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

“One of the things that I WANT to do but I DON’T do is take time to move my body regularly.” Welcome to a new episode style! Once a month, you’ll get to listen in on real coaching conversations between a client and myself where we explore a challenge and work together to uncover clarity and a path forward. Today, you’ll meet Marti, a woman who, despite her dedication to wellness, feels resistance...

Finding Clarity by “Sitting with It”: How to Harness Stillness for Insight and Momentum Ever start a project brimming with excitement, only to feel your ideas slip away? Or maybe you’re craving a big change but lack the time and headspace to figure it out. In today’s episode, we explore the power of “sitting” with your ideas—taking a purposeful pause to gain clarity and direction. In this episode,...

Unlocking Deep Healing Through Fascia with Anna Rahe of GST Body In today’s episode, LauraAura sits down with Anna Rahe, founder of GST Body, to dive into the world of fascia—the connective tissue that holds both our physical and emotional stress. Anna reveals how fascia care can be the key to unlocking deep healing and shares simple, daily practices to support it. If you’ve ever felt stuck in an...

In this Powerback® episode of The Gutsy Podcast , we tackle a common challenge: wanting to achieve your goals but feeling overwhelmed by where to start. If you have a list of aspirations or to-dos that seem stuck in limbo, it's time to break through the stagnation. LauraAura guides you through defining your focus goal, simplifying your steps, and creating a clear plan to get things done. Lear...

Reprogram Your Mind for Happiness with Dr. Simone, The Self Esteem Doctor Feeling stuck in negative patterns? In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Simone, The Self Esteem Doctor, to explore how you can reprogram your mind for happiness using tools like NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), positive psychology, and spirituality. Dr. Simone specializes in helping people elevate their self-esteem and shif...

Making Gutsy Moves: How to Stop Holding Yourself Back You’ve already made big and small shifts in your life—taking bold steps isn’t new to you. But if you’re still craving more fulfilling success, this episode is for you. After years of studying, living, and teaching how to make bold moves, I’ve developed a proven formula to help you stop fighting yourself and start going for it. In this episode,...

Welcome to our newly styled episode! Once a month, we’ll be bringing you a real, unfiltered coaching conversation between myself and a client, where we tackle challenges head-on and create actionable solutions together. In this episode, you’ll hear from Chelsa—a mother of five and successful entrepreneur running three businesses. Despite her accomplishments, she’s struggling with self-doubt and th...

Do you ever feel like there's this looming feeling that if “I slow down then everything is going to fall apart”? You have been going a hundred miles an hour, juggling way too many damn things, trying to force and make things work, and feeling like you're not quite getting anywhere. When you're trying to pause and take a break our brains tell us things like “I don't want to lose...

Sometimes you get to the top and realize you’ve built your own prison. The hard work, late nights, and big numbers can lead to fractured relationships and personal emptiness if it’s built off of outward productivity. Today we’re talking with Cathryn Lavery about shifting from hustling your way to the top to integrating inward fulfillment into your decision-making - something that leads to feeling...

If you have been wanting to do something, but the bigness of it, the next steps, the clarity around it, all the things that you need to figure out just kind of freak you out, and then you shut down and stop doing it. In today's Powerback® episode, you get to break it down into simplified next steps. I'm going to walk you through very simple ways that you can actually create a plan so you...

When you’re in alignment, everything is easier and more enjoyable. But when you’re out of alignment, you might find yourself waking up dreading the things you have to do. Building a business is more than big numbers and goals, it’s about creating something that fills your soul and allows you to live and work the way you want. Today’s episode is an extra special one because our guest, Milana Leshin...

Look, breaking a habit is not an easy task, okay? But it is possible when you get out of your own way, you interrupt the patterns in your mind and you choose to move differently. You can break any habit or pattern, no matter how long it's been stuck in there. In today’s Powerback® episode, I'm sharing this experiment that I've been doing: breaking the habit of scrolling mindlessly o...

If you’re working your ass off, can’t seem to put the laptop down, AND your bank account is nowhere near where you’d like it to be, this episode is for you. Marley Majcher is today’s guest, and she’s a spitfire of knowledge. She shares her profound story about having it all yet feeling depleted and how she turned it all around to teach you how to be mindful of your time AND make the money you’re w...

I recently talked myself out of a panic attack. Now listen, I have struggled with depression and anxiety for well over a decade, and until this moment, I really felt like I was never in control of these things. This time I thought,  you know what, I'm going to try something different. I was able to talk myself out of a panic attack instead of going down that spiral and getting stuck in that s...

Your thoughts have the ability to change your life or keep you stuck in the same cycle - the cycle that drains your confidence stops you from fully living your life, and convinces you to keep doing the things you know you’re ready to break free from. Today, you’ll learn simple ways to disrupt your thoughts and habits from Behavior Change specialist Chardét Ryel. In this episode, you’ll learn: From...

When it comes to our feelings, sometimes the challenge is, ‘How do I express emotions when I'm not in the right place to be able to do that?’ Or maybe your schedule is just so full and dense that you're like, ‘Laura, I don't have time to feel; I just need to keep moving.’ The reality is that if you don't allow those emotions to come up, come out, and be expressed, they're...

Two failing businesses, bankruptcy, mental health issues, and cancer… these are all things that today’s guest has overcome and grown beyond to create a $10 Million business teaching 40k+ students worldwide. What helped her do this? Discovering her WOW factors—embracing who she really is and using skills from each phase of her life to create a dream business. In this episode, you’ll learn: Amber’s...

If you've got shit you want to get done but you can't seem to get to it, then today's Powerback® episode is just for you. In today's Powerback® episode, I will teach you a very simple way to get unstuck. This method interrupts what's happening in your brain so that you can actually move forward instead of sitting around thinking about moving forward. You know how when you...

“Our body keeps the score of the trauma we’ve survived.” When I read this line from today’s guest, I knew we had to talk more about it. Shame, guilt, grief, anger, sadness… when not fully expressed and released, these emotions and experiences can nestle their way into our bodies and cause a whirlwind of feelings like pain, anxiety, depression, and so much more. Today, we’re talking to Becky Aste a...

Today, we're going to dig into a very simple problem that has a very simple solution. This one thing has the power to either cause you the most stress, or bring you the most relief. And what is that one thing you might ask? Well, it's the difference between indecision, and making decisions. Now, while it's simple, it's one of the top things that people are avoiding doing. So, i...

You’ve been trying to grow your business but often feel defeated because you have a smaller following, feel overwhelmed by the thought of ads, and are tired of convincing people to work with you. Good news – you don’t need any of those things to grow. So how do you do it, you ask? In today's episode, Income Growth Strategist Marion Wagner shares how to grow your income with a small following....

We're going to talk about a topic today that I know that so many people struggle with, and it's, “I know that these things are really good for me. Why can't I seem to do them?” Whether you're avoiding them, talking yourself out of it, or just never really seem to make the time to get it done, it's all rooted in some shit that's going on in your brain. So, in today’s P...

You work for the majority of your life – in fact the average person spends 90,000 hours working in their lifetime. That’s a LOT of time to spend either doing something that you LOVE or dreading every second of it. Today, we’re talking with Career Counselor Kali Wolken about finding work that not only pays the bills, but fills your tank instead of depleting it. In this episode, you’ll learn: Leanin...

In today’s Powerback® episode, we're talking about going from chaos to calm. In other words, getting used to things working, getting used to slowing down, getting used to being able to sit with things, to enjoy things, to be in the moment. When you have been used to operating in a place of chaos, where you have been a master fixer, you're the one that everyone goes to, you're just a...

Have you been doing and trying every single thing humanly possible to grow your business but feel frustrated because it's just not getting to the place that you know it could be? What if it's not actually the strategy or the techniques that you're using but rather the clarity, confidence, and intentionality that may be currently missing? Today, we're talking with Liz Hartke abo...