Never Launch on a Friday

You've done everything right. You've hired the coaches, followed the frameworks, built the strategies - and something still isn't moving.Never Launch on a Friday is a podcast for female agency owners at the edge of a ceiling they can't explain. Hosted by Natasha Golinsky, founder, mentor, and someone who has done the inner work herself - each episode goes where strategy can't: into the belief systems, identity patterns, and unresolved blocks that keep smart women stuck.Honest. Warm. No hype. New episodes every week.neverlaunchonafriday.pro

Never Launch on a Friday is a health podcast hosted by Natasha Golinsky, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Natasha Golinsky hosts Never Launch on a Friday, a health show with 39 episodes published.

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  Episode #22

  Safety Before Strategy: Why Your Nervous System Is Determining Your Business Decisions — with Rita Ainsworth

  Sep 17, 202647 minS2

  Rita Ainsworth spent over a decade in performance marketing, burned out twice, and walked away at the peak of her career. What she found on the other side changed everything she believed about high performance. In this Never Launch Live conversation, Rita and Natasha talk about what safety in the body actually means for founders and why the ceiling most women keep hitting isn't a skills gap but a safety gap. They go deep on parts work (IFS), why the biggest reactions come from the youngest parts of us, what it means to lead from heart-gut-brain alignment instead of fear, and why doing less is often the highest-leverage move a high performer can make.

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  Episode #21

  The Team Breakthrough: Why Hiring Changed Everything

  Sep 9, 202611 minS2

  Natasha built a remote team of fourteen contractors over eleven years with a 99% retention rate. It didn't happen by accident — it happened because she learned, the hard way, what it actually takes to find someone who will show up when things get hard. In this episode, she shares the hire that went catastrophically wrong, why it happened, and the ten-step process she built afterward to make sure it never happened again. She also talks about what most founders never say out loud: the emotional cost of a bad hire, why it makes you afraid to trust the next person, and how that fear quietly guarantees a business you can never step back from. If you've been burned before and you're not sure you want to try again, this one is for you.

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  Episode #20

  Tapping Into Calm: EFT for the Wired Female Founder — with Allison Goodall

  Sep 2, 202636 minS2

  Allison Goodall spent years trying to build a business from a nervous system that was completely fried — chronic fatigue, fight-or-flight as a baseline, and a pile of courses that weren't working because the real problem was never the strategy. It was the body. In this Never Launch Live conversation, Allison and Natasha talk about EFT tapping, what it actually is and why it works faster than most modalities, what highly sensitive people need to know about building a business that doesn't destroy them, and why HSPs are the ones most likely to take every business setback personally — and what to do about it. They also do a live mini tapping session on the fear of showing up on video, which is worth the listen alone.

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  Episode #19

  The Space Problem: Why You Can't Heal When You're Working 60 Hours a Week

  Aug 26, 202614 minS2

  Natasha spent five figures on coaching she was too busy to absorb - sitting in sessions while replying to emails, paying for support she had no room to integrate. During COVID, she drove herself so far into the ground that she eventually became depressed, and it took a full year of deliberate rebuilding to learn how to live and work differently. In this episode, she talks about the real reason inner work doesn't stick for founders — not because the support is wrong, but because there is nowhere for it to land. She breaks down what the space problem actually is, why busyness is one of the most effective emotional-avoidance strategies available to a founder, and 10 concrete ways to start creating the conditions that real change requires.

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  Episode #19

  Heart-Led Leadership: How Rest & Regulation Offer the Missing 'Peace' — with Ayla Nova

  Aug 19, 202645 minS2

  Ayla Nova was 27 years old when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. Her transplant was unsuccessful. Doctors told her she was living out her remaining days. What she did next - not more treatment, not more doing, but deep, intentional rest through a practice called Yoga Nidra— led to what her medical team could only describe as a miraculous remission. In this Never Launch Live conversation, Ayla and Natasha talk about what rest actually means for high-achieving women, why anger is often just really sad love, the five states of unrest that keep founders stuck without knowing why, and why the most radical thing a female entrepreneur can do right now might be to lie down and press play.

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