The New Age CEO Podcast

In this episode, I'm sharing a story that almost didn't make it to your ears. After recording this podcast, the audio disappeared, and as frustrating as that was, it became the perfect reminder of the lesson I wanted to teach: sometimes what feels like failure is actually divine intervention.

I also take you behind the scenes of what looked like a "failed" enrollment for the Spiritual Business Incubator and the surprising clarity th...

What if the next level of growth in your business doesn't come from doing more?

In this episode, we're talking about one of the biggest misconceptions in entrepreneurship: that more effort always equals more results. The truth? Many founders are spreading their time, energy, and attention across too many ideas, projects, offers, and opportunities, then wondering why growth feels slower than expected.

I'm sharing why focus is one of t...

This episode is something different, and something Anna has never shared publicly in this format before.

On June 11, Anna hosted the Incubator Experience & Open House, a live showcase of the Spiritual Business Incubator's comprehensive, academic-style business development model. This is the full replay.

Inside, Anna walks through the future of business in the new age, the real challenges that are holding mission-driven entreprene...

In this episode of the New Age CEO Podcast, Anna shares a powerful money mindset shift that completely transformed how she views entrepreneurship, leadership, and business growth.

What if the biggest shift you need isn't another sales strategy or marketing tactic, but a new way of seeing your relationship with money?

Anna explores the idea that every founder who has invested their own savings, income, credit, time, energy, or experti...

In this personal episode, I'm reflecting on my journey from solopreneur to CEO and sharing the lessons that helped me build a business that feels purposeful, profitable, and aligned. Looking back over the last five years, there are things I know I got right, and there are definitely things I wish I had done differently.

If you're building a mission-driven business and wondering whether you're on the right path, this episode offers a...

What stage of business are you actually in, and are you building in alignment with that stage? In this episode of The CEO Shift Podcast, Anna Nichols breaks down the four stages of business development and why so many founders stay stuck trying to force strategies that don’t match where they are in their journey. From solopreneur beginnings to stepping fully into the CEO role, this conversation explores the structural, emotio...

After 168 episodes of Design and Align Your Business, this new chapter begins with a deeper conversation about leadership, alignment, and what it truly means to build a business in the new age. Welcome to “The New Age CEO Podcast.”

In this first episode, Anna Nichols shares the evolution of the Spiritual Business Incubator and the identity shift that came with moving from solopreneur into the role of founder and CEO. Thi...

Welcome to The New Age CEO Podcast with Anna Nichols — founder and CEO of the Spiritual Business Incubator — where we explore what it really takes to build a purposeful, profitable, and sustainable business in the new age.

This podcast is for mission-driven entrepreneurs, coaches, healers, creatives, and visionary founders who know they’re here to build something bigger than themselves. Inside each episode, Anna bl...

In this final episode of The Design and Align Your Business Podcast as we know it, Anna shares the heart behind this intentional ending and the bigger vision that’s unfolding next.

This is a conversation about honoring what has been, trusting what is changing, and making space for the next level of your mission. Anna reflects on the growth of the Spiritual Business Incubator, the evolution from doing it all herself to leading ...

You have to ask: Am I actually building the right business?

So many mission-driven entrepreneurs start their businesses because they want to help people. They feel the calling to heal, teach, guide, or support others in some meaningful way. But what often gets skipped is the intentional process of designing the business itself, the structure, the model, and the role you are meant to play inside of it.

In this episode, I’m shari...

There are seasons in life and business where everything feels like it’s unraveling.

In this honest and activating conversation, Michelle Burke shares the real story behind “Hot Mess Magic” from car repossessions and frozen bank accounts to identity shifts and radical surrender. We talk about the shame we carry as entrepreneurs, the patterns that keep repeating, and the moment you realize the only thing standing bet...

There are conversations that shift you. This is one of them.

In this episode, I’m joined by Odree Martin, known as the Miracle Oracle, and we dive into what it really means to be a new-age leader building a business rooted in truth.

Not spirituality as branding. Not leadership as performance. But embodiment.

Odree shares how stepping fully into her spirituality wasn’t a strategy, it was survival. We talk about trusting wha...

There are years when we refine. And there are years when we run.

This episode marks the beginning of the Fire Horse year, a collective one-year in numerology, and I’m sharing how I’m intentionally planning for a year designed to move fast. Not from pressure. Not from force. But from alignment.

In this conversation, I’m pulling back the curtain on how astrology, Human Design, and strategic planning have shaped the ev...

Your business doesn’t need another strategy pulled from someone else’s playbook.
It needs a plan that actually matches where you are right now.

In this episode, Anna breaks down why business growth is not one-size-fits-all, and why so many entrepreneurs feel stuck, scattered, or tempted to start over when they skip the natural stages of business development. If you’ve ever felt pressure to “do it all&rdquo...

What if the reason your business feels heavy isn’t because you’re doing it wrong, but because you’re not taking it seriously enough?

In this episode, Anna shares an honest, soul-level truth about what it actually takes to build a soul-aligned business that lasts. Not the romanticized version. Not the “just trust the universe” version. But the grounded reality of leadership, responsibility, and devotion ...

Your business is growing. People are responding. Opportunities are stacking. And somehow… it feels both exciting and destabilizing at the same time. This episode is a real-time, behind-the-scenes reflection on what happens when the thing you’ve been building actually starts to work, and asks more of you than ever before.

I’m sharing candidly from the middle of my own expansion: leading a growing team, regulating m...

In this episode of the Design and Align Your Business, Anna shares a truth many founders feel in their bones but haven’t fully named yet: solopreneurship is not designed to hold your long-term vision. If your business relies on you for everything, delivery, marketing, sales, decisions, momentum, it’s not a failure of discipline or strategy. It’s a signal that your business model has reached its limit. This convers...

Today’s episode is a real conversation about the identity and action shift required to move from solopreneur to CEO.

I’m sharing what I’ve been living in real time inside the Spiritual Business Incubator, the leadership decisions, the discomfort, the clarity, and the responsibility that comes with stewarding something bigger than yourself.

If you’ve ever said you want to build a company, a legacy, or a busines...

Welcome to 2026, my friends. And before we talk goals… plans… launches… any of it, I want to start with one question that changes everything:

Why are you in business?

… the answer to that question is what will carry you through the hard days, guide your decisions, and become the foundation for the kind of growth that actually feels good.

In this first episode of the year, I’m sharing my 2026 intention...