ALRIGHT HOLD MY MATCHATINI: There’s a version of you who says they want more money. I love that for ya. And then there's your nervous system, who is simply: terrified of MORE.

In this episode with your fav genz-ers we unpack why more wealth isn’t always a full-body yes, even when you consciously desire it. We’re talking about capacity over currency, and what actually happens in your body when expansion arrives.

This conversation feels especially alive right now because so many ppl in creative entrepreneurship are scaling fast (bigger launches, more visibility, more responsibility) without expanding their nervous system capacity alongside it.

I’ve lived this! Six-figure launches that felt like collapse instead of celebration (we tell the story duh). Growth that triggered fear instead of safety. This episode is about the somatic side of success, in my opinion, the part no one teaches you in business school (I do in mine of course)

You’ll walk away understanding how your nervous system shapes your relationship with money, how to increase your capacity to hold more without burning out, and how to build a creative business rooted in somatic success, embodied leadership, and sustainable expansion.

Listen when

🌹 You’re saying you want more… but your body feels tight when it arrives.

🌹 you’ve hit a financial milestone and felt panic instead of peace.

🌹 you’re building a creative business and want your success to feel safe.

🌹 you’re ready to expand your capacity, not just your income.

We dive into

• Capacity over currency — why your ability to hold more matters more than the number in your Stripe account.
• The hidden agenda behind money — the unconscious emotional need you’ve attached to financial success (and how it’s driving your behavior).
• Nervous system regulation & wealth — how fight, flight, and freeze show up in creative entrepreneurship.
• Why big months can trigger collapse — the somatic crash that often follows expansion.
• Scarcity vs. somatic safety — what it actually means to feel safe with more visibility, responsibility, and profit.
• Expanding capacity in business strategy — how to scale your creative business without overriding your body.
• Identity, shame & entrepreneurship — how early money narratives shape your current income ceiling.
• Somatic success as a creative process — building an aligned business where ease and profit co-exist.

Resources

🌹 First, of course we will see you in ASTC, here's your invite.

🌹 My infamous x3 6 figure launches in 2025 essay here.

🌹 GREECE with Isabel and me (ONE SPOT LEFT!)

🌹 My business mastermind Expansion (booked out but join the waitlist here!)

Alright my sweeeet sweet loves, if this episode resonated, share it with a woman building her own version of wealth ♡ and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss future conversations on somatic strategy, capacity, and creative business meowww

AAAAAAND e’re kicking off the year with one of my favorite humans on the planet and everyone’s favorite internet baddie: Isabel Taylor, my former therapist turned bestie and co-creator of A State to Create. This episode starts as a conversation about planning and quickly becomes what it actually needs to be: a real, grounded unpacking of clarity, vision, and what happens to your brain when the world (and your life) feels like too much.

You’ll walk away with a clearer understanding of how the default mode network, reticular activating system, and stress chemistry shape your creative process, plus AS ALWYAS practical tools to restore safety, widen your window of tolerance, and take micro-movements toward your vision without collapse.

Most people try to “think” their way into clarity. More journaling. More questions. More lists. More planning. But clarity isn’t a mindset hack — it’s neurophysiological. When your nervous system is under pressure, your brain prioritizes survival over future-thinking, which means the part of you that’s meant to imagine, plan, and create goes offline. We talk about what’s happening in the brain when you feel frozen, overwhelmed, or stuck in the “should / would / could” loop — and why “seeing possibility” is a luxury only a safe nervous system can access.

Listen when you’re

🐅 trying to plan your year but your brain keeps short-circuiting into overwhelm

🐅 sick of bullshit “clarity” content that ignores your nervous system

🐅 feeling frozen, foggy, or stuck in the should/would/could loop

🐅 ready to create from safety, not urgency (aka: somatic success)

🐅 feeling super nerdy and wanna learn about all the different parts of the brain that trigger clarity

We dive into:

🐅 Clarity is a state, not a thought — why your best ideas can’t land when your system feels unsafe.

🐅 Survival mode vs. future mode — how stress hijacks your brain’s capacity for vision, imagination, and planning.

🐅 Default Mode Network (DMN) — the “future self + possibility” network, and what it looks like when it’s offline.

🐅 Reticular Activating System (RAS) — the bouncer of perception: how your brain filters reality based on what it believes is possible.

🐅 Norepinephrine + focus — the “clarity chemistry” behind tunnel vision, brain fog, and strategic thinking.

🐅 Window of tolerance = creative capacity — how much you can hold before you tip into urgency, collapse, or shutdown.

🐅 Grounding + orienting (Somatic Experiencing® tools) — simple practices that restore safety fast (and actually work).

🐅 Micro-movements (titration) in creative entrepreneurship — why tiny actions build real momentum, identity, and nervous system capacity.

Links & Resources

→ Connect with Isabel on Instagram: @isabelgerorginataylor

→ Join us for ASTC! 25% spots already GONE

→ Snag one of the last spots for the retreat

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In this episode, I sit down with our resident astrologer / resident witch Kessli Hall, for a 2026 Insight. MY BABES, next year is giving baddie Olympics.

We zoom out to the big collective shifts: outer planets moving from water + earth into fire + air (yin → yang), aka: the end of “dreaming about it” and the beginning of doing it. We talk embodied leadership, why being seen trying is about to be cool again, why collaboration becomes non-negotiable, and what all of this means for business, visibility, community, and your message.

What we cover

• The collective weather report for 2026: from dreaming → doing
• Pluto in Aquarius + the collapse of guru/pyramid models (hello horizontal leadership)
• Saturn + Neptune in Aries: action-based authority, not status
• Uranus in Gemini: the future of message, media, storytelling, and “made by human”
• Jupiter in Leo: visibility, creativity, joy, and leadership as life-force
• Mercury retrogrades in water signs (check-in seasons, not “bad luck”)
• Why collaboration is basically mandatory, and why it’s the fastest portal to expansion

Links / Ways to work with Kess

• Equinox Mastermind (intimate leadership + identity work)
• Architected (tools + resources + ongoing support)
• The Mirror (her astrology-to-business AI tool + transit prompts)