If you are new to the Expand Your Empire world, this is the episode to start with. Amanda Taylor pulls back the curtain on why most successful-looking businesses are actually "wealth traps." She explains the exact framework she uses to help high-achieving entrepreneurs stop the profit leaks, reclaim their time, and turn their business revenue into a compounding wealth engine. If you've ever felt like you’re on a "hamster wheel in a higher tax bracket," this episode is your exit strategy.

• The Difference Between Revenue and Wealth: Why your top-line number is lying to you.
• The 3 Profit Leaks: How "people pleasing" and "over-delivering" are silently killing your margins.
• Move #1: The Margin Audit: How Amanda identifies 8-12% "hidden" profit without increasing prices.
• Move #2: Delivery Boundaries: The "Scalable Excellence" model—moving from on-call to automated systems.
• Move #3: Profit-First Cash Flow: The banking structure Amanda uses to ensure her clients build reserves systematically.
• The Wealth Engine: How Amanda’s clients transition from "Self-Funded" (relying on work) to "Smart-Funded" (relying on investments).

This episode explains the "What" and the "Why." If you’re ready for the "How," Amanda offers a Profit Discovery Audit. This is her signature deep-dive where she maps out your specific leaks and builds a plan to deploy your first $50k-$150k into wealth-building assets.

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This episode is a departure from our typical conversations, and it’s one of the most important.

We’re exploring a dimension of wealth building that rarely gets discussed: your capacity to receive.

So many high-achieving women can execute strategy, build income, and hit goals, yet still feel disconnected, over-controlled, or stuck in cycles of hustle and self-sabotage. In this conversation, Sharon and I unpack why that happens and how your relationship with your body, pleasure, and sensation can mirror your relationship with money, success, support, and abundance.

We talk about:

- Why relief isn’t the same as pleasure (and why that matters for burnout and overwork)

- How “functional freeze” shows up in business, relationships, and your financial life

- The subtle ways we deflect receiving compliments, help, rest, money, and opportunity

- A grounded starting point for expanding capacity without overwhelming your nervous system

- What it looks like to build wealth that feels sustainable, embodied, and sovereign

Content note: This episode includes mature themes and explicit discussion related to sexuality and trauma. Please listen with care and skip if this isn’t supportive for you right now.

If you’ve been building wealth but losing yourself in the process, this conversation offers a perspective you won’t find in traditional financial education, and a reminder that true wealth is a full-life experience.

About The Guest:

Sharon Marie Scott is an embodiment educator, author, and the architect of The Pleasure Renaissance, a movement focused on sovereignty, nervous system capacity, and embodied leadership.

Her work draws from years of teaching in embodiment, conscious relating, and emotional intelligence. She has lectured graduate-level psychology interns, facilitated group programs on sovereignty and self-trust, and supported high-achieving individuals in reconnecting to their bodies as a foundation for sustainable success.

Sharon teaches that pleasure is a form of embodied intelligence, a signal that expands capacity to receive, supports nervous system regulation, and deepens how we experience wealth, creativity, and life itself.

Connect With Shannon Below:

Website - www.sharonmariescott.com

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sharonlifeturnedon/

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonmariescott/

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@lifeturnedon/

Connect beyond here with the Host Amanda Taylor:

https://elevate365.biz/amanda-biz-141848

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In this episode, Amanda Taylor sits down with PJ Ashley, CEO and founder of The Pillar Code, for a powerful conversation on why wealth, success, and financial freedom often remain just out of reach, even for high-achieving individuals.

PJ brings over 20 years of corporate leadership experience and decades of work in holistic and intuitive healing to explain how unresolved trauma, self-worth, burnout, and disconnection from purpose quietly block prosperity. Together, Amanda and PJ explore why wealth is not just about strategy or knowledge, but about value, alignment, and conscious leadership.

This episode challenges the idea that working harder or learning more is the answer, and instead reframes prosperity as a full-body, full-life experience that begins internally.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• Why wealth can come in, but won’t stay, without internal alignment
• The difference between operating as a manager versus a CEO in life and business
• How unresolved past experiences silently sabotage financial growth
• Why many spiritual and service-driven entrepreneurs struggle with money
• The role of value, self-trust, and purpose in sustainable prosperity
• How money, energy, and leadership are deeply interconnected

About the Guest:

PJ Ashley, an Australian CEO and Founder of The Pillar Code, brings a wealth of diverse expertise to her mission. Her background spans 20 years of corporate excellence, 25 years supporting Defence personnel and their families, 15 years as a visionary entrepreneur and business developer, over 35 years immersed in holistic and intuitive guidance, and 8 years of board directorship. PJ’s journey has culminated in the creation of The Pillar Code, her life’s purpose manifested, to transform the world. With a renowned reputation as a presenter, trainer, author, holistic practitioner, and intuitive, PJ is on a mission to reshape how individuals and organisations understand their value. Her overarching goal is to eradicate stress, dispel anxiety, and extinguish hopelessness—lifting people out of the “walking dead” state and empowering them to heal their lives, know their true worth, and unlock both personal and financial peace, purpose and prosperity.

• Visit The Pillar Code: https://thepillarcode.com
• Explore working with PJ or one of her licensed practitioners
• Complimentary conversations are available for those curious to learn more

This episode is for anyone who knows there is more available, more alignment, more ease, more wealth, and is ready to stop chasing prosperity and start embodying it.

Tune in and discover what might be quietly standing between you and the wealth you’re building.

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