her Self: IFS & Spiritual Entrepreneurship

What do you do when something in your business isn’t working and all the obvious places you know to look aren’t giving you the answer?
I found myself thinking about this after a recent Friday morning when I skipped something I’ve been doing, in one form or another, for more than 25 years. And I could feel the difference. And it reminded me of something I see in my own work, and with the women I mentor, all the time.
When we feel stuck in our businesses, we tend to look first at the most visible problem: the offer, the messaging, the marketing, the clients who aren’t coming, or the decision we can’t seem to make. But over the years, I’ve learned to look somewhere else first.
In this episode, I share the three areas I pay attention to when something in a business isn’t working, why the one we’re most tempted to skip can affect everything that comes after it, and two experiences from my own creative life that changed the way I understand where our best work comes from.
If you’ve been trying harder to solve a problem in your business and still can’t quite find your way through it, this may give you a different place to look.
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You’ve done years of inner work, developed real expertise, and you know there’s more you’re here to create. Now you’re ready to stop carrying so much of your work as potential and learn how to bring it fully into the world.
Open Channel is my free training for spiritually mature women who are ready to bring their spirituality, inner work, and business strategy together to build a clear, profitable business around the work they’re here to do.
If you’re ready to trust yourself, choose a direction, and become more skillful at creating the clients, income, and impact you know your work is capable of, click here to join me.
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What happens when you’ve spent years, or even decades, becoming excellent at your work, but your business hasn’t reached the same level of maturity?
I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately, especially after conversations with two highly trained clients who both believed the next step in bringing their life’s work into the world was another certification.
It raised a distinction I think many accomplished women miss: being an expert at your work and being skilled at building a business around that work are two different forms of mastery.
In this episode, I explore what it means to be a senior practitioner while still developing as a business owner, why we can so easily misdiagnose what we need to learn next, and what your current business results may actually be telling you about where your next apprenticeship lies.
If the depth of your expertise has outpaced your ability to build a business around it, the question may no longer be how to become better at your work, but what you need to become better at next.
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
You’ve done years of inner work, developed real expertise, and you know there’s more you’re here to create. Now you’re ready to stop carrying so much of your work as potential and learn how to bring it fully into the world.
Open Channel is my free training for spiritually mature women who are ready to bring their spirituality, inner work, and business strategy together to build a clear, profitable business around the work they’re here to do.
If you’re ready to trust yourself, choose a direction, and become more skillful at creating the clients, income, and impact you know your work is capable of, click here to join me.
Subscribe to my newsletter, “Sara’s Sunday Journal.”
Follow me on Instagram @saraavantstover
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What does it actually mean to lead your business from Self?
In Internal Family Systems (IFS), Self is the grounded center within us that can lead with clarity, curiosity, compassion, and confidence, even when other parts of us are afraid, impatient, ambitious, disappointed, or unsure.
In this episode, I explore five qualities of Self that I find especially powerful in entrepreneurship, along with how I’m working with them in my own business right now. I also look at something I’ve become increasingly interested in: how easily a part of us can appear to embody one of these qualities when something very different is happening underneath.
Because business has a way of bringing our parts to the surface. Money, visibility, uncertainty, failure, success, and being seen can all activate something in us, sometimes without our even realizing it.
So how do you know when you’re actually leading from Self, and when a part of you has taken the lead?
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
You’ve done years of inner work, developed real expertise, and you know there’s more you’re here to create. Now you’re ready to stop carrying so much of your work as potential and learn how to bring it fully into the world.
Open Channel is my free training for spiritually mature women who are ready to bring their spirituality, inner work, and business strategy together so they can turn their depth into a clear, profitable business around the work they’re here to do.
If you’re ready to trust yourself, choose a direction, and become more skillful at creating the clients, income, and impact you know your work is capable of, click here to join me.
Subscribe to my newsletter, “Sara’s Sunday Journal.”
Follow me on Instagram @saraavantstover
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Listen to episode #267: What Are You Compounding?
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What if the things that will make the biggest difference in your life and business are the things that barely seem to matter today?
As I get closer to 50, I’ve been thinking a lot about the small choices I made decades ago that I’m benefiting from now. I see it in my health, my spiritual practices, my relationship with money, and increasingly, in the way I build and lead my business.
Compounding is easy to understand when we look at money. But the same principle is at work throughout our lives and businesses.
If you’ve been wondering whether you need a new strategy, a new offer, a new direction, or simply a different relationship with what you’ve already built, I hope this episode helps you look at your business through a much longer lens.
Because the question may not be whether things are compounding in your business. They already are. The more interesting question is what.
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What if some of the things you’ve been avoiding in business are actually the things that could help you grow?
Over the years, I’ve worked with hundreds of spiritual women entrepreneurs, and I’ve watched the same few patterns surface again and again. They often look sensible, even wise, on the surface. But underneath, they can make bringing your soul’s work into the world much harder than it needs to be.
Together, we’ll explore:
The business number I wish more women understood, and why getting it “right” may not mean what you think.
A distinction around ambition that changed the way I think about sustainable success.
Why investing in support is only the beginning, and what determines how much you actually receive from it.
The pattern I see among highly trained women who readily invest in their expertise, but hesitate somewhere else.
What professional athletes understand about sustainable performance that entrepreneurs can learn from.
One simple practice I use to get far more value from the coaching rooms I invest in.

These three mistakes may seem unrelated at first. But by the end of the episode, I think you’ll see how closely they’re connected, and why shifting even one of them can change your relationship with your business.
If you want your business to become a greater source of freedom, stability, and support in your life, while giving your deepest work a structure through which it can thrive, this episode will give you a few things to consider.
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Join my free training, Open Channel, for spiritually mature women in business.
Subscribe to my newsletter, “Sara’s Sunday Journal.”
Follow me on Instagram @saraavantstover
Subscribe to my Substack.
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