The Aligned Woman Podcast

We talk a lot about taking action in business, but we don't talk enough about where that action is coming from. In this episode, I'm sharing a moment from this week where I almost didn't make a decision I already knew was aligned. Not because I lacked clarity, but because a familiar pattern of fear and "being responsible" crept in. I'm breaking down the difference between action that's driven by anxiety, proving, or false humility and action that comes from grounded self-trust and leadership. Same behavior on the outside, very different energy underneath. If you're someone who is capable, thoughtful, and already doing the work but still finds yourself hesitating at key moments, this conversation will land. This episode is about learning how to lead yourself first so your action actually creates results. Work With Me If this episode resonated and you're in a transition season where you know you're ready for a different level of leadership, my Private Partnership offers intimate, high-level support for women refining their decisions, identity, and direction. You can explore Private Partnership and schedule a conversation here: https://www.kerikugler.com/privatepartnership

A few weeks ago I shared why I'm taking my business off Instagram. That episode opened up a lot of relief, resonance, and honestly… a big question: Okay… if social media doesn't work the way it used to, then what do we do now? In this episode, I'm talking about what business growth actually looks like in 2026 when: • the algorithm keeps changing • engagement and followers don't mean what they used to • and social media can't be the only place your business lives We'll talk about: – why putting all your eggs in one platform is no longer sustainable – how creativity (not perfection or hacks) becomes the real driver of growth – what it means to let social media be a channel, not the channel – how intimacy, relationships, and service matter more than metrics – and how to simplify without shrinking This episode is for the woman who feels ready for something more honest, more creative, and more aligned than chasing an algorithm. Not louder. Not more posts. More self-expression. More intention. More real connection. My Private Partnership spaces are open for the woman who is already leading meaningful work, but wants high-level, personalized support as she refines her strategy, her identity, and the way she shows up. Not hustle. Not pressure. But more clarity, creativity, and aligned expansion. You can learn more and start the conversation about private partnership here: https://www.kerikugler.com/privatepartnership And if you haven't yet listened to episode 273. Why I'm No Longer Building My Business On Instagram, you can click here to dive in.

In this episode, I share a pattern I have lived inside for years without fully seeing it. Not because I was unaware but because it was woven into my identity. That pattern? Hypervigilance. Always scanning, bracing, managing. Always "on". I didn't associate what I was experiencing with that word until I heard it named. And when I did, something unlocked. It reframed years of trying to fix myself through more training, more information, and more effort. In this conversation, I explore how hypervigilance shapes the way we lead, the way we build, and the way we create. How it keeps us in reactivity. How it severs our connection to intuition, creativity, vitality, and spiritual guidance. And how it becomes normalized as "just the way things are" when in reality, it is a survival pattern asking to be healed. If your life or business feels driven by constant doing, constant checking, and constant control, this episode is an invitation to pause and look more honestly at what is underneath that pace. Because the future you are trying to build cannot be created from the same state that once kept you safe. I also share an opening for a private partnership beginning late winter into spring for the woman who knows she is here to make an imprint and is ready to lead and build in a new way. Links and resources mentioned in this episode: Private Partnership https://www.kerikugler.com/privatepartnership Conscious Business Edge Podcast Series https://www.kerikugler.com/consciousbusinessedge The Aligned Leadership Edit https://www.kerikugler.com/alignedleadershipedit My Substack Follow me on Substack

The weeks after the New Year live in a strange space. We're still closing chapters from the year that just ended, but we're not fully anchored into the vision that's beginning to form. And yet, we're often expected to feel clear, focused, centered, and ready to go the moment the calendar turns. In this episode, I'm talking about the in-between. The gap where you're no longer who you were, but not yet fully rooted in who you're becoming. This is often the space that comes right before an up-level. And it's also the space where things can feel wobbly, confusing, and a little… leaky. When we're here, our foundations matter more than ever. Our routines. Our habits. The decisions we're making. How we're leading ourselves day-to-day. This is a call back to center. Back to your roots. And also a recognition that the roots you need now aren't the same ones that got you here. I share a simple but powerful re-anchoring perspective (including a very real mom-after-winter-break metaphor) and why leadership hygiene is non-negotiable if you want to build something that lasts. And if you want to go deeper, I'm sharing the personal practice I used during this season inside my free Substack this week, which I'll link below, along with ways to work with me. 🤳🏼 Join my free Substack here 💻 Visit my website and partnership opportunites here.

In this episode, I'm sharing a personal and professional update that's been a long time coming. I've built my business on Instagram for the last eight years. It's been central to my growth, my visibility, and my work in the world. And for a long time now, it hasn't felt right. In this conversation, I speak candidly about what it's been like to realize that something can still "work" and yet feel performative, forced, and empty. I share the moment that made it impossible for me to ignore the truth any longer, when trying to create a simple face-to-camera reel felt so off in my body that I couldn't make it land no matter what I did. This episode isn't about algorithms, strategy, or what you should do instead. It's about outgrowing a container, releasing an identity I no longer resonate with, and choosing to lead and create from a place that actually feels aligned with who I am now. I also talk about: Why I'm stepping out of my "Instagram coach" era The difference between sharing wisdom and performing for attention Why I no longer desire to be on platforms that feel noisy and depleting What it means to stop fitting yourself into a box you've already outgrown If you've been feeling the same quiet resistance, this episode is an invitation to trust it. Links + Resources Mentioned 📝 Substack This is where I'm sharing longer-form writing and reflections moving forward: Follow me on Substack 🎧 The Conscious Business Edge A private 3-part podcast series exploring leadership, consciousness, and building businesses with depth and integrity: https://www.kerikugler.com/consciousbusinessedge 🌿 Work With Me Private partnership opportunities for 2026 are now open. You can learn more about my work and current offerings here: https://www.kerikugler.com

The final weeks of 2025 asked more of me than I expected. They asked me to slow down. To release control. To stop forcing clarity before it was ready to arrive. In this episode, I share the deeper lessons and tests I moved through as the year closed, especially around trusting my timeline, honoring what's complete, and allowing space for what wants to be built next. I also speak into what I see so clearly for 2026. This is the stretch year. Not the kind driven by pressure, comparison, or proving. But the kind that comes from knowing, in your body and your bones, that you're ready to move differently than you ever have before. Bigger rooms. Bigger conversations. Bigger clients, opportunities, and leadership. We talk about why the structure of your beliefs matters more than anything else as you step into this next chapter, and how to expand those beliefs from soul-truth instead of willpower. If you can feel that something is shifting for you, if you know the work you've done over the past months and years has been preparing you for this moment, this episode is an invitation to trust that you're exactly where you need to be. If you're feeling called to go deeper this year, you can explore my current offerings and private coaching opportunities on my website. https://www.kerikugler.com I've also created a private podcast series called Conscious Business Edge for women ready to expand their leadership, strategy, and belief structures in a grounded, intentional way. https://www.kerikugler.com/consciousbusinessedge

In this episode, I'm sharing something that's been very alive for me over the past few months. It's been a season of stretch, challenge, and pressure. The kind that asks you to slow down instead of push harder. The kind that exposes how busy the mind can be, how reactive we can become without realizing it, and how easily we lose touch with stillness in the middle of full lives and growing responsibilities. I talk about why stillness isn't passive, soft, or unproductive but a real leadership skill. One that allows clarity, intuition, and grounded decision-making to come online, especially when you're building something meaningful. I also share personally about the last four-ish months of my life. Navigating family transitions, grief, responsibility, and the internal recalibration that happens when the external world keeps asking more of you. This episode is honest, embodied, and real. At a certain level, the work isn't about doing more or fixing yourself. It's about noticing what you've outgrown, learning how to pause instead of react, and recognizing that the very season you're in may be the one that's building what you've been praying for. If you're craving more clarity, more truth, and a deeper way of leading in your life or your business, drop in. Private Partnerships (2026) I'm currently open to a small number of 2026 private partnerships. Learn more on my website: https://www.kerikugler.com/privatepartnership — The Aligned Leadership Edit Join my weekly email for grounded leadership reflections and practices. Subscribe here: https://www.kerikugler.com/alignedleadershipedit — The Conscious Business Edge Explore my work at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and consciousness. Download the series here: https://www.kerikugler.com/consciousbusinessedge

There's a seismic shift happening in the online space right now and the women who thrive in 2026 won't be the ones consuming more strategy, signing up for more certifications, or gathering more tools. They'll be the ones who finally integrate the truth they already carry. In this episode I'm sharing the energetic evolution I see unfolding for women in business, why identity and energetic mastery are becoming the true differentiators, and why the deeper work now isn't about fixing yourself. It's about embodying who you already are. We'll talk about nervous system leadership, energetic precision inside business, and what it actually looks like to lead from truth rather than effort. If this episode is speaking to where you're heading, I'd love to share more of this work with you. You can explore my private partnership for high-level support, join the Conscious Business Edge for deeper strategy and leadership, or subscribe to The Aligned Leadership Edit for weekly practices that integrate this work into your business. All links are below. Explore Private Partnership with Keri Kugler Binge the Conscious Business Edge Podcast Series Sign up for the Aligned Leadership Edit

This episode explores the opportunities that arrive in our lives not to become long-term paths, but to activate something essential within us. At the start of the year, I asked for expansion. I asked for growth. I asked for opportunities that would stretch me beyond what I already knew how to do — and the Universe delivered. Not in the ways I expected. Not in the forms I planned for. But in the exact ways my soul needed. In this conversation, I'm breaking down the two kinds of "temporary opportunities" that shape us: • The ones that reflect your brilliance back to you • The ones that reveal what you've outgrown And why both are required initiations on the path to your bigger yes. You'll learn: – What happens when you stay open to unexpected paths – How to decode the purpose of short-term opportunities – Why capability can keep you in what's complete – How to recognize what's giving you energy vs. quietly taking it – What these experiences reveal about your next level of leadership If you're in a season of uncertainty, identity refinement, or letting go… this episode will bring clarity and remind you that nothing is random. Everything is preparing you for what's next. ✨ Want to go deeper? • Conscious Business Edge Get the weekly leadership framework that brings consciousness, clarity, and energetic strategy into how you lead and build your business. Join here: https://www.kerikugler.com/consciousbusinessedge • The Aligned Leadership Edit A weekly leadership practice and energetic recalibration delivered straight to your inbox. Subscribe here: https://www.kerikugler.com/alignedleadershipedit

There's a difference between doing something because you can and doing it because it's aligned. In this episode, I'm sharing the evolution that's been unfolding for me behind the scenes — a season where everything I do has become intentional. Not perfect. Not curated. Not strategic for the sake of performance. But intentional. We're talking about: Why intentionality is emotional discipline, not aesthetic presence Choosing alignment over capability Refining leadership by closing what no longer matches who you're becoming How intention quietly shapes strategy, identity, communication, and growth Why perfection isn't the goal — devotion is Intentionality is the only thing we can truly control. And when it becomes the place we lead from, our business stops being a reaction and starts becoming a creation. If you're navigating a season of refinement, release, or deeper clarity — this one will land. 🎧 Explore the deeper leadership work inside The Conscious Business Edge A private 3-part podcast series for seasoned women ready to lead from depth, alignment, and conscious expansion. 👉 Binge the series here Connect with me on Instagram: @keri_kugler_

In today's episode, I'm sharing something deeper than routine, mindset work, or the perfect morning ritual. We're talking about spiritual integrity — not as something you do, but as a way you live. After returning from an incredibly activating weekend in Chicago and sitting in a full-day immersion with my teacher yesterday, I found myself cracked open, expanded… and completely exhausted in the best way. It reminded me that the real practice isn't what happens on the meditation pillow — it's what happens in the moments after. Inside this episode, we explore: Why so many leaders separate spiritual life and business life The hidden cost of spiritual disconnection, even when strategy is strong The difference between ritual and true spiritual leadership What spiritual integrity looks like in real-world everyday moments How intentionality becomes your ultimate form of embodiment The 5 pillars that support spiritual leadership in business How to begin integrating this work without perfection, pressure, or performance If you've ever felt like you're doing "all the right practices" but something still feels misaligned, leaky, or energetically inconsistent — this episode is your reminder that your life is the ceremony, and your business is the expression. If this episode landed, The Conscious Business Edge, my 3-part private podcast series is your next step: https://www.kerikugler.com/consciousbusinessedge  

There are seasons for building and seasons for recalibrating. In this episode, I'm sharing what the space between has looked like for me--the quiet stretch where clarity deepened, creation slowed, and everything I thought I knew about growth began to shift. This conversation explores how stillness itself can become the strategy, why conscious recalibration is essential for sustained growth, and how this work gave life to my new three-part private podcast series, The Conscious Business Edge. 🎧 Listen to The Conscious Business Edge now: 👉 https://www.kerikugler.com/consciousbusinessedge

True clarity doesn't always feel easy. It doesn't always arrive tied up with a bow. Sometimes it's the current that pulls you forward — momentum that moves through your body before your mind can catch up. And sometimes it's the clean, sharp edge that cuts away everything that's no longer aligned. In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on what clarity has been asking of me lately — from stepping back to listen, to making hard, necessary decisions that changed the trajectory of my business. This is the heart of The Conscious Business Edge — a three-part private podcast series for high-level women who are ready to lead from deeper consciousness, clearer power, and simple, intentional strategy. Launching next week.

Your strategy can only take you as far as your consciousness allows it to go. This episode is a wake-up call for every coach and entrepreneur who's been chasing the next big "how-to" without realizing they are the foundation their business is built on. In this conversation, I'm breaking down what it really means to build a business from a higher level of awareness — not from pressure, proving, or frantic doing — but from embodied leadership, energetic capacity, and a consciousness that can actually hold the level you're calling in. We'll dive into: 🔥 What consciousness actually means in business (in real, grounded language) ⚡ The hidden ways we unknowingly cap our own growth 💥 Why strategy without depth won't get you where you want to go 🌿 How expanding your inner foundation changes everything — from sales and leadership to how you show up online This is the kind of conversation that will shift how you look at your business forever. 🎧 Listen in, and let this be the spark that calls you into your next level.

This week we're diving into one of the most powerful parts of building a sustainable, soul-aligned business: your ecosystem. Your ecosystem is the space people step into before they ever invest in your work. It's the pool of incredible humans you get to nurture, serve, and build community with. This is what creates a steady, organic rhythm of clients and opportunities flowing into your world. In this episode, I break down: What a business ecosystem really is (and why it matters more than you think) The 3 key elements that make an ecosystem magnetic and sustainable How to create your own ecosystem that connects, converts, and deeply serves Plus, I walk you through a mini workshop moment so you can start bringing this ecosystem to life today. 🎧 Press play to start building a business people can't wait to be a part of.

After two weeks away, I'm back! And in this episode I wanted to start by sharing what's really been happening in my world lately. Because the truth is, life and business don't exist in separate lanes, and this space has always been about the real parts of both. From there, we're diving into one of the biggest misconceptions in our industry... The belief that success requires a massive audience, constant engagement, or endless visibility. I break down what it actually looks like to build sustainable success--how it's simpler, more grounded, and more attainable than you might think. We talk high-ticket offers, practical structure, energetic alignment, and the truth that your business doesn't have to look like anyone else's to thrive. This episode is an invitation to stop making it so hard and start trusting the simplicity, power, and potential that already exist right where you are.

We're in the middle of eclipse season — a time when everything feels like it's shifting, unraveling, and rewriting itself. If you're navigating unknowns, transitions, or moments where nothing feels clear… you're not alone. In this episode, I talk about what it means to reach a turning point in your life or business and why our human instinct to force a solution is the very opposite of what's being asked of us. Instead, this season is a call to deepen trust — to let go of control and remember that the universe has its own timeline. I share my own experience of taking a true Sabbath: unplugging, resting, and allowing myself to be fully present. And how that simple act of rest created clarity, connection, and the reminder that we don't have to push so hard. If you've been trying to figure everything out, this conversation will give you both permission and perspective to pause, breathe, and trust the process you're in.

Growth changes everything. It changes what you want, what you value, where you find peace, and what you're no longer willing to tolerate. Over the last few months, I've discovered just how much my inner and spiritual work has shifted me — and how my life now reflects it in the most surprising ways. This episode is part playful update (plants, new bedding, cozy rituals that make my heart explode) and part deeper reflection on how letting my nervous system settle has birthed entirely new desires. I also share a little tough love about why so many of us — especially as women in business — think we're slowing down when in reality we're still efforting underneath it all. Tune in for a refreshing, soul-soaked reminder that it's okay — and powerful — to want different things than you did before. In fact, it's proof that you're growing.

So many of us think we're doing the inner work and walking in spiritual alignment… but if we're honest, we're only scratching the surface. In today's episode, I share the spiritual detox I've been moving through — a season of deep cleansing, shedding, and uncomfortable but necessary realignment. I open up about the wake-up call I've had this year, the ways I've been over-efforting in business and life, and how God has been redirecting me to put my spiritual path first. From cleansing my physical space and body to releasing what no longer feels aligned, this process has transformed me from the inside out. This isn't about chasing a goal or destination — it's about becoming the woman I'm proud to be. Tune in for some tough love, personal stories, and an invitation to reflect on your own path.

This episode was sparked by a conversation with one of my biz besties that reminded me of something so many of us forget: the little details we obsess over in business—sales pages, hashtags, bios, fonts, the perfect photo—don't actually hold the power we think they do. What truly moves the needle isn't the surface-level polish, but the energy, alignment, embodiment, and integrity we're bringing underneath it all. Your clients aren't magnetized by the words in your Instagram bio—they're drawn to the energy you embody, the transformation you stand for, and the way you carry yourself on and offline. If you've ever caught yourself overthinking or overanalyzing the "small stuff," this conversation will be a breath of fresh air. Let this be your reminder that your alignment will always outshine your strategy.