The Amanda Bucci Show (Formerly Bucci Radio)

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Don't Get Left Behind in the Coaching Industry - with Sam Skelly May 21, 2019

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Do you think you need to be "perfect' in order to serve your clients with integrity as a coach? Do you have the desire to serve others but don't yet feel confident in your own transformation? The health/fitness coaching industry is changing. If you're a coach that wants to help your clients dig into their feelings, unconscious patterns, and reasoning for not doing what they know they are supposed to be doing, this episode is for you.

Today's guest is Samantha Skelly. Sam is my magical unicorn fairy friend, and she's one of the biggest visionaries I've ever met. She's constantly connecting to her higher purpose and bringing that shit back down to earth. If you guys don't know Sam, she's the owner and creator of Hungry for Happiness, and she's essentially creating a new sector of coaching. Sam is bringing people into higher levels of consciousness with their coaching so they can serve their clients with what they really need.

THIS EPISODE COVERS:

The shift in the health and fitness industry
Understanding our patterns and beliefs
Deep feelings of unworthiness
Separating health and fitness
Putting on the "everything is great" mask
Valuing mental health over body image
Attaching worthiness to the way you look
Thinking you need to be perfect to serve others (fraud complex)
Coaching still being a new industry
Therapy vs. coaching
Committing to your own personal growth
How to determine if you are in integrity
Confidence in line with integrity
Not being able to replace human connection
Emotions driving behavior
Where the coaching industry is going
Why pain is a portal to truth
Observing vs. identifying with your emotions
Holding onto identities we have created

IMPORTANT MOMENTS + QUESTIONS:

3:00- What is happening with the health and fitness industry right now? What shift is happening?
9:00- How do people going from thinking about fitness into emotionality?
14:00- Do you need to look a certain way or be a certain way to be a fitness coach or serve others?
16:00- Can you dig into the feeling of being a fraud and not being healed in order to serve others? What does it mean to coach?
19:00- Let's dig into some specifics on how to determine if you're in integrity or not?
27:00- Let's talk about the current state of the coaching industry and where we are going
40:00- How can someone become the type of coach we talked about in this podcast?
43:00- If you could leave our listeners with one statement, what would it be?

176: Interviewed By My Best Friend: Ashley Stahl (What You Don't Know About Me) May 14, 2019

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Welcome to this takeover episode of Bucci Radio!

Hey everyone, it's Ashley Stahl taking over for Amanda Bucci. You guys watch Amanda (Snoop!) be who she is every day online, and she does share a lot of personal stuff but there's so much more going on with her and I wanted to share my perspective of her as my best friend.

I thought it would be so much fun to interview her and connect on all the things you don't know about her and have such a powerful conversation.

IN THIS EPISODE WE LEARN ABOUT:

Things you don't know about Amanda Bucci
Sharing in the real world vs. online
What drove Amanda to do Youtube
Being in the business of transformation
Sharing your own processing and transformation
Letting go of an old self
Not feeling like you want to do what you're doing anymore
Attaching your identity to what you do
Removing instead of adding in your life
Things that have shifted for Amanda
What USM Spiritual Psychology school is all about
Feeling the need and desire for connection
Communication within friendships
Being aware of what your wounds are
Openly talking about sex and sexuality
Leaning into difficult times
Processing death and dealing with loss

IMPORTANT MOMENTS + QUESTIONS:

1:28- Amanda's burning man nickname
2:50- Experiencing watching Amanda's content for the first time
9:50- Did you always pursue what was interesting to you?
12:00- How does it feel to have built a business and then be not sure if you want it?
15:00- What does this transformation feel like for you?
21:00- What has shifted since you broke down at your mastermind?
31:00- What did you realize and shift in USM Psychology School?
33:00- What drives you now? What is the core of you?
37:00- What do you feel is coming up for you with the desire to connect?
39:00- What does disconnection mean and what advice would you give to connect better with your friendships?
42:00- Let's talk about sex and sexuality…
57:00- Can you talk about how you lost yourself in previous relationships and how you lean in now in your relationships?
1:00- If 100-year-old Amanda could give you one piece of advice right now, what do you think she would tell you?

175: My Spiritual Upgrade (2 Weeks Off of Social Media) May 07, 2019

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Sometimes you just need a break. Today's episode is my story of what happened when I took 2 weeks off of posting on social media. This really had nothing to do with just taking a social media detox. It had everything to do with where I am in my life and what I needed to do to have this upgrade into my next chapter.

I love sharing what's going on in my life so I can then share my biggest lessons and takeaways. I hope that at some point in this story you can connect to where you're at and adopt some of this process into your own life.

THIS EPISODE COVERS:

My journey and experiences since 2014
Pivoting from fitness to business
Understanding what you're called to do
Experiencing your OWN process
Changing, shifting, and self-honoring
Patterns that encouraged me to take this break
Being out of alignment
Signals and physical symptoms
Tapping in observing your thoughts
Reframing a "break" to a divine sacred pause
Getting past the resistance of taking a break
Trusting in myself and my team to take a break
Everything happening for a purpose
Clarity, ideas, and creativity flowing
The goal line vs. the soul line
Getting clarity on my next chapter
My soul's divine purpose

IMPORTANT MOMENTS:

5:35- What was happening in my life to begin this break from social media
14:00- What I was noticing and observing in myself and my mind
17:00- Getting past the resistance of taking a break
21:00- Coming out on the other side and working through it
23:00- The goal line vs. the soul line
25:00- Getting clarity on my next chapter and what I want to be teaching
28:00- The big lesson I learned in this entire experience

174: How to Connect to Your Highest Self, Balance Your Energy, and Understand Your Divine Purpose- with Sahara Rose Apr 30, 2019

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Do you feel like you know what your purpose in life is? Or do you struggle to connect to what feels right for you? We are at a time where we are more interested in finding our purpose than ever before. Our guest today is Sahara Rose. Sahara is one of my good friends and you may know her from her work with Ayurveda. She's the #1 Best-Selling Author of Eat Feel Fresh and the Idiot's Guide to Ayurveda

She teaches her audience on a new way of being and how to really connect to your authentic, deeper self and soul. She's an incredibly well known spiritual guide and leader, especially for millennials who are wanting to connect to a bigger purpose. In today's episode, we'll be breaking down what all this spiritual "stuff" and higher purpose "stuff" really means, so we can understand and become more conscious individuals.

IN THIS EPISODE WE LEARN ABOUT:

What is Ayurveda?
Imbalances in our body
The 3 Energy Types (Vata, Pitta, Kapha)
Differences between the energy types
Examples of each energy type
Understanding your own truth and purpose
Believing you have a purpose
What is the soul?
Layers of ourselves
Dharma and your divine purpose
Dealing with difficult times in our path to purpose
Lifetimes and key lessons
The truth path and not truth path
Light side vs. Shadow side
The old paradigm vs. the new paradigm
Becoming a more conscious individual

IMPORTANT MOMENTS:

2:25: Let's start with what Ayurveda is and if you can describe the work that you do?
6:00: The 3 energy types of Ayurveda
17:00- How does Ayurveda connect to the world and spirituality and understanding your own truth?
28:00- How do you grapple with the fact that difficult things are a part of our journey and path?
34:00- Why is it important for our collective consciousness that we all start focusing on creating happiness internally?
45:00- If there was something you wanted to leave people with or take action on, what would it be?

173: How to Keep More Money, Manage Your Finances, and Build True Wealth- with Chloe Elise Apr 17, 2019

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If you've had questions on how to keep more of your money, handle your finances, make smart financial investments, pay off your debt, or curb your spending habits that are wrong or off, this episode is for you. We love to talk about how to make more money and get more sales, but you can be a millionaire and still be broke. Your actual revenue number doesn't mean shit if you don't know how to keep it.

Today's guest is Chloe Elise, @deeper.than.money on Instagram. No one is really teaching what Chloe is teaching. Chloe talks about how to keep our money rather than just make more of it. In this episode, we are going to talk about how to keep what we make, how to pay off debt, how to find more money inside of what we already have and how to build true wealth.

IN THIS EPISODE WE LEARN ABOUT: ●How we are raised to think about money ●Working but always feeling broke ●Victim stories about finances ●Lack mindset and abundance mindset ●Money mindset vs. tactical strategies ●Personal and Business bank accounts ●Checking and savings accounts ●Mistakes millennials make when managing money ●Prioritizing your money goals ●Tips for handling money objections ●Knowing exactly what you are spending your money on ●Ways we let money slip through the cracks ●Tangible tips to start paying off debt ●Ways to negotiate your debt ●Why you should be negotiating everything ●Tips for "finding" more money ●Prioritizing paying yourself ●Investments, planning for retirement, 401k ●Getting a financial advisor that feels like your partner

172: How to Separate Yourself and Create a Competition Proof Business - with Jason Goldberg Apr 09, 2019

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Welcome to this episode of Bucci Radio!

If you've been looking for strategies on how to connect deeper with your community, serve your clients and audience, separate yourself from others in your industry, and stay in integrity with what you say you're going to do- this episode is for you.

Today's guest is Jason Goldberg. Jason is one of my very best friends and a speaker, author, and business coach. Words that make me think of Jason are laughter, inspiration, speaking, storytelling, humility, enthusiasm, and transformation. Today we are going to be chatting about how to create a competition proof business and how to separate yourself in your industry.

IN THIS EPISODE WE LEARN ABOUT:

Not having control over the way our mind works
Having radical personal responsibility
Losing "weight"
Recognizing your thoughts are neutral
Ways you can deepen within your community
What makes a competition proof business
What makes an "Oh so do I" business
Why we are all in the "PR" business
HAF- Hang out Factor
How to build a community that loves you for you
Different ways to show up authentically
Offering service and transformation to others
Authenticity with the wrong purpose
Why you don't need a sensational story
Sensational vs. relational stories
Getting into action and using momentum
Staying in integrity with what you say you're here to do
Pulling lessons from your day to create stories
How to be insightful for your audience
Examining and priming yourself to create content

171: How to Have Hard Conversations with Compassion Apr 02, 2019

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So many of us avoid hard conversations because it seems too hard or we don't want to deal with the potential consequences of saying the hard thing. If you've ever struggled to have or start a difficult conversation in a friendship, relationship, or work environment, this episode is for you.

In this episode, I give some insight on why we avoid having hard conversations, the consequences of avoiding hard conversations, and tips on my secret sauce on ways to have difficult conversations with compassion and candor.

IN THIS EPISODE WE LEARN ABOUT:

Why we avoid hard conversations
Emotions creating energy
Consequences of trapping your emotions
How to have more honest conversations
How to understand and handle hard conversations
Our emotional reactions are our own
Emotional triggers and reactions
Shifting blame and anger
Creating safety for others
Working through an emotional upset
Subconsciously manipulating and sabotaging
People pleasing
Holding and deploying compassion
Perception checking
Acknowledging and seeing someone

IMPORTANT MOMENTS:

7:00- My experience with hard conversations

13:45- One way to not have a hard conversation by coming from a place of anger and blame
19:42- A second way to not have a hard conversation by subconsciously manipulating the experience
21:42- All about people pleasing
24:10- The secret sauce to having hard conversations: Compassion
33:00- The secret sauce to having hard conversations: Candor
36:00- How to create a safe space for others
39:00- How to create a safe space within yourself

170: The 5 Realms of Consciousness [The Key to Business Success] Mar 26, 2019

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Today I'm digging deep into human behavior. I'm constantly learning how to facilitate coaching experiences in a more powerful way and share more content that's in alignment with that kind of methodology.

In this episode, I'm sharing the 5 Realms of Consciousness and how they relate to business.

Something I value and believe to be the key to success is integrating relational intelligence into our work and understanding how humans work. Understanding how connection and conversation really happens is one of the foundational tools to grow your business. Why? Because we are working with people, and the faster we can connect to them, the deeper we can connect to them, and the easier it is for our business to work and for us to get clients.

So let's dive in...

IN THIS EPISODE WE LEARN ABOUT:

The 5 Realms of Consciousness
How realms of consciousness relate to our business
Attraction, connection, and audience expansion
Standards of "beauty" on social media
Sharing parts of your life and experiences
Amount of thoughts we have in a day
Conditioning to respond negatively about ourselves
Thoughts as precursors to emotions
Not spending enough time in your Emotional Realm
Stifling our emotions
Tapping into the vulnerability and emotions of our clients
Converting surface level audiences into fans and clients
Understanding our unconscious patterns
Turning unconscious patterns to conscious ones
Connecting consciously to your higher self
Ways to access your spiritual realm
Disconnecting and just "being"

IMPORTANT MOMENTS:

9:28: The Physical Realm

17:45- The Mental Realm

22:00- The Emotional Realm

31:00- The Unconscious Realm

38:50- The Spiritual Realm

169: Write Like It Matters - Writing Coaching, Storytelling, and Depression with John Romaniello Mar 21, 2019

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If you've ever had writer's block, wondered how to use your writing purposefully, or struggled with content creation this episode is for you.

Today's guest is John Romaniello. For those who don't know John Romaniello, John is a NYT best selling author. He wrote, "Engineering the Alpha" which is a highly acclaimed fitness book. He is a pioneer in the fitness coaching realm was one of the first people to start the online fitness industry.

John shares some incredible insight into why your writing has long term value, why writing is still the most important aspect of your business, and how you can work on becoming a better writer.

This episode of covers:

The beginnings of the online fitness industry and community
Writing and content in the fitness industry
Tips for getting your work published
How to become a better writer and storyteller
What makes certain writing great
Finding your own voice as a writer
Why writing is still the most important factor in your business
Why using Instagram only for content can be risky and biased
Assumptions that newer content is "better"
The importance of having a website you can control
Why writing has long term value
Ways you can focus on bettering your writing
Assessing your weaknesses as a writer
How great writing contributes to how others perceive you
Wording, language, commas, and syntax
Why people get writer's block
Tips for getting over writer's block
Removing opportunity and helping those with depression
Vulnerability vs. exposure
Serving others and sharing your truth through writing

168: REPLAY from "Behind the Dream" with Libby Crow: Instafamous Amanda Bucci Gets Real About Online Bullies & Motherhood Mar 12, 2019

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The other week I got the chance to be a guest on my sparkly friend Libby Crow's podcast "Behind the Dream"! If you haven't checked out Libby's podcast yet, CLICK HERE.

"In this episode, we go behind the curtain and behind the dream to uncover the reality of being an influencer and growing a business (and a life) in the spotlight. Amanda shares with us what it is like to deal with the pressure caused by online trolling and bullying and how to find healing in the truth behind their projections onto you. We also talk on the power of personal development that is found within a romantic relationship and how to be aligned online by sharing your message with integrity and embodiment. You'll want to grab a note pad or a journal for this one fam!"

IN THIS EPISODE WE LEARN ABOUT:

Dealing with online bullies and trolls
Psychology behind trolling
Validating yourself for who you truly are
Showing up with pride and confidence
Catalysts for growth
Sharing with authenticity
Romantic relationships and personal development
What raising a dog has taught me about life and business

IMPORTANT MOMENTS

Today's guest, Amanda Bucci [ 2:48 ]
Amanda's start on social media [ 3:58 ]
Moving to Venice, CA and beginning her entrepreneurial journey [ 5:56 ]
Transitioning out of fitness [ 8:42 ]
Dealing with internet trolls and online bullies [ 11:11 ]
The psychology behind the trolling [ 19:45 ]
Personal development through a romantic relationship [ 30:15 ]
Sharing with authenticity and embodiment of your message [ 37:40 ]
Lessons learned from being a dog mom [ 45:39 ]
Closing message and affirmation for you from Amanda [ 52:15]

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