Slightly Unhinged But Very Insightful

Becky Ogden
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Slightly Unhinged But Very Insightful is an unscripted podcast about what happens when conventional business advice collides with burnout, grief, caregiving, chronic stress, health struggles, nervous system strain, unstable seasons, and other situations that drastically affect capacity while the business still needs to run anyway. These are honest conversations about visibility, sustainability, pricing, pressure, tradeoffs, and what actually works when there is very little room for error.

Episodes

  1. 3d ago

    You Don’t Have to Niche Down Before the Business Can Move Forward

    You have been told to niche down. Choose one kind of person. Identify the problem she has. Make the message specific enough that she immediately knows the business is for her. So you choose women. Then men hire you. They understand the work and want the help. You can treat them as exceptions, change the niche, or ask whether choosing one demographic is actually what helps people recognize that the work is relevant to them. This is an unscripted, unedited conversation with Tara McCallam, an intuitive healer and emotional wellness practitioner who supports clients through trauma, health issues, divorce, and co-parenting while building an international business that creates freedom. The conversation moves through building a business while a marriage and former life were coming apart, using gratitude and positive thinking to avoid difficult feelings, changing working hours after conventional schedules caused physical illness, and the shame attached to needing to work differently. Tara and Becky also discuss the abilities people overlook because they come naturally, the fear of being expected to perform a more polished version of yourself during visible work, and the difference between repeatedly revisiting trauma and discovering who exists underneath it.

  2. Aug 10

    You Don’t Have to Stabilize Your Personal Life Before Your Business Can Continue Operating

    The business still needs clients, decisions, paperwork, visibility, and revenue while the person running it is dealing with financial strain, family demands, and a personal life that has not settled down. This unscripted conversation with Michelle Ella Powell, who offers spiritual and energetic work through sessions, retreats, meditations, and psychic readings, moves through the uneven reality of operating a business from inside those conditions. Michelle discusses limited working hours, flexible plans, missed administrative steps, community referrals, financial fear, performance pressure, and the parts of her business she continues carrying while other parts remain unfinished.

  3. Aug 3

    You Don’t Have to Heal Every Limiting Belief Before the Business Can Move Forward

    The proposal is finished, the price is set, and the business still needs you to press Send. Understanding the earlier experiences and limiting beliefs that make the action difficult may be useful, but the business decision remains unfinished while you work on them. This is an unscripted, unedited conversation with Beth Chisholm, who provides sound and energy healing and life coaching for people struggling with trauma, fear, or distress. The conversation moves through planning, nervous-system strain, visibility, tapping, accumulated anxiety, trust, and redesigning business activity around forms of contact a person can actually sustain.

  4. Jul 27

    You Don’t Have to Push Through Discomfort Before Your Business Can Move Forward

    The post still needs to go out. The offer still needs to reach people. But pushing through discomfort is not necessarily the only way the business can move forward. This is an unscripted, unedited conversation with Caren Cooper, an empowerment and mindset coach helping Gen X women shed conditioning that has kept them shrinking and hiding. We talk about visibility, desperation-driven selling, cookie-cutter instructions, and what happens when difficulty following a method is interpreted as insufficient commitment. The conversation also moves through identity, survival patterns, business boundaries, and learning to build without obeying one complete formula.

  5. May 15

    You Don’t Have to Have a Clear Plan Before You Can Make Business Decisions

    You’re told to get clear and make a plan before acting. The advice assumes you can pause decisions and execution while you figure that out. You can’t. Decisions stay open.Deliverables sit half-done.New requests stack on top of what hasn’t been started yet. The requirement to follow the process delays the very actions that would reduce what’s open. This is an unscripted, unedited conversation with Kyle Miller, who helps people recover from narcissistic abuse so they can function again in work and daily life. Expenses and obligations continue whether the plan is clear or not. Resources for This EpisodeThe Map You’re told to get clear and make a plan before acting. The advice assumes you can pause decisions and execution while you figure that out. You can’t. This is an unscripted, unedited conversation with Kyle Miller, who helps people recover from narcissistic abuse so they can function again in work and daily life. The conversation moves across multiple threads, because business doesn’t happen separately from everything else you are carrying. Connect with Me: https://conversationstocontent.com/home https://www.facebook.com/rebeccavsogden https://www.instagram.com/slightlyunhingedbynature/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/becky-ogden-interviews/ Connect with Kyle: kylemillercoaching.com

  6. May 15

    You Don’t Have to Push Harder to Keep the Business Moving

    You’re told to push harder when progress slows. That advice treats persistence as the thing that eventually unlocks results, even when the same work keeps getting reopened and stays unfinished. Hours stretch longer, attempts repeat, and other responsibilities wait behind what isn’t closing. The business still requires progress. This is an unscripted, unedited conversation with Sathvik Vasam, founder of Go All In Agency, who talks about what changed when forcing progress stopped producing results and he began shifting direction instead of repeating effort. The work still sits there whether more effort changes it or not. Resources for This Episode The MapPush Harder to Drive Progress in Your BusinessThis Map examines the advice to push harder when work stalls — and what happens when effort keeps increasing but results do not.Free. No email opt-in required.https://shorturl.at/iFx3R The Survival Kit for This Episode​​Pushing Harder Isn’t Restoring Momentum, and the Business Still Requires Delivery, Marketing, and Follow-ThroughFor entrepreneurs operating under the assumption that persistence will eventually force progress — and watching the workday stretch longer while results remain unfinished.https://conversationstocontent.com/pushing-harder-isnt-restoring-momentum Connect with Me: https://conversationstocontent.com/home https://www.facebook.com/rebeccavsogden https://www.linkedin.com/in/becky-ogden-interviews/ https://www.instagram.com/slightlyunhingedbynature/ Connect with Sathvik: @thementalsherpa on Instagram, Threads, and YouTube https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathvikvasam

  7. May 15

    You Don’t Have to Fix Your Money Mindset Before Your Business Can be Successful

    Pricing, invoicing, and sales conversations don’t wait for you to fix your money mindset.The advice to get your money mindset right first assumes you can pause revenue while you work through that.You can’t. Prices stay unset.Invoices don’t get sent.Money stays open. The business still needs to get paid. This is an unscripted, unedited conversation with Kelly McCooeye, who helps ambitious women stop spiraling in emotional noise and start actually receiving consistent income, bigger yeses, and grounded confidence that lands clients, raises, and peace. Expenses don’t wait for mindset shifts.Neither does the business. This conversation doesn’t stay on one clean topic. It moves across multiple threads, where business meets the parts that make it harder to do the usual way.

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Slightly Unhinged But Very Insightful is an unscripted podcast about what happens when conventional business advice collides with burnout, grief, caregiving, chronic stress, health struggles, nervous system strain, unstable seasons, and other situations that drastically affect capacity while the business still needs to run anyway. These are honest conversations about visibility, sustainability, pricing, pressure, tradeoffs, and what actually works when there is very little room for error.

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