the bossbabe podcast

Nathan Barry, creator of Kit and advocate for creator-owned audiences, shares how small email lists can generate serious revenue. He explores list cleaning, smarter segmentation, high-value subscribers, and sustainable sending rhythms. Plus, discover compounding growth flywheels, AI-era lead magnets, why focused audiences can outperform massive ones, and the business skills behind building wealth.

Marina Middleton, CEO and Partner of Create & Cultivate, turned a bootstrapped venture into a major platform for women in business. She shares how a seven-person team sells thousands of festival tickets organically, funds a $3 million event through sponsors, and attracts top talent without speaker fees. They also explore ambition, burnout, high-achieving marriages, transactional friendships, and the realities of VC-backed growth.

Ryan Levesque, digital entrepreneur, bestselling author, and seven-time Inc. 5000 CEO, explores marketing after AI. They discuss why mid-tier offers are struggling, how authenticity and in-person connection build trust, where AI belongs in a workflow, and why email, timely content, and lived experience matter. Ryan also shares a case for simpler businesses, sustainable growth, and resisting entrepreneurial FOMO.

Brooke Taylor, executive coach, keynote speaker, former Google marketing lead, and author of Healing the Success Wound, explores the hidden patterns behind burnout and self-doubt. She unpacks five success-wound archetypes, firstborn-daughter conditioning, over-functioning, success addiction, and the difference between wounded ambition and authentic drive. Plus, practical ways to lead and grow without tying worth to achievement.

Dr. Shefali, bestselling author, psychologist, and founder of Conscious Parenting, explores ambition, motherhood, and the pressure to do it all. She discusses trauma-driven achievement, maternal energy, children’s anger, play, boredom, boundaries, and honoring their natural interests. She also shares a more conscious path for high-achieving women seeking balance without sacrificing identity or connection.

Lindsay Schwartz, founder of Powerhouse Women, Koya Webb, wellness and breathwork teacher, and Jen Gottlieb, visibility expert, join a candid conversation on burnout and freedom. They explore authenticity, intuitive business-building, social media momentum, healing through grief, breathwork, vulnerability, and outgrowing limiting labels. A powerful discussion for high-achieving women ready to reconnect with purpose.

Jamie Kern Lima, entrepreneur, bestselling author, philanthropist, and IT Cosmetics founder, joins Natalie Ellis for a candid conversation on ambition and fulfillment. They explore evolving purpose, burnout, nervous-system regulation, viral content, practical AI tools, and building a loyal audience. They also discuss relationships, modeling ambition, and protecting equity before seeking investors.

Lori Harder, serial entrepreneur and podcast powerhouse who built multiple seven-figure brands, shares the personal-branding playbook. They explore audience-as-moat in the age of AI. Conversations cover podcasting for reach and relationships. Plus a one-product, one-client, one-funnel approach to scalable growth.

This is the conversation about the part most founders don't say out loud: the moment you hit the revenue number and feel nothing. Natalie sits down with Jenna Wright — a Pilates studio owner who built a 7-figure business from $1,000 and an air mattress. From the outside, she'd made it. From the inside, she was running at 9% profit, paying herself $80K a year, and calling it — in her own words — a pretty prison. So she did what most founders won't: she dismantled it on purpose. They go inside the math (she was running $1.2M at 9% profit, paying herself $80K/year), the team mutiny that finally broke the model, and the deliberate revenue cut from $1.2M to $650K that tripled her margin to 30%. If you've ever hit the revenue numbers and felt nothing, this episode is the operating system for what comes next. Time Stamps: 07:40 "Tired at a soul level" — the burnout most founders hide 10:00 $1,000 and an air mattress: the rebuild from zero 14:05 $250K to $875K in one year (and the cost it hid) 19:10 The misery beneath success 25:15 The team mutiny that broke the business model 28:33 The math: cutting 4 studios to 2, profit triples 31:50 "Your business will expose every wound you have" 33:00 The 7-day retreat that reorganized everything  40:05 The lessons Jenna is rewriting today Resources + Links: Pre-Order The Freedom-Based Business Method. Follow Jenna: @iam_jennawright Learn more about Jenna's Teacher Training Follow Jenna Wright + Read Her Substack "The Shift" Where She Documents The Scale-Down Publicly Sign Up For Our Free Weekly Newsletter & Get Insights From Natalie Every Single Week On All Things Strategy, Motherhood, Business Growth + More.  Drop Us A Review On The Podcast + Send Us A Screenshot & We’ll Send You Natalie’s 7-Figure Operating System Completely FREE (value $1,997).

Keren Eldad, executive coach and author known as Coach Keren, works with high achievers on ambition, perfectionism, and alignment. She unpacks the “gilded cage” of outward success. She explores achievement as addiction, the three core wounds driving overachievement, the $500K shift in motivators, the viral “assume everyone likes you” rule, and the riptide rule for holding success.