EP 2: Business Trauma - A Decade of Hard Lessons

There's a side of entrepreneurship that’s rarely talked about openly - the moments that shake us to our core, the client experiences that cause us to question our boundaries, and the seasons where building feels more like breaking open. In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on ten years of real, raw business experiences and the trauma that shaped me into the leader I am today.

I take you through the full timeline; from my very first $8,000 month and the panic that followed, to mentor relationships that left me questioning everything, to the season I burned down my entire business and moved to Sedona to heal. I share what happened when I hit $100k in a month and had a nervous breakdown at a Tony Robbins training. I get honest about difficult client dynamics, boundaries I let get crossed, and the deep work required to keep showing up after experiences that made me want to close my doors forever.

One truth kept revealing itself through every single one of these initiations: our business will mirror back every unhealed part of us. They will bring up every unintegrated wound, every old pattern, every place we still don't feel safe - to refine us into who we're becoming.

My hope is that this episode helps you feel less alone in the hard seasons, more resourced to move through challenges without pulling away, and deeply reminded that your humanity is not a liability in your leadership - it's the whole point.

I also talk about:

• How past trauma patterns replay in business through the "law of rewrites"

• What I learned from mentors who projected onto me instead of holding space

• The real story behind my first $100k month and the breakdown that followed

• Why I burned down Badass Business Babe and what emerged from the ashes

• Navigating difficult client dynamics without losing yourself

• Why boundaries must deepen as your spiritual power grows

• How to discern which clients are safe to work with

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