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Big Brave Business: Revolutionary Leadership and Anti-Capitalist Entrepreneurship with Sarah Heeter
Hosted by Sarah Heeter · EN
Big Brave Business is a podcast where we challenge the status quo of traditional business practices. If you're ready to challenge norms, rewrite the rules, and redefine what it means to lead with courage and integrity, then grab a notebook and let’s dive in.
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Business is So Lonely It's Threatening Our Humanity
5d ago00:47:54Tap to summarizeIndividualism is a tool of white supremacist, patriarchal capitalism, and it's caused an isolation mental health crisis for founders. My guest today, Maggie Arai, joins me to talk about why community is protection for humanity at every scale. Meet the Speakers Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation. Launch Your Own Podcast: Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast. https://launchmyshow.com/ Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business: https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/ https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness Maggie Arai is a serial entrepreneur obsessed with helping humans connect in an increasingly disconnected world. She helps companies host non-boring corporate events, and runs Founders Who Give A F*ck, a global community for women solopreneurs running service-based businesses. https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggie-arai/ fwgaf.com
Transcribe →Your Business Isn't Actually Important, It's a Modality
2w ago00:44:27Tap to summarizeWho are you without your business? This week, my guest is Emelie Sanders, who you might know better online as Pass the Queso... which is exactly the type of identity trap we are talking about in the episode today. We touch on redefining success and failure, entrepreneurship as survival within and escape from broken systems, business literacy and the coaching industry problem, and so much more. Meet the Speakers Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation. Launch Your Own Podcast: Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast. https://launchmyshow.com/ Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business: https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/ https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness Emelie Sanders is the strategist behind Pass the Queso. She's built businesses across 11+ different industries, both online & IRL. She's hellbent on raising the standard of business literacy in the online space, and writes emo business pieces in her publication, Cheese Daddy. passthequeso.com instagram.com/pass.the.queso
Transcribe →Are You Failing or Are You Grieving? We Need to Talk About Grief in Business
3w ago00:50:05Tap to summarizeOne thing I just don't think we talk about enough is the grief that is part of the entrepreneurship roller coaster. In this episode, my friend Diane joins me to talk about the massive pivot she's going through in her career which has opened up the opportunity to talk publicly about grief in transition. No matter what, we all face change and transition in our lives and businesses, and that means a level of grief that we need to talk about and make space for. Meet the Speakers Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation. Launch Your Own Podcast: Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast. https://launchmyshow.com/ Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business: https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/ https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness Dr. Diane Ortega spent the last 20 years as a Doctor of Nursing Practice and Certified Nurse-Midwife- in the room for the most transformative moments of women's lives. What she learned inside those birth rooms, she now brings to a different kind of transformation: the identity shifts, the burnout, the seasons where everything a woman built no longer fits who she's becoming. She doesn't help women survive their unraveling. She teaches them to use it, because she knows the falling apart was never the problem. It was always the beginning. She is the host of The Midwife Life Podcast and the creator of The Rebirth Journey™- a transformational experience for women who are done surviving their lives and ready to start living them. www.themidwifelife.co instagram.com/diane.ortega
Transcribe →Business is Personal: Is Your Business Life-Proof?
4w ago00:51:01Tap to summarizeIn this episode, my friend AnnMarie Rose returns to talk openly about her two-year income dip and what it taught her about untangling her self-worth, and even her business's worth, from the numbers on the page. We dig into the shadow side of being a high-performing overachiever, the glasses we wear that fog our definition of success, and how a life-proof business is structured so it can get what it needs from you while still leaving enough of you for the people and things that matter most. We close on something tactical, learning to treat your body as data and giving yourself the same grace you so freely extend to everyone else, because for most of us, almost nothing in business is the emergency our nervous systems make it out to be. Meet the Speakers Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation. Launch Your Own Podcast: Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast. https://launchmyshow.com/ Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business: https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/ https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness AnnMarie Rose is an Online Business Scaling Strategist with nearly a decade of experience helping coaches, consultants and service providers leverage their zone of genius to scale with clarity, confidence and flexible, personalized strategy. She has helped hundreds of service-based leaders navigate scaling mode with ease by refining their offer suite to support their vision and personal strengths and streamlining their marketing and sales systems so they can impact and earn millions online without overwhelm or burnout -- even as their life and desires evolve. annmarierose.com Https://www.instagram.com/askannmarierose/
Transcribe →Fear of Change in Online Business and the Age of AI
Jun 3000:40:18Tap to summarizeIn this episode, my friend Jaryn Dominique joins me to cut through the rage and fear dominating so much of the AI conversation, and to talk honestly about what it actually means to run an ethical business in the AI age. We get into why AI is a tool rather than a job-killer, why the human element still matters more than ever, and how the environmental conversation around data centers is more nuanced than the headlines suggest. We close with practical encouragement to fact-check before you share, look for the use cases nobody's marketing, and stay brave enough to adapt rather than letting the fear paralyze you. Meet the Speakers Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation. Launch Your Own Podcast: Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast. https://launchmyshow.com/ Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business: https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/ https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness Jaryn Dominique is the Chief “Deviant” Officer (CDO) of Deviant Digital Services. With a rich background spanning over a decade in the digital marketing landscape, Jaryn has meticulously crafted her reputation and honed her expertise within some of the nation’s largest digital agencies. From international brands to small enterprises, her journey has been an odyssey of mastering search engine optimization/AI optimization, Local SEO, content strategies, paid campaigns, and social reputation management. In addition to her business Deviant Digital Services, Jaryn also contributes to the advancement of digital marketing as a member of the Google Research Advisory Board, working to improve the Google platform. Jaryn's expertise is further recognized by her Google Certification and status as a Google Partner, underscoring her commitment to staying at the forefront of industry innovations. https://www.deviantdigitalservices.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5AneLI30AkPAPO7P0nfzqQ
Transcribe →You Don't Have to Suffer to Be Good (or Successful)
Jun 2300:44:47Tap to summarizeIn this episode, my guest Alison and I challenge the idea that success has to be tied to a revenue number, exploring what it really looks like to redefine success around how you feel and who you're being rather than what you're earning. We dig into measuring success through markers like time freedom, happiness, safety, learning, rest, and good company, and talk through how learning to trust your gut matters more than chasing the milestones everyone tells you to want. Alison shares the distinction between pain, which is inevitable, and suffering, which is optional, and together we explore how contentment and presence can become a more sustainable foundation for both your life and your business. Meet the Speakers Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation. Launch Your Own Podcast: Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast. https://launchmyshow.com/ Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business: https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/ https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness Alison Réaume is a Whole Human Fractional COO, systems strategist, and yoga teacher trainer helping entrepreneurs, creatives, and leaders build businesses that honour their nervous system, values, and real capacity. Blending 20+ years in operations with 15+ years in yoga and nervous system work, she designs sustainable systems, rhythms, and strategies that replace burnout with clarity, structure, and a more human way of working. https://alisonreaume.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thesystemsseat/
Transcribe →Redefining Success as an Anti-Capitalist Entrepreneur
Jun 1600:41:46Tap to summarizeHow can we describe success beyond just revenue? I'm not talking about being small or cozy necessarily, but what other ways can we measure whether or not we are "success stories" through an anticapitalist lens? Meet the Speakers Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation. Launch Your Own Podcast: Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast. https://launchmyshow.com/ Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business: https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/ https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness Elaine Timms is a Pinterest strategist and expert, and founder of Elaine Timms Creative, a boutique Pinterest marketing and management agency that helps businesses and content driven brands build Pinterest- powered systems to keep their best work in circulation. https://elainetimms.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/elaine-timms
Transcribe →Is Your Messaging Reductive? An Alternative to Pain-Based Marketing
Jun 900:47:05Tap to summarizeHave you heard of Storybrand? How does it make you feel? Have you heard why it's problematic? My guest today, Peta, created a feminist alternative. Today we are dissecting why Storybrand does and does not work for us in our businesses and how we can do things differently. Meet the Speakers: Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation. Launch Your Own Podcast: Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast. https://launchmyshow.com/ Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business: https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/ https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness Peta O'Brien-Day is a Brand Messaging Strategist and the creator of the Regenerative Story Framework, a five-phase messaging approach grounded in the Heroine's Journey. Before running her own business, she spent over 15 years as a youth worker, where she honed her listening and empathy skills. She also hosts The Soap Box, a podcast for business owners with a social conscience who want to talk politics AND sell their stuff. https://wordsbypeta.com https://instagram.com/allwordsbypeta
Transcribe →How to Unchain Yourself from Social Media
Jun 200:38:12Tap to summarizeMy friend Chereen is back on the podcast because a couple months ago, she decided to do something radical in her business: she got completely off social media and deleted the apps from her phone entirely. Is it possible to run a business without social media? Of course - businesses have done it for generations. That said, it's a hard habit to break. If you are wanting permission to be visible, but in other ways BESIDES social media, this episode is your permission slip. Meet the Speakers Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation. Launch Your Own Podcast: Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast. https://launchmyshow.com/ Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business: https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/ https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness Chereen Leong Schwarz is a multi-passionate, winter-loving Sagittarius, founder and maker of a handmade knitwear brand, retreat host, and trauma-informed creative business coach who built her own values-led business on her own terms and has never looked back. She helps radically hopeful creative business owners break free from the systems that were never built for them to grow aligned, impactful businesses through rewilding: blending the deep work of reconnecting with who you actually are with tangible systems and real strategy so you can build a vibrant ecosystem that fits your life and your version of success. https://www.smeenymadewild.com https://www.youtube.com/@smeenymadewild
Transcribe →Business Advice We Hate: Entrepreneurship Culture is Lying to You
May 2600:50:57Tap to summarizeToday we decided to make a little trouble. Dr. Catrina Mitchum and I are playing contrarians today and talking about all the business advice out there that really grinds our gears, what we will never automate or use AI for, and more. Meet the Speakers Sarah K. Heeter is the dynamic CEO of Podfox Media, the force behind 5,000+ episodes reaching millions across 120+ countries. Host of the award-nominated Big Brave Business podcast, Sarah electrifies audiences speaking on podcasting strategy, ethical leadership, and inclusive entrepreneurship. She serves as the NAWBO Phoenix Director of Public Policy and teaches public policy at Arizona State University while championing integrity-driven business transformation. Launch Your Own Podcast: Podfox offers a 100% free, private strategy session for anyone thinking of starting a podcast. https://launchmyshow.com/ Connect with Sarah Heeter & Big Brave Business: https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/ https://www.threads.net/@sarahkheeter https://www.instagram.com/bigbravebusiness https://www.youtube.com/@bigbravebusiness Dr. Catrina Mitchum is a recovering academic and learning designer who helps businesses create courses like they give a shit about client outcomes. She uses learning science and instructional design theory to make it easy to create something you love and they get transformation from. https://www.cmlearningdesign.com https://www.threads.com/@cmlearningdesign
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