A space for healers, witches, goddesses, and radicals who do meaningful work in a system that makes it more difficult than it needs to be. This is where you come to remember your why and reclaim your story. <br/><br/><a href="https://carakovacs.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">carakovacs.substack.com</a>
Left Standing
Claim This Podcastby Cara Kovacs
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A space for healers, witches, goddesses, and radicals who do meaningful work in a system that makes it more difficult than it needs to be. This is where you come to remember your why and reclaim your story. <br/><br/><a href="https://carakovacs.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">carakovacs.substack.com</a>
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Recent Episodes
June 17, 2026
On Devotional Leadership with Nisha Moodley
<p>There’s a specific kind of conversation that makes you want to pull over the car. Or text someone. Or sit with it for a few days before you can fully articulate why it rattled something loose in you.</p><p>This one did that.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nishamoodley.com">Nisha Moodley </a>— founder of the Center for Devotional Leadership, guide for women leaders, and someone who has been doing this work for nearly twenty years — came on Left Standing and we went places I genuinely didn’t expect.</p><p>We started, sort of accidentally, with late-stage capitalism looking like a South Park episode. (She said it first. I just agreed.) And then we went to the exact moment I found myself looking at a bill for $14,000 in car depreciation attached to a sympathy card eight months after my father died. And then somehow we ended up somewhere much more tender than either of us anticipated.</p><p>This is an episode about a lot of things:</p><p>What leadership actually is — and why most of us who care the most have been opting out of a word that was never meant to describe us in the first place.</p><p>The difference between marketing that triggers shame and desperation and marketing that speaks to the deeper calling in people. Nisha has a way of naming the mechanics of bro marketing so clearly that you’ll never be able to un-see it, and then immediately offering you something real to plant your feet in instead.</p><p>What she calls putting two feet in — and why the wobble between paradigms is exactly what’s keeping so many of us unclear.</p><p>Women in midlife, postmenopausal table-flipping, and why culture’s story about who we’re becoming is opposite land from the actual truth.</p><p>And then — because grief has a way of finding its way in — we talked about death portals. In business. In life. In the specific kind of season where you don’t know how long you’ll be in it or what’s waiting on the other side, and the only honest thing you can do is nourish yourself and fall back into community.</p><p>Nisha is the kind of person who has won national sales competitions and opens ceremonial space with altars. She holds both with such ease that it stops being surprising about five minutes in and starts feeling like the most obvious thing in the world. I wanted to put her on mic specifically so that anyone who feels like their work is too spiritual or too “woo adjacent” to market could hear what it sounds like when someone has fully integrated those things — not as an aesthetic but as a foundation.</p><p>We also built an altar for my dog the night before this episode went out. I didn’t even realize until we were already recording. The divine keeps tapping me on the shoulder.</p><p>Go listen.</p><p>Find Nisha at nishamoodley.com — she has a guided meditation on her homepage for connecting with the soul of your work and an ancestral gift waiting to come through this season. She’s also on Instagram @nishamoodley.</p><p>The Ethical Sales Method, mentioned in this episode, is linked <a target="_blank" href="https://carakovacs.mykajabi.com/offers/xHp8a3eb/checkout">here</a>.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe</a>
May 12, 2026
A peek behind-the-scenes of how I launch
<p>Hello dear ones,</p><p>I get asked constantly whether people are still buying coaching in 2026. And I have thoughts. A lot of them. Including actual numbers from my business, which I am going to share with you because I think you deserve to make decisions based on real data and not vibes (though personally I have wasted a lot of money buying because of vibes…).</p><p>This episode is a sneak peek behind the strategy I use to launch — not the inspirational version, the actual version. What I spend on ads, what my conversion rate is, why my October launch made $30k instead of $50k and what I did about it, and the behind-the-scenes of an $108k month in February.</p><p>Here is what we get into:</p><p>The real math. 650 webinar signups, $2,500 in ads, an 8% conversion rate, a $108k month. What all of that actually means and why you can’t just copy the numbers without understanding the system underneath them.</p><p>Why ads will not save you if your organic marketing isn’t already working. I know that’s not what you want to hear. I’m telling you anyway.</p><p>Why free calls are basically dead as a lead gen strategy in 2026 and what actually works instead.</p><p>The meta thing I do when I teach a webinar that most coaches never figure out — which is that I’m selling the entire time and it doesn’t feel gross, and that is not an accident, and you can learn how to do it.</p><p>What happened to my October launch when someone threatened to sue me over my podcast name in the middle of open cart, got it deleted from the internet, and how I made the revenue back anyway.</p><p>Why entrepreneurship is a gamble no matter how long you’ve been doing it — and what it actually feels like from the inside when you’ve been at it long enough to stop fully panicking about that.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://carakovacs.com/business-witch"><strong>Feminist Business Framework is open now</strong></a><strong>.</strong> This is the last round at this price — it increases permanently after this cohort. Doors close May 20.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe</a>
May 5, 2026
A Woman In A Male Dominated Industry, AI and her first 5-figure launch
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.secureherfuture.com">Stacey Champagne</a> is a cybersecurity executive, an insider risk specialist, and the founder of Women’s Cybersecurity Alliance — a private network built for experienced women in cyber who are done being the most qualified person in the room and somehow still getting passed over for the next thing.</p><p>She joined the<a target="_blank" href="https://carakovacs.com/business-witch"> Feminist Business Framework</a> in September 2025, became a 1:1 client, and had her first five-figure launch in March 2026. This episode is her telling you exactly what that journey looked like from the inside.</p><p>Some of what she said that I’m still thinking about:</p><p>She originally underpriced her offers because of the feedback you may have gotten, too (someone insinuating they were “too high”). The low prices felt safe. What she didn’t realize until we worked through it together was that the low prices were building the wrong room — attracting people whose values weren’t aligned with hers, who had opinions about what she should be charging, who were never going to be her people. The moment she priced for who she actually wanted to work with, those people showed up. Immediately.</p><p>She also talked about the days mid-launch where nothing was happening. No sales, just silence, and a completely relatable inner dialogue of “what if nobody buys.” I told her what I tell everyone: people buy on the last day, often in the last hour, but there is no fix for normal feelings. And then the launch closed and she had her first five figures.</p><p>We got into the coaching industry, specifically the gap between what ICF certification programs teach you — essentially, ask good questions and never share your own experience or expertise — and what people actually need when they hire a coach. Stacey is a coach herself and came into the Feminist Business Framework partly to learn the tactical stuff nobody had given her, and partly, in her words, to watch how I sell so she could understand it from the inside. That part of the conversation is worth the listen if you have ever felt like the business side of your practice is a language you were never taught to speak.</p><p>She is also a decade deep in cybersecurity and has things to say about using AI tools as an entrepreneur that are not scary and not hype — just: here is what you are actually opting into by default, here is why clicking allow all is the kind of decision that feels fine until it isn’t, and here is why the idea that women are behind on AI might be less of a data point and more of a narrative someone is running on purpose.</p><p>Stacey is brilliant, honest, and very funny. This is a good one.</p><p>If you want to get into the work that took her from underpricing to a five-figure launch, I’m hosting a free workshop next week. <a target="_blank" href="https://carakovacs.mykajabi.com/burn-it-down-and-build-it-better-2026"><strong>Details here.</strong></a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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