Expand Your Empire

Amanda Taylor
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Welcome to the Expand Your Empire Podcast, the go-to show for high-achieving women entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors who are ready to build real wealth and lasting freedom. Hosted by Amanda Taylor, Business and Wealth Strategist, Investor, and Founder of The Inner Circle, this podcast blends financial strategy, feminine leadership, and wealth creation to help you grow your income, elevate your investments, and scale your business with confidence. Tune in to Expand Your Empire at https://expandyourempire.org.

  1. Why Your Childhood Still Runs Your Bank Account

    3d ago

    Why Your Childhood Still Runs Your Bank Account

    This week on Expand Your Empire, Amanda sits down with Audrey Schoen, a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in financial therapy for high achievers, entrepreneurs, executives, and couples. Audrey is not speaking theoretically. She has lived the tipping point where your business pulls from your life rather than funding it, and she built her practice helping others find their way out of it. Together, Amanda and Audrey get into the uncomfortable truth most entrepreneurs skip: your relationship with money shapes your relationships at home. From the childhood blueprints driving your financial decisions to the emotional landmines buried inside couples' money conflicts, Audrey breaks down why logic and spreadsheets are never enough on their own. In this episode, they cover: Why money is one of the most avoided topics in the therapy room, and why even therapists aren't immuneHow the blueprint you built in childhood is still running your pricing, your spending, and your conflicts at homeThe difference between functioning and thriving, even when everything looks fine from the outsideWhat it means when your business can't stand on its own two feet without pulling from your lifeWhy naming your enough number is the only real way off the treadmill If you are a business owner, high achiever, or building something with a partner, this conversation will make you rethink what you have normalized and what it is costing you. Read about our guest this week: Audrey Schoen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in the Roseville/Sacramento area, working with entrepreneurs, executives, and high-achieving couples across California and Texas. She specializes in private intensives, concentrated, high-impact work for people who've spent years building something impressive and are suddenly confronted with what it's cost them personally. Her clients are successful, and that success has quietly hollowed out their relationship, their sense of self, or both. Audrey uses a direct, no-fluff approach combining Relational Life Therapy, Brainspotting, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy to help high-performers do the inner work that actually sticks Connect with Audrey Schoen, LMFT: Check out her website: https://www.audreylmft.com/ Check out her Instagram:   / audreylmft   Check out her Facebook:   / audreylmft   Check out her YouTube:    / @audreylmft   Check out her LinkedIn:   / audreyschoen

    45 min
  2. A Number Cannot Evaluate A Person. So Stop Letting It.

    Jul 1

    A Number Cannot Evaluate A Person. So Stop Letting It.

    A founder gets a number. Revenue for the month. A client who didn’t renew. The bank balance before payroll. And instead of treating that number as information, she treats it as a verdict. This episode is about the decision-making problem hiding inside that confusion, and why it quietly costs founders years of decisions, not just one bad month. In this episode: Why a bad number gets treated as a verdict instead of data, and how that warps decision making around pricing, hard client conversations, and EBITDAThe two questions that get fused together, and why only one of them is actually usefulWhy two founders can get the exact same bad month and end up with completely different next 90 daysWhere this pattern actually comes from, and why it gets louder once you own the businessWhy your numbers will always get recruited to do a job they were never built to do if there’s nothing stable underneath you privatelyA 10-minute homework exercise to build the muscle before the next bad number lands If you want help mapping out what your numbers actually say about where you stand structurally, the link to the wealth strategy blueprint is below.

    13 min
  3. From Charity To Empowerment: Why Susan Bought An Auto Shop

    Jun 24

    From Charity To Empowerment: Why Susan Bought An Auto Shop

    I met Susan at a Coronado Chamber of Commerce event. She mentioned she'd bought an auto shop. When I found out why, I knew I had to have her on. After sponsoring two Ukrainian families and watching how hard it was for them to stabilize here in the US, Susan didn't want to stop at temporary support. She bought an existing auto repair shop in Point Loma and created a real pathway for them to have work, dignity, and community. In this episode: How Susan went from sponsoring families to buying a business she knew nothing aboutWhy she negotiated seller financing instead of touching her retirement fund, and how that deal actually workedThe difference between charity and empowerment, and why one is far more sustainable than the otherThe operational lessons of buying an existing business: customers, niche, pricing, and stepping out of day-to-day operationsSusan's advocacy work with Voice for UA and the urgent timeline facing Ukrainian families on temporary status in the US If you want to support Voice for UA, links to donate, advocate, or get involved directly are below. Website: Www.voice4ua.org Connect on Instagram: @voice4ua

    50 min
  4. You cannot Buy Your Way Out Of A Belief.

    Jun 17

    You cannot Buy Your Way Out Of A Belief.

    You Cannot Buy Your Way Out Of A Belief. I want to confess something. I have spent a significant amount of money over the course of building my businesses on coaching programs, courses, masterminds, community memberships, and certifications. A lot of things I paid for and didn't even do. Most of them were good. The content was solid. The frameworks made sense. This isn't about getting scammed. It's about why I bought them. In this episode: Why most of my purchases had very little to do with the program and everything to do with how I felt at the time I bought themThe Gen X conditioning underneath the belief that stopping feels like failure and stillness feels like lazinessWhy the business that eats everything you feed it isn't hungry, it's a reflection of what's running underneathThe question to ask before your next investment in a program, a tool, or a new hireWhy this isn't a clean resolution and what I'm still working on myself If you've been feeding the machine for a while and wondering why the number that stays never seems to grow, there's a free 45-minute one-on-one conversation linked below where we look at your actual numbers and trace exactly where the money is going and why. https://elevateprofit.biz/profit-acce...

    13 min
  5. Effort Is Not Always Strategy. Sometimes It's Just Fear In Disguise.

    Jun 10

    Effort Is Not Always Strategy. Sometimes It's Just Fear In Disguise.

    When is the last time you did nothing and let it be okay? Not rest you scheduled. Not a Sunday blocked off so you could recover enough to work again Monday. Actually stopped, left space open, and didn't fill it. If you're anything like me, the answer is that sounds like a trap. The entrepreneurship space is always telling us to add more. Post more. Build the funnel. Launch the offer. Grow the list. The advice is always additive. There is always one more thing that is supposed to be the thing that finally makes it all click into place. But nobody is talking about the cost of running 15 strategies at half capacity. Nobody's asking whether the reason it isn't converting is because you need to add something, or because everything you've already built needs more of your actual energy than you have left after spreading yourself across everything else. That's the trap. And it's subtle because the trap looks exactly like discipline. In this episode: Why effort has a quality to it and why two people can produce the same output and get completely different resultsWhy busyness is sometimes avoidance and what it's actually protecting you from having to faceThe overeffort trap in its most personal form and what writing my own chapter taught me about standing in front of real things and asking if they're enoughThe effort audit, two questions to ask about everything currently active in your businessWhy the gap between expectation and reality is not evidence you're failing Things are working. They may not look exactly the way you thought they would. What you've built needs more space, not more input. Next week: the conditioning underneath this compulsion. The Gen X piece, the message absorbed watching parents grind, and how it's living in your business decisions right now without you realizing it.

    14 min
  6. You're Not Stuck Because You Don't Know. You're Stuck Because You Won't Move.

    Jun 3

    You're Not Stuck Because You Don't Know. You're Stuck Because You Won't Move.

    This episode is not for the woman who doesn't know what she's doing wrong. It's for the woman who knows exactly what she's doing wrong, could probably teach a master class on it, and is doing it anyway. She's read the books. Done the programs. She can articulate her money blocks with impressive clinical precision. She knows she's underpricing. She knows she's avoiding her numbers. She even knows she's waiting for a feeling of readiness that's never going to arrive on its own. She knows all of this. And she's still right there. Most money mindset content assumes the problem is awareness. It's not. The pattern is not in your strategy or your pricing model or your marketing funnel. The pattern is in your identity. And you cannot think your way into a new one. In this episode: Why awareness alone has never been enough and what actually creates changeFive signs you're playing small with money and the identity belief running underneath each oneWhy the smarter you are, the better you are at this particular trapWhy paying yourself last is not a cash flow problem, it is a self-worth problemThe one question that cuts through the preparation loop every timeWhat the experience shift actually looks like for each of the five signs The gap between knowing and being is not a thinking gap. It is an action gap. This episode is about how to close it. I have a few spots open for free Profit Accelerator Calls this week. This is for business owners who are making sales but want a clearer look at where the profit, time, or opportunity is leaking: https://elevateprofit.biz/profit-acce...

    29 min
  7. Accumulation Is Not A Strategy. Multiplication Is.

    May 27

    Accumulation Is Not A Strategy. Multiplication Is.

    Every time I bring up investing, someone says I'm not good at math and checks out. That was never the real reason. The real reason is that nobody explained it in a language that felt like it was built for them. That is what this entire show is for. This is the final episode of Paychecks to Portfolios. We are on the multiple layers of the earn, control, own, multiply framework. And this is where the long game actually starts. In this episode: The difference between accumulation and multiplication and why most people are doing one and calling it the otherWhy more income without a multiplication system just creates more movementThe four multipliers, compounding, leverage, tax strategy, and network, and what they actually look like in practiceThe five roles an asset can play and why you need to know what job each one of yours is doingWhy the question is not what should I invest in but what am I buildingThe multiply audit, four questions to do right nowThis is the final episode of the Paychecks to Portfolios series. Resources mentioned in this episode Investing 101 Course: https://investing101.expandyourempire... American Dream Mastermind Group: https://theamericandreamgroup.org/ Wealth Strategy Call: https://elevateprofit.biz/profit-acce...

    36 min
  8. You've Built Income. You Haven't Built A Position.

    May 20

    You've Built Income. You Haven't Built A Position.

    If you stopped working tomorrow, not retired, just stopped, how long could you maintain your current life before things started to break? If the answer is a few months, that is not a criticism. That is just data. And it tells you something important. You have built income. What you have not built yet is a position. And those are two very different things. This episode is about ownership. What it actually means, how the wealth gap between men and women is not a mystery but a math problem with a very specific set of inputs, and why the entry point for getting in is lower than it has ever been in history. In this episode: Why women control 32 cents of wealth for every dollar men hold and why the income gap alone does not explain itThe second shift and why it is not just stealing your time but stealing your compoundingWhy you cannot outearn your way to wealthThe difference between income and a position and why producing does not compoundThree inroads into ownership that are available to you right now regardless of where you are starting fromFour conversion moves to make this week This is Part 2 of the Paychecks to Portfolios series. Listen to the rest of the series below: Part 1: You Have The Income. So Why Are You Still Managing Anxiety Instead Of Money? – Expand Your Empire Part 3: You Built The Income. Now Make It Work Without You. – Expand Your Empire Resources mentioned in this episode: Investing 101 Course: https://investing101.expandyourempire.org/investing-101 American Dream Mastermind Group: https://theamericandreamgroup.org/ Wealth Strategy Call: https://elevateprofit.biz/profit-acceleration

    21 min
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Welcome to the Expand Your Empire Podcast, the go-to show for high-achieving women entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors who are ready to build real wealth and lasting freedom. Hosted by Amanda Taylor, Business and Wealth Strategist, Investor, and Founder of The Inner Circle, this podcast blends financial strategy, feminine leadership, and wealth creation to help you grow your income, elevate your investments, and scale your business with confidence. Tune in to Expand Your Empire at https://expandyourempire.org.

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  • Creator
    Amanda Taylor
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    48
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright 2025 | All Rights Reserved | Amanda Taylor https://expandyourempire.org
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