doug dives into how he was a founding member of the team that built one of the largest tomato processing companies in the world without a single boss.

This conversation reflects on accountability and a better way of doing business.

It goes deep into the philosophy behind great ideas and great companies: community. And how this blurs the lines between personal and professional life, where in both, keeping your word matters.

This is a masterclass on integrity, business success, and how commitment shows through self-trust, and through the choices you make when no one is watching.

Timestamps

00:00 Yes, and! Introduction

00:30 Opening: Self-management and a different way to lead

05:30 From startup to global company without bosses

10:30 The origin of self-management and why it works

15:30 What integrity actually means in practice

20:30 Keeping commitments to yourself vs. others

25:30 Where self-trust breaks and how to rebuild it

30:30 Why hierarchy exists and what’s changing

35:30 Power, control, and human nature in leadership

40:30 Applying self-management in real life

Connect with your host, Bunny Young:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bunnysumneryoung/

Website: https://www.abetterplaceconsulting.com/

Instagram: @thebunnyyoung

Connect with Doug Kirkpatrick

Books: The No Limits Enterprise, Beyond Empowerment

Website: https://dougkirkpatrick.com/

Coaching, mentorship, and masterclasses available

What if sales had nothing to do with convincing people and everything to do with value?

Bunny shares how an unexpected moment with her daughter after coming home from horseback riding turned into one of the deepest lessons on sales, investing, business growth, and human behavior.

Bunny opens up about the uncomfortable side of entrepreneurship. The part where building the business you want requires risk, discomfort, uncertainty, and decisions that won’t always make sense to everyone around you.

There’s also a deeper conversation here around identity.

About what happens when you stop seeing yourself as “someone trying to make it,” and start seeing yourself as the investment itself.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro Yes, And!

02:20 What entrepreneurs misunderstand about investing

04:40 Why discomfort is part of building something meaningful

08:50 The real reason people hesitate to invest in themselves

11:20 What people truly value will always get their time and money

13:30 Investing in experiences, community, and long-term growth

15:00 The type of entrepreneur DEFY is actually built for

16:30 Building impact without burnout

Connect with your host, Bunny Young:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bunnysumneryoung/

Website: https://www.abetterplaceconsulting.com/

Instagram: @thebunnyyoung