Expansive CEO

Hosted by Hannah Chapman

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280

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Aug 2026

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About the show

Expansive CEO is a podcast for entrepreneurs, leaders, and visionaries who are ready to build businesses in alignment with their unique energy blueprint. Co-hosted by 6/2 Pure Manifesting Generator Hannah Chapman and 1/3 Pure Generator Lauren Ammon , the show blends Human Design, Gene Keys, and conscious leadership with real-world business growth strategy. Each episode explores what it means to build a business that is energetically aligned, emotionally sustainable, and financially grounded. Through conversations, teachings, and reflections, we dive into topics like: Human Design and Gene Keys as tools for leadership and decision-making Deconditioning from hustle, pressure, and the “not-self” in business Building offers, teams, and strategies that honor your natural energy Identity, purpose, and self-expression as foundations for success Expanding prosperity without sacrificing wellbeing or integrity Expansive CEO is for those who know that true success isn't about forcing outcomes—it's about alignment, embodiment, and trust. This is where business meets self-mastery. This is where expansion begins.

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September 29, 202655 min

Where Are You Outsourcing Your Financial Power?

What happens when you don't actually know what's happening with your own money? Sometimes information is intentionally withheld. Sometimes nobody ever taught you what questions to ask. And sometimes the information is technically available—but fear, overwhelm, or old money stories keep you from looking. In this episode, we're continuing our conversation about money between people by exploring power: who has it, where we give it away, and what changes when we're willing to illuminate what's actually happening. Because financial power isn't about controlling every dollar. It's about understanding where your resources are flowing so you can choose where you want them to go. In this episode, we explore: How secrecy and lack of financial transparency create power imbalances The difference between having information withheld and unknowingly outsourcing your own agency Why anger around money may be covering fear, grief, or vulnerability How our individual money stories show up inside relationships Why money mindset work alone can't replace understanding your actual numbers The three pieces we keep coming back to: income, expenses, and assets How clarity about your resources gives you more power to make aligned choices Why healing your relationship with money requires both the emotional work and the numbers Join us on Substack: https://expansiveceo.substack.com/ Ready to work with a fiduciary CFP to build your long-term wealth strategy? Hannah is currently accepting new clients at X² Wealth Planning. Schedule a complimentary consultation: https://calendly.com/hannahrchapman/60-minute-exploration-call Hannah Chapman, CFP®, APMA®, CRPC® | hannah.chapman@x2wealthplanning.com | x2wealthplanning.com

September 22, 202657 min

You Don’t Have to Defend Your Desires: Money, Judgment & the Freedom to Know Your Own Worth

What happens when you make a financial decision that feels right for you—and someone else makes you question it? Maybe you bought something you genuinely wanted. Maybe you invested in an experience that matters to you. Maybe you've built wealth but still feel uncomfortable talking about it with your family or friends. In this episode, we're continuing our conversation about money between people, exploring how judgment, secrecy, and other people's money stories can influence our decisions—and what it looks like to own our desires without needing everyone else's approval. In this episode, we explore: How financial secrecy and ambiguity can create power imbalances in relationships Why other people's judgments can make us question decisions we've already made The difference between what something costs and what it's worth to you How the defined and undefined Ego centers in Human Design can shape our experiences of worth, value, and judgment Why genuine reciprocity is more than a transactional exchange How to recognize when you're taking on someone else's expectations or need for approval What changes when you can say, “I see you, and I see me”—without needing someone else to validate your desires Join us on Substack: https://expansiveceo.substack.com/ Ready to work with a fiduciary CFP to build your long-term wealth strategy? Hannah is currently accepting new clients at X² Wealth Planning. Schedule a complimentary consultation: https://calendly.com/hannahrchapman/60-minute-exploration-call Hannah Chapman, CFP®, APMA®, CRPC® | hannah.chapman@x2wealthplanning.com | x2wealthplanning.com

September 15, 20261 hr 1 min

How to Stop Resentment Before it Starts: Money, Partnership & Reciprocity

Two people can love each other, share a life, and even have similar financial goals—and still want completely different things from their money. In this episode, we're talking about money between people: the stories we bring into relationships, the difference between equality and reciprocity, and what happens when we stop assuming a healthy partnership means wanting—or doing—everything together. Explore: Why fair doesn't necessarily mean equal in relationships How childhood money stories quietly shape decisions between partners Why couples can use the same word—like “freedom”—and mean completely different things The danger of building a financial future around only one partner's vision Why compromise can leave everyone losing—and reciprocity offers another way How Human Design can help you understand differences instead of fighting them The deeper form of reciprocity: I see you, you see me Join us on Substack: https://expansiveceo.substack.com/ Ready to work with a fiduciary CFP to build your long-term wealth strategy? Hannah is currently accepting new clients at X² Wealth Planning. Schedule a complimentary consultation: https://calendly.com/hannahrchapman/60-minute-exploration-call Hannah Chapman, CFP®, APMA®, CRPC® | hannah.chapman@x2wealthplanning.com | x2wealthplanning.com

September 8, 20261 hr 8 min

The Details You’re Avoiding Might Set You Free

What if the financial details you're avoiding aren't something to fear—but the very thing that could give you more freedom? This week, we're exploring what becomes clear when we actually look at the details: your finances, business, money stories, Human Design, and the patterns connecting them all. Because clarity isn't about knowing every tiny detail. It's about seeing enough of the whole picture to understand your choices. In this episode, we explore: Why your financial reality may be better than the story you've been telling yourself How clarity creates choice—and choice creates freedom What your business processes can reveal about your deeper money patterns How Human Design can help explain what's working (and what isn't) The difference between avoiding the details and getting trapped in them Why there's no single “right” investment, strategy, or business formula for everyone How to build financial and business structures that actually work with who you are Join us on Substack: https://expansiveceo.substack.com/ Ready to work with a fiduciary CFP to build your long-term wealth strategy? Hannah is currently accepting new clients at X² Wealth Planning. Schedule a complimentary consultation: https://calendly.com/hannahrchapman/60-minute-exploration-call Hannah Chapman, CFP®, APMA®, CRPC® | hannah.chapman@x2wealthplanning.com | x2wealthplanning.com

September 1, 20261 hr 9 min

What Dolly Parton Taught Us About True Wealth

Dolly Parton built extraordinary wealth in her lifetime—but her real financial legacy is what she chose to do with it. In this special episode, we look at Dolly's incredible impact through her philanthropy, artistry, and generosity—and explore how her Human Design and Gene Keys reflect the way she created, stewarded, and shared prosperity. Your job is to discover what matters to you—and build the financial capacity and structures that allow you to support it. In this episode, we explore: How Dolly turned extraordinary wealth into lasting impact Why true wealth may be about what you steward—not just what you keep How she built systems for generosity through Dollywood, the Imagination Library, and more What her Human Design reveals about her creativity, voice, and impact Gene Key 62 and her gift for language, precision, and songwriting Gene Key 50 and the themes of values, harmony, and prosperity How Dolly embodied Save Wisely, Spend Joyfully, Support Generously Join us on Substack: https://expansiveceo.substack.com/ Ready to work with a fiduciary CFP to build your long-term wealth strategy? Hannah is currently accepting new clients at X² Wealth Planning. Schedule a complimentary consultation: https://calendly.com/hannahrchapman/60-minute-exploration-call Hannah Chapman, CFP®, APMA®, CRPC® | hannah.chapman@x2wealthplanning.com | x2wealthplanning.com

August 25, 20261 hr 3 min

Vanity Metrics and the Illusion of Success

Seven figures in revenue. Thousands of followers. Big-name clients. A growing team. An impressive house, car, or Instagram feed. From the outside, these can all look like evidence that you've made it. But what if the business generating $1 million in revenue can't actually afford to pay its founder? In this episode of the Expansive CEO Podcast, Hannah and Lauren unpack the vanity metrics we use to measure business success—and what can happen when we start building our businesses around proving we've succeeded instead of creating something profitable, sustainable, and aligned. Explore: Why top-line revenue can be one of the biggest vanity metrics in business The difference between visibility and actual business results Why followers, likes, impressions, headcount, and big-name clients don't necessarily equal success How underpricing quietly destroys otherwise successful businesses What happens when "we can figure it out" becomes your business model Why vanity metrics tend to create more vanity metrics The pressure to prove yourself as a business owner Why rest and stillness are essential parts of sustainable growth How undefined Ego/Heart energy can amplify the pressure to prove Why a painful pivot may be necessary to build a healthier business Human Design and Gene Keys as tools for understanding your energetic niche The Culture Sphere, conscious Mercury, and finding the people who are actually here to hear you Why your niche may be less about demographics and more about what you're here to say Join us on Substack: https://expansiveceo.substack.com/ Ready to work with a fiduciary CFP to build your long-term wealth strategy? Hannah is currently accepting new clients at X² Wealth Planning. Schedule a complimentary consultation: https://calendly.com/hannahrchapman/60-minute-exploration-call Hannah Chapman, CFP®, APMA®, CRPC® | hannah.chapman@x2wealthplanning.com | x2wealthplanning.com

August 18, 202655 min

Why We Hide Money From the People We Love

Hiding the Target bags. Breaking down the Amazon boxes before your spouse gets home. Pretending the new dress has been hanging in your closet for years. It's often treated as a harmless joke about marriage. But...why is hiding money from our partners so relatable in the first place? In this episode of the Expansive CEO Podcast, Hannah and Lauren take another look at money stories in the wild—this time sparked by a viral Instagram post joking about hiding purchases from a spouse. Hiding is incredibly common, but hiding is the behavior. It isn't the money story underneath it. Learn about: Why hiding purchases from a partner has become normalized The difference between a money behavior and the money story underneath it Why the same behavior can come from completely different money stories How childhood experiences teach us what we're "supposed" to do with money The connection between money, control, and autonomy How seemingly small financial secrets can create cracks in trust Why earning millions doesn't automatically create a healthy relationship with money How we can unknowingly hide money from ourselves "Manufactured scarcity" and why scattered accounts can perpetuate a feeling of never having enough Why one partner often becomes the financial gatekeeper How financial control can develop even in otherwise healthy relationships Why both partners need autonomy—even while building shared financial goals Join us on Substack: https://expansiveceo.substack.com/ Ready to work with a fiduciary CFP to build your long-term wealth strategy? Hannah is currently accepting new clients at X² Wealth Planning. Schedule a complimentary consultation: https://calendly.com/hannahrchapman/60-minute-exploration-call Hannah Chapman, CFP®, APMA®, CRPC® | hannah.chapman@x2wealthplanning.com | x2wealthplanning.com

August 11, 20261 hr 9 min

Your Money Stories Are Making Business Decisions for You

What happens when a money story you learned decades ago quietly walks into a pricing conversation with you? In this episode of the Expansive CEO Podcast, Hannah Chapman and Lauren Ammon continue their conversation about changing relationships—this time focusing on one of the most important relationships in your life: your relationship with money. Because becoming aware of a money pattern isn't enough to change it. Eventually, life will give you an opportunity to repeat the old pattern or make a different choice. And that's where the real work begins. Explore: The Expansive CEO framework of Awareness → Acceptance → Aligned Action Why skipping acceptance can turn "different action" into another version of the same old pattern How childhood money stories continue showing up in business decisions Why a "just enough" money story can lead to chronic underpricing The connection between pricing, rejection, worth, and the Human Design Ego/Will Center How fear of being alone can become a money story Why more revenue doesn't necessarily create financial security The hidden cost of discounting before anyone has even said no Why you have to become comfortable with the discomfort of making a different choice How Human Design illustrates the importance of slowing down Why your relationship with money deserves to be treated as a primary relationship Join us on Substack: https://expansiveceo.substack.com/ Ready to work with a fiduciary CFP to build your long-term wealth strategy? Hannah is currently accepting new clients at X² Wealth Planning. Schedule a complimentary consultation: https://calendly.com/hannahrchapman/60-minute-exploration-call Hannah Chapman, CFP®, APMA®, CRPC® | hannah.chapman@x2wealthplanning.com | x2wealthplanning.com

August 4, 20261 hr 28 min

Why Great Relationships Require Different Choices

Relationships don't change by accident. Whether it's your spouse, business partner, children, or even your relationship with yourself, lasting transformation begins with one simple question: What if the problem isn't the other person... but the way you're relating to their energy? In this episode, Hannah and Lauren explore how Human Design offers a powerful framework for understanding relationship dynamics—not to label or fix people, but to cultivate greater awareness, compassion, and cooperation. Through personal stories, client examples, and practical insights, they unpack how our unique energetic blueprints shape the way we communicate, parent, partner, and navigate conflict. In This Episode Why every relationship requires two whole people—not two halves Understanding the energy you bring into every room How Human Design can illuminate relationship friction The difference between compromise and collaboration Parenting through awareness instead of old wounds Emotional authority and why difficult conversations need time Why healthy relationships require different choices—not different people The role of self-awareness in building stronger partnerships An introduction to the new Expansive CEO Substack community and Money Story Meditations Join us on Substack: https://expansiveceo.substack.com/ Ready to work with a fiduciary CFP to build your long-term wealth strategy? Hannah is currently accepting new clients at X² Wealth Planning. Schedule a complimentary consultation: https://calendly.com/hannahrchapman/60-minute-exploration-call Hannah Chapman, CFP®, APMA®, CRPC® | hannah.chapman@x2wealthplanning.com | x2wealthplanning.com

July 28, 20261 hr 23 min

Your Business Has an Energy Too: What Its Astrology Reveals

What if your business has its own unique energy? In this episode of the Expansive CEO Podcast, Hannah and Lauren explore a fascinating realization that changed how they think about entrepreneurship: your business has its own energetic blueprint. By comparing their personal Human Design and astrological natal charts with the charts of X² Wealth Planning and Expansive CEO, they uncover why certain parts of their businesses feel effortless, why others feel limiting, and why collaboration has been the key to unlocking growth. They also celebrate the launch of the new Expansive CEO Substack, where they'll continue these conversations through deeper articles, guided meditations, community discussions, and live quarterly events. Learn About: Launching the Expansive CEO Substack community The difference between your energy and your business's energy How business natal charts can reveal purpose and direction Why collaboration creates expansion Integrating Human Design, Gene Keys, astrology, and financial planning Moving beyond money as power and into money as a tool for service The framework of Awareness, Acceptance, and Aligned Action Join us on Substack: https://expansiveceo.substack.com/ Ready to work with a fiduciary CFP to build your long-term wealth strategy? Hannah is currently accepting new clients at X² Wealth Planning. Schedule a complimentary consultation: https://calendly.com/hannahrchapman/60-minute-exploration-call Hannah Chapman, CFP®, APMA®, CRPC® | hannah.chapman@x2wealthplanning.com | x2wealthplanning.com