Dianne Shelton: The Revenue Leaks Killing Your Business and How to Plug Them

Lara Caine: When You're Brilliant at Everything Except Letting Love In

What if the same energy that built your career is quietly blocking you from the relationship you actually want? In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Lara Lee Caine, The Love Coach, who helps successful women who have everything but the relationship to match attract their perfect partner. Standards raised, patterns rewired, love received. Lara brings something rare to this work. Nearly 30 years spent working one-to-one with women, first as a hairdresser and then through years of studying metaphysics, energetics, and spirituality, all of it woven together with formal coaching qualifications and a deeply intuitive approach. She describes her work as taking care of somebody's soul, and that's precisely how it feels listening to her. What struck me most is how Lara frames the pattern she sees so often: highly capable women who are deeply confident in their professional lives, but whose very competence, the doing, the driving, the independence they've built because no one else would, is the exact thing keeping them from attracting a partner who can lead, protect, and truly meet them. The work isn't about becoming less. It's about learning to receive 😊. In this episode, we explore: ➤ Why high-achieving women often attract the wrong dynamics, and what the masculine and feminine energy balance really has to do with it ➤ The fear underneath the patterns, and how dissolving that fear is where lasting change in love actually begins ➤ How to know when you're ready for this work, including Lara's beautiful insight that when you're truly ready, the right person is placed in front of you ➤ What shifts first for the women Lara works with, from stronger boundaries and self-trust, to an entirely different quality of person showing up in their lives This episode is for any woman who knows she's brilliant at building a life, and is ready to stop settling for a love life that doesn't match it. Connect with Lara Lee Caine Website: laraleecoaching.com [https://laraleecoaching.com/] LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lara-lee-caine-5b7572b6 [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-lee-caine-5b7572b6] Facebook: facebook.com/share/17SaKArZ9r [https://www.facebook.com/share/17SaKArZ9r/?mibextid=wwXIfrY] Connect with Joanna Ingram Website: joannaingram.com [https://joannaingram.com] Instagram: @iamjo.ingram [https://instagram.com/iamjo.ingram] LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joannaingramconsulting [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannaingramconsulting/] Messaging Impact Audit: Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, plus a clear report with your scores, gaps, and the opportunities you're missing to attract higher-frequency clients. Book here: joannaingram.link/audit [https://joannaingram.link/audit] Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst? If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you. 👉 Apply here: go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst [https://go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst]

Sandra Sparrowhawk: Why the Colours You Wear Are Doing More Than You Think

What if the reason you're not being seen has nothing to do with your skills, and everything to do with the colours you're wearing? In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Sandra Sparrowhawk, Colour and Style Coach and founder of Colourworx, who helps women become the best version of themselves through the transformative power of colour and personal style. Sandra's approach goes deeper than most people expect. Trained not only in colour and style but also in colour therapy, she brings a spiritual dimension to what many might think of as a purely aesthetic service. She understands that colours carry energy, and that the ones you choose to wear every day are either feeding that energy or quietly depleting it. What I found so compelling in this conversation is Sandra's honesty about her own journey. She used to be, as she puts it, the lady in beige, someone who stayed invisible because she didn't want to stand out. That lived experience is at the heart of why her work goes well beyond telling clients which shades suit them best. It's about gently guiding women toward a more colourful outlook on life, and the confidence that comes with that. In this episode, we explore: ➤ Why black might be working against you, and what wearing colour-depleting shades could be signalling to the people around you ➤ The spiritual science of colour, and how colour therapy reveals why certain shades lift your energy while others quietly drain it ➤ How getting your colours right changes how others see you, including a remarkable story of a client who finally started getting promotions once she stopped blending in with the crowd ➤ The difference between knowing what suits you and truly owning it, and Sandra's practical tip for testing your new colours without any big wardrobe investment This episode is for any woman who's been playing it safe with her wardrobe and quietly wondering whether it's time to let herself be seen. Connect with Sandra Sparrowhawk Website: colourworx.me [http://www.colourworx.me/] Facebook: facebook.com/Colourworx.me [https://www.facebook.com/Colourworx.me/] Instagram: @sandra.colourworx [https://www.instagram.com/sandra.colourworx/] Connect with Joanna Ingram Website: joannaingram.com [https://joannaingram.com] Instagram: @iamjo.ingram [https://instagram.com/iamjo.ingram] LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joannaingramconsulting [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannaingramconsulting/] Messaging Impact Audit: Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, plus a clear report with your scores, gaps, and the opportunities you're missing to attract higher-frequency clients. Book here: joannaingram.link/audit [https://joannaingram.link/audit] Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst? If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you. 👉 Apply here: go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst [https://go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst]

Cheryl Fischer: The Hidden Habit That's Keeping You Stuck in Midlife

What if the thing keeping you stuck isn't your circumstances ...it's the conversation you're having with yourself every single day? In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Cheryl Fischer, Certified Life and Mindset Coach and host of the Mind Your Midlife podcast. Cheryl helps women in their 40s and 50s move out of quiet dissatisfaction and into greater confidence, purpose, and direction, whether that's launching a business, revitalising a relationship, or simply feeling like themselves again. Cheryl came to coaching through her own experience of it. She'd spent years in corporate, then retrained as a high school teacher, and eventually realised she was heading towards burnout and a future she didn't want. What changed everything for her was understanding the power of the thoughts running through her mind, and how much they were shaping the life she was living . What I found particularly compelling is the tool Cheryl now uses to start her coaching work, something called the Being Profile. Rather than diving straight into goals and action plans, she and her clients look first at how they're actually being in the world. Moods, patterns, levels of presence, courage, and connection. And almost every time, the results reveal something the client hadn't quite been able to name, but instantly recognises as true. It's a surprisingly powerful starting point. She also shares something that might feel a little uncomfortable at first. The habit of complaining, not the deep processing kind, but the ambient, automatic kind that fills so much of our daily conversation, is doing more harm than we realise. It's a habit most of us have, and it's worth a closer look 😌. In this episode, we explore: ➤ How the Being Profile works as a coaching starting point, and why understanding how you're being in the world matters more than setting goals before you've done that ➤ Why self-belief is the real engine of change, and how one client went from never speaking up in a room to leading a project, one small step at a time ➤ The complaining habit most of us don't even notice, and how changing the way we make conversation has a ripple effect on our relationships, our mindset, and how we see ourselves This episode is for anyone in their 40s or 50s who suspects the thing holding them back isn't a lack of skill or opportunity, but a story they've been telling themselves for a very long time. Connect with Cheryl Fischer Website: cherylpfischer.com [https://cherylpfischer.com] Midlife Recharge: cherylpfischer.com/coaching [https://cherylpfischer.com/coaching] Menopause Quiz: https://cherylpfischer.com/menopausequiz [https://cherylpfischer.com/menopausequiz] Instagram: @cherylpfischer [https://www.instagram.com/cherylpfischer] LinkedIn: Cheryl Fischer [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherylpfischer] Podcast: Mind Your Midlife Connect with Joanna Ingram Website: joannaingram.com [https://joannaingram.com] Instagram: @iamjo.ingram [https://instagram.com/iamjo.ingram] LinkedIn: Joanna Ingram [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannaingramconsulting/] Messaging Impact Audit: Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, plus a clear report with your scores, gaps, and the opportunities you're missing to attract higher-frequency clients. Book here: joannaingram.link/audit [https://joannaingram.link/audit] Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst? If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you. 👉 Apply here: go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst [https://go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst]

Ellie Steinbrink: Why Getting Dressed In Style Starts on the Inside

What if the reason nothing in your wardrobe feels right has nothing to do with your clothes? In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Ellie Steinbrink, Expert Stylist, Personal Brand Coach, Speaker, and Podcast Host of The Visibility Shift. Through her business Style Decoded, Ellie works at the intersection of psychology and personal branding, helping women entrepreneurs stop performing and start showing up as themselves, fully and boldly. What struck me about Ellie's work is that she spends almost no time, at least not early on, talking about clothes. Her clients are female founders, business leaders, and entrepreneurs who walk into their closets feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, or just quietly stuck. And Ellie's first move isn't to go shopping. It's to ask what beliefs are still running the show. She describes a moment she kept seeing with clients: the clothes would go on, and their faces would show equal parts elation and terror. Elated because the vision they'd shared with her had just come to life. Terrified because now they actually had to walk out into the world wearing it. That gap, between who they're becoming and who they still feel they need to be, is where Ellie does her deepest work. She talks about the women who find her, often in midlife, often mid-transition, who've spent decades dressing for the room rather than for themselves. The corporate neutrals. The blazer-before-camera instinct. The suits they can't quite let go of, even though the job, and the person who wore them, is long gone. Before any shopping happens, Ellie goes into the beliefs underneath the wardrobe. Vision work. Mindset work. The quiet undoing of decades of conditioning about what credibility is supposed to look like. In this episode, we explore: ➤ Why changing your clothes without doing the inner work first won't hold, and what happens when a client puts on the vision they described but isn't quite ready to own it ➤ The beliefs that keep women dressed for who they used to be, and why the corporate neutrals, the black suits, the always-a-blazer habit, are often more about belonging than personal style ➤ How Ellie's month-long process works before anyone sets foot in a store, from vision work and mindset work to understanding body proportions in a way that actually builds confidence This episode is for any woman who's ever looked at her wardrobe and felt nothing in there was quite her — or who suspects the clothes are just the surface of something much bigger. Connect with Ellie Steinbrink Website: elliesteinbrink.com [https://www.elliesteinbrink.com] Instagram: @style.decoded [https://www.instagram.com/style.decoded/] LinkedIn: Ellie Steinbrink [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliesteinbrink/] Facebook: Style Decoded [https://www.facebook.com/decodedstyle] Podcast: The Visibility Shift [https://www.elliesteinbrink.com] Connect with Joanna Ingram Website: joannaingram.com [https://joannaingram.com] Instagram: @iamjo.ingram [https://instagram.com/iamjo.ingram] LinkedIn: Joanna Ingram [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannaingramconsulting/] Messaging Impact Audit: Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, plus a clear report with your scores, gaps, and the opportunities you're missing to attract higher-frequency clients. Book here: joannaingram.link/audit [https://joannaingram.link/audit] Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst?If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you.👉 Apply here: go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst [https://go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst]

Dianne Shelton: The Revenue Leaks Killing Your Business and How to Plug Them

What if your marketing is working, but your systems are the reason clients aren't staying, or never converting in the first place? In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Dianne Shelton, Online Growth & Sales System Strategist and founder of Passion Breakthrough. Drawing on an MBA, a Computer Science degree, and over a decade scaling multimillion-dollar projects for Fortune 500 companies, Dianne helps mission-driven coaches and service providers build the sales systems that turn effort into results. Dianne works with two distinct groups. The newer entrepreneur who is already overwhelmed by the noise, relying on ChatGPT for everything and wondering why their offers aren't landing. And the more established business owner who has outgrown what they built, is working around the clock, and quietly haemorrhaging revenue because the infrastructure behind their growth was never properly set up. In both cases, Dianne's work is about identifying where the leaks are and building a system that brings the human back into sales. What I loved in this conversation is how she reframes systems. For many small business owners, that word feels clinical, even icky. Dianne's version is anything but. She talks about systems as the thing that allows you to remember the small details that matter to clients, to stay in genuine relationship rather than just hitting people with marketing, and to operate from your zone of genius rather than constantly being pulled into the weeds of your own business 😊. In this episode, we explore: ➤ What systems actually means in practice, and why putting the human-first perspective back into your sales process is what creates genuine client retention ➤ The outcomes her clients experience, from more qualified leads and better conversion rates to reclaiming the joy and freedom that made them go into business in the first place ➤ Why you shouldn't do it alone, and the honest reality of what entrepreneurship actually asks of you before the rewards arrive This episode is for any coach or service provider who knows their work is good, but suspects their systems, or lack of them, are what's holding their growth back. 🔗 Free Resource: Take Dianne's free revenue quiz at passionbreakthrough.com [https://passionbreakthrough.com] to find out where your revenue is leaking with her scorecard. Connect with Dianne Shelton Website: passionbreakthrough.com [https://passionbreakthrough.com] Instagram: @passionbreakthrough [https://www.instagram.com/passionbreakthrough/] Facebook: Dianne C. Shelton [https://www.facebook.com/diannecshelton/] LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/diannecshelton [https://www.linkedin.com/in/diannecshelton/] Connect with Joanna Ingram Website: joannaingram.com [https://joannaingram.com] Instagram: @iamjo.ingram [https://instagram.com/iamjo.ingram] LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joannaingramconsulting [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannaingramconsulting/] Messaging Impact Audit: Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, plus a clear report with your scores, gaps, and the opportunities you're missing to attract higher-frequency clients. Book here: joannaingram.link/audit [https://joannaingram.link/audit] Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst? If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you. 👉 Apply here: go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst [https://go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst]