You Are the Magic

Audacious Magic: Somatic Clearing, Burnout Recovery, and Owning Your Worth

Audacious Magic: Somatic Clearing, Burnout Recovery, and Owning Your Worth Lynda Stretton had a boss she genuinely loved, and one day he sat her down to help her out. She was a big person, he told her, with a big personality, a big energy, and a big smile, and she walked into rooms and intimidated people. Could she find a way to make herself a little smaller? Lynda had been hearing versions of that her whole life. She got told she was too tall, too direct, too fast, too much, and for a long time she believed it. In this episode she tells me how those exact qualities turned out to be the foundation of the work she does now, helping high achieving women own their worth and stop shrinking to keep everyone else comfortable. Lynda spent 17 years in corporate marketing, running a £45 million budget as a marketing director for three different brands, before she walked away from a six figure salary to be fully present with her kids. That choice became the start of her own healing and the method she teaches now, somatic clearing, with a goal of touching and transforming one billion lives. We get into trusting your intuition and following the energy, why lived wisdom will outlast knowledge in a world full of AI, the honest conversation around money and worth, and the way so many women lose themselves in their relationships and then carry that same smallness into their businesses. I loved this one, and I think you will too. KEY TOPICS * Walking away from a six figure corporate marketing career to be a present mum * Somatic clearing and healing what the body holds onto * Burnout recovery and rebuilding a business with strong boundaries * Owning your worth and charging premium prices * Trusting your intuition, following the energy, and acting on an idea without overthinking it * Why wisdom and lived experience outlast knowledge in a world full of AI * The qualities women get told are "too much" becoming their real superpowers * Losing yourself in a relationship and how it shows up in your business * Female success, being the breadwinner, and navigating partners who feel triggered TIMESTAMPS * 01:16 What Lynda's work looks like now and who she helps * 04:00 The origin of the Audacious One Mastermind * 05:30 Transforming one billion lives with somatic clearing * 06:48 Humble beginnings and a first job at £1.76 an hour * 14:10 What Lynda is most proud of and the choice to become a present mum * 20:38 Why people will pay for wisdom over knowledge * 23:35 Trusting intuition and the Money May download * 35:14 Being told she was too direct, too tall, too much * 41:39 Women losing themselves in relationships and in business * 50:26 Lynda's takeaway and the free breath work journey RESOURCES AND LINKS Find Lynda on IG: instagram.com/lynda.stretton/ [http://instagram.com/lynda.stretton/] Lynda's free breathwork: https://youtu.be/AVitwaN3gHA [https://youtu.be/AVitwaN3gHA] Find Sarah on IG: instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso [http://instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso] Pod Site: YouAretheMagicPodcast.com [http://YouAretheMagicPodcast.com] Come join us for the You Are the Magic retreat at social-moguls.com/retreat [http://social-moguls.com/retreat]

Money, Magic, and a Bag of Skittles

Money, Magic, and a Bag of Skittles "You're not a CFO, you're not a money manager, you're a financial dominatrix." Lou's first reaction was to ask if that was a good thing. According to her client, it was. She whips six and seven-figure entrepreneurs into shape around their money, reading their patterns in minutes and telling them the truth about what's actually happening with their cash. In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and my own money mentor to talk about what it means to be a money medium, why money doesn't play favorites, and how Lou stopped shrinking the loud, vibrant, bag-of-Skittles version of herself to fit into a box other people built for her. It's a conversation about money, energetics, and the magic that shows up when you stop performing for an algorithm and start showing up as the real you. KEY TOPICS * What a money medium actually does, and why Lou separates patterns from "blocks" * The story behind the financial dominatrix title, and what overriding the whole system looks like * How energy, strategy, and spiritual connection all show up in Lou's money work * Why entrepreneurs can hit $100,000 months and still have nothing in the bank * The keynote where Lou found out there was no PowerPoint, and why it became the best thing that ever happened to her * How the world unintentionally tries to put your magic in a box, and how to ask people to open it * Sarah's Shavasana download that became this whole show * Chasing algorithms versus showing up natural and unpolished * The one trait Lou hid for 30 years that turned out to be her superpower TIMESTAMPS 00:58 Welcome and introducing Lou Clarke 02:27 Money medium and financial dominatrix, what the work looks like 04:57 Energy, money patterns, and naming the pattern to shift it 05:56 How a client named her the financial dominatrix 08:39 Sarah on inheriting money stories from her parents 10:08 Being the magician, not the magic 11:05 The bag of Skittles 14:46 When God gives you different words than your slides 16:05 The conference keynote with no PowerPoint 18:10 The "You Are the Magic" download in savasana 20:48 Looking for the magic in the small moments 23:18 Why chasing the algorithm extinguishes your magic 24:33 Showing up natural and unpolished, the 40-minute IG live in pajamas 26:49 The trait Lou hid for 30 years 29:58 Money church and bottling up your energy 31:11 Where to find Lou RESOURCES AND LINKS * Connect with Lou on Instagram: @theLouClarke [instagram.com/theLouClarke] * Follow Sarah on Instagram: @bcsarahsaidso [instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso] * Listen to more episodes: youarethemagicpodcast.com [http://youarethemagicpodcast.com] RETREAT Ready for more magic in person? Join us at the retreat this fall in Florida: social-moguls.com/retreat [http://social-moguls.com/retreat] ----------------------------------------

ADHD, Private Practice, and a Little Magic

Jena Castro-Casbon built her career helping speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists start private practices, and she's done it as an introvert with a late-recognized ADHD diagnosis who would rather batch-record video than go to a party. In this episode we get into how she went from wanting to be an FBI agent to becoming the go-to resource for an entire profession, what changed when she stopped seeing her ADHD as a set of flaws, and why building a business is really about building a life that fits. KEY TOPICS * How Jena started her private practice on the side at 26, back when nobody was telling clinicians that was even an option * The "F words" behind why people start private practices: freedom, flexibility, fulfillment, and finances * Reframing a late ADHD diagnosis, and the visionary-and-integrator concept that helped Jena understand how her brain actually works * Practical tools that make a difference for ADHD business owners: object permanence workarounds, body doubling, batch recording, and time-boxing * Being an introvert who built a public-facing business, and letting other people work in their zone of genius * Coming out as gay and being openly neurodivergent in a field that hasn't always made room for either * How showing up as your full self gives other people permission to do the same TIMESTAMPS 00:08 Welcome and introducing Jena, the queen of private practice 01:33 From clinical fellow in Boston to starting a practice on the side 04:17 The FBI-agent dream and how Jena found speech pathology 07:04 What Jena is most proud of: impact across a whole profession 10:01 The flexibility to be present for her kids 11:00 The four F words behind why clinicians start private practices 17:35 "Look, I made a hat where there never was a hat" 22:19 A late ADHD reframe and the careless-errors years 24:57 The visionary and the integrator, and the flight that changed everything 29:36 Why so many entrepreneurs are neurodivergent 34:16 Object permanence, body doubling, and building systems for your brain 39:43 Being an introvert in a public-facing business 43:40 Coming out, being openly gay, and speaking openly about ADHD 50:24 Why being out about who you are normalizes it for everyone 55:13 Advice for anyone dipping a toe into showing up more authentically RESOURCES AND LINKS * Find Jena: Instagram.com/independentclinician * Jena's free courses, resources, and paid programs: independentclinician.com [http://independentclinician.com] * Jena's book: The Path to Private Practice https://amzn.to/4tUY6By [https://amzn.to/4tUY6By] * Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman https://amzn.to/42SDVcG [https://amzn.to/42SDVcG] * Find Sarah: instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso [http://instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso] You're invited to the You Are the Magic Retreat this October in Florida! social-moguls.com/retreat [http://social-moguls.com/retreat] If this conversation resonated, share it with someone who needs to hear that their brain isn't broken. Follow You Are the Magic so you never miss an episode, and head to YouAretheMagicPodcast.com [http://YouAretheMagicPodcast.com] for more.

Surviving the Seasons Meant to Break You Without Losing Your Magic

Surviving the Seasons Meant to Break You Without Losing Your Magic Theresa Richard has spent the last five years surviving things most people couldn't and building a career anyway. In this conversation we talk about why she refuses to play victim no matter what life hands her, how she keeps backing herself when the people around her don't, what cancel culture actually does to a person and how she came out the other side, the bigger conversation about pricing and scarcity in the SLP field, why knowing how you're wired changes everything about how you build a business and a life, and what it really takes to choose your hard. KEY TOPICS * Why Theresa doesn't identify with her accomplishments and what she's actually most proud of * Surviving cancel culture and the long process of realizing it was never about her * What building a business through divorce, IVF, and raising a child with special needs actually looks like behind the scenes * The story of putting the medical SLP certification through NCCA accreditation when people told her to quit * Why the field undervalues itself and the bigger conversation about pricing, scarcity, and public health dollars * Knowing how you're wired through human design, ADHD, and Kolbe, and building a life and team around it * Why she has no tolerance for victimhood and what radical responsibility actually looks like * The role of mentorship and masterminds in the next iteration of who you become * Why the loudest voices on the internet are the most insecure, and who's actually watching * Choosing your hard RESOURCES AND LINKS * Follow Theresa on Instagram: @theresarichardslp [instagram.com/theresarichardslp] * Theresa's podcast: Swallow Your Pride [https://swallowyourpridepodcast.com/] * Podcast website [youarethemagicpodcast.com] * Follow Sarah on Instagram: @bcsarahsaidso [instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso] You're invited! The You Are the Magic Retreat is where you finally see the full spectrum of magic that makes you who you are, learn to own it, and leave with a plan to share it with the world! See you in Florida! Social-moguls.com/retreat

The Magic of Ditching the Good Girl Act

The Magic of Ditching the Good Girl Act Emilie Karun did everything right. She married her high school sweetheart, had four beautiful babies, built the white picket fence life she'd always dreamed of. And then she woke up at 30 and realized something she hadn't been allowed to even wonder: was this all she actually wanted? That question kicked off an existential crisis. Am I a terrible woman if I want more? Am I a terrible mother? Years later, that question became the foundation of her brand, The Good Girl Revolution, where she helps women abandon everything they were taught in order to find what was actually theirs all along. This conversation is for any woman who has felt that quiet pull toward something bigger and immediately apologized for it. We get into feminine vs. masculine energy, why burnout is often the doorway, the question every woman should ask herself, and the kind of woman who becomes truly unstoppable (and exactly why the world doesn't want you to know how good she feels). KEY TOPICS * Waking up to the realization that the life you built isn't the one you actually want * The Good Girl Revolution and why being "good" was costing you yourself * Feminine vs. masculine energy in business and life (and what feminine energy actually is, beyond the woo) * The descent: why we meet our real selves in the collapse, not on the mountaintop * How to start listening to your own desires after a lifetime of dismissing them * The one question Emilie used to ask every potential client (and why 99.9% of women couldn't answer it) * Building from wholeness vs. building from lack * Why a woman who doesn't need permission is the most powerful thing in the room * Becoming the Fuck Yes Woman and what it actually takes to own your desires TIMESTAMPS * 00:00 – Welcome and introducing Emilie Karun * 02:20 – From white picket fence dreams to waking up at 30 * 05:42 – Starting the coaching business and the birth of the Good Girl Revolution * 09:13 – You are the magic: accessing your feminine superpowers * 11:05 – A generation of women rising into a new way * 12:02 – Breaking down feminine vs. masculine energy (without the bullshit) * 15:26 – The burnout that changed everything * 17:35 – The feminine meets herself in the descent * 25:00 – The divine breadcrumb and how the path actually reveals itself * 27:30 – Creating from wholeness vs. lack: the question every woman should ask * 31:00 – Sarah's 30-second sunshine ritual and pressing pause on growth * 46:35 – Small unsexy steps and the truth about transformation * 50:45 – Recognizing you are already her RESOURCES AND LINKS * Emilie's website: EmilieKarun.com [http://EmilieKarun.com] * Follow Emilie on IG: instagram.com/the.good.girl.revolution/ [http://instagram.com/the.good.girl.revolution/] * Pod Website: YouAretheMagicPodcast.com [http://YouAretheMagicPodcast.com] * Follow Sarah on IG: instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso [http://instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso] You Are the Magic Retreat: You're invited! The retreat experience where you finally embody the magic within you. social-moguls.com/retreat