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Expand Your Empire
Hosted by Amanda Taylor · EN
Welcome to the Expand Your Empire Podcast, the go-to show for high-achieving women entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors who are ready to build real wealth and lasting freedom. Hosted by Amanda Taylor, Business and Wealth Strategist, Investor, and Founder of The Inner Circle, this podcast blends financial strategy, feminine leadership, and wealth creation to help you grow your income, elevate your investments, and scale your business with confidence.
Tune in to Expand Your Empire at https://expandyourempire.org.
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You've Built Income. You Haven't Built A Position.
1w ago00:21:23Tap to summarizeI 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 privately.And if you are a grown, accomplished, financially capable woman and your response to someone naming your private thought is relief, that is not about me. That is about the fact that nobody else said it first.So here it is.Most of us have a deeply complicated relationship with wanting money. Not earning it, wanting it. We were taught to earn. But wanting to accumulate wealth, wanting to build something that compounds and grows and creates options that don’t depend on your next client, that feels like wanting too much.And what happens when you want something you also feel guilty about? You make timid decisions. You undercharge. You put everything back into the business. You avoid looking at your numbers.That ambivalence doesn’t stay in your head. It shows up directly in your cash flow.In this episode:Why earning and wanting are not the same thing, and why that distinction mattersHow emotional ambivalence about money leaks directly into your financial structureThe earn, control, own, multiply framework, and why control is where the cycle either breaks or gets worse.Why you cannot scale what you cannot predictFour questions to find your real financial exposure right nowAccess The American Dream Group: https://theamericandreamgroup.org/
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You Have The Income. So Why Are You Still Managing Anxiety Instead Of Money?
2w ago00:15:01Tap to summarizeI 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 privately.And if you are a grown, accomplished, financially capable woman and your response to someone naming your private thought is relief, that is not about me. That is about the fact that nobody else said it first.So here it is.Most of us have a deeply complicated relationship with wanting money. Not earning it, wanting it. We were taught to earn. But wanting to accumulate wealth, wanting to build something that compounds and grows and creates options that don’t depend on your next client, that feels like wanting too much.And what happens when you want something you also feel guilty about? You make timid decisions. You undercharge. You put everything back into the business. You avoid looking at your numbers.That ambivalence doesn’t stay in your head. It shows up directly in your cash flow.In this episode:Why earning and wanting are not the same thing, and why that distinction mattersHow emotional ambivalence about money leaks directly into your financial structureThe earn, control, own, multiply framework, and why control is where the cycle either breaks or gets worse.Why you cannot scale what you cannot predictFour questions to find your real financial exposure right now
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You're Making Good Money. So Where Is It?
3w ago00:28:32Tap to summarizeFor 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 tracking, that I knew what I was building.I did not know what I was building. Because revenue and income are not the same number. And in practice, I was treating gross revenue like it was money I had. It isn't. It visits, briefly, on its way somewhere else.This is the first episode of From Paychecks to Portfolios, a three-part series about the thing nobody in the business space actually teaches: what you do with the money after it comes in. Not the marketing. Not the launch. The part that determines whether any of it actually builds something.We start here: the gap between what comes in and what stays, why that gap exists, and why closing it has nothing to do with discipline.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://expandyourempire.org
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Invest in This First. Or Lose Everything Else. with Dr. Traci Potterf
4w ago01:01:14Tap to summarizeYou can look fine on paper and be falling apart underneath. That's not a mindset problem. That's biology, and most high-performing women have no idea it's happening until the branch falls off the tree.Dr. Traci Potterf has spent 20 years working with high performers who are exhausted, wired, and running on fumes, and calling it hustle. She's been there herself. Living in a toxic environment, ignoring her own warning signs, too focused on her clients to listen to her own body. It cost her two years and multiple six figures.This conversation is about the asset most business owners forget to protect, the one everything else runs through.We get into why chronic stress isn't just uncomfortable, it's structurally impairing your decision-making, your creativity, and your ability to think like an owner. Why caffeine isn't giving you energy, it's borrowing it. And what it actually looks like to build the physical foundation your business demands from you.You started this business for freedom. You can't spend that freedom if your body quits first.In this episode:Why high performers are the last to see their own health declining, and the first to pay for itWhat's actually happening in your body when you call it "just stress"Caffeine, stimulants, and the debt you're quietly running up on your future selfTime-bending, why slowing down gives you more productive hours, not fewerHealthy Hedonism, pleasures that work with your biology instead of against itWhy mindset work alone can't fix a broken gut, and lab testing most doctors never runDr. Traci Potterf's personal collapse, two years, multiple six figures, and what she learnedThe free tool she recommends for overwhelm, anxiety, and sleepConnect with Dr. Traci Potterf:YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/InnerGeniusHealthLink-In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traci-potterf-phd/Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/innergeniushealth/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtracipotterfphdWebsite: https://innergeniushealth.com/
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What Every Self-Employed Woman Needs to Hear About Retirement
Apr 2200:15:16Tap to summarizeThe number most Americans say they need to retire comfortably is $1.46 million. The median retirement savings for women aged 45 to 54 is $115,000. That's a $1.3 million gap, and it hits self-employed women hardest, because the entire retirement system was built assuming someone else is handling it on your behalf.Nobody is. So let's talk about how you build it yourself.In this solo episode, Amanda breaks down the retirement conversation nobody had with the self-employed woman, the real numbers behind Social Security, what that balance in your retirement account actually means after inflation, taxes, and fees, and what's inside the full toolbox that most of us were never handed.This is not a panic episode. It's an information episode. And information, it turns out, is the thing most of us were never given.In this episode:Why the number in your retirement account is not your retirement number. What Social Security actually covers and what the trust fund trajectory means for your planning right now. Why the conventional retirement playbook was never designed for the self-employed woman. What a SEP IRA and a Solo 401(k) actually are and why they're dramatically underused. The full list of vehicles available to build wealth, and why the women who retire with real options build layers, not buckets.Join the Investing 101 waitlist: https://link.metropolisbusinessdevelopment.com/widget/form/OUu3eDS4KhiVwPhwVSpmConnect with Amanda:https://elevateprofit.biz/home-641285
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You’re Not Burned Out. You’re Absent.
Apr 1500:12:56Tap to summarizeI had a whole other episode ready for you this week. Recorded. Done. Ready to go.Then something happened I couldn’t let slide without addressing first, so I scrapped it and recorded this at the last minute instead, which is honestly very on-brand for how this whole thing started.This one is more raw than usual. That’s exactly why it needs to come out this way.For a long time, I was three steps ahead of my own life, not in a visionary way, but in an “I’ve already moved on before I’ve even arrived” kind of way. I closed deals and was already on to the next one. I hit milestones and was already cataloging what was broken. I watched people stop and celebrate, thought, "yeah, that’s nice,” and kept moving.I wasn’t inside any of it. Not really.I thought that was just how I was built, the price of ambition.It wasn’t ambition. It was an absence.And here’s what that actually costs: when you build a business from that place, you price from that place. You set your standards from that place. You make every decision about what you’re worth and what you’ll accept from inside that disconnection. You can’t read the label from inside the jar.Then you hit the number and wonder why it feels like nothing.In this episode:Why being three steps ahead is not a personality trait; it’s a pattern.The blind spot both the personal development world and the business world have, and why doing one without the other keeps you stuck in different ways.What it actually means to build, price, and lead from absence.What being rich looks like across every dimension: emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and financial. Not just the number. The whole thing.What’s coming next for women who are ready for both sides in the same room at the same time?Twelve minutes, no guest, just Amanda and the thing she couldn’t let another week go by without saying.Stop running on empty and start building real wealth, emotional, mental, physical, and financial. Join us for The Rich-Gasmic Experience and discover what it means to feel success, not just achieve it.Save Your Spot Now!
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The Belief Running Your Business: Identity, Money Stories, and the Inner Work of Ownership
Apr 800:47:12Tap to summarizeYou can fix your systems. You can hire the right people. You can build the processes. But none of it works if the belief underneath has not changed.In this episode, I sit down with coach and clinical hypnotherapist Michele Molitor, who has spent more than two decades helping high-achieving women navigate the moment when success no longer feels like enough. Not because anything is wrong. Not because they have failed. But because they have changed, and the operating system they are running on has not caught up.We go where most business conversations do not. We talk about what is underneath the way you price your services, why you are still involved in everything, and why the business you built for freedom has started to feel like a trap. Not as a feelings conversation. As a structural one.Here is what stopped me mid-conversation: I share my own ancestral money story, farmers, the Irish potato famine, a survival mentality passed down through generations, and I realize in real time that it is still the operating system I run my business by today.In this episode, we cover:Why "work equals worth" is the belief keeping many high-achieving women stuck, and how it shows up in your pricing, your team structure, and your inability to step back.The difference between a midlife crisis and a spiritual awakening, and why so many women hit that inflection point and cannot quite name what is wrong.How your ancestral money story is running your business, whether you know it or not, and what it takes to change it.A live thought-reframe exercise, Michelle walks Amanda through on air, and one simple tool you can use this week to start interrupting the loop.What hypnotherapy actually is (and is not), and why it works faster than most approaches for getting at the beliefs that are running the show.Connect with Michele: Book: I Am Perfectly FlawsomeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rapidrewire/Website: https://michelemolitor.com/FREE DOWNLOAD: How To Change Your Mind WorksheetConnect with Amanda: https://elevateprofit.biz/home-641285Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://expandyourempire.org
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Tax Liens 101: How One $1,000 Investment Became $30,000 in Equity
Apr 100:40:58Tap to summarizeYou know how to earn. Nobody taught you how to own.Most successful business owners have built themselves a very expensive job. Revenue is coming in. The calendar is full. And at the end of the year, there is very little to show for it outside of the business itself.In this episode, I sit down with tax strategist Cynthia, who found me the old-fashioned way: she left a real comment on an Alignable post in a sea of AI noise and automated DMs. What followed was one of those conversations where you realize you've been talking for an hour and you haven't even gotten to the good stuff yet.We talk tax liens: what they are, how they work, and why a pharmacist, a server, and a single mom with $1,000 to her name all used this strategy to build real equity. One of them drove to an auction in Arizona with her son in the car. She came home with three liens. Two of them didn't redeem. Those two were worth $15,000 each.That's not luck. That's a strategy most people have never heard of because nobody is teaching it.In this episode, we cover:The difference between a CPA and a tax strategist, and why that distinction is costing you money right now. The mechanics of tax liens: what you're actually buying, what the redemption period means, and how 16% interest works while you wait. Why the tax code is a reward system, not a punishment, and how to start reading it that way. The exit strategy framework Cynthia teaches every student before they spend a single dollar. Why "knowing your market" means reading county economic development plans, not just pulling comps.Connect with Cynthia:Facebook Group: investlikeaGoddess.comLinked-In: Linkedin.com/in/taxstrategywithcynthiaWebsite: https://taxcodegenie.com/Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Connect with Amanda:https://elevateprofit.biz/home-641285Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://expandyourempire.org
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You Were Taught to Earn. Nobody Taught You to Own.
Mar 2500:22:09Tap to summarizeYou have built a business that pays you. Maybe really well. But if everything you have is tied to everything you do, you have not built wealth yet. You have built a very good job. In this episode, Amanda Taylor gets honest about the gap nobody talks about: the difference between income and wealth, why high-earning women often have no net worth to show for it, and what it actually looks like to start owning something that works without you. This is not about having more money to invest. It is about making a decision with the money you already have. The asset landscape is bigger than anyone showed you. This episode is your entry point.
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Your Nervous System Is Regulated. Your Revenue Isn't.
Mar 1800:20:20Tap to summarizeYou have done the work.The breathwork. The somatic sessions. The money story healing that went all the way back. You have regulated your nervous system and shown up better than ever. And on Monday morning you are still refreshing your bank account before your coffee is ready.Here is what nobody in the healing space is willing to say: the inner work is necessary and it is not sufficient. Healing your relationship with money is not the same as knowing how to manage it. And we have built an entire industry around the feeling of being stuck without teaching the mechanics of getting unstuck.This episode is the now what.Amanda Taylor breaks down why reactive cash flow is a leadership problem, not a money problem. She names the three structural places it is actually born, none of which are your mindset, and walks you through a four-question diagnostic you can run on your business today.In this episode:Why you can do all the inner work and still be in the feast-famine cycleThe three structural causes of reactive income and where they actually come fromWhy underpricing is a self-worth issue that survives the healing workHow your sales rhythm mirrors your emotional state and what to do about itThe four-question cash flow audit that reveals exactly where your foundation is crackingWhat moving from Earn to Control actually looks like in a real businessIf you are brilliant, busy, deeply self-aware, and somehow still broke on paper, this episode was built for you. Send it to the woman in your life who has done all the work and is still waiting for the results.Ready to stop diagnosing and start building? Book a profit discovery call: https://calendar.expandyourempire.org/chatAbout Amanda TaylorAmanda Taylor is a business strategist, keynote speaker, and Co-Founder of Metropolis Business Development. She works with small business owners who look successful on paper and feel financially stuck in private, helping them build the systems, pricing, and revenue structure to convert a good business into lasting wealth. She is the host of Expand Your Empire, the business podcast for people who don't like business podcasts.
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