How to Build Resilience as an Entrepreneur

How to Build Resilience as an Entrepreneur

The launch high fades, the world starts pushing back, and suddenly you are wondering if you are cut out for this. This one is for the business owner who is past the honeymoon phase and ready to build the staying power that keeps them in the game for the long haul. Amanda Kaufman is the founder of The Coach's Plaza and Clairvenu, a former corporate consultant turned entrepreneur, and a coach who helps service-based business owners build businesses that actually work. Nine years into entrepreneurship and nineteen into business, she flips the mic to become the guest, sitting down with guest host Rebecca Kaufman to talk about resilience: why reality gets rude, why more success brings more resistance, and the traits that separate the owners who last from the ones who flame out. In this episode, you will learn: 🚣 Why leaving a stable job for entrepreneurship is like stepping off a cruise ship into a rowboat, and how to expect the waves 😳 How to handle the first rude disaster, from trolls to flops, without letting it mean more than it should 😈 Why every new level brings a new devil, and how more success invites more resistance instead of less 💪 The difference between endlessly tolerating pain and enduring it for a real payoff 🌱 Why humility keeps you grounded and steady in a storm, even with a big personality 🤝 How to build an inner circle that tells you the truth, and why yes-men disappear when it matters CONNECT WITH AMANDA KAUFMAN 🌐 Website: clairvenu.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandackaufman/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandackaufman/] 📸 Instagram: @theamandakaufman or https://www.instagram.com/theamandakaufman [https://www.instagram.com/theamandakaufman] 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChatwithAmandaKaufman/ [https://www.facebook.com/ChatwithAmandaKaufman/] ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Register for an upcoming training with Amanda at clairvenu.com/training Want to be a guest? Amanda is always looking for guests who can help business owners build something that actually works. If that sounds like you, apply at https://clairvenu.com/the-podcast STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

The Simple Path to Stock Market Success for Women

"The stock market" sounds complicated, risky, and reserved for finance pros, so the starting keeps getting postponed. This one is for every woman who is great at earning and ready to turn that income into lasting wealth. Myrna Lainé-Hyppolite is the founder and Chief Financial Empowerment Partner at Empower Financial Wellness, a financial wellness coach and wealth strategist with close to 30 years of experience across investment banking, financial planning, corporate finance, and private equity. An Ivy League graduate of Dartmouth College, she helps powerhouse women turn their amazing income into wealth using her Affluence Accelerator Methodology. She joins Amanda Kaufman to dispel the myths, simplify the jargon, and lay out a genuinely simple path to getting started. (Myrna is not a financial advisor, and this episode is education, not personalized financial advice.) In this episode, you will learn: 💸 Why investing matters even more for women, given the earnings gap and a longer life expectancy 🚪 Why the "you need thousands to start" belief is a myth, and how five dollars a day can get you going ⏳ The three things that make a successful investor: time, consistency, and a good rate of return 🍽️ How to know your risk tolerance before you invest, using Myrna's food-preferences analogy 🤖 Why putting your investing on autopilot beats trying to actively manage it 🔑 How practicing ownership lets your money grow without trading more hours for it CONNECT WITH MYRNA LAINÉ-HYPPOLITE 🌐 Website: https://www.empowerfinancialwellness.com [https://www.empowerfinancialwellness.com] 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/myrna-laine-hyppolite/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/myrna-laine-hyppolite/] 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/empowerfinancialwellness [https://www.instagram.com/empowerfinancialwellness] ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@myrna_laine-hyppolite [https://www.youtube.com/@myrna_laine-hyppolite] 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myrna.lainehyppolite [https://www.facebook.com/myrna.lainehyppolite] 🎁 Free Guide to Stock Market Investing: a simple, step-by-step starting point for your investing journey. Download it at https://wealth-codes.com/invest STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part [https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part] LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow [https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow] Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f [https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f] If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

Breaking Free from the Six-Figure Trap

Hitting six figures was supposed to feel like relief, so why does it feel like a cage? This one is for the business owner who is technically successful and quietly stuck, working harder than ever and wondering where the freedom went. Amanda Kaufman is the founder of The Coach's Plaza and Clairvenu, a former corporate consultant turned entrepreneur, and a coach who helps service-based business owners build businesses that actually work. In this episode she flips the mic and becomes the guest, sitting down with guest host Rebecca Kaufman to break down the six-figure trap: the moment success starts to feel like a cage, why the trap holds on so tightly, and the simple process for springing it open. In this episode, you will learn: 🪤 What the six-figure trap actually is, and why revenue on paper can still leave an owner stretched thin 💊 Why exhaustion makes silver-bullet offers so tempting, and the one-sentence tell that means you should stop before you buy ⚓ How sunk cost keeps owners hanging onto ideas, hires, and strategies that are not working 🔀 The difference between quitting and adjusting, and why stubbornness can build a business and trap it 🚒 Amanda's "stop, drop, and roll" process for getting unstuck when your hair is on fire 🔑 How to solve the trap immediately, without earning another dollar, by owning your mess and your cleanup CONNECT WITH AMANDA KAUFMAN 🌐 Website: clairvenu.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandackaufman/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandackaufman/] 📸 Instagram: @theamandakaufman or https://www.instagram.com/theamandakaufman [https://www.instagram.com/theamandakaufman] 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChatwithAmandaKaufman/ [https://www.facebook.com/ChatwithAmandaKaufman/] ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow [https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow] Register for an upcoming training with Amanda at clairvenu.com/training Want to be a guest? Amanda is always looking for guests who can help business owners build something that actually works. If that sounds like you, apply at https://clairvenu.com/the-podcast STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

The Science of Creativity and Its Impact on Success

Think creativity is a luxury for the artsy few? This one is for every business owner who wants more breakthroughs, less stress, and a lot more joy in the day-to-day work. Megan Evans is the founder and creative director of Lift Parade Arts, where she provides arts experience guidance and creativity coaching rooted in the belief that creativity is a birthright. With more than 20 years of experience as a museum educator, arts experience facilitator, writer, creative director, and designer, Megan helps people go from "I'm not creative" to obsessed with what creativity adds to their lives. She joins Amanda Kaufman to talk about the science of creativity and its impact on success. In this episode, you will learn: 🎨 Why creativity is a birthright, not a trait reserved for a certain set of people 🧠 What consistent creative practice does to the brain and body, from releasing stress hormones to boosting the feel-good ones 💡 Why breakthroughs and aha moments tend to arrive off the clock, and how to invite more of them 🖼️ How experiencing art through museums, slow looking, and community delivers benefits similar to making it ⏱️ The coaching questions Megan uses to help people find creative time, starting with five to ten minutes a day 💪 Why creative practice works like exercise for a business owner's mind, creating space to process in an AI-saturated world ------ 🔗 CONNECT WITH MEGAN EVANS Website: https://liftparade.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/evermeg Newsletter: Megan teaches creativity, shares special events, and gives away freebies by email. Join at https://liftparade.com Free Restoration Meditation: Email hi@liftparade.com or message Megan on LinkedIn with the words "Restoration Meditation" and she will send you The Creative Permission Restoration Meditation, a free audio for reconnecting with your creative side. ------ 💌 STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business... without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part ------ 🎧 LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

Unlock Business Growth with Data-Driven Decisions

The tables have turned on The Amanda Kaufman Show. If the strategies that used to bring clients in have quietly stopped working, and it is tempting to blame AI, the economy, or the price of eggs, this conversation is for you. In this episode, co-host Rebecca Kaufman flips the mic and interviews Amanda Kaufman herself. Amanda is the founder of Clairvenu, a former corporate consultant, and a coach who helps service-based business owners... coaches, consultants, agency owners, and other people who help people for a living... gain clarity so they can do less and earn more. Rebecca gets her talking about the real reason so many established businesses feel stuck right now, and the data-driven decisions that unlock the next level of growth. In this episode, you will learn: - Why "what used to work is not working" is usually a misdiagnosis, and why the work-harder prescription makes things worse - How the story of the good old days often falls apart when you check the actual data (and why that is good news) - The bare minimum set of metrics Amanda recommends: your time, your input activities, booked calls, and yeses - Why one calendar (not six) is the first step toward a predictable business - How the action, track, review, adjust cycle turns stuck into momentum... including the one bottleneck fix that created this very episode - How to use AI tools like Claude to pop the hood on your business data without buying new software or hiring a data scientist ------ CONNECT WITH AMANDA KAUFMAN & THE SHOW Website: clairvenu.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandackaufman/ Instagram: @theamandakaufman or https://www.instagram.com/theamandakaufman Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChatwithAmandaKaufman/ Free training: Watch Amanda's free webinar, "How I Finally Got AI To Help Make Me Money: A Comedy," at https://clairvenu.com/training Go deeper: Find out about Clairvenu's Inner Circle at https://clairvenu.com Want to be a guest? Amanda is always looking for guests who can help business owners build something that actually works. If that sounds like you, apply at https://clairvenu.com/the-podcast ------ STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part ------ LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!