Left Standing

There’s a specific kind of conversation that makes you want to pull over the car. Or text someone. Or sit with it for a few days before you can fully articulate why it rattled something loose in you. This one did that. Nisha Moodley — founder of the Center for Devotional Leadership, guide for women leaders, and someone who has been doing this work for nearly twenty years — came on Left Standing an...

Hello dear ones, I get asked constantly whether people are still buying coaching in 2026. And I have thoughts. A lot of them. Including actual numbers from my business, which I am going to share with you because I think you deserve to make decisions based on real data and not vibes (though personally I have wasted a lot of money buying because of vibes…). This episode is a sneak peek behind the st...

Stacey Champagne is a cybersecurity executive, an insider risk specialist, and the founder of Women’s Cybersecurity Alliance — a private network built for experienced women in cyber who are done being the most qualified person in the room and somehow still getting passed over for the next thing. She joined the Feminist Business Framework in September 2025, became a 1:1 client, and had her first fi...

Leah Gervais has built close to $4 million in revenue all while being the stay-at-home-parent of two kids under five in New York City. She is strategic, pragmatic, and genuinely one of the most generous people I know. She showed up in a big way the morning my grandmother died and didn’t ask a single question. That’s the kind of person she is. In this episode we get into the mechanics of scaling: *...

This episode is a continuation of my last post —about grief, work, and what it means to keep showing up inside a system that doesn’t pause when things fall apart. Today, I’m speaking more directly about the tension I think so many of us are quietly holding: What it means to be a human being living through real pain… while also being someone who is expected to function, produce, lead, and show up....

This week’s episode is a conversation with Xenia Marie Ross Viray , who is the creator of the platform and iterations of Myths of Creation, an interdisciplinary artist who—quite literally—gets paid to be herself. Not in a “personal brand” way. In a devotional to creativity, consciousness, and resonance kind of way. We talk about what it actually looks like to build a body of work—and a business—wi...

This week on the podcast, I’m breaking down the most profitable month I’ve had: $108,500 in sales. But this isn’t a “here are my secrets to making money while you sleep” episode. Because sure, the money came in over the course of a month, but it is because of the systems, community and IP I have spent years building. This is a conversation about what it actually looks like to build a profitable bu...

This week on Left Standing , I’m joined by Taylor Tieman , founder of Legalmiga — and one of the few internet-savvy attorneys actually translating legalese into language you can understand. (She also loves astrology! Big plus!) If you’re a creator, coach, course seller, influencer, or small business owner… this episode is basically your gentle (but firm) legal wake-up call. Taylor breaks down: * W...

* “No one signed up.” * “My audience doesn’t engage.” * “People can’t afford to work with me.” * “The algorithm hates me.” You’re spiraling about whether your content is cringe, too political, too woo, too much. In this episode, I make a bold (and admittedly spicy) claim: It’s not your people or the algorithm, babe. It’s you. Not in a shamey way. In a liberating way. The real problem with most mar...

If you’ve ever thought: “I care deeply about what’s happening in the world, but I’m terrified of saying the wrong thing and nuking my business” —this episode is for you. This episode is not a call for everyone to start posting infographics between launch emails. It’s a reckoning with a harder question: What does it actually mean to operate from your values under capitalism—and what happens when yo...

Here’s a story a lot of values-driven business owners are telling themselves right now: I don’t have the capacity. I’m overwhelmed. I’ll do it when things calm down. And listen — that story makes sense. We’re living in late-stage capitalism during a genuinely destabilizing moment in history. Of course you’re exhausted. Of course your nervous system is fried. Of course everything feels harder than...

I’ve spent a truly embarrassing amount of money on bad marketing support. Agencies. Contractors. “Experts.” People who promised to scale my work, optimize my ads, automate my infrastructure, and generally turn my business into a smooth, passive-income machine. What happened instead was I flushed over $20k down the toilet on IP that didn’t even feel like me. Not because marketing doesn’t work — it...

Let’s get something straight right out of the gate: 2026 is not a “soft launch”. It’s a fuck around and find out year . And my favorite astro bestie Torrence Tremayne gives a very specific and direct break down of everything you need to know. After half a decade of grief, dissociation, therapy-speak, spiritual bypassing, and late-stage capitalism catastrophes, the astrology of 2026 signals somethi...

There’s something rare about a conversation that reminds you not just what’s possible in business, but what should be possible. On the latest episode of Left Standing , Susanna Barkataki — founder of Ignite Institute and Yoke Yoga , bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and social justice educator — shares how she’s built a business that balances abundance with integrity. “I do think how you define su...

On this episode of Left Standing we explore the topic of life coaching as a cult. If you follow me on Instagram, you know this is one of my favorite things to talk about/poke fun at. For example… I love critiquing the coaching industry, partially because I think it is necessary (we need people to educate from within our space) and partially because as a woo-loving, astrology-obsessed millennial in...

Kate Belew and I met in July of 2018 on Governors Island in New York City. We were both members of The Poetry Brothel-an immersive art, esoteric, and burlesque production that still exists internationally today. Kate, a poet in the show, and me the card reader for the brothel’s monthly productions. I was just starting my business and Kate was doing social media consulting for a witchy shop we both...

In a world of wild contradictions multiple truths I hold as a feminist business owner who hates, but wants to thrive in spite of late-stage capitalism include: * It is insane that we have to work to make money to live in a culture that doesn’t even afford many people basic needs AND there is no one more deserving of being paid for their labor than feminist care workers. * I have resented having to...

Lily Allen’s viral new album, West End Girl , digs deep. It catalogs the unraveling of her marriage and the deeper pain that lives between the lines of her lyrical prose. This isn’t tabloid fodder—it’s what Pitchfork called her most “brutally candid” work, a rare space where a woman can hold an abuser, a system, and her own art in the same frame. While Allen insists the record is “fictionalized,”...

In a potent dose of pragmatic hope, Cara sits down with visionary author Natasha Hakimi Zapata to alchemize our collective political grief. Natasha reveals how a better world isn't a fantasy—it’s already being practiced in countries that have solved many of the crises plaguing the US, from universal healthcare to paid parental leave. This conversation is a powerful reminder that our darkest mo...

Amanda Litman is the force behind Run for Something, an organization recruiting the next generation of political leaders. A veteran of presidential campaigns and author of When We're in Charge , she provides a playbook for young people to break the cycle of "bad boomer leadership" and reshape our world. This episode is a masterclass in dismantling the "gerontocracy," mobili...

Meet Dr. Willie Parker, OB/GYN, Christian, reproductive justice advocate, and author of Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice . In this episode, Dr. Parker shares his powerful journey of reconciling faith and medicine, offering a deeply compassionate perspective on providing abortion care, especially for marginalized women in the South. Cara and Dr. Parker tackle the complexities of choice...