where boundaries dissolve is a podcast for entrepreneurs, innovators, business owners who are constantly disrupting and reinventing themselves and their business. We find beauty and meaning in doing extremely hard things as we create the future.
turn your life into a work of art, and reach goals you didn't know you had, #92
I used to tell myself: "I'm never going to dance, move abroad, do sales, build a business or travel." The bigger my goals get the closer I feel to myself, my potential and my ability to lead my most ecstatic, wild, passionate, create life. Your most exciting life lies on the other side of that which you've silenced, sacrificed in order to fit some mold you thought you needed to squeeze into. That mold is now you, your operating systems, and it blinds you to the opportunities that you actually want to pursue. I will share a proven framework that was taught to me by leadership executive coaches used for teams, leaders, creatives and innovators to transform and improve their careers and lives.
7 Sept 2026
3 Step Reset When You're A Business Owner Going Through A Big Life Change Without Falling Back Into Toxic Coping Habits #91
3 Step Reset When You're A Business Owner Going Through A Big Life Change Without Falling Back Into Old, Bad Habits
"I really thought I'd healed my relationship to food but and then the breakup dragged me right back into the numbing cycle I swore I was done with..and that derailed me, because I was also trying to grow my business." We unpack why the number one rule of any transition is refusing to judge yourself for relapsing into old coping patterns. We talk about the numbing, toxic coping mechanisms, the imposters, and how to navigate the messiness of it while being a busy business owner.
This episode's framework is pulled from the leadership coaching tool by LUMAN, called ARO/IAO, a specialized cognitive framework utilized in ontological coaching and corporate leadership training.
Put simply, ARO/IAO in life helps you reset in 3 steps through:
Awareness: Accepting and Integrating Fear
Ownership & Identity: Creating Who You Want to Become
Action: Turning Vision Into Reality
20 Jul 2026
How To Ask for Money and Capital With Confidence (For Female Founders Ready to Stop Shrinking) #90
As women we want our "work to speak for itself", but that strategy doesn't work when you're asking for money. When you're asking for money or raising capital, you have to be comfortable putting yourself out there and speaking about yourself, your strategy, and vision with conviction, confidence, and inner authority that this will work even when you don't have the evidence (yet) or very little thereof.
Here's how to cultivate that energy, the mental models, and how to overcome common pitfalls that women often fall into.
We talk about:
the real issue: what destroys confidence during pitch conversations
keeping momentum during uncertainty: toxic grit that create scarcity vs love-driven grit that allows you to spot opportunity
the Growth Edge framework: why your discomfort zone is the territory where your nervous system needs training and how to train
the neuroscience of abundance vs. scarcity and how it makes you more resilient and a fast learner
simple practices to train your confidence and self-belief muscle so you stop shrinking yourself
Chapters
00:51 VC Pitch Lessons & Insight for Female Founders
03:22 Giving Pushback to Men and Inner Authority
04:35 Comfort & Self Belief When in the Unknown
06:55 Grit Love vs Fear and Why this Matters to Your Ability To Receiving When You're Trying To Raise Capital
10:58 Practice Your Pitch
12:13 Practices That Will Help You To Stop Shrinking Yourself When It Matters Most
13:32 Permission Slips Framework
15:01 Final Pep Talk
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The 2% Venture Funding Problem: "Lead With Money. Put The Empathy In The Appendix." with Naseem Sayani, Venture Investor, On The Pitching Mistake Costing Female Founders Millions, 88
Published 15 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I said, quit all that stuff first. I don't need five pages on how the product works. I need one. Start with the money, put the empathy in the appendix. Is that the active advice that you give founders? Yeah, 100 percent. Because story, I feel like, is also a really important part of it. You absolutely need to show the pain and the issue and the need state that you're solving. 100 percent. I don't want anyone to leave that out. I just don't want you to over it. I want you to prove the need state in the market. I want you to show me the trends that are moving. I want you to show me why that trend is important and how fast it's going. and how big that need is getting. […]
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