her Self: IFS & Spiritual Entrepreneurship

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.

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
Subscribe to my Substack.

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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
Subscribe to my Substack.
Listen to episode #267: What Are You Compounding?
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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.