So You Wanna Be A Witch

This week, I am so excited to introduce you to Tenae Stewart! Tenae is a professional witch, author, astrologer, and self-love and empowerment coach. She helps people discover how empowering simple witchcraft and rituals can be in their real, daily lives. Her first book, The Modern Witch’s Guide to Magickal Self-Care, will be released in ... Read more Episode 118: Crafting a Cohesive Business with Tenae Stewart

I get a lot of this in my DMs: “Hey Sarah! I’m really excited to be getting my business off the ground, but I have no idea where to start! I’m so overwhelmed! Can you help point me in the right direction? Or… any direction?” Starting your first business can be overwhelming because there are ... Read more Episode 117: Your Actual Job as an Entrepreneur

You probably know Cat from her beautiful instagram account @theolivetreesandthemoon. She is a land steward, knitter, folk herbalist and mother who believes in the magic of where one stands, deeply rooted in bio-regional characteristics. Her grid is a gorgeous collection of snapshots from her life on a dreamy hill in Portugal that will have you ... Read more Episode 116: Instagram Wizardry and Land Stewardship with Cat from @theolivetreesandthemoon

Are you the kind of person who likes good news first? Or bad news first? Which order do you want them in this month? August has some really big dreams and some really hard work, and the cards are telling us that we can’t pick and choose, we have to take the whole deal.  This ... Read more Episode 115: August Energy Reading

This week, I talk to one of my amazing business mentors, Jen Casey! Jen is an incredibly successful brain-based business coach and neuro-linguistic programming coach, who supports people running high level coaching programs. She runs the mastermind that I am personally in, so I already know how brilliant she is! I’m so excited to have ... Read more Episode 114: Alignment isn’t Always Easy with Jen Casey

Last week on the podcast, I talked about the concept of marketing and selling with authenticity. This week, I want to piggyback off of that and dedicate an entire episode to a giant misunderstanding I see in small business marketing: folks are focusing on the wrong numbers. More followers on social media does not mean ... Read more Episode 113: You Don’t Need More Followers

Do you miss telemarketers? Back in the day, when we had landlines and couldn’t screen our calls and we’d rush to the ringing phone only to have a disembodied voice immediately launch into trying to sell us something? No? Me neither. I always hung up wondering, “who actually buys vacuum cleaner bags from a cold ... Read more Episode 112: Selling Like an Actual Human

This week, I am so excited to welcome Cameron Glover to the podcast! Cameron is a certified sex educator, business coach, and consultant. She works with sexuality professionals to create successful digital businesses in this cutting-edge field. In addition, she also hosts the Sex Ed in Color podcast, where she centers the experiences of sexuality ... Read more Episode 111: The Business of Sex Ed with Cameron Glover

In my first time talking directly to y’all since the national sweep of Black Lives Matter uprisings that started in Minneapolis, I need to lay the groundwork for this month’s energy reading: Fuck “Business as Usual,” a new world is entirely possible. We are living through a global pandemic, but the police are still carrying ... Read more Episode 110: July Energy Reading

This week, I am so pumped to introduce you to Alyssa Chang! I fully admit that I go a little overboard in my fandom here, but I think you’ll understand why once you listen to this episode. Alyssa is a brain-based health and movement coach who works with clients on improving their connection between their ... Read more Episode 109: Brain-Based Wellness with Alyssa Chang

What if failure weren’t an option? What if all outcomes were neutral? What if you got up off your sad butt and rode off into the sunset? No, June’s energy reading isn’t telling you to pick yourself up by your bootstraps, but it is telling us that we need to check our attitude. Summer is ... Read more Episode 107: June Energy Reading

What does business success mean when you are an anti-capitalist feminist? Those things so often seem in direct opposition, right? We know that we live in a system that benefits a few people over many others. We know that so many people are exploited and harmed so that a handful can hoard. We know that ... Read more Episode 106: Anti-Capitalist Abundance with Sarah Gottesdiener

If you’ve been with me for a while, you know that I love pushing social convention to talk about money. It’s one of the first manners that we learn as children, right? Don’t ask people how much money they make (it’ll embarrass them), don’t tell people how much our family makes (it’s tacky), don’t ask ... Read more Episode 105: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Money

Did you know that you have a desire to fail? A desire to be rejected? A desire for scarcity? What would happen if you allowed yourself space to… enjoy them? I know that might sound crazy to us when we are hustling like mad to make rent, to grow our business, to reach our lofty ... Read more Episode 104: Sex and Money with Dr. Carolyn Elliott

Are you ready to get down to Lizzo? Because May is reminding us that we are our own soulmate! That’s great news to those of you who are sheltering at home alone right now (look up in the mirror like: damn, she the one!), but it’s really an important reminder to all of us business ... Read more Episode 103: May Energy Reading

This week, I am thrilled to be talking with Ayana Young.  Ayana is a lover and protector of wildness on earth, especially the temperate rainforest of the west coast. She is a steward for the future and works on many land-based restoration and protection projects under the umbrella For the Wild. You might be familiar ... Read more Episode 102: Gratitude and Commitment with Ayana Young

Wow, Instagram sure is busy these days, now that we’re all quarantined home alone (or never fucking alone!) with our thoughts. I’ve been cruising, too and I’ve noticed a particular topic circulating around my corner of the internet: How do I create a spiritual practice? Sure, this question gets asked a lot, but it seems ... Read more Episode 101: Creating a Spiritual Practice

This week on the podcast, I talk with Eliza Swann. Eliza is an interdisciplinary artist, intuitive writer, mystic, educator, community organizer, and (on April 14th!) a published author. In this episode, Eliza shares her journey of coming to mysticism before it was “cool,” and how she has remained resilient in her work through big cultural ... Read more Episode 100: Hogwarts without Hierarchy with Eliza Swann

In a time when all routines are out of whack and so much feels unpredictable, our monthly Energy Reading, a ritual of taking the pulse of the month ahead, feels so welcome. As always, the cards know what’s up. They can read the damn room and know that, whether we are thriving or floundering in ... Read more Episode 99: April Energy Reading

There is no escaping that everything is changing rapidly in our world right now. As COVID-19 becomes a world-wide pandemic, we are all being forced to adapt our ways of coping and surviving. This is new territory for us and many of us are feeling the weight of the unknown as we wade through the ... Read more Episode 98: This COVID Business