Space and Grace Podcast – Abundant Business Without Burnout

Visibility shouldn't feel like a second job. PR expert KJ Blattenbauer explains how to become easier to find, recognise and trust without constantly posting, performing or adding more work to an already full plate.   Being good at what you do doesn't automatically mean the right people will find you. In this episode, publicist and Pitch Worthy author KJ Blattenbauer joins me to talk abou...

When motivation disappears and nothing you try seems to fix it, the problem is usually not on the surface. Here is what is actually running the show.   This episode is for the business owner who has gone flat, lost momentum, or found that the drive she used to rely on has quietly stopped working. Michal McCracken shares the story of a client whose entire business engine, inspiration followed by ha...

You can know your subject inside out and still stay quiet when the opportunity to speak comes. Theresa Miller explains why women’s expertise is still underheard and how to speak clearly and confidently when it matters.   You can be highly experienced, know exactly what you’re talking about, and still hesitate when someone hands you the microphone. In this episode, journalist, author and media trai...

You check your account, the money is there, and you still feel tense. Here is why more money does not automatically create more safety.   If your business is working but money still does not feel stable, this episode is for you. Michal McCracken breaks down why women who are already earning can still feel anxious, guarded, or braced around money. Not because their numbers are wrong, but because th...

Your business plan can look tidy while your actual week is full of school runs, paid work, energy dips, decision fatigue, and the invisible load. Karen Dennett shares how to build a sustainable microbusiness that fits real life.   Most business growth advice assumes unlimited time, steady energy, and a clean calendar. That is not the reality for many women building a microbusiness around caregivin...

Working less sounds good in theory. Most people either cannot trust it or try it and watch their results slide. Allan Ngo explains what actually has to change first.   Most solo business owners are doing more than they need to. The problem is they cannot tell which parts actually move the needle. In this episode, Michal speaks with Allan Ngo, founder of Digital Solopreneur, about the minimum viabl...

Your money decisions are not coming from logic. They are coming from a story you did not consciously choose.  Here is how to see it clearly. Most money patterns do not start with strategy. They start with a story, one you absorbed before you had language for it.   In this episode, Michal McCracken is joined by Carrie KC West, founder of the Rewritten Collection and author of Money Rewritten. Drawi...

You have taken all the action and followed all the right advice. Here is why your results are still not matching your effort. This episode is for the high-achieving woman who keeps taking action but keeps hitting the same income ceiling. Michal McCracken unpacks why doing more stops working, and why the issue is rarely strategy or discipline.  When your nervous system has learned to associate more...

Health, wealth, and self-worth are deeply connected. Nancy Griffin shares how women can stop delaying themselves, ask better questions, and build a wealth plan that supports health, legacy, and long-term impact.   Health, wealth, and self-worth are often treated as separate conversations. In real life, they are deeply connected, especially for women carrying responsibility, building businesses, an...

You know delegation would help. So why does it keep getting pushed to the back of the list? Kristy Yoder, CEO of a 70-person, seven-figure business, explains what is really in the way.   This episode is for the entrepreneur who knows they need to delegate but cannot quite bring themselves to do it, or keeps delegating the wrong things and wondering why nothing changes. Kristy Yoder started as a fr...

Your strategy isn’t broken. Your nervous system may just be protecting you from burnout. In this episode, we unpack why capable entrepreneurs suddenly stall and how nervous system regulation restores clarity, momentum, and sustainable business growth.   There’s a moment in many businesses where strategy suddenly stops working even when the plan is right.  In this episode, Michal McCracken explores...

You know exactly what to do. So why does the pattern keep repeating? Hypnotherapist Paul Salter explains what strategy alone cannot fix.   This episode is for the entrepreneur who has done the inner work, read the books, and still finds themselves cycling between pushing hard and shutting down. Paul Salter is a high-performance hypnotherapist who has spent 16 years working with CEOs, entrepreneurs...

Burnout often shows up in the way we respond, avoid, overthink, or shut down. In this episode, Lori Rogers shares simple practices to reset your energy, calm mental clutter, and build a steadier relationship with work and money.   In this episode of Space and Grace , Michal McCracken speaks with Lori Rogers, co-founder of Positive Activity and VP of Rogers Marketing, about burnout, balance, mindse...

What if the biggest barrier to financial freedom isn't your spending habits, but a banking system that doesn't understand how you actually work? Tamara Laine built an AI platform to solve this exact problem for gig workers and underserved communities. For the ambitious woman who's building something meaningful but struggling with the financial realities of entrepreneurship. Traditio...

What happens when divorce, cancer, burnout, and identity loss force you to start again. In this grounded conversation, Briar Kirkby shares how she rebuilt her life, found healing in Bali, and now helps women reset before they break. If you are moving through burnout, midlife change, visibility fears, or a season of personal rebuilding, this episode will meet you there. Michal McCracken sits down w...

You can build the offer, write the emails, and still feel your body shut down when it’s time to be visible. In this episode, Michal McCracken explains why procrastination, overwhelm, or sudden collapse in business is often nervous system dysregulation, not laziness or lack of strategy. When visibility, money growth, or success feels unsafe, your body will block action. You’ll learn: • Why fear of...

Automation doesn't have to strip the humanity from your business. Pam Langford shares her HEART framework for using AI and systems in a way that actually supports how you work — creating more capacity, not complexity. For the ambitious woman who's earning well but feels overwhelmed by all the "shoulds" around automation and AI. You know you need systems. You know AI could help....

Growth can ask more of you than new strategy or better habits. In this conversation, Bianca Caruana shares how to meet change with more softness, self-forgiveness, and less control as a new version of you begins to emerge. Sometimes growth does not feel exciting. It feels unfamiliar, tender, and harder to control than you expected. In this episode, Michal McCracken speaks with ceremony facilitator...

What looks like discipline in business is often overwork, poor delegation, and weak systems. In this episode, Borja Cuan breaks down how founders can hire earlier, build better support, and grow without burning out.  If your business still depends on you to hold everything together, this episode is for you. Michal McCracken sits down with Borja Cuan to talk about founder burnout, hiring, delegatio...

You can be doing everything right and still struggle to make consistent money.  This isn’t a motivation or strategy problem.   In this solo episode, Michal McCracken explains why business instability is often rooted in nervous system capacity. When your body doesn’t feel safe holding more income, clients, or visibility, growth gets delayed, overcomplicated, or quietly avoided, even when the strate...

Most women don’t need more information or more intensity. They need practices that work in real life.  Ryanna Battiste and I talk about plant medicine, subtle nervous system shifts, and healing that supports everyday modern life. What if the most powerful healing isn’t dramatic or complicated, but subtle, embodied, and integrated into your everyday life? In this episode, I’m joined by Ryanna Batti...

Most women don’t build businesses the same way men do. Geeta Sidhu-Robb and I talk about the reality of creating wealth, safety, and leadership while navigating motherhood, identity, and pressure.  What does it actually take to build a business that supports your life, not the other way around?  This week I’m joined by Geeta Sidhu-Robb: founder of Nosh Detox, award-winning entrepreneur, former hom...

Are you pitching the media the wrong way? In this conversation with media strategist Rob Lange, learn how to position your work so journalists, podcasts, and TV actually want to feature you. Many entrepreneurs want press coverage but approach the media like they are writing an advertisement. That rarely works. In this episode, Michal McCracken speaks with media strategist Rob Lange about how busin...

What if burnout is not just about overwork, but about old survival patterns still running the show? Michal McCracken and Curtis McCullom explore past lives, childhood wounds, nervous system regulation, and the inner resilience required for sustainable business growth.  If you are building a business and feeling stuck in burnout, self-doubt, or repeated emotional patterns, check out this episode. M...

You’ve followed the strategy. It worked. So why does it feel so hard this time?   You’re smart, strategic, and used to getting results. But lately?  Even proven plans feel like a grind.  In this solo episode, Michal breaks down why your body might be resisting the very success you’re working for. She shares real signs of nervous system burnout,  the kind that makes ease feel unsafe and rest feel l...