Liberatory Business with Simone Seol

This is part three of the Decolonizing Manifestation series, and we dive into the "how" of reality creation. If manifestation is a collaboration with your ancestors — not a solo act of willing things into being into a blank canvas — then, that raises new questions. How much of your life is actually yours to shape, and how much is already decided?  And of the part that you do have control...

Conventional manifestation puts all the weight on you: what you want, what thoughts you think, what you put on your vision board, your vibrations. In today's episode, I'm proposing a radical reframe.  Manifestation is a collaboration with your ancestors, and the best way to manifest is to become a channel for what your ancestors already intend for you. And the work includes learning how...

Why am I teaching manifestation as a marketing teacher? Because effective marketing IS manifesting: changing reality with your intention. Good marketers are master manifestors. But we need to get to the roots of the idea. Because the idea that your mind shapes reality did NOT come from The Secret, or the New Age movement, or a blonde wealth mindset coach.  It's actually one of the oldest, mos...

Tarot is a very important tool for my business. In this episode, I'm unpacking how I use it What I'm really teaching in this episode is how to work with any tool that gives you access to knowing beyond your rational mind - without giving away your power in the process.

If you're exhausted by AI replacing human voices, automating the soul out of everything, and those hustle-y calls to "adopt AI or be left behind" — we're with you. But here's the other side. Right now, for the first time ever, you have the power to build tools that are custom-tailored to the exact problems you want to help solve in the world, carrying your specific voice a...

When ADHD coach Jak Levine-Pritzker asked me to be interviewed for her upcoming book on ADHD and intersectionality, I said yes — and asked if we could share it on the podcast too.  What followed was one of the most vulnerable conversations I've had publicly. Follow Jak at @authenticallyadhd on Instagram.

If you're a practitioner that works outside of mainstream institutions, you might have had your work dismissed as a scam, a grift, or a cult — or if you've watched it happen to someone you respect — this episode is for you.  I'm pulling back the curtain on what's actually going on when people throw those words around, and why the answer has almost nothing to do with logic or co...

So many of us are settling for lives we never failed at. Those are lives that were never really lived in, either.  This episode is your permission slip to start failing more, today , at the things that actually matter to you. It might just be the most beautiful way to live.

If you've ever felt like all you're doing is regurgitating other people's ideas or repackaging your teacher's frameworks, this one is for you. Your original thinking has never mattered more, and I'm going to teach you how to have more original ideas. Listen to hear more about: Why the world needs your thought leadership now — especially if you've been marginalized by...

If you've ever called yourself lazy, or wondered what's wrong with you for not being able to just sit down and do the thing — this episode is for you. What if "procrastination" is just the wrong word for what you're actually doing?  Maisie Cheong and I talk about: Why we internalize the identity of "procrastinator" What invisible work is, why it matters — and wha...

This is my love to courageous ones everywhere. People aren't just listening to what you say. They're listening to how you're saying it. If you're saying something that's worth saying... whatever it is, say it with your full chest.  Say it like you believe yourself. It matters. 

Why is the deepest business wisdom you can find NOT in an online course? That's because it lives in Asian noodle stalls, kitchen hair salons, and family businesses run by aunties and uncles who've never heard of Canva.  Let's learn from the quiet, unglamorous experts who've been turning high margins for decades. Listen to hear more about: Why the businesses that look like the &...

I'm sitting down with two of my closest friends, and most effective pray-ers I know: Joey Liu and Danny Lim. We're talking about how to understand prayer NOT as the performative, begging, outcome-obsessed version so many of us grew up with, but as a powerful spiritual technology.  Listen to hear more about: Why the version of prayer most of us inherited might be the very thing standing b...

My brother Billy Seol — software engineer, and Buddhist life coach — is one of the sharpest thinkers I know.  And he has thoughts about AI I haven't seen anywhere else that really enlightened me, and I wanted to share them with you. Listen to hear more about: How we are exiting the Creative Age, and entering the Generative Age The new group of people who will be marginalized by AI, and how we...

This is part 2 of a two-part series with Tallulah Le Merle — one of the most respected leaders at the intersection of AI and humanity.  In this final episode, we talk about the impact of AI on the environment and mental health, where I think Tallulah makes her most powerful case for hope yet. Listen to hear more about: Why AI's environmental impact might be the opposite of what the headlines...

There is no shortage of voices weighing in on AI right now, and a lot of them are scared. I was too, honestly.  Then I heard a talk by one of the most respected leaders at the intersection of AI and humanity, and it cracked me wide open. I'm bringing that conversation to you today — in two parts. This is part one. Listen to hear about: Why AI disrupting the job market might not be the tragedy...

If the economy is supposedly in the shitter, why is consumer spending at an all-time high? Let's look at the data behind the scarcity narrative that's been shrinking many businesses. Listen to hear more about: The uncomfortable question hiding behind "people can't afford my prices" What your ideal client is actually choosing between  The difference between extraction and c...

As someone who's spent her whole life feeling like a misfit for having too many interests and not enough specialization, I'm inviting you to reconsider everything you've been told about what makes you valuable — because the world is about to need your kind of brain more than ever. Listen to hear more about: What a $380 billion AI company actually looks for when they hire  Why the st...

If you've ever sat in a coaching session and felt like the framework was useful but somehow too small, too constricting, like something essential was being left out... I'm inviting you to find out what that something is, and where it went. Listen to hear more about: The centuries-old philosophical tradition that every life coach is operating inside of without knowing it — and the specifi...

As I turned 40 recently, I started asking myself what the single biggest lesson of my thirties was — and the answer surprised me. It wasn't a business strategy or a mindset shift. It was about the importance of self-respect in relationships. Listen to hear more about: The difference between self-confidence, self-love, and self-respect  What it looks like when someone loves you without needing...

You've been told that confidence is an inside job — go inward, believe in yourself, hype yourself up, and then go do the thing. But what if that kind of confidence is fragile and incomplete?  In this episode, I'm offering a fundamentally different model of confidence — one that you don't have to generate at all. Listen to hear more about: The critical lesson that The Lion King (yes,...

I'm turning 40, and I could not be more excited about it. I LOVE getting older. As I reflected on this milestone, I realized there are four things I'm officially done carrying into this next chapter. If you're at any kind of threshold — 30, 40, 50, or otherwise — this episode is an invitation to ask yourself what you're finally ready to put down, and leave in your past.

Here is a completely different way to think about pricing — one that has nothing to do with industry norms or value propositions, and everything to do with what your ancestors planted inside you and what it actually requires to steward that. Listen to hear more about: Why the conventional pricing conversation is missing the most important part of the picture The question your ancestors would ask i...

It's 2026. What does this mean for coaches?  Is AI coming for our jobs? Is the market oversaturated? Here's what I actually think is going to happen — and what it means for people building practices right now. Listen to hear more about: Why the coaching market isn't going anywhere, but the term "coach" is becoming meaningless as a category The bifurcation happening in both...