313: Consistency doesn't matter if you don't have confidence | Amy Schadt

I have a theory… 

It doesn’t matter HOW consistent you are at marketing your business UNLESS you believe in the message you are delivering. 

So I called in an expert to confirm this theory - Amy Schadt. She shares her Radical Embodiment Method, which is here to help you embody what you say so no matter how consistent you are - people will resonate with your message. 

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ABOUT THE GUEST

Amy Schadt is the creator of the Radical Embodiment Method and a Certified Women’s Empowerment Coach and Speaker who helps women reconnect to their bodies, break free from limiting stories, and reclaim confidence, clarity, and personal power.

With over 20 years as a professional dancer, choreographer, and educator, Amy understands the deep connection between embodiment, self-expression, and self-trust. In 2011, after the sudden loss of her fiancé, her life changed completely. That experience became the catalyst for a profound personal and professional reinvention.

Amy returned to school, earned her Bachelor of Arts, became a certified coach, and built a body-centered coaching practice that blends movement, mindset, and emotional awareness. Today, she guides women through powerful identity shifts—helping them move from self-doubt and over-giving into grounded confidence and embodied leadership. Amy is known for her bold, compassionate approach and her ability to help women turn life’s challenges into clarity, purpose, and forward momentum.

PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION

This is episode 313, and I wanna talk about consistency. Maybe it's not your answer, it could be the confidence you have in the content you're putting out there. Welcome to the Content Queen podcast. I'm your host Mariah, entrepreneur storyteller, digital nomad, creative content bootcamp, and founder of Content Queen Content.

With over 10 years experience in marketing, this podcast is here to help you create the most optimal marketing plan. For you and your business by blending storytelling and strategy. So let's get into it. Hello, game filming recording from this beautiful house on the Gold Coast on a family holiday. If you're watching the video, you'll see some beautiful travel pictures behind us of Mitch and I.

'cause we just filmed some user generated content for a really cool brand called Magnet Art. Very cool. These are the photos that they sent us of our trip, and they look really cool. Very crisp, very happy with them. I'm really excited because we can't put stuff on our walls. We are nomads, but this is [00:01:00] wall safe, renter safe.

Very cool. Not a plug. Just thought people would be like, why has she got some photos of her in the background? That is why. All right. We have an amazing guest episode. For context, I have a theory. I have a theory that, yes, consistency with your content is extremely important. No doubt about that. I love consistency.

My middle name is consistency. I just love being consistent, actually to the point where it probably is not good for me. But anyway, I digress. I. But I think no matter how consistent you are with your content and how much you put out there, if you don't believe in your message, it doesn't matter. So with that theory, I went to a Facebook group on Find a Guest, be a guest podcast group, and I put that question in and I wanted some people that were experts in mindset to come on.

I got a lot of emails. So we have a lot of great guests coming up, but one that caught my eye was Amy. So Amy Sharp is on the podcast this week and she is a [00:02:00] mindset. Coach and the creator of the radical embodiment method. So she's a certified women's empowerment coach and speaker, and she helps women reconnect with their bodies, break free from limiting stories and rec, reclaim confidence, clarity, and personal power, which is what I needed.

On this episode to talk about this topic. So she has over 20 years experience in professional dance. She's a choreographer and educator, and Amy really understands deep connection with between embodiment, self-expression and self-trust. In 2011, after a sudden loss of her fiance, her life was changed completely.

That experience became the catalyst for her profound and personal professional reinvention. Amy returned to school, earned her Bachelor of Arts, certified as a coach, and built a body centered coaching practice that blends movement, mindset, and emotional awareness. Today, she guides women through powerful identity shifts, helping them move from self-doubt to and overgiving.[00:03:00] 

Yep, hands up. Get that into grounded confidence and embodied leadership. Amy is known for her bold, compassionate approach and her ability to help women turn life's challenges into clarity, purpose, and forward momentum. Great. Candidate for the episode. So I will leave it to the interview with Amy and I, it was a really great conversation and I know you're gonna get a lot out of it.

So, Amy, welcome to the podcast. I'm, I'm actually really excited to talk to you today. Uh, for context, everyone, I put a message in a group and Amy responded and I was really excited to hear. Of what she has to share with us. But uh, before we do that, I'd love to hear a little bit more about your story.

Everyone loves hearing people's entrepreneurial journeys and how they got into business or what they do in their profession, so yeah. How did you get to where you are now? 

Amy: Yeah. Thank you. Um, hello everybody. Um, I'm Amy Shade. Yes. Um, my journey has been a journey of an entrepreneur, an artist, a dancer, a teacher, a person who has, [00:04:00] um, always generated her own, um, income through the arts most of the time.

And then in 2011, my fiance passed away quite quickly. And that kind of sh that really shifted my whole trajectory of my life by going back to school, getting my ba, getting my life coaching certification, um, and then starting this business that I do now. And so, um. One thing I love to say is that this is a journey and we're, we're on this journey together and that if you are experiencing a turn or a shift that's like, you know, blindsiding you, that there is something on the other side for you.

And so I started my coaching business, um, and I think it was 2018 or 2019, sorry. And then, um, I got into my system of radical embodiment. So before that I was doing one-on-one coachings and didn't really have a [00:05:00] system or a product or, or a belief behind what I was doing. And I finally integrated my dancing, my meditation, and my coaching into, uh, this method.

Mariah: Oh, amazing. Well, we're definitely gonna be talking about that and, uh, thank you for sharing your story. I mean, yeah, it's definitely these things that happened to us in our lives. Um. Make us make different life choices and different decisions and make us reflect on what we really want. So yeah. Thank you for sharing.

Um, so my theory that I ran past in my message very briefly on the Facebook was really about this concept of, um, with getting, when I say traction, like getting seen on social media or putting your business out there. Of course we wanna be consistent. We wanna put the message out there as much as we can and show up.

But I do think I have this theory that deep down, if you don't believe in it, it doesn't matter how consistent you are. [00:06:00] If you don't have that self-belief or believe in your product, your service, what you're sharing, if you think, oh, I've just gotta post this to get it out there and you know, get off the apps because I've got other things to do, then I don't truly believe that you do get seen in the way that you want.

So I would love for you to share what comes up for you and you heard me share that and you know, what made you reach out to me. 'cause I'm curious to know your thoughts on this theory. 

Amy: Yes. Well, as we know, uh, navigating social media and navigating, uh, a business for, um, especially for more of the creatives, the more of the heart-centered women, the more of the heart-centered person.

I see people coming out of, um, uh, corporate world. They, they navigate this so much better on some level. 

Mariah: Mm-hmm. 

Amy: Uh, so, but what happens is with the heart center. Entrepreneur, the woman who is really enrolled in their business is that they become, they have a [00:07:00] passion, and that passion actually lives in our body and it's really rooted in who we are and our message is coming clear through our own personal mission.

Okay. That's good. And that's also troublesome. The good part is, is that when we speak our truth. It hits people where it should hit them in truth, in sincerity, right? Being, in, being, having, uh, being sincere. And that's a commodity that's like big now. Being sincere and like being honest about who you are.

'cause a lot of people are out there doing things that aren't, they're not really aligned with. Hmm. The troublesome part of that is when you love something so much, you want to shield it. Shield it from scrutiny. 

Mariah: Mm. 

Amy: From people talking badly about it and you, you know, we [00:08:00] kind of covet. Um, what we truly love oftentimes because how we grew up, when we love something very much, it often was scrutinized and we were told we don't know what we're doing.

So you've got this really, I, I mean, I wish it was that simple, right? But we are very complex beings and there's two sides to every coin. And that when you are embodied in your message and you are like, uh, fully passionate about what you do, it comes across differently 

Mariah: for 

Amy: sure. 

Mariah: Mm. Yeah, I love that. I never really thought of it that way.

I think a lot of that sort of self-belief and self-trust, um, definitely comes from shielding what we wanna share. But it, it is very true. I've seen it myself with, when I, I am on a call with someone talking about what I do, or I'm like at a networking event or whatever. Everyone's like, oh yeah, you really love what you do.

And I think, um, yeah, and I like what you said about when, I mean, I came from a corporate background, but. I've worked with [00:09:00] some business owners that are maybe not so much corporate, but very like analytical. And I find they're just like, cool. You do you. You do you the marketing thing, and I'll be over here doing my thing and we get the results.

'cause there's not that emotional attachment to the outcome, it's just kind of like. That's one element of what makes up the business. But a lot of, um, heart-centered entrepreneurs who are sharing their craft through a channel like social media, it's like sharing your passion. So it's very vulnerable and very raw.

So, you know, when maybe someone doesn't give it the love or engagement or it doesn't get the amount of reach it can, I think be a little bit more, um, we get to a bit more attached to it. So that, I've definitely noticed that working with so many different clients over the years of who just kind of.

Leaves it to do its thing. And it's kind of like the, the stock market, right? When you leave it to do its thing, it sort of works out. But if you overanalyze it too much, you can get really caught up in the day to day of it. Um, and that's what I've definitely seen. Um. So from your perspective, how does this, [00:10:00] uh, lack of self-belief or trust, because I know obviously if we're really passionate about what we do, we open ourselves up to the criticism and, and, and also that needing to know everything about our craft.

And if we don't know everything about our craft, then maybe we're not the right people to talk about it. How do you think that impacts, um. People showing up and how it impacts maybe their, their body, their nervous system, or how they deliver their message on online. Not just social media, but just online in general.

Amy: Mm-hmm. Yeah. So this is called, this is interesting because again, um, we have these set of beliefs that are living in our body. Okay. And they are mostly, they're very, um, attached to emotion and how we feel about ourselves. If we have that burning passion, it, it's most of the time in your right here, and it's like, oh, you got this thing you wanna do.

But then we've got something with the head that's telling us stories about what we're not capable of, [00:11:00] why we're not worthy. And then, um, so that oftentimes, what we're I just saying? Like what we're dealing with, we're not dealing with point A to point B. You've got this middle ground of all this, uh. Stuff going on in your body with your nervous system, right?

And so oftentimes we are creating, creating, creating. We're in our head, we're, and we think we're doing something okay. Like, we're like overworked so much. 'cause we thought about the product, we thought about the workshop, we thought about, we're thinking, thinking, thinking, right? And that actually exhausts us many a times.

And then we get into overwhelm with the brain. And what happens is. We need to really sink down into our body and what's important to us and the passion that we feel. Once we drop down, we can calm our nervous system. And once our nervous system is calm, we [00:12:00] can actually use our mind correctly and then take action.

Because even taking action as far as typing in a social media post is a physical act. 

Mariah: Hmm. 

Amy: It's actually an embodiment act. Uh, doing a speech, going on a podcast. It's an embodiment act. You are speaking. So using your body, people don't think about that. So oftentimes calming all this down, what's going on inside will actually make you drop into your heart also, which is always the best connection to anything that you do is the heart connection.

Mariah: Hmm. Yeah, I love that. It's just that like being really intentional when you're showing up to do something, right? Like I find. Because everything is noise and we are so busy we, and get stuck in our head that when we go to do something, we just do it to tick off the list or to get it done. But I like that [00:13:00] idea.

'cause I talk a lot about like the energetics of content, right? Like how you energetically. Show up people, like people know, like for example, if I said to you, Amy, like, if you are not on TikTok, then like, don't even bother. Your business is gonna fail. And like whatever, you know all those, that noise busy on social media.

And then you might go, but I don't like TikTok, but all right, I'll show up. And then you show up on TikTok and like it doesn't resonate with the people on the other end. And then you go, oh, what's like, what's wrong with me? Or what? But it's the energy. 'cause you didn't want to be there. And that's why the shoulds in my world, I don't like because we.

Anything can work if you truly are in alignment with it and you believe in it. So yeah. How does that shift, like that sort of, um, you talk about that embodiment, so how if we are embodying, like stepping into ourselves and connecting with our heart and how have you seen that sort of like transform the way women in business or, um, heart-centered business owners show up in the world?[00:14:00] 

Amy: Yes. So again, we are creators, okay. We're very creative people. Hmm. And we're great storytellers. I mean, we have these great imaginations and like, you know, and so I think it's important to really slow down to sit with yourself and to reflect. Reflect on what's really important to you. Reflect how, how you want to show up in this in the world of your business, whether it's social media posting or email or whatever it is.

How, what is it that you really want, like what do you really grounded in that you can tell from a grounded place to your audience so you can share your services, you can share your mission, you can share your, your story. And so [00:15:00] it's very, um, again, we are coming up against so much as, uh, women on the online space, and so we can get distracted by, we're not, we should be doing this.

We should be do, we should be on TikTok. Look what she's doing. I'm not, I can't do that. Like I did it too. Like I saw people, I'm a dancer and I saw people dancing on on Instagram. I was like, I don't wanna do that. Like I'm a dancer and I don't wanna do that. 

Mariah: Yeah. 

Amy: That was not aligned with me, and I was okay with that, you know?

So we all get to, this is a beautiful thing about you being an entrepreneur. You get to decide how you wanna do your business. You are now your brand. Back in the day, it wasn't that way. Now you are your brand. You cannot help it. And so I think, you know, getting [00:16:00] into really reflection on what's important to you, who you want, who you are, who, what do you wanna really portray?

How do you wanna shift people's lives? That is what we need to ground into. 

Mariah: Hmm, that's really interesting. 'cause it does come back to those foundations and yeah, like what, what is it that you want and what is it like, what are you trying to achieve? What do you want your audience to know about you? And I think, yeah, with all the noise we get so caught up in what everyone thinks, oh, that worked and this worked.

And you know, like on the daily I'll get messages from various people, not just clients, but like, oh, what do you think about this? Or what do you think about that? Because it's just like we're in this 24 7 news cycle of people always sharing their ideas. So that's why I think, you know, yes, of course the energy and checking with yourself, but even just like having.

That documented in some sort of plan so that whenever you do get a bit lost along the way, you can always like come back to it. And I think that's something that we often, um, I think lose sight of, especially as [00:17:00] the year, like I think January, February, like where we're at now is really good. And then I, I slowly start to see myself like March, April, may, and then.

Well, where, and you have like, depends on where you are in the world. It's winter for us and summer on the um, northern hemisphere. It's like, then you start to like, things start to go off a bit, track a bit, and then you end up somewhere and you're like, how did, how did we end up here? I thought we were really set on something in January, which I think is fine, but if it, as long as you don't lose sight of what you're trying to do.

Right. And I think I've found myself in the past just like follow. Fun. Like, I'll go over here and I'll go over there and I'll get to the end of the year. And I'm like, I'm so tired. And I know why, because I just like kept following the next thing rather than, and, and that's what I think, like you mentioned, um, it's not the algorithm, it's your nervous system.

And I think that's really important, um, to think about. So, yeah. For, for all of us. 'cause I think with a 24 7 news cycle and social media, we're, we're always in this sort of dysregulation, right? 

Amy: Oh yeah. I mean, [00:18:00] we more now than ever, more now than ever. Like even being on the computer, it's all hitting our nervous system.

It's our changing our energies. All of this energies are going in our body and our brain and our, it's really taking us over. So it's important to. Number one, look at your consumption. Make sure that you are not getting lost on other people's feeds. I limit. I limit myself because I prefer to be a creator.

That's what I prefer to be, and not someone who consumes. Consumes. Because what happens is I get overwhelmed and I already notice my brain starts going, and then I'm like, I get into like inside of here, like, oh, I. I'm not good enough, right? Happens to everybody. To say it doesn't is ridiculous. So I have chosen to limit consumption and be a high level creator, and I [00:19:00] do that through love.

I love what I do. I'd love it. Now, did I love it in the beginning? No, I did not love it in the beginning, but what I did was I learned to love it and I enrolled myself in what I do. I kept enrolling and rolling. I kept showing up, showing up. I don't, you know, it's hard. I'm not gonna say it's easy. It's a, I think this is for everybody out there who's posting or starting their business, whatever they're doing.

I see you. Okay. This is not an easy feat and I am saying you, you know, if it was that easy and more people would be doing it and, uh, what you're doing, keep going. Keep going and just show up as yourself because what we're doing, all of us, you know, it really takes a lot of courage and resilience. 

Mariah: Yeah. 

Amy: And to take it in.

That's one of the things I do [00:20:00] with my clients. Embody and take in your values and how well you're doing and your, all of your accomplishments. 'cause otherwise this business will take you down. 

Mariah: Okay. 

Amy: So we need to be kind to ourself. We need to promote ourself in a way that's like encouraging and like, you know, you got this, you know?

Mariah: Yeah. 

Amy: Have these conversations with self. 

Mariah: Yeah. I love that because I think also, and, and I find myself getting into this as like, say you're reflecting on the year that was, or thinking about your goals, and then you go like, I want to do this last year and I didn't do that. Or I wanted to be more, um, you know, show get, reach this amount of followers or, you know, whatever it is.

And then, but we go, hang on, like if I. Sat down with my 20 19-year-old like me in 2019, which is when I started my business. Right? And think you are the digital nomad you want it to be. You've created this business, you are [00:21:00] speaking, doing workshops. You are, um, you could work whatever you want even though you decide to work most of the time.

Um, you know, you, you have this sort of lifestyle. I would be like, uh, sign me up right now. I think a lot of the times we get so stuck in like, what's the next thing that we forget? To reflect on how far, and especially even with posting online or creating content, like it's pretty cool that you get to show up on this like platform and talk about what you love and people listen and people comment back that you never know.

And you know, I had someone join my membership this morning and I literally was like, I don't know where she came from. I've sent her a voice note because like she was like, she signed up and hers is there on the email. Didn't have any customer journey or anything like that. And I'm thinking like. Okay, this is interesting.

So I think a lot of the times we're always so hung up on what, as you said before, like everything everyone else is doing and we end up on everyone else's feeds and we forget to check in with self and be like, hang on. As I think that self-awareness piece [00:22:00] is so important, and it's something you've mentioned sort of like checking in with self because.

It's so easy to get lost. We all do it. And I think it's just like on those days when I find that happens to me, I just get out of the apps and like, okay, tomorrow is a new day. We're gonna feel better about ourselves tomorrow. And nine times outta 10 is exactly what happens. I could go to bed comparing myself and doubting my business, and I could wake up the next morning like, can't even remember what that was about.

So it's just as you said, if, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it. That's for sure. So I absolutely, I love that. And I mean, so we talk about like confidence and I think confidence is a big word in the sense of like, we think it has to be, we have to embody a different person in a way. Like I think a lot of us, when we think confidence, we might think like the loudest person in the room and extroverted and we'll go up and talk to anyone and all of that.

But I would be keen to hear, especially in this like grounded, embodied [00:23:00] way. What is confidence in these heart-centered entrepreneurs look like? How can we embody that confidence in, in self, in what we're posting, in what we're marketing in our business without feeling like we need to change who we are?

Because I think a lot of people think they need to become a different person to embody a confidence, but I, I generally don't believe that's true. 

Amy: So, yes. So confidence is in the body. It's an embodiment. It is the way you hold yourself. It's the energy you put out it is coming from the body because you're like, you can't think I'm confident, I'm confident and like, you know, actually what I don't know, you know, doesn't make sense.

That's a correspond. You take a, you know, power pose, you're in your thing, you're like in your body. And so confidence is something that, well, I do a self, I do a reflection in my work. So off what I do is I do a reflection on confident. I do [00:24:00] do a transfer of energy where you see someone out in front of you who is confident, okay.

And then what happens is you see how they're holding their body. They see how what, how they're waking up in the morning, what decisions they're making. So, and then I get them to embody that energy and also realize what they need for confidence to be in their body. 

Mariah: That's cool. 

Amy: So it's a very, uh, confidence is built.

It's, you know, it's something that you have to build through practice. I'm a big believer in practice. I mastered an art form through practice. I'm on, you know, over 40, 40 years of, uh, dancing and honing my skills and being, and actually mastered something. 

Mariah: Mm, 

Amy: okay. I, and I understand the value of practice when it comes to confidence.

Mariah: Mm. 

Amy: Because when I first started my business, I started through doing, um, [00:25:00] uh, summits. So I produced all these summits and I still produce a live event every month. I have a live event, but the first time that I had to like reach out to experts, oh my God. I was like, I was not confident at all. Okay. Right.

And was so traumatizing actually. Yeah, because. I was seriously like getting hit in the body of rejection's gonna come, that're gonna say no. What is it gonna say about me? You know, all these things we say. And so now through the years I'm like, okay, I'm gonna ask this expert to be on my show. It's not a big deal.

Mariah: Hmm. 

Amy: Right. Because I've built the confidence around it through experience and that's how you build confidence. And it's interesting 'cause people wanna be confident. They don't wanna put in the time and with confidence, you have to put in the time, you have to invest in yourself. Right? You have to invest yourself in the experience [00:26:00] to become confident and we, you get this, so when you go to a job, you don't know anything, but then you learn da, da, da, and you, you know, you do this next.

That's great. And I'm gonna tell you that's great because someone's telling you what to do. 

Mariah: Hmm. 

Amy: But when you're on your own and you're like, oh my God, I have to figure this out by myself. Which is why it's great to have people like you to guide, right. People like me to guide in these different aspects that you don't have to do it alone.

Mariah: Mm. 

Amy: You know? And you can get your confidence faster. 

Mariah: Yeah. Yeah. It's like when you were, we start, like in Australia, we get, we call out like our learners permit at 16, and the first time you get in the car. With your parent and you're like, oh my God, like this is the most terrible, like you feel like the car's like really big and you are on the road and like there's a car coming past you and you think you're gonna crash into them.

And then now, like you don't think twice when you get in the car to drive or something like that. Like whatever it is. In terms of your analogy, I think it's like. [00:27:00] Over time, you build that trust in yourself to be able to achieve something. But I love what you say because I, with something like that, or when you start a new job or whatever it is, to get the con, like when I first started working at Kmart, I worked at Kmart for six years in the checkouts.

At the start, like the register was so overwhelming and then, you know, by the end I'm counting all the money, I'm throwing the money in the thing, I'm locking up the shop, like all the things, um. We know this, but then when it comes to things like, because as you're saying, like we don't have that person taking us through the process, so it it, and then we're like, okay, well I wanna be confident in my message, but I'll say it once and I'll post it on social media and that's it.

Or I wanna do more live content or go on more podcasts or speak on stage. We like send one email, they're like, okay, I did it. And then we don't follow through. And that's, I like what you say 'cause I feel like you've called me out in a way, in some of the things that I do myself. Um, especially around like the, the pitching side of things.

'cause I could market until the cows [00:28:00] come home. I could talk about things online, I could create content. But it's those tasks like leads, like following up on leads and you know, selling my services. That's the thing where I'm like, all right, that could be done tomorrow. And then I always say, I'm not very good at selling.

And then it's like, yep. 'cause you keep moving the task every single day to another day. Yes. 

Amy: And that is an embodied enrollment of you. You really have to go deep into your body for, for taking action. 

Mariah: Yeah. 

Amy: Around that. 

Mariah: Yeah. 

Amy: Yeah. Because our mind is set and ready and our body is the one who is not moving forward 

Mariah: needing to catch up.

Amy: Yeah. So that intimate conversation with self, that re-enrolling with your vision and your mission, your, your honing in on your own confidence and how far you've come. You go through all of your things, accomplishments that you made, and you figure out which values it took to get there. And [00:29:00] you, you, you stake your claim and you're like, yeah, I'm really good at this.

Mariah: Yes, 

Amy: I have gone through this and I, I did more than go through it. I succeeded. Right. And you actually hold, and when you do that, you hold your accomplished. Look at it. I'm even straightening up. I'm like, okay. Yeah. Right. Mm. You know, it wasn't a big deal, you know, could do it. 

Mariah: Yeah. You know, like the old, my little business, so I've got this little business.

Yeah. My little business, you know? 

Amy: Yeah. 

Mariah: The language. 

Amy: And they're making, yeah. It's like we, we as entrepreneurs, as people who are on social media, as people who are putting ourselves out there, we're the ones we have to enroll first. We have to enroll ourselves first. Right. The energy comes from us, so therefore we must be our, on our own side, we must enroll in ourselves, our passion, how good we are at [00:30:00] something.

Mariah: Mm-hmm. 

Amy: And stop saying, I suck at postings on social media. 

Mariah: Yeah. Good shout, Amy. I think we all need to rewind and replay that because it's true. I have clients that say that all the time, like, oh, I'm not very good on video or, and it's like. You are better than all the people that aren't doing it. And you know, and I think it's interesting with that like confidence in terms of like trust and like trusting in self.

'cause you've gotta be on your own side, otherwise like, oh 

Amy: yeah, 

Mariah: you know. 

Amy: No 

Mariah: one else is gonna be, you're your best 

friend. 

Amy: Okay. You gotta be on your own best friend. Yeah. I, I'm at home like, cheer you got this, Amy. You know? 

Mariah: Yeah. I love that. I have a client, we have to, who said that she wa like, she, she really pumps herself up for things and I think it's so good.

Like you have to, and obviously, um, you know, we get in our heads all the time, but I love that. Connecting back to, to your heart, so you talk about radical embodiment. I'm keen to know what is it like, [00:31:00] how do we. You know, get back into our bodies more and like create from that space And yeah, just, I, I find him in my head a lot.

So, um, and even to the point where, you know, I've gone to see a remedial mass masseuse and he's, you know, just remind yourself to straight, no shoulders every now and then that I'm so in my head that. I often forget to connect to my body. But what you're saying about like connecting, you know, um, regulating your nervous system or comes down to grounding yourself, uh, I think we all need, um, to radically embody ourselves.

But I'd be curious. So I wanna know what you teach in this radical embodiment. I'm very curious. 

Amy: Yeah, so there's a couple things. One, if you are thinking about the past, you're in regret, you know, a lot of regret 

Mariah: mm-hmm. 

Amy: Energy. You think about the future you're in fear and anxiety. Okay? So you've got these two things here.

In the middle is the present day and the present moment. Now, this [00:32:00] was a big lesson for me when my, uh, fiance passed away. 'cause I understand, I saw everything. I understand we only have today. 

Mariah: Hmm. 

Amy: Like, I get it, right? And so being in the moment today. Being present with what's happening right now, right? So like I'm speaking to you right now, I'm not thinking about doing the dishes over here, right?

Mm-hmm. I'm bringing my mind and my body and I'm anchoring into me and you. Right? And so one of the rules about embodiment is to be in the present moment. That's the easiest way to ground. Um, the radical embodiment method is a four step process where we do go through a ref, a huge reflection because we don't slow down enough to reflect on what happened.

Okay? We're [00:33:00] afraid to look at our mistakes, maybe our. This big idea of perfection lives with all of us. And so we are hesitant to look back on, uh, and reflect on something. Okay? But within the reflection, there's actually a lot of, um, ease and release that we can go through. Once we, I do a chakra clearing and all that, once we can settle our body, then we feel safe enough.

To reflect on something when we're in this mode of, you know, it's very hard for us to think clearly. 'cause our mind is thinking, how can I run away from the, I mean, our body's thinking that it wants to leave, it wants to run away, it doesn't wanna look at it. 

Mm-hmm. 

Amy: And so we have to give ourself a lot of grace and a lot of, uh, peace and a lot of, um, [00:34:00] empathy and understanding for ourselves.

Um, that's a big part of the reflection is awareness. And then we go into, you know, clearing the blocks and then we go into the re-envisioning. We have to have something that we want, we have to be passionate about something that, that, that we, uh, want to invest our time in. Whether it's a relationship, whether it's business, whether it's posting that, um.

That social media posts, the, the idea is you can't get caught up on the outcome. You do the vision because it's satisfying you and your values. Meaning if you, it's satisfying me to complete something. 'cause it means I'm in integrity. 

Mariah: Mm-hmm. 

Amy: If I'm in integrity with myself, I am calm. 'cause I know that I'm not off of my integrity, which brings shame and guilt.[00:35:00] 

Then that's all of a sudden in your body you got shame and guilt in your body 'cause you didn't do what you're supposed to do. So, and then of course the, uh, redesign what you create. You start actually taking action and creating what you want. So it's, uh, for me, because I was, I'm very an embodied person, so I was really in my pain body.

For so many years 'cause I grew, I'm a physical person. I'm a dancer athlete. Like I remember riding my bike like yay. You know, just loving that freedom. But my mind like was delayed on some level. It wasn't delayed in thinking it was delayed in this articulation and speaking for what I up for what I wanted.

And so we all have to consider. Our values, number one, like what's what's valuable to us? And if those are our values, like [00:36:00] minor free, freedom, integrity, peace, fun, lack, like I've gotta have all these things in my life, and if I don't have them in my business, it's not fun for me and I'm out of my integrity and I don't like it.

So everything kind of had to, I had to decide what was important to me. Like we all have to decide what's important to us and if that is, um, something that we can fall in love with and if, is it something that we can envision about for our life and is it something that we're willing to take a chance on?

That's the confidence. You know, it's, it's very intricate and very exciting because we get to meet ourselves and we get to know ourselves, uh, more. 

Mariah: Hmm. 

Amy: And we get to really shed all of this a weird program. And we got about who we're supposed to be if something fails, [00:37:00] we're, we're a failure, we're so hooked up on perfection and holding everything in control.

And it's a very painful state of being. 

Mariah: Hmm. Yeah, it's, it's so interesting because I think in, in business, you know, we, we wanna do what we wanna do in our business and we forget that it's like, or we don't realize. I think when we start that it's like one of the most challenging personal development projects you'll ever take on.

'cause you've gotta really, you gotta work out handling rejection and you know, that guilt that you said, you know, that guilt of maybe not doing what you said you would do, um, especially when you don't have that. Accountability. You know, it's all kind of on you, all those things that come up. Um, you know, that rejection, if you do put yourself out there on social media and you get that criticism or all the things that come up when you decide to become a founder, become an entrepreneur.

Put yourself out there. And a lot of us don't, I, I don't believe spend enough [00:38:00] time in that space of like, you know, maybe working with someone that is, specializes in supporting your, your, um. Your energy, your mental health. I worked with a holistic, um, kind of psychologist last year 'cause it was like, I felt like I had all the business foundations, but I needed to do some more work on myself because like, I think that's what was holding me back.

And I think a lot of us think it is, oh, I just need to run Facebook ads and then my business will, you know, be in front of as many people as possible. I just need to do this. But a lot of times like, no, I just need to do the inner work. And all the blocks and all the traumas and all the things that need to work through.

Um, and I imagine that's what happens with a lot of your clients is when they do that work, their business changes in a way they never thought would because, and they didn't, they didn't change anything in the business. They changed themselves. 

Amy: Yes. That goes for everything. 

Mariah: Yes. 

Amy: Yes. Because, uh, again, [00:39:00] through consumption.

We're dealing with comparison, which is very, uh, traumatic and is very hard, uh, to, to really, uh, move through. Unless you are grounded in your own mission and what you wanna do, then there's nothing to compare. Like someone says, oh, are you worried about this? I'm like, no. 'cause I'm the one in the front of my business.

No one could do it like me. Exactly. I don't care. They could try to steal this or take that. They could try, but no one's going to do what I do it the way that I do it. Like no one's going to do that. And I think, again, sincerity, being very sincere and vulnerable and just, um, speaking your truth, people resonate with that.

Mariah: Yeah. That's the, you know, if you want the biggest viral trend, it's that, right? It's like just trying to connect back to, to yourself and yeah. [00:40:00] I love all that. I think it's, it means that, um, and even with the wake of like everything that's coming up, it's like, yeah. But at the end of the day, and I had a conversation with a guy yesterday who grew his YouTube to a lot of people.

And he is like, I don't really see it growing as much anymore. I don't know, like my next kind of steps because it's a lot of content. It's like information heavy, right? It's, it's not, it's delivering information that you could potentially find on Google or AI or whatever. I said to him like, no, it's, it's you.

People are showing up to hear from you and the way you teach it and like, people buy you as much as they buy your products and services. So when you do show up in your most authentic way, which is a journey to get there for sure. Um, that's what people get attracted. That's why we have our favorite influencers or content creators or YouTubers that we watch because we are just attracted to the person, you know, and I think that's.

What it is. And no, we are not here to be content creators at all. We're here to be business owners and entrepreneurs. [00:41:00] But it is finding that the way that you do it, and especially in your business, so, so that no matter how much AI or whatever it is comes in, or competitors, all of that, you know, how you do it is so unique to you, and that's what people love.

So that's a beautiful note to end on for sure. Um, but how, Amy, how can people find you, connect with you and learn more about radical embodiment? 

Amy: Yeah, so they can go to my website. It's uh, the radical embodiment method.com. And, um, I have free gifts on there and I have all the information and, um, my memberships are on there and all my little, my, um, uh, courses and everything is on there.

Mariah: Amazing. 

Amy: And, uh, yeah, you can go to radical the radical embodiment method.com. 

Mariah: Great. Not the 

Amy: radical embodiment method.com. Forget the, that. 

Mariah: It's all right. We'll have the link in the show notes so everyone can, um, can link to that. But [00:42:00] thank you so much, Amy, for coming on and sharing your wisdom. I loved chatting.

You got me thinking about a lot of things. I need to connect back. I'm gonna go to the library this afternoon and just be present in the library. I think, you know, when you've got emails popping up and all the things coming up, I need to do, you know, the, the present moment work. That's what I'm gonna focus on today.

Yes. So thank you so much. 

Amy: Great. Thank you so much. Have a good day. 

Mariah: How good is Amy? I absolutely loved our conversation and yes, it definitely, you know, solidifies my theory that your personal brand, your business, your brand. It needs you to believe in it. It needs you to feel confident and that's not easy.

And, but the good thing is what I've learned from working as a marketer for a lot of coaches is confidence is not something you're born with. It's something that you can learn. And getting the right help and support I think is really important. And often we, and don't get me wrong, I would love for you to invest in content marketing, in marketing, in bootcamp, in my support.

But if mindset is [00:43:00] a real challenge for you, start there. I did a lot of investment in mindset last year. I didn't invest really in any business things, um, except for myself. And it helped a lot grow your, I have a client that says, grow yourself, grow your business. And I think that is. Really what it is all about.

So I hope you loved that episode. I have a lot of mindset coaches in my inbox, so we are filtering through and getting some more interviews out. But be a content queen or king, and remember that developing your strategy and story, develop your business, and sometimes it's your inner strategy and your inner story.

Thank you so much for joining me today, and please don't forget to share this with all your business and entrepreneurial friends. You can do this by adding it to your Insta Stories and tag me at content Queen mariah, or hit the share button and send them link. And if you do leave a rate review, like Amy said, please, it means a lot.

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