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Still carrying every single task and every single decision in your business? This one is for every owner who knows they need support but keeps finding a reason to wait. Cathy Baillargeon is a former business consultant and the founder and Chief Cathy Officer of Virtual Cathy, a US-based virtual assistant agency that helps businesses, nonprofits, and healthcare professionals stop doing it all alone. She joins Amanda Kaufman to talk about how virtual assistance can transform your business, from the first sign you are ready to hire to the delegation excuses that keep owners stuck. In this episode, you will learn: ⏰ The first sign you are ready to hire (it shows up way earlier than the desperation does) 🧠 The delegation excuses and limiting beliefs that quietly doom a working relationship before it starts 🤖 Why AI will not replace virtual assistants, and how Cathy's team uses it to deliver more in the same hours 🎥 The free Loom trick that replaces hundreds of hours of SOP writing 📋 Why delegation is a skill set you practice, not a talent you are born with 🌱 How support can start at as little as ten hours a month and scale as you grow CONNECT WITH CATHY BAILLARGEON 🌐 Website: https://virtualcathy.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathy-baillargeon/ 📸 Instagram: @YourVirtualCathy or https://www.instagram.com/YourVirtualCathy/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Lp9tsn6pbKTXIHPonLfeg 🎁 Free Guide: Master Your Time. Not sure what to delegate first? Cathy's practical guide gives you ideas on where to start, whether it is tasks on your plate right now or things you plan to implement later, so you can free up 10 to 15 hours every week. Download it at https://virtualcathy.com/masteryourtime/ STAY IN THE LOOP 💌 Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

Ever sit down to post and think, I have no idea what to say today? This conversation will change where your content comes from, and it's for every business owner who has been holding social media at arm's length. Tamany Hall is the founder of The Simple Touches and has trained 130,000 real estate professionals to build businesses that don't live or die by the algorithm. She teaches agents and service-based entrepreneurs how to show up with strategy, use AI to actually make more money, and get in rooms where real business happens. She joins Amanda Kaufman to talk about authentic content, Instagram creativity, and the content mix that turns strangers into clients. In this episode, you will learn: 📱 Why the best content comes from the business activities you're already doing 🎨 Instagram's micro touch points, including the colored notes trick almost nobody is using 🤳 Why authentic content beats polished professional content, with the viral story that proves it 🤖 How showing up as a real human builds trust in a world of AI-generated content 🪣 The three content buckets (personal, business, entertainment) and the job each one does 🛒 How to make sure your content connects to a real path to buy from you CONNECT WITH TAMANY HALL 🌐 Website: https://www.thesimpletouches.com 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realtorsocialmediamarketing 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamany-hall/ 🎁 Free gift: grab The Self-Audit Map, Tamany's audit of your value ladder and whether your last six pieces of content connect to it, at https://stan.store/Thesimpletouches/p/the-selfaudit-map STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

The money comes in every month, you work incredibly hard, and somehow the account is empty again. If you have ever wondered where it all goes, this one is for you. Debra Angilletta is a former Wall Street trader, fractional CFO, and Master Certified Profit First Professional with more than 30 years of experience helping business owners turn revenue into real profit. She is the author of Hidden Profits: Stop Chasing Cash, Predictable Profit in 90 Days, and she is a genius at finding the hidden money leaks draining a business. She joins Amanda Kaufman to talk about profit, cash flow, and the decisions that actually move a business forward. (This episode is financial education, not personalized financial advice.) In this episode, you will learn: 💸 Why the more you make, the more seems to go out, and the information gap that causes it 📊 What a fractional CFO does that your bookkeeper and CPA do not 🧠 How your "money story" quietly drives emotional spending, and how to change it 🔎 How to judge every expense by its return instead of cutting to zero or overspending ⚡ Why making a decision and running small two-week tests beats freezing in uncertainty 🏆 Why profit is the real payoff of ownership, not an afterthought CONNECT WITH DEBRA ANGILLETTA 🌐 Website: https://findmyhiddenprofits.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debraangilletta/ 📘 Free gift: download the first three chapters of Debra's book, Hidden Profits: Stop Chasing Cash, Predictable Profit in 90 Days, at https://findmyhiddenprofits.com STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

Monthly recurring revenue sounds like the answer to everything, right up until you launch a membership of one. This one is for the premium coach or consultant who feels the pull of memberships and wants the honest version before they build one. Amanda Kaufman is the founder of The Coach's Plaza and Clairvenu, a former corporate consultant turned entrepreneur, and a coach who helps service-based business owners build businesses that actually work. She has launched seven memberships, meaningfully run five, and currently runs one. In this episode she flips the mic to become the guest, sitting down with guest host Rebecca Kaufman to share what actually makes a membership work, the mistakes that tanked her early attempts, and how to grow one without the pitch slaps. In this episode, you will learn: 🎣 Why memberships carry a siren song for premium providers, and the trap hiding under the lower price point 🏷️ What a membership actually is, using the Costco and gym analogy, and how it differs from a course or mastermind 🎯 Why aspirational branding backfired, and how outcome-based positioning finally filled the room 📏 The "straight line" lesson: why serving one avatar across every offer is what makes the money model work 🤝 How to build an audience without the pitch slaps, with a hospitality mindset and real systems 🔋 Why exhaustion is an energy problem, not a business problem, and how to right-size your effort with 80/20 CONNECT WITH AMANDA KAUFMAN 🌐 Website: clairvenu.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandackaufman/ 📸 Instagram: @theamandakaufman or https://www.instagram.com/theamandakaufman 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChatwithAmandaKaufman/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Register for an upcoming training with Amanda at https://clairvenu.com/training Want to be a guest? Amanda is always looking for guests who can help business owners build something that actually works. If that sounds like you, apply at https://clairvenu.com/the-podcast STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

Brilliant in the room, chaotic outside of it? If your business runs on mood instead of a system, this one is for you. Watch Amanda Kaufman coach author and ghostwriter Sean Mabry live, building a low-ticket membership and fixing the system that fills it. This is a Here, Let Me Do That For You episode, the segment where Amanda pulls back the curtain and coaches a real business owner so you can see what working with her is actually like. Sean Mabry is a member of the Clairvenu Inner Circle and an author, copywriter, and ghostwriter who helps founders tell the legacy stories only they can tell, starting with a book. In this session, Amanda builds his membership inside ClairvenuOS in real time and redesigns his client-acquisition system. In this episode, you will learn: 🧩 How to build a client system that works regardless of your mood, instead of running on instinct and habit 🎯 The difference between a lead and a target, and why mixing them up buries you in busywork 🔁 Why sales is a one-on-one conversation and marketing is one-to-many, and how to schedule your week around both 🌪️ How to think of your funnel as a vortex, not a straight line, with a hook at the top and the pitch at the bottom 📄 Why a low-barrier lead magnet that solves one problem beats a clever tool that creates work ⚡ How the best entrepreneurs win on speed of testing, not certainty, by repurposing one idea into a hundred touches CONNECT WITH SEAN MABRY 🌐 Website: https://www.seanmabry.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-mabry-781b39a3/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmabry/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@seanmabry7383 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smabry 🎁 The Book Clarity Engine: in just 30 to 60 minutes, this custom GPT shows you EXACTLY which book you are meant to write, and whether now is the right time. Get it at https://mabrygift.com/clarity Want to get to know Sean better? Check out his first appearance on the show: https://youtu.be/e4C9RxRM7a0 WORK WITH AMANDA Sean is a member of the Clairvenu Inner Circle, Amanda's private membership where coaching and real systems come together to help service-based entrepreneurs acquire clients without the hype. If this session showed you the kind of help you want, here is the natural next step: 🎓 Free LIVE Training: https://clairvenu.com/training 🖥️ Private ClairvenuOS Demo: https://clairvenu.com/demo ✨ Join The Inner Circle: https://clairvenu.com STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

The launch high fades, the world starts pushing back, and suddenly you are wondering if you are cut out for this. This one is for the business owner who is past the honeymoon phase and ready to build the staying power that keeps them in the game for the long haul. Amanda Kaufman is the founder of The Coach's Plaza and Clairvenu, a former corporate consultant turned entrepreneur, and a coach who helps service-based business owners build businesses that actually work. Nine years into entrepreneurship and nineteen into business, she flips the mic to become the guest, sitting down with guest host Rebecca Kaufman to talk about resilience: why reality gets rude, why more success brings more resistance, and the traits that separate the owners who last from the ones who flame out. In this episode, you will learn: 🚣 Why leaving a stable job for entrepreneurship is like stepping off a cruise ship into a rowboat, and how to expect the waves 😳 How to handle the first rude disaster, from trolls to flops, without letting it mean more than it should 😈 Why every new level brings a new devil, and how more success invites more resistance instead of less 💪 The difference between endlessly tolerating pain and enduring it for a real payoff 🌱 Why humility keeps you grounded and steady in a storm, even with a big personality 🤝 How to build an inner circle that tells you the truth, and why yes-men disappear when it matters CONNECT WITH AMANDA KAUFMAN 🌐 Website: clairvenu.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandackaufman/ 📸 Instagram: @theamandakaufman or https://www.instagram.com/theamandakaufman 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChatwithAmandaKaufman/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Register for an upcoming training with Amanda at clairvenu.com/training Want to be a guest? Amanda is always looking for guests who can help business owners build something that actually works. If that sounds like you, apply at https://clairvenu.com/the-podcast STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

"The stock market" sounds complicated, risky, and reserved for finance pros, so the starting keeps getting postponed. This one is for every woman who is great at earning and ready to turn that income into lasting wealth. Myrna Lainé-Hyppolite is the founder and Chief Financial Empowerment Partner at Empower Financial Wellness, a financial wellness coach and wealth strategist with close to 30 years of experience across investment banking, financial planning, corporate finance, and private equity. An Ivy League graduate of Dartmouth College, she helps powerhouse women turn their amazing income into wealth using her Affluence Accelerator Methodology. She joins Amanda Kaufman to dispel the myths, simplify the jargon, and lay out a genuinely simple path to getting started. (Myrna is not a financial advisor, and this episode is education, not personalized financial advice.) In this episode, you will learn: 💸 Why investing matters even more for women, given the earnings gap and a longer life expectancy 🚪 Why the "you need thousands to start" belief is a myth, and how five dollars a day can get you going ⏳ The three things that make a successful investor: time, consistency, and a good rate of return 🍽️ How to know your risk tolerance before you invest, using Myrna's food-preferences analogy 🤖 Why putting your investing on autopilot beats trying to actively manage it 🔑 How practicing ownership lets your money grow without trading more hours for it CONNECT WITH MYRNA LAINÉ-HYPPOLITE 🌐 Website: https://www.empowerfinancialwellness.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/myrna-laine-hyppolite/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/empowerfinancialwellness ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@myrna_laine-hyppolite 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myrna.lainehyppolite 🎁 Free Guide to Stock Market Investing: a simple, step-by-step starting point for your investing journey. Download it at https://wealth-codes.com/invest STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

Hitting six figures was supposed to feel like relief, so why does it feel like a cage? This one is for the business owner who is technically successful and quietly stuck, working harder than ever and wondering where the freedom went. Amanda Kaufman is the founder of The Coach's Plaza and Clairvenu, a former corporate consultant turned entrepreneur, and a coach who helps service-based business owners build businesses that actually work. In this episode she flips the mic and becomes the guest, sitting down with guest host Rebecca Kaufman to break down the six-figure trap: the moment success starts to feel like a cage, why the trap holds on so tightly, and the simple process for springing it open. In this episode, you will learn: 🪤 What the six-figure trap actually is, and why revenue on paper can still leave an owner stretched thin 💊 Why exhaustion makes silver-bullet offers so tempting, and the one-sentence tell that means you should stop before you buy ⚓ How sunk cost keeps owners hanging onto ideas, hires, and strategies that are not working 🔀 The difference between quitting and adjusting, and why stubbornness can build a business and trap it 🚒 Amanda's "stop, drop, and roll" process for getting unstuck when your hair is on fire 🔑 How to solve the trap immediately, without earning another dollar, by owning your mess and your cleanup CONNECT WITH AMANDA KAUFMAN 🌐 Website: clairvenu.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandackaufman/ 📸 Instagram: @theamandakaufman or https://www.instagram.com/theamandakaufman 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChatwithAmandaKaufman/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Register for an upcoming training with Amanda at clairvenu.com/training Want to be a guest? Amanda is always looking for guests who can help business owners build something that actually works. If that sounds like you, apply at https://clairvenu.com/the-podcast STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

Think creativity is a luxury for the artsy few? This one is for every business owner who wants more breakthroughs, less stress, and a lot more joy in the day-to-day work. Megan Evans is the founder and creative director of Lift Parade Arts, where she provides arts experience guidance and creativity coaching rooted in the belief that creativity is a birthright. With more than 20 years of experience as a museum educator, arts experience facilitator, writer, creative director, and designer, Megan helps people go from "I'm not creative" to obsessed with what creativity adds to their lives. She joins Amanda Kaufman to talk about the science of creativity and its impact on success. In this episode, you will learn: 🎨 Why creativity is a birthright, not a trait reserved for a certain set of people 🧠 What consistent creative practice does to the brain and body, from releasing stress hormones to boosting the feel-good ones 💡 Why breakthroughs and aha moments tend to arrive off the clock, and how to invite more of them 🖼️ How experiencing art through museums, slow looking, and community delivers benefits similar to making it ⏱️ The coaching questions Megan uses to help people find creative time, starting with five to ten minutes a day 💪 Why creative practice works like exercise for a business owner's mind, creating space to process in an AI-saturated world ------ 🔗 CONNECT WITH MEGAN EVANS Website: https://liftparade.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/evermeg Newsletter: Megan teaches creativity, shares special events, and gives away freebies by email. Join at https://liftparade.com Free Restoration Meditation: Email hi@liftparade.com or message Megan on LinkedIn with the words "Restoration Meditation" and she will send you The Creative Permission Restoration Meditation, a free audio for reconnecting with your creative side. ------ 💌 STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business... without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part ------ 🎧 LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!

The tables have turned on The Amanda Kaufman Show. If the strategies that used to bring clients in have quietly stopped working, and it is tempting to blame AI, the economy, or the price of eggs, this conversation is for you. In this episode, co-host Rebecca Kaufman flips the mic and interviews Amanda Kaufman herself. Amanda is the founder of Clairvenu, a former corporate consultant, and a coach who helps service-based business owners... coaches, consultants, agency owners, and other people who help people for a living... gain clarity so they can do less and earn more. Rebecca gets her talking about the real reason so many established businesses feel stuck right now, and the data-driven decisions that unlock the next level of growth. In this episode, you will learn: - Why "what used to work is not working" is usually a misdiagnosis, and why the work-harder prescription makes things worse - How the story of the good old days often falls apart when you check the actual data (and why that is good news) - The bare minimum set of metrics Amanda recommends: your time, your input activities, booked calls, and yeses - Why one calendar (not six) is the first step toward a predictable business - How the action, track, review, adjust cycle turns stuck into momentum... including the one bottleneck fix that created this very episode - How to use AI tools like Claude to pop the hood on your business data without buying new software or hiring a data scientist ------ CONNECT WITH AMANDA KAUFMAN & THE SHOW Website: clairvenu.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandackaufman/ Instagram: @theamandakaufman or https://www.instagram.com/theamandakaufman Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChatwithAmandaKaufman/ Free training: Watch Amanda's free webinar, "How I Finally Got AI To Help Make Me Money: A Comedy," at https://clairvenu.com/training Go deeper: Find out about Clairvenu's Inner Circle at https://clairvenu.com Want to be a guest? Amanda is always looking for guests who can help business owners build something that actually works. If that sounds like you, apply at https://clairvenu.com/the-podcast ------ STAY IN THE LOOP Subscribe to The Quiet Part, Amanda's newsletter where she shares what is actually working in her business, without the performance. Sign up at: https://clairvenu.com/the-quiet-part ------ LISTEN TO THE AMANDA KAUFMAN SHOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theamandakaufmanshow Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amanda-kaufman-show/id1450993176 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6htaUMvVWPHlHmpqW51Enj?si=092409891ff1420f If this episode helped you, a quick review on Apple Podcasts goes a long way. It helps the show reach more business owners who are ready to do the real work. Thank you in advance!