Break Your Bullsh*t Box

Amber Fuhriman
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Welcome to the Break Your Bullsh*t Box podcast, where excuses aren't tolerated and results are earned. This podcast is for people who realize it's time to break your bullsh*t box and start living life on your terms. Hosted by Amber Fuhriman Esq. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 4d ago

    Episode 411: Pricing Decisions Unlocked: How to Charge What You're Worth Without the Guilt

    Episode Summary Still flinching when you tell a client your price? Amber Fuhriman breaks down the internal beliefs and external market realities behind every pricing decision, showing business owners exactly how to stop undercharging and start setting prices they're actually congruent with. Key Topics Covered Why pricing conversations trigger deep beliefs about worth, value, and money programmingHow to find the middle ground between what you think you're worth and what the market will bearThe difference between internal pricing blocks (self-worth, fear of judgment) and external pricing factors (market rates, competitors)How to structure pricing based on one-to-one time versus scalable, recorded, or course-based offersWhy over-explaining your price signals insecurity and how to shift your energy when quoting rates Notable Quotes "If money conversations make you uncomfortable, pricing decisions will always be difficult.""What I think doesn't matter, because if we set a price that's above what they think they're worth, they are going to sabotage every single sales conversation they have.""For a very effective coach that knows what the f**k they're doing, $2,000 a month for one-on-one coaching is peanuts.""If you don't know that number, then how the hell are you gonna set your prices?" Call to Action Book a free strategy call with Amber: https://calendly.com/amberfuhriman/connection-call?month=2021-05Join the Break Your Bullsh*t Box Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/185xJ6KALu/Check out Amber's Speaker Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPj5OBvjrr0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2. Jul 13

    Episode 410: Stalled Sales? NLP Secrets to Break Your Income Ceiling and Boost Your Close Rate

    Episode Summary Feel like you're putting in the same effort but getting worse results? Amber Fuhriman breaks down why your close rate stalls, exposing the hidden income ceiling and unconscious sabotage keeping ambitious entrepreneurs stuck, and shows you exactly how to track the real data behind your sales instead of relying on feelings. Key Topics Covered Why tracking your close ratio (not your feelings) reveals the truth about your business growthHow to recognize an income ceiling that's unconsciously sabotaging your sales resultsWhy generic sales scripts kill your natural flow and disconnect you from clientsHow to spot the exact moment in a sales conversation where your energy shifts and deals fall apartAdjusting your follow-up strategy for today's trust recession and shrinking attention spans Notable Quotes "I didn't ask you what you felt. I asked you what the numbers say.""Your brain is not wired for success. Your brain is wired for safety.""Sales scripts don't work... a script presumes that every single person processes information the same way... and they just don't.""There is no secret to the reason that we feel like we need things." Call to Action Book a free strategy call with Amber: https://calendly.com/amberfuhriman/connection-call?month=2021-05Join the Break Your Bullsh*t Box Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/185xJ6KALu/Check out Amber's Speaker Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPj5OBvjrr0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  3. Jul 6

    Episode 409: Stop Attracting Wrong-Fit Clients: The NLP Truth Behind Your Client Pattern

    Episode Summary You don't attract the wrong clients by accident, you attract them because a boundary was never set. Amber Fuhriman breaks down why you keep saying yes to high-drama, high-resistance clients and how shifting from "fixer" to "coach" is the real key to building a business full of people who are ready to do the work. Keys Topics Covered How to spot the wrong-fit client pattern before you say yes (negotiating terms, questioning your expertise, dreading their name in your inbox)Why playing the "fixer" instead of the "coach" unconsciously attracts clients who resist their own transformationThe "every victim needs a villain" concept and how it explains why you become the target for a client's lack of resultsHow to use your own body's reactions (dread, over-explaining, discounting your price) as data about what you're willing to acceptThe one honest question to ask about your current client roster to break the cycle for good Notable Quotes "You teach people how to treat you by what you choose to allow, and that doesn't just apply to other people. It applies to you as well.""A fixer takes responsibility for transformation. A coach creates the conditions for the transformation and the responsibility to be on the client.""You don't attract the wrong clients by accident. You attract them because somewhere a standard hasn't been set.""Every behavior has an intention. So what was the intention of saying yes when everything inside of you was screaming no?" Call to Action Book a free strategy call with Amber: https://calendly.com/amberfuhriman/connection-call?month=2021-05Join the Break Your Bullsh*t Box Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/185xJ6KALu/Check out Amber's Speaker Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPj5OBvjrr0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. Jul 3

    Episode 408: Rewrite Your Money Story: NLP Secrets to Finally Raise Your Prices

    Episode Summary Still charging the same rate you set years ago? Amber Fuhriman digs into the childhood money story that's secretly running your pricing decisions and shows you why raising your rates isn't a strategy problem, it's an identity one. Key Topics Covered Why you keep avoiding a price increase even when your skills and results have grownHow childhood beliefs about money silently shape your pricing and sales decisions todayThe real reason apologizing for your rate or discounting before anyone asks keeps happeningWhy sales is service, not sleaze, and staying quiet about your offer harms the people who need youHow to trace your under-charging back to where the belief started so you can finally rewrite it Notable Quotes "It's not a pricing problem. It's a story problem.""Sales isn't sleazy. Sales is service.""The person you are today has earned a different story. The question is whether you are willing to let the old one go." Call to Action Book a free strategy call with Amber: https://calendly.com/amberfuhriman/connection-call?month=2021-05Join the Break Your Bullsh*t Box Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/185xJ6KALu/Check out Amber's Speaker Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPj5OBvjrr0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. Jun 29

    Episode 407: The Moment You Knew the Problem Was You: Breaking Patterns in Business and Life

    Episode Summary The villain in your story keeps changing but the problem stays the same. Amber Fuhriman delivers a no-fluff breakdown of why smart, capable business owners stay stuck in repeating patterns, and exactly how to stop avoiding the one uncomfortable truth that will actually change everything. Key Topics Covered Why the common denominator in every failed client relationship, partnership, and income plateau is you, and why that is the best news you'll hearHow to identify the specific role you played in your own results without taking blanket blame for everythingThe belief running underneath your patterns: how Amber uncovered that her value was conditional on other people's outcomes and what she did about itThe difference between a circumstance problem and a "you problem," and why only one of them has a solution you can actually act onHow to ask the one honest question that breaks a stuck pattern: "What story am I telling about why this is happening, and what is my role in that story?" Notable Quotes "When the villain keeps changing but the pattern stays the same, the problem is you. I know that sounds like a slap in the face. It's actually really good news once you get past the part that f*****g hurts.""If you are the common denominator, if you are the problem, you are also the variable that can change. You are also the solution.""When you give the external thing that you're blaming full responsibility for what happened, you also give it the full power over what happens next, and you become a passenger in your own story.""I grew faster in the last year after that realization than in the years before it combined." Call to Action Book a free strategy call with Amber: https://calendly.com/amberfuhriman/connection-call?month=2021-05Join the Break Your Bullsh*t Box Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/185xJ6KALu/Check out Amber's Speaker Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPj5OBvjrr0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  6. Jun 26

    Episode 406: Stop Leaving Referrals on the Table: How to Ask for What You've Already Earned

    Episode Summary You just had the best call of your month and you ended it without asking for a single referral or testimonial. Amber Fuhriman gets real about the fear hiding underneath that missed ask and gives you two simple questions that will change how you follow up with your happiest clients starting this week. Key Topics Covered Why happy clients stop being a growth opportunity the moment you end the call without askingThe real reason you skip the referral ask (it has nothing to do with timing or protecting the relationship)How false humility keeps you playing small and what to do when you catch yourself doing itThe two-question framework for turning a client compliment into a referral conversationWhy not asking is not protecting anyone, it's withholding your solution from people who need it Notable Quotes "The referral you didn't ask for is a client someone else is gonna get, or even worse, a person who doesn't get the solution you provide.""Not asking isn't protecting anyone. It's just playing small.""Once I believed it, asking stopped feeling risky and started feeling like the right thing to do. Because if the work is really valuable, and I know it is, then not asking people to share it wasn't humility. It's withholding something from people who need it.""Your clients gave you their trust. The least that you can do is trust the work you performed was worth sharing, 'cause it was." Call to Action Book a free strategy call with Amber: https://calendly.com/amberfuhriman/connection-call?month=2021-05Join the Break Your Bullsh*t Box Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/185xJ6KALu/Check out Amber's Speaker Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPj5OBvjrr0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. Jun 22

    Episode 405: Stop Shrinking: How to Turn Comparison Into Clarity and Start Building What You Actually Want

    Episode Summary Tired of scrolling past someone else's win and walking away feeling smaller than when you started? Amber Fuhriman gets brutally honest about the two types of comparison, the hidden decisions they drive, and how to stop letting other people's results quietly talk you out of your own. Key Topics Covered The two types of comparison and why only one of them actually moves you forwardHow comparison stops being a feeling and becomes a costly decision that slows your business downWhy the people you compare yourself to are not your competition, they are a map pointing directly at your own desiresThe difference between using comparison as avoidance versus using it as directionHow to stop letting what others are doing make decisions for you and start watering your own grass Notable Quotes "Comparison isn't just a feeling, it's a decision with a cost that's rarely discussed.""The comparison that I allowed to stop me wasn't about her. It was about me being upset at myself for what I hadn't done yet.""The problem is never the comparison. The problem is what we decide to do with it.""I got somewhere because I stopped letting what they were doing make decisions for me.""Stop watching. Start watering, because your grass won't grow while you're staring at theirs." Call to Action Book a free strategy call with Amber: https://calendly.com/amberfuhriman/connection-call?month=2021-05Join the Break Your Bullsh*t Box Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/185xJ6KALu/Check out Amber's Speaker Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPj5OBvjrr0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  8. Jun 19

    Episode 404: Stop Being Busy: How to Tell the Difference Between Motion and Real Business Growth

    Episode Summary Are you working constantly but watching your bank account stay flat? Amber Fuhriman cuts through the noise on why busy is not the same as productive, and what you need to start doing instead so your energy actually builds something. Key Topics Covered The four performer types keeping business owners stuck in busy: inbox, optimization, content, and calendarWhy busyness is often avoidance in disguise and what you are really protecting yourself fromThe three questions to ask before anything goes on your calendarHow to use your planned vs. actual activity gap to spot what you are avoiding each weekThe only distinction that matters: what only you can do vs. what is keeping you safe from being rejected Notable Quotes "Busy is a feeling. Revenue is a number, and when your feeling says you've been working constantly and the number isn't moving, something in your activity isn't actually work. It's the appearance of work.""Being busy is safe. Productive work has risks, and most of us, without even realizing it, will fill our days with safe activity to avoid the risk of rejection.""Busy is not a badge of honor, it's a warning sign.""Once the busyness stops feeling necessary to you, you can let go of control, choose to delegate, accept help, say no, honor boundaries, and so much more that makes life more fulfilling, business more fun, and your results more profitable." Call to Action Book a free strategy call with Amber: https://calendly.com/amberfuhriman/connection-call?month=2021-05Join the Break Your Bullsh*t Box Community: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/185xJ6KALu/Check out Amber's Speaker Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPj5OBvjrr0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to the Break Your Bullsh*t Box podcast, where excuses aren't tolerated and results are earned. This podcast is for people who realize it's time to break your bullsh*t box and start living life on your terms. Hosted by Amber Fuhriman Esq. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Amber Fuhriman
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    409
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Amber Fuhriman
  • Show Website
    Break Your Bullsh*t Box