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At BossMom, we're normalizing the conversations that help you grow a business while raising a family.

In this episode, Dana breaks down the critical difference between sharing that builds your business and sharing that kills sales. She explores the concept of wounds versus scars—why sharing too soon can make customers back away, and how waiting for the lessons to crystallize creates content that converts. From her own experience with grief tanking her revenue to learning when vulnerability becomes a powerful teaching tool, Dana gives you the framework to know exactly what to share online and when to share it.

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📝 Check out the full article that pairs with this episode: → https://bossmom.com/uncategorized/vulnerability   📚 Want more conversations like this? Browse our full library of articles: → https://boss-mom.com/articles   🛠 Looking for the best tools, tips, and resources every BossMom needs in life and business? → https://boss-mom.com/resources   💬 Ready to go deeper with us? When you know that community and connection aren't just nice-to-haves, but the strategy that helps you thrive—come join us inside BossMom+. → https://bossmom.com/join   It's our private networking community built just for moms growing businesses—because you shouldn't have to do this alone.   What You'll Learn in This Episode:

✨ The relatability factor: what makes content connect versus what pushes people away 
✨ Wounds vs. scars: the critical framework that determines if your vulnerability builds or tanks sales
✨ Why "monetizing your healing" sabotages your business (and what to do instead)
✨ The two questions to ask before sharing anything online
✨ How to know when shame has transformed into a lesson worth teaching
✨ Why your audience isn't the same as your inner circle (and why that matters)

Success doesn't come from doing more it comes from doing what matters and making it easier to stay consistent. That's why tools like FutureMe GPT and Nurture to Convert AI were created: to help you take action, simplify your messaging, and grow your business without the overwhelm. Your audience is ready for you. Now it's about showing up in a way that works for you. Check out bossmom.com/futureme and nurturetoconvert.ai to see how much lighter business can feel. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes!   About BossMom: BossMom is the leading voice and resource for moms building businesses. We know you're not here to choose between being an amazing parent or running a successful business—you're here to build a life that makes room for both. Find more resources, support, and community right here → https://bossmom.comhttps://bossmom.com

At BossMom, we're normalizing the conversations that help you grow a business while raising a family.

In this episode, Dana sits down with Dr. Shannon Irvine to explore why your brain actively works against your business growth—and how to rewire it. From hitting invisible revenue ceilings to the "I'll just do it myself" trap that keeps mom entrepreneurs stuck, Shannon shares the neuroscience behind why all your strategies aren't working. She reveals how limiting beliefs programmed in childhood create subconscious patterns that sabotage success, and walks through her proven 67-day framework for building new neural pathways that make scaling, delegating, and wealth feel safe. You don't need more hustle or willpower—you need to understand how your brain works and intentionally rewire it for the success you're building.

Explore More Resources from BossMom BossMom is your go-to home base for content, support, and community designed specifically for moms growing businesses → https://bossmom.com   📝 Check out the full article that pairs with this episode: → https://bossmom.com/mindset/shannon-irvine/   📚 Want more conversations like this? Browse our full library of articles: → https://boss-mom.com/articles   🛠 Looking for the best tools, tips, and resources every BossMom needs in life and business? → https://boss-mom.com/resources   💬 Ready to go deeper with us? When you know that community and connection aren't just nice-to-haves, but the strategy that helps you thrive—come join us inside BossMom+. → https://bossmom.com/join   It's our private networking community built just for moms growing businesses—because you shouldn't have to do this alone.   What You'll Learn in This Episode:

✨ Why your brain perceives growth as a threat—and how that creates invisible revenue ceilings

✨ The neuroscience behind procrastination, perfectionism, and the "I'll just do it myself" trap

✨ How childhood programming creates limiting beliefs that sabotage your success (without you even knowing it)

✨ Why you can't out-hustle your subconscious patterns—and what actually works instead

✨ Dr. Shannon's 67-day framework for rewiring your brain to make scaling, delegating, and wealth feel safe

✨ How to shift your identity from "doer" to "leader" so you can finally scale beyond your personal capacity

✨ Why skepticism is the only thing standing between you and your next level

 

Success doesn't come from doing more it comes from doing what matters and making it easier to stay consistent. That's why tools like FutureMe GPT and Nurture to Convert AI were created: to help you take action, simplify your messaging, and grow your business without the overwhelm. Your audience is ready for you. Now it's about showing up in a way that works for you. Check out bossmom.com/futureme and nurturetoconvert.ai to see how much lighter business can feel. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes! About BossMom: BossMom is the leading voice and resource for moms building businesses. We know you're not here to choose between being an amazing parent or running a successful business—you're here to build a life that makes room for both. Find more resources, support, and community right here → https://bossmom.com

Here at BossMom, we know the best breakthroughs don't come from pretending everything's fine. They come when we're honest about the fear, the overwhelm, and the spirals of anxiety that so many of us carry while raising kids and building businesses.

In this episode, Dana sits down with Zen Cryar DeBrucke, creator of the Fear-Free Human Movement and founder of the Recreating You Game. Zen shares her work on the Internal Guidance System (IGS), a built-in compass we all have that helps us detect when our thoughts are leading us off track, and how to shift toward ones that open us up to alignment, peace, and possibility.

Together, they explore what it looks like to move past fear-based thinking, how to recognize the signals in your body that show you the truth, and why learning to pivot into "opening" thoughts can be the key to lasting emotional freedom.

If you've ever wondered how to stop the late-night worry spiral, how to respond to life's chaos with more clarity, or how to live and lead from a place of abundance instead of fear, this conversation will leave you inspired, grounded, and ready to trust the guidance system you already carry inside.

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BossMom is your go-to home base for content, support, and community designed specifically for moms growing businesses → https://bossmom.com

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→ https://bossmom.com/motherhood/unlocking-emotional-freedom-and-abundant-living-with-zen-cryar-debrucke/

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→ https://boss-mom.com/articles

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→ https://boss-mom.com/resources

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→ https://bossmom.com/join

It's our private networking community built just for moms growing businesses—because you shouldn't have to do this alone.

 What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• What the Internal Guidance System really is and how it differs from intuition and emotions.

• The difference between opening and closing thoughts, and how to feel the signals in your own body.

• Why emotional freedom matters and how it changes the way you parent, partner, and run your business.

• The truth about guilt vs. remorse and why one keeps you stuck while the other sets you free.

• Practical ways to use your IGS daily, from handling kid interruptions to making big business decisions.

This episode is a reminder that you don't have to be ruled by fear, anxiety, or overwhelm. You already have the tools inside you to find calm, clarity, and courage. Zen's work with the Internal Guidance System shows us that emotional freedom isn't just possible, it's the foundation for living a more abundant, aligned life. Be sure to check out Zen's Recreating You Game, a five-day practice designed to help you experience your IGS in action and start living with more ease right away.

You were never meant to just survive the chaos, you were meant to thrive. The guidance you've been searching for has been within you all along, and when you learn to trust it, freedom and abundance can become your everyday reality.

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About BossMom:
BossMom is the leading voice and resource for moms building businesses. We know you're not here to choose between being an amazing parent or running a successful business—you're here to build a life that makes room for both. Find more resources, support, and community right here → https://bossmom.com

A great personality quiz makes your audience feel seen and understood, and that doesn't happen by chance. Quizzes are more than a set of random questions, they are an artform with many moving parts.

 

Get it right and you'll easily attract the right people, serve your clients, deepen your relationships and sell more. Get it wrong and it can set your marketing back.

 

Why do quizzes work so well? What's the first step to crafting a great quiz?

 

In this episode, list-building expert, Linda Sidhu shares how quizzes became her business, and how to create quizzes that work.

 

Quizzes can help you attract the right leads, serve your clients and sell your offers. -Linda Sidhu

 

3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode

 

-Why quizzes?

What makes quizzes such an excellent marketing tool?

 

-Get people to say "how did you know"?

How do we craft quizzes that immediately resonate with our audience?

 

-3 types of questions your quizzes should have

Why are personality questions, engaging questions and research questions all so important?

 

Guest Bio

 

Linda Sidhu is a list-building expert who helps entrepreneurs create irresistible personality quizzes that attract hundreds of new subscribers on autopilot. As a former top ten pharmaceutical sales representative, she had extensive training in personality types. She took the same methods that worked for selling products face-to-face and turned them into a personality quiz framework that converts views to leads at 70% and helps craft personalized marketing for her customers. She's been featured in the media in Forbes as well as on Cubicle to CEO, The Go-To Gal Podcast, and The Art of Online Business with Rick Mulready.

To take Linda's 2-minute Quiz to Cash assessment and discover how to rock your next launch based on your strengths go to https://www.lindasidhu.com/quiztocash. Find Linda on Facebook and follow her on Instagram. 

We want to raise emotionally intelligent, connected and kind children who will become awesome adults. We want them to build good relationships, ask good questions and understand the purpose behind everything they do.

 

Instead of resigning ourselves to kids just being kids, we can intentionally and proactively teach them what matters and stop reinforcing the wrong ideas.

 

How do we help our kids communicate, develop and grow? How do we teach them lessons that allow them to thrive well into adulthood?

 

In this episode, I'm joined by writer, speaker, online community leader, and author of "52 Modern Manners for Kids", Brooke Romney. She shares why she's passionate about helping children build better relationships, learn good manners and feel more connected.

 

Self-confidence doesn't come from a parent saying you're awesome 200 times a day. It comes from tackling hard tasks and feeling capable, and that's really important. -Brooke Romney  

 

3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode

 

-Reinforcing the right ideas 

How do we teach our kids to see the purpose behind activities when they aren't based on having fun?

 

-Forget "kids will be kids"

How do we raise our children to become awesome, aware and kind adults?

 

-Persistence and irrational value 

There's no such thing as an overnight success. How did Brooke build her online community?

 

Guest Bio

Brooke Romney is a writer, speaker and leader of an online community who helps moms of teens and tweens create meaningful, healthy and enjoyable relationships with their children through practical application, education and community. Her goal is for every family to feel confident and connected. The mother of four boys ages tween to adult, Brooke knows parenting perfection isn't real and takes an honest and hopeful approach with her audience. Her best-selling book 52 Modern Manners for Today's Teens (Volumes 1 & 2) provides weekly tips to help parents and teens navigate the complexities of today's world. The follow-up, 52 Modern Manners for Kids, features tips for kids and tweens aged four to 12. Brooke's work has been featured in The Washington Post, Scary Mommy and Forbes. Brooke and her family live in Utah. For more information, follow @brookeromneywrites and buy "52 Modern Manners For Kids" here.

Every time we tell someone to be grateful for something they find burdensome, frustrating and hard, all we do is create a bunch of guilt and resentment. There's something a lot better than gratitude - perspective.

 

What if instead of forcing gratitude, we admit that yes, this thing sucks, but we're doing it in service of a greater good or bigger goal? By allowing ourselves to shift perspective and not express gratitude for things we're not happy about, we're being honest with ourselves, and we move through it a lot easier.

 

In this episode, I talk about the danger of gratitude, and why perspective is way more effective.

 

You've got to decide the stuff you care about. That way, you can shift your perspective to why the hard things you're doing matter, then you can be grateful for the journey, even though the moments piss you off. -Dana Malstaff 

 

3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode

 

-Your brain hates it when you're sneaky 

Forcing yourself to be grateful for things you're not happy about backfires. What happens to our brains when we're not honest about something that sucks? 

 

-Balancing things out 

No one is grateful for allergies and other challenges. How can we use humor and perspective to deal with it? 

 

-Don't deny what pisses you off

How do we find out what we care about so we know the hard things we have to do to get them?

 

As business owners, our brains are our most valuable asset. When we're experiencing low energy, brain fog, feeling run-down and decisions feel hard, that's a sign that something's off. Very often, that thing is sleep.

 

In the realm of health, we tend to put our focus on food and exercise, but sleep is the foundation of it all. Sleep is free and we're already doing it, so why not make it better?

 

Moms and entrepreneurs often feel like we don't have enough time in our day for all the things. By getting good sleep, we can actually hack time. When we get our sleep dialed in, our brains move a lot faster, and we get more done in less time.

 

How do we improve our sleep quality? What are the benefits of good sleep? In this episode, health coach and consultant, Tanessa Shears shares why sleep is the key to feeling good in our bodies and our businesses.

 

Start with sleep - it's free and you're doing it already, so why not start by making the sleep you are getting better? -Tanessa Shears  

 

Things You'll Learn in This Episode

 

-Denormalize your pain
Most of us wait for a catalyst to change our health. What are the signs we need to do things differently? 

 

-REM sleep is entrepreneur's gold
Why is REM sleep so important to our creativity and problem-solving ability?

 

-Get more from your down-time, me-time, zone-out time
Instead of aimless (and often draining) scrolling, how do we recharge during our down-time?

 

-Small changes pay off
Tracking our health and taking steps to change is a lot to ask for busy moms and business owners. What are some simple set-it-and-forget-it actions we can take?

 

Guest Bio

 

Tanessa Shears helps entrepreneurs double their energy and focus so they can make more money in their business. She works closely with business owners to eliminate brain fog and wake up well rested so they can get more done in less time, maintain consistent, stable energy throughout the day and feel better than they have in years.

For more information, head to https://tanessashears.com/, listen to the podcast over at
https://tanessashears.com/podcast and follow @tanessashears on Instagram. 

Get Tanessa's FREE entrepreneur's playbook, 12 Ways to Biohack Your Energy here.

When people talk about menopause, it's all about hot flashes, night sweats, discomfort and misery. It is what it is, those are the cards we're dealt. Well, I refuse to live in an "it is what it is" world.

 

As women, we suffer unnecessarily because we try to power through menopause. When we get the help and solutions we need, menopause can be a powerful time of rebirth. Instead of normalizing discomfort, we can take action and experience that.

 

What are the key steps we can take to own menopause?

 

In this episode, menopause wellness coach, former body builder, fitness instructor, and software developer, Diesta Goldsmith shares how to navigate menopause without diminishing your quality of life.

 

You don't have to be a hot mess going through menopause. If you get the help you need, you can own it. -Diesta Goldsmith

 

3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode

 

-The lies we're told about aging 

A lot of what we hear about menopause is nothing but gloom and doom. Why do we have to stop believing it has to be that way, and that there's nothing we can do about it?

 

-The building blocks of health and wellness in menopause 

How do we get our sleep, nutrition, exercise and stress dialed in so we maintain our quality of life through this change?

 

-Don't go through it alone

Our lives are complex and sometimes overwhelming. How do we find the connection, community and accountability to support us through all the changes we're going through?

 

Guest Bio

 

Diesta is a certified menopause wellness coach, former body builder, fitness instructor, and software developer. She helps women master their menopause so they will not suffer (like she did) going through this beautiful transition in life. It's go-time. Vision Up Queen.

 

Learn about Diesta's 5 secrets to mastering your menopause symptoms and losing your unwanted weight gain here.

For more information, head to www.visionupwellness.com, follow Diesta on Instagram or find her on Facebook.

Even though we've made massive progress, women still struggle with self-advocacy skills, especially true in the workplace. Communicating the right way, setting boundaries, and speaking up for ourselves benefits us but doing so with confidence and finesse often requires a little outside help.

 

How do we get the support we need so that we can have families, and still grow in our careers? How do we speak up when we find out we're not earning what we're worth?

 

In this episode, certified Career and Mindset coach, Natalie Serebrennik shares how we can advocate for ourselves at work, and we discuss why what she does is so important.

 

The moment you announce to your boss and team that you're pregnant, an invisible label gets put on you. -Natalie Serebrennik

 

3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode

 

-Balancing motherhood and climbing the ladder

When you're kicking butt at work, you worry about growth taking a pause when you start a family. Can you get your manager and team to help protect your job and avoid stalling?

 

-Save yourself years of slugging it out

Can we make navigating our careers easier by talking to someone who has been there, done that and learned the lessons already?

 

-How to tailor your dialogue to your goal

When we want to rectify not being paid our worth, storming in and pounding the table won't help. How can we advocate for ourselves in the right way?

 

Guest Bio

 

Natalie Serebrennik is a certified Career & Mindset coach. She helps success-driven women advance in their high-pressured careers with confidence and clarity. She draws on her 16+ years of Capital Markets experience to guide her clients to achieve career success and fulfillment. For more information, head to LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook. 

 

As parents, our goal is to raise kids we actually want to hang out with, but often traditional schooling doesn't encourage inquisitiveness, wit, play and creativity.

 

We can introduce these elements at home, and allow our kids to develop 360-degree, surround sound thinking. This will benefit them their whole lives, and it can all begin with a good board game. How do we raise intellectual children? How does play help in academic areas and vice versa?

 

In this episode, I'm joined by CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, and author of "A+ PARENTING: THE SURPRISINGLY FUN GUIDE TO RAISING SURPRISINGLY SMART KIDS", Eva Moskowitz. She shares simple ways parents can impact how their kids think, and make it an enjoyable experience.

If you're raising intellectual children, parenting is so much more pleasurable. -Eva Moskowitz 

 

3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode

 

-Finding the right things for our kids to watch

Many parents are worried about the impact movies and shows can have on their kids, but can certain content actually be good for them?

 

-Create an intellectual moment and bonding opportunity

What's the difference between occupying our kids and engaging with them?

 

-How to model curiosity and inquisitiveness

Kids are actually interested in details and specialized knowledge. How do we share what we know with them?  

 

Guest Bio

 

Eva Moskowitz is the founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, and author of "A+ PARENTING: THE SURPRISINGLY FUN GUIDE TO RAISING SURPRISINGLY SMART KIDS". She helps relieve the pressure and offer parents a guide that will make learning engaging, inspiring and fun for all involved. A+ PARENTING shares Eva's experiences raising three children and educating 20,000 plus students.

 

For more information follow on; 

Twitter: @moskowitzeva
LinkedIn: @evamoskowitz
Facebook: @moskowitz .Eva
Eva Instagram: @evamoskowitz