The Shadow Business Podcast
What if the blocks in your business have nothing to do with strategy and everything to do with the unseen patterns running beneath it?
Hosted by business coach and systemic guide Sarah Berckenkamp, The Shadow Business Podcast reveals the hidden dynamics that shape your money, your clients, your launches, and your leadership.
Each episode (launched every Thursday morning) takes you beneath the surface of entrepreneurship into the world of family systems, nervous system responses, and emotional inheritance; so you can finally understand why you get stuck, why you sabotage yourself, and why success sometimes feels harder than it should.
This is not just another business podcast.
It’s a deep, unfiltered look at the shadows behind your strategy and the powerful breakthroughs available when you choose to lead differently.
For entrepreneurs who are ready to trade quick fixes for real transformation, The Shadow Business Podcast offers truth, clarity, and a way to build your business from the deepest foundation possible: all of you.
Episodes
159 episodes
Win At Trial Reels Without Losing Yourself
Okay so. You want to win at trial reels. You also want to still feel like yourself while doing it. And honestly?? That is the most important thing I have ever heard someone say about Instagram.This episode is f...
Slowing Down As A Business Strategy - Danikah Rose
As a psychic business strategist with 17 years experience in business, marketing & sales, Danikah channels New Paradigm Business codes. Reading the energetic blueprints of global businesses that are here to shift the frequency of the en...
Meet Your Sales Shadow - What Jung Would Say About Why You Can't Close Sales
Okay so. You know your archetype. You know what you do. But do you know WHY you keep doing it even when you can see it happening in real time?That is what this episode is about.We are going one layer deeper than the archetypes tod...
How Spirituality and Systemic work come together with Izabela Skarzynska
Join me in the heartwarming conversation with Izabela Skarzynska, where she speaks about her moving from Poland to the UK at an early age and what it is like to give up on your mother's dream and start living your own. You can find...
I figured out why coaches and creatives are not making sales and it is embarrassing
Okay so I need to ask you something.You have an offer. You know it is good. Your clients who do buy are obsessed with it. So why are not enough people buying it?It is not your content. It is n...
How to beat your sales shadows with Bea Lopez I Shadow Business Guest Podcast
Inside this podcast I speak with sales master Bea Lopez on how to beat your thoughts, feelings and emotions around your business that you have about sales.She also shares her story on leaving corporate after 2 devastating experiences an...
The High Earner Trap: Why Earning More Isn't Making You Wealthier
You're earning well. Like, actually well. And yet there's this quiet nagging feeling that you don't really have that much to show for it. That if the income stopped tomorrow, things would get uncomfortable pretty fast.That's not a you pr...
Healing Her Inner Child at 40 - Tasha Fortich I Shadow Business Guest Podcast
Tasha Fortich is a business coach who helps other female coaches and business owners close the gap between the leader they are and the business they are building, so they can fill their spaces with the dreamiest clients. She's been...
Why You Won't Sit Down and Make a Wealth Plan (And What That's Really About)
You earn well. You're smart. You plan everything in your business. So why does the idea of sitting down and actually mapping out your wealth feel like something you'll get to... eventually?In this episode we get into the real reason high...
You Can't Make This Up - Laura Mickler I Shadow Business Podcast
Laura works as a speaker, Mindset Coach and yoga studio owner/teacher. In all of her work, she has 2 goals: regulate people's nervous systems and get them on the path to what they really want to be doing. She speaks from her own exp...
Net Worth: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Calculate Yours
Most people have no idea what they're actually worth and that's exactly where the problem starts. In this episode, we're talking about net worth: what it really means, why calculating yours is one of the most powerful things you can do...
Your wealth number and why you have not reached it yet.
About 2 years ago, I stopped myself and wondered; what am I doing?What am I working for?Yes, for money and because I love my business, but it felt like the money was falling into a valley of "goodbye I'll never see you again".A...
Bridget James Ling on Freedom Queen Live: How to Build a Movement, Lead People First & Create Millions as a Byproduct
This episode is one I've been wanting to record since I walked out of Freedom Queen Live changed; not just inspired, but actually changed. Bridget James Ling, founder of the Freedom Queen Movement and creator of the annual ...
Hourly Rates and the shadows around them
This is a client case study of a client of mine who kept holding on to her hourly rates and why this, in this case, was actually her shadows talking. She's doing great now and she's changed a lot in her business.It is so inte...
The Right Offer For Your Clients
This is one of my favorite episodes, because it speaks about the core of your business; your offers and how it can really change the game for you.Since November last year, I completely shifted my business model after the insights I share...
Being Sceptical is good until...
One of my 1:1 clients finished her first month of coaching with me and I wanted to do a short 'midterm' review of our coaching together.I looked back at the questions she asked in the onboarding form and I was so surprised seeing those ques...
Waiting to be chosen - The Gatekeepers Edition
Two years ago, I made a podcast about 'the gatekeepers' inside the art world and how it keeps artists small.In this episode, I am diving deeper into the dynamics of 'waiting to be chosen' and where it systemically is coming from and what yo...
To Shadow Work or Not To Shadow Work
You don’t need to be “deep enough.”You don’t need a breakdown.You don’t need to fix yourself first.Shadow work doesn’t start with digging.It starts with noticing.Noticing how you react.Noticing what you avoid.N...
Why Your Content Isn’t Landing (and What Actually Changes That)
You know what’s wild?Some of the most powerful women I know sound incredible in conversation—and completely disappear on the page.They post anyway.Every day.With barely any response.In the new episode, I explain...
Frantic energy around money, here are your shadows that allow that to happen
Ever bought something and immediately thought: “…why did I do that?”This was probably because your body already knew this wasn’t really a choice, it was relief.Frantic spending isn’t a money problem.It’s a nervous system momen...
The Relationship With Your Mother That Shapes How Much You Can Receive
When I first heard from my trainer that I needed to strengthen my relationship with my mother in order to receive more money, everything suddenly became clear.In my body.This isn’t symbolic.And it isn’t psychological.
Becoming the Obvious Choice
Becoming the obvious choice is rarely about better marketing.It’s about alignment.When your offer reflects how you actually work.When it solves one clear tension instead of ten imagined ones.When it feels honest, contained...
The Shadow of Depth in Your Business
Ever notice how your work always has to make sense? How it can’t be light. How you feel the need to contribute something substantial every time you speak?Sometimes that’s integrity.And sometimes it’s a systemic sh...