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

    4d ago

    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

    48 min
  2. Why Your Business Still Feels Like a Struggle Even When You're Doing Everything Right

    Jun 23

    Why Your Business Still Feels Like a Struggle Even When You're Doing Everything Right

    You can do everything right, follow every system, hire every coach, and still build a business that doesn't feel like yours, because no strategy can outrun what's out of alignment with your values.  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 Most entrepreneurs have done some version of values work. You have a why, a mission, a set of words on a page. And then somewhere along the way, following a coach here, a strategy there, a system everyone swore by, you look up and realize the business you built doesn't look much like the one you actually wanted. In this Mindfulness Matters conversation, Alecia St. Germain and her longtime business partner Jonathan Dugger go past the surface of values work and into what keeps you connected to it. They get into why values evolve as you grow, how money amplifies whatever is already running underneath you (your purpose and your self-protection patterns alike), and the difference between a value that's truly yours and one you're holding onto to feel safe. Alecia also opens up the soul purpose work she's trained in, and Jonathan shares how his own reading turned years of self-imposed pressure into something much closer to joy. Together they offer a grounded way back to alignment, including the STOP practice and a handful of questions you can return to anytime your business starts to feel out of sync with who you are. 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: -Why following someone else's system or strategy can pull you off course when it isn't built around your values -How your values evolve as you grow, and why it's worth redefining them on a regular basis -The difference between a true value and a self-protection value, and how people-pleasing can disguise itself as kindness -Why money amplifies whatever is already there, both your purpose and your hidden assumptions -What soul purpose work is, and how a single reframe can turn pressure into joy -The STOP practice (Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed) for checking alignment before you act -A few simple journaling questions for a quarterly values check-in -Why your time and money struggles often ease once you tend to the deeper capacities first

    43 min
  3. Outsource, Delegate, or Do It Yourself? How to Get Your Time Back

    Jun 16

    Outsource, Delegate, or Do It Yourself? How to Get Your Time Back

    You've been told to delegate, outsource, and get help, so why does it still feel faster to just do it yourself?  Want help deciding what stays and what goes? Alecia's free Capacity Decision Guide walks every task and obligation in your business and life through the same decision tree from this episode, so you can put down what was never yours to carry. Grab it at consciousedge.com/decision.  Get full show notes at www.consciousedge.com/ep109 Instagram → @aleciastg Alecia St. Germain knows this story well, because she lived it for years. The belief that once this project wraps, she'll finally have time for what matters most. Then the next busy thing arrived, the business started to feel heavy, and her body wore out. She found her way out of that pattern, and now she helps other business owners do the same. In this solo episode, Alecia shares the tool she built for that exact moment: the Capacity Decision Guide. It's a simple decision tree that takes any task or obligation and sorts it into one of five outcomes. Release it, outsource it, delegate it, lead it, or grow into it. She talks through why so many entrepreneurs keep doing everything themselves, why outsourcing and delegating are not the same thing, and why confusing the two is so often the reason a past hire fell apart. And she's honest about what doing it all alone really costs, from a ceiling on income to the stress and burnout the body takes on along the way. This episode is for any business owner who already knows they're handling too much on their own, and is ready to take on the challenge of doing something different. 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: – The story you keep telling yourself, and why the time you're waiting for never comes -The five things you can do with anything on your plate, and how to know which one fits -Why doing it all yourself means you're 100% limited by your own capacity, and what that does to your body over time -The real difference between outsourcing and delegating, and why mixing them up is often why a past hire didn't stick -How "I don't have the capacity" is usually a leadership and boundaries conversation underneath -What it takes to grow into the work that scares you, instead of pushing it to the back corner

    46 min
  4. Is My Business Taking Me Away From the Life I Want?

    Jun 9

    Is My Business Taking Me Away From the Life I Want?

    You can build a successful business and still feel it carrying you away from the life you built it for.  Loved this conversation? You don't have to wait until Tuesday to talk about it. Podcast Club is where the conversation continues. It's an intimate space to go deeper on the episodes, share what's landing, ask the questions you're sitting with, and connect with others who are doing this work alongside you. Think of it like a book club for The Conscious Edge Podcast. We meet most Thursday’s at 1:00pm ET. RSVP for the dates you want at consciousedge.com/club.  Get full show notes at www.consciousedge.com/ep108 Instagram:@aleciastg In this episode, Alecia pulls back the curtain on Jenn Baas’s life, the financial strategist behind Monthly Money Talks with Zen Jenn. What looks like fast, easy success is actually a slower, more honest story. A first business that failed. An injury that ended the career she thought was her dream. And the moment she realized the thing she loved most had started to steal her joy, because she'd never stopped to ask whether it was building the life she actually wanted. This is a conversation about what makes success sustainable once you've already built something. Knowing your numbers instead of blindly following passion. Growing slowly and on purpose instead of chasing growth for its own sake. And asking the one question that changes everything. Is what I'm doing leading me toward who I want to be, or away from it? 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: In this episode you'll discover: - The one question that tells you whether your business is leading you toward the life you want or away from it -Why the success that looks effortless from the outside is almost always built on a slower, more honest story -The hidden cost of turning the thing you love into the way you make money, and how to protect the joy before it slips away -Why growing slowly and on purpose can be more powerful than chasing the next level of scale -How holding a boundary, yes, even a wait list, can be one of the most strategic moves you make -Why so much of your sustainable success comes down to your financial foundation and how you lead, not the next marketing tactic -How to stop letting the year happen to you and start feeling steady, not afraid, when you look at your money

    39 min
  5. Buying a Business: A Seasoned Real Estate Investor and Psychologist's First Six Months

    Jun 2

    Buying a Business: A Seasoned Real Estate Investor and Psychologist's First Six Months

    If you've been quietly wondering whether buying a business might be your next move, this conversation pulls back the curtain on what it actually looks like, six months in.  Loved this conversation? You don't have to wait until Tuesday to talk about it. Podcast Club is where the conversation continues. It's an intimate space to go deeper on the episodes, share what's landing, ask the questions you're sitting with, and connect with others who are doing this work alongside you. Think of it like a book club for The Conscious Edge Podcast. We meet most Thursday’s at 1:00pm ET. RSVP for the dates you want at consciousedge.com/club.  Get full show notes at www.consciousedge.com/ep107 Find Alecia on Instagram:@aleciastg In this episode, Alecia turns the mic on her longtime partner in crime, Jonathan Dugger, to talk about something that’s a growing trend right now: buying a business instead of building one from scratch. With the largest transfer of wealth in history underway and so many baby boomer owners ready to retire, there's a unique window of opportunity, and Jonathan walks through what he actually learned navigating it. The parameters he set, the businesses he passed on, the customer he was certain would be his (and wasn't), and the moment he and his partner Kyle stopped forcing the square peg and shifted gears entirely.  If you've ever caught yourself wondering whether there's a way to grow without starting from zero, or if you're already in the middle of a business purchase and need permission to do it on your own timeline, this episode is for you.  📝 What We Cover in This Episode: In this episode on buying a business, we discuss: -Why this moment is one of the most unique windows in history for buying a small business and what's actually driving it -The specific parameters Jonathan set before he started looking (and why getting clear on these saves you years of looking at the wrong opportunities) -Why an "obvious fit" customer might not actually be your customer and what to do when you figure that out -How value alignment quietly becomes the deciding factor in whether a business actually works for you long term -The role a fractional CFO plays in the due diligence process and the questions Zen Jenn asked that helped Jonathan walk away from the wrong deals -Why giving yourself a runway instead of forcing instant success can be the difference between sustainable growth and burnout -The unexpected blind spots in the first six months and what Jonathan would do differently -Why the best opportunity often shows up while you're looking for something else entirely

    41 min
  6. Mindful Productivity for Entrepreneurs Wired for Constant Motion

    May 26

    Mindful Productivity for Entrepreneurs Wired for Constant Motion

    For a lot of entrepreneurs, sitting still feels wrong. You might even find yourself jumping up to look busy the second you hear someone coming. This episode is about the programming running underneath that, and how to approach productivity with a little more mindfulness.  You’re Invited to Podcast Club: Starting in June, 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/ep106 Instagram:@aleciastg In this Mindfulness Matters conversation, Alecia and Jonathan unpack why our culture has trained us to equate busyness with worth, what mindful productivity actually looks like in real life, and why the productivity hacks you keep Googling never seem to stick. They get into the research that says 90 minutes of focused work outperforms six hours of distracted effort, why office workers switch tasks roughly 70 times a day without realizing it, and the 333 method that gives you a usable structure for deep work without the all-or-nothing crash. This is the episode for the entrepreneur who's been operating in summer mode for years, who knows they’re depleting themselves, and who hasn't been able to figure out why the focus and follow-through they used to have feels so far away. 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: In this episode on mindful productivity, you'll discover: -Why busyness and productivity are not the same thing, and the cultural conditioning that taught you to confuse them -The research showing 90 minutes of focused work equals roughly six hours of distracted effort -Why most professionals switch tasks every one to three minutes (around 70 times a day) without even noticing -The 333 method from Oliver Burkeman's 4000 Weeks: three hours of deep work, three urgent tasks, three maintenance items -How to set up Do Not Disturb so you stop letting your phone run your nervous system -Why the productivity hacks you've Googled don't work, and what's actually underneath the resistance -How curiosity without judgment is the real shift, not a tighter schedule -Two books to go deeper: 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman and Deep Work by Cal Newport

    43 min
  7. Why Indecision Costs You More Than a Wrong Decision Ever Could

    May 19

    Why Indecision Costs You More Than a Wrong Decision Ever Could

    The decisions you're not only as a business owner, but in life in general, are costing you more than any wrong decision ever could.  You’re Invited to Podcast Club: Starting in June, 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.  If you're a real estate investor and ready to be in a room with women who are doing the work, Alecia will be teaching her framework, The Now Advantage, at InvestHer Con in Scottsdale, Arizona, June 14 to 16. It's her favorite conference of the year. Join her there: https://therealestateinvesther.com/investhercon  Get full show notes at www.consciousedge.com/ep105 Instagram:@aleciastg In this episode, Alecia is sharing her recent conversation on The Real Estate InvestHer Podcast (Episode 588) with hosts Andresa Guidelli and Liz Faircloth. The three of them go deep on the real cost of indecision for capable, high-functioning women, the story behind the decisions Alecia and her husband made (and didn't make) during the 2008 downturn, and what's different about her business, her marriage, and her capacity now. They also cover what The Great Wealth Transfer means for women in real estate right now, the conversations Alecia is having with aging parents to preserve generational wealth, why money is an amplifier rather than the source of the dysfunction, and a first look at The Now Advantage, the framework she's teaching at InvestHer Con in June. It's a real, honest conversation between three women who have lived this work, made the hard calls, and aren't pretending they had it figured out the first time.  📝 What We Cover in This Episode: In this episode, you'll discover: -Why indecision is one of the biggest capacity drains for capable women, and what it's quietly costing you in time, presence, and opportunity -What Alecia learned from the decisions she and her husband made (and missed) during the 2008 downturn, and what she has now that she didn't have at 28 -How to navigate hard money conversations with aging parents around wealth preservation and generational transfer -Why money is an amplifier, not the source of the dysfunction, and what that means for your next financial decision -The difference between liking the idea of financial freedom and actually deciding to build it -How to tell whether you're at an event for genuine connection and education, or whether you're the product being sold to -A first look at The Now Advantage, the framework Alecia is teaching at InvestHer Con -Why making a decision and then making it right is more powerful than waiting for the certainty that's never coming

    54 min
  8. Why Revenue Dips Don't Mean You're Doing Something Wrong

    May 12

    Why Revenue Dips Don't Mean You're Doing Something Wrong

    If your numbers are dipping and you're panicking that you must be doing something wrong, the dip might not be the problem you think it is.  Get full show notes at www.consciousedge.com/ep104 Instagram:@aleciastg If this episode landed and you're tired of running your business reactively every time your numbers shift, the next step is a Capacity Assessment Call. We'll look at where you actually are financially, where the panic is coming from, and what it would take to make a slow season feel like a season instead of an emergency.  Book yours at consciousedge.com/capacity.  You know the feeling. Revenue is down. What was working isn't working as well. And before you can even think about what to do, your brain has already decided you must be doing something wrong. You're not. Businesses cycle. The way real estate cycles. The way the stock market cycles. The dip is often the nature of running a business in a real economy. In this Monthly Money Talks, Alecia and her financial strategist Jenn Baas of Peak to Peak Solutions get into what's in your control when the market shifts, how much cash to actually keep on hand, the peace tax, and why adaptability matters more than stability if you want to still be in business ten years from now. If you've ever felt the panic of an unexpected slow season and wondered if you should be doing something different, this conversation will reset what a slow season actually means. 📝 What We Cover in This Episode: In this episode you'll discover: -Why a revenue dip is often a cycle, not proof you've broken something -How the real estate market parallel explains what your business is actually doing -Why a financial capacity plan can turn a stressful, unexpected expense into a non-event -What's in your control when the market shifts and what isn't -Why adaptability matters more than stability if you want to be in business long-term -What the peace tax is and why minimizing every dollar of taxes can cost you sleep -How much cash Jenn actually recommends keeping on hand for the unpredictable -Why making cuts is sometimes the healthiest move for the business, not a sign you failed

    42 min
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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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