Apostolic Fruit | Sustainable Growth Strategies, Christian Women in Business, Ministry, Leadership

About Apostolic Fruit | Sustainable Growth Strategies, Christian Women in Business, Ministry, Leadership

You've built something real. A mission that's growing, a team that's trying to keep up, and a calling you can't walk away from, even on the days when you want to. But somewhere in the growth, the breathing room disappeared. You're struggling not because it's failing. You're struggling because it's working, and your structure hasn't caught up yet. That question that swirls around at 2am: "Why does this feel so dang hard when I know I'm called to it?" You're not alone. At Apostolic Fruit, we specialize in serving two women: a) the capacity-maxed Catholic woman founder or CEO who's buried in the weeds and can't find her way out, and b) the scaling visionary in business, ministry, or nonprofit leadership who can feel something bigger inside her but keeps hitting a ceiling. Both need the same thing -- organizational strategy and sustainable structure that finally catches up to the calling. We believe a mission can't bear fruit through a leader who's losing herself in it. So we go deeper than strategy: into the root causes, the nervous system, the interior life of the leader alongside the organizational work. Rest-based leadership and sustainable growth, because how you lead and feel in the work and in life alongside it, matters as much as what you build. Each week, Anna Saucier and Megan Gephart — best friends, co-founders, and organizational consultants with 30+ years of combined experience across entrepreneurship, the military, nonprofit, and Catholic leadership spaces — go deep with honesty, real teaching, and the conversations nobody else is having. The pivotal growth point no one talks about. Why quick fixes fail and how to get to the root. The paradigm shift it takes to scale your mission without sacrificing your well-being or your peace. This is for the Catholic woman founder, CEO, or ministry and nonprofit leader whose mission has outgrown her current capacity — and who's ready to build something that can actually hold the weight of it, and protect space for her humanity alongside it. Start here: apostolicfruit.com

Publisher

Anna Saucier, Megan Gephart - Holistic Leadership, Operational Strategy, Sustainable Business Consultants

Category

business · education · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Feb 2025

Latest episode

23 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

14 of 61 episodes have a transcript.

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   23 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   57 | Embodied Leadership, Emotions, and the Nervous System - Part 3

   Host Anna shares practical tools for cultivating emotional awareness and nervous system regulation, fostering inner peace and a deeper connection with God.

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   9 Jul 2026

   56 | Embodied Leadership, Emotions, and the Nervous System - Part 2

   Host Anna explores how understanding your nervous system's response to safety unlocks embodied leadership and deeper spiritual intimacy.

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   25 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   55 | What Happens When You Stop Treating Yourself Like a Machine: What We Witnessed When 7 Catholic Women Leaders Finally Slowed Down

   Host Dr. Brenda Pfaender interviews seven Catholic women leaders about their journey from industrial leadership to a garden paradigm for sustainable fruitfulness.

Inside a recent episode

57 | Embodied Leadership, Emotions, and the Nervous System - Part 3

Published 23 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So saying to yourself, I felt sad. And then as you remember feeling that emotion and even allow yourself to feel it. If you can have that experience again, notice what you feel in your body. So you can say, I felt sad. And as I remember feeling that emotion, I notice tightness in my chest. This is exactly where emotional awareness starts. And emotional health has its foundation in the body. in noticing the basic lived experience in the body, not in analysis, not in, oh, okay, why I felt sad and here was what happened and he said this and she said this. We don't need to start there. Sometimes it's helpful to go back and to journal and think through that cognitively, but it starts in the body. […]

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• Laura Roland
• Liv Harrison
• Maria Mumaugh
• Meghan Elfelt

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