Expansion with Desi Batista

Send us Fan Mail Kelly Adams built a six-figure business and burned out doing it. In this episode, she talks about what actually happens when high-earning women hit a ceiling and why it almost never has anything to do with their marketing. We cover how childhood patterns show up in your business decisions, what emotional numbness looks like when it's disguised as resilience, and why working h...

Send us Fan Mail Why I quit corporate: I left a stable accounting job to build my own thing. The boss moment that broke me, the psychology that keeps you stuck, and how to know when it's time to go.  Take the quiz at desibatista.com/quiz and find out exactly what's keeping you at your current level.  Connect with Desi Batista:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/desibatista/   YouTube...

Send us Fan Mail  Mind movie creation is a highly effective way to visualize success and speed up goal achievement. Stop relying on static boards. Most people create vision boards only to let them gather dust on a wall. A mind movie changes this by utilizing dynamic, moving visuals to keep your objectives active in your subconscious mind. This practice forces your brain to engage with your desires...

Send us Fan Mail Not enough. Burnout. Exhaustion. Doing all the right things and still feeling empty. These are the words women hide behind for years before they hear what's actually happening underneath. Tracy Astle is an EPC-certified eating psychology coach who helps Christian women who are exhausted from trying to be enough reconnect with their true identity, trust themselves again, and l...

Send us Fan Mail Survival mode. Burnout. Toxic workplace. Suppressed depression. High-achieving women hide behind these words for years before someone names what's actually happening to them. Nikki Stewart is an ICF Identity and Alignment Coach who helps ambitious women move from success to fulfillment without apology. She had what she calls a millionaire vision with survival mode behavior. S...

Send us Fan Mail  You've done the mindset work. You've read the books, done the journaling, gone to the retreats. And the same ceiling keeps showing up.  This conversation goes into why.  The part most people skip is that success isn't just a mindset problem. It lives in your body. And if your nervous system still associates safety with staying small, no amount of knowing better is...

Send us Fan Mail Your success mindset might actually be the thing slowing you down. Stay with me. You know the cycle. You start strong — new habits, new goals, new energy. Then around week three, it all just... stops. You go back to exactly who you were before. And you tell yourself you don't have enough discipline. That's not what's happening. Every behavior change is an identity u...

Send us Fan Mail Mindset mastery helps you manage your thoughts, but it doesn't close the knowing-doing gap. This episode breaks down the self-improvement loop quietly keeping high-achieving women stuck. You've consumed the content. You know what to do. You could probably teach the framework. And you're still at the same number. That's not a motivation problem. It's not a...

Send us Fan Mail Rhonda Petit was running a $40 million business with 12 employees, two kids at home, and a marriage that was unraveling. From the outside, she'd made it. Inside, she was performing — for everyone — and burning out trying to hold it all together. Then came the blowout. And after it, the identity shift that changed everything. In this episode, Rhonda introduces the two identiti...

Send us Fan Mail You have a dress in your closet you're never going to wear. You know which one. You're saving it for a day that isn't coming. And you've been doing it for years. In this episode, reinvention strategist Lee Forrester names what most women won't say out loud: the life you're living isn't the life you want, and you've made peace with it. We cov...

Send us Fan Mail What separates a six-figure earner from a seven-figure one isn't more strategy, more hustle, or a better offer. According to Molly Muret Sapp, it's the identity they're running on and most high achievers never stop long enough to look at it. In this conversation, Molly and I get into the invisible ceiling that keeps brilliant, capable women stuck at the same number...

Send us Fan Mail The rules you grew up with are still running your business and they have nothing to do with your strategy, your mindset work, or how hard you're trying. In this episode, I'm breaking down the invisible revenue ceiling that keeps high-achieving women stuck at the same income number no matter what they do. You'll learn exactly where these rules come from, how to spot...

Send us Fan Mail You've changed the strategy. Hired coaches. Tried the new content angle. Why is the ceiling still there? In this conversation with business mentor Jess Pinili, we get into why most women in service businesses stall at a specific revenue level, and why the fix is rarely strategic. Jess works with women scaling service businesses through both strategy and the subconscious work,...

Send us Fan Mail AI freed up your time. So why are you still stuck? You've got four carousels in drafts. Twenty tasks from last week's schedule you haven't touched. A framework ready to launch that's still sitting there. But instead of shipping, you're in the chat asking AI to help you tweak something else. The bottleneck isn't content creation. It's not systems....

Send us Fan Mail She did everything the experts told her to do. Four years later, her business had stalled and her marriage had ended. Tanya Pluckrose thought she had a strategy problem. She didn't. She had an identity problem. In this episode, she breaks down why high-earning women in service-based businesses, coaching, and corporate roles stay stuck even after they've tried every coach...

Send us Fan Mail Why does your income keep landing at the same number no matter what you try? Jeni Jonte went from physical therapist and Navy lieutenant commander to identity coach, and she kept hitting the same pattern in her own business: a little growth, then a pullback. In this episode, Desi and Jeni explore why affirmations don't work when your nervous system rejects them, what your inc...

Send us Fan Mail You're stuck doing everything in your business. And you won't give that work to anyone else because part of you believes that work IS your value. But here's what I'm seeing with the women who actually scale: they don't stop being excellent. They just stop being the one doing the work. In this episode, I'm breaking down exactly why you're trapped—...

Send us Fan Mail Most of the women we know who feel stuck aren’t lazy, confused, or missing some magical productivity system. They’re high-achievers. They’re responsible. They’re doing the work. And yet their income, confidence, boundaries, or consistency keep snapping back to the same level. That’s why this conversation with self-help coach Melissa Bright lands so hard: the problem often isn’t st...

Send us Fan Mail  You probably know someone, maybe it's you,  who has everything it takes but keeps hitting the same wall.  It's not a talent gap. It's not even a knowledge gap. It's something most success psychology conversations never actually get to: the invisible filter your subconscious runs to keep your life feeling familiar.  In this episode, I get into why high achiever...

Send us Fan Mail What if you hit the revenue goal and instead of freedom, you got more trapped? Sailynn Doyle built a million dollar business and was working 80 hours a week, crying in her car at 9am on a Tuesday. Not because something went wrong. Because nothing felt the way she thought it would. In this episode, Desi sits down with Sailynn to explore why revenue going up while freedom goes down...

Send us Fan Mail What if you hit the goal and it still doesn't feel like enough? Not because something went wrong. But because nothing feels the way you thought it would. In this episode, Desi digs into why high-achieving women hit their revenue targets, build the business, do everything right, and still feel like they're winging it. She breaks down the difference between imposter syndro...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever done everything right and still felt like something was off? Like no matter how much you achieve, it's never quite enough? In this episode, Desi sits down with Judy Tsuei, an executive performance coach and NLP practitioner who spent over 20 years trying every healing modality under the sun before finding the one thing that actually worked. Judy shares how growi...

Send us Fan Mail If you've been doing everything right and it's still not working, this episode is for you. Desi breaks down the pattern she keeps seeing in her interviews with high-achieving women. The strategy is rarely the problem. The real ceiling is internal, and it was built long before you started your business.  Take the quiz at desibatista.com/quiz and find out exactly what&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Most people who feel stuck aren't missing a better plan. They're missing a version of themselves that matches what they're reaching for. In this first solo episode I break down the self-image ceiling, why changing your circumstances never fixes it, and what actually does. If you've ever switched jobs, tried a new strategy, and still ended up in the same place,...