Space and Grace Podcast – Abundant Business Without Burnout

Burnout, Balance and Money Mindset Practices with Lori Rogers

Burnout often shows up in the way we respond, avoid, overthink, or shut down. In this episode, Lori Rogers shares simple practices to reset your energy, calm mental clutter, and build a steadier relationship with work and money.   In this episode of Space and Grace, Michal McCracken speaks with Lori Rogers, co-founder of Positive Activity and VP of Rogers Marketing, about burnout, balance, mindset, and the simple daily practices that help people reset their energy and think more clearly. This conversation is for business owners, leaders, and women entrepreneurs who feel mentally overloaded, emotionally reactive, or caught in old patterns around stress, money, and responsibility. You’ll hear about: * How burnout can show up in communication, avoidance, and non-response.  * Simple practices for lowering stress and clearing mental clutter.  * The connection between money stories, scarcity, and emotional safety.  * Why small daily resets can support better business decisions.  * How appreciation, stillness, and conscious recall can shift your state.  If this episode made you notice the patterns you’re still carrying around money, pressure, or overworking, Rewired to Rich is my private coaching program [https://spaceandgrace.co.nz/rewired-to-rich] where we work with the nervous system and money patterns underneath those loops  Click here to download [https://www.positiveactivity.net/free-downloads] Lori Rogers’ Free Guides - Positive Activity Playbook - Greeting & Active Listening Guide - Ask -- Believe -- Welcome Tool - FREE 3-Minute Reset     The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all in one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo [https://partner.juicycrm.nz/space-and-grace/home?am_id=grace]with the awesome team at JuicyCRM.

Finally, Financial Tools That Get How You Actually Work – with Tamara Laine

What if the biggest barrier to financial freedom isn't your spending habits, but a banking system that doesn't understand how you actually work? Tamara Laine built an AI platform to solve this exact problem for gig workers and underserved communities. For the ambitious woman who's building something meaningful but struggling with the financial realities of entrepreneurship. Traditional banking wasn't built for today's economy. If you're a gig worker, small business owner, or part of Gen Z, accessing capital feels impossible even when you're earning well. My guest Tamara Laine went from Emmy-winning investigative journalist to FinTech founder, creating MPWR, an AI platform that helps lenders understand and serve the new economy. She's also building tools that act like a financial coach in your pocket.   What we cover: • Why traditional credit scoring fails gig workers and small business owners • How to bootstrap a FinTech startup while maintaining your sanity • Tamara's non-negotiable morning routine that keeps stress manageable • The shift from raising capital early to proving market fit first • Daily money tracking and why looking at your finances matters   Key insight: Your business generates revenue, otherwise it's an expensive hobby. Tamara shares how she manages the psychological pressure of money flowing out while building something that will eventually flow back in. Perfect for anyone building something bigger than themselves while navigating the financial stress that comes with creating real change. Click here to connect with Tamara Laine and learn more about MPWR  [https://mpwr.money]   If this episode speaks to the part of you that is building something meaningful, but still feels stress, pressure, or contraction around money, Rewired to Rich is my 3-month private coaching experience where we work with your money patterns at the root. Together, we use Miracle Coding, money pattern work, and nervous system regulation to help your body feel safer making, receiving, and holding more money, so you can stop returning to the same income ceiling and create more financial stability without needing to earn through pressure, overwork, or constant stress. Click here to learn more about Rewired to Rich [https://spaceandgrace.co.nz/rewired-to-rich]       The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all-in-one CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo [https://partner.juicycrm.nz/space-and-grace/home?am_id=grace] with the awesome team at JuicyCRM.

Burnout Recovery and Midlife Reinvention - with Briar Kirkby

What happens when divorce, cancer, burnout, and identity loss force you to start again. In this grounded conversation, Briar Kirkby shares how she rebuilt her life, found healing in Bali, and now helps women reset before they break. If you are moving through burnout, midlife change, visibility fears, or a season of personal rebuilding, this episode will meet you there. Michal McCracken sits down with Briar Kirkby to talk about divorce, cancer recovery, identity loss, nervous system overwhelm, and the choice to begin again. After major life disruption in her fifties, Briar rebuilt from the ground up and created restorative Bali retreats for women who need space, clarity, and a different way forward. In this conversation, they explore what business growth and personal healing can look like when you stop performing, start listening to yourself, and create support that actually regulates your nervous system. Key takeaways: * How burnout and chronic stress disconnect women from themselves  * The difference between being alone and feeling lonely  * Why nervous system regulation matters in seasons of change  * What midlife reinvention can look like after loss, illness, or divorce  * How rest, honesty, and small daily choices rebuild self-trust  This episode is for women craving sustainable business growth, deeper self-trust, and a calmer relationship with visibility, money, and life after burnout. Head to Briar’s website [https://briarlovesbali.com.au/ ] and join the community to find out about her next retreat Connect with Briar on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/briarlovesbaliretreats/ ] If this conversation resonates, and you are ready to stop building your business through burnout, overworking, overgiving, undercharging, or pushing past exhaustion, Rewired to Rich is my 3-month private coaching experience where we work with your money patterns at the root. Together, we use Miracle Coding, money pattern work, and nervous system regulation to help your body feel safer making, receiving, and holding more money, so you can create more financial stability without needing to abandon your health, your boundaries, or your actual life to get there. Click here to learn more about Rewired to Rich [https://spaceandgrace.co.nz/rewired-to-rich]     The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all in one, CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo [https://partner.juicycrm.nz/space] with the awesome team at JuicyCRM

When You “Know What to Do” But Still Don’t Do It

You can build the offer, write the emails, and still feel your body shut down when it’s time to be visible. In this episode, Michal McCracken explains why procrastination, overwhelm, or sudden collapse in business is often nervous system dysregulation, not laziness or lack of strategy. When visibility, money growth, or success feels unsafe, your body will block action. You’ll learn: • Why fear of judgment and fear of success trigger shutdown  • The difference between overwhelm and dorsal vagal collapse  • Why two entrepreneurs can follow the same strategy and get different results  • How to build nervous system capacity for sustainable income and business growth If you’ve ever thought, “I know what to do, I’m just not doing it,” this episode will show you what’s happening underneath, and what to do about it.   Free private series: If you keep doing the right things but your income still returns to the same familiar level, start with my free private podcast series, Why You Are Doing the Right Things But Still Not Getting Rich. You’ll learn why your body may be treating more money, more visibility, or more success as a threat, and why strategy alone often cannot shift the pattern. Click here to download "why you're doing all the right things but still not getting rich" [https://spaceandgrace.co.nz/resources]   Work with Michal: If this episode helped you realise your “procrastination” may actually be a body-level safety pattern, Rewired to Rich is where we work with that pattern at the root. Inside this 3-month private coaching experience, we use Miracle Coding, money pattern work, and nervous system regulation to help your body feel safer making, receiving, and holding more money, so you can stop returning to the same income ceiling and create more financial stability without needing to burn yourself out to get there. Click here to learn more about Rewired to Rich  [https://spaceandgrace.co.nz/rewired-to-rich]     The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all in one, CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo [https://partner.juicycrm.nz/space] with the awesome team at JuicyCRM

Automation That Feels Human: AI + Systems Without Losing Your Soul – with Pam Langord

Automation doesn't have to strip the humanity from your business. Pam Langford shares her HEART framework for using AI and systems in a way that actually supports how you work — creating more capacity, not complexity. For the ambitious woman who's earning well but feels overwhelmed by all the "shoulds" around automation and AI. You know you need systems. You know AI could help. But every time you try to implement something, it either feels robotic or adds more friction to your day. My guest Pam Langford has spent 25 years figuring out how to build systems that actually work with human psychology, not against it. As founder of Simply Magic Marketing, she helps coaches and service providers use automation to reduce busy work without losing voice or intention. What we cover: • The one automation every business owner needs (and how to optimize it properly) • Why AI outputs feel slimy and how to fix it with proper context • The HEART framework for keeping humanity front and centre • Using AI to map out project timelines for big visions without burning out • Preparing for ChatGPT ads and the shift from SEO to AEO • Voice checks and reading content aloud to maintain authenticity Key insight: Just because you can automate something doesn't mean you should. The goal isn't efficiency for efficiency's sake, it's creating space for what only you can do. If you've ever felt excited about a big vision but exhausted by the thought of building it, this episode will shift how you approach systems and AI. Download Pam Langord’s Evergreen Funnel Builder Toolkit  [https://pamlink.live/efbk-pods] 1. Copy-and-Paste Funnel Email Templates to turn leads into clients (because nobody's got time for writer’s block). 2. Funnel Mapping Worksheet to lay out your client journey so they click "buy" every time. 3. AI-Powered Prompts to personalize your funnel without extra stress (and save your brainpower for the big stuff). If your business is asking for more capacity, but your body keeps reading more money, more visibility, or more responsibility as more pressure, Rewired to Rich is my 3-month private coaching experience for women who are ready to work with their money patterns at the root. Together, we use Miracle Coding, money pattern work, and nervous system regulation to help your body feel safer making, receiving, and holding more money, so you can stop returning to the same income ceiling and create more financial stability without needing to burn yourself out to get there. Click here to learn more about Rewired to Rich [https://spaceandgrace.co.nz/rewired-to-rich]   The podcast is proudly sponsored by JuicyCRM. If you're looking for an all in one, CRM, I highly encourage you to click here and book a demo [https://partner.juicycrm.nz/space] with the awesome team at JuicyCRM