Female emPOWERED: Winning in Business & Life

Welcome back to another episode of Female emPOWERED! I’m so excited to have Michelle Fernandez join me today as we pull back the curtain on Facebook ads. Michelle is a Facebook ads and funnel strategist where she creates strategic ad campaigns and highly converting funnels to fill your offers and sell them out!  In this episode we talk about... What a funnel is and the different types of funnels H...

Episode 022: Female Fridays with Krystyna Holland Happy Friday, everyone! This week on the Female emPOWERED podcast, my #FemaleFridays guest was Dr. Krystyna Holland, owner of Inclusive Care LLC in Denver, Colorado. Inclusive Care is a private physical therapy practice that specializes in treating people across the gender identity spectrum who experience incontinence, painful sex, or persistent ch...

Welcome back to another episode of Female emPOWERED! Today I have someone joining me who has become one of my favorite people, Latasha Doyle. She is the copywriter for myself and Pilates In The Grove. Today we’re talking all things copy, SEO and how they correlate together. Let’s talk about... What the difference between content and copy is How Latasha works with people to make sure their brand an...

Episode 020: Female Fridays with Melanie Connell Are you ready for a new #FemaleFridays chat? This week, I had the opportunity to talk to Melanie Connell, owner of Remedy Physical Therapy in Costa Mesa, California. Melanie has been a licensed physical therapist for 20 years with certifications in manual therapy and nutritional health coaching. She launched Remedy Physical Therapy to provide compre...

Welcome back to another edition of Female emPOWERED! Today we are chatting about something I think is super, super important which is burnout and how to burnout proof your business. Whether you’re working your biz solo, have a small but mighty team, or have a multi-billion dollar net worth, being an entrepreneur isn’t easy. As soon as you cross something off your to-do list, three more tasks quick...

Episode 018: Female Fridays with HanaKyle It’s everyone’s favorite day of the week, and you know what that means: it’s time for another #FemaleFridays chat! In every #FemaleFridays chat, I sit down with a fellow female professional in the industry and talk about their career, business, and how they got to where they are today. My guest in this new episode is HanaKyle Moranz, a movement maven passi...

Welcome to another edition of Female emPOWERED! Today we’re talking all about your competitors and what you can learn from them to improve your business. Learning from the failures and successes of your competitors is a built-in boost for your company, saving you time, resources and money in the long run. I’m sharing 5 ways that  you can improve your business by learning what your competitors are...

Episode 016: Female Fridays with Kerry McGinn Happy Friday, everyone! It’s time for another #FemaleFridays chat with a fellow female professional. In this new episode, I talk to Kerry McGinn, physical therapist, personal trainer, and yoga instructor based in Boston, Massachusetts.  Live Good, Feel Good Kerry launched her own small business, Live Good Feel Good, during “the height of the pandemic”...

Welcome back to another episode of Female emPOWERED! Do you want to know what I learned the hard way when I first started (and then tried to grow) my business? Not all Google advice is good, and not all free strategies apply to your business. If you're trying to start your own gym, serve physical therapy patients, grow a studio and help people feel better in their bodies... you have a unique...

Episode 014: Female Fridays with Theresa Pride Time for another #FemaleFridays chat to end the week! In my latest episode, I got to speak with Theresa Pride, physical therapist and Pilates instructor. Theresa is also the CEO and founder of Pride Physique, a Pilates studio based in Atlanta that went virtual during the start of the pandemic in 2020. Committed to serving clients during a pandemic Wit...

Welcome back to another edition of Female emPOWERED! Today I have my COO and CFO, Steve joining me today. Steve has been a big part of Pilates in the Grove growth over the last few years and today we’re talking all about profits, processes and financials.  Let’s talk about… Steve’s background, his journey and how we started working together How a solopreneur can get a hold of their financials, the...

Episode 012: Female Fridays with Justine Calderwood Are you ready for another #FemaleFridays chat? My latest guest on the Female emPOWERED Podcast is Justine Calderwood, a women’s health physical therapist and certified birth healing specialist based in Colorado. Through her private practice called The Healing Spot, Justine helps mainly pregnant and postpartum moms, but also women who deal with ch...

Welcome back to another episode of Female emPOWERED! Today is all about becoming a better leader  and what it means to really be a CEO in your business. At some point, as a business owner, you have to step out of the role of business owner and into the role of leader and CEO. Let’s talk about... What it means to be a leader Qualities of a good leader What to consider when evaluating employees and...

Female Fridays with Felicia Alexander Happy Friday! My newest #FemaleFridays guest on the Female emPowered Podcast is Felicia Alexander, co-founder of Los Angeles-based fitness boxing concept called BoxUnion. Felicia also became one of my closest friends after we met in a mastermind, so I was really excited to catch up with her and share our discussion with you all on the podcast! From brick-and-m...

Welcome back to another episode of Female emPOWERED! Today we’re going to be talking about hiring because if you want to grow your business at some point you will be considering bringing on team members. I get a ton of questions about this from business owners, solo and business owners that are expanding their services. For a lot of people they get stuck, not sure who to hire first or how to go ab...

Welcome back to another episode! Are you using email marketing to its best abilities?? Email marketing can seem complex but it doesn't have to be. It’s one of THE best forms of communication you can have with  your customers. Why? Because you OWN that platform! From list building to copywriting to analytics, there’s always something new to learn and improve. BUT...we cannot let this keep us p...

Episode 005: Female Fridays with Jennifer Maanavi Who’s ready for another #FemaleFridays chat? My latest guest on the Female emPOWERED Podcast is Jennifer Maanavi, CEO and co-founder of Physique 57, an international boutique fitness studio and media business headquartered in New York City. Jennifer and I met in a mastermind together, and because she’s always inspired me, I couldn’t wait to have he...

Welcome back to another episode! Imagine this...you’ve just finished conceptualizing your ideal brand using the perfect business model, you’re ready to start offering the most innovative products or services in the market, you’ve got the best team behind your back, AND you have a fiery passion to become the most successful  entrepreneur in the country. What could go wrong, right?!  In this episode...

Meet Lencola, creator of Black to Pilates Lencola has been in the business for over 16 years, and recently, she launched a teacher training program online called Black to Pilates. Through Black to Pilates, Lencola aims to increase diversity in the Pilates community, upping the number of Black instructors from the hundreds to the thousands.   In addition to teacher training, Lencola offers group Pi...

Welcome back to another episode! Have you ever read someone’s website or social media post and thought "Yes.. it's like you're in my head!"? Well, that’s because that company really understands their ideal customers. Do YOU understand your customers like that? Let’s find out in today’s episode! I want to start by sharing more background on my story and the journey I took to get...

Welcome to our Female Friday Feature! This is where I share real and raw conversations I had with fellow female professionals. We’re talking about how they got their start in their business journeys, their challenges that all brings a few laughs and even some tears along the way. In this episode I’m talking with Allison Tenney. She is a formerly competitive elite athlete, Allison played Division I...

Hi there! Welcome to the Female emPowered Podcast! I’m Christa Gurka and on the surface, I am an Orthopedic Physical Therapist specializing in Pilates-based rehabilitation. I own, operate and teach at Pilates in the Grove, which serves the Coconut Grove and South Miami communities with two premier South Florida locations. Our studios set the benchmark in Pilates instruction and physical therapy in...