A podcast for people who want to build their livelihood with their hearts & hands open.
For whom soft does not mean weak, but a receptivity to the powerful creative force that our true nature is.
Building business without forcing, but listening, communing, connecting – and feeling like all what this is about is ultimately… being our powerful creative selves.
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Doubling down on the creativity that comes out of YOU (My rant on AI)
Host Kathy Zola shares her candid thoughts on AI's impact on business creativity, emphasizing the irreplaceable value of human originality and authenticity.
2 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Magical Practice of Intention Setting
Host Kathy Heller explores how intention setting cultivates presence and transforms a day from mere productivity to genuine experience.
12 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Building a Powerful and Focused Brand as a Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur
Host Kathy Kwon guides multi-passionate entrepreneurs to build a focused brand by embracing their diverse strengths, creating clarity for their audience.
4 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
A new era of Manifestation Work: Rooted in reality & magic
Host Kathy shares her personal journey with manifestation, revealing how a grounded, reality-rooted approach integrates the unconscious and nervous system for authentic growth.
27 Apr 2026
Linear Time vs Spiral Time
Host Kathy Heller explores the concept of "Spiral Time" and how embracing it enhances intuition, creativity, and presence, offering an alternative to draining linear time models.
16 Mar 2026
Make more money from your website: Top tips from a website designer
Host Kathy from Bright Matters Studio interviews herself, sharing actionable website design strategies to help online creatives increase revenue and business growth.
10 Mar 2026
What the disconnect between you and your brand is telling you
Host Kathy shares how to reframe your brand as authentic presence, not just a logo, to clearly signal your value to clients.
2 Mar 2026
How I navigate low mood and energy levels in my business
Host Kathy of "What Matters" shares her personal strategies for navigating low mood and energy in business, offering insights on embracing difficult emotions and building resilience.
24 Feb 2026
Money bowl, Ganesh and the story numbers tell
In this episode, I talk about:
The money bowl I just finished building — and how a small brass Ganesha figurine gifted by a friend years ago became the final piece, leading me down a rabbit hole about Hindu symbolism that turned into a unexpected business lesson about listening, receptivity, and co-creation.
Then I get vulnerable and share something I’ve been avoiding for months: my actual 2025 revenue number. Not the one I thought it was (spoiler: I was wildly off), but the real one. And what happened emotionally when I finally sat down and did the math.
I probe the question: Why do we avoid looking at our numbers? — and why it’s almost never laziness. It’s something deeper, something tied to self-worth and what we’re afraid those numbers will say about us.
And finally, how to flip the script: treating financial tracking not as a report card, but as a story your business is telling you — and approaching your income goals not like a mountain to climb, but like a design challenge.
Topics this episode: Feng shui & money bowls · Ganesha symbolism · doing a real money date · decoupling self-worth from revenue · going from 20k to 100k as a systems design problem
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17 Feb 2026
Money is a verb
Host Kathy Heller interviews industry experts about reframing money as a tool for generosity and abundance, moving beyond scarcity mindsets to build sustainable wealth.
10 Feb 2026
Giving ourselves a moment to choose is what it comes down to
Host Kathy Heller explores cultivating "spacious responsiveness" by choosing constructive reactions over automatic patterns, building momentum in business and life.
3 Feb 2026
The Identity Shift: When Your Strategy Isn't The Problem
Host Kathy Smith shares a personal insight about identity shifts driving business evolution, revealing how embracing a new self-perception unlocks entrepreneurial passion and success.
28 Jan 2026
Strategy for your business that feels liberating (and not rigid!)
Host Kathy Mills explores liberating business strategies that empower growth without rigidity, offering actionable insights for listeners.
28 Jan 2026
Reframing consistency for those who think they suck at being consistent
Host Kathy Heller reframes consistency as a devotional act of showing up, revealing its power for those who believe they struggle with it.
28 Jan 2026
Self Love to 100k - Episode 01 - Staying connected in the messy process
Host Kathy Smith explores staying connected during the challenging journey to $100k for creative businesses, offering insights for growth.
Inside a recent episode
Doubling down on the creativity that comes out of YOU (My rant on AI)
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I actually think that's good for my business. So in my last iteration of I did some brand rework and website for my own business, and it was really an interesting opportunity. to feel this kind of conviction that all the handmade aspects in my business, I just want to do more of and offer more of because these are the things that people are coming to me for. They see the brand illustrations that I've done for past clients, and they come to me and they say, oh, that was, you know, it's so moving. And it just created such a unique visual world. And it made it stand out to them. So I would invite you to think of the things that make you so unmistakably human. […]
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