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Expand Your Empire

Expand Your Empire

By: Amanda Taylor
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Welcome to the Expand Your Empire Podcast, the go-to show for high-achieving women entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors who are ready to build real wealth and lasting freedom. Hosted by Amanda Taylor, Business and Wealth Strategist, Investor, and Founder of The Inner Circle, this podcast blends financial strategy, feminine leadership, and wealth creation to help you grow your income, elevate your investments, and scale your business with confidence.

Tune in to Expand Your Empire at https://expandyourempire.org.



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Episodes
  • Why Your Childhood Still Runs Your Bank Account

    Why Your Childhood Still Runs Your Bank Account
    Jul 8 2026
    This week on Expand Your Empire, Amanda sits down with Audrey Schoen, a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in financial therapy for high achievers, entrepreneurs, executives, and couples. Audrey is not speaking theoretically. She has lived the tipping point where your business pulls from your life rather than funding it, and she built her practice helping others find their way out of it.Together, Amanda and Audrey get into the uncomfortable truth most entrepreneurs skip: your relationship with money shapes your relationships at home. From the childhood blueprints driving your financial decisions to the emotional landmines buried inside couples' money conflicts, Audrey breaks down why logic and spreadsheets are never enough on their own.In this episode, they cover:Why money is one of the most avoided topics in the therapy room, and why even therapists aren't immuneHow the blueprint you built in childhood is still running your pricing, your spending, and your conflicts at homeThe difference between functioning and thriving, even when everything looks fine from the outsideWhat it means when your business can't stand on its own two feet without pulling from your lifeWhy naming your enough number is the only real way off the treadmillIf you are a business owner, high achiever, or building something with a partner, this conversation will make you rethink what you have normalized and what it is costing you.Read about our guest this week:Audrey Schoen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in theRoseville/Sacramento area, working with entrepreneurs, executives, andhigh-achieving couples across California and Texas.She specializes in private intensives, concentrated, high-impact workfor people who've spent years building something impressive and aresuddenly confronted with what it's cost them personally. Her clients aresuccessful, and that success has quietly hollowed out their relationship,their sense of self, or both.Audrey uses a direct, no-fluff approach combining Relational LifeTherapy, Brainspotting, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy to helphigh-performers do the inner work that actually sticksConnect with Audrey Schoen, LMFT:Check out her website: https://www.audreylmft.com/Check out her Instagram: / audreylmft Check out her Facebook: / audreylmft Check out her YouTube: / @audreylmft Check out her LinkedIn: / audreyschoen
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    45 mins
  • A Number Cannot Evaluate A Person. So Stop Letting It.

    A Number Cannot Evaluate A Person. So Stop Letting It.
    Jul 1 2026

    A founder gets a number. Revenue for the month. A client who didn’t renew. The bank balance before payroll. And instead of treating that number as information, she treats it as a verdict.


    This episode is about the decision-making problem hiding inside that confusion, and why it quietly costs founders years of decisions, not just one bad month.


    In this episode:

    • Why a bad number gets treated as a verdict instead of data, and how that warps decision making around pricing, hard client conversations, and EBITDA
    • The two questions that get fused together, and why only one of them is actually useful
    • Why two founders can get the exact same bad month and end up with completely different next 90 days
    • Where this pattern actually comes from, and why it gets louder once you own the business
    • Why your numbers will always get recruited to do a job they were never built to do if there’s nothing stable underneath you privately
    • A 10-minute homework exercise to build the muscle before the next bad number lands


    If you want help mapping out what your numbers actually say about where you stand structurally, the link to the wealth strategy blueprint is below.
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    13 mins
  • From Charity To Empowerment: Why Susan Bought An Auto Shop

    From Charity To Empowerment: Why Susan Bought An Auto Shop
    Jun 24 2026

    I met Susan at a Coronado Chamber of Commerce event. She mentioned she'd bought an auto shop. When I found out why, I knew I had to have her on.


    After sponsoring two Ukrainian families and watching how hard it was for them to stabilize here in the US, Susan didn't want to stop at temporary support. She bought an existing auto repair shop in Point Loma and created a real pathway for them to have work, dignity, and community.


    In this episode:

    • How Susan went from sponsoring families to buying a business she knew nothing about
    • Why she negotiated seller financing instead of touching her retirement fund, and how that deal actually worked
    • The difference between charity and empowerment, and why one is far more sustainable than the other
    • The operational lessons of buying an existing business: customers, niche, pricing, and stepping out of day-to-day operations
    • Susan's advocacy work with Voice for UA and the urgent timeline facing Ukrainian families on temporary status in the US


    If you want to support Voice for UA, links to donate, advocate, or get involved directly are below.


    Website: Www.voice4ua.org


    Connect on Instagram: @voice4ua
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    50 mins
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