The Aligned Woman Podcast

Hosted by Keri Kugler

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Welcome to the Aligned Woman Podcast with your host, Keri Kugler. This is the podcast to get real about what it takes to build a successful online business while becoming the most alive and aligned version of you. After building my dream business from the ground up, leaving my full time job and taking my life coaching business full time in under a year I began falling in love with helping as many women as possible how to answer their calling, take their gifts seriously and build profitable businesses that are rooted in impact and transformation. I'm here to activate and guide you with weekly episodes on energetics, strategy, client attraction, sales, and all things online business sprinkled with a little magic and mysticism Let's dive into this week's episode.

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July 7, 202624 min

Ep 297. The Mid-Year Reset That Actually Matters

It's the halfway point of the year, and while I'm not someone who believes you have to wait for a specific date to change your life, I do think it's a beautiful opportunity to pause and ask an important question: Who am I being? In this episode, I'm sharing what's been unfolding behind the scenes of my own business and life. Lately, I've noticed some of my foundational habits, standards, and rhythms have slowly started to slip. Nothing dramatic. Just enough that I can feel the difference in my energy, my thoughts, my leadership, and ultimately, how I show up in my business. Because here's what I've come to believe: Your business isn't built by strategy alone. It's built by the woman implementing the strategy. We talk about why the seemingly "small" things—your sleep, movement, what you're consuming, your relationship with your phone, your nutrition, your thoughts, and your daily standards—have everything to do with the results you're creating. I also share why these moments of contrast aren't failures. They're invitations. They're often the exact catalyst we need to become unavailable for old patterns and recommit to the woman we're becoming. In this episode, we explore: Why who you're being matters more than what you're doing. The subtle habits that quietly influence your business results. How your standards create your internal state. Why external validation becomes less powerful when you cultivate internal safety and stability. The simple reset I'm personally committing to over the next 10 days. How these moments of awareness become the doorway to your next level. If you've been feeling a little disconnected from yourself lately—or like you've drifted from the version of you that you know you're capable of being—I think this conversation will meet you exactly where you are. Ways to work with me: Business Alignment Intensive A focused, private intensive designed to help you identify what's keeping you stuck, reconnect with your vision, and leave with clear, aligned strategy and momentum. One Week Private Coaching Experience A high-touch week of private coaching for women who want personalized support, powerful shifts, and meaningful movement in a short amount of time. 👉🏼Book Here: https://www.kerikugler.com/intensive 90-Minute Clarity Session A single private coaching session to help you untangle what's keeping you spinning, gain clarity, and walk away with your next aligned steps. 👉🏼Book Here: https://www.kerikugler.com/claritysession

June 30, 202627 min

Ep 296. Collapsing Time: 5 Truths I Wish I'd Accepted Sooner In Business

Last week I shared an Instagram post called The Advice I'd Give My Younger Self Building Her Business If I Wasn't Afraid of Hurting Her Feelings—and it sparked so many conversations that I knew I needed to go deeper. Because these aren't just catchy pieces of advice. These are the lessons that genuinely would've changed the trajectory of my business if I had embodied them sooner. In this episode, I'm breaking down the five things I wish someone had drilled into me years ago—from learning to lead beyond your emotions, to finally embracing marketing, to niching down without feeling boxed in, to letting go of other people's opinions, and realizing your business doesn't need a perfectly healed version of you to grow. I also talk about the resistance that naturally comes up when we hear advice we're not quite ready for. I had that resistance too. So if part of you wants to argue with what I'm saying... pay attention. That might be exactly where your next level is waiting. Inside this episode, we'll cover: • Why your mood can't be the CEO of your business • The mindset shift that changed how I approached marketing • Why niching down creates freedom instead of limitation • How to stop creating content for everyone except your actual clients • Why you don't need to become the "perfect" version of yourself before your business can grow If you're serious about building a business that creates real impact and consistent income, this conversation will challenge you—in the best way. Ready for personalized support? My July Business Alignment Intensives are now open. This is a one-week private coaching experience where we'll identify what's actually keeping your business stuck, simplify your strategy, strengthen your messaging, and create a clear plan for your next level of growth. You'll receive a private strategy session, personalized coaching throughout the week, and practical guidance you can immediately implement. If you're ready to stop spinning your wheels and start building your business with more clarity, confidence, and intention, I'd love to support you. Book yours here: https://www.kerikugler.com/intensive

June 23, 202627 min

Ep 295. Show Up Like Her Now And Watch Your Business Catch Up

I almost didn't record this episode. Not because I didn't think it would help you. Because it's so simple I wondered if you'd even believe me when I told you it works. Here's the truth. The things that come the easiest to you, the things you almost feel guilty charging for because they require zero effort on your part, that's your zone of genius. And it's exactly what your people need more of. We get so busy watching what everyone else is doing that we talk ourselves out of the very thing that comes naturally to us, because it feels too easy to be valuable. It's not. Easy for you is exactly what someone else is praying for. In this episode I'm walking you through that lesson, and then I'm handing you the actual structure I use to stay focused enough to build the business I'm building. Because here's what nobody tells you. Before you need a new strategy, you need a relentless standard for where your focus goes. You have to know your bigger points of focus, what you actually want over the next thirty to ninety days, because that decision dictates how you show up every single day after it. I share the exact system I use. A running note on my phone with my points of focus at the top so I see them multiple times a day, and then Monday through Friday laid out underneath it. Not a rigid script for what you do every hour. A rhythm. Certain days for certain kinds of work, so you stop trying to be your own HR department, content team, copywriter, marketer, and salesperson all before 10am on a Tuesday. The version of you who's already holding the business you want isn't doing it that way. She knows who she is. She knows where she's going. And practically, day to day, she's not getting swept up in someone else's content for an hour before she's even opened her own laptop. She's protecting her focus like it's the asset it is. We have to set our business up now the way we want it running in six months. That starts with how we spend today. Takeaway: Your standards for your focus come before any structure. Decide your points of focus for the next 30 to 90 days, then build your week around protecting them.

June 16, 202636 min

Ep 294. The Missing Piece Between Inner Work and Results

You've probably heard me say this before, but I'm going to say it again because it's one of the biggest things I see inside my clients' businesses. You are not as far away as you think you are. So many women come into my world after years of personal development, healing, mindset work, spiritual work, embodiment work. They've changed. They think differently. They lead differently. They have a completely different relationship with themselves than they did a year ago. But their business results haven't fully caught up yet and because of that, they start questioning everything. Maybe I need a new strategy, a new offer, a new niche. Maybe I need to burn it all down and start over. The problem isn't that they don't know what they're doing. The problem is that they're distracted and they're waiting for the identity to feel fully embodied before they start taking the actions that version of themselves would take. In this episode, we're talking about why it actually works the other way around. Action creates identity. The Universe hears your declarations about who you're becoming, but at some point it wants to see you move. It wants to see you back yourself. It wants to see you take the actions that woman would take before it feels comfortable, before it feels natural, before it feels fully locked in. I also walk you through a simple process for getting clear on what actually matters in your business right now. Your work. Your people. Your offers. Your content. The things that are actually creating momentum. Because strategy gets to be simple. You don't need twenty different things working at once. You need clarity, focus, you need to stop pivoting every time something doesn't work after five minutes. You need to hold the line long enough for momentum to build. If you've been feeling scattered, questioning yourself, or wondering why your results haven't caught up to the woman you've become, this episode is for you. Resources Mentioned: Attraction: How to Master the Art of Effortless Client Attraction This $22 training will show you what actually creates client attraction in your business. Not more content. Not more busy work. Not trying to be everywhere at once. We'll look at what helps people connect with you, trust you, and see themselves in your work so signing clients starts feeling a whole lot more natural. https://www.kerikugler.com/attraction Business Alignment Intensive If you're ready to stop guessing and get clear on the exact actions that make sense for your business, your goals, your offers, and your people, this is for you. A week of private coaching focused on creating momentum, simplifying your strategy, and helping you identify what actually moves your business forward. https://www.kerikugler.com/offers/BQTzAPFG/checkout

June 9, 202635 min

Ep 293. How to Realign Your Business With Who You Are Now

If the energy (and results) in your business have been feeling a little or stagnant lately, this episode is for you my love. And before we go any further, I don't mean stuck because something is wrong. I mean "stuck" because YOU have grown and your business just hasn't caught up... yet. You're not falling behind. You're not getting it wrong. You haven't lost anything. You've evolved. And what you're putting out into the world stopped feeling like you somewhere along the way. The message feels off. The work feels flat. You're going through the motions and wondering why nothing is landing the way it used to. That's not a crisis. That's a sign it's time to realign. In this episode I'm walking you through what I call Signature Pillars. It's the framework I use to make sure that my message, my offers, and the work I put out is a true reflection of who I am right now. I'm sharing my own recent audit, what I found, what shifted, and exactly how you can do the same. In this episode we cover: Why feeling stuck is usually a sign of growth, not failure What Signature Pillars actually are and why they go so much deeper than a content strategy What I discovered when I audited my own pillars and what I changed The one thing most business owners are hiding that their audience actually needs to see The audit questions to sit with this week The Audit. Ask yourself: Does this still sound like me? Am I talking about things I'm genuinely excited about? Are there conversations I'm having privately that should be public? Is there a part of my life or identity I'm keeping out of my business? Those gaps are where your new pillars live. Links mentioned in this episode: Attraction, my $22 training on how to master the art of effortless client attraction. https://www.kerikugler.com/attraction Business Alignment Intensive, a deep dive session plus one full week of private coaching to realign your business with who you've become and build a strategy that actually fits you now. https://www.kerikugler.com/offers/BQTzAPFG/checkout If this episode resonated, share it with a woman in business who needs to hear it.

June 2, 202618 min

Ep 292. The Stories You Don't Know You're Living In

I recorded this episode the day after one of the most intimate in-person experiences I've ever held, and honestly, the energy was still so alive in me that I just had to sit down and talk about it. We spent three hours together. Women who are deep in the work. Women who show up for their growth every single day. And what came up over and over again were these stories. Not the obvious ones. The sneaky ones. The ones we've been telling ourselves for so long that we stopped noticing them. They just feel like facts now. I watched a woman in that room talk about a goal like it was so far away, almost like it belonged to a different version of her life. And the second I pushed back and said, what if this could actually happen in six months... I watched her whole energy shift. She told me on her way out that for the first time, it felt possible. That moment is everything to me. Because that's what these stories do. They become ceilings. And the thing about ceilings is you don't know you're bumping up against one until someone comes in and points it out. That's what this episode is really about. The stories that are quietly capping your income, blocking your clients, keeping you just far enough from the next level. And why awareness, just being able to see the story, is the most powerful place you can start. Because once you see it, you're no longer inside of it. And that changes everything. I think you're going to feel this one. When you're ready to have someone come in and help you see what you can't see from inside your own business, the Business Alignment Intensive was made for exactly that. It's a private 75-minute session plus one week of coaching to help you get clear, get aligned, and actually move. 👉🏼 https://www.kerikugler.com/intensive

May 26, 202633 min

Ep 291. The Frequency of Standards

This episode is a deeper conversation around standards but probably not in the way you've heard before. Because when most people think about standards, they think about relationships. Boundaries. What they're available for from other people. But the standards shaping your business run much deeper than that. They shape what you believe you're worthy of receiving. What feels normal. What feels safe. What you subconsciously expect. What you tolerate. What you continue choosing. And whether you realize it or not, those standards are creating a frequency that impacts everything in your business. The money. The clients. The opportunities. The way people engage with you. The way you lead. The way you receive. In this episode, I'm walking you through the deeper energetic and internal standards that quietly shape your results and why so many women keep trying to "do more" before ever looking at the baseline they're operating from internally. We talk about: The standards currently shaping your business results Why your external reality mirrors your internal baseline The energetic shift that changes what you're available for Why people can feel your standards without you ever saying them out loud Holding a new standard even when reality hasn't caught up yet What happens after you decide you're available for more Why the universe often tests your new standard with the opposite first The courage required to hold your standard through uncertainty, disappointment, and contrast Becoming the woman who can actually hold more money, clients, success, and responsibility This conversation is especially for the woman who knows she's ready for more but can also feel that more strategy alone isn't the thing that's going to shift her business. There's a deeper recalibration happening here. Ways to continue the work: ✨ Become a Match for More Money & Clients An intimate, in-person experience for the woman ready to hold more money, clients, and a higher standard in her business. Reserve Your Spot Here ✨ Business Alignment Intensive + One Week of Private Coaching A private space to realign your business, identity, standards, and next level with practical strategy and deep inner work woven together. Details & Booking Here

May 19, 202629 min

Ep 290. The Shift That Collapsed Time in My Business

There are moments in business that not enough women talk about. The moments where you're looking at the numbers halfway through the month and wondering how you're going to hit the goal. The moments where you don't know where the next client is coming from. The moments where things feel uncertain, stretched, uncomfortable, or quiet. In this episode, I'm sharing one small but profound shift that has completely changed the way I move through those moments and honestly, the way I create my entire life and business. For a long time, I found myself praying for the sale, the client, the invoice, the external thing to happen. But underneath it all, it was creating emotional instability because my power was still living outside of me. Everything changed when I stopped praying for the thing and started praying to become the version of me who could hold it. The woman who could hold the money. Hold the pressure. Hold the uncertainty. Hold the growth. Hold the responsibility of the life and business she says she wants. In this episode, I talk about: the shift that changed the way I manifest and create emotional stability in business collapsing time and accelerating growth co-creation, leadership, and inner transformation what happens when you stop outsourcing your power to external circumstances becoming the woman who can actually sustain what she desires I also share more about my upcoming in-person event, Becoming a Match for More: Money & Clients, a deeper conversation around money, capacity, identity, energetics, and the internal shifts required to hold more in business and life. Register here: https://www.kerikugler.com/becomingamatch

May 12, 202634 min

Ep 289. Why Receiving More Still Feels Hard

There's a conversation around receiving that I think misses the deeper truth. Because this isn't just about slowing down, taking bubble baths, or "being in your feminine." For a lot of high-achieving women, receiving feels deeply uncomfortable… even when it's the very thing they say they want more of. More money. More clients. More support. More ease. More joy. More love. In this episode, I'm sharing a realization I recently had about myself and the deeper patterns that were quietly running underneath the surface of my business and life. I talk about: why receiving can feel unsafe the unconscious patterns many women are operating from hyper-achievement, over-efforting, and emotional gripping the fear that the other shoe is going to drop worthiness, nervous system regulation, and identity how these patterns quietly impact your business results practical ways to begin strengthening your capacity to receive This conversation goes far beyond mindset. It's about the internal shifts that change the way you lead, the way you live, and the way you allow yourself to hold more. Because sometimes the next level isn't asking you to work harder. It's asking you to finally feel safe receiving what's already trying to come in. Mentioned in this episode: Conscious Women in Business presents Becoming a Match for More: Money & Clients — an intimate, in-person work session for the woman ready to hold more money, clients, and a higher standard in her business. Click here to secure your seat: https://www.kerikugler.com/becomingamatch

May 5, 202633 min

Ep 288. Your Life Is Your Marketing

If something's not landing in your business, if things aren't selling the way you thought they would, this is an honest conversation about why. Because it's not always your strategy. It's not that your content isn't "good." It's not that you need to say it better. It's that there's a disconnect between what you're putting out into the world and who you actually are being behind it. I've had moments where offers didn't land, where things felt flat, where I found myself questioning why isn't this working? And the truth I had to face was this: I wasn't a full match for what I was selling. Not on paper. Not in what I was saying, but in my energy. In my body. In how I was actually living. Because people are not buying your posts. They're not buying your sales page or your perfectly worded message. They're buying who you were being when you created it. In this episode, I go deep into what it really means to be a match for the level of money, clients, and impact you say you want and why so many high-achieving women struggle to actually let themselves live there. We talk about the subconscious patterns that keep you in effort, control, and overworking. Why it can feel unsafe to lean back into joy, pleasure, and receiving… even when you know that's what would shift everything. And the internal disconnect between knowing these concepts and actually living them. This isn't about doing less or "fixing your energy." It's about becoming honest about the gap between what you're creating, building, and selling and how you're actually showing up in your life Because your life is your marketing. If you're ready to apply this, Becoming a Match for More is happening May 28 at Dreamer's Loft. Small room. Real work. Your business, your gaps, and what needs to shift for more money and clients. 10 spots. Link below. https://www.kerikugler.com/becomingamatch