The Pursuit of Badasserie: The Podcast
Join hosts Lynn Howard and Amanda Furgiuele on The Pursuit of Badasserie: The Podcast — where bold entrepreneurs come to get real about business growth, leadership, and making money without the fluff. With over 50 years of combined experience, they deliver no-BS insights on sales, systems, scaling, and success stories from global industry leaders. Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, solopreneur, or seasoned CEO, this show gives you the mindset, strategy, and kick in the pants you need to grow your badass business (and life) with confidence.
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What It Means to Run a Lean Business (And Why It Matters)
<p>Running a lean business does not mean playing small. It means operating with clarity, discipline, and intention.</p><p>In this episode, we break down what it actually means to run a lean business and why simplifying your operations may be the fastest path to sustainable growth, higher profit, and stronger leadership.</p><p>Most entrepreneurs are not struggling because they lack ideas or opportunities. They are struggling because their business has become too heavy. Too many offers, too many systems, too many moving parts that are not producing results.</p><p>A lean business removes what is unnecessary...
You Don’t Need More Time, You Need Fewer Priorities
<p>If you feel like you never have enough time to grow your business, this episode will challenge that belief.Because most entrepreneurs do not have a time problem. They have a priority problem.</p><p>In this episode, we break down why trying to do everything is slowing your growth, diluting your focus, and keeping you stuck in constant motion without real progress.As your business grows, your ability to prioritize becomes one of your most important leadership skills. Without it, you stay busy. With it, you build momentum.</p><p>This is a direct conversation about how to...
What the Last 6 Weeks Taught Us About Leadership, Capacity, and Staying on Track
<p>If you are a business owner navigating growth, pressure, and increasing responsibility, this episode is for you.</p><p>The last 6 weeks did not break us. They revealed where our leadership needed to evolve.</p><p>In this episode, we break down what happens when entrepreneurs hit capacity, lose momentum, and start to feel stretched too thin. This is a real look at leadership under pressure, managing business growth, and staying focused when your time, energy, and attention are maxed out.</p><p>You do not drift because you lack discipline. You drift because your current systems, structure, and...
The $30K Monthly Fine: The Hidden Cost of Acting Like an Employee in Your Own Business
<p>In this episode of The Pursuit of Badasserie, we’re calling out a hidden cost that most entrepreneurs are paying every single month—without even realizing it.</p><p>It’s not your overhead. It’s not your payroll.</p><p>It’s you.</p><p>More specifically, it’s the cost of operating like an overworked employee inside the business you were supposed to own.</p><p>We break down what we call the “$30,000 monthly fine”—the revenue you’re losing by staying stuck in technician mode, bottlenecking decisions, and avoiding true CEO-level work.</p><p>This episode dives deep into the...
The Power of Subtraction: Why Doing Less Grows Your Business Faster
<p>In this episode of The Pursuit of Badasserie, we’re flipping the script on growth. Instead of asking “What should I add?” we’re challenging you to ask a far more strategic question: What should I remove?</p><p>Because the truth is—most entrepreneurs aren’t stuck because they’re not doing enough. They’re stuck because they’re doing too much.</p><p>We dive into how constant addition—more offers, more content, more platforms, more tools—is actually diluting your results, draining your energy, and confusing your buyers. This episode breaks down why subtraction is one of the most powerful...
Dreams Aren’t a Want — They’re a Need (with Philip Jayhawk Chan)
<p>In this episode, Philip Jayhawk Chan, founder and CEO of his firm and a rising voice in the world of leadership and success, breaks down what it truly takes to build an empire. Philip shares his personal journey from athlete to entrepreneur and explains how he’s built a life around intention, discipline, and strategic self-awareness. He challenges the common “dream big” mindset and reframes it into something far more powerful: your goals aren’t a want — they’re a need. Philip discusses how he approaches his NBA ownership goals with relentless urgency and how he continues to grow as a leader...
Why Cheap Art Doesn’t Sell: Miriam Schulman on Premium Pricing & High-Value Buyers
<p>In this episode of The Pursuit of Badasserie, we sit down with Miriam Schulman, artist business coach and author of Artpreneur: The Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Sustainable Living from Your Creativity. Miriam shares her personal journey from Wall Street to full-time artist, and how she built a sustainable creative business through sales, strategy, and mindset.</p><p>We dive into Miriam’s Belief Triad — the idea that you must believe in yourself, your customer, and your audience. She explains why most creatives struggle with sales not because their work isn’t good enough, but because they don’t fully be...
Stop Settling for “Realistic” Goals — With April Roberts
<p>In this episode of The Pursuit of Badasserie, we sit down with April Roberts, coach, entrepreneur, and alignment expert. April shares her journey from practicing law to building a coaching business — a transition driven by a growing sense that her work wasn’t aligned with her values or her truth.</p><p>We dig into why alignment isn’t a “nice-to-have” — it’s a business strategy. When your work, your values, and the people you surround yourself with aren’t aligned, success starts to feel hollow. April explains how deep self-reflection and honesty can uncover what you actually want — not what you think...
Self-Trust Isn’t a Feeling — It’s a System with Dawn Ledet
<p>In this episode, Dawn Ledet breaks down why self-trust is not an emotional state; it’s a repeatable system. She explains how high-achievers get stuck trying to “feel” confident before they act, and how that mindset keeps them in a cycle of procrastination, perfectionism, and burnout. Dawn shares her proven framework for building self-trust through decision-making, follow-through, and having your own back — using real data, not drama, to evaluate progress. She also teaches how to reframe internal dialogue, interpret resistance as data, and create a clear, sustainable path toward goals.</p><p><br></p><p>Key Takeaways</p><p>Self-trus...
Growth Requires Hard Conversations (Here’s How to Have Them Well)
<p>In this episode of The Pursuit of Badasserie, we tackle one of the most overlooked skills in entrepreneurship: having difficult conversations before they become disasters.</p><p>Growth doesn’t create problems — it exposes them. When you scale, the cracks show up faster, and the messy parts of your business get harder to ignore. That’s why difficult conversations aren’t optional — they’re essential.</p><p>We share why avoiding these talks creates resentment, costs time and money, and blocks long-term growth. We also give practical steps for how to approach tough conversations objectively, with facts and solutions instead of e...
