The Heart-Led Business Show

Send us Fan Mail Your biggest business asset isn't on your balance sheet. It's the people who show up every day! ❤️ And here's the kicker: Are you helping them build a future worth staying for? For the final episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I’m joined by two incredible minds: Ken Rusk , entrepreneur and bestselling author of Blue Collar Cash, and John Skomski , founder of Con...

Send us Fan Mail Building a heart-led business takes more than good intentions. So how do you stay true to your mission while keeping the business profitable? I sit down with Shannon Hernandez , founder of Hernandez Holistic Health , to talk purpose, profit, faith, and the realities of building a business that puts people first. And yes, there's a story involving salsa! 🎥 Watch the full epis...

Send us Fan Mail Making money is good business. Making money without losing your values? Now that's a different level of success. 💰❤️ And Scott Capelin has a pretty interesting take on how to make both happen. In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I sit down with Scott Capelin, Founder and CEO of inLIFE Wellness, to talk about building a profitable business without putting people s...

Send us Fan Mail What can be diagnosed in an 11-minute doctor’s visit? That question is at the heart of my conversation with Dr. Nelson Hendler —physician, neurophysiologist, author, and longtime Johns Hopkins neurosurgery professor. After seeing patients rushed through appointments and sometimes sent down the wrong diagnostic path, Dr. Hendler developed a very different approach to understanding...

Send us Fan Mail “Read less. Apply more.” That’s Nick Hutchison’s philosophy, and I’ll admit, it immediately got my attention. In this episode, I sit down with Nick Hutchison , bestselling author, keynote speaker, founder of BookThinkers, and someone who has built a business around helping people turn the world’s best books into real-life results. We get into why simply reading more isn’t necessar...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve always believed that caring about people and making money in business shouldn’t be an either-or decision. But figuring out how to make those two things work together? That’s where things get interesting. That’s exactly what I wanted to dig into with Dr. Joseph Albano , a former Air Force Flight Surgeon who went on to build his own practice. Dr. Albano gets candid about underc...

Send us Fan Mail What would you do if your biggest client crossed a line? Fire them? Keep the money and look the other way? Or convince yourself it’s “just business”? That’s where my conversation with Rachel Allen gets interesting. Rachel has spent 16 years building a successful marketing business while navigating the tricky balance between values, relationships, and profit. We talk about what it...

Send us Fan Mail Some businesses are built to make money. The best ones are built because someone simply couldn't ignore a problem. That's exactly what makes my conversation with Dr. Ryan Polselli so compelling. In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, Dr. Ryan and I explore a question every entrepreneur eventually faces: How do you build a business that's driven by purpose w...

Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest thing holding your business back isn't your marketing but your mindset about money? Too many heart-led entrepreneurs believe that making a bigger impact means making less profit. I don't buy it. That's why I invited Randall Avery, founder of Deasil Wealth Management, to unpack one of the biggest myths in business. We talk about why charging what...

Send us Fan Mail Most heart-led entrepreneurs don't fail because they lack passion. They fail because they give too much of themselves away. That's exactly why I wanted to have this conversation with Tim Thomas . A former Special Forces Commando turned founder of Breathwork In Bed , Tim has learned that building a meaningful business isn't about becoming a martyr. It's about cr...

Send us Fan Mail Why would someone walk away from a successful business? Not because it was failing, but because it no longer aligned with their purpose. In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I sit down with Dr. Connor Ziegler, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and founder of Vitality Orthopedics and Biologics, who left a thriving medical practice to build one centered on exceptional...

Send us Fan Mail Can a yoga studio become more than a business and turn into a true community lifeline? In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I sit down with Dawn Staudt , founder of Heart and Light Yoga, a Nashville-area yoga studio built around connection, accessibility, and heart-led service. Dawn’s journey is anything but ordinary. She opened her studio right before 2020 changed ever...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when alignment, sales, and heart-led leadership collide? You get a conversation that might just reframe how you see business forever. In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I sit down with Melanie Benson, authority amplifier for expertpreneurs and creator of a top 1% podcast, Amplify Your Success. Melanie has spent decades helping coaches and service professi...

Send us Fan Mail What if the best medical care wasn’t about seeing more patients but being more present? In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I sit down with Dr. Barbi Phelps-Sandall , founder of Renaissance Healthcare for Women, an OB-GYN redefining what modern medicine can look like. She shares why real healing doesn’t start with a prescription, but with deep listening that often reve...

Send us Fan Mail Your body is constantly giving you feedback, but most people are taught to ignore it. Headaches, fatigue, and stress often get normalized… until they quietly become the baseline for “feeling okay.” Katie Kirklin is a registered nurse and functional nutrition counselor who built her work around one core belief: symptoms are signals, not the problem. In this conversation, she shares...

Send us Fan Mail Most people don’t realize how much it costs to build something you actually care about—not financially, but emotionally, mentally, and personally. In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I sit down with Dr. Aimee Duffy, the visionary behind Functional Medicine Collaborator, board-certified family physician, and founder of Carolina Integrative Medicine and Clemson IV Bar. A...

Send us Fan Mail What if the thing you think might hurt your business is actually the thing that makes it more profitable? In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I’m joined by Justin Ricklefs, Founder and CEO of Guild Collective, to explore one of the biggest tensions in leadership today: how to be a heart-led business owner while still building a profitable, sustainable company. We explo...

Send us Fan Mail What if music wasn’t just something you listen to… but something that could actually help you heal, focus, and even transform how you experience life? In this powerful conversation, music therapist Judith Pinkerton shares how she’s reshaping mental health care through music, heart-led business principles, and her innovative approach to “prescriptive playlists.” From building her H...

Send us Fan Mail What if quality isn’t really about what something is… but about how consciously it was made? In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I sit down with Joy Musacchio, founder of Still Point Aromatics, to explore how intention, coherence, and integrity quietly shape everything from essential oils to entire businesses. Joy has built a company where alignment isn’t a slogan. It’...

Send us Fan Mail Undervaluing your work doesn’t make you “heart-led”—it just makes your business harder to sustain. In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, host Tom Jackobs sits down with Ryan Golec, owner of Movement Mechanx, to unpack one of the toughest challenges in service-based businesses: balancing pricing, loyalty, and self-worth. From long-term clients of 10–20+ years to the fear...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the business you built can’t grow unless you step out of it? In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I sit down with Amber Briggle, founder of Soma Massage Therapy, to explore the turning point where “doing it all” stops working, and what it takes to rebuild a business that can actually sustain you. From juggling clients, calls, payroll, and motherhood to...

Send us Fan Mail What if your hair loss wasn’t just about hair but your stress, your health, and your story? In today’s episode, I sit down with Mandy Wright, trichology expert and founder of Hair Oh Yeah in Bellevue, Washington. We dive into the real causes of hair loss, the emotional journey behind it, and how cutting-edge tools like AI tracking and ultrasound technology are transforming hair re...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I’m joined by Bron Watson, a nurse educator turned entrepreneur and founder of The Social Coach and The Serenity Project. Bron shares her powerful journey of building a successful business, facing two cancer diagnoses, and ultimately redefining what it truly means to live and work in alignment. We dive into what a heart-led business...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve always believed the best businesses aren’t just built on profit. They’re built on people. In this episode of The Heart-Led Business Show, I sit down with Nathanael “Tarzan” Rabbitt, founder of Conscious Body Recovery, to explore what it really looks like to lead with purpose, integrity, and heart. Nathanael shares his journey from personal training to building a thriving reco...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with Brynne Tillman, CEO of Social Sales Link and author of The LinkedIn Sales Playbook, to explore what it really means to build a heart-led business in today’s world of selling. Brynne has spent decades transforming traditional sales approaches into trust-based conversations, helping professionals move away from cold, transactional tactics toward mean...