Tune in for: 

• Alex shares his personal journey that led him to create CES, including a pivotal moment of realization: “Even when ‘good’ things happened, I couldn’t find the joy inside me. I was stuck – and couldn’t find a way out.” This struggle ignited his passion for helping entrepreneurs find fulfillment beyond success.
• The conversation explores the 10X vs. 2X mindset, inspired by CES keynote speaker Dr. Ben Hardy’s book 10X Is Easier Than 2X (co-authored with Dan Sullivan). Alex discusses key takeaways and what keeps many entrepreneurs stuck in the 2X cycle.
• We also take a moment to reflect on their experiences attending CES last year and dive into what attendees can expect at this year’s event, happening May 28-29 in Boulder, CO.
• We also dive into the Four Pillars of Conscious Entrepreneurship:
• The Conscious You (Commitment) – Aligning mind, body, and business decisions.
• Becoming a Conscious Leader (Manifest) – Leading with authenticity and a 10X mindset.
• Building a Conscious Company (Implement) – Creating long-term, purpose-driven businesses.
• Creating a Conscious World (Inspire) – Using business as a tool for positive change.

Join us for this inspiring conversation and learn how to break free from limiting cycles, embrace a bigger vision, and build a business that aligns with your values.

PLUS…you don’t want to miss this:

Alex is offering $100 off your ticket to the Conscious Entrepreneur Summit with the code EMBODIED. 

Go to the CES website now {HERE enter link} to redeem your discount and we’ll see you there.

Resources & Links:

• Learn more about CES: https://consciousentrepreneur.us/
• Connect with Alex Raymond: https://www.instagram.com/conscious_entrepreneur_summit/
• Book: 10X Is Easier Than 2X by Dr. Ben Hardy & Dan Sullivan: https://10xeasierbook.com/

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We dive into the history of women’s entrepreneurship and how creating intentional containers of safety can positively impact our physiology, nervous system regulation, and overall well-being. When women feel safe and empowered, they step into their personal and professional lives with greater confidence, resilience, and authenticity.

Anne and Chantill share their unique approach to fostering openness, trust, and strong relationships in their work. They break down their framework for honoring safety, which includes:

✔ Acknowledging transitions

✔ Using the Feelings Wheel

✔ Practicing gratitude

✔ Identifying key takeaways

Plus, we’re thrilled to announce our upcoming retreat, Return to Health, happening in Mexico in December 2025! This immersive experience is designed to help women reconnect with their well-being in a supportive and transformative space.

🎉 Exclusive Listener Perk 🎉

Use code EBIB1 to get your first month for $1 in the Elevated Entrepreneur Program!

OR code EBIB3 to get your first month for $1 in the 3 Month Elevated Entrepreneur Program!

Join us for this conversation, and stay tuned for the next episode as we continue exploring the power of safe containers in women’s entrepreneurship.

🎧 Listen now and let’s continue the conversation!

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we reflect on what we’re personally excited about in the new year before diving into our professional goals. Women’s health has become a key pillar of our journey, and we’re eager to explore ways to support and empower women in navigating all aspects of well-being while growing their businesses.

Here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming:

✨ Return to Health Retreat in Mexico – Join us for a transformational experience focused on wellness and growth. More info HERE!

✨ New offerings in the Elevated Entrepreneur Program – Designed to help you scale with purpose.

✨ A book in the works? Stay tuned for more details!

🎉 Exclusive Listener Perk 🎉

Use code EBIB1 to get your first month for $1 in the Elevated Entrepreneur Program!

OR code EBIB3 to ger your first month for $1 in the 3 Month Elevated Entrepreneur Program!

Let’s make 2025 the year of thriving in health and business together!

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this heartfelt and inspiring episode, our guests share their unique journeys of discovering the transformative power of nervous system awareness and seeing life and work through the Polyvagal Theory. From professional breakthroughs to deeply personal revelations, their stories highlight the profound impact this lens has had on their lives.

We explore how honoring the nervous system has helped them navigate challenges, foster resilience, and deepen connections in both work and life. From origin stories to nervous system-centered intentions for the future, this episode is a testament to the power of understanding and embracing the wisdom of the body.

Whether you're new to Polyvagal Theory or a seasoned enthusiast, this episode offers insights, laughs, and a whole lot of heart. Tune in and celebrate with us—because this milestone is as much about you as it is about us.

🎧 Let’s keep growing, learning, and honoring our nervous systems together. Cheers to the next 50! 🧠💛

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shifting gears, we dive into the transformative power of curriculum design in the service-based economy. Discover how creating intentional, well-designed teaching frameworks can help you stop repeating yourself, reclaim your time, and increase profits. By meeting students where they are and fostering a safe, engaging learning environment, curriculum design can deepen connections and elevate course success rates.

We share evidence that online curriculum that is actually engaging has the power to uplift both educators and learners, emphasizing the importance of embracing diverse learning styles and creating accessible, impactful content that is just not possible in the 1-hour in-person containers that most service providers work in. We even talk about who this particular brand of curriculum design is NOT FOR.

If you’ve been dreaming of designing a course, enjoy teaching, and want to expand your impact, this episode is for you. Don’t miss the chance to join their upcoming Embodied Course Creation Program in January 2025—your gateway to crafting transformative learning experiences!

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As always, we kick things off with a life update—and yes, we touch on the U.S. election. Don’t worry, though, we keep it light and leave the soapboxes at home. But let's just say… feelings were felt!

Next, we explore the highs, lows, and occasional "ugh" of behavior change. Anne, in her not-so-spring-chicken wisdom, confesses her struggles with shifting habits. That honesty birthed her latest creation: The Profit Habit Tracker. We explore the story behind it— it’s all about taking charge of our financial habits.

Meanwhile, Chantill found herself so inspired that she whipped up her own new creation: The Self-Regulation Scorecard. Together, we unpack how these tools embody the three pillars and pave the way for lasting change and nervous system wellbeing.

Tune in for a delightful blend of insights, humor, and our latest creations that we can't wait to share with you! 

Check out our free resource, Anne’s Profit Habit Tracker: https://pilatesmastersprogram.lpages.co/profit-habit-tracker-wl/

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The landscape of our work and our lives is usually fast-paced and demanding, and it’s easy to get caught up in the constant cycle of doing without pausing to reflect. We’ve seen firsthand how taking time to focus on regulating ourselves has significantly reduced stress, improved communication, and increased creativity within our team. This practice has become a foundation for how we show up for one another and our clients – with greater empathy, patience, and presence.

Mental Health Mondays are a natural fit for our Polyvagal-centered approach to business. Polyvagal Theory, which examines the inextricable link between our physiology and our psychology is one of our guiding philosophies, allows us to use the language of the nervous system to better understand not just how we’re feeling, acting, and thinking, but WHY. Through this lens we’re able to identify cues of safety and recognize triggers, creating an environment that supports both productivity and well-being.

What does this look like? For us, it means understanding that each team member and each of our clients' experience is valid — no matter how fucked up, unfair, or difficult it might seem or be or feel — with their nervous system responses shaping how they perceive and react to challenges.

Bottom line: creating a safe space for self-awareness and self-regulation to be a SKILL we honor and promote within our business… is a GAME-CHANGER! If you want to lay a strong foundation for better collaboration and innovation this is it. And the ripple effects are endless: more compassion and empathy; greater likelihood of creating positive behavior within the operational structures of your business; decision-making in times of uncertainty; creative problem solving under pressure and so much more.

We hope this conversation inspires you to think about how intentional mental health practices and an understanding of the nervous system can lead to transformative shifts in any setting. Let’s keep exploring how we can build resilient, compassionate communities that empower each of us to thrive.

How to reach us:

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com.

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us.

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you’re feeling like the world is a little overwhelming right now, know that you’re not alone. This episode encourages everyone to take a collective exhale, acknowledging that it's okay to feel uncertain and that there are ways to find calm in the chaos. Join us as we discuss practical tools and mindful approaches to help us all navigate the waves of uncertainty with more compassion for ourselves and those around us.

We fall deep into the reality of our current states of regulation and dysregulation, and open up about our personal experiences of feeling dysregulated, reflecting on how our history has shaped our responses to today’s ongoing and cumulative chaos and complexity. From political instability and climate crises to the pervasive sense of personal unpredictability, we discuss how challenging it is for everyone to find grounding these days.

We explore what it means to regulate ourselves and support each other in ways that feel safe, sustainable, and nurturing. We consider how co-regulation — the impact of our nervous system on other’s and vice versa — can be both beneficial and challenging when those around us are also experiencing uncertainty. This episode sheds light on the ways our collective anxiety and stress can affect us physically, especially when we aren’t aware of it on an intellectual level.

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’ve been leaning into this season of learning and development, allowing ourselves the grace to grow along with the changes, rather than resist them (although there’s been plenty of that, too!). As we prepare to kick off a new Nervous System Facilitation training cohort, we’re thrilled to share a new initiative we’ve implemented — Mental Health Mondays. This practice has had a profound impact on our team, helping us all cultivate mindfulness and greater awareness as we navigate the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.

In this episode, we’re sharing  something called the Founder’s Dilemma: a common challenge faced by business owners — a moment of tension that forces tough decisions. We’re also outing our own Founder’s Dilemma, looking at how our priorities have evolved over the years and how we’re handling these changes both independently and as partners.

And then there’s our individual  journeys and  how that shapes our decisions together. By prioritizing communication, being aware of our nervous systems, and making space for one another, we’ve been able to move through these challenges with greater ease. As we step into a new phase of our business, we’re excited to announce  two distinct suites of offers: one focused on making money; one on creating meaning.

Tune in as we continue to explore what it means to grow as founders and support each other through it all!

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We dive into fascinating research, highlighting how women are consistently underpaid and Anne shares why she's driven to change that narrative. Learn about eye-opening statistics and articles that shed light on this issue, making a compelling case for why financial empowerment is crucial for women's emotional and mental health. One particular study grabs our  attention, exploring how much income it takes for a person to "feel" wellbeing, emphasizing that women often have to work even harder to ask for and achieve financial security.

We even have a little spoiler alert tossed into this episode, as we divulge how we’re creating a new suite of offers for our business, The Embodied Business Institute, called Profit for Wellbeing, that will increase our impact on helping women believe they can—and should—earn more.

And finally, we wrap things up by talking about how we suffer when either money or meaning are missing: if you experience  unmet financial needs OR your work has lost or never had meaning and purpose, your wellbeing suffers and sometimes it feels impossible to correct course. 

Tune in to get tips, insights, and inspirations on breaking this ugly cycle, and start asking “What is my relationship to making money, having meaning, and my emotional wellbeing?

Here are the References Anne promised:

Haag, E. B. (2023). Give yourself a raise. Findaway Voices. 

Hait, A. W. (2021, October 8). Number of women-owned employer firms increased 0.6% from 2017 to 2018. Census.gov. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/03/women-business-ownership-in-america-on-rise.html 

NAWBO Expert Reviews. “What Percentage of Businesses are Small Businesses?” NAWBO.org. Feb. 9th, 2024, https://nawbo.org/expert-reviews/small-business-statistics/.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2208661120

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the highlights of this episode is our conversation about a significant step in Anne's professional journey—a licensure in the Pricing Overhaul®  Method. Anne shares her passion and commitment to shifting the all too often held belief by women that our work isn't as valuable as it really is. Well, since that's just pure bullsh*t, she's out to support women entrepreneurs in changing that in a big way. 

We talk about the emotional and psychological barriers that often prevent us from increasing our prices—things like fear of losing clients, imposter syndrome, and societal expectations. We’re going all in for helping women overcome these barriers, giving themselves the raise they deserve, and ensuring that their pricing reflects the true value they provide. 

And no show would be complete without a little nervous system insight. For the geeks out there, you'll love that we go a bit into how our nervous system plays a crucial role in how we approach business decisions, including pricing. We talk about the importance of pausing, reflecting, and stepping back when you’re feeling overwhelmed or unsure. Get your NS online or else you're screwed. No tough decision can be made from a effed up nervous system…ha! And that's the truth. 

Together, we explore the intersection of business growth, personal development, and well-being, offering actionable insights and heartfelt advice for women who are ready to step into their power, elevate their pricing, and create a sustainable, profitable business. 

We hope this episode inspires you to take the next step in your journey, whether that’s reevaluating your prices, nurturing your partnerships, or simply pausing to appreciate how far you’ve come.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The conversation takes a thoughtful turn as we discuss various strategies for repairing and recovering after dysregulations. Both of us (Anne & Chantill) offer insights into what resilience looks like for them personally, acknowledging that it’s a highly individualized process. Anne, in particular, introduces the idea of "containers of safety"—both internal and external spaces that provide a sense of security and support. She explains how these containers can vary greatly, from physical environments to mental and emotional frameworks, and the crucial role they play in maintaining resilience.

A key takeaway from this episode is the idea that the more we understand our nervous systems, the better equipped we are to sustain resilience. We also discuss how awareness of bodily signals, such as stress responses, can be a powerful tool in managing our reactions to stress and maintaining control in challenging situations.

The episode also touches on the habits and practices of high performers, particularly how we strive to maintain resilience in our demanding lives. Also, exploring the significance of being attuned to the signals of distress—whether signals manifest as physical symptoms, emotional disturbances, or cognitive challenges—and how recognizing these signals early can prevent burnout and breakdown.

Through honest reflections and practical strategies, we encourage listeners to be intentional about creating spaces for rest, to be mindful of their nervous systems, and to cultivate awareness as a means to navigate life's inevitable challenges with resilience and intentional grace.

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode emphasizes the significance of awareness in nervous system practices and we talk about how embracing vulnerability and authenticity can lead to profound shifts in one's identity…but this can ONLY happen if the nervous system is steady.

Join us as we unravel the layers of egoic death, offering sympathetic stories for those seeking to align their lives and businesses with their core values and true selves. Whether you're facing a major life transition or looking to enhance your self-awareness, this episode will provide you with the inspiring tools needed for a meaningful transformation that LASTS

P.S. In this episode we tell listeners about our upcoming 5-day NS Reset program called Mid-Summer Pause + Savor. If you’re listening after July 26th, 2024, this program has already happened BUT we have lots of other really cool shit going for you to get a taste of this powerful work.

Check out our linktree HERE and see what’s coming up.

If you’re lucky you’ll be in time to start:

The Habit Hacker - A 28-Day Nervous System Reset to Unlock Your Neuroplasticity and Break Free of Limiting Patterns, starting August 5th, 2024.

Check out all the goods HERE.

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is Entrepreneurial Capacity? 

We’re gonna tell you and look at how to increase it through an embodied approach so you can push back against things like: Imposter Syndrome; Struggle Mindset; your Upper Limit; and Burnout. Thanks to Alex Raymond — CEO of Kapta and founder of the Conscious Entrepreneur Summit — for inspiring this conversation and for continuing to push the edges of what being a creator in this world can be.

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hear about our trials, roadblocks, and the ways in which we foster these virtues in business and in life from the perspective of the nervous system. It’s some kinda wacky shit, but also really fucking cool. 

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

P.S. BIG props and a shout out to Alex Raymond, founder of the Conscious Entrepreneur Summit for bringing together such quality people and topics over two days in Boulder, CO. We’ve taken away a LOT of inspiration and beautiful connections from our time with ya’ll.

Right Thing Right Now By Ryan Holiday 

https://www.amazon.com/Right-Thing-Now-Values-Character/dp/0593191714

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They explore how high performance can be navigated with grace and ease WHEN you know your nervous system, can interpret its messages accurately, and create enough space between your habituated behaviors and the way you actually want to behave. 

Take away some juicy insights and a few strategies on how to start minimizing the cost of your ambition AND expand joy…even in the midst of all of THE things! 

You’ll also learn more about Elevated Entrepreneur, a year-long Polyvagal informed process to learn and put into practice the exact tools to unleash the intelligence of your nervous system so you can expand your ambition and impact without sacrificing your physical, mental and emotional health…

Read Anne’s article on The Fallacy of Work-Life Balance here. 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

If you're ready to stop dabbling in meditation, yoga, mindset work and other strategies that are good but not helping you expand your impact and minimize the cost of your ambition, check out Elevated Entrepreneur (click the link-in-bio) - The only year-long program exclusively dedicated to creating nervous system regulation in high-achieving entrepreneurs and leaders.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is only the tip of the iceberg! We are BIG fans of having it all and our most emergent framework prioritizes what Anne calls “joy seeking behavior”.  

In this episode, you’re going to not only hear about our newest year-long program, Elevated Entrepreneur* — the only year-long program exclusively dedicated to creating nervous system regulation in high-achieving entrepreneurs and leaders — but you’re also going to learn: 

• WHAT joy seeking behavior is.
• WHY you should learn how to do it.
• HOW it’s going to make ALL the difference in your full and often complex life and business.
• And how you can start doing it TODAY.

In the past 10 years we’ve been cultivating and creating Polyvagal-informed courses, programs, and processes for entrepreneurs, educators, coaches and leaders to support them in leveraging the intelligence of their nervous system so they can access greater flow and make a bigger impact. 

You’re gonna want to get on this bus because it’s going to the place where stress is managed with grace, overwhelm doesn’t paralyze you, and you can access ALL of the greatness you want in your life without sacrificing your health, your ambition, or your lust for life. 

Learn More About Elevated Entrepreneur

• Program launches June 1st, 2024
• Enrollment is ALWAYS open
• VIP Enrollment is LIMITED -- inquire about openings

Learn all about our newest and most powerful Polyvagal-informed program for high-achieving entrepreneurs, leaders, and coaches HERE.

More About Us

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Nervous System Business Map. Today, we’re talking about how to fast track your results in your business, especially when it comes to marketing, which so many people lean AWAY from. 

Learn more about the behaviors that come up when marketing is dysregulating you and what you can do to make critical shifts. 

We love these kinds of science-driven, straight-shooter conversations that leave you with juicy to-do tips to immediately improve your business. 

Dive in and get a taste of what it’s like to assess your nervous system in relationship to your business.

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are putting all our chips on the table in support of Decartes’ Error and saying that separating reason from emotion is the biggest mistake you can make in your business. If that piques your interest or pushes your buttons, this is an episode you’re gonna wanna listen to. 

Fuck bifurcation. Fuck compartmentalization. Which doesn’t mean you’re a hot mess, or overshare, or have poor boundaries. It means you’re doing the hard thing and acknowledging, with wisdom and grace, everything that you are. And the truth is, the more aware you are, the more skilled you are, the better (more honestly and easefully) you can navigate all of the complexities of your business and your life. 

As usual, the show is long enough to stir you up and short enough to listen on your 5 mile drive home in nasty traffic.

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we’re talking about how to gain some powerful perspective on your business: what it does, how it interfaces with other things, and how it supports people on their transformation journey AND how you can leverage the “blueprint” or design of brain and body based curriculum to SAVE YOU TIME…so you can be more creative, rest more, and improve the outcomes in your business. 

It’s time to open your mind and lean into a science-driven, research-based approach to designing every aspect of your business for optimization. 

Whoa! Ready?

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anne is also going to share with us the power of using educational design to support your clients’ intrinsic motivation and insights, while Chantill will take us down the path of the power of contracting and how educational design supports THAT. 

We have LOTS of examples to share so you can find exactly where you land as a coach and educator and start looking inward to see just where curriculum design can catapult the results you get with every client!

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode you’ll learn:

What you can do in the moment to relieve your fight and flight (panic, overwhelm, manicness, resistance) and overall dysregulation and return to a place of ease and calm and safety….so you can get all of the shit done and feel damn good about it (while sipping a glass of wine at the end of the day NOT on the computer or phone.)

We’ll also help you identify what you can do to practice soothing your nervous system in prolonged moments of dysregulation and how to nurture yourself and your business (think teams, clients, systems, marketing/sales) back to safety.

And finally, how the hell to gradually teach your nervous system a different way of being in relationship with your business so you can potentially prevent fight and flight experiences all together (not super likely, but not impossible) or at the very least not get stuck there.

Dig in and enjoy!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And there’s a cost. In this episode we explore just exactly how your nervous system responds to the daily — ummm…minute-to-minute — challenges of running a business. What in your business triggers YOUR unique fight or flight response? How does your unique fight or flight manifest? How can you down regulate just enough to harness the energy of “I can” before you freak the f*&#k out? Learn the different ways fight or flight can manifest in your business as we look at common causes, responses, and solutions. 

How to reach us: 

We welcome your comments, questions, and feedback. To reach us, please email embodiedbusinessinspiredbrain@gmail.com. 

Share the love:

As always we’d like to say thank you for your time and attention. We love hanging out with you and serving this amazing community of inspired leaders and educators who desire to make a bigger impact and bring their whole selves to the party. We hope you’re leaving feeling inspired, refreshed, excited and maybe even a little giddy…

The absolute sweetest and most powerful thing you can do to support this not-for-profit, minimal sponsor podcast is tell us how much you love us. 

You can do that by leaving us your comments and reviews on iTunes and Youtube.

And until next time we hope you’ll keep asking, How do I want my business and my life to feel…

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They discuss how inaction can be a coping mechanism in business. Some of the ways we try to regulate our nervous system and strategies for recognizing this in yourself and others. The topics include:

1. How do you use co-regulation?

2. Why removing yourself from the environment can help dysregulation?

3. When is a good time to use self regulation?

We are currently offering our audience a FREE 30-minute Clarity Call twice a week if you are interested in learning about our work or to see if it is a good fit for you and your business. 

Find out more about us here!

Find Us: Embodied Business-Inspired Brain Podcast

Website: The Embodied Brain Institute

YouTube: Embodied Business Inspired Brain Podcast

Facebook: Make Money + Meaning

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Chantill explains how she came to this work and what questions she was trying to solve.

Some of the many questions answered in this episode are:

1. How do you introduce this work to your clients?

2. How do thoughts affect our nervous system?

3. How do the eyes affect the vagus nerve?

We are offering a free 30-minute Clarity Call twice a week for our podcast listeners who are interested in learning about our Nervous System work. We are currently teaching the 28-day nervous system course. If you would like to know more about it you can find it on our website The Embodied Business Institute.

This episode was originally recorded live for our Facebook group Making Money+Meaning members. This Facebook group is a beautiful way to connect with us and other like-minded educators and entrepreneurs. 

Find Us: Embodied Business-Inspired Brain Podcast

Website: The Embodied Brain Institute

YouTube: Embodied Business Inspired Brain Podcast

Facebook: Make Money + Meaning

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1. A divisive and unmotivated team culture 

2. The never-ending struggle to find and KEEP highly qualified employees/team members 

3. Burnout + overwhelm when finances are down and you're working your ass off

We are excited to announce two programs that are currently open for enrollment. Our first is the Embodied Course Creation 12-Week Program. If you would like to know more about this program book a Free Clarity Call to see if it is a good fit for you and your business. We are also starting our Nervous System Reset program on Sept.1st. This holistic program will help you stop the PAIN in your body and mind caused by anxiety, overwhelm, and fear. Find out more about this transformational program HERE.

This episode was originally recorded live for the members of our Facebook group Make Money + Meaning.

The Facebook group is a wonderful way to connect with us and other like-minded educators and entrepreneurs. Ask to join TODAY by clicking HERE.

Find Us: Embodied Business Inspired Brain Podcast

Website: The Embodied Brain Institute

Youtube: Embodied Business Inspired Brain Podcast

Facebook: Make Money + Meaning

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode, we discuss:

• The language of healing
• Why feeling safe is so important for healing 
• Why we need to take time to listen to our body and ask questions
• How meditation can bring you to a state of ease

Find our Guest: Gwen Miller

Website: gwenmillerstudio.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8KKXXCSXrKiOieANp2v81g

Instagram: instagram.com/gwenmillerstudio/

Gwen’s New Book: Safe Movement for All Spines

A Guide to Spinal Anatomy and How to Work with 21 Spine and Hip Conditions

Continuing Education Course for Pilates, Yoga, Personal Trainers and Alternative Health Practitioners: The Dynamic Spine: Safe Movement for All Spines (and Hips)

Follow Gwen on her Amazon Author page: amazon.com/author/gwen_miller

Find Us: Embodied Business Inspired Brain Podcast

Website: The Embodied Brain Institute

Youtube: Embodied Business Inspired Brain Podcast

Facebook: Make Money + Meaning

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode we discuss:

• How Joanna helps her clients identify what their business really needs. 
• The Key detail to creating a fulfilling business that works for your life. 
• Why many in the wellness industry are sold marketing strategies but what they really need is to build a business that is unique for their special expertise.

We are excited to announce our Napa Retreat coming in September of 2023. This in-person retreat is for business owners who want the spaciousness of a nervous-system reset you can ONLY get in a retreat atmosphere. This retreat is designed to boost your creativity, blast through blockages, and help you make SERIOUS MOVES to increase your income and claim your FREEDOM over the next six months. If this resonates with where you are in your business, you can get all the details HERE! 

Find Us: Embodied Business Inspired Brain Podcast

Website: The Embodied Brain Institute

Youtube: Embodied Business Inspired Brain Podcast

Facebook: Make Money + Meaning

Find our Guest: Joanna Sapir

Website: joannasapir.com

Joanna's Free Masterclass: joannasapir.com/embodied

Podcast: The Business (R)evolution Podcast

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We learn best from stories. In this episode you’ll get a glimpse into how a lifelong trauma educator uses embodiment, the nervous system, and transformative curriculum design to put her powerful work in the world. Join me and our guest, Tami Lysher, an expert in movement and trauma, a breast cancer survivor, educator, and podcaster to explore how embodiment is expanding her capacity for complexity and her ability to make a bigger impact on her life and the lives of others. 

Here’s how you can learn more about Tami’s work:

Follow her on Instagram at @studiotpilatesmi

Find her on Facebook at Tami Lysher

Subscribe and listen to her podcast, Embracing Changing Talking Through Trauma on your favorite podcast listening station

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

FREEBIE alert! We’ve got something extra special for you in this episode to support you in building stronger, more transformative, and potent content (no matter what it is) by leveraging embodiment and an embodied perspective. We’re going back to the beginning and digging back into what embodiment means to us (we both have a slightly different take on it), and what it might mean to you and your tangible, sellable, scalable offerings. Then once you’re done listening, click this link to grab our exclusive 6-Step Design Guide (to Skyrocket Engagement, Conversion + Course Profitability Online or In-person) and start designing for engagement and completion rates of upwards of 80%-90%! https://pilatesmastersprogram.lpages.co/6-step-design-guide/

About the design guide:

With more than 90 online courses under their belt, powerhouse educators and entrepreneurs Chantill Lopez and Anne Bishop are finally releasing their most potent “How To” blueprint for improving online course engagement and completion rates by 80% - 90% — no matter what your field or area of expertise. It’s rewarding to go deep with your students in online learning, but it doesn’t work if they don’t buy in. By introducing simple embodied experiences consistently throughout your curriculum you can nurture and develop your students’ motivation turning them into purposeful, resourceful, goal-oriented, and highly engaged consumers of your content. 

Grab your free 6-step system design guide to increase your student engagement and conversion for your students plus easeful increased profits for your online business, 

Using a simple 6-step design guide, course creators can deliver the kind of enhanced student success and transformation that will keep them readily buying after each experience.  

This exciting design brings together their 40+ combined years of expertise in leveraging science-driven and highly accessible low-tech experiential teaching strategies with brain-based curriculum design so course creators can rapidly and drastically increase engagement and completion rates every time with ease.  Grab your free 6-step design guide to increase your student engagement and conversion for your students. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 22 we bring together two bodies of work: the brain’s prediction model and how your nervous system responds to the unexpected…according to the prediction. We ponder how this impacts our ability to build and lead our business, be creative, handle difficult situations, and be in relationship with others. A juicy and thought-provoking bit of fodder to ponder. 

Resources mentions: 

Explain Pain - Dr. Lorimer Moseley

More about the Predictive Processing

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This one was a doozy! We recorded this ONE day before Microsoft unveiled its plans to bring the technology behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot to its search engine, Bing. “According to the company, the new tool will be a paradigm shift in the way that humans search the internet,” wrote Atalantic magazine's Charlie Warzel. 

In this episode we dig into what place does embodiment have in the emergence of AI? What’s YOUR responsibility to staying human and keeping your work supportive of the whole-person experience? Listen in for all the guts and good stuff and rest assured we’ll be talking about this again. 

“On its own, all of that would be a lot to take in. But then, one day after Microsoft’s event, Google gave its own presentation for Bard, another generative-AI-powered chatbot search feature. Unlike Microsoft, which is allowing anyone to join a waitlist for the new Bing, Google is releasing the tool to only a group of “trusted testers” to start. But if you believe the press releases and CEO bluster, navigating the internet and accessing information will look completely different in a few mere months.” — Charlie Warzel

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we dive into how to create enough space in your brain and your nervous system to reconcile the unexpected and unpredictable aspects of change and transition. Oh, ya, that’s ALL of it. 

No matter what kind of change or transition you’re currently in, or the ones you are inevitably going to enter this year, this episode is going to bolster and steal you for what’s coming in the best kind of way. 

Again, happy New Year! Let’s do this thang!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And if it's not too late, catch either the live workshop or the replay, where two of their favorite collaborative partners, Abe Crystal and Dany Iny, will be sharing their FREE The Fail-Proof Method for Launching Your Online Course... In Less Than a Day!”. It's happening Thursday, Nov. 17th, from 10 am - 1 pm PST // 1 - 4 pm EST.

For background, Danny is the founder and CEO of Mirasee, an online education company that has helped thousands of coaches, consultants, authors, and experts to launch profitable online courses. 

And Abe is the co-founder of the online learning management system, Ruzuku. Abe is an expert in learning design and usability, so he’s the ideal person to show you how to quickly set up your course, without any of the tech headaches that plague everyone else.

When you join their workshop, you’ll discover:

• How to build a complete course in less than a day — including the content and the tech set up…

• How coaches and consultants can use courses to get a steady stream of clients — and end the feast-or-famine, dollars for hours cycle for good!

• The reason Starbucks doesn’t make their own scones, and how you can use the same principle in your business to make a bigger impact, save money, and save time…

• The top 3 obstacles to creating online courses, and how to breeze past them and just start making rapid progress…

• The FOUR surefire ways you can make money from an online course. (Most people use just ONE of these methods and miss out on lots of revenue.)...

• …and much more!

Happy creating!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chantill and Anne will also tell you how you can NEVER WORRY about the epidemic "failure to launch" challenge almost EVERYONE has when they venture into the realm of online education.

And in support of their collaborative partners, Abe Crystal and Dany Iny, Anne and Chantill are inviting you to scoop up a spot in the upcoming FREE 3-hour workshop called, “The Fail-Proof Method for Launching Your Online Course... In Less Than a Day!” (https://instant.courses/workshop?AFFID=540569) happening THIS Thursday, Nov. 17th, from 10 am - 1 pm PST // 1 - 4 pm EST.

For background, Danny is the founder and CEO of Mirasee, an online education company that has helped thousands of coaches, consultants, authors, and experts to launch profitable online courses. 

And Abe is the co-founder of the online learning management system, Ruzuku. Abe is an expert in learning design and usability, so he’s the ideal person to show you how to quickly set up your course, without any of the tech headaches that plague everyone else.

When you join their workshop, you’ll discover:

• How to build a complete course in less than a day — including the content and the tech set up…

• How coaches and consultants can use courses to get a steady stream of clients — and end the feast-or-famine, dollars for hours cycle for good!

• The reason Starbucks doesn’t make their own scones, and how you can use the same principle in your business to make a bigger impact, save money, and save time…

• The top 3 obstacles to creating online courses, and how to breeze past them and just start making rapid progress…

• The FOUR surefire ways you can make money from an online course. (Most people use just ONE of these methods and miss out on lots of revenue.)...

• …and much more!

Check out the details here and save your spot now.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Also, don't miss the free giveaway we have right now from our colleague and friend, Abe Cyrstal. We mentioned it in our last show and we truly believe in it. 

Abe is the co-founder and CEO of Ruzuku, an online course platform focused on student engagement. And he has helped thousands of course creators enroll more students in their courses with less stress.

In his free, concise report, he’ll share with you both the good and the bad sides of online courses…  how online courses fit in your business model… and the 7 Proven Course Money Strategies that will help you take your business to the next level.

So if you want to make more money with online courses… 

Click here to download your FREE copy now, while it’s still available!

https://instant.courses/money-map?AFFID=540569

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode BONUS:

Also, don't miss the free giveaway we have right now from our colleague and friend, Abe Crystal. Abe is the co-founder and CEO of Ruzuku, an online course platform focused on student engagement. And he has helped thousands of course creators enroll more students in their courses with less stress. In his free, concise report, he’ll share with you both the good and the bad sides of online courses…  how online courses fit in your business model… and the 7 Proven Course Money Strategies that will help you take your business to the next level.

So if you want to make more money with online courses…Click here to download your FREE copy now, while it’s still available!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More about our guest, Lauren Thompson

Lauren Thompson currently resides in Olympia, WA and is the owner of Thrive Pilates & Movement Studio in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. She has been teaching Pilates and yoga since 2007 and holds an MA in Counseling and Guidance. Lauren brings a unique, holistic perspective to her clients with her extensive background in both how the body moves and how our minds process. Her ability to make connections between mind and body and people and their communities helps her clients to improve both physically and mentally to achieve optimal health.  

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

That’s Universal Design for Learning (UDL). In this episode, we are excited to share with you a UDL expert we’ve been working with for more than a year now and who has not only helped us evolve our business, but supported our teachers in upleveling the way they design their education. Join us in this lively discussion with Kasia Derbiszewska.

About Kasia: 

Kasia Derbiszewska, pronounced Kah-shah, is an internationally recognized expert in UDL and owner of Learning Key Educational Consulting, an organization dedicated to translating educational research into action-oriented strategies. She is also coauthor of Supercharge Your Professional Learning. She works with businesses and organizations to design effective online curriculum that supports all learners. Her work also includes implementing UDL in the health and wellness industry, therapeutic horseback riding, fitness instruction, and workforce development. She earned her EdM in Mind, Brain, and Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education where she also served as a project manager and researcher at the Causal Learning in a Complex World Lab. Kasia can be reached at kasia@learningkeyworks.com or on Twitter @Kasia_ UDLWorks.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is what we’re exploring in Ep. 9. Along with the following questions:

1. How do you identify the need for genuine change? 
2. Do you identify it or does it identify you? And how/what does that look/feel like?
3. Provocation...what provokes shifts and changes?
4. What is dissatisfaction?
5. How do we know which is which and what change requires what from us?
6. WHY is it important to consider our MOTIVATION for change and how does that support our choice-making and change journey?

And the BIG QUESTION: Are we moving from HABIT or DEVELOPMENTAL POTENCY?

In this conversation, we’re excited to introduce you to one of the movement community’s greatest icons and assets, Master Pilates Teacher, teacher training, and mentor, Debora Kolwey. Debora was the co-founder of the Thinking Pilates Podcast with Chantill (2015 - 2021) and is a lifelong explorer of the body, movement, meditation and the Shambhala lineage of Buddhism. 

Reach out to us at embodiedbrainpodcast@gmail.com with questions or comments about this episode. You can learn more about Debora Kolwey through the Pilates Center in Boulder, CO: https://thepilatescenter.com/do/staff/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We all like to complain and explain and unpack how life is hard, stressful, unfair, challenging, feels less than good and we make lots of plans for feeling better. Often we blame circumstances and sometimes people for how we feel. But what we’re exploring in this episode is how WE are the root of all of our feeling bad. Hard pill to swallow? Take. Three. Deep. Breaths. Now, consider how you might actually be more committed to the stories, beliefs, and expectations that keep you feeling bad than you are to feeling good. It’s a doozy, this one, but it’s a good one. 

Listen in to find out what kinds of “feeling bad” we’ve been committed to and how we practice getting clear about what we really want, anchoring those commitments into the body, and recommitting as a practice. 

There’s some work in this one for you if you’re up for it. 

Special thanks to the work of Gay Hendricks and his three books (The Big Leap, The Genius Zone, and Conscious Luck) that have inspired much of this conversation. 

We’d love to hear from you. Reach out at embodiedbusinesspodcast@gmail.com and if you love what you’re hearing, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well, this episode is a little bit like that. When you’re struggling to attract new leads or get genuine buy-in from your team or staff…MOST OFTEN it’s about clarity — the WHY is murky and your motivation is mixed and misunderstood — and the WAY you’re delivering, connecting, or educating is overcomplicated, overstuffed, and inconsistent. 

Get a taste of the deep educational and transformational design work we do to support leaders, teachers and CEOs to attract more ready-to-say-yes clients and more committed buy-in from their people. 

This is the tip of the iceberg.

The Real Life Riff 

What’s the problem we see our leaders and educators facing consistently? Not being able to attract the right students, staff or employees or not being able to make the changes/transformation they set out to create in their businesses, teams, or within their education….

Symptoms:

Low interest/low enrollment

Low engagement: disinterest, lack of engagement, not finishing, (retreating/rebelling)

The problem in 3 parts looks like:

People don’t raise their hands because they don’t know what you’re sharing/promoting/offering/trying to accomplish

People don’t stay engaged because you offer too much — lack of clarity will do that

People don’t self-advocate or re-enroll because they are overwhelmed or can’t see the point

What’s the solution?

As an educator clarity is paramount 

Problem who want to educate have 

Zoom OUT 

Use all the options at your fingertips

Lack of clarity 

Over-deliver with a lack of clarity 

People bail 

Retreat + rebel

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn about her journey to become embodied WHILE birthing a 15+ year career at Google.

As our first guest, Gina’s story lifts up the path of a leader moving toward embodiment. In this episode she shares: tales from her epic 3-month motorcycle sabbatical; coming home to massively pivot her role out of sales and into organizational development; and the questions to ask — like "How do you know?/What do you look for/feel for/listen for?" — that might tell you you’re ready to take a small leap yourself.

We also dive into:

• How do you begin to practice embodiment and bring it into your life/work spaces?
• The transition, from the Adult Development Theory perspective, of going from socialized to self-authored: 
• What that means and how it's related to embodiment 
• How we can get stuck in "separateness" because we are "right" in our new found embodiment and anyone not embodied is "wrong" -- 
• AND how to move toward collective growth

It’s a rockin’ first interview!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are two ways in to building businesses that are embodied entities: 

1. You are an embodiment-based/focused teacher or professional and you want to uplevel and uplift your entrepreneurial skills for more financial prosperity, more expansive freedom, and more joy. OR…
2. You are an entrepreneur, creator, builder, or leader and you want to bring embodiment has something to do with it.

What you need either way: 

• Learn how to be uncomfortable in order to do what’s better for your business (and supports what you say you want)
• Learn how to Fail Fast
• Ask, “What do I want?” on a regular basis and reorient to the answer
• Not being so precious about your passion
• Integrate all aspects of self and life and experience
• Tap into your body and the bodies of your team members and stop delegating every task to your brain (it will lie to you)
• Take time to learn the language of your body (and be ready to fail fast)
• Be willing to go first
• 
  

How does Curriculum Design support: 

• CREATIVITY
• BUILDING TEAMS
• LEADING ORGANIZATIONS
• DEVELOPING DYNAMIC AND EMBODIED BUSINESSES + projects

Preview our first guest, Gina Pelucca, on 3/31 - A Google superstart for nearly 15 years, began in sales working with clients like Macy’s and courting clients like Harley Davidson, consistently moved up into building and leading international teams in sales until about 2019 when she transitioned into a very dynamic position within organizational leadership and development. Has studied and trained in Adult Development Theory and in Somatic Leadership at the renowned Strozzi Institute. Is currently in her second year of working with Resma Menikem in his Is now preparing for a solo career as a consultant carving out her own amazing path. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And we also explore how we spend money on foundational products and services that ARE not fancy.  And how spending habits reveal your money stories.  

We ask ourselves what is the being experience instead of the having experience behind driving your business.  

Understand how embodied and health and wellness professionals can shift from the service economy (dollars-per-hour-service based) economy and INTO the knowledge based economy.  

Learn how to shift from transactional exchange to transformational change and how the money flows differently in those experiences. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do I become embodied? 

How can I nurture my embodied experience? 

How do I build and nurture an embodied business?

We dive into how each of us has come to our embodied experience differently and how being embodied has supported us in making our natural talents and characters more potent. We’re opposites in a lot of ways, but the path forward has always been driven by the same end: bringing more of ourselves to everything we do. 

Learn the tricks, hacks, pitfalls, and practices that we use and teach to support both creating an embodied business and nurturing an inspired brain. 

You’ll learn more about who we are as a partnership and as individuals and find out the ONE KEY THING we do on a daily basis that supports our embodied human experience. 

Plus you’ll get the long “short list” of resources we recommend to aid you on your way.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anne shares her story of transitioning from independent contractors to employees and how her intuition led the way, how listening to her body informs her business decisions, even if she doesn’t know the outcome. 

Together we geek out about interoception, exteroception, Polyvagal Theory, distributed cognition, and we share our stories of how stepping into entrepreneurship as young women influenced our connection to intuition. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this inaugural episode we lay it all on the table and we ask one critical question: What is your business asking of you?

It’s a question that helps us stay connected to the myriad of facets our businesses take that we sometimes cannot see despite all of our experience and all of our education and all of our “thinking” we’re right. 

There are somethings…you simply cannot “think” your way through. You must feel your way through them. 

Welcome to the journey!

What is the Embodied Business Inspired Brain Podcast?

You’re experienced, skilled, and smart AF…and you still don’t know how to leverage all that brass into creating a business that you love, that works FOR you, and is wildly lucrative.  

Join educational and entrepreneurial design experts, Chantill Lopez and Anne Bishop, in a bi-weekly podcast that unleashes their collective 40+ years of educating, creating, business building, mentoring, podcasting, authoring, researching and other rad bad-assing not to mention a not-so-shabby Harvard degree. 

Get off the hamster wheel of trading dollars for hours in the job (or business) you’ve created for yourself, or even worse the “someone else’s business” you’ve been slaving away in, and break through the low ceiling of the Service-based Economy into the glory of the Knowledge-based Economy.

Discover how to: build your online, brick-and-mortar, or hybrid business on a powerful transdisciplinary approach that takes no shit; uplift your vision and your teams with brain, body, and nervous system science that will blow your hair back and change your life; unleash your intuition with strategy and data at your back so no one dares ever say to you, “soft skills ain’t real skills.”

We know that we can’t let perfectionism or taking ourselves too seriously stop us from taking action so pull your socks up and get ready to have your sexy nerd feathers ruffled by all the science, inspiration, big thinking, and lucrative business building you can handle. 

Are you a creative entrepreneur, transformative educator, organizational leader, or body-based creative who LOVES a good cocktail of cutting edge thinking and science mixed with a passionate, whole-person approach to making more money, more impact, and experiencing more WOOHOO doing EXACTLY what you want? 

Get your curious butt over here then and let’s move some effing mountains. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.