If selling is a necessary part of running a business, how can we change our relationship to selling so it feels less sleazy? This is the question at the heart of Amy’s year long experiment in not selling and it formed the basis for today’s episode with sales consultant, Shay Schindler from Sales With Shay.

In this conversation they talk about:

• How Shay shifted her mindset from ‘selling is sleazy’ to ‘selling is a service’
• The three questions Shay asks herself every time she is building a sales page or funnel
• The tarot cards we’re using to help shift our energy around selling
• How to sell without getting on a sales call
• Shay’s most disliked traditional sales tactic to watch out for when you’re being sold to

About Shay:

Shay is a high-ticket sales consultant and coach with almost two decades of experience helping thought-leaders and creators build profitable businesses online.

After side-hustling for years, she took her online business dreams full-time and co-founded a brand consultancy in 2017 and has been busy ever since.

She’s had the opportunity to help hundreds of clients grow their own online business, traveled to 20+ countries working remotely, started a podcast (@Curiously Guided) and discovered a passion for teaching non sales-y people how to sell more.

Love what you do, but need help selling it? Slide in her DMs at @saleswithshay on IG 

Connect with Shay at www.saleswithshay.com or on IG @saleswithshay

Listen to Curiously Guided at https://www.curiouslyguided.com/

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What if the industry standard for your business was draining you physically, mentally, and emotionally?? That’s the experience Amy had a year into the pandemic. In this episode she shares what she did to drastically change how she works with clients and the benefits she’s seen from taking that risk.

In this episode she dives into:

• How she progressed from offering medical care to coaching
• Her “hot take” on what coaching is and isn’t
• What it looks like to no longer offer coaching calls as a coach
• The pros and cons of Voxer only coaching

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Learn more about my coaching offering and working together.
• Find me on Voxer!
• Paperbell is an all-in-one tool that handles scheduling, payments and client management I use to streamline the tech side of my coaching business. Create a free account here.

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Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more. Membership tiers are sliding scale $5-$33 per month.

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Being in business is being comfortable with pivoting - wether it’s due to our own personal evolutions and changes, or in response to the outer world, economy, and market. We all experienced a lot of pivoting a few years back when the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 virus took our wold by storm.

In today’s episode, Amy invited her friend and community member, Maggie Batista, to come on the show and talk about pivoting in business. Maggie is someone who has been in business (offline and online) for decades and has lots of experience when it comes to following her heart/soul/inner voice to pivot.

She's recently moved through a new pivot in her business - and since Amy’s Patreon community has as well, Amy wanted to have a conversation with her focused on pivoting. (Please note this conversation was initially recorded for the Patreon community’s private audio feed.)

In this conversation we talk about:

• How Maggie has permissioned herself to pivot time after time
• The astrological and Human Design lenses that have supported her in pivoting
• Mindsets and fears that have come up and how she's worked with them to find inner safety
• ...and so much more!

About Maggie:

Maggie Battista is a writer, storyteller and intuitive. She started We Are Magic Studio to empower others to surface their soul and live intuitively, and recently launched a Storytelling Subscription to inspire others to connect to their own inner voice and made her popular Awaken Your Inner Voice Workshop available for download.

Over the last decade, Maggie’s been finding a way back home to herself. In doing so, she stopped seeking external validation, broke free from anyone's expectations, and now takes inspired action in life and work from a place of peace and inner knowing.

Maggie’s spent thousands of hours studying and practicing human design, astrology, soul center medicine, the Gene Keys, lunar living, anti-racism, decolonization, feminist business, alignment and intuition, breath work, manifestation, meditation, yoga, soul tarot, the Akashic records, dream study, the inner voice, journalism, writing and storytelling. Previously, Maggie launched some of the first internet start-ups; built engaged communities of millions; designed intentional, award-winning brands; and operated hospitality businesses here and in France. She’s written two books and is currently working on a memoir.

Links to things we talk about in this episode:

We Are Magic Studio: https://www.wearemagic.studio/

Awaken Your Inner Voice Workshop: https://www.wearemagic.studio/inner-voice

Storytelling Subscription: https://hdly.me/maggie (all subscribers will get access to the workshop for free!)

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To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

Does it ever feel like you’re getting mixed signals from your intuition when you’re making plans in your business? If your answer is yes you’re definitely not alone. In this episode Amy dives into her own experience of this happening and her tried and true tool she uses to move through it.

In this episode she dives into:

• How Amy works with the Three of Pentacles tarot card in her business
• How “parts work” might show up when we’re exploring our businesses needs
• Amy’s favorite tarot spread to use when we need some external information to help us make decisions in our business
• A live tarot reading using the spread mentioned above!

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Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more. Membership tiers are sliding scale $5-$33 per month.

To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

Join Amy as she talks to past client, Dr. Katy Peplin, all about experimentation in business.

In this episode they talk about:

• Running her business as a series of experiments.
• The process of learning to trust her body’s messages and connecting to her intuition.
• How she moved out of a success/failure binary and started to see more holographic growth in herself and her business.
• How breathwork has played a role in her business.
• What resulted after she trusted spirit-led messages that came through during breathwork, and how those results surprised her.
• How they both have redefined what we consider ‘work.’

About Katy:

Katy Peplin (she/her) turned her difficulties in graduate school into a coaching business built around the idea that you can be a scholar and a human at the same time. Thrive PhD is a thriving community that has grown into courses, writing groups, one-on-one work, and workshops around the world. When she isn't working, she's often outside - gardening, hiking, or reading her porch.

You can find Katy at: thrive-phd.com and download her working more intentionally toolkit here.

Support the show

Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more. Membership tiers are sliding scale $5-$33 per month.

To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

What if we didn’t sell?? That’s the question Amy asks in this week’s episode where she outlines her 2023 experiment in not selling.

In this episode she dives into:

• Her most epic launch failure to date
• The epiphany that led to experimenting with not selling
• What she’s defining as “selling” vs “not selling” this year
• The two main experiments she’s exploring around “sales without selling” this year

Support the show

Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more. Membership tiers are sliding scale $5-$33 per month.

To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

A quick content warning heads up that today’s episode references health challenges and medical diagnosis. Please tend to your needs as needed if these topics bring up difficult feelings for you.

In this episode, Amy talks about how fears in business and life are so natural and how they often try to keep us stuck in place. She shares some life updates that have felt scary to her and how she’s navigating that fear to keep moving forward in her business.

Resource mentioned in this episode: My Friend Fear: Finding Magic in the Unknown by Meera Lee Patel

Support the show

Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more. Membership tiers are sliding scale $5-$33 per month.

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Get a peak behind the curtain of two breathwork businesses at the end of the year. In this episode, Amy is joined by one of her biz besties - Chauna Bryant - to have an open conversation reflecting on the past year in each of their businesses and looking forward towards the next year.

They reflect on these five questions:

1. What word or phrase would you use to describe 2022 in your business?
2. Where did you spend the majority of your time and energy in your business last year?
3. What’s the biggest lesson learned last year?
4. What’s something that you can take a step back from? What’s something you want to engage more with next year?
5. Goal setting: Were those goals really that important? How do you want to set goals going forward?
6. What would a successful 2023 look like?

Learn more about Chauna at https://www.chaunabryant.com/

Chauna Bryant is a Breathwork Meditation facilitator, Pilates, and GYROTONIC® Instructor, and founder of Breath Liberation Society. She is dedicated to body and mind rejuvenation. With 15 years of experience, Chauna assists her clients in cultivating their mind, body, and breath alignment. She revolutionizes her multiple practices by integrating her multiple expertise into enriching client-specific experiences. Dedicated Pilates clients will cultivate stronger, leaner bodies while benefiting from breath-activating energy work with her methods. Participants in her private, group, and corporate Breathwork Meditation sessions benefit from her multifaceted experience and singular approach. When possible, Chauna offers Virtual breathing circles at inclusive pricing: a sliding scale pay structure and scholarships are available. You can catch her free, guided Breathwork Meditations on YouTube, InsightTimer, and InstagramTV.

Support the show

Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more. Membership tiers are sliding scale $5-$33 per month.

To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

In this episode Amy is joined by past Incubator member, Finn Schubert, all about following narrative threads in our life and business.

They talk about:

• Finding and following narrative threads - even when the narrative is wildly nonlinear
• Knowing when to walk away and begin a new path
• Being willing to listen to our intuitive guides, even when they don’t tell us what we want to hear
• His writing practice and how he decides what stories are for sharing and what stories are for him alone
• Breathwork as a tool for letting go
• and much more!

Finn Schubert (he/him) is the author of Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here, an essay collection exploring his move from NYC to a small town to grieve his infertility. (In a weird twist, he got pregnant as soon as the book came out.)  He is a Moth StorySlam-winning storyteller, and his writing has appeared in TheBody, Lit Star Review, and the anthologies Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices and Places Like Home. He writes a weekly essays newsletter, titled "The Menstruant," exploring the question: What does it mean to be a gay man who loves having a uterus? (Right now: Pregnancy edition.)

Finn’s background is in public health and he most recently worked as the director of HIV services for a large community health center network in Brooklyn prior to transitioning to freelance consulting last year. He offers speaking and workshops regarding LGBTQ+ health, trans and nonbinary inclusion in workplaces and spiritual communities, and public health program design and evaluation. Finn currently lives in NYC and is at work on an essay collection.

Connect with Finn:

Subscribe to essays!  finnschubert.substack.com

Purchase book:  finnschubert.com

IG:  @finnschubertwrites

Support the show

Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more. Membership tiers are sliding scale $5-$33 per month.

To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when our inboxes, podcast feeds, and and social media sites are teeming with educational material trying to teach us or sell us the NEXT RIGHT THING. So how do you lessen the overwhelm? By really discerning whose voices you want to invite into your brain space. 

In today’s episode, Amy is going to share with you her matrix of discernment concept and give you a peek behind the curtain at the exact matrix she uses to decide who to learn from. 

Take a listen, create your own matrix of discernment, and share them with Amy in a voice note or email over at amykuretsky.com/podcast

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Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more. Membership tiers are sliding scale $5-$33 per month.

To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

Learn about my framework to build a solid foundation for a business that want to do business differently.

The six pillars are:

• Embracing the Mess
• Unlearning and Discerning
• Imagining and Visioning
• Trusting and Surrendering
• Finding and Defining Enoughness
• Befriending Fear and Taking Brave Steps

Take a listen to figure out which pillars your business is solidly built upon - and which pillars it might be time to start building.

Support the show

Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more. Membership tiers are sliding scale $5-$33 per month.

To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com