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Cait Scudder on Why You Were Born to Rise May 31, 2022

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Today's episode is with my incredible friend and colleague, the one and only Cait Scudder.

Cait Scudder is a high school teacher turned Forbes-featured 7 figure Business Coach for women entrepreneurs. A TEDx speaker, host of the Born to Rise podcast, and internationally recognized online business expert, as well as a loving mama and wife, Cait's mission is to empower ten million driven, bold-hearted women to uncover their zone of genius and use it to create a profitable, purpose-driven business that changes the world. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Business Insider among several other publications. Find her inside her free Facebook community, The Radiant Entrepreneur, where she shares weekly free trainings and content for her community of boss babes, or on her website at www.cait.co.

I can't wait to see what this episode unlocks for you. Be sure to tag me in any of your takeaways: @amberlilyestrom

Money Mindset Q&A with Amber May 24, 2022

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Today I am coming to you live from my IGNITE Mastermind! I'm sharing with you one of our bi-weekly trainings: Money Monday. IGNITE is an accountability community that includes accountability coaching, monthly trainings, Spark sessions and hot seats. Money Mondays are an incredible time to connect with friends and community about your money mindset, sharing what's working and what's not, celebrating wins and recognizing obstacles.

Let's dive in!

In this Episode You'll Learn:

[01:01] About Ignite mastermind
[04:37] A member's question on making money goals a reality backing into the month quarter year
[13:29] How to keep feeling empowered through the highs and lows
[16:21] How to keep focus in the good energy during the messy middle
[21:30] Trying to manage the identity of ourselves inside our personal brands, and the ways in which we function sort of in an old way of being when the work that we've been committing ourselves to has challenged us into new understanding, and new ways of seeing
[23:01] Challenging clients around their patterns and constructs of comfort
[26:32] Imposter syndrome
[29:25] My take on why failure is obsolete

Soul Shifting Quotes:

"We have to have a vision, we have to be led by our vision, if the dream is a new, and it's for you." [05:17]
"The goal is used, I think, as a tool to help us take the action that we're meant to take so we can have the experiences we're meant to have. So we can continue to grow and evolve in the ways that we're meant to grow and evolve." [07:12]
"When we're judging the energy is good or bad. It creates this polarity that that puts us in this sort of like slamming back and forth on the spectrum, instead of just allowing ourselves to be neutral, about what's coming through, even when it feels really hard." [16:28]
"Debts are a reflection or a mirror for our commitments." [17:37]
"Helping people when people need help, is a great thing to do. It's a great thing to do, and it will help you to have a more profitable business. Sooner than later." [19:50]
"Comfortable is a relative term that can really go any which way, given the day of the week, we're going to have a conversation about it." [22::08]
"Money is just a tool that gets to help us in the expression process." [26:42]

Connect with Amber

Facebook: Amber Lilyestrom

LinkedIn: Amber Lilyestrom

Email us at: hello@amberlilyestrom.com

Resources

Ignite Mastermind Enrol here: https://amberlilyestrom.simplero.com/purchase/133118-IGNITE-Level-2-Mastermind-with-Amber

Amber's Book: Quantum Wealth

Book: Untethered Soul

Book: Paddle Home

Book: Master Your Money Mind

Why Are We Like This: Anxiety Edition May 17, 2022

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Welcome to May's episode of Why Are We Like This?: Anxiety Edition

In this month's episode, Kristen and I share on a topic that's been popping up for both us, and for our clients + community: anxiety.

Each of us has our own experience of what it feels like to dance with this feeling, and with what stirs it up in us. This episode is all about our own personal exploration of it, along with the shifts we've made in our own lives to help navigate and/or relinquish it where possible.

As the world around us becomes even more overwhelming, we've both found the importance of managing our nervous systems, controlling what we can, and finding acceptance with (and letting go of) what we can't.

We hope you enjoy the conversation and if you find some piece of it useful, we'd be honored if you shared and tagged us: @amberlilyestrom and @kristenhubbardwrites over on Instagram!

Jessica Bargenquast on Becoming a Lady ChangeMaker May 10, 2022

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Today's episode is with the incredible founder of Lady ChangeMakers, the official "Amazon for Women" e-commerce platform.

Jessica is the founder of Lady ChangeMakers, an all inclusive e-commerce platform for women-owned businesses. Jessica is an expert in creating exposure and driving traffic for e-commerce businesses.

She launched Lady ChangeMakers in 2021 in an effort to create a central e-commerce hub for women-owned businesses - think Amazon, but all lady bosses. The platform launched with 25 founding members by invite only, but will open up

membership for additional members In 2022. Today, she is focused on helping women grow their e-commerce more.

We talk about everything from increasing our visibility, to why supporting women-owned businesses is so important, the value of personal growth in building a business and how introverts can still show up while honoring themselves in their businesses.

In this Episode:

[ :45 ] All about today's guest, Jessica Bargenquast
[ 5:55 ] What Lady ChangeMakers is and what inspired Jessica to create it
[ 11:00 ] How Jessica plans to grow Lady ChangeMakers
[ 14:00 ] Tips on how to gain more visibility in your brand + business
[ 18:03 ] Jessica's story and what led her to where she is today
[ 22:20 ] Jessica's advice for other introverts trying to build businesses
[ 28:30 ] How to move through struggle + "failure"
[ 32:15 ] What to do when you're feeling ready for change
[ 35:40 ] What Jessica would say to a younger version of herself

Soul Shifting Quotes:

"Especially now more than ever, empathy is needed in this world."
"My entire mission is to help women-owned businesses be seen."
"Nobody told me I had to personally grow for my business to be able to."

Links Mentioned:

Join the free 4-Day Challenge, SEEN: Your Visibility Breakthrough
Read Lean Out by Melissa Orr
Follow Jessica over on Instagram
Check out Lady ChangeMakers and apply to get on the directory!
Go to https://ladychangemakers.com/giveaways/ to enter a win a box of women owned business' products!
Head here to book a Breakthrough Call
Email us at: hello@amberlilyestrom.com

Tag me your big shifts + takeaways: @amberlilyestrom

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Rosie Acosta on Being Radically Loved May 03, 2022

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Rosie Acosta has studied yoga and mindfulness for more than 20 years, and has been a teacher for over a decade. She hosts a weekly conversational wellness podcast called Radically Loved. She's travelled all over the world leading workshops, retreats and yoga teacher trainings. Rosie works with a wide range of students from those in her East Los Angeles community to Olympic athletes, NFL champions, NBA All Stars and veterans of war. She's a first generation Mexican American, and her mission is to help others overcome adversity and experience radical love. She has been featured by Yoga Journal, Well and Good, Forbes + The New York Post.

You Are Radically Loved: A Healing Journey to Self-Love is Rosie Acosta's story of how she used her trauma as an opportunity for radical self-love. This book offers hope, healing, and a new way of loving yourself (even if you feel like you have nothing to give.) Rosie tells her own story of shattering the cycle of abandonment, abuse and silence she grew up in...and how her own healing journey led her to finding peace, joy and freedom in herself, which she now wants to share with you.

In this Episode You'll Learn:

[01:35] All about Rosie Acosta
[03:13] Rosie's program and a personal invitation to connect.
[04:32] How to radicalize the coaching industry
[06:51] The meaning of radical and why radically loved
[09:47] Rosie's foundation
[15:00] Things that led Rosie to radical love journey
[19:40] Putting the work to allow the prayers of others come true
[23:25] The purpose of invitation throughout out You Are Radically Loved: A Healing Journey to Self-Love book
[25:19] Rosie's s relationship with her body and the dissociation
[32:14] Rosie's grateful and humbling moments
[34:57] Why Rosie would wish to thank her kindergarten teacher
[37:25] Rosie's commitment, opening and what is making her feel new and excited during the book writing
[38:06] The writing process
[43:03] Where you can get a copy of You Are Radically Loved: A Healing Journey to Self-Love

Quotes:

"We are radically loved by God source, higher power, whatever your belief system is that the universe works for us, not against us." [07:48]
"Bad things happen to bad people. And so, I had this cognitive dissonance that if that is the case, then why do bad things keep happening to really good people." [11:33]
"One of your the big parts of your story is your own relationship with Self and how that manifested through your body and your self concept." [24:56]
"I didn't have a great relationship to my body, I had a tenuous relationship with my body at best, it was a vessel, it was a meat sack." [25:19]
"I would have some of my girlfriends would say, oh, if it doesn't hurt, it's not worth it." [27:45]
"Books are my most favorite thing to give to people and my most favorite thing to receive." [41:48]

Links Mentioned:

To schedule call: https://evoution.com/
To purchase the book: https://bookshop.org/

https://www.booksandbooks.com/

Connect with Rosie Acosta:

Website: https://www.radicallyloved.com/about
Instagram: @rosieacosta
Twitter: @RosieAcosta
LinkedIn: Rosie Acosta

Connect with Amber

Facebook: Amber Lilyestrom

LinkedIn: Amber Lilyestrom

Email us at: hello@amberlilyestrom.com

Resources

Amber's books: Paddle Home

Master Your Money mind.

Rosie Acosta Book: You Are Radically Loved: A Healing Journey to Self-Love

Amber Lilyestrom on Understanding the Bigger Picture of our Lives Apr 26, 2022

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In today's solo episode, I'm catching up on what's been happening in our world over the last few weeks. It's been a season of ups and downs, and life lessons (as they do) are abounding. I'm sharing what I'm learning about understanding the bigger picture of life and easing up on the pressure we have been placing on ourselves, once and for all.

In this Episode:

[ 3:18 ] How valuable our own well-being is
[ 4:41 ] Letting where we are be perfectly okay
[ 9:00 ] Understanding the bigger picture
[17:00 ] What's exciting me most in this season of life

Soul Shifting Quotes:

"When we choose kindness for ourselves, we live differently."
"What greater gift is there than being known, seen and loved?"
"You accomplish so much more than you give yourself credit for."

Links Mentioned:

Listen to our Adoption Journey podcast!
Learn about the mindset "cheat code" that can change everything
Head here to book a Breakthrough Call

Toni Marinucci on Once Upon a Diet Apr 12, 2022

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If you've ever struggled with your relationship to your body or to food, today's conversation is a powerful one for you.

Toni Marinucci is the owner of Tips with Toni, teaching people how not to diet. Her team of Registered Dietician's provide online nutrition coaching to help women break free from the 'all or nothing' mindset and encourage balance instead. Toni's mission is to end restrictive diet culture by providing simple tips to healthy living while incorporating the foods you love. She recently gave a TEDx talk and wrote a book titled Once Upon a Diet, where she discusses the parallels between dieting, dating, and romantic relationships, and how we treat them the same.

In this episode, we discuss the parallels between dieting and how we treat our bodies, our relationships, and our businesses. We also discuss the ways in which we withhold from ourselves, we disassociate, and the ways in which we perpetuate old patterns. This is such an expansive and encouraging conversation, that I hope will serve you well.

As a note: today we discuss eating orders and our experiences with them. If this is a sensitive topic for you right now this might not be the podcast for you to listen to at the moment.

Please always honor your needs first, this information will be here for you to listen to whenever you feel ready.

In this Episode You'll Learn:

[3:41] All about Once Upon a Diet
[13:20] Toni's mission to changing the narrative around food
[21:00] Why how we fuel ourselves is so important
[24:20] What is the hunger scale?
[30:10] The body positivity movement
[36:27] Making space to create in your own world

Quotes:

"You're not going to go from a place of hating your body to loving your body overnight." [16:25]
"When you use food to practice mindfulness… you become more mindful in general." [28:25]
"When you feel good, you do good." [28:42]
"If you continue to chase what society wants you to be you're never going to be happy." [33:50]

Links Mentioned:

Contact Kristina Toni Marinucci:

Email us at: hello@amberlilyestrom.com

Amber and Ben on Our Adoption Journey. Apr 05, 2022

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Our son is HERE! Ben and I are beyond elated to welcome Alexander Benjamin Lilyestrom into our family and to share the journey that led us here with each and every one of you. It's the truth of all truths that we could not have planned for this to unfold in the miraculous way it did, even if we tried. In this week's episode, we sit down to talk about our journey to becoming a family of four, and what we've learned about ourselves (and each other) along the way. Tag me your big shifts + takeaways: @amberlilyestrom

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Lauryn Laszczak on Somatic Business Coaching Mar 29, 2022

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Lauryn is a somatic business coach, breathwork facilitator, speaker, retreat host, wife and mom. She spent over a decade building businesses that allow space for truly living and she inspires others to do the same. She's also the creator of the wealth lab and online community giving women the tools and permission to experiment and discover their unique money-making formula. Moreover, Lauryn is a serial entrepreneur, founder of Meadows Realty Group, The Detroit mobile bar and Retreat to Reclaim.

Lauryn has been featured by Detroit moms, Metro Detroit weddings, Dance Collective and more. She's built a multiple six figure business while being present with her family. She lives in Michigan with her high school sweetheart turn husband, Ronnie, and their two daughters and their one angel son. It has been a privilege to journey with her to witness her healing process and the ways in which she's come into the fullness of who she really is and what her work in the world is.

Today's conversation is a powerful one, and I'd also like to add a heartfelt and sensitive warning for those who aren't in a position to listen to a conversation about pregnancy or infant loss at this time in their lives. Lauryn shares a very personal part of her story, and it may be difficult for those who are healing to listen to such stories in this season of life. So, for our listening audience and family's sake, I just want to put that very sensitively. I also urge you to listen to this conversation if you're feeling up to it, because Lauryn is a gift, and her teachings as a somatic business coach and as someone who is here to help women create businesses that allow for real life to happen, are a profound blessing.

In this Episode You'll Learn:

[01:04] Today's guest, Lauryn Laszczak
[05:43] Lauryn's inspiring story, which takes us back to her transformational coaching journey.
[09:09] All about Lauryn's awakening
[10:04] Lauryn's stillbirth and how she was able to navigate through it with the help of family and friends
[17:52] Lauryn breaking out moments and the voices she listened to
[23:21] How Lauryn moved through her healing
[29:28] Why Lauryn was initially hesitant to work with coaches and why when you give, you also receive
[36:27] Lauryn's advice on how to make the transition from teaching to clarity
[37:02] Get to know more about downloads and how you can use them to your advantage

Quotes:

"The work we get to do for ourselves, that is the gift we later get to give others." [00:23]
"This is about giving women more choice, like choice to decide, like, I'm not going right back to work, I am not going back to normal there. In fact, there is just no normal anymore." [13:28]
"To keep it all inside, and not letting ourselves receive support is, is really the reason why we suffer so deeply." [17:12]
"Is that these beliefs, these stories we hold so deeply, we find so much proof for them Amber like, I mean, I have all the proof like, this happened to me. And it goes even beyond that if we look at our stories from childhood. And so, it's like, it's never going to just go away, but you still have to continue to move through it. "[19:59]
"Not everything we do has to be for a business, not everything that we invest in has to be for something to create for somebody else; we do get to do this work for ourselves, too. "[25:58]
"The more that you grow, the more everything in your life will grow "[26:28]
"To allow for the downloads to come like give yourself enough space to actually process like, what could that be? What would that look like? Would my hearts be really interested in this? Like, allow yourself to question that, and, and then listen, and then take some small actions for it." [36:40]
"I'm not the same person today that I was yesterday." [42:05]

Links Mentioned:

Connect with Lauryn Lasczack:

Website: https://www.laurynlaszczak.com/workwithlaurynlaszczak
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iam_lauryn/

Email us at: hello@amberlilyestrom.com

Shakira Hemphill on Being a Woman of Worth Mar 22, 2022

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Shakira Hemphill is the principal and founder of Women of Worth INC., a faith-based non-profit based out of Washington DC. Its mission is to educate, empower, and engage teenage girls and women in identifying their WOW affect. Shakira is a bold, purpose driven woman of God, that believes in the power of prayer, faith, and connection. She is a sought-after author, purpose coach, transformational leader, an inspirational speaker.

One of her most important roles is being a mother to her young king Elijah on his unique and beautiful journey. Shakira is committed to helping women overcome burnout, embrace their worth, and reconnect with faith.

In today's episode, we talk about motherhood and the journey that she has gone through in raising her son through some physical challenges and the ways in which she teaches Elijah to not only see himself but also to see the world. Plus we discuss the beautiful + profound ways in which he teaches her, and the world, to see themselves so much more clearly.

Let's rock!

In this Episode You'll Learn:

[5:05] Who is Shakira?
[8:10] Influences in your life
[12:30] Living beneath your calling
[19:07] The Woman of Worth
[24:14] Young King Elijah
[31:58] The power of vision

Quotes:

"I began to see…my experiences and see they happen for me versus they happen to me" [7:08]
"Behind the voice is the story" [11:41]
"I want women to love who they are" [20:35]
"You can't build anything in life without relationship" [23:15]

Links Mentioned:

Contact Shakira Hemphill:

Instagram: @thewomanofworth
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/liveoutyourwhy/

Email us at: hello@amberlilyestrom.com

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