her Self: IFS & Spiritual Entrepreneurship

What if the reason you're not making the progress you want in bringing your work into the world isn't that you're doing too little, but that you're trying to do too many things that matter to you?
For multi-passionate women, choosing one priority can feel like abandoning all the other possibilities we're excited about. But what if becoming more selective is precisely what allows our most important work to come into form?
Inspired by two of my favorite business books, I'm exploring the art of choosing what deserves our deepest attention in a particular season of life.
I'll share how a year of significant personal changes has reshaped my own priorities, why I've recently said no to opportunities I genuinely wanted to pursue, and how Internal Family Systems can help us distinguish between the wisdom of letting something go and the fear of staying with it.
Plus, as we approach the end of 2026, I'll invite you to consider one question that could change the way you approach your business in 2027.
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Substack Essay: A Season for Living It, Not Just Writing About It
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
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What if the clarity you've been searching for in your work isn't going to come from another strategy, another expert, or another round of trying to figure everything out?
As women in business, our intuition is one of our greatest resources. Yet it's often the very thing we lose touch with when money, ambition, fear, and the expectations of others enter the picture.
After more than twenty-five years of spiritual practice and running my own business, I've found that retreat is one of the most powerful ways to recover that connection.
In this episode, I'm exploring why stepping away can lead to some of our most important business decisions, the overlooked intuitive wisdom of women's cycles and life transitions, and how to make retreat a regular part of the way you fulfill your calling.
Because sometimes the answers we're working so hard to find only become clear when we stop looking for them.
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What if the resistance you feel around your most important work isn't something you need to overcome, but something you can learn to work with?
After more than twenty years of writing books, creating programs, and running my own business, I've learned that resistance doesn't necessarily disappear with experience. But our relationship with it can change.
In this episode, I'm sharing my three most effective tools for working with resistance, drawing on spiritual practice, Internal Family Systems, and the practical habits that have helped me bring my ideas into the world.
Because the work you've been putting off may be the very work you're here to create.
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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.
Subscribe to my newsletter, “Sara’s Sunday Journal.”
Follow me on Instagram @saraavantstover
Listen to episode 270: The First Place I Look When Something Feels Off in My Business
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What if bringing your greatest work into the world requires you to become a beginner again, after spending years becoming an expert?
In 2023, I made one of the biggest pivots of my career. What followed was far more challenging than I anticipated, and a conversation with one of my mentors changed how I understood what I was going through.
In this episode, I share what the last three years have taught me about the apprenticeship of our life’s work, why we can’t think our way to a fully formed vision, and how creating our work changes us along the way.
Because your best work may still be ahead of you, too.
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
Subscribe to my Substack.
Watch on YouTube.
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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.
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
Subscribe to my Substack.
Watch on YouTube.
SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW
If you loved this episode, please take a moment to subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.
Your support helps us reach more spiritually attuned women entrepreneurs who need these conversations.
Thank you for tuning into the her Self podcast, and I’ll see you next week.