The Gutsy Podcast | Mindset, Personal Development & Entrepreneurship for Women
The Gutsy Podcast is for women, entrepreneurs, and go-getters who are ready to stop holding back and start making gutsy moves in their lives and businesses. Gutsy is the belief and action that happens in the split second when you’re faced with a decision—but this time you choose to go for it instead of going back.
Hosted by Keynote Speaker and Coach, LauraAura, this show is your weekly guide to owning what you actually want, shifting the mind junk that’s been holding you back, and taking bold steps toward your goals.
Each week, you’ll get powerful insights, actionable strategies, and inspiring stories designed to help you break free from overthinking and overcomplicating. Whether you’re tuning in for a full episode or a quick Powerback® session, you’ll walk away with the confidence and clarity to stop fighting yourself and start going for it.
Desire drives you, but gutsy? That’s what gets it done.
Episodes
587 episodes
Powerback 586: 3 Signs You're Looking for Permission Instead of Taking Action
There's a move you're ready to make, and you've been doing everything except taking the actual action to do it. You can feel it coming. You know what you want to do, but doesn't it feel better to go outside yourself first, to other ...
585: Working With Your Hormones Instead of Against Yourself with Dr. Aumatma Simmons
I was a totally normal person yesterday, so why did I wake up today feeling like I can't do anything, and I want to burn it all down? We call that PMS, we call it hormonal, and usually we say it like it's an insult.Today's guest, Dr. Aum...
Powerback 584: Slow Down To Speed Up - Switching Busy for Intention
If you're cramming your calendar full of little things to avoid the deeper work you know you need to do, this one's for you.What I've seen over and over again with ambitious women is that busy isn't just a calendar problem but an identit...
583: Before, During & After Divorce: Choosing Yourself Through the Hardest Transition with Thomai Roi
At the end of 15 years, she felt like a husk of a person. She’d spent so long living for who she thought she was supposed to be that she'd lost track of who she actually was. That's the story today’s guest brings into this conversation, and it'...
Powerback 582: You've Already Earned the Dazzle - We're Not Waiting To Live Anymore
We've all played this game with ourselves:When I hit this goal, then I'll start living like her. When the business reaches this milestone, then I'll let myself enjoy it. But the finish line keeps moving, doesn't i...
581: The Power of Radical Honesty: Turning Shame into Strength with Candi Rose
What parts of yourself are you still hiding? Shame has a way of convincing us that if people really knew us, they'd judge us or use it against us. And so we stay quiet. We carry things that were never meant to be carried alone.Today's gu...
Powerback 580: Realign What's Out of Whack
I swear that life and business have a committee somewhere where they meet up and decide to do all the things at the exact same time. And when that happens, stuff gets out of whack. The routine that was supposed to work stops working...
579: You’re Allowed to Want More — And Pivot When It No Longer Fits with Kim O'Hara
What if the thing you've spent years building no longer fits? And what if that's not failure, just your next gutsy move?Today's guest, Kim O'Hara, is a book coach, author, and creator of the Delicious Life brand, a platform built entirel...
Powerback 578 : How Do YOU Want To Do This Next Chapter?
You've done everything the way you were supposed to:Followed the rules. Climbed the ladders. Wore the heels. Ran when you were tired and conformed when you wanted to create. And while it ki...
577: Why Successful Women Keep Repeating the Same Relationship Patterns with Riana Malia
As a smart, self-aware person, you’ve probably done a lot of work on yourself, but still you keep ending up in the same relationship, with the same toxic dynamic, wondering why it keeps happening.Today's guest, Riana Malia, is a transfor...
Powerback 576: 5 Tools That Make Running a Business Easier
Finding the right tools to run your business shouldn't take months of clicking through trials and reading reviews you don't trust. But that’s where we usually find ourselves, drowning in options and not any closer to a decision.I used to...
575: 3 Mistakes That Are Sabotaging Your Productivity with Louise Miller
You think you have a productivity problem. But what if the way you've been defining productivity is the actual problem?`Today’s guest, Louise Miller, was the person everyone handed things to because she always got them done. She got prom...
Powerback 574: Starting Over Sucks. We're Gonna Do It Anyways.
Starting over sounds inspiring… until you’re the one doing it.Because nobody talks enough about what happens when you’ve already built something successful, created momentum, become known for something… and then realize it no longer fits...
573: When What You Built Doesn’t Fit Anymore with Natalie Benamou
What do you do when the career, business, or life you worked so hard to build… no longer feels right?In this honest and layered conversation, LauraAura sits down with Natalie Benamou to talk about pivots, identity, entrepreneurship, burn...
Powerback 572 : Your Body Knows What Your Brain Isn’t Ready to Admit
Your body has been trying to tell you something.Maybe it’s the tightness in your chest every Sunday night.The heaviness around a relationship, job, or commitment.The inexplicable excitement toward something your brain keeps dismi...
571: From Trauma to Federal Prison to Purpose with Ranae Van Roekel
What happens when unresolved trauma quietly shapes your life for decades?In this deeply honest episode, LauraAura sits down with Ranae Van Roekel to talk about childhood trauma, dissociation, people-pleasing, shame, healing, and the seri...
Powerback 570: How Did You Get Into This Work, Laura?
“How did you get into this work?”It’s one of the questions LauraAura gets asked the most—and in this Powerback® episode, she’s finally sharing the full story.From being a graphic designer at the phonebook… to building a branding a...
569: Operator to owner: Break free from the day to day with Jason Moss
What happens when the business you built starts running you?In this episode, LauraAura sits down with entrepreneur and business coach Jason Moss for a grounded conversation about burnout, overworking, identity, and the shift from constan...
Powerback 568: Fix The Little Thing That’s Causing a Big Issue
It’s probably not the massive thing holding you back.It’s the tiny, annoying, inconvenient thing you keep putting off.The broken process.The clunky system.The thing that disrupts your flow every single day… but somehow nev...
567: Write the Bestselling Book You’re Meant to Write with Sara Connell
You don’t write a book because you feel ready. You write a book because you feel called.In this episode of The Gutsy Podcast, LauraAura sits down with Sara Connell to talk about what it really takes to write, finish, and publish a...
Powerback 566: Teach Your Nervous System How to Chill TF Out
You don’t have a time problem. You have a nervous system that’s been trained to stay on.In this Powerback® episode, LauraAura breaks down why those small pockets of time—between meetings, appointments, or tasks—feel so unc...
565: How Childhood Trauma Shapes High-Achieving Women with Jess Frost
Growing up around addiction, dysfunction, or emotional unpredictability shapes you — and it can show up in your business and career.In this episode of The Gutsy Podcast, LauraAura sits down with Jess Frost, a trauma-informed Self-...
Powerback 564: I Left Because I Had Bigger, Better Things to Do (And You Might Need To, Too)
What if leaving wasn’t a failure… but one of the most powerful decisions you could make?In this Powerback® episode, LauraAura reframes what it really means to walk away—from something you started, committed to, or thought would work. Bec...
563: Successful but Exhausted? Strategic Rest Is the Missing Strategy with Dr. Erin Wilson
What if rest isn’t a reward… but the strategy?In this energizing conversation, Dr. Erin Wilson breaks down why high performers don’t burn out from lack of effort — they burn out from invisible depletion. After experiencing a stress-induc...
Powerback 562: Launched Something and Heard Crickets? Do This.
What if the reason your business (or idea) hasn’t taken off yet… isn’t because it’s wrong—but because you haven’t given it enough time to work?In this Powerback® episode, LauraAura calls out one of the most frustrating (and overlooked) p...