The New Age CEO Podcast

What if the timing of your biggest business decisions matters just as much as the strategy behind them? In this episode, Anna Nichols shares how she uses astrology and numerology alongside practical business planning to make decisions about launches, partnerships, contracts, visibility, and long-term business growth. Through personal stories, lessons learned, and practical examples, she explores h...

In this episode, I'm sharing a story that almost didn't make it to your ears. After recording this podcast, the audio disappeared, and as frustrating as that was, it became the perfect reminder of the lesson I wanted to teach: sometimes what feels like failure is actually divine intervention. I also take you behind the scenes of what looked like a "failed" enrollment for the Sp...

What if the next level of growth in your business doesn't come from doing more? In this episode, we're talking about one of the biggest misconceptions in entrepreneurship: that more effort always equals more results. The truth? Many founders are spreading their time, energy, and attention across too many ideas, projects, offers, and opportunities, then wondering why growth feels slower t...

This episode is something different, and something Anna has never shared publicly in this format before. On June 11, Anna hosted the Incubator Experience & Open House, a live showcase of the Spiritual Business Incubator's comprehensive, academic-style business development model. This is the full replay. Inside, Anna walks through the future of business in the new age, the real challenges...

In this episode of the New Age CEO Podcast, Anna shares a powerful money mindset shift that completely transformed how she views entrepreneurship, leadership, and business growth. What if the biggest shift you need isn't another sales strategy or marketing tactic, but a new way of seeing your relationship with money? Anna explores the idea that every founder who has invested their own savings...

In this personal episode, I'm reflecting on my journey from solopreneur to CEO and sharing the lessons that helped me build a business that feels purposeful, profitable, and aligned. Looking back over the last five years, there are things I know I got right, and there are definitely things I wish I had done differently. If you're building a mission-driven business and wondering whether y...

What stage of business are you actually in, and are you building in alignment with that stage? In this episode of The CEO Shift Podcast , Anna Nichols breaks down the four stages of business development and why so many founders stay stuck trying to force strategies that don’t match where they are in their journey. From solopreneur beginnings to stepping fully into the CEO role, this conversation e...

After 168 episodes of Design and Align Your Business , this new chapter begins with a deeper conversation about leadership, alignment, and what it truly means to build a business in the new age. Welcome to “The New Age CEO Podcast.” In this first episode, Anna Nichols shares the evolution of the Spiritual Business Incubator and the identity shift that came with moving from solopreneur into the rol...

Welcome to The New Age CEO Podcast with Anna Nichols — founder and CEO of the Spiritual Business Incubator — where we explore what it really takes to build a purposeful, profitable, and sustainable business in the new age. This podcast is for mission-driven entrepreneurs, coaches, healers, creatives, and visionary founders who know they’re here to build something bigger than themselves. Inside eac...

In this final episode of The Design and Align Your Business Podcast as we know it, Anna shares the heart behind this intentional ending and the bigger vision that’s unfolding next. This is a conversation about honoring what has been, trusting what is changing, and making space for the next level of your mission. Anna reflects on the growth of the Spiritual Business Incubator, the evolution from do...

You have to ask: Am I actually building the right business? So many mission-driven entrepreneurs start their businesses because they want to help people. They feel the calling to heal, teach, guide, or support others in some meaningful way. But what often gets skipped is the intentional process of designing the business itself , the structure, the model, and the role you are meant to play inside o...

There are seasons in life and business where everything feels like it’s unraveling. In this honest and activating conversation, Michelle Burke shares the real story behind “Hot Mess Magic” from car repossessions and frozen bank accounts to identity shifts and radical surrender. We talk about the shame we carry as entrepreneurs, the patterns that keep repeating, and the moment you realize the only...

There are conversations that shift you. This is one of them. In this episode, I’m joined by Odree Martin, known as the Miracle Oracle, and we dive into what it really means to be a new-age leader building a business rooted in truth. Not spirituality as branding. Not leadership as performance. But embodiment. Odree shares how stepping fully into her spirituality wasn’t a strategy, it was survival....

There are years when we refine. And there are years when we run. This episode marks the beginning of the Fire Horse year, a collective one-year in numerology, and I’m sharing how I’m intentionally planning for a year designed to move fast. Not from pressure. Not from force. But from alignment. In this conversation, I’m pulling back the curtain on how astrology, Human Design, and strategic planning...

Your business doesn’t need another strategy pulled from someone else’s playbook. It needs a plan that actually matches where you are right now. In this episode, Anna breaks down why business growth is not one-size-fits-all, and why so many entrepreneurs feel stuck, scattered, or tempted to start over when they skip the natural stages of business development. If you’ve ever felt pressure to “do it...

What if the reason your business feels heavy isn’t because you’re doing it wrong, but because you’re not taking it seriously enough? In this episode, Anna shares an honest, soul-level truth about what it actually takes to build a soul-aligned business that lasts. Not the romanticized version. Not the “just trust the universe” version. But the grounded reality of leadership, responsibility, and dev...

Your business is growing. People are responding. Opportunities are stacking. And somehow… it feels both exciting and destabilizing at the same time. This episode is a real-time, behind-the-scenes reflection on what happens when the thing you’ve been building actually starts to work, and asks more of you than ever before. I’m sharing candidly from the middle of my own expansion: leading a growing t...

In this episode of the Design and Align Your Business, Anna shares a truth many founders feel in their bones but haven’t fully named yet: solopreneurship is not designed to hold your long-term vision. If your business relies on you for everything, delivery, marketing, sales, decisions, momentum, it’s not a failure of discipline or strategy. It’s a signal that your business model has reached its li...

Today’s episode is a real conversation about the identity and action shift required to move from solopreneur to CEO. I’m sharing what I’ve been living in real time inside the Spiritual Business Incubator, the leadership decisions, the discomfort, the clarity, and the responsibility that comes with stewarding something bigger than yourself. If you’ve ever said you want to build a company, a legacy,...

Welcome to 2026, my friends. And before we talk goals… plans… launches… any of it, I want to start with one question that changes everything: Why are you in business? … the answer to that question is what will carry you through the hard days, guide your decisions, and become the foundation for the kind of growth that actually feels good . In this first episode of the year, I’m sharing my 2026 inte...

In this final episode of 2025, I’m sharing the good, the hard, and the honest reality of what it actually takes to create a year of massive expansion, in business, identity, leadership, and life. This year changed everything for me: my business model, my visibility, my nervous system, my capacity to hold responsibility… and even where my family calls home. None of it happened by accident.  It happ...

What happens when you stop trying to “do it all” like a solopreneur… and start making decisions like the CEO you’re becoming? In today’s episode, I’m joined by my friend Amanda Riffee, a 3/6 Projector whose business is truly skyrocketing, for a real, honest conversation about identity, growth, and what it actually looks like to build a team in alignment. Amanda shares her journey from 18 years in...

In this powerful episode, I’m joined by 3/5 Manifesting Generator Irene McKenna, the new Director of Alignment & Program Integration inside the Spiritual Business Incubator. Irene’s genius is helping entrepreneurs understand the subconscious patterns, growth edges, and energetic blocks hidden inside their Human Design… and how to move through them with compassion instead of force. If you’ve ev...

When your business starts actually working… do you have the structure to hold it? In this episode, I’m sharing how I’m restructuring the Spiritual Business Incubator as it grows fast, and what it really takes to build a business that’s impactful, sustainable, and not glued to you doing everything forever. We’re talking mission, roles, team, offers, and the uncomfortable-but-essential process of de...

This week’s conversation is one that radiates pure frequency. I’m joined by the incredible Stefanie Dingbaum, a 3/5 Projector, therapist, manifestation coach, and one of those rare people whose energy speaks before she does. The moment I felt her presence inside our mastermind, I knew I wanted her inside this space, and this episode proves exactly why. Stefanie brings a blend of deep professional...