The Conscious Edge Podcast: Redefining Wealth as a Whole Human Experience

Alecia St. Germain
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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, unleashing you to experience pure joy, business growth and maximum impact.  Redefine what it means to create wealth as part of your whole human experience, aligning mind, body and soul.  Join the other open-minded, growth-oriented listeners who are ready to lead consciously. 

  1. 6d ago

    How to Make a Spending Decision You Won't Regret in Six Months

    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

    How to Make a Spending Decision You Won't Regret in Six Months

  2. Sep 8

    How to Tell the Difference Between a Boundary and Avoidance

    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

    How to Tell the Difference Between a Boundary and Avoidance

  3. Aug 11

    The Mid-Year Audit That Actually Changes Your Year

    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

    The Mid-Year Audit That Actually Changes Your Year

  4. Jul 28

    Why Teams Resist Change and What Psychological Safety Has to Do With It

    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

    Why Teams Resist Change and What Psychological Safety Has to Do With It

  5. Jul 21

    Playing to Win vs. Playing Not to Lose with Your Money

    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

    Playing to Win vs. Playing Not to Lose with Your Money

  6. Jul 14

    How Much Should You Pay Yourself From Your Business

    Too many business owners are paying everyone in their business except themselves, and somewhere along the way they stopped asking why.  Podcast Club is where the conversation continues. If this stirred up questions about your own pay, I would love to keep talking. 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/ep113 Instagram:@aleciastg You built this business. So why does it pay everyone but you? For a lot of women, owner pay is the problem they have stopped questioning. There's payroll, there are contractors, there are a dozen things that have to happen before there's anything left, and somewhere in there their own pay became the lever they pull whenever money gets tight. For others it runs the other way. The business did well, the lifestyle leveled up to match, and now there's a number they have to hit every month or the whole thing wobbles. In this month's Monthly Money Talk, Alecia St. Germain sits down with fractional CFO and financial strategist Jenn Baas to look honestly at both. What owner pay actually is, how to tell whether your business can really afford you, and the simple financial-plan math that shows where your money is going. They also go underneath the numbers, to the big assumption that keeps an owner underpaying herself even when the business could support her, and the entitlement that can creep in on the other side. This one is warm, practical, and a little bit of a permission slip to look at the number you have been avoiding. 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: In this episode you'll discover: - What owner pay actually means, from salary to draws to distributions, and why how you pay yourself matters less than whether you do -Why most owners pay everyone else first and reach for their own pay as the lever they pull when money gets tight -The simple financial-plan math that tells you whether your business can really afford you, and where the money is actually going -The big assumption hiding under "there's just never enough left for me," and why more strategy won't move it on its own -What overpaying yourself looks like, and how leveling up your lifestyle too fast can leave your business fragile when the market shifts -Why "if I'm working this hard, it has to be worth it" deserves a closer look before it sets your salary -How emotional capacity, not just the numbers, decides whether you can hold and enjoy what you have built

    How Much Should You Pay Yourself From Your Business

  7. Jul 7

    How to Act on a Great Idea When You Don't Have the Capacity

    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 you've got an idea you keep telling yourself you don't have the capacity for, come test that thinking out loud with me at Podcast Club. It's free, it meets most Thursdays, and it's there to connect you with people doing this same work. RSVP at consciousedge.com/club and tell me the date that works for you.  Get full show notes at www.consciousedge.com/ep112 Come say “hi’ on Instagram:@aleciastg You have the idea. You can see it clearly. And then you start adding up everything it would take to do it right, the time, the money, the build, the proper way you know it should be set up, and somewhere in that math you decide you don't have the capacity for it right now. So you tuck it away. In this solo episode, Alecia St. Germain offers a different way through. She shares the moment Podcast Club arrived in her head in the shower, right in the middle of deer-damaged cars, a leaking camper, and a conference she was about to leave for, and how she chose to test it in the clunkiest, easiest way she could instead of waiting until she had the capacity to do it perfectly. Forgotten Zoom link and all. You'll hear why your own expertise can be the very thing keeping your best ideas stuck, what it looks like to test something without risking too much time or money, and how letting it be good enough is often what finally moves it into the world.  📝 What We Cover in This Episode: -Why your best ideas lose momentum the further you get from the moment they arrived, and what Big Magic gets right about acting fast -How being the expert in the room can keep you from testing the very ideas you believe in -The clunky, low-risk way Alecia tests every new idea before she spends real time or money on it -Why letting something be a version 1.0 frees you to actually get it out the door -How perfectionism is often less about the outcome and more about protecting yourself from what others might think -What it looks like to feel anger and still lead with compassion when someone won't own a mistake -The one question to ask yourself when you catch yourself making an idea harder than it needs to be

    How to Act on a Great Idea When You Don't Have the Capacity

  8. Jun 30

    The Scarcity Story that Keeps You Stuck Before You Feel "Ready" for Help

    You keep waiting to get back to solid ground before you ask for help, when reaching for help is usually what gets you there.  You’re Invited to Podcast Club: I’d love to keep the conversation going with you by inviting you to Podcast Club on Thursdays at 1pm ET.   Think book club, but for the podcast.  It’s a way to deepen the conversation and engage in authentic dialogue with other business owners. RSVP for the dates you want at consciousedge.com/club.  Get full show notes at www.consciousedge.com/ep111 Come say “hi’ on Instagram:@aleciastg In this episode of The Conscious Edge podcast, Alecia St. Germain calls out a pattern she watched play out over and over at a recent conference for women building wealth. There are two moments an entrepreneur tends to reach for support. One feels like an easy yes, the season when things are working and she is ready to scale. The other feels vulnerable and risky, the season when something is not working, debt may be building, and she has convinced herself she has to climb out of the hole on her own before she is allowed to ask for help. Alecia walks through the questions she asks women sitting in that harder season, the scarcity thinking and big assumptions that keep them stuck, and why the shame of "I should have this figured out by now" is often the real thing standing in the way.  📝 What We Cover in This Episode: -The two seasons when entrepreneurs reach for support, and why one feels like an easy yes while the other feels terrifying -Why waiting until you are "back to center" to get help often keeps you in the hole longer -The two questions to ask yourself first when a big investment in support feels like a risk -How debt in your business is often a band-aid for a big assumption you have not named yet -Why believing you have to know it all or you're a fraud is keeping you from getting paid for what you already know -The reframe that makes spending on the right support feel like an accelerator rather than one more cost -Why the thing actually blocking you is usually shame, and what becomes possible the moment you stop carrying it

    The Scarcity Story that Keeps You Stuck Before You Feel "Ready" for Help
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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, unleashing you to experience pure joy, business growth and maximum impact.  Redefine what it means to create wealth as part of your whole human experience, aligning mind, body and soul.  Join the other open-minded, growth-oriented listeners who are ready to lead consciously. 

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