Episode 170 - I Built A Multi 6-Figure Business While Believing I Was Bad With Money
There is a version of money work that looks powerful on the outside but still feels restrictive underneath. In this episode, we explore the identity pattern many women business owners carry while building successful businesses: the quiet but persistent belief that they are bad with money. Even when revenue is growing, clients are signing, and the business looks successful from the outside, this internal identity can still shape what feels safe to receive, hold and expand into.
This episode unpacks the disconnect between external success and internal money identity, and how that tension can silently limit your income ceiling. We look at the subtle ways money beliefs show up in high-functioning women business owners, from underestimating financial capability to holding shame around past debt, and why these patterns do not disappear just because your business is doing well.
If you have ever felt successful on paper but still emotionally entangled in scarcity, this conversation will help you feel seen. More importantly, it will show you why shifting your identity around money matters just as much as changing your habits. This is about receiving more with safety, self-trust and alignment, not just doing more to prove you are worthy of financial success.
Tune in to hear:
The disconnect between external success and internal money identity.
How being bad with money can show up in subtle, high-functioning ways.
Why shifting identity, not just behaviour, changes your income ceiling.
How to take aligned action even while limiting beliefs are still present.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
Why successful women business owners can still carry limiting beliefs about money.
How scarcity and money identity can quietly affect how much support, wealth and success you allow in.
Why you do not need to clear every money block before taking aligned action.
How action, self-trust and identity work can help you expand your capacity to receive.
Why your past experiences with debt or financial instability do not define your current financial capability.
Themes & Time Stamps:
0:45 – Introduction: Limiting beliefs, scarcity mindset & money in business
1:42 – Feeling stuck? One-to-one business audit offer
5:10 – Brand authority: why branding fixes ghosting, tire kickers & being copied
5:19 – Topic intro: Building a successful business despite money blocks
6:12 – Personal history: growing up poor & being programmed that creativity can't pay
7:43 – Making ~$1,000/hour from creative work
9:28 – Paying off $90K in tax debt, student loans & building net worth
11:46 – Myth: Successful people don't have limiting beliefs
12:03 – [Ad] Rebrand your business to attract higher-caliber clients
13:32 – You don't need to clear all blocks before taking action
14:59 – Taking aligned action despite your blocks
15:16 – Some blocks may never fully disappear — and that's okay
16:37 – How taking action weakens limiting beliefs over time
17:39 – Closing thoughts
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