Success Savage Sessions

Amber Criswell

Success Savage Sessions is where high-performing women stop playing small and start building unapologetic wealth, power, and freedom. Hosted by Amber Criswell—Nurse Practitioner, Army Captain, and business mentor—this podcast cuts through excuses and rewires the way you think about money, success, and what's actually possible for your life. We talk leadership, identity, leveraged income, mental resilience, and building a life you don't need to escape from. No fluff. No victim mindset. Just strategy, truth, and execution.

Episodes

  1. 6d ago ·  Video

    From Burned-Out Good Girl to Success Savage | Welcome to the Show

    "Everything I was told would make me successful… almost broke me."   Welcome to the very first episode of Success Savage Sessions — the podcast for ambitious women who've mastered responsibility and are finally ready to master their own lives.   In this episode, host Amber Criswell — nurse practitioner, Army Captain, entrepreneur, and founder of The Success Savage — shares the origin story of the woman (and the movement) behind the mic. From "good girl" high achiever to burned-out on paper success, Amber gets real about following the formula perfectly — the degrees, the debt, the nursing career, the Army commission, the nurse practitioner path — and still ending up exhausted, financially pressured, and disconnected from herself.   This is the episode that names what so many high-achieving women feel but never say out loud: you can do everything "right" and still feel trapped. And you don't have to keep living that way.   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   IN THIS EPISODE: • Why doing everything "right" left Amber feeling trapped • The exact moment she knew this wasn't the life she wanted • Why struggle is not the same as worth (especially for high achievers and healthcare workers) • How the Success Savage identity was born — and who this movement is for • What to expect from the podcast: identity, leadership, wealth, mindset, healing, and reinvention   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   CHAPTERS: 00:00 — "Everything I was told would make me successful almost broke me" 01:30 — Welcome to Success Savage Sessions 03:15 — The good girl formula: degrees, debt, and doing everything right 06:00 — Nurse, NP, Army officer — and still not free 08:45 — The moment I realized this isn't the life I wanted 11:20 — The lie that struggle equals worth 13:40 — How the Success Savage was born 16:10 — Who this podcast is for 18:00 — Your invitation to rise   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF: You're a high-achieving woman — in healthcare, the military, corporate, or entrepreneurship — who has done everything you were supposed to do and quietly knows something has to change. You're not lazy. You're not behind. You've just outgrown the map you were handed.   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   CONNECT WITH AMBER: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesuccesssavage Coaching + speaking inquiries: ambercriswell@me.com   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   If this episode spoke to you: • Follow the show so you don't miss what's coming next • Share it with one woman who needs to hear it • Tag @thesuccesssavage on Instagram — I'd love to hear what hit • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts — it helps this message reach more women   You are not lazy. You are not behind. You are not asking for too much. You've just outgrown the version of life you were taught to settle for.   New episodes drop every week.

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Success Savage Sessions is where high-performing women stop playing small and start building unapologetic wealth, power, and freedom. Hosted by Amber Criswell—Nurse Practitioner, Army Captain, and business mentor—this podcast cuts through excuses and rewires the way you think about money, success, and what's actually possible for your life. We talk leadership, identity, leveraged income, mental resilience, and building a life you don't need to escape from. No fluff. No victim mindset. Just strategy, truth, and execution.