Expand Your Empire

You're being asked to win two bets nobody can control the odds on. That's not a discipline problem, and no amount of budgeting harder is going to touch it. Here's the whole menu of what you can actually do, including...

I remember the first time I heard the idea of buying an existing business instead of starting one from scratch. It came from Codie Sanchez, who's built her whole platform around exactly that, buying boring, unsexy...

This is episode 52. One full year of this show, and I'm marking it by getting specific about a sentence I've said probably a thousand times. When women control capital, the world changes. I still believe it. But I've...

You've spent decades getting good at things. Companies profited from that expertise. Hard seasons sharpened it. And most of it, you were never really paid for. At least not what it was worth. Paula Washington calls that...

She Built It For 22 Years. Made Herself Replaceable On Purpose. Then Sold It. Most conversations about selling a company stop at the wire transfer. The money hits, everyone claps, roll credits. Christine Slocumb built a...

This week on Expand Your Empire, Amanda sits down with Audrey Schoen, a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in financial therapy for high achievers, entrepreneurs, executives, and couples. Audrey is...

A founder gets a number. Revenue for the month. A client who didn’t renew. The bank balance before payroll. And instead of treating that number as information, she treats it as a verdict. This episode is about the...

I met Susan at a Coronado Chamber of Commerce event. She mentioned she'd bought an auto shop. When I found out why, I knew I had to have her on. After sponsoring two Ukrainian families and watching how hard it was for...

You Cannot Buy Your Way Out Of A Belief. I want to confess something. I have spent a significant amount of money over the course of building my businesses on coaching programs, courses, masterminds, community...

When is the last time you did nothing and let it be okay? Not rest you scheduled. Not a Sunday blocked off so you could recover enough to work again Monday. Actually stopped, left space open, and didn't fill it. If...

This episode is not for the woman who doesn't know what she's doing wrong. It's for the woman who knows exactly what she's doing wrong, could probably teach a master class on it, and is doing it anyway. She's read the...

Every time I bring up investing, someone says I'm not good at math and checks out. That was never the real reason. The real reason is that nobody explained it in a language that felt like it was built for them. That is...

If you stopped working tomorrow, not retired, just stopped, how long could you maintain your current life before things started to break? If the answer is a few months, that is not a criticism. That is just data. And it...

I was standing on a stage in Hilo, Hawaii, when a handful of women walked up after I got off stage. Not to tell me how great the presentation was. To say thank you, because I had said out loud what they had been holding...

For about three years of running this business, I tracked every dollar. Every launch, every retainer, every invoice. I could tell you within fifty bucks what I'd invoiced in any given month. I believed, based on that...