The Gutsy Podcast | Mindset, Personal Development & Entrepreneurship for Women

If you're cramming your calendar full of little things to avoid the deeper work you know you need to do, this one's for you. What I've seen over and over again with ambitious women is that busy isn't just a calendar problem but an identity problem. You've tied your worth to how much you're doing and how fast you're going for so long that slowing down feels danger...

At the end of 15 years, she felt like a husk of a person. She’d spent so long living for who she thought she was supposed to be that she'd lost track of who she actually was. That's the story today’s guest brings into this conversation, and it's one a lot of women are quietly living. Thomai Roi is known as the divorce doula for accomplished women. She helps women remember who they a...

We've all played this game with ourselves: When I hit this goal, then I'll start living like her.  When the business reaches this milestone, then I'll let myself enjoy it.  But the finish line keeps moving, doesn't it? You check one box and three more appear, and the good feeling you're waiting for gets buried in the routine of building. In this Powerback®, I'm callin...

What parts of yourself are you still hiding? Shame has a way of convincing us that if people really knew us, they'd judge us or use it against us. And so we stay quiet. We carry things that were never meant to be carried alone. Today's guest, Candi Rose, found freedom after years of toxic shame and self-destruction. We talk about what happens when you finally stop running, how shame grow...

I swear that life and business have a committee somewhere where they meet up and decide to do all the things at the exact same time. And when that happens, stuff gets out of whack.  The routine that was supposed to work stops working, and instead of changing it, you're white-knuckling your way through it because you said you'd do it this way — and damn it, you're going to do it this...

What if the thing you've spent years building no longer fits? And what if that's not failure, just your next gutsy move? Today's guest, Kim O'Hara, is a book coach, author, and creator of the Delicious Life brand, a platform built entirely around permission. Kim spent over a decade coaching women to write and publish their books, built a business from scratch as a single mom, b...

You've done everything the way you were supposed to: Followed the rules.  Climbed the ladders.  Wore the heels.  Ran when you were tired and conformed when you wanted to create.  And while it kinda worked, it also didn't. Because there's a not-so-little voice that's been getting louder, and she's saying: “I have a lot more to give, and this time, I want to do it my way.” T...

As a smart, self-aware person, you’ve probably done a lot of work on yourself, but still you keep ending up in the same relationship, with the same toxic dynamic, wondering why it keeps happening. Today's guest, Riana Malia, is a transformational coach who helps high-achieving women break this exact kind of cycle. Her methodology is called Clear to Create, and it is based on the idea that you...

Finding the right tools to run your business shouldn't take months of clicking through trials and reading reviews you don't trust. But that’s where we usually find ourselves, drowning in options and not any closer to a decision. I used to fight systems. Hard. I'm creative, and systems felt like the enemy of that. What I learned (the hard way) is that not having a system is actually...

You think you have a productivity problem. But what if the way you've been defining productivity is the actual problem?` Today’s guest, Louise Miller, was the person everyone handed things to because she always got them done. She got promoted into roles she didn't even want, kept pushing harder, and kept saying yes... until her body finally forced her to stop. What she found on the other...

Starting over sounds inspiring… until you’re the one doing it. Because nobody talks enough about what happens when you’ve already built something successful, created momentum, become known for something… and then realize it no longer fits. Starting over challenges your identity, your confidence, your pace, your plans, and the version of you everyone else expects. In this Powerback® episode, LauraA...

What do you do when the career, business, or life you worked so hard to build… no longer feels right? In this honest and layered conversation, LauraAura sits down with Natalie Benamou to talk about pivots, identity, entrepreneurship, burnout, and learning to trust yourself enough to change direction — even when other people don’t understand it. Natalie shares her journey from spending nearly three...

Your body has been trying to tell you something. Maybe it’s the tightness in your chest every Sunday night. The heaviness around a relationship, job, or commitment. The inexplicable excitement toward something your brain keeps dismissing. Your body is always communicating. The problem? Your brain is louder. In this Powerback® episode, LauraAura breaks down the internal tug-of-war between your brai...

What happens when unresolved trauma quietly shapes your life for decades? In this deeply honest episode, LauraAura sits down with Ranae Van Roekel to talk about childhood trauma, dissociation, people-pleasing, shame, healing, and the series of choices that eventually led Ranae to federal prison. Ranae shares how growing up in a generation that didn’t talk about trauma left her carrying pain she di...

“How did you get into this work?” It’s one of the questions LauraAura gets asked the most—and in this Powerback® episode, she’s finally sharing the full story. From being a graphic designer at the phonebook… to building a branding agency for 16 years… to navigating bankruptcy, burnout, people-pleasing, selling her business, selling a commercial building, and rebuilding her life around speaking, co...

What happens when the business you built starts running you? In this episode, LauraAura sits down with entrepreneur and business coach Jason Moss for a grounded conversation about burnout, overworking, identity, and the shift from constantly doing… to actually leading. Jason shares how he built a successful six-figure business while simultaneously burning himself out trying to do everything himsel...

It’s probably not the massive thing holding you back. It’s the tiny, annoying, inconvenient thing you keep putting off. The broken process. The clunky system. The thing that disrupts your flow every single day… but somehow never feels “important enough” to stop and fix. In this Powerback® episode, LauraAura breaks down how small friction points quietly drain your energy, creativity, focus, and mom...

You don’t write a book because you feel ready. You write a book because you feel called. In this episode of The Gutsy Podcast, LauraAura sits down with Sara Connell to talk about what it really takes to write, finish, and publish a book that matters. Sara shares her journey from personal transformation to bestselling author and book coach, unpacking the emotional resistance, identity shifts, and c...

You don’t have a time problem.  You have a nervous system that’s been trained to stay on. In this Powerback® episode, LauraAura breaks down why those small pockets of time—between meetings, appointments, or tasks—feel so uncomfortable to just be in. Because instead of resting, you’ve trained your brain and body to fill every gap with doing. Over time, that becomes your baseline. And suddenly, slow...

Growing up around addiction, dysfunction, or emotional unpredictability shapes you — and it can show up in your business and career. In this episode of The Gutsy Podcast, LauraAura sits down with Jess Frost , a trauma-informed Self-Leadership and Emotional Agility Coach who specializes in working with Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA). Jess shares how early experiences with addiction and codepen...

What if leaving wasn’t a failure… but one of the most powerful decisions you could make? In this Powerback® episode, LauraAura reframes what it really means to walk away—from something you started, committed to, or thought would work. Because so many women stay stuck, not because they want to be there, but because they don’t want to be seen as someone who “quit.” This episode challenges that entir...

What if rest isn’t a reward… but the strategy? In this energizing conversation, Dr. Erin Wilson breaks down why high performers don’t burn out from lack of effort — they burn out from invisible depletion. After experiencing a stress-induced seizure at the height of her success, Dr. Erin was forced to confront the cost of hustle culture. Now, she teaches leaders how to use rest as a performance str...

What if the reason your business (or idea) hasn’t taken off yet… isn’t because it’s wrong—but because you haven’t given it enough time to work? In this Powerback® episode, LauraAura calls out one of the most frustrating (and overlooked) phases of growth: the quiet middle. The part where you’ve built something incredible, put it out into the world… and are met with silence. Instead of spiraling, ov...

Networking isn’t the goal. Connection is. In this episode of The Gutsy Podcast, LauraAura sits down with Vicki Bradley to unpack why so many women in leadership feel isolated, why “networking” often feels transactional or inauthentic, and how reclaiming connection starts from within. Vicki shares her journey from corporate executive to women’s leadership advocate after a major health crisis forced...

You’re not burned out because you’re doing too much—you’re burned out because you’ve been taught to delay the very things that fuel you. In this Powerback® episode, we flip the script on productivity-first thinking and explore why waiting to enjoy your life is actually draining your energy, creativity, and momentum. Laura walks you through a simple but powerful shift: identifying your personal “ac...