Go Live Your Story Podcast

Go Live Your Story Podcast

Welcome to the Go Live Your Story Podcast, with your host Courtney Elko, a former journalist turned entrepreneur who believes your story is your superpower. The Go Live Your Story Podcast is where you’ll hear all kinds of stories. Business stories, stories of overcoming struggles, travel stories, funny stories and soul stories. Inside the episodes, you will hear from Courtney who has plenty to share from her days as a journalist, a woman in business, a traveler and as a storyteller who doesn’t do fake very well. Along with her guests who are entrepreneurs, experts and people with a great story to share, the Go Live Your Story Podcast is about sharing experiences with the world in order to connect on a deeper level. Courtney is on a mission to help you see that stories empower not only those who hear them, but those who share them. Because when you share your stories, you share more of your whole self, and allow people to see past your identifying label and see more of your personal brand. So take a sip from your emotional support water bottle, hit play and get ready to be empowered by storytelling. Don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review, and to share your story!

Episodes

October 7, 2023 45 mins

Sales expert Meghan Lamle invested her last $200 into starting her business and turned it into $200K in sales before she burned it all down after she grew quickly and burnt out. She took a break from business, worked on her mental health and is back 4 years after that initial $200 investment scaling once again.

 

Meghan talks about how imposter syndrome is always lurking, no matter how much revenue you bring in. She works on her me...

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Getting uncomfortable isn’t fun! It’s not easy and it can hurt sometimes, but getting uncomfortable also pushes us to our next level. It’s important to move outside of your comfort zone because it allows you to learn, grow and expand.

On this solo episode, I talk about the things that made me uncomfortable and how if I hadn’t done them, and continued to do them, I wouldn’t have businesses or a podcast today!

Inside the episode I ta...

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SEO Expert and Agency Owner Kim Fischer went from finishing Grad School to bartending to entrepreneurship. She had been living abroad in the UK when the pandemic hit, and decided it was time to return home and start her SEM Agency 13 Emeralds Marketing. She was a woman in tech, and wanted to build a female-first agency that was for women and built by women. 

 

Kim talks about how she wants female entrepreneurs to feel comfortable a...

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August marked the second year of my coaching business! Woohoo! Two years into entrepreneurship and I’m running two businesses - my coaching business online and my local pet sitting business – and it has been quite a journey. A journey with some mistakes along the way!

 

Mistakes happen in business, no matter what year of business you’re in. I don’t consider business mistakes to be a bad thing because I believe you only learn and gr...

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Jenn Bieri was on the executive track at her accounting firm with a clear path to where her life was “supposed” to go, but she was continuously hitting burnout. She tried to pivot down different corporate avenues, changing the size or the type of firms she worked for, but her struggles of burnout only increased.

After numerous panic attacks that landed her in the hospital, she found the energy side of yoga practice. It helped her s...

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August 9, 2023 17 mins

Both micro offers and long-term coaching are great options to enjoy when you’re seeking guidance in your business. Each offer type has value and purpose to the season you are in. But the expectations and results you get from each type of offer are vastly different, and in this solo episode I talk about how micro offers are for learning and long-term coaching is for implementing the things you’ve learned.

I talk about my own experie...

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Empowerment Coach, Badass Unicorn and Empowered Millennial Angela Gentile had been stuffing down her authentic self for decades, and had been trying to fit her life into a box that her environment told her she “should” live. She had a reckoning after her dad passed away and realized she had to break out of the box and live outside of the status quo.

Angela explains how as a millennial she lacked an emotional toolbox to deal with he...

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Burn out doesn’t always look like an explosion, and oftentimes looks more like little singes or little fires everywhere. Intentional Living Coach Tiffany Leader explains how burnout is often a build up of the little things, over an extended period of time, that we continue to ignore and numb out with Netflix or alcohol rather than deal with. It’s not always a giant emotional breakdown.

In this episode, Tiffany explains how to recog...

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It’s easy to get comfortable inside the network that you know, but it’s important to recognize that when that happens, it’s not moving your business forward and it’s time to find a new network – outside of your coach’s networks. It isn’t easy and it’s uncomfortable but it’s necessary in order to expand, meet new people, and build deep connections.

Being in a room with like-minded women who are buzzing with expansion, creates a buzz...

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Amy Traugh, a business coach, founder and CEO of The Moms on a Mission community and host of The Motivated Mompreneur Podcast, is changing the narrative that women have to choose between business and their role as a mom. She is on a mission to empower and educate women that it’s possible to stop the hustle culture, mom martyrdom and mom guilt and actually LIVE the life you desire most.

 

Amy created a Facebook community, business, ...

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July 5, 2023 14 mins

The best stories are in the fails! Your conflicts, fails and struggles are the stories that need to be told. Those are the stories that people want to hear. The perfect stories are boring and not relatable. People relate more to the mess, because most people don’t actually have it all together, all the time.

 

Your audience wants and needs to hear your fails, and struggles. Those messy stories and how you overcame the struggle is w...

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After a decade of doing a toxic dance in her marriage where she would chase and he would run, trauma-informed, life and marriage coach Becky Aste decided to focus on her own healing. Becky and her husband had tried everything, as a couple and individually, to save their marriage but the pandemic really brought their struggles to the surface and they were separated and on the verge of divorce when Becky tried one last thing.

She fou...

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I had been receiving proof from the universe for months but I wasn’t listening. I wasn’t being open to receive the messages that I was being sent because I was looking at it from a different perspective. Once I flipped my perspective and had an aha moment, I was able to see what I had been missing.

And this aha moment came about because of a pet sitting client. My main focus in business and this podcast is my coaching business and ...

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After feeling burnout from the pandemic and her full time job, and getting her driver’s license at 30 years old (when you live in NYC you don’t need one!) chef and traveler Alex Giel decided with her boyfriend to pack up their new car, quit their jobs and drive from New York to Costa Rica! And back!

 

Alex says her road trip of a lifetime was a liberating investment in her happiness, and allowed her to shake things up in order to f...

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Sharing our mistakes with the world helps us all to grow further faster, and in my first year of business I made many mistakes that I share with you on this episode. You too will make mistakes in your business, and perhaps I can help you to avoid some epic fails by sharing my own with you. But I also don’t consider them failures, I consider them the places where I grew the furthest. 

 

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Empowerment Coach, Author and Podcast Host Andrea Crisp set an intention for her vacation, and allowed her intentions and the time away to shift the energy within herself and her business. After a decade of being a leader in the coaching space, Andrea is showing up for herself in a whole new way. She’s living her life and allowing her business to have its own energy and tell her what it needs in order to flourish, while she thrives...

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I’ve been laid off from 3.5 jobs in my corporate career over nearly two decades. Each one sucked in it’s own way but each one also taught me how to continue pushing forward, and unknowingly helped me to deal with the next layoff.

Oftentimes we attach our identity to our job title or role in life and when those things change (which they always do even if you aren’t laid off from a job), it’s hard to not feel like your identity has c...

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Australian-born fempreneur Santina Rigano-Lesch decided to take a gap year to the U.S. to decide what she wanted to do with her life. After many pivots, jobs, businesses, self discoveries, setbacks and finding love, she’s made a permanent home here.

Throughout her life, Santina has seen the big picture vision of what she wanted to achieve in life and business, while also mastering how to take the very next steps to reach her vision...

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May 3, 2023 26 mins

What does it mean when you say you don’t want to be salesy in your business? I’ve said it! My clients have said it? But why are we so afraid of selling or being “salesy” when we first start in business?

Listen to my journey of going from not wanting to be that salesy person when I first started my business, to coaching my clients through the same struggles, and ultimately finding that one person who was indeed salesy to me, and how...

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Sales and Business Mentor Jillian Murphy talks about how she had to learn to detach from the outcome after a lifetime of seeking validation from outside sources.

After decades of the outside world validating to her that she was “good enough,” she learned to find that validation and success from within. She stopped waiting for her clients to confirm for her that she’s an amazing entrepreneur and started believing it for herself! 

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