She Thinks Big with Andrea Liebross

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Ready to grow a results-driven business that actually fits your life — not fights it? The She Thinks Big Podcast delivers strategic insights, big-thinking frameworks, and no-fluff advice for unapologetically ambitious women entrepreneurs who want sustainable success. Hosted by Andrea Liebross — business coach, speaker, life integration architect, and bestselling author — this show brings you practical tools and proven strategies to grow your business with clarity, confidence, and real freedom. Yes, it might sound cliché to say “life and business go hand-in-hand” — but Andrea means it. She doesn't just coach around your business goals. She helps you build a business that supports your actual, real, beautifully messy life. If you're ready to stop compartmentalizing and start leading with strategy and sanity, you're in the right place. New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe now and start thinking bigger about what’s possible — in your business and in your life.

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May 5, 202630 min

You’re Not Invisible—You’re Just Not Clear

Why do brilliant business owners stay invisible online? This week on She Thinks Big , Andrea talks with digital marketing expert Jennifer Smiga about the hidden reason talented entrepreneurs struggle to grow: their messaging isn’t clearly communicating their value. From AI-powered search to SEO strategy, niching down, and building a brand people actually understand—Jennifer shares the practical steps every business owner needs to stand out in a crowded market. This conversation is packed with actionable insights for any woman building a business and ready to be seen for the value she brings. ____________ 📌 Chapters: 00:00 Building a Boutique Digital Marketing Agency 4:00 Why Great Businesses Stay Invisible Online 6:29 Finding Your Point of View in a Crowded Market 11:05 The Power of Niching Down Without Boxing Yourself In 11:59 Avoiding Common Marketing Mistakes and Shiny Objects 14:15 Building an AI-Powered Platform 19:34 Simple SEO Fixes to Increase Your Visibility 24:19 Balancing Business, Motherhood, and Ambition ____________ 🔎 Want to learn more from Jennifer? Connect with her here: Jennifer’s LinkedIn Jennifer’s Instagram Ultra Violet’s Instagram ____________ If you’re an ambitious leader who knows you can’t keep being the center of everything in your business, there’s a next step. Book your complimentary chemistry call HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/STB-letstalk ____________ 📺 WATCH all episodes of She Thinks Big on YouTube available NOW: https://bit.ly/STB-subscribe Follow She Thinks Big and leave us a review! Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Connect with Andrea and join the She Thinks Big community: Instagram LinkedIn ____________ 🌟 Learn more about Andrea’s coaching and book her to speak here: https://www.andrealiebross.com/ 📚 Dive deeper into learning to Think Big by reading Andrea’s book: https://a.co/d/5xBdPvN 💻 Subscribe to Andrea's newsletter: https://bit.ly/STB-newsletter A note from Andrea every week sharing clear, practical ways to lead and grow your business without losing yourself in it. 📲 Text CONNECT to (317) 245-3255 to start thinking big. ____________

April 28, 202614 min

You’re Not Stuck—You’re Capped (And It’s Costing You $1M)

You’re not stuck, you’re capped. You’ve hit a level of success—but the harder you push, the less things seem to move. What used to work isn’t working anymore, and it feels like you’re hitting an invisible ceiling—but it’s actually the exact moment before your next level opens up. In this episode, Andrea breaks down why high-performing women don’t plateau from lack of effort but from structural limits in their business, decision-making, and capacity—and what it looks like to expand beyond them without burning out. If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything right and still not growing, this is for you. ____________ 📌 Chapters: 00:00 You’re Not Stuck, You’re Capped 1:57 The ‘I’ll Just Do It’ Trap 2:37 You’re a High-Paid Intern 4:26 From Operator to Architect 5:32 The Decision Speed Problem 7:11 The FLY Filter 8:09 The ‘Always On’ Mental Load 11:02 Break the Glass ____________ If you’re an ambitious leader who knows you can’t keep being the center of everything in your business, there’s a next step. Book your complimentary chemistry call HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/STB-letstalk ____________ 📺 WATCH all episodes of She Thinks Big on YouTube available NOW: https://bit.ly/STB-subscribe Follow She Thinks Big and leave us a review! Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Connect with Andrea and join the She Thinks Big community: Instagram LinkedIn ____________ 🌟 Learn more about Andrea’s coaching and book her to speak here: https://www.andrealiebross.com/ 📚 Dive deeper into learning to Think Big by reading Andrea’s book: https://a.co/d/5xBdPvN 💻 Subscribe to Andrea's newsletter: https://bit.ly/STB-newsletter A note from Andrea every week sharing clear, practical ways to lead and grow your business without losing yourself in it. 📲 Text CONNECT to (317) 245-3255 to start thinking big. ____________

April 21, 202642 min

You’re Successful So Why Does Everything Feel Like Too Much? With Bridget Flickinger

On the outside, everything looked like success. Dr. Bridget Flickinger is an ER physician, a business owner, and a mom of three—building a thriving aesthetics practice while still working in emergency medicine. But behind the scenes? She was exhausted, overwhelmed, and stuck in what Andrea Liebross calls “decision debt.” In this episode, we go inside the moment where “doing it all” stops working—and what it actually takes to shift from operator to CEO. If you’ve ever felt like you’re winning on the outside but barely holding it together on the inside… this episode is for you. ___________________ 📌 Chapters: 00:00 Burnout Isn’t Failure—Here’s What It Really Means 1:49 Why High Achievers Still Feel Unfulfilled 3:34 The Side Hustle That Turned Into a Real Business 6:14 The Hidden Cost of Doing Everything Yourself 8:27 The 4AM Anxiety Loop (Decision Fatigue Explained) 9:27 Why You Feel Overwhelmed (Even When Nothing’s Wrong) 12:55 The “Busy Badge” Lie That Keeps You Stuck 15:58 The Hardest Shift: Operator → CEO Mindset 21:05 How to Scale Without Losing Control 25:04 Making Money Without Doing Everything Yourself 33:06 Stop Treating Everything Like an Emergency ___________________ 🔎 Want to learn more from Bridget? Connect with her here: Bloom MedAesthetic’s Website Bloom MedAesthetic’s Instagram Bloom MedAesthetic’s Facebook If you’re an ambitious leader who knows you can’t keep being the center of everything in your business, there’s a next step. Book your complimentary chemistry call HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/STB-letstalk ___________________ 📺 WATCH all episodes of She Thinks Big on YouTube available NOW: https://bit.ly/STB-subscribe Follow She Thinks Big and leave us a review! Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Connect with Andrea and join the She Thinks Big community: Instagram LinkedIn ____________ 🌟 Learn more about Andrea’s coaching and book her to speak here: https://www.andrealiebross.com/ 📚 Dive deeper into learning to Think Big by reading Andrea’s book: https://a.co/d/5xBdPvN 💻 Subscribe to Andrea's newsletter: https://bit.ly/STB-newsletter A note from Andrea every week sharing clear, practical ways to lead and grow your business without losing yourself in it. 📲 Text CONNECT to (317) 245-3255 to start thinking big. ____________

April 14, 202634 min

He Analyzed 1,000 Businesses — This Is Why Most Stay Stuck | Cameron Hemphill

The moment your business starts growing is often the moment you start getting trapped inside it. In this conversation, Andrea sits down with entrepreneur Cameron Hemphill, who has helped scale more than 1,000 businesses and built Growth99 into a national platform before exiting to private equity. Cameron shares the patterns he sees over and over again as businesses grow—from the systems founders ignore early on to the mindset traps that quietly cap growth. They talk about why so many founders get stuck trading time for dollars, how poor systems silently kill growth, and why the difference between a busy business and a scalable one often comes down to structure, delegation, and the willingness to invest before the results show up. If you’ve ever felt like you built a successful business… only to become trapped running it, this conversation will challenge how you think about scaling, freedom, and what it really takes to build something that can grow beyond you. ____________ 📌 Chapters: 0:00 Meet Cameron Hemphill: Scaling 1,000+ Businesses 3:35 The Opportunity in the Med Spa Industry 7:31 Why Most Businesses Underspend on Marketing 11:03 The Speed-to-Lead Problem 15:38 When Founders Become the Administrator 18:57 The Ceiling Most Businesses Hit 20:46 What Scalable Businesses Do Differently 22:24 Why Most Founders Get Stuck at the Same Level 26:13 The Reality of Selling a Business 29:50 What Future You Would Tell You Today 32:55 The Honest Look Every Founder Has to Take ____________ 🔎 Want to learn more from Cameron? Connect with him here: Cameron’s Instagram If you’re an ambitious leader who knows you can’t keep being the center of everything in your business, there’s a next step. Book your complimentary chemistry call HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/STB-letstalk ____________ 📺 WATCH all episodes of She Thinks Big on YouTube available NOW: https://bit.ly/STB-subscribe Follow She Thinks Big and leave us a review! Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Connect with Andrea and join the She Thinks Big community: Instagram LinkedIn ____________ 🌟 Learn more about Andrea’s coaching and book her to speak here: https://www.andrealiebross.com/ 📚 Dive deeper into learning to Think Big by reading Andrea’s book: https://a.co/d/5xBdPvN 💻 Subscribe to Andrea's newsletter: https://bit.ly/STB-newsletter A note from Andrea every week sharing clear, practical ways to lead and grow your business without losing yourself in it. 📲 Text CONNECT to (317) 245-3255 to start thinking big. ____________

April 7, 202619 min

Why Your Business Feels Hard (Even Though You’re Doing Everything Right)

You have the fire. But do you have the framework? Many high-achieving women believe they need better strategy, stronger confidence, or more productivity to grow their business or leadership. But the real barrier to growth is often something deeper: the beliefs underneath it all. In this episode, Andrea explores belief infrastructure—the internal framework that shapes your leadership mindset, decision-making, and ability to move past limiting beliefs. When the belief system supporting your ambition isn’t strong enough, even great plans struggle to take hold. Through practical examples and a simple 7-step belief process, Andrea shows how to identify the thoughts driving your decisions, shift limiting beliefs, and build a mindset that supports leadership, business growth, and long-term success. Because when your beliefs are built to hold more, everything else you’re building finally can too. ____________ 📌 Chapters: 00:00 You Have the Fire — But Do You Have the Framework? 1:11 Why Structure Matters More Than Motivation 1:56 What Is Belief Infrastructure? 3:45 When Leadership Beliefs Hold You Back 5:53 When Women Internalize Broken Systems 7:24 The Belief Bridge Explained 12:19 Turning Beliefs Into a System 9:25 The 7 Steps to Create a Belief Plan 16:09 The Support You Need to Change Beliefs 17:54 A 30-Second Belief Exercise 18:40 The Spark and the Scaffolding ____________ 💻Subscribe to Andrea's newsletter to get started on your own Belief Plan: https://bit.ly/STB-newsletter If you’re an ambitious leader who knows you can’t keep being the center of everything in your business, there’s a next step. Book your complimentary chemistry call HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/STB-letstalk ____________ 🎧To hear more about creating your own belief plan, check out Andrea’s episode: Embracing a Belief Plan: Mastermind Discussion from the She Thinks Big Live Stage 📺WATCH all episodes of She Thinks Big on YouTube available NOW: https://bit.ly/STB-subscribe Follow She Thinks Big and leave us a review! Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Connect with Andrea and join the She Thinks Big community: Instagram LinkedIn ____________ 🌟Learn more about Andrea’s coaching and book her to speak here: https://www.andrealiebross.com/ 📚Dive deeper into learning to Think Big by reading Andrea’s book: https://a.co/d/5xBdPvN 📲 Text CONNECT to (317) 245-3255 to start thinking big. ____________

March 31, 202636 min

Successful on Paper. Exhausted Behind the Scenes. | Seran Glanfield

What if the reason your business feels chaotic isn’t because you need to work harder—but because you’re missing clarity? In this episode, Andrea sits down with Seran Glanfield, founder of Spring Three Studio Business Consulting and host of the Pilates Business Podcast . Seran explains why many passionate service-based founders hit a ceiling in their business and how mapping the client journey can change the way you attract, serve, and retain clients. Together they explore why being great at your craft isn’t enough to build a sustainable business, where founders often misdirect their time and energy, and the small shift that can bring more clarity, focus, and momentum to your growth. ____________ 🔎 Want to learn more from Seran? Connect with her here: Spring Three Website Instagram The Pilates Business Podcast ____________ 📌 Chapters: 1:35 - From Wall Street Burnout to Pilates 4:34 - When Passion Turns Into a Business 8:39 - Why Passionate Founders Hit a Ceiling 12:05 - “Successful” on Paper, Exhausted Behind the Scenes 13:25 - The Hidden Definition of Success 15:52 - The Chaos of Doing Too Many Things 17:10 - The Core of Every Service Business 19:27 - What the Client Journey Actually Is 20:46 - The 5 Stages of the Client Journey 25:58 - Where Business Owners Misplace Their Energy 30:23 - The Small Shift That Creates Immediate Relief 35:03 - Create Space in Your Business (Final Takeaway) If you’re an ambitious leader who knows you can’t keep being the center of everything in your business, there’s a next step. Book your complimentary chemistry call HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/STB-letstalk ____________ 📺WATCH all episodes of She Thinks Big on YouTube available NOW: https://bit.ly/STB-subscribe Follow She Thinks Big and leave us a review! Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Connect with Andrea and join the She Thinks Big community: Instagram LinkedIn ____________ 🌟Learn more about Andrea’s coaching and book her to speak here: https://www.andrealiebross.com/ 📚 Dive deeper into learning to Think Big by reading Andrea’s book: https://a.co/d/5xBdPvN 💻 Subscribe to Andrea's newsletter: https://bit.ly/STB-newsletter A note from Andrea every week sharing clear, practical ways to lead and grow your business without losing yourself in it. 📲 Text CONNECT to (317) 245-3255 to start thinking big. ____________

March 24, 202623 min

From Whisper to Roar — The Map for Women Done Playing Small

You can’t outwork disbelief. In this episode, Andrea shares the internal framework behind everything she teaches about leadership, belief, and decision-making. Inspired by communications coach Dia Bondi’s Platform Map, she breaks down the four elements that shape your leadership voice — Purpose, Provenance, Point of View, and Playbook. Andrea reveals why so many high-achieving women are stuck performing leadership instead of leading with conviction, and why the real issue isn’t strategy — it’s belief. If you’re ready to stop chasing confidence and start architecting belief, it starts here. ____________ 📌 Chapters: 00:00 - Why Most People Get Communication Wrong 1:50 - The Retreat That Changed My Thinking 5:38 - What the Platform Map Actually Is 8:59 - Purpose: The Intimacy of Transformation 11:13 - Provenance: Becoming a General Contractor for Belief 14:33 - POV & Playbook: You Can’t Outwork Disbelief 17:47 - The Five Plays of Belief-Led Leadership 19:22 - Principles: Values in Action 20:05 - Conviction That Holds ___________ 🎧 Want to build your own To-Believe List ? Andrea walks through the full concept here: Why You Need a Belief Plan Instead of a To-Do List ___________ If you’re an ambitious leader who knows you can’t keep being the center of everything in your business, there’s a next step. Book your complimentary chemistry call HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/STB-letstalk ____________ 📺WATCH all episodes of She Thinks Big on YouTube available NOW: https://bit.ly/STB-subscribe Follow She Thinks Big and leave us a review! Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Connect with Andrea and join the She Thinks Big community: Instagram LinkedIn ____________ 🌟Learn more about Andrea’s coaching and book her to speak here: https://www.andrealiebross.com/ 📚 Dive deeper into learning to Think Big by reading Andrea’s book: https://a.co/d/5xBdPvN 💻 Subscribe to Andrea's newsletter: https://bit.ly/STB-newsletter A note from Andrea every week sharing clear, practical ways to lead and grow your business without losing yourself in it. 📲 Text CONNECT to (317) 245-3255 to start thinking big. ____________

March 17, 202652 min

Why Women Sabotage Their Own Negotiations Before They Even Start | Dia Bondi

You're not being lowballed. You're doing it yourself. Dia Bondi — 20-year leadership communications coach, author of Ask Like an Auctioneer , and the woman behind Rio's 2016 Olympic bid — joins She Thinks Big to talk about the negotiation you're losing before it even begins. The rounding down. The extras nobody asked for. The number you softened before anyone pushed back. Dia calls it shopping from your own wallet — and most of us don't realize we're doing it. In this episode: how to set your reserve before a conversation starts, why price is a measure of value and not your worth, how to find the offer inside any ask, and what to do when you land in the XFO — your Zone of Freaking Out — right before the big moment. That feeling isn't a sign you're doing it wrong. It means you're doing something that matters. Purchase Dia's Book Act Like an Auctioneer : https://bit.ly/4utKkaR ____________ 📌 Chapters: 00:00 — Why Women Need to Ask for More 01:39 — Meet Dia Bondi: From Communications Coach to Olympic Bid Advisor 2:19 — The Through Line: Adventure and Deep Connection 4:58 — The Story Behind ‘Ask Like an Auctioneer 6:50 — The ‘Zone of Freaking Out’ (ZOFO) 7:42 — How to Talk Back to Your Inner Voice 9:28 — People Are Irrational 10:45 — The $55,000 Camping Trip Story 13:22 — Concept #1: Set Your Reserve 19:51 — Concept #2: Price Is a Measure of Value, Not Worth 25:46 — Concept #3- Find the Offer Inside the Ask 29:24 — What to Do When You Hear ‘No’ 32:17 — The Platform Map: Your Leadership Voice Framework 33:46 — The Four Parts of a Platform Map 43:06 —The Shin Guard Principle 48:26 — It’s Ok If It’s A Little Messy 50:50 — Final Takeaways: Step Into Your Zone of Freaking Out ____________ If you’re an ambitious leader who knows you can’t keep being the center of everything in your business, there’s a next step. Book your complimentary chemistry call HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/STB-letstalk ____________ 📺 WATCH all episodes of She Thinks Big on YouTube available NOW: https://bit.ly/STB-subscribe Follow She Thinks Big and leave us a review! Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Connect with Andrea and join the She Thinks Big community: Instagram LinkedIn ____________ 🌟 Learn more about Andrea’s coaching and book her to speak here: https://www.andrealiebross.com/ 👉🏻 Follow Andrea: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrea.liebross.coaching LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-liebross/ 📚 Dive deeper into learning to Think Big by reading Andrea’s book: https://a.co/d/5xBdPvN 💻 Subscribe to Andrea's newsletter: https://bit.ly/STB-newsletter | A note from Andrea every week sharing clear, practical ways to lead and grow your business without losing yourself in it. 📲 Text CONNECT to (317) 245-3255 to start thinking big.

March 10, 202617 min

Nothing Gets Done Without You...And That’s the Problem

Scaling a business gets harder when everything still depends on the founder. If your company only works because you’re the one holding everything together… that’s not scale — that’s founder dependency. In this episode, we unpack the leadership trap ambitious founders fall into when every decision, problem, and opportunity runs through them — and why that dynamic quietly caps business growth and leadership potential. The real issue isn’t productivity. It’s business design. And when a business is designed around the founder, growth eventually hits a ceiling. ____________ If you’re an ambitious leader who knows you can’t keep being the center of everything in your business, there’s a next step. 📲 Text CONNECT to (317) 245-3255 to begin a private conversation. ____________ Chapters 1:08 — You're not struggling. You're centralizing. 3:08 — Centralizing vs. the hero 5:57 — Why you're doing this 9:00 — The Tuesday 12:10 — What redesign actually looks like 14:31 — Your move ____________ ⭐ Get Andrea’s newsletter, packed with practical ways to lead and grow your business without losing yourself in it: https://bit.ly/STB-newsletter ⭐ Get Andrea's bestselling book – She Thinks Big: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Guide to Moving Past the Messy Middle and Into the Extraordinary : https://a.co/d/5xBdPvN Subscribe to Andrea’s channel and watch all She Thinks Big episodes here: https://bit.ly/STB-subscribe ____________ Follow She Thinks Big and leave us a review! Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Connect with Andrea and join the She Thinks Big community: Instagram TikTok Facebook LinkedIn

March 5, 202632 min

She Built a Successful Business—And Almost Lost Her Marriage | Tiffany Sauder

Tiffany Sauder knows what it looks like to build something big — and what it costs when your life can’t hold it. Today she’s the founder of the Life of And movement, host of the Life of And podcast, and a voice helping ambitious women rethink how success and life fit together. But it wasn’t always that way. In this conversation, Tiffany shares the moment everything nearly broke — her marriage, her energy, and the life she’d worked so hard to build — and the systems she created to rebuild it in a way that was actually sustainable. If you’ve ever felt like success is coming at the expense of everything else, this one will hit home. And when you’re done with this episode, head over to Life of And — the conversation continues there. Chapters: 00:00 — Introduction and Tiffany's Personal Journey 02:30 — Helping High Achieving Women Stop Living a Life of Have To 04:04 — The Turning Point: Life Fell Apart in 2018-2019 05:22 — Acknowledging Where You Are and Building a New Life 09:14 — Introducing the Life of And Framework 12:21 — The Unbalanced Characters and Their Toolbox 16:36 — Feeding the Circle to Restore Balance 20:40 — System Changes and Their Impact on Life 29:34 — One Small Decision to Move the Needle 30:00 — Practical Tips Interested in working with Andrea or bringing her coaching to your team? ➡️ Book a consultation call with Andrea HERE . ⬅️ ⭐ Get Andrea’s newsletter, packed with practical ways to lead and grow your business without losing yourself in it: https://bit.ly/STB-newsletter ⭐ Get Andrea's bestselling book — She Thinks Big: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Guide to Moving Past the Messy Middle and Into the Extraordinary : https://a.co/d/5xBdPvN Subscribe to Andrea’s channel and watch all She Thinks Big episodes here: https://bit.ly/STB-subscribe Follow She Thinks Big and leave us a review! Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Connect with Andrea and join the She Thinks Big community: Instagram TikTok Facebook LinkedIn