Empowered Business

The Empowered Business Podcast® is the go-to show for online entrepreneurs and content creators who want to create and sell digital products using smart, scalable strategies without getting overwhelmed or chasing every new trend. Hosted by digital product strategist and AI educator Monica Froese, each episode delivers practical insights on how to build a sustainable online business using AI, sales funnels, and streamlined systems. Listeners will learn how to turn their knowledge into high-converting digital products, leverage AI to work faster and more efficiently, and implement marketing strategies that move the needle. From product ideation and content creation to optimizing funnels and growing an e-commerce shop, this podcast breaks down what’s working right now and how to apply it. With a clear focus on real results (not recycled tactics), The Empowered Business Podcast empowers creators, coaches, and online business owners to confidently grow their revenue. New episodes every Thursday.

Empowered Business is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 116 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Empowered Business, a business show with 116 episodes published.

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  Episode #116

  How Becky Beach Uses Claude to Get Booked on Podcasts and Stages

  Aug 28, 202639 min

  Becky Beach used to pay $750 a month for a pitching service and kept landing on shows with no real audience behind them. So she built her own system with Claude. This episode comes straight from a session at my AI Exposed event, where Becky walks through the whole pipeline live, the inbox scan, the web search for open speaker calls, the tracker, and the pitches it writes for her using a framework she calls REAL. Relevant, engaged, authentic, low lift ask. She even hits a moment mid-demo where she realizes she’d already been accepted to a summit she didn’t know about. If pitching has felt like too much work or you never know where to start, this is the episode that hands you the shortcut. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: Why borrowed audiences are the fastest growth lever The real reason most business owners never pitch The 4-phase pitching pipeline Claude runs for her How Claude mines her inbox for invitations she already missed Scanning the open web for speaking opportunities that actually fit Building one tracker so opportunities stop dying in browser tabs Waking up to pitches already drafted in Gmail The REAL framework behind a pitch that gets a yes What actually makes a host delete a pitch Turning one good pitching session into a system that runs every week Watching the system run live, including a surprise she didn’t expect Becky’s other favorite automation, the Winners Loop. Resources Mentioned: Visit The Becky Beach Show , Becky’s own podcast, or apply to be a guest there. Explore Becky Beach’s shop , where her Speaking Opportunity skill normally sells for $297 along with her other AI systems and trainings. Check out PodMatch , one of the podcast guest matching platforms Becky mentions alongside her own outreach system. Explore Windsor.ai , the data connector Becky uses to pull her Meta ad performance into her weekly Winners Loop report. Set up the Meta Ads AI connectors , the native Meta MCP that Monica points out can now replace third-party connectors like Windsor for pulling ad data directly into Claude. Tired of piecing it all together on your own? The Empowered Business Society® is where creator business owners implement AI strategies, get real feedback, and stay current on what's working. Monthly Get It Done Weeks, live Coffee Chats, exclusive training, and a community of people who genuinely get online business. Join for $49/month! © 2021-2026 Froese Media LLC | All Rights Reserved Find us on Skool , LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , or Pinterest . Visit the Empowered Shop®

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  Episode #115

  115. AI Emails That Sound Human with Ruth Poundwhite

  Aug 14, 202648 min

  I have a bad habit I am not proud of. Claude writes me an email, it uses a word I can’t stand, and instead of telling it so, I go into the HTML and fix it myself. Every single time. Which means I am training it on nothing. Ruth Poundwhite does not do that. She has been writing professionally since 2008, and she has built an AI email workflow that actually gets smarter every time she uses it. In this conversation, recorded live at AI Exposed, she walks through how she trained Claude on her voice down to the ampersands and the kisses at the end of her name, the skill she built to catch AI-isms before an email ever goes out, and how she gets a real email written in 10 minutes. She also demos the free subject line skill she uses on literally every email she sends. If you have ever looked at an AI draft and thought “this is not me,” this one is for you. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: Ruth's resistance to AI and what actually shifted it Why the training is the whole game The Ruthisms list Asking AI why it got it wrong instead of just telling it what to fix Building a self-correcting email workflow Why we both write our emails in HTML now Projects versus skills, and what belongs in each Editing an AI draft by talking to it Example skills we use Why fewer, more human emails beat more emails Resources Mentioned: Some of the links below are affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools I actually use in my own business. Learn more about Ruth at ruthpoundwhite.com . Listen to Episode 99 with Ruth Poundwhite , our first conversation about AI and self-belief. Join the Aligned AI Lab , Ruth’s new membership for using AI in a way that fits your energy and values. Read Quietly Ambitious , Ruth’s book on building a business without being loud or pushy. Try Wispr Flow , the voice dictation software Ruth uses to speak her email drafts and give paragraph by paragraph feedback instead of typing. Manage your list with Kit , the email service provider we both use, including the connector that lets Claude write directly into your emails. Check out BlockBuilder , the embeddable block tool from our fellow Weird Hermit Steph that Ruth uses for the poll in her Sunday newsletter. Tired of piecing it all together on your own? The Empowered Business Society® is where creator business owners implement AI strategies, get real feedback, and stay current on what's working. Monthly Get It Done Weeks, live Coffee Chats, exclusive training, and a community of people who genuinely get online business. Join for $49/month! © 2021-2026 Froese Media LLC | All Rights Reserved Find us on Skool , LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , or Pinterest . Visit the Empowered Shop®

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  Episode #114

  114. The Invisible Funnel: How Kate Kordsmeier Turns Feedback Forms Into Client Retention

  Jul 30, 202646 min

  I have a confession. Over 200 people filled out the welcome survey for the Empowered Business Lab AI, and I did not respond to a single one. Not one. If that stings a little, you are in good company. Almost every business owner I know collects intake forms, feedback surveys, and check in forms that quietly disappear into a folder nobody opens again. This episode was recorded live at my AI Exposed event in June 2026. My guest is Kate Kordsmeier of Success with Soul. Kate built something she calls an invisible funnel, a system where every single form her clients submit gets a personalized, thoughtful response drafted by AI and reviewed by a human before it ever reaches their inbox. Her clients have told her things like, this made me cry, and you have a customer for life. It has been running for two years, and Kate built it as a self described low capacity entrepreneur, managing chronic illness, two small kids, no big team, and no social media presence at all. Then halfway through our conversation, we did something completely unplanned. We rebuilt her entire workflow live in Claude Cowork, cut Zapier out of the process, and it took about ten minutes. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: What the invisible funnel actually is Every form Kate's business runs on Why check in forms became a selling point Do clients know it is AI? Building a skill from her entire course library Why Kate keeps a human in the loop What this means if you are not tech savvy Resources Mentioned: Grab Kate’s Invisible Funnel Prompt Pack , the prompts she uses to draft personalized replies to intake and check in forms, free for attendees of the AI Exposed Summit. Learn more about Success with Soul , Kate’s business helping coaches and creators build high profit, low maintenance businesses without social media. Join Kate’s Skool Community – VIP Soul Circle. Tired of piecing it all together on your own? The Empowered Business Society® is where creator business owners implement AI strategies, get real feedback, and stay current on what's working. Monthly Get It Done Weeks, live Coffee Chats, exclusive training, and a community of people who genuinely get online business. Join for $49/month! © 2021-2026 Froese Media LLC | All Rights Reserved Find us on Skool , LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , or Pinterest . Visit the Empowered Shop®

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  Episode #113

  113. Sandra Booker Built a 6-Person AI Board of Directors & Here's How to Replicate It

  Jul 23, 202649 min

  Right before I recorded this, I spent the whole morning inside Claude working through my next big decision. And the entire time, I could not shake the feeling that it was just agreeing with me. That is the exact problem Sandra Booker solved, and she solved it in a way I have not stopped thinking about since. Sandra is a fractional COO for online service providers, and she built her own AI advisory board inside Claude. Six board members, each modeled after a real business mind, each with their own expertise, their own personality, and their own job to do when she is facing a big call. One of them exists to remind her that she actually has to sell things and make money. Another exists purely to challenge her so the AI stops telling her what she wants to hear. I recorded this session live at my AI Exposed summit, and we sat in on one of her real board meetings while she worked through whether to relaunch one of her programs. It is a little less polished than my usual episodes, but the content was too good to keep in that room. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: Why AI keeps telling you what you want to hear Meet Sandra’s board members How to decide who belongs on your board Why every advisor is its own Claude Skill Where the decisions actually go How she built the whole board in one conversation Getting the good side of a boardroom without the toxic part Why an AI board beats asking real people Whether this helps or hurts your critical thinking Resources Mentioned: Follow Sandra Booker on Instagram , where she shares more about her AI advisory board work under the handle Sidekick COO. Learn more about Scale Society , the group program Sandra and Monica walk through relaunching live during the board meeting. Explore more from Sandra at Sidekick COO , her home for fractional COO services and resources for online service providers. Tired of piecing it all together on your own? The Empowered Business Society® is where creator business owners implement AI strategies, get real feedback, and stay current on what's working. Monthly Get It Done Weeks, live Coffee Chats, exclusive training, and a community of people who genuinely get online business. Join for $49/month! © 2021-2026 Froese Media LLC | All Rights Reserved Find us on Skool , LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , or Pinterest . Visit the Empowered Shop®

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  Empowered Business

  112. Bot Squads: What Happens When Your AI Tools Finally Talk to Each Other (with Kelly Sinclair)

  Jul 16, 202649 min

  I have nine custom GPTs inside one program. They should work together. They don’t. So I built my students a map: use this one first, then take that output and drop it into this one, then move over here. It works, but it has never been seamless, and I have always known that. This episode is the first time someone showed me a real fix. I recorded it live at my AI That Sells event with Kelly Sinclair, co-founder of a brand new platform called wAIv by Gravia Studio. Kelly is solving two problems that hit every creator once they have built more than one AI tool. The tools do not talk to each other. And there is no clean way to sell one as its own product without handing someone your entire IP, instructions and all. She gives a full demo of her Bot Squad – this demo changed how I am thinking about some of my own AI setups. I think it will do the same for you. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Kelly became an accidental tech co-founder The delivery friction problem The IP elephant in the room Expert-backed AI as a product Bot squads explained Why one mega-bot backfires The AI tool launch playbook Building a bot squad in real time Non-deterministic AI and your brand voice LLM flexibility and privacy Where I’ve landed on selling my IP Resources Mentioned: Explore wAIv by Gravia Studio , Kelly’s new platform for building, protecting, and selling expert-backed AI tools in a bot squad format. Visit Kelly Sinclair’s site , her one-page hub for her latest AI resources, workshops, and contact info. Listen to Entrepreneur School in the AI Era , Kelly’s podcast on running a business in a world where AI is suddenly everywhere. Follow wAIv on YouTube for behind-the-scenes looks at the platform as it rolls out. Tired of piecing it all together on your own? The Empowered Business Society® is where creator business owners implement AI strategies, get real feedback, and stay current on what's working. Monthly Get It Done Weeks, live Coffee Chats, exclusive training, and a community of people who genuinely get online business. Join for $49/month! 🙌 © 2021-2026 Froese Media LLC | All Rights Reserved Find us on Skool , LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , or Pinterest . Visit the Empowered Shop®

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