Left Standing

About Left Standing

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. carakovacs.substack.com (https://carakovacs.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Cara Kovacs

Category

business · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

12 May 2025

Latest episode

15 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

22 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Sept 2026

   From freaking out to $500k

   This is the first episode of Left Standing in a really long time. If you’ve been following along, you know the last year has been a lot…I lost my grandfather on New Year’s Eve, my grandmother in March, my dog in May, and somewhere in there I had to rebrand the entire podcast off the back of a trademark claim. This is not me making excuses, more just giving context. But we’re back, because Feminist Business Framework (https://carakovacs.com/business-witch) is opening again, and I wanted to talk about what launching this program eleven times-and making close to a million dollars off of it-has actually taught me about launching. Especially the parts of launching that nobody advertises. Like the fact that it cost me about $30K to build before a single person enrolled. Or that the first launch made $24K when I was convinced I’d make $100K, and I was pissed. Or the second launch, where I sold half that and spent my 33rd birthday in a Mexico City hotel room refreshing the enrollment page, fuming, while my best friends were downstairs. I also get into the industry I came up in, the $150K-a-year masterminds, the “most committed person will figure out how to pay in full” rhetoric, people from marginalized communities being told to get private bank loans for high ticket containers while the older white men paid cash with no interest, and the refund situation that almost made me leave this business entirely. And what it took to build a model that doesn’t rely on any of that. (For the record: over 50% of my students re-enroll.) If you have an online service-based business and you’ve been avoiding the business side of your business because it was only ever positioned to you through a bro-marketing, toxic-capitalist girlboss lens that was antithetical to your morals... I hope you feel called out AND held by this episode. And I hope you come to Burn It Down and Build It Better (https://carakovacs.mykajabi.com/burn-it-down-and-build-it-better-fall2026?utm_source=email&utm_medium=sales_email&utm_campaign=FBF&utm_content=&htrafficsource=email&hcategory=sales_email&el=FBF&ck_subscriber_id=1027279893), my free webinar happening live on Zoom October 6th and 7th, where I’ll teach you the fundamentals of marketing, selling, and business strategy with a feminist lens. Come live and you’re entered to win a free one-on-one deep dive on your business strategy with me. Doors to Feminist Business Framework (https://carakovacs.com/business-witch) open October 6th with early bird pricing. The waitlist gets earliest access plus an extra $100 off, or you can just go look at the curriculum on the sales page. And tell me in the comments: do you still listen to business podcasts? Do they actually impact what you buy? I’m genuinely curious. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe (https://carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

2. 

   17 Jun 2026

   On Devotional Leadership with Nisha Moodley

   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. This one did that. Nisha Moodley (http://www.nishamoodley.com)— 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. 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. This is an episode about a lot of things: 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. 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. What she calls putting two feet in — and why the wobble between paradigms is exactly what’s keeping so many of us unclear. Women in midlife, postmenopausal table-flipping, and why culture’s story about who we’re becoming is opposite land from the actual truth. 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. 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. 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. Go listen. 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. The Ethical Sales Method, mentioned in this episode, is linked here (https://carakovacs.mykajabi.com/offers/xHp8a3eb/checkout). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe (https://carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

3. 

   12 May 2026

   A peek behind-the-scenes of how I launch

   Hello dear ones, 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…). 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. Here is what we get into: 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. 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. Why free calls are basically dead as a lead gen strategy in 2026 and what actually works instead. 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. 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. 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. Feminist Business Framework is open now (https://carakovacs.com/business-witch). This is the last round at this price — it increases permanently after this cohort. Doors close May 20. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe (https://carakovacs.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

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