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by Alecia St. Germain
On the path to fulfillment host Alecia St. Germain, entrepreneur and Certified Immunity to Change Coach, found radical self-acceptance and what it truly means to see herself as worthy. Now she’s helping others do the same – visionary business-builders and people seeking wealth that combines a passion for doing good while walking through life as a compassionate leader. This is for entrepreneurs seeking more. If you value personal growth and living on purpose, join us on this journey to redefine success. It’s time to shift from a traditional focus solely on wealth accumulation to one that integrates well-being and fulfillment.Joining Alecia as her frequent co-host and resident wellness advocate is her good friend Jonathan Dugger. As a Doctor of Psychology, he brings his knowledge, experience and passion for all things wellness to the conversation.Together with their guests, they share how self-awareness and compassion leads you to stop judging yourself and others,
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- 2 days ago42 min
When to Hire, and Why Cheap Help Often Costs You Twice EP 121
You're buried in work you know you shouldn't be doing, and hiring the cheapest help you can find feels like the fastest way out, right up until you're paying for the same job twice. Join Podcast Club: Watch episodes like this one recorded live, then join Alecia and the guest in a private conversation afterward to ask your own questions. Join us at consciousedge.com/club. Get Full Show Notes: www.consciousedge.com/ep121 Let’s Connect on Instagram: @aleciastg In this episode of The Conscious Edge Podcast, host Alecia St. Germain sits down with financial strategist Jenn Baas for a Monthly Money Talks with Zen Jenn conversation about hiring. Jenn is the founder of Peak to Peak Solutions and leads the Financial Leadership Lab for Alecia's clients. When a business owner is buried in work, hiring feels like the answer. Alecia shared the pattern she sees most often. Owners hand expert-level work to the cheapest help they can find, then feel let down when it doesn’t work out. Jenn explains how to know when to hire and why most hires feel like a stretch at first. She also clears up the myths about 1099 contractors and W-2 employees that trip up so many business owners. Together, Alecia and Jenn show why cheap help often costs twice as much in the end, and why knowing your numbers is part of the job of every CEO. 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: -How to tell when it's time to hire, and why your profit and loss statement alone won't tell you -What the stair step effect is and why most hires feel like a stretch at first -The real difference between a 1099 contractor and a W-2 employee (hint: it has nothing to do with the job) -Why the IRS won't care that your contractor asked to be paid that way -Why cheap help often costs you twice -Why a savvy contractor may cost you more than a great employee -How to research what a hire will cost before you post the job -Why knowing your numbers is part of your job as CEO
- 1 weeks ago40 min
When to Say Yes or No in Business (and How to Say It) EP 120
Look at your calendar. Every yes you've said this month is on there, and it's eating the time and energy you meant to spend building your business. You're Invited to Join Podcast Club: Here's the thing about podcasts. You listen, have thoughts and questions, then go on with your day. Podcast Club is different. You get to reflect on what you just heard while it's still fresh, ask the questions that came up for you, and actually apply it to your own life instead of filing it away. And there's something about doing that with other like-minded people in the room. You see it from a perspective you wouldn't have come up with alone, and you realize you're not the only one dealing with this. It's free. It's the difference between passive listening and active connection. Join us live at https://consciousedge.com/club. Get Full Show Notes: consciousedge.com/ep120 Come say hi on Instagram: @aleciastg On this episode of The Conscious Edge Podcast, host Alecia St. Germain and co-host Jonathan Dugger break down the four seasons of yes every growing business moves through, survival, traction, positioning, and legacy, and the moment a strategic yes turns into a drain on your energy. They also share three simple scripts for saying no without the guilt, plus a simple test for telling a real yes from a flinch yes. What We Cover: -The four seasons of yes every growing business moves through, and how to tell which one you're in -Why the yes that built your business can drain you completely once you've outgrown it -The real difference between a strategic yes and a flinch yes -A simple test for knowing if you actually want to say yes, or if you're just avoiding the discomfort of saying no -Three scripts you can borrow the next time you need to say no
- 2 weeks ago37 min
The Framework That Will Change How You Look at Every Income Stream You Have EP 119
What if the smartest way to size up any income stream isn't how much it pays you, but how much it costs your brain? You're Invited to Join Podcast Club: Here's the thing about podcasts. You listen, have thoughts and questions, then go on with your day. Podcast Club is different. You get to reflect on what you just heard while it's still fresh, ask the questions that came up for you, and actually apply it to your own life instead of filing it away. And there's something about doing that with other like-minded people in the room. You see it from a perspective you wouldn't have come up with alone, and you realize you're not the only one dealing with this. It's free. It's the difference between passive listening and active connection. Join us live at https://consciousedge.com/club. Get Full Show Notes: consciousedge.com/ep119 Connect on Instagram: @aleciastg Mandy McAllister spent years chasing cases and commission checks in medical device sales before she bought her way out of her W2 with multifamily real estate. Now she's a co-founder of GoBundance Women, co-host of the Power Up Your Life podcast, and the investor behind 373 doors of workforce housing, student housing, and a boutique motel reposition. In this episode, Mandy sits down with Alecia St. Germain to unpack the framework she built after a season of saying yes to everything, a car wash, a motel, a stack of apartment buildings, until she couldn't tell what was actually working. She walks through the four quadrants of Return on Brain SpaceTM, the question that finally stopped a deal from draining her, and the $4 fix that turned a struggling motel into a five star magnet. They also get honest about the big assumption underneath all of it: that she only mattered if she had a trophy to hold up. It's a conversation about scale, enough, and how to tell the difference. What You'll Discover: -Why the smartest metric for any income stream might not be what it pays you, it might be what it costs your brain -The four-quadrant framework Mandy uses to decide what to keep, what to fix, and what to walk away from -The exact question that helped her set a real deadline on a deal that wasn't working -How a $4 change turned a struggling boutique motel into a five-star review machine -The big assumption that had her chasing trophies instead of trusting her own worth -Why scaling isn't the goal for everyone, and how to know what's actually right for you right now
- 3 weeks ago37 min
How to Make a Spending Decision You Won't Regret in Six Months EP 118
When you're staring at a decision like upgrading your software, making a new hire, or learning how to bring AI into your business, how do you know if it’s a smart investment or an expensive story you're telling yourself? Join Podcast Club: Get behind the scenes access to every episode before anyone else hears it. Meet other listeners of the show and connect live with guests, Alecia's cohosts, and Alecia herself. Episodes are recorded in front of a live virtual studio audience, then a private, unrecorded conversation opens up where you can share your thoughts, ask questions, go deeper on the topic, and even shape what gets covered next. Get access at consciousedge.com/club. Get Full Show Notes: www.consciousedge.com/ep118 Let’s Connect on Instagram: @aleciastg In this episode of The Conscious Edge Podcast, host Alecia St. Germain sits down with financial strategist Jenn Baas, founder of Peak to Peak Solutions and coach inside The Conscious Edge's Financial Leadership Lab, for a Monthly Money Talks with Zen Jenn. The two dig into a question that came up in Podcast Club: how do you know when to spend money to grow your business, and when does it make more sense to wait? Alecia and Jenn walk through the real difference between a need to have and a nice to have, how big assumptions quietly drive spending decisions, and why "hope is not a plan" when it comes to your business finances. 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: -How to tell the difference between a business dysfunction you'll outgrow and one that needs to be solved now -What questions to ask before you spend money on anything that isn't a clear need -How a big assumption like "if it's not perfect, no one will do business with me" can drive expensive decisions -The difference between visionary spenders and security seekers, and how to work with your own tendency instead of against it -Why setting a timeline and clear metrics before you invest protects you from riding an investment too long -What it actually means when a business is being subsidized instead of run -How anchoring every spending decision back to a real plan creates more freedom, not less
- Sep 8, 202644 min
How to Tell the Difference Between a Boundary and Avoidance EP 117
Setting boundaries and protecting your peace has become a popular topic in personal development. Alecia and Jonathan break down the real difference between a healthy boundary and boundary language that's actually just avoidance in disguise, and why getting that distinction wrong is costing you the relationships and results you actually want. Join Podcast Club: Get behind the scenes access to every episode before anyone else hears it. Meet other listeners of the show and connect live with guests, Alecia's cohosts, and Alecia herself. Episodes are recorded in front of a live virtual studio audience, then a private, unrecorded conversation opens up where you can share your thoughts, ask questions, go deeper on the topic, and even shape what gets covered next. Get access at consciousedge.com/club. Get Full Show Notes: www.consciousedge.com/ep117 Let’s Connect on Instagram: @aleciastg In this episode, Alecia St. Germain and her longtime co-host Jonathan Dugger dig into a phrase that's everywhere right now: "I'm setting a boundary and protecting my peace." They unpack what actually separates a boundary that's grounded in your values from language that's just avoidance wearing a boundary's clothes. Alecia gets honest about her own break from recording this podcast and whether that was a boundary or something else entirely. Jonathan brings the clinical lens, breaking down avoidance as a short-term, immediate reaction versus boundaries as long-term and value-driven. Together they get into ghosting, people-pleasing, the body's reaction the first time you set a real boundary, and a simple three-step process for knowing which one you're actually doing. 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: -How to tell if you're setting a boundary or just avoiding something uncomfortable -Why avoidance can start small and quietly grow into a much bigger pattern over time -What it means when your boundary is actually an attempt to control someone else's behavior -Why ghosting someone creates more anxiety for both people than an honest conversation would -The body sensation that shows up the first time you set a boundary that's actually healthy for you -A three-step process for checking your motive before you cut someone off or speak up -Why you can't help your initial emotional reaction, but you can choose your response
- Aug 11, 202642 min
The Mid-Year Audit That Actually Changes Your Year EP 116
If your first half of the year didn't go the way you planned, you’re not alone. The good news is you still have time to make adjustments that will actually change it. Podcast Club is where the conversation continues. Come hang out in the Podcast Club, a free community that meets most Thursdays. You can join us at consciousedge.com/club. Get full show notes at www.consciousedge.com/ep116 Instagram:@aleciastg In this episode, Alecia sits down with Jenn Baas, fractional CFO and facilitator of the Financial Leadership Lab at The Conscious Edge. Based on Jenn’s experience working with entrepreneurs, a majority find themselves off-track from what they predicted back in January by mid-year. But there's a fix. A mid-year audit gives you three things: visibility into what's actually working, two quarters to make corrections, and data to replace the guessing. Even if you’re finding yourself in a windfall, you can still get blind-sided. This is the real conversation every entrepreneur needs to have mid-year so there are no surprises come December. 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: In this episode you'll discover: -What Jenn sees over and over: most entrepreneurs’ first halves don't land as planned -Why mid-year is your actual decision point, not December -What happens in your head when the numbers don't match the story you told yourself at the start of the year -The difference between financial data as compliance vs. financial data as strategy -How looking at your numbers solo creates stories. How sharing them creates solutions. -The exact adjustments you can make in Q3 and Q4 to engineer a different year-end outcome -What the Financial Leadership Lab actually does and how it changes how entrepreneurs use their data
- Jul 28, 202648 min
Why Teams Resist Change and What Psychological Safety Has to Do With It EP 115
You’re Invited to Podcast Club: Listeners of The Conscious Edge are coming together on Thursdays at 1pm ET for Podcast Club. Think book club, but for the podcast. We'll talk about the episodes, what landed, where it's challenging us, and how to actually apply it. It's a chance to meet other business owners, get into real two-way conversation, and stop just consuming content. RSVP for the dates you want at consciousedge.com/club. Get full show notes at www.consciousedge.com/ep110 Come say “hi’ on Instagram:@aleciastg Alecia St. Germain and her co-host Jonathan Dugger take on what actually makes change work inside a team, and it has very little to do with the process. In this month's Mindfulness Matters with Jonathan, they dig into why the phrase "change management" misses the point entirely, and what Amy Edmondson's psychological safety research uncovered when Google studied nearly 200 of its own teams through Project Aristotle. The highest performing teams in that study reported more failure than the ones anyone would have guessed were the safest bets, and they held onto their people while they did it. Alecia shares how the Immunity to Change process can be facilitated with a whole team, surfacing the big assumptions an organization runs on without ever naming them out loud. Jonathan makes the case for treating resistance as an opportunity to learn something no one has seen yet, and for letting grief have a place in professional conversations, because every change asks people to let go of something. They also get honest about what has been lost in business culture along the way, and why relational capacity is the one thing that cannot be outsourced to an algorithm. Solo entrepreneurs are not off the hook here either. A bookkeeper and the one person she calls when she needs to think out loud already add up to a team. 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: -What shifts when you stop calling it change management and start calling it change navigation -What Amy Edmondson's psychological safety research found when Google studied nearly 200 of its own teams -Why the teams that reported the most failure were also the most effective and had almost no turnover -How uncertainty changes your brain chemistry and shuts down the exact capacities you are asking your people to use -Why matching the right person to the right task matters far less than you have been told -How the Immunity to Change process can be facilitated with a whole team to surface the assumptions running your culture -Why grief belongs in change conversations, even the professional ones -What becomes possible when you treat someone's resistance as an opportunity rather than an obstacle
- Jul 21, 202639 min
Playing to Win vs. Playing Not to Lose with Your Money EP 114
Every time you tuck a good idea away for when you have more capacity, you give it the chance to go find someone else to bring it to life. If this episode landed, come talk it through with me at Podcast Club. Most weeks we get on Zoom together and turn the podcast into a real conversation with other women who are building real businesses and playing the same game you are. It is like book club without the hangover and the gossip. Pick a date and RSVP at consciousedge.com/club. Get full show notes at www.consciousedge.com/ep114 Come say “hi’ on Instagram:@aleciastg In this solo episode, Alecia St. Germain reframes the anxiety so many business owners carry around money and the decisions they make in their business. It started with a question she posed to her clients, one that landed hard: are you playing to win, or are you playing not to lose? From there, Alecia explores what shifts when you stop making decisions to protect yourself from the bad things you fear and start making decisions that move you toward your vision. Using a sports analogy that runs through the whole episode, she walks through knowing the real risks of the game you are playing and protecting yourself appropriately, the difference between being attached to winning and being invested in it, and why everything tends to feel most intense right before a breakthrough. She connects it all back to the big assumption running underneath your patterns, the one your nervous system built long ago to keep you safe, and how becoming aware of it changes the way you play. 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: -Why protecting yourself from every possible bad outcome can become the very thing that keeps you from making money -How to tell whether you are wearing the right amount of protection for the risk you are actually taking on -The difference between being attached to winning and being invested in it, and why attachment wears down your performance -What to do with the fear that lingers after a loss, a bad deal, or a market shift you did not see coming -Why the intensity that shows up right before a breakthrough is not a signal that this is not for you -How the big assumption you formed years ago can pull you off course right as you reach for your next level -Why the time and money you think you are missing tend to fall into place once your alignment, your emotions, and your leadership are handled
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About The Conscious Edge Podcast: Redefining Wealth as a Whole Human Experience
On the path to fulfillment host Alecia St. Germain, entrepreneur and Certified Immunity to Change Coach, found radical self-acceptance and what it truly means to see herself as worthy. Now she’s helping others do the same – visionary business-builders and people seeking wealth that combines a passion for doing good while walking through life as a compassionate leader. This is for entrepreneurs seeking more. If you value personal growth and living on purpose, join us on this journey to redefine success. It’s time to shift from a traditional focus solely on wealth accumulation to one that integrates well-being and fulfillment.Joining Alecia as her frequent co-host and resident wellness advocate is her good friend Jonathan Dugger. As a Doctor of Psychology, he brings his knowledge, experience and passion for all things wellness to the conversation.Together with their guests, they share how self-awareness and compassion leads you to stop judging yourself and others,
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