Expanding our energetic capacity: What every woman scaling her business needs to hear

If you’ve been scaling your business from pure strategy and wondering why it still feels heavy or draining, this episode is your permission slip to do things differently.

I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes truth about my $67K launch and how it left me completely depleted. Not because the strategy was wrong, but because I ignored what my body was trying to tell me. I had the results, but none of the ease or alignment I craved.

In this first episode, I am pulling back the curtain on what it truly takes to grow a business that feels nourishing and deeply supportive of your nervous system.

Inside, you’ll learn:

• Why strategy alone will never get you to your next level.
• The three energetic anchors I return to when scaling group programs.
• How to tune into the sensation of your intuition and build your business from that place.
• Why your body is your greatest business coach and your energetic capacity is the key.

This is for the woman who is already successful and now desires to lead from softness and inner safety instead of stress and urgency.

Press play. Then email me and tell me this:

What is one thing your intuition has been whispering to you lately that you have been too busy or too scared to fully hear?

Transcript

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Welcome to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. My name is Michelle Smit, and I'm an ex-teacher turned online business coach for Edupreneurs the owner of Digiteach and a six-figure entrepreneur. I am in love with empowering educators just like you to create freedom filled online businesses and lives they love. If you are looking to uplevel your skills, your finances, your mindset, and change the trajectory of your life as an educator in business, then you are in the right place. Think of this podcast as your weekly dose of business and mindset development to help unlock the infinite potential within you. To play bigger with your life and go after your dreams. We are going to have so much fun together. So thank you so much for pushing play today. Now let's dive in. Hello. Hello. It is so good to have you here. I am honestly so grateful that you have chosen to tune in and listen to my podcast. So if you are a woman who is led by her soul and who wants to build a business, an online business, that not only makes you a lot of money, but. Fulfills you, that feels good to you, that makes you feel alive. You're expressing your truth and your vision and you're having a big impact on the world, something that is aligned to you, then this really is the podcast for you. You want to create impact, you want to expand. You want to not only in your income, but also in your energy, in your leadership, in your freedom. And this is really what I want to cultivate in this space. I have been business coaching for years now, and I have done all of the strategy. I have launched all of the ways I have mastered so many different strategies and done so many things in business for the last seven years. And what I've realized along the way, that strategy can get you far and you need to be strategic. It's very important to have strategy, be strategic, be intentional. But there is nothing more important than your energy, your capacity, your identity, all of these other things that are these like missing pieces to the puzzle, and when you can lead with your energy your identity and align yourself to become the version of yourself who gets the results, and you've become congruent with the goal that you're trying to create. That is when magic happens, obviously, when you use strategy as well. So it's like you start with energy, you start with your identity, you start with who you are being, and then. On top of that, you add the strategy. So that is really what I do in my own business, what I try help my clients do, because ultimately, if you're a woman in business and you've been in online business for a while, you kind of already know a lot of the strategy. You've built the offers, you've helped people, you've likely launched before, you've likely. Changed many people's lives already with the work that you're doing. So it's not, you're not completely new to this game. You've taken courses, you've invested in mentorship, you've invested in learning strategy, business stuff. You've done the templates and the launch plans, and you've done well, you've gotten results. But if you're being honest. There is a part of you that might be craving something deeper or there's a part of you that feels out of alignment, so you're craving more ease and you're craving sustainable business. So not just pushing and launching and this hype thing, you're actually wanting to build something more sustainably that is really more of a reflection of who you are. That doesn't abandon yourself. That doesn't wreck your nervous system. That doesn't burn yourself to the ground. So you don't want to scale like all the bro marketers and the masculine system, how they are saying you should scale. You want to scale in a way that feels good to you. Of course you want to make more money, but you also want to make more money in a way that feels damn good. I think that is the magic. You want to create a business that you are just like, oh, I am obsessed with this thing, and a life that you feel like that for. Let me show you a story that I feel is quite relevant. A few years ago, it was about 2023. No, 2022 actually, I had a $67,000 course launch. I made $67,000 in literally a week. It was like seven days or so, and it was the kind of money that I would dream about it was a result that I was really pushing for. I was so obsessed with this result and making this money and obviously it was amazing when I made that money. I'm not going to discount it. I thought it was incredible. But it didn't feel exactly how I thought it would. It's not how I envisioned it, let's say. So I had launched using this very intense paid bootcamp strategy where it felt like a never ending launch strategy. And I was following these mentors of mine at the time. I invested a very high amount of money in this and I was diligently applying everything they were telling me. And of course I got an amazing result, but at the end of that launch, I was wrecked. During that launch, I ignored what my body was telling me. I just kept pushing. I remember not really sleeping much at night. I was so anxious. I was waking up with dread. I felt nauseous. I didn't really want to eat. When I did eat, I was eating frozen pizzas. I was working all the time to get this thing done. It was a huge project to pull off. And on paper from like the outside perspective, this event was incredible. I think 350 people were in it, and the results and the reviews and the testimonials from it were incredible. It was definitely one of the most impactful events I've ever done in my life. But when it was over, instead of feeling joy, I felt absolutely done. Like flat. I felt sizzled like a piece of toast. And that was just like the beginning of the feeling of probably what burnout would feel like. And I relaunched the same way six more times. Can you believe it? I did it six more times over a two year period. I think I did three a year and it absolutely wrecked me. And I was just chasing it. I was doing it for the money, but I was abandoning myself in the process and I realized how miserable it was making me, and I just kept going back to the same. Torturous behaviour, right? So that eventually I saw the light and that experience showed me a lot, and it showed me that, of course, money is beautiful, money is amazing, it is powerful. It's this amazing byproduct of the impact that we have on the world. And I'll never stop doing the work to expand my capacity to receive money and my relationship with money. But money itself is not enough. Especially as a woman in business, I'm not talking for the men out here. I'm talking for the ladies out here. Money is not enough and strategy is not enough. If we are building businesses that leave us feeling depleted, dysregulated, exhausted, abandoning ourselves, ignoring our body's cues. Sacrificing ourselves, subscribing to this hustle dynamic, then we are not actually building success. We are building prisons, and we might as well just go back to a job that makes us feel like crap because even though it makes us feel like crap, at least we don't have to hustle our soul away. Obviously building a business yourself, it takes a lot more energy than just going to a nine to five job. So why are we building these prisons and it's so easy to go down the trap of building a prison for ourselves. So I realized that the way I was doing my business I was starting to build up a lot of resentment, a lot of anger. It wasn't feeling freeing. It used to feel freeing. It no longer felt freeing, and I knew in that moment I had to do something to change it because I realized I was my own bottleneck if I wanted to grow to the next level. And create a business that felt good to me and made me good money without abandoning myself. Then I needed to expand my energetic capacity. I needed to stop following hardcore strategies that didn't feel good to me. I needed to learn to hold more, to feel safe in visibility. To stay grounded in success. I had to learn how to receive without repelling and without having all this guilt. And that really became the real work. And that is some of the work that I just truly love helping my clients do inside my spaces. Because of course I'm going to help you with the strategy. And I'm going to give you the recipes for success in terms of the ABCs. But the real work is actually the internal stuff. It's becoming the woman who can hold it all, the money, the freedom, the ease in a body that feels safe and regulated. Now, if I look back at my launches, nothing of that felt safe and regulated. I've done a lot of launches. I've done, I can't even tell you how many launches I've done. Many of them have been amazing and I've felt very regulated. But those particular ones. Where I was making a lot more than I normally did. I was just a wreck of myself. I had to take a holiday after each one because I was so wrecked. Now let's talk about what that actually looks like in terms of feeling regulated and creating safety and expanding our energy. So there are three sort of energetic anchors that I keep returning to. When I'm going through my business and the evolution of my business and the next levels and things like that, and the first anchor is safety. So you cannot hold what you do not feel safe to receive. If your body is operating from survival mode, then you will likely sabotage, subconsciously sabotage yourself along the way. If you are wired. You have beliefs that money is dangerous, or I am a bad person. There's so many stories and things like that. Then when you make money, it's going to feel unsafe to your body. It's going to make you feel anxious. When you charge high ticket prices, although that is the price you want to charge. Your conscious mind is this is the price I want, this is the money I want. Subconsciously, if you have a lot of stuff around that beliefs. Deeply rooted in like your identity around money, then it's going to be very challenging for you to actually charge those prices. You're going to feel very overwhelmed. You're going to sabotage, you're going to self sabotage. There's a lot of things that you'll do without even realizing you're doing it. And you will resist things. You'll procrastinate, you'll avoid, you'll do weird things that you might not even notice. And that's because your body doesn't feel safe with that new level of success. So in order to move your business into the next level of success, of money, of visibility, of impact, of all that good stuff, then you have to create safety in that next level. Unlike a deep subconscious level, it needs to be safe for you to earn that amount and to make that money and to impact those people. And so that is really where you want to be expanding, is creating safety in your nervous system, in your body, in receiving more. That's really important. The next anchor is sovereignty. So this is about self-trust, so it's no longer about outsourcing your power to the next trend, the most popular coach. The next copy and paste strategy, jumping between things and being all over the show. Sovereignty is when you trust yourself, your voice, your vision, and your timing. When you build your business from your own inner guidance and you actually listen to your own body's wisdom and you follow what feels right to you, then you become unshakeable. I can't even say how important this is in this time that we're living in because right now we are being bombarded all the time by people, by products, by things that are telling us to do things in certain ways, and it's confusing the living daylights out of us, and it's because we're losing trust with ourselves. We're losing our discernment. We're getting distracted by all this outside stuff. We're getting caught up in all this outside stuff as opposed to being very, very grounded and rooted within who we are, what we want to do with our lives, what we want to do with our business, and being ruthless about it. And literally ignoring as much as possible and taking back our power. That is powerful. And when you can do that and be so rooted in your vision and in your mission and in your work, and just so having such a high level of self-trust that you trust yourself to make the right decisions for you, and you show up with that energy that is really magnetic, that is powerful, and that is going to feel very, very good to you. Versus jumping on different strategies and following all these things just because they look good on paper or someone told you that you should do it. And then the third anchor is sensation. So this is really important. Now our intuition speaks through sensations and it's different for everyone. I think everyone feels it differently. So for me, when I think about it, it's a whisper. It's a very soft whisper, I think for everyone, your intuition is a soft whisper. And it's a soft pull towards something, and it feels exciting. It feels energizing, it feels uplifting, it feels good in the body. It might scare you. It's very likely to scare you. So there might be a little bit of a jittery fear with it. Very likely, but it's the positive kind of fear. It's that expansive fear that I'm being activated kind of feeling now. That is how it feels for me. You need to pay attention to what is the sensation for you when your body is communicating with you when your intuition is speaking with you. And for me, when I think of something that is a no, that I'm just like a hard no, then it's definitely a contraction in my body. It's like a dread, I feel a dread feeling. And so for me, I have been able to discern how my intuition speaks with me and how I need to quiet myself down as much as possible so I can hear the whispers because it's very soft. Whereas the inner critic and the ego, it's very loud. It takes up a lot of space. So I need to really quiet my mind. And tune into myself and my body, and feel in my body what is yes, what is no, and really feel what it is I want to do in my business and define that as my North Star vision and be really really focused on just what is it that I want to do, not what other people want me to do. Because if you don't do that, you're going to build a business that is someone else's blueprint, not yours. Or you're going to build a business from logic, which obviously there needs to be logic in your business. But mostly you need to, listen to your heart and your vision to help you build a business that is going to sustain you. Otherwise, you're going to build something that you don't like and you're going to burn it down. And believe me, I've done this before. So the most aligned path for you will always reveal itself through how it feels in your body. So you want to trust, you want to identify what that sensation is, trust it, and build from that space. That is going to be super, super powerful. So if you are a woman in business who wants to sell a group, program, or scale with a group program, maybe you're trying to do it now, or maybe that's something that you'd like to do. I want you to reflect on this. Are you building in your business from a regulated space or from a rushed mind? So where are your decisions coming from? Are you regulating yourself before you're making these decisions or are you rushing out of panic, fear hustle. Time is running out. Kind of story. Are you honouring your voice and what feels right to you, or are you following else's, someone else's formula? Even though it doesn't feel right. Are you listening to the sensation of your intuition or you silencing it or ignoring it in the name of logic or something that seems better or productivity. I want you to pay attention to those questions and ask yourself those questions because that's actually where the work begins. You need to do this work because you're not meant to grind your way to greatness. You are meant to magnetize your way to greatness and expand your way to greatness, and that starts with you internally, you, you expanding your own energetic capacity. That's going to allow you to create the magical results that you want to create in a sustainable way that feels good to you. So if this episode spoke to something inside of you, I would love to connect with you, because I don't want this to be a one way transmission. This really is a conversation. It's a connection. It's really a co-creation, especially because I've started Substack. I really want to connect more. I want to create conversations, have deeper relationships. And that's actually why I started this podcast years ago, and it's why I've started Substack now. So I'd love for you to reach out and send me an email and just answer this question, what is one thing your intuition has been whispering to you lately that you have been too busy or too scared to fully hear. Now it's quite a question, but it's something I want to leave you with. So really think about it. What is one thing your intuition has been whispering to you lately? That you've been too busy or too scared to fully hear? And even if you send it to me, you don't need to share with anyone else. You can just email it to me and let me know. And that could be a very powerful, energetic expression of what it is that you want. Maybe that you want to actually do something in your business that you've been too scared to mention out loud, or you want to close down something in your business that you've been too scared to do. So this could be very liberating. Just to share it with someone. So please share it with me. I'd love to hear from you. I will read every message. I also reply to all of you. And yeah, if this space feels good to you, go ahead and follow this podcast so you don't miss upcoming episodes. And I'm just really excited to have you here. So thank you for being here, and I'll chat to you again soon. Thanks so much for listening to today's episode. If you would like to ditch the live launch rollercoaster and start selling your courses evergreen in an automated way, then make sure to grab my Free Daily Sales Guide below. This will show you the behind the scenes Evergreen machines that six to seven figure business owners are using to make sales all the time. Hit the link below and grab it. I appreciate you so much, and I can't wait to connect with you in the next episode. In the meantime. Go create a business and life you love.