Fierce Feminine Leadership

What an extraordinary, full, rich year 2025 has been!   As we close out this remarkable year, Eleanor is here to share her best moments from the Woman Owned podcast. This isn't just another year-end recap. It's a masterclass in professionalizing women's entrepreneurship while building a business that nourishes you as much as it nourishes your bottom line.   This week's best-of episode pulls together the most powerful moments from Woman Owned in 2025. Real talk about money, scaling, and building businesses that honor both your ambition and humanity.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO81   Connect with Eleanor on LinkedIn or Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanorbeaton/ https://www.instagram.com/eleanorbeaton/?hl=en

Have you ever noticed that the more successful your business becomes, the less time you seem to have? It's one of entrepreneurship's cruelest ironies.   You started your business for freedom and flexibility, but now you're drowning in complexity, endless meetings, and a never-ending to-do list. The truth is, when you scale your company, you scale everything - including the chaos. But what if you could actually manufacture more time?   Join Eleanor this week as she reveals three powerful steps that have helped her clients reclaim their calendars while scaling their businesses. These aren't just productivity hacks. They're fundamental leadership strategies that allow you to stay two steps ahead of your business instead of drowning in its complexity.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO80   Connect with Eleanor on LinkedIn or Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanorbeaton/ https://www.instagram.com/eleanorbeaton/?hl=en

Most entrepreneurs create content hoping it will somehow translate to sales… but hope isn't a strategy. Here's the thing: your audience wants to support you. They're literally asking for ways to go deeper with your content. The problem is, you're not making it easy enough for them to take the next step.   Terri Cole is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship & empowerment expert, podcast host, and author of bestselling books Boundary Boss and Too Much. But what makes her particularly fascinating is how she transformed her podcast into a $3M revenue engine without being salesy or sacrificing her values.   Listen in this week as Terri breaks down exactly how she turned her show into a lead-generating machine. You'll also learn why she refuses to grind on people's pain points for sales, how she structures her work week to batch content while maintaining balance, and the surprisingly simple tech setup that allows her to produce high-quality episodes from her home studio.   Get full show notes and more inform

Eleanor is training for the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim this May: a legendary hike that's 25 miles, 11,000 feet of elevation change, all in one day. But here's the thing: she's not doing this simply because she loves to hike. She's doing it because her business cannot afford anything less than a well-rested, deeply recovered CEO.   This week, Eleanor is sharing why she's creating her body like a business operating system in 2026. This isn't a health journey episode - it's about what happens when a CEO becomes the weakest link in her own company.   Tune in today to understand why your under-recovery might be the real reason your scale pathway isn't working. Eleanor shares her 2026 health plan, which mirrors exactly what she's building inside Jewel OS for her clients. Most importantly, you'll learn about deload weeks and get Eleanor's exact protocol that allows her to protect elite recovery while running a multi-seven-figure company.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO78   Conne

Are you secretly wondering if you're the bottleneck in your business? If you're hovering around the $250K-$500K mark and feeling overwhelmed, here's some good news: it's not you. You just don't have the infrastructure yet.   One of the most misunderstood - yet most catalytic - hires that creates that infrastructure is an executive assistant. This week, Eleanor is joined by time management expert and host of the It's About Time podcast, Anna Dearmon Kornick. Anna runs a successful business with just one full-time employee (herself!) while managing programs, clients, and her family, just to name a few. How? Through the strategic use of her executive assistant.   Listen in this week as Anna breaks down why your EA is not an administrative nice-to-have but part of the core infrastructure of scale. You'll learn Anna's system for working with her assistant, and the key tools and documentation that allows her business to run smoothly whether she's speaking, coaching, or spending time with family.    Download The Fou

Have you ever felt like, despite all the coaching, the mindset work, and strategy sessions, you're still the bottleneck in your business?   After training more than 25,000 women entrepreneurs and gathering over 100,000 data points on how women lead, make decisions, and scale their businesses, Eleanor discovered something that might surprise you: most women founders don't need more advice. They need structure. The business coaching industry has served its purpose in awakening ambition, but the next decade demands something different.   Tune in this week as Eleanor shares why Safi Media has evolved beyond business coaching into creating operating systems for women entrepreneurs. You'll discover the difference between empowerment and professionalization, why most founders are overloaded rather than blocked, and how operating systems create the feminist infrastructure for calm, sustainable growth.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO76   Connect with Eleanor on LinkedIn or Inst

What if brands paid you to bring leads into your business? Does that sound way too good to be true?   This is exactly what CEO of Boss Project, Abagail Pumphrey, has been doing: generating tens of thousands of qualified leads through co-branded partnerships where she gets paid to create experiences that convert. And in this episode, she shares the exact strategies that helped her build Boss Project into one of the world's leading online business education companies.   Tune in this week as Eleanor and Abagail unpack three game-changing strategies: the co-branded partnership model that generates massive lead flow, the digital product pre-sale approach that validates ideas before building them, and the financial structure that will make Abagail work-optional by age 44.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO75   Connect with Eleanor on LinkedIn or Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanorbeaton/ https://www.instagram.com/eleanorbeaton/?hl=en

Are your deals taking longer to close lately? Economic uncertainty has created a perfect storm for B2B sellers. Deals that closed easily last year now stall indefinitely, buyers ghost after months of relationship building, and budget conversations end with requests for huge discounts.   The good news is that you're not doing anything wrong. However, the frustrating reality is that this pattern is playing out across industries as CFOs tighten their grip on every purchase decision, creating longer approval cycles and more complex buying committees.   If you want to stop getting ghosted and start closing deals again, this episode is your roadmap. Join Eleanor this week as she breaks down six data-backed economic insights that explain exactly why buyers are exercising extreme caution right now, and the four core strategies to keep your buyers buying through winter 2025/26.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO74   Connect with Eleanor on LinkedIn or Instagram: https://www.linke

Do you feel the pressure to scale your business at lightning speed? Like if you're not doubling your revenue every year or building a massive team, you're somehow falling behind?   In this episode, Eleanor sits down with online Pilates and health instructor, Jessica Valant, to explore her intentional approach to building a lean business. After experiencing burnout from managing a team of 19 in her brick-and-mortar studio, Jessica made a conscious choice to scale differently. Her journey from physical therapist to online entrepreneur reveals a different path to success - one that prioritizes sustainability over speed.   Listen in this week to discover how setting clear boundaries around your time and energy can actually accelerate your business growth, why understanding every aspect of your business makes you a better leader when you do hire, and how making peace with your chosen pace creates the foundation for long-term success. Jessica's story proves that you can build a world-class business while being the

Revenue looks great on paper, but you still feel broke. This disconnect between what the numbers show and what your bank account reflects is one of the most frustrating experiences for women entrepreneurs. You're working harder than ever, your sales are growing, yet somehow there's never enough left over to feel truly secure or to invest in the things that would actually move your business forward.   We so rarely have frank conversations about where money actually flows in our businesses. While the entrepreneurial world loves to talk about growing revenue and scaling teams, nobody's teaching you how to analyze whether your money is flowing through your business in a way that sets you up for profit or exhaustion.   Listen in this week as Eleanor walks you through the margin stack framework: four critical cost allocations between revenue and profit that tell the complete story of your business health. You'll discover why growing revenue without proper profit architecture leads to resentment and burnout, and exa

What if the most powerful marketing strategy for your business isn't happening on social media, but in small rooms with 25-50 people?   This week, Eleanor is joined by CEO and co-founder of The Social Snippet, Kristina Bartold-Sorgota, who built a 7-figure agency with over 80 active clients using an unexpected approach: small, intimate events. She's mastered the art of building relationships first and letting business naturally follow, and she’s here to tell you all about it.   If you're tired of constantly feeding the algorithm without seeing results, this episode will show you a different path to growing your business - one meaningful connection at a time. Tune in to discover why organic social media should be a lead nurture tool, not a lead generator, and how Kristina strategically leverages in-person networking to accelerate business growth. She shares her exact framework for choosing which events to attend, how she follows up without being salesy, and why she never makes a direct pitch, even when someone

There’s scaling advice, and then there’s feminist scaling advice. And here’s the truth: these two things are actually quite different.   If you’ve ever received business advice that felt off, like it wasn't accounting for your full experience as a woman leader, there’s a reason for that. In this week’s episode, Eleanor is pulling back the curtain on why traditional scaling advice often falls short for women entrepreneurs, and what we really need to consider when building scalable businesses.   Listen in this week to learn why gender matters deeply in scaling advice. As someone who has mentored over 750 women leaders, Eleanor has seen firsthand how transformative the right kind of scaling advice can be. If you're ready to scale without sacrificing yourself in the process, this episode is for you.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO70

Ever feel like you're stuck on the content creation hamster wheel? Posting. Scrolling. Posting again. Meanwhile, your ideal clients are right there in the real world, asking for exactly what you offer.   That's what happened to Lily Shepard, founder of Body Intelligence Academy and a former professional dancer who now helps leaders and CEOs become more grounded and embodied through movement. She was spending countless hours creating content when she realized something powerful: real people were already asking for her next event.   Tune in this week to discover how Lily broke free from the social media content treadmill by hosting a simple $60 collaborative workshop that converted 6 attendees into high-ticket clients. She shares her framework for creating intimate, experiential events that attract ideal clients without competing for attention online. You'll learn why embodiment work becomes increasingly critical as you step into greater leadership roles and how movement can unlock the confidence that exists be

Your business plateaus not because you lack marketing skills or sales expertise, but because you're operating with beliefs that worked perfectly when you were smaller.    The strategies that got you to six figures are the exact ones keeping you from seven figures and beyond. Every entrepreneur faces this invisible ceiling where working harder stops producing better results. And as someone who's built a multi-seven-figure business, Eleanor can tell you that the journey required her to completely rewire how she thought about growth, quality, and leadership.   Tune in this week as Eleanor pulls back the curtain on the 8 limiting beliefs she had to overcome to scale past seven-figures.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO68

What if a single talk could generate 90% of your business leads, create passive income for years, establish you as the go-to expert in your field, and help you build an unshakeable personal brand? Sound too good to be true?   Ashley Stahl’s journey from national security to founding Wise Whisper Agency reveals how speaking can be the most powerful personal brand-building tool available today. After her viral TED talk generated 90% of her business leads and eliminated the need for traditional marketing, she recognized something crucial: while everyone else was writing blog posts and creating endless content, she had gone "to the moon" with one talk.   Tune in this week as Ashley shares how her viral TED talk transformed her entire business trajectory and became her most valuable marketing asset. You'll discover why speaking remains unmatched for establishing authority, how to create that sense of awe that makes you unforgettable, and the exact systems Ashley uses to run a high-ticket agency.   Get full show no

Are you worried that the coaching industry is too crowded to succeed in?   The coaching industry has exploded from 71,000 certified coaches in 2019 to over 167,000 today - a 130% increase that's got everyone wondering if the market is completely oversaturated.    Tune in this week as Eleanor breaks down the real data behind the coaching and consulting boom, and more importantly, what this maturation means for your business. She’s sharing 7 research-backed keys to thriving in this $7.3 billion ecosystem so you can engineer your place in the top tier of this booming industry.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO66

Ever look at your sales conversion rate and wish it were higher? Most business owners feel the same way, and it’s often because they're stuck in a cycle of confusion and indecision. But what if there was a way to break free and achieve a freakishly high conversion rate?   This week, Eleanor breaks down the psychology behind freakishly high sales conversion and shows you exactly how to build a business ecosystem that naturally generates higher close rates. This goes way beyond sales scripts or tactics - we're talking about fundamental structural changes that create clarity at every level of your business.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO65

Are you really focused on the tasks that make you money? Most founders and entrepreneurs only have a couple of core activities that actually drive revenue. So, if you were asked to name them right now, could you?   In this episode, we're getting real about what Eleanor calls "$10,000 tasks” - the specific, high-value activities that bring in the cash. It's easy to get bogged down with busy work that doesn't move the needle, like focusing on the idea of sales instead of the actions that lead to them.   If you feel like you've tried everything to boost your revenue but nothing's working, Eleanor is challenging you to get down and dirty with the daily, cash-producing tasks that truly matter. You'll learn a simple, daily action you can take that plants the seeds for future revenue, and it only takes a few minutes every day.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO64

Building a 7-figure fitness empire with 2,000 active clients and 342,000 followers without spending a dime on ads sounds impossible in today's digital landscape. Yet Kirsten Mark did exactly that, transforming from a teen mom at 16 to CEO of the Women Who Win through pure organic growth and radical authenticity.   Tune in this week to hear how Kirsten built sustainable systems that serve thousands without burning herself out, why putting yourself first isn't selfish but essential for scaling, and the exact content batching strategies that fuel consistent organic growth.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO63

Most women entrepreneurs are running marathons in their businesses - constantly pushing forward but feeling like they're going nowhere fast. The exhaustion comes not from working too hard, but from working without focus.   Sprint-style execution completely flips the script on traditional business planning. Instead of spreading your energy across endless priorities, you choose one area where you're going to punch through and make a freaking impact.    Tune in this week as Eleanor breaks down exactly how sprint-style execution can transform your business results. This is especially crucial as we head into Q4 - your potential money-making ATM quarter. You’ll learn why traditional planning methods may be holding you back, the 4-step framework for successful sprints, and real examples of women entrepreneurs who used sprints to build multi-million-dollar businesses.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO62