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Expand Your Empire

Expand Your Empire

By: Amanda Taylor
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Welcome to the Expand Your Empire Podcast, the go-to show for high-achieving women entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors who are ready to build real wealth and lasting freedom. Hosted by Amanda Taylor, Business and Wealth Strategist, Investor, and Founder of The Inner Circle, this podcast blends financial strategy, feminine leadership, and wealth creation to help you grow your income, elevate your investments, and scale your business with confidence.

Tune in to Expand Your Empire at https://expandyourempire.org.



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Episodes
  • You’re Not Burned Out. You’re Absent.
    Apr 15 2026

    I had a whole other episode ready for you this week. Recorded. Done. Ready to go.


    Then something happened I couldn’t let slide without addressing first, so I scrapped it and recorded this at the last minute instead, which is honestly very on-brand for how this whole thing started.


    This one is more raw than usual. That’s exactly why it needs to come out this way.


    For a long time, I was three steps ahead of my own life, not in a visionary way, but in an “I’ve already moved on before I’ve even arrived” kind of way. I closed deals and was already on to the next one. I hit milestones and was already cataloging what was broken. I watched people stop and celebrate, thought, "yeah, that’s nice,” and kept moving.


    I wasn’t inside any of it. Not really.

    I thought that was just how I was built, the price of ambition.

    It wasn’t ambition. It was an absence.


    And here’s what that actually costs: when you build a business from that place, you price from that place. You set your standards from that place. You make every decision about what you’re worth and what you’ll accept from inside that disconnection. You can’t read the label from inside the jar.

    Then you hit the number and wonder why it feels like nothing.


    In this episode:

    • Why being three steps ahead is not a personality trait; it’s a pattern.
    • The blind spot both the personal development world and the business world have, and why doing one without the other keeps you stuck in different ways.
    • What it actually means to build, price, and lead from absence.
    • What being rich looks like across every dimension: emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and financial. Not just the number. The whole thing.
    • What’s coming next for women who are ready for both sides in the same room at the same time?


    Twelve minutes, no guest, just Amanda and the thing she couldn’t let another week go by without saying.


    Stop running on empty and start building real wealth, emotional, mental, physical, and financial. Join us for The Rich-Gasmic Experience and discover what it means to feel success, not just achieve it.


    Save Your Spot Now!

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    13 mins
  • The Belief Running Your Business: Identity, Money Stories, and the Inner Work of Ownership
    Apr 8 2026

    You can fix your systems. You can hire the right people. You can build the processes. But none of it works if the belief underneath has not changed.


    In this episode, I sit down with coach and clinical hypnotherapist Michele Molitor, who has spent more than two decades helping high-achieving women navigate the moment when success no longer feels like enough. Not because anything is wrong. Not because they have failed. But because they have changed, and the operating system they are running on has not caught up.


    We go where most business conversations do not. We talk about what is underneath the way you price your services, why you are still involved in everything, and why the business you built for freedom has started to feel like a trap. Not as a feelings conversation. As a structural one.

    Here is what stopped me mid-conversation: I share my own ancestral money story, farmers, the Irish potato famine, a survival mentality passed down through generations, and I realize in real time that it is still the operating system I run my business by today.


    In this episode, we cover:

    • Why "work equals worth" is the belief keeping many high-achieving women stuck, and how it shows up in your pricing, your team structure, and your inability to step back.
    • The difference between a midlife crisis and a spiritual awakening, and why so many women hit that inflection point and cannot quite name what is wrong.
    • How your ancestral money story is running your business, whether you know it or not, and what it takes to change it.
    • A live thought-reframe exercise, Michelle walks Amanda through on air, and one simple tool you can use this week to start interrupting the loop.
    • What hypnotherapy actually is (and is not), and why it works faster than most approaches for getting at the beliefs that are running the show.


    Connect with Michele:

    Book: Flawsome

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rapidrewire/

    Website: https://michelemolitor.com/


    Connect with Amanda:

    https://elevateprofit.biz/home-641285


    Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://expandyourempire.org

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    47 mins
  • Tax Liens 101: How One $1,000 Investment Became $30,000 in Equity
    Apr 1 2026

    You know how to earn. Nobody taught you how to own.


    Most successful business owners have built themselves a very expensive job. Revenue is coming in. The calendar is full. And at the end of the year, there is very little to show for it outside of the business itself.


    In this episode, I sit down with tax strategist Cynthia, who found me the old-fashioned way: she left a real comment on an Alignable post in a sea of AI noise and automated DMs. What followed was one of those conversations where you realize you've been talking for an hour and you haven't even gotten to the good stuff yet.


    We talk tax liens: what they are, how they work, and why a pharmacist, a server, and a single mom with $1,000 to her name all used this strategy to build real equity. One of them drove to an auction in Arizona with her son in the car. She came home with three liens. Two of them didn't redeem. Those two were worth $15,000 each.

    That's not luck. That's a strategy most people have never heard of because nobody is teaching it.


    In this episode, we cover:

    The difference between a CPA and a tax strategist, and why that distinction is costing you money right now. The mechanics of tax liens: what you're actually buying, what the redemption period means, and how 16% interest works while you wait. Why the tax code is a reward system, not a punishment, and how to start reading it that way. The exit strategy framework Cynthia teaches every student before they spend a single dollar. Why "knowing your market" means reading county economic development plans, not just pulling comps.


    Connect with Cynthia:

    Facebook Group: investlikeaGoddess.com

    Linked-In: Linkedin.com/in/taxstrategywithcynthia

    Website: https://taxcodegenie.com/

    Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...


    Connect with Amanda:

    https://elevateprofit.biz/home-641285


    Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://expandyourempire.org

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    41 mins
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