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Purposeful Profit is THE podcast for female business owners that are ready to take control of their business finances, build wildly profitable businesses and have more impact. The sexy parts of a business - marketing, sales and operations get plenty of attention - but finance is often a business’s neglected stepchild. It's time to show them some love - after all profit is how you have more impact and create financial freedom. Finance and strategy coach and fractional CFO Carla Moats will use ...
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Welcome to the Ex Good Girl Podcast! I’m Sara Bybee Fisk, the Stop People Pleasing Coach. If you feel exhausted from constant people pleasing and perfectionism, and you are ready to stop but you don’t know how, this podcast is for YOU! I will help you learn to stop making other people comfortable at your own expense. I can show you a roadmap you can use to train yourself to stop abandoning your own desires and let go of the fear of what others will think. If you are ready to stop pretending ...
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Send us a text Welcome to the second episode of my special series on Unconventional Choices. I am so grateful to my guests, Carla Moats and Paige Dempsey, for sharing their journeys to parenthood. In a society that often scrutinizes solo parents, Carla and Paige exemplify courage in making a choice that aligns with their values—the choice to become…
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Send us a text This week, I continue my series on unconventional choices by exploring alternative relationship structures. I am incredibly thankful to my guests, Ali Ryan and Dr. Laura Jurgens, for sharing their insight on alternative relationship structures and their experience and advice on navigating them with love and respect. Ali Ryan is the C…
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Send us a text I’m thrilled to kick off my “Unconventional Choices” series with an incredible lineup of guests and fellow coaches—Amber Taylor, Pauline Yan, Melissa G. Wirt, and Dr. Susie Castellanos Hansley—all of whom have chosen to remain child-free. Together, we challenge societal norms and our “good-girl” programming as we discuss the pressure…
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Send us a text I am so grateful for my conversation with this week’s guest, Colleen Kachmann, where we tackle an important and often tricky topic: drinking. Tune in as we explore how drinking is tied to perfectionism and people pleasing and how, thanks to her own journey, Colleen is helping women rise above it. Colleen is a Certified Master Life & …
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Send us a text With everything happening in our world right now, especially politically here in the United States, we need to talk about the female double blind–the impossible double standards to which women are held that create no-win situations for us. So many examples of this show up in our everyday lives and are perpetuated by the media, and it…
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Send us a text This episode is all about honesty and vulnerability as I share what I’m currently working on in my life. While I’m a coach, I’m a person, too. As a person, I struggle with and navigate many challenges, especially those specifically related to womanhood. These experiences, part of my ongoing journey of growth and learning, make me a g…
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Send us a text Did you know that people pleasing can be subtle–even sneaky? People pleasing goes far beyond the stereotypical inability to say “no.” In this episode, I reveal the people pleasing tendencies that catch us off guard–things like excessive politeness, perfectionism, and difficulty setting boundaries. Because it can show up in so many di…
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Send us a text I’m so grateful for my beautiful conversation with this week’s guest, Angie Wilson. Angie Wilson is a certified life coach specializing in helping women love their lives after divorce. With a master's degree in social work, Angie brings a rich background of experience to her coaching practice. She worked as a therapist and case manag…
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Send us a text I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to sit down with Allyssya Gossett, Abby Wolfson, and Jayne Newman to dig into what it's like to be a woman programmed to people please—and what it's like to be a woman who stops. Allyssya is an educator and life coach who helps women step outside their comfort zone and into confidence so t…
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Send us a text Welcome to part two of my series on how to make lasting, positive changes in your life. In part one, I shared my framework for change and three things you need to make it work: awareness, capacity, and skills. In this episode, I share a conversation I had during a coaching call with an amazing client. During this call, we discussed h…
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Send us a text Do you know what you need to make a change? I do. I can’t wait to share my framework for change with you. To make a lasting change, you need three things: awareness, capacity, and skills. In this episode, I share real-life strategies and examples of these three elements, and I invite you to join me on July 15 from 1-2 PM PST for a fr…
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Send us a text I’m excited to welcome Danielle Savory back to the show this week. Danielle is a master-certified coach, podcast host, and expert in neuropsychology, mindfulness, sexual pleasure, and intimacy. When she last joined us in episode 25, “Sexual Power with Danielle Savory,” she left us with the wisdom that “a woman's ability to be present…
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Send us a text This week’s podcast is an invitation. An invitation to stop feeling “stuck.” An invitation to step into the security and self-connection you need to move forward. Most importantly, it is an invitation to join my masterclass and workshop series, From Stuck to Secure, designed specifically for individuals seeking to improve their relat…
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Send us a text I really enjoyed my insightful and empowering conversation with this week’s guest, Mikki Gardner. Mikki is a mom to a teenage son, a Certified Life + Conscious Parenting Coach, the host of the Co-Parenting with Confidence podcast, and the bestselling author of the People Pleasers Guide to Co-Parenting Well. After navigating her own d…
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Send us a text Because everybody needs a break sometimes, the Ex-Good Girl podcast is on a four week break. We'll be back on June 5th with new episodes. Until then, listen to some of your old favorites, get caught up, or join my Stop People Pleasing Facebook group by finding the link in the show notes below. I can't wait to connect with you. Find S…
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Send us a text I am so grateful to have a secure relationship with my husband, but it wasn’t always that way. Earlier in our relationship, I was terrified of being left by him, and I built myself an armor of hyper independence and dishonesty. I pretended to be ways I wasn’t to stay safe and “belong” with him. This lack of safety and insecurity in o…
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Send us a text I’m incredibly thankful for Ashmae Hoiland for creating such an engaging conversation this week. Ashmae is a talented writer, painter, and maker. Ashmae’s upcoming essay collection, Letters to a Leaving Mormon, will be released on November 1, 2024. Ahead of its release, we wanted to speak about how writing- one of the most ancient pr…
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All businesses need bookkeeping. It’s part of doing business and it’s part of being a business owner. First you have to decide if you are going to DIY it or hire someone. But most business owners don’t have an accounting background and don’t know much about bookkeeping (and don’t really have the time to do it right). And if they decide to hire it o…
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Send us a text We have this idea that acceptance means approval, that if we accept when something goes wrong—when a boundary is crossed, when someone disappoints us, when we get rejected—we’re saying it’s okay. When this is how we define acceptance, we avoid it; and when we avoid acceptance, we reject reality. We avoid processing our unmet expectat…
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Recently, I was talking to someone, and they asked me why profit mattered. I'll admit, was taken aback a bit. I felt like they were asking me why I needed to breath. It seemed so obvious to me. Businesses need profit to survive over the long-term. And business owners need profit if they want financial freedom or just to support their lifestyle. But…
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Send us a text Today I have Elizabeth Hester joining me on the podcast. She’s a current member of the Stop People Pleasing group coaching program that started back in January. She’s a mother, teacher, and lifelong student. She’s also the owner of multiple UPS stores in North Carolina. She’s been processing her grief from the loss of her husband in …
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Sometimes what we mistake for fear or avoidance of our business finances, is really money trauma, which is a deeper issue than just being overwhelmed or confused or fearful of your finances. Join me for a conversation with Hailee, a trauma coach, as we talk about and try to normalize money trauma. We talk about how money trauma is different from fe…
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Send us a text I’m so grateful for my guest Kimberly Mathis and this week’s fascinating conversation. Kimberly is a queer therapist-turned-general life coach with an ADHD brain who helps people change what feels unchangeable. She teaches her clients how to make their own decisions and navigate difficult relationships - including the one they have w…
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Do you have an LLC but are confused about how to file your taxes? This week's podcast episode is just for you. April 15th is less than a month off, which means you need to get those LLC taxes done. Tax laws can be complicated and overwhelming., but whether you are doing your own or hiring a pro, it's important as a business owner to know the basics…
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Send us a text I want to have a conversation with you about the tension in this self-help marketing space so that you know where I’m coming from. I want you to know what my values are and I want you to know what I'm striving for. I want you to look at the lens of your own values through the products that are being marketed to you, because it is rel…
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Freedom is my top value. It's really why I started my business. I wanted more financial AND time freedom. It's also usually a top 3 value of my clients as well. But freedom means different things to everyone. Knowing what freedom means to you is important if you ever want to achieve it. In this week's episode of Purposeful Profit, I'm talking all a…
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Send us a text This episode features conversations I did with four current participants of my Stop People Pleasing group coaching program: Natalie Hagwood, Elizabeth Sherman, Kelly True, and Gini Ewart. I hope that by hearing their stories, you're inspired to see what is possible for you, and take a little peek into some of the things that I teach.…
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In today's episode of Purposeful Profit, I'm helping answer one of the most common questions I get from business owners: "Should I be an S corp or an LLC?" And the answer is, they really are not mutually exclusive. You can be an LLC as a legal form AND still elect S corp status. And doing so, can generate significant tax savings under the right cir…
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Send us a text Maggie Reyes is a wonderful marriage coach who I had the honor of having as a coach myself. Maggie helped me get to another version of my marriage that has been just so delightful. She has a podcast called “The Marriage Life Coach Podcast.” Maggie’s double-certified as both a Life Coach and a Sex, Love and Relationship coach by two o…
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The best bookkeeping system for your business is the one you'll use. A system, no matter how full featured, that you don't use, isn't any better than no system. So if you don't have a system or you aren't using the system you have and are overwhelmed by the idea of using QBO or adding the cost, you are who Simple Financials was designed to serve. A…
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Send us a text This week, Sara Hughes-Zabawa LCSW, CDWF joins me to talk about advocating for yourself in a medical setting. Sara is a therapist, licensed clinical social worker, Certified Daring Way™ facilitator, yoga instructor, & wellness coach. She’s passionate about helping clients thrive as they enhance the quality of their lives through fost…
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Is your bookkeeping system a shoebox? A file folder? A bookkeeping system provides a way to record and classify transactions and a shoe box or file folder can't do that. But not everyone needs (or wants) a full featured system like QBO. And bookkeeping doesn't have to be complicated. 🎧 Tune into this week's episode where I talk about the simplest b…
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Send us a text This episode is all about relationships. As humans, we’re wired for connection and meant to have a variety of dynamics in our lives. Friendship, intimacy, and pleasure are necessary in life, as well as our independence. Life is the balance of independence vs. interdependence. In this episode I offer tools to help assess if you want t…
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It's tax season and that often brings a lot of stress, handwringing and anxiety to business owners. But tax prep can be a breeze if you are prepared. Before you go to your tax preparer, there's some easy steps you can take to reduce the questions you get from your tax preparer and makes sure you've maximized your deductions. 🎧 Tune into this week's…
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Send us a text Grief plays a big part in the journey to stopping people pleasing and perfectionating. It's the death or the changing of a former life- a former way of seeing the world, a former way that we used to relate to each other in relationships, a former way that we used to be rewarded and recognized. It comes up a lot in my group coaching p…
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In this week's episode of Purposeful Profit, I'm clearing up the confusion I see among small business owners around the requirements for 1099 reporting. And this confusion is leading to 1099's being issued for incorrect amounts, to people who should not receive one, not being issue to those who should get one. Tune into this week's episode and get …
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Send us a text In this episode, Kori Linn and I discuss Imposter Syndrome. Kori is a life and career coach as well as the host of the Satisfied AF podcast. She helps clients, listeners, and social media followers create more satisfaction & delight in every area of their lives. Imposter syndrome points the finger at individuals and burdens them with…
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Is your business built on a solid foundation? Or is it built on dirt or soft ground? When you build a house on soft ground, it might stand for a time, but eventually it caves in. Same goes for your business. And your finances are the basement of your business. It’s the part that’s invisible to most outsiders, but what holds up the upper floors - yo…
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Send us a text This week I’m joined by Andrea Giles. She's a certified life coach and has a podcast called “Heal From Infidelity”. Andrea helps women sort out the confusion, grief, fear, doubt, and frustration that comes when infidelity (as well as other forms of betrayal) occurs in their marriage. Today we talk about our life stories and what got …
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There is one thing that absolutely every business needs: bookkeeping. You need it not just to report taxes properly, but to understand the finances of your business. Selecting your bookkeeping system is one of the earliest decisions you'll make in your business. But, let's face it, you are not an accountant and may not know what you need or underst…
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Send us a text Our wanting is essential and important. Women feel shame around wanting because we’ve been taught to not want things. “Don't be needy or selfish.” How many times have you heard or felt this? Do you choose not to hope or strive for your heart's desires because it's easier to not want than to be disappointed? Wanting is opening up to y…
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The only thing worse than no bookkeeping is bad bookkeeping. It costs you time and money, both today and in the future. I know because I'm often working with clients to clean up shoddy bookkeeping work. It's the starting point for a good financial foundation. There are a lot of great bookkeepers and accountants out there. But it's also an unregulat…
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Send us a text For this episode, Laura Sully joins me to share her experience having a consult with me. Booking a consult with me is the best way to start your journey with stopping people pleasing. When you start working with me, I’ll give you tools that are immediately useful in your life. Then we’ll get into processing emotions and dive deeper i…
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Are your finances for 2023 all in order? Or are they a bit of hot mess? Are you going to be able to spend Q1 focused on your 2024 goals or are you going to spend it in mad rush, full of anxiety, trying to pull all your numbers together. What if this time next year, your finance were all in order and you were not scrambling for the tax guy. What if …
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Send us a text What if 2024 is the year you stop people pleasing? What if you started to create a world around you where you feel respected by yourself and others? The universality of our preprogramming aka good girl programming silently shapes us. We can learn to overcome the discomfort, and gain the respect we desire from ourselves and others. It…
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Send us a text Elizabeth Sherman joins me this week to discuss midlife and the changes women experience on different levels. Humans socialized as women experience emotional, physical, and mental changes as they get older. Health should be the overall goal but our society's ways of thinking mess that up. Diet culture and the patriarchy are such nega…
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Send us a text Andee Martineau and I continue our conversation this week about people pleasing and parenting. Tolerating failures and disappointments with your children can be challenging but it is possible to deal with. The need to fix, save, and/or rescue can be consuming. As a parent, you have to be true to yourself and respect yourself first wh…
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