Business mentorship with honest inner work.
Amanda Edwards hosts practical conversations about entrepreneurship, sales, productivity, money, and personal growth. The show favors honest reflection over polish, turning stuck points into small, concrete next steps.
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Imperfectly Ambitious is a mentoring-style podcast about building impact with more honesty than polish. Amanda Edwards hosts from the perspective of someone who cares about ambition, but does not treat ambition as a reason to ignore uncertainty, overwork, or self-doubt. The show often starts with a familiar pressure point. Sales feels uncomfortable. Email marketing feels heavy. A competitor seems to be moving faster. A major decision looks good on the outside and wrong on the inside. From there, the conversation usually moves toward a smaller, more usable shift. Take action before the timing feels perfect. Name the thing instead of waiting to be chosen. Track where time is actually going. Start an email with the call to action. Reframe sales as helping someone commit to a transformation. Real-talk episodes bring a direct, conversational style, especially around scarcity mindset, momentum, comparison, and following early signs of what wants attention next. Guest episodes widen the frame. Brad Bizjack brings sales-mindset reframes. Jess Dennis talks through life after alcohol and the role of shame and compassion in behavior change. Nicole Laloia focuses on productivity, ADHD, time tracking, and income-producing work. Jenny Roth gives concrete email-copy structures for coaches. Michaelann Valterra connects money strategy with emotional intelligence. Jessie Shurliff offers a story about big decisions, outward success, and recovering a sense of voice. The show is not a tactics-only business feed. It is more intimate than that. Its strongest lane is the overlap between entrepreneurship, identity, confidence, and daily execution. It suits listeners who want practical business help, but also want language for the beliefs and emotions that make practical work harder than it looks.
Made for: The show is for ambitious achievers, entrepreneurs, coaches, service providers, and women who want momentum without pretending the mindset piece is simple. It also fits listeners working through sales resistance, productivity strain, money anxiety, comparison, or a major pivot.
What sets it apart: Imperfectly Ambitious connects business tactics to the emotional patterns underneath them, moving naturally from email copy or sales strategy into confidence, shame, boundaries, and decision-making. Its mix of short real-talk episodes and guest mentoring keeps the advice personal but usable.
Imperfectly Ambitious is your go-to podcast if you're an ambitious achiever, checking all the boxes, but know that there's more for you... More impact you know you can make, on your terms. Join us each week for business mentorship, trainings, and a good dose of real talk that will leave you feeling inspired to take imperfect action one step at a time in pursuing what you know you were meant to do.
This is the show that sends your blank email straight to its call to action.
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Amanda and Brad Bizjack examine the beliefs that make selling feel uncomfortable.
Amanda and Brad Bizjack talk about why selling can feel uncomfortable even when someone believes in the help they offer. Brad starts with the fear of sounding salesy and the habit of giving everything away.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Host discusses conscious launching strategies with guest Sage Polaris, focusing on aligned business growth and email marketing.
Host discusses using storytelling in business to increase audience connection and growth, featuring a guest with a shortcut to the StoryBrand framework.
A conversation with psychotherapist Dr.
The host introduces a conversation with Kristen Swanson, a completion expert who helps people overcome procrastination and fear to execute their 'someday' projects.
An interview with Brad Bizjack about shifting limiting beliefs around sales to increase confidence and results.
Jess Dennis says the first nonalcoholic drink is the hardest, making the next decision 90% easier.
Nicole Liloia calls Toggl a “free babysitter” for tracking ADHD-driven task switching.
Amanda Edwards uses Imperfectly Ambitious episode 291 to examine scarcity and abundance mindsets in business sales, competition, and client selection.
Jenny Roth, a conversion copywriter for business coaches and personal brands, gives Amanda Edwards practical methods for writing engaging emails from a blank screen.
An interview with a money coach about transforming women's relationship with money through emotional and practical strategies.
Host Amanda Edwards introduces a conversation with Jessie Shurliff about navigating heavy decisions and career pivots, sharing her journey from a successful Google career to finding her voice.
Interview with Amanda Hinman about holistic health strategies for women in their 30s-50s, covering hormones, inflammation, and nutrition.