Burning Brightly

You know you want to launch your coaching business. You want to help people. You want to make money doing meaningful work. So… why haven't you actually started yet? In this episode, I'm breaking down 5 reasons you may still be stuck in the planning phase instead of launching your coaching business—and what to do about each one. The truth is, planning and learning feel productive. Researching tech,...

➡️ This week only, doors are open to The Studio, my membership for coaches who want to launch a business that consistently helps people and makes money. Inside, I give you a simple 5-step path to go from feeling confused and overwhelmed to getting consistent, paying clients. ⭐️ Grab your spot at burningbrightly.co/join-now before doors close in just a few days! ⭐️ Have you ever had someone follo...

I want to tell you about a client I got... and I never even knew his name. He simply found me somewhere on the internet, got on my email list, went through my welcome sequence, received my sales emails, and then one day he sent me a single message asking about my program. Then he signed up. I did zero manual work to sell him, instead, the system did it. And in this episode, the final installment o...

You worked hard to get someone on your email list so the last thing you want is to lose them in the first week. In this episode I'm breaking down one of the most powerful and most overlooked tools in a coach's business: the email welcome sequence. If you've ever wondered what to say to new subscribers, how to build real relationships with your email list, or how to use AI to write nurturing emails...

Are you spending hours every week on social media trying to find potential clients and still feeling like it's never quite enough? In this episode, I'm tackling one of the biggest pain points for busy women in business: a way to find leads that doesn't require you to be online all day long. This is Part 1 of a three-part series on using AI and automation to build a coaching business that runs more...

Do you feel like you're constantly doing the same tasks over and over in your business, and wondering if there's a better way? There is! In this episode, I'm breaking down exactly how to audit your business and discover where your time and energy is draining, and how to start handing those tasks off to automations and AI tools. You don't even need to be super tech savvy! This is the episode that w...

Grab the Burning Brightly book on Kindle Have you ever told someone the truth and watched it all go downhill? Or stayed quiet to keep the peace... and then regretted it later? That tension between honesty and kindness is woven into so much of our earthly experience and in this episode, we're digging into why and how it's possible to hold truth and love at the same time. I'm exploring the dichotomy...

Have you been feeling a quiet pull toward building a side business of your own? Or maybe feeling persistent inspiration that you can't quite explain or shake? In this episode, I'll explain why this feeling is not random and the timing of it is no accident. I'm talking about how the last 50 years (and especially the last decade) have created a window of opportunity for women that has never existed...

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 📥 Free Business Blindspot Quiz 📖 Burning Brightly: Answering God's Call to Build a Business as a Latter-day Saint Woman (available now on Amazon) What does your business do when you can't show up? This week I wrote this podcast outline from my sick bed... and my business is still running. Emails are going out, leads are coming in, and content is getting created i...

Grab the book: Burning Brightly is available now on Kindle for just 99 cents - but only for a few days. Eeeek! Burning Brighly the book is LIVE! And the process of putting it out into the world taught me more about fear, faith, and the primitive brain than almost anything else I've done in my business. In this episode I'm sharing the behind-the-scenes story of writing and publishing Burning Bright...

I'm getting vulnerable today about my recent launch of the Burning Brightly Business Studio — the excitement, the silence, the Wednesday spiral, and what I did on Friday that turned it all around. If you've ever wanted to quit right before something was about to work, this episode is for you. In this episode: Why almost every launch has a "Wednesday" — and what it means The Valley of Despair and w...

Click here to join The Studio by April 3, 6pm PT! For years, the only way to work with me was one-on-one private coaching. It was amazing... but expensive, limited, and I could only help a handful of coaches each year. In this episode, I'm finally talking about what I've been building, why I built it, and why this might be the best opportunity for your business! If you've ever felt like you're stu...

Grab the free guide — Your First 5 Coaching Clients If you're a newer coach who's been busy building funnels, perfecting your website, and setting up tech, but you still don't have clients yet, this episode is for you. The truth is, a funnel is a scaling tool. And if you haven't hit your first $5k yet, building more infrastructure might actually be what's slowing you down. In this episode I bust t...

Join the Burning Brightly book waitlist! If you're a mom with a business, spring break just hits differently. The kids are home, your to-do list didn't shrink, and you're trying to be fully present in two places at once — which means you end up fully present in neither . In this episode, I'm talking about why the real struggle isn't a time management problem — it's a mental location problem. Divid...

Take the Business Blind Spot Quiz! Have you ever worked really hard on your business and still felt like nothing was clicking? In this episode, I'm sharing a personal story from writing my book — and how building things in the wrong order made everything ten times harder than it needed to be. Spoiler: most coaches are doing the same thing in their businesses. You'll walk away with a totally new wa...

👉Register for the Live Masterclass: The Simple Tech Setup for Coaches 📅 Tuesday, March 3 | 12:30pm MT You already know what you're called to do. The problem was never the call... it was everything that came after you said yes to it. In this episode, we're talking about what's actually standing between you and the people you're meant to help, why staying stuck in tech and strategy confusion has a...

Register for the Simple Tech Setup Masterclass on March 3rd! Why are so many online coaches and experts working hard, building things, and still not making money? It usually isn't a lack of effort, a lack of talent, or even a lack of the right software. It's a strategy problem. In this episode, I'm sharing my own story from my craft blogging days — when I had real traffic, real offers, and a way t...

I never planned to write a book... but I couldn't get the idea out of my head. In this episode, I'm sharing the story of how I ended up writing something I never intended to create—and what that taught me about calling, courage, and the way God leads us into things we think we're not ready for. If you've ever felt inspired to build or do something but completely underqualified… if you've ever hear...

Have you ever felt called to build a coaching business online (or a podcast, course or other way to help people) and then sat down to actually do it and thought... I have no idea where to start? In this episode, I'm sharing a story about one of my clients who felt a strong spiritual prompting to launch a podcast but kept freezing every time she tried to move forward. It wasn't that she didn't beli...

How educated and confident to do you feel about money? And not just the day to day budgeting and money management required as a mom... but about investing, retirement, and planning for the future? Most of us bury our heads in the sand and just let our husbands deal with a lot of these long-term money issues, sometimes to the detriment of our confidence and even our futures. Today's conversation wi...

Welsome to 2026! Who doesn't love a fresh start?? But what if most of the resolutions we set are built on the wrong foundation? In this episode, we’re having an honest conversation about goal-setting: what actually works, what holds us back, and why January 1st isn’t the magical reset we’ve been taught to believe it is. We’ll talk about: Why the new year doesn’t erase last year’s momentum (or mist...

So many women feel constantly busy and overwhelmed by everything that's on their plate. In this episode, we talk about the idea that feeling busy is a choice , even when life is full. We explore how many of the things that keep us busy are things we’ve intentionally chosen because we care about our families — and how recognizing that can help us let go of resentment and a victim mentality. We’ll a...

Money is one of the most emotionally charged, and quietly avoided, topics in Christian circles. Many of us were taught that talking about money is inappropriate, evil, or even dangerous. But when you’re building a business, avoiding money doesn’t lead to righteousness - it leads to confusion, stress, and self-sabotage. In this episode, Bonnie explores money from an LDS, faith-centered perspective...

Every business (and life!) has problems, but the way you encounter, troubleshoot, and solve these problems will determine whether or not your business becomes successful. Some people seem to have all the smarts and can solve any problem at the drop of the hat, but here's the secret: it's not intelligence that makes someone a great problem solver. Anyone can become great a solving problems in their...

Today's interview on Burning Brightly is with Hannah Munn who works for Love Justice, a global non-profit fighting human trafficking before it occurs. In this episode, Bonnie and Hannah dive deep on what it means to accept a calling from God - the good, the bad, and the really hard. They discuss how to make a difference in the world, even in a tiny way, how to overcome doubt in your calling, and h...