Health Fuels Hustle

If selling is a necessary part of running a business, how can we change our relationship to selling so it feels less sleazy? This is the question at the heart of Amy’s year long experiment in not selling and it formed the basis for today’s episode with sales consultant, Shay Schindler from Sales With Shay.In this conversation they talk about:How Shay shifted her mindset from ‘selling is sleazy’ to ‘selling is a service’The three questions Shay asks herself every time she is building a sales page or funnelThe tarot cards we’re using to help shift our energy around sellingHow to sell without getting on a sales callShay’s most disliked traditional sales tactic to watch out for when you’re being sold toAbout Shay:Shay is a high-ticket sales consultant and coach with almost two decades of experience helping thought-leaders and creators build profitable businesses online.After side-hustling for years, she took her online business dreams full-time and co-founded a brand consultancy in 2017 and has been busy ever sin

What if the industry standard for your business was draining you physically, mentally, and emotionally?? That’s the experience Amy had a year into the pandemic. In this episode she shares what she did to drastically change how she works with clients and the benefits she’s seen from taking that risk.In this episode she dives into:How she progressed from offering medical care to coachingHer “hot take” on what coaching is and isn’tWhat it looks like to no longer offer coaching calls as a coachThe pros and cons of Voxer only coachingLinks mentioned in this episode:Learn more about my coaching offering and working together.Find me on Voxer!Paperbell is an all-in-one tool that handles scheduling, payments and client management I use to streamline the tech side of my coaching business. Create a free account here.Support the showJoin the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and

Being in business is being comfortable with pivoting - wether it’s due to our own personal evolutions and changes, or in response to the outer world, economy, and market. We all experienced a lot of pivoting a few years back when the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 virus took our wold by storm.In today’s episode, Amy invited her friend and community member, Maggie Batista, to come on the show and talk about pivoting in business. Maggie is someone who has been in business (offline and online) for decades and has lots of experience when it comes to following her heart/soul/inner voice to pivot.She's recently moved through a new pivot in her business - and since Amy’s Patreon community has as well, Amy wanted to have a conversation with her focused on pivoting. (Please note this conversation was initially recorded for the Patreon community’s private audio feed.)In this conversation we talk about:How Maggie has permissioned herself to pivot time after timeThe astrological and Human Design lenses that have s

Does it ever feel like you’re getting mixed signals from your intuition when you’re making plans in your business? If your answer is yes you’re definitely not alone. In this episode Amy dives into her own experience of this happening and her tried and true tool she uses to move through it.In this episode she dives into:How Amy works with the Three of Pentacles tarot card in her businessHow “parts work” might show up when we’re exploring our businesses needsAmy’s favorite tarot spread to use when we need some external information to help us make decisions in our businessA live tarot reading using the spread mentioned above!If you're looking to deepen your tarot practice or even just looking to start one, I would wholeheartedly recommend Tarot for the Wild Soul as the place to dive in. Enrollment closes on March 20th, 2023 and if you use the code AMYK at sign-up you get free and permanent access to my content library. Learn more and sign up here (don't forget to use the code AMYK)!Support the showJoin the Breat

Join Amy as she talks to past client, Dr. Katy Peplin, all about experimentation in business.In this episode they talk about:Running her business as a series of experiments.The process of learning to trust her body’s messages and connecting to her intuition.How she moved out of a success/failure binary and started to see more holographic growth in herself and her business.How breathwork has played a role in her business.What resulted after she trusted spirit-led messages that came through during breathwork, and how those results surprised her.How they both have redefined what we consider ‘work.’About Katy:Katy Peplin (she/her) turned her difficulties in graduate school into a coaching business built around the idea that you can be a scholar and a human at the same time. Thrive PhD is a thriving community that has grown into courses, writing groups, one-on-one work, and workshops around the world. When she isn't working, she's often outside - gardening, hiking, or reading her porch.You can find Katy

What if we didn’t sell?? That’s the question Amy asks in this week’s episode where she outlines her 2023 experiment in not selling.In this episode she dives into:Her most epic launch failure to dateThe epiphany that led to experimenting with not sellingWhat she’s defining as “selling” vs “not selling” this yearThe two main experiments she’s exploring around “sales without selling” this yearSupport the showJoin the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more. Membership tiers are sliding scale $5-$33 per month.To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

A quick content warning heads up that today’s episode references health challenges and medical diagnosis. Please tend to your needs as needed if these topics bring up difficult feelings for you.In this episode, Amy talks about how fears in business and life are so natural and how they often try to keep us stuck in place. She shares some life updates that have felt scary to her and how she’s navigating that fear to keep moving forward in her business.Resource mentioned in this episode: My Friend Fear: Finding Magic in the Unknown by Meera Lee Patel

Get a peak behind the curtain of two breathwork businesses at the end of the year. In this episode, Amy is joined by one of her biz besties - Chauna Bryant - to have an open conversation reflecting on the past year in each of their businesses and looking forward towards the next year.They reflect on these five questions:What word or phrase would you use to describe 2022 in your business?Where did you spend the majority of your time and energy in your business last year?What’s the biggest lesson learned last year?What’s something that you can take a step back from? What’s something you want to engage more with next year?Goal setting: Were those goals really that important? How do you want to set goals going forward?What would a successful 2023 look like?Learn more about Chauna at https://www.chaunabryant.com/Chauna Bryant is a Breathwork Meditation facilitator, Pilates, and GYROTONIC® Instructor, and founder of Breath Liberation Society. She is dedicated to body and mind rejuvenation. With 15 years of experien

In this episode Amy is joined by past Incubator member, Finn Schubert, all about following narrative threads in our life and business.They talk about:Finding and following narrative threads - even when the narrative is wildly nonlinearKnowing when to walk away and begin a new pathBeing willing to listen to our intuitive guides, even when they don’t tell us what we want to hearHis writing practice and how he decides what stories are for sharing and what stories are for him aloneBreathwork as a tool for letting goand much more!Finn Schubert (he/him) is the author of Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here, an essay collection exploring his move from NYC to a small town to grieve his infertility. (In a weird twist, he got pregnant as soon as the book came out.)  He is a Moth StorySlam-winning storyteller, and his writing has appeared in TheBody, Lit Star Review, and the anthologies Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices and Places Like Home. He writes a weekly essays newsletter, titled "The Menstruant," explo

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when our inboxes, podcast feeds, and and social media sites are teeming with educational material trying to teach us or sell us the NEXT RIGHT THING. So how do you lessen the overwhelm? By really discerning whose voices you want to invite into your brain space. In today’s episode, Amy is going to share with you her matrix of discernment concept and give you a peek behind the curtain at the exact matrix she uses to decide who to learn from. Take a listen, create your own matrix of discernment, and share them with Amy in a voice note or email over at amykuretsky.com/podcast✨ Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon community to take part in our seasonal breathwork challenge & 2023 virtual retreat.Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to the community Discord server, live events like group coworking, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more.To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

Learn about my framework to build a solid foundation for a business that want to do business differently.The six pillars are:Embracing the MessUnlearning and DiscerningImagining and VisioningTrusting and SurrenderingFinding and Defining EnoughnessBefriending Fear and Taking Brave StepsTake a listen to figure out which pillars your business is solidly built upon - and which pillars it might be time to start building.✨ Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon community to take part in our seasonal breathwork challenge & 2023 virtual retreat.Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to the community Discord server, live events like group coworking, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more.To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

Change - it’s the only constant in life, right? In this episode we’ll talk about all the changes this podcast has gone through in its lifetime, why it’s so hard to make changes in our business, and consider the places in our life we might be ready to give ourselves more permission to change.We’ll also talk about what you can expect in this season of the new Breathe Into Business podcast.✨ Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon community to take part in our seasonal breathwork challenge & 2023 virtual retreat.Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to the community Discord server, live events like group coworking, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more.To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

Breathwork for Business newsletter from October 18th, 2022, titled: Turn it up to 11.To read this newsletter in its original format, with all links included, head here: https://morning-dust-7821.ck.page/postsJoin Amy’s Patreon community to get access to the Discord server, group coworking, private podcast feed interviews, worksheets, breathwork recordings, and more at https://www.patreon.com/amykuretskyLearn more about my work at www.amykuretsky.com

Breathwork for Business newsletter from September 22nd, 2022.To read this newsletter in its original format, with all links included, head here: https://morning-dust-7821.ck.page/postsJoin the Incubator:The Incubator is a five month small group coaching program (with lifetime access!) for small business owners who want to take even bigger steps to do business differently but need a bit more support, encouragement, community - and a bravely messy place to do it. It's a mix between a community, course, and mastermind for a group of 10-12 small business owners who want to do business differently than the norm and are looking for a community of support and safer space to experiment.Learn more and sign up for the Incubator at: https://www.amykuretsky.com/incubatorLearn more about my work at www.amykuretsky.com

Breathwork for Business newsletter from August 28th, 2022.To read this newsletter in its original format, with all links included, head here: https://morning-dust-7821.ck.page/postsTo learn more about the Incubator and sign up for the waitlist: https://www.amykuretsky.com/incubatorJoin Amy’s Fuck the Hustle Patreon community to get access to weekly coworking, private podcast feed interviews, worksheets, breathwork recordings, and more: https://www.patreon.com/amykuretskyLearn more about my work at www.amykuretsky.com

Breathwork for Business newsletter from August 4th, 2022.To read this newsletter in its original format, with all links included, head here: https://morning-dust-7821.ck.page/postsJoin Amy’s Fuck the Hustle Patreon community to get access to weekly coworking, private podcast feed interviews, worksheets, breathwork recordings, and more: https://www.patreon.com/amykuretskyLearn more about my work at www.amykuretsky.com

Breathwork for Business newsletter from 7/27/22.To read this newsletter in its original format, with all links included, head here: https://morning-dust-7821.ck.page/postsAnd to learn more about the retreat this September in Arizona, click here: https://daralainemurray.com/Join Amy’s Fuck the Hustle Patreon community to get access to weekly coworking, private podcast feed interviews, worksheets, breathwork recordings, and more: https://www.patreon.com/amykuretskyLearn more about my work at www.amykuretsky.com

Breathwork for Business newsletter from 6/29/22.To read this newsletter in its original format, with all links included, head here: https://morning-dust-7821.ck.page/postsRegister for the quarterly planning workshop on 7/5/22 here: https://amykuretsky.as.me/q3-2022-planningJoin Amy’s Fuck the Hustle Patreon community to get access to weekly coworking, private podcast feed interviews, worksheets, breathwork recordings, and more: https://www.patreon.com/amykuretskyLearn more about my work at www.amykuretsky.com

Breathwork for Business newsletter from 6/14/2022.To read this newsletter in its original format, with all links included, head here: https://morning-dust-7821.ck.page/postsJoin Amy’s Fuck the Hustle Patreon community to get access to weekly coworking, private podcast feed interviews, worksheets, breathwork recordings, and more: https://www.patreon.com/amykuretskyLearn more about my work at www.amykuretsky.com

Breathwork for Business newsletter from April 19th, 2022.To read this newsletter in its original format, with all links included, head here: https://morning-dust-7821.ck.page/posts/what-to-do-when-life-business-feel-messyJoin Amy’s Fuck the Hustle Patreon community to get access to weekly coworking, private podcast feed interviews, worksheets, breathwork recordings, and more: https://www.patreon.com/amykuretskyLearn more about my work at www.amykuretsky.com