The Nourished CEO is the podcast for ambitious coaches, wellness practitioners, and online business owners who are done choosing between success and self-care. Hosted by business strategist and mentor Laura Schoenfeld, this show is your permission slip to build a wildly profitable business and a deeply nourishing life. Each episode dives into the strategies, mindset shifts, and behind-the-scenes realities of what it takes to grow a thriving business while honoring your energy, your values, your…
What would change in your business if you stopped starting every month from zero? In this episode, I'm taking you inside the rebuilding season I've been in this year, including what happened when I shut down a program that was producing $30,000 to $60,000 months, and what turning everything off taught me about which assets actually make income predictable. You'll hear the three core functions…
What if the fastest path to a six- or multi-6-figure expert business is refining what you already have, instead of adding more to it? In this episode, I'm walking you through a real case study from one of my three-hour strategic intensives with a registered dietitian who works with chronic skin conditions. She's excellent at what she does, with the client results to prove it, and her best month…
How much of your business was designed by you, and how much of it came from watching what worked for somebody else? In this episode, I'm getting into the concept I've been circling all year, which is personalizing your business model before you buy another strategy. Nearly every "proven system" on the market is somebody's personality and strengths turned into a process, and when you buy the…
Almost everyone is using AI backwards right now, and it's doing more harm than good. They hand the public-facing work that actually sells for them, the brand voice, the messaging, the marketing, over to AI, and then keep grinding through the operational work themselves. The follow-ups, the treatment maps, the back-office systems nobody sees. That's the stuff that eats your week and never feels…
What if the reason your systems keep collapsing isn't that you picked the wrong tool, but that you built them for a version of yourself who never gets tired, never gets interrupted, and never has a kid walk into the room mid-meeting? In this episode I'm talking with Dr. Tiffany Shelton, a neuropsychologist and published author who has spent over a decade helping ambitious women build what she…
What happens when you realize the career you trained for, spent years and real money on, was only ever showing you one narrow path out of a hundred? This week I'm talking with Katie Dodd, a Registered Dietitian who stumbled into entrepreneurship by sitting next to the right person on a plane. That one conversation led to a contract, a contract led to freelance work, and freelance work eventually…
What if the reason your content feels exhausting isn't that you're doing it wrong, but that the entire platform was built to make you disappear the moment you stop feeding it? This week I'm talking with Holly Haynes, who built a seven-figure business while barely touching social media. She calls it the antisocial strategy, which is a bit of a joke, because what she does is deeply social. It's just…
What if the reason your revenue feels capped isn't that you're working too little, but that you've never been taught how to rest in a way that actually feeds the business? This week I'm talking with Kristin Brabant, who helps ambitious women business owners scale their revenue while resting more. We get into why rest is far more subjective than most of us assume, the seven different types of rest…
What if the thing keeping your content from landing isn't a missing strategy or the wrong platform, but the gap between how you actually communicate in real life and how you show up online? In this episode, I sit down with my friend Heather Sager, a high-performance coach for visionary and visible leaders who's got more than 1500 stages under her belt, to talk about why your voice is the most…
What would it look like to sell something that doesn't technically exist yet, with no testimonials, no returning cohort, and almost no runway? That's exactly what I've been doing this month with The Decision Room, a $12,000 six-month mastermind I built from scratch and started selling before I had a single person in it. The most important thing I learned in the process had nothing to do with…