Breathe Into Business

Amy Kuretsky

Breathe Into Business is for any and all business owners who are disillusioned with the overculture of online and small business building. It's hosted by Amy Kuretsky, breathwork facilitator and business mentor. The conversations she shares in this podcast about breathwork, self-permission, & running an intuitive-led business are here to help you permission yourself to follow a different path and find trust and confidence in your own brand of doing business differently. Each episode we’ll share honest, open, and actionable stories around what it really looks like to run an intuitive-led business. Join us as we take a breath and talk business.

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Experiments in "not-selling"

Breathe Into Business

02/01/23 • 57 min

What if we didn’t sell?? That’s the question Amy asks in this week’s episode where she outlines her 2023 experiment in not selling.

In this episode she dives into:

Her most epic launch failure to date
The epiphany that led to experimenting with not selling
What she’s defining as “selling” vs “not selling” this year
The two main experiments she’s exploring around “sales without selling” this year

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Join the Breathe Into Business Patreon to get access to monthly live breathwork events, the community Discord server, plus the private podcast feed with interviews, breathwork recordings, and more. Membership tiers are sliding scale $5-$33 per month.
To learn more about Amy and her work, head to amykuretsky.com

02/01/23 • 57 min

Learn to move alongside your fear

Breathe Into Business

01/18/23 • 22 min

A quick content warning heads up that today’s episode references health challenges and medical diagnosis. Please tend to your needs as needed if these topics bring up difficult feelings for you.

In this episode, Amy talks about how fears in business and life are so natural and how they often try to keep us stuck in place. She shares some life updates that have felt scary to her and how she’s navigating that fear to keep moving forward in her business.

Resource mentioned in this episode: My Friend Fear: Finding Magic in the Unknown by Meera Lee Patel

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01/18/23 • 22 min

End of the year reflections with Chauna Bryant from Breathwork Liberation Society

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01/04/23 • 51 min

Get a peak behind the curtain of two breathwork businesses at the end of the year. In this episode, Amy is joined by one of her biz besties - Chauna Bryant - to have an open conversation reflecting on the past year in each of their businesses and looking forward towards the next year.

They reflect on these five questions:

What word or phrase would you use to describe 2022 in your business?
Where did you spend the majority of your time and energy in your business last year?
What’s the biggest lesson learned last year?
What’s something that you can take a step back from? What’s something you want to engage more with next year?
Goal setting: Were those goals really that important? How do you want to set goals going forward?
What would a successful 2023 look like?

Learn more about Chauna at https://www.chaunabryant.com/
Chauna Bryant is a Breathwork Meditation facilitator, Pilates, and GYROTONIC® Instructor, and founder of Breath Liberation Society. She is dedicated to body and mind rejuvenation. With 15 years of experience, Chauna assists her clients in cultivating their mind, body, and breath alignment. She revolutionizes her multiple practices by integrating her multiple expertise into enriching client-specific experiences. Dedicated Pilates clients will cultivate stronger, leaner bodies while benefiting from breath-activating energy work with her methods. Participants in her private, group, and corporate Breathwork Meditation sessions benefit from her multifaceted experience and singular approach. When possible, Chauna offers Virtual breathing circles at inclusive pricing: a sliding scale pay structure and scholarships are available. You can catch her free, guided Breathwork Meditations on YouTube, InsightTimer, and InstagramTV.

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01/04/23 • 51 min

Following narrative threads with Finn Schubert from The Menstruant

Breathe Into Business

12/21/22 • 52 min

In this episode Amy is joined by past Incubator member, Finn Schubert, all about following narrative threads in our life and business.

They talk about:

Finding and following narrative threads - even when the narrative is wildly nonlinear
Knowing when to walk away and begin a new path
Being willing to listen to our intuitive guides, even when they don’t tell us what we want to hear
His writing practice and how he decides what stories are for sharing and what stories are for him alone
Breathwork as a tool for letting go
and much more!

Finn Schubert (he/him) is the author of Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here, an essay collection exploring his move from NYC to a small town to grieve his infertility. (In a weird twist, he got pregnant as soon as the book came out.) He is a Moth StorySlam-winning storyteller, and his writing has appeared in TheBody, Lit Star Review, and the anthologies Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices and Places Like Home. He writes a weekly essays newsletter, titled "The Menstruant," exploring the question: What does it mean to be a gay man who loves having a uterus? (Right now: Pregnancy edition.)

Finn’s background is in public health and he most recently worked as the director of HIV services for a large community health center network in Brooklyn prior to transitioning to freelance consulting last year. He offers speaking and workshops regarding LGBTQ+ health, trans and nonbinary inclusion in workplaces and spiritual communities, and public health program design and evaluation. Finn currently lives in NYC and is at work on an essay collection.

Connect with Finn:

Subscribe to essays! finnschubert.substack.com

Purchase book: finnschubert.com

IG: @finnschubertwrites

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12/21/22 • 52 min

Overwhelmed by content? Create a matrix of discerning

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12/07/22 • 32 min

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when our inboxes, podcast feeds, and and social media sites are teeming with educational material trying to teach us or sell us the NEXT RIGHT THING. So how do you lessen the overwhelm? By really discerning whose voices you want to invite into your brain space.
In today’s episode, Amy is going to share with you her matrix of discernment concept and give you a peek behind the curtain at the exact matrix she uses to decide who to learn from.
Take a listen, create your own matrix of discernment, and share them with Amy in a voice note or email over at amykuretsky.com/podcast

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12/07/22 • 32 min

Six pillars of doing business differently

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11/23/22 • 26 min

Learn about my framework to build a solid foundation for a business that want to do business differently.

The six pillars are:

Embracing the Mess
Unlearning and Discerning
Imagining and Visioning
Trusting and Surrendering
Finding and Defining Enoughness
Befriending Fear and Taking Brave Steps

Take a listen to figure out which pillars your business is solidly built upon - and which pillars it might be time to start building.

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11/23/22 • 26 min

Giving ourselves permission to change

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11/09/22 • 23 min

Change - it’s the only constant in life, right? In this episode we’ll talk about all the changes this podcast has gone through in its lifetime, why it’s so hard to make changes in our business, and consider the places in our life we might be ready to give ourselves more permission to change.

We’ll also talk about what you can expect in this season of the new Breathe Into Business podcast.

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11/09/22 • 23 min

Turning it up to 11

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10/18/22 • 16 min

Breathwork for Business newsletter from October 18th, 2022, titled: Turn it up to 11.
To read this newsletter in its original format, with all links included, head here: https://morning-dust-7821.ck.page/posts
Join Amy’s Patreon community to get access to the Discord server, group coworking, private podcast feed interviews, worksheets, breathwork recordings, and more at https://www.patreon.com/amykuretsky
Learn more about my work at www.amykuretsky.com

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10/18/22 • 16 min

Moving backwards and forwards at the same time

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09/22/22 • 12 min

Breathwork for Business newsletter from September 22nd, 2022.To read this newsletter in its original format, with all links included, head here: https://morning-dust-7821.ck.page/postsJoin the Incubator:The Incubator is a five month small group coaching program (with lifetime access!) for small business owners who want to take even bigger steps to do business differently but need a bit more support, encouragement, community - and a bravely messy place to do it. It's a mix between a community, course, and mastermind for a group of 10-12 small business owners who want to do business differently than the norm and are looking for a community of support and safer space to experiment.Learn more and sign up for the Incubator at: https://www.amykuretsky.com/incubatorLearn more about my work at www.amykuretsky.comSupport the show

09/22/22 • 12 min

Experimenting in business with Katy Peplin from ThrivePhD

Breathe Into Business

02/15/23 • 55 min

Join Amy as she talks to past client, Dr. Katy Peplin, all about experimentation in business.

In this episode they talk about:

Running her business as a series of experiments.
The process of learning to trust her body’s messages and connecting to her intuition.
How she moved out of a success/failure binary and started to see more holographic growth in herself and her business.
How breathwork has played a role in her business.
What resulted after she trusted spirit-led messages that came through during breathwork, and how those results surprised her.
How they both have redefined what we consider ‘work.’

About Katy:

Katy Peplin (she/her) turned her difficulties in graduate school into a coaching business built around the idea that you can be a scholar and a human at the same time. Thrive PhD is a thriving community that has grown into courses, writing groups, one-on-one work, and workshops around the world. When she isn't working, she's often outside - gardening, hiking, or reading her porch.

You can find Katy at: thrive-phd.com and download her working more intentionally toolkit here.

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02/15/23 • 55 min