Why Your Relationships Are Your Greatest Business Asset

Why Your Relationships Are Your Greatest Business Asset

What if the opportunity that changes your business is already sitting inside a relationship you've been nurturing for years? In this practical and deeply personal conversation, Bri Seeley sits down with entrepreneur, master connector, and Built By Us co-founder Hilary Gadsby to explore how meaningful professional relationships shape careers, create unexpected opportunities, and open doors that strategy alone cannot. Together, they share stories from their own entrepreneurial journeys, including how a connection that began more than a decade ago ultimately led them into business together. You'll learn what separates genuine relationship building from transactional networking, how to stay connected when life gets busy, and why community remains one of the most valuable assets an entrepreneur can cultivate. In this episode, we cover: * How to build meaningful professional relationships that stand the test of time * The difference between networking and genuine connection * Why curiosity creates stronger business relationships * How referrals and social capital accelerate business growth * Practical ways to stay connected with your network * What to do when business relationships experience challenges * How to create community that supports long-term success * Why some of the best opportunities emerge years after a relationship begins Join the waitlist for 'Built By Us' at: https://forms.gle/HrcSTF5DHJygVq376 [https://forms.gle/HrcSTF5DHJygVq376] Be sure to subscribe to get every episode of Big Goal Energy delivered straight to your device, and please leave a rating and review. If you have any questions you'd like covered on a future episode, you can email us info@briseeley.com.

Why Your Biggest Goals Won't Be Built Through Hustle (and What to Do Instead)

You've been putting in the hours, doing the inner work, staying consistent — and still hitting the same ceiling. What if the problem isn't your effort? What if effort was never the right lever to pull? In this episode, Bri shares the message that came through during a meditation in Mountain Home, Arkansas — one that reframed everything she thought she knew about building a seven-figure business. After a decade of pushing, she finally understood why the ceiling wouldn't move, and what to leverage instead. What you'll learn: * Why time and effort are finite resources with a structural ceiling built in * What it actually means to build your goals through mind and energy * How the "beginner's mind" is a legitimate business and neurological strategy * The subconscious pattern underneath the hustle that keeps your results predictable * Three questions to help you identify where your own resistance lives Be sure to subscribe to get every episode of Big Goal Energy delivered straight to your device, and please leave a rating and review. If you have any questions you'd like covered on a future episode, you can email us info@briseeley.com.

What's Driving You Now? Shedding Old Business Identities & Rebuilding After 40

What drove you to build your business in your twenties and thirties — survival, scarcity, proving something, keeping up — probably isn't what's meant to drive you now. But dismantling the identity you spent a decade constructing? That's a different kind of work entirely. In this rich, honest conversation, Bri sits down with two longtime friends and fellow entrepreneurs — undergarment educator and media personality Kimmay Caldwell, and strategic consultant and TEDx speaker Sarah Khan — to talk about what it really looks like to shed a business identity you've outgrown, grieve what you built, and rebuild from the woman you're becoming rather than the one who started it all. In this episode, you'll learn: * Why the fuel that launched your first business may be the very thing holding your next one back * How Kimmay went from 12 revenue streams to 2.5 — and why that's progress, not retreat * The belief that shaped Sarah's entire career: I'm only as good as I can make other people look — and how she dismantled it * What the girl boss era actually got wrong about building a sustainable business * The question that reoriented Bri's entire next chapter: What kind of business would the woman I'm becoming build? * What each woman is committed to never doing again — and what success must include now Be sure to subscribe to get every episode of Big Goal Energy delivered straight to your device, and please leave a rating and review. If you have any questions you'd like covered on a future episode, you can email us info@briseeley.com.

She Lost It All — Business, Marriage & City — Then Found Herself: Kelly Schexnaildre on Bankruptcy, Grief & Starting Over

What does it actually look like to lose everything — and rebuild from the truth of who you are? Kelly Schexnaildre built Murph's Condiments from a backyard garden in Denver into a company distributing to over 700 restaurants across the West. Then COVID hit. 85% of her revenue disappeared overnight, input costs tripled, and years of attempted pivots couldn't stop the inevitable. She closed the business, filed for bankruptcy, went through a divorce, and left her city of eleven years — all within the same year. In this raw and deeply honest conversation, Kelly and Bri unpack what it truly means to fail, grieve, and rebuild — not from hustle, but from identity. In this episode, you'll learn: * Why the grief after business closure cannot be skipped — and what honoring it actually looks like * The identity crisis that hits when your business is your identity — and how to find yourself on the other side * The real story behind bankruptcy: what it is, why the stigma is disproportionate, and why filing was Kelly's best decision * How to know when it's definitively time to close — and why uncertainty usually means it isn't * The concept of "unique ability" and why asking who am I? before what can I sell? changes everything * Why the rags-to-riches narrative is a faulty model — and what a more honest story of success actually looks like Be sure to subscribe to get every episode of Big Goal Energy delivered straight to your device, and please leave a rating and review. If you have any questions you'd like covered on a future episode, you can email us info@briseeley.com.

When Things Fall Apart: Why the Unraveling Is Part of the Plan

What if everything falling apart right now is actually proof that your intention is working? After two months off the air, Bri returns with a raw, honest update on where she's been — and why the silence has been anything but stagnant. She shares the behind-the-scenes reality of what it truly looks like to commit to greatness, including the grief, the uncertainty, and the sacred discomfort of outgrowing your own life. In this episode, you'll learn: * Why the beginning of a new intention often looks like everything unraveling — and what it actually means * The difference between things falling apart and things falling away * Why you cannot hold onto what is good if you are committed to what is great * The King and the Jester story that reframes every perceived loss in your life * How to shift the one question that changes everything * Why going back is never actually an option — and why that's a gift Be sure to subscribe to get every episode of Big Goal Energy delivered straight to your device, and please leave a rating and review. If you have any questions you'd like covered on a future episode, you can email us info@briseeley.com.