Female emPOWERED: Winning in Business & Life

Hey there everyone! Welcome back to another episode of the Female Empowered podcast. This week let’s talk about what to do when a client or customer complains about your yoga studio or services. This topic came up from multiple meetings with our membership communities so it’s but proper to discuss this here with you guys! Dealing With Cancellations The core topic we will be discussing this week is...

Hi guys! Thanks for joining me again for another episode of the Female Empowered podcast. This week we will be talking about an interesting topic because every entrepreneur goes through the same thoughts at some point in their career or life. The topic is all about what to do when you don’t love your business anymore. Why Listen To This Episode Whether you are going through this now or not, I invi...

Hi guys! Welcome back to another episode of the Female Empowered podcast. I will be talking about a topic that has come up a lot in our Beyond The Movement mentorship program. Moving From Clinician To CEO The topic that has come up so often in our mentorship program is moving from clinician to CEO. In this week’s podcast, I will be specifically talking about how you can do that in less than a year...

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another episode of the Female Empowered podcast. I am so stoked for this week’s episode because I have with me the very first return guest on the podcast. I talked to Anna Hartman of MovementRev once again and this time let’s look at how she became a clinician to an entrepreneur as well as her upcoming Locator Test Assessment Protocol (LTAP) course. Who Is Anna Hartman...

Hi guys! Welcome back to another episode of the Female Empowered podcast. Before we get into it, how’s everyone feeling about their first month of 2023? How is your business going? For Pilates In The Grove, we had a really great start because we were almost at 90 percent capacity this January. The Setback Of Having 90 Percent Capacity At PITG To introduce you to the topic this week, the 90 percent...

Hello there! Today is a new episode of Female Empowered and I will talk about why I ditched perfectionism and so should you. I decided to throw this episode down early on this January 2023 because many people that I associate with in business and in life are all about perfectionism. When I Ditched Perfectionism I started to commit to ditching perfectionism in 2022. And this 2023, one of my mission...

Hi everyone! Today is a new episode of Female Empowered and this week I will be talking about three simple strategies successful business owners use to get more time in our business and our life. What I Hear A Lot From Many People One of the biggest things I hear from people a lot of times is they are busy and they have no time. However, I believe that time is created for what we prioritize. We al...

Hey guys! Today is a new episode of Female Empowered and I will talk about how to find and fix profit leaks in your business.    What Do We Mean By Profit Leaks Our business is like a bucket. The money that comes into our bucket is revenue, sales, and all of those things. The money going out of the bucket are our expenses. However, sometimes, there will be leaks in our bucket and sometimes we do n...

Hello everyone! Happy New Year! Today is a new episode of Female Empowered and I will share with you how six- and seven-figure business owners manage to take a month off and how you can do it, too!    My Take Years Ago On Business Owners Who Step Away From Their Business Seven or eight years ago, I used to look at people who can take the time off from their business as not real business owners. I...

Hello everyone! Today is a new episode of Female Empowered and I will be discussing three ways how all successful business owners learn to step away from day-to-day operations. Operation Christa Gets Hit By A Bus This is something I have been focused on since 2016 and I named it “Operation Christa Gets Hit By A Bus.” The whole premise of this project was what would happen if I got hit by a bus and...

 Hey guys! Today is a new episode of Female Empowered and it will be all about what the top 1 percent of women business owners all seem to have in common. How I Came Up With This Episode? What I did for this episode was I asked the most successful female business owners I know about what they think we all have in common. I think this would be a great information for some of us and serve as a remin...

Hey there! Today is a new episode of Female Empowered and it is a bit lengthy because I decided to do a story time podcast about how my business began and how it grew to what it is today. I will also be focusing on talking about how I generate six figures in profit even if I am only in the studio for less than 10 hours a week. Why I Wanted To Do This Podcast Episode It definitely was not a straigh...

Hi! Today you will be hearing a new Female Founder episode! We will be with  Robyn Macneill about how you can run your business based on your human design. Robyn is an identity coach and a mentor of coaches. She primarily works with high achievers that is why we connected so well! Robyn Has Been A Coach For 13 Years Now Robyn started her coaching career when she was a manager in corporate. She gav...

Hey guys! Today you will be hearing a new Female empowered episode. We will be talking about the three reasons why high achievers are prone to burnout. I know I’ve been talking a lot about high achievers recently, but these are the things that you should think about and dwell over. I Am A High Achiever I am a high achiever, and we tend to share some of the tendencies I will be talking about today....

Hi everyone! Today I am releasing another episode of Female empowered. What I will be chatting about today is what successful high achievers focus their efforts on. And I guarantee that these are the things you are not focusing on right now. This Was Something I Learned After Joining High Level Masterminds I learned about these when I joined high level masterminds with other 7- and 8-figure busine...

Hey guys! Here is another episode of Female empowered. Let me take the time to re-introduce myself in this episode as I’ve noticed we’ve been getting more downloads for the podcast so I have to share to our new listeners what I actually do. I am Christa Gurka and I am the founder and CEO of Pilates In The Grove, a full service boutique and Pilates studio and concierge for Physical Therapy and reco...

Hey there! Welcome to another episode of Female empowered and I will be talking about the reasons why most entrepreneurs have trouble managing their team. I will also touch on the topic as to how this trouble is costing them. This topic is very important but some people might feel it is uncomfortable to talk about. If I did talk about this topic four or five years ago, honestly, it would also make...

Hello! This week’s episode of Female empowered will be touching on the subject of raising your prices. I will talk about the five signs you can watch out for when you are in limbo of retaining or raising your current prices for the services you offer. It is a topic I feel that I talk about a lot and many people ask me this question, too. Aside from the five signs, I will also share some tips that...

Hey there! For this week’s episode of Female empowered, I will be talking about the 7 things I still struggle with as a 7-figure business owner. If you think that being a 6-, 7-, or 8-figure business owner makes you immune from having struggles, I’m going to invite you to think again. I wish that I didn’t have business struggles, but I already shared in a previous podcast episode about the higher...

This week’s episode of Female empowered is very short, and it focuses on your exit strategy.   People used to ask me this all the time, and I really hated this question because it made me feel like I wasn’t a business owner because I had no idea that you were supposed to have an exit strategy.  But as I learned more about the industry, I became comfortable with the idea of an exit strategy. In thi...

I am bringing to you another episode of Female empowered where I got to interview another Female Founder! In this week’s podcast, I talked with Sarah Walton, a business mentor who helped hundreds of women start and grow the businesses that they love.  I was so excited to have Sarah in this podcast because I listen to her podcast, Game On Girlfriend, and I love how she is a straight shooter. I thin...

I am so excited for this week’s episode of Female empowered! In this week’s podcast, I interviewed Ali Zeno for a Female Founder feature. She is the owner of Essentials Physical Therapy and Training.  She is based in New Jersey but caters to out-of-state clients, too! Ali started her business after practicing in a clinic for five years. Her move to put up Essentials Physical Therapy and Training i...

I am so glad that you’re joining me again today for a new episode of Female empowered! In this week’s podcast, I talked about the wrong question to ask: how many hours do I work? I see this a lot on my socials, many people ask me this, and I personally think it’s a wrong question to ask because we are not comparing apples to apples. Not everyone has the same set of circumstances and capacities.  W...

Hello there! Welcome back to another episode of Female empowered! In this week’s podcast, I talked about new levels, new devils with each phase of business growth, as well as what you can expect as to revenue for each level.    If you are familiar with the phrase, “More money, more problems,” businesses aren’t an exception to experiencing this. Most business owners do not have the background as to...

Hi! This is the latest Female empowered episode for you! In this week’s podcast, I talked about why retention matters for your boutique, the last pillar of the 5 pillars of marketing in my signature foundation course.   Some people might ask how retention is marketing. It is marketing because it is significantly easier to sell to a person who has already bought from us. Further, studies claim that...