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Biohack Your BusinessScaling Without Burnout with Chris DuckerIn this episode of the Biohack Your Business® podcast, Karen sits down with Chris Ducker - serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of Virtual Freedom and Rise of the Youpreneur.They talk all things sustainable growth, the evolution of online business, and what it really takes to scale without burning out. Chris shares candid insights from building multiple businesses, navigating team dynamics, and staying relevant in an ever-changing digital world - without compromising his health or lifestyle.This is a must-listen for founders who want to scale their brand and protect their bandwidth - e...2025-07-2347 minBiohack Your BusinessThe Growth Block No One Talks AboutYou’ve got a solid offer. A team. Funnels. Strategy that should be working.But something still feels off.In this episode of the Biohack Your Business® podcast, Karen pulls back the curtain on the real reason your growth has stalled and it’s not what you think. Most entrepreneurs try to fix their business problems with more strategy. But when your system is overloaded, no strategy will stick.What you’re feeling isn’t a lack of tactics. It’s a cap on capacity.Karen shares what she’s learned after 8+ year...2025-06-0314 min
The Matt Kissane ShowMatt Kissane does impressions! Farley, Brokaw, Elvis,Neil Diamond and more on podcast!Matt Kissane appears on UNSTOPPABLE AF with Karen and Barbie! Topics include WGN, Harry Caray, Ravinia, TV commercials and his trip to Graceland2025-05-2728 minBiohack Your BusinessCrisis-Proof Your Business: Keeping Your Business Moving When Life Gets ChallengingIn this episode, Karen Kissane shares powerful strategies for maintaining business momentum during personal challenges. Inspired by a question from one of her mastermind students, she explores how entrepreneurs can keep their businesses moving forward even when life gets difficult.Episode Highlights:The Reality of Entrepreneurship: Every entrepreneur will face periods where personal challenges affect business performance. This is normal and human.Self-Compassion as a Business Strategy: Being kind to yourself isn't just nice—it's essential for business resilience. When you feel good, you do good.Breathwork for Emotional Regulation: Karen shares how breathwork has transformed he...2025-05-2029 minBiohack Your BusinessFast Like a Woman: The Truth About Intermittent Fasting and PerformanceIn this episode of the Biohack Your Business podcast, Karen explores one of the most debated biohacks out there - intermittent fasting - and breaks down why it can be a powerful tool if you understand how to do it right, especially as a woman in business.Forget the trends and extremes, it’s about personal optimisation. Karen shares the biology behind fasting, the real difference between male and female fasting responses, and how she personally uses fasting to boost her energy, mental clarity, and business performance.Whether you’ve tried fasting before or are curi...2025-05-1317 minBiohack Your BusinessThe 3 Most Expensive Problems Hiding in Your BusinessIn this episode of the Biohack Your Business® Podcast, Karen uncovers three silent but expensive problems that could be quietly draining your profits, energy, and momentum, without you even realizing it.These problems aren’t flashy. They don’t come with warning signs. But once you spot them, you won’t be able to ignore them … and that’s a good thing.Whether you’re a coach, consultant, service provider, or platform founder, Karen breaks down why your offer, your lead gen, and you might be the biggest bottlenecks in your growth. From launch fatigue to leaky funn...2025-05-0618 minBiohack Your BusinessLeverage Is Power: How to Scale Your Business Without Scaling Your ProblemsIn this episode, Karen talks about the concept of leverage as a foundational principle that makes or breaks your ability to scale sustainably. She explains why most entrepreneurs end up scaling their problems alongside their businesses, creating what she calls "beautiful prisons" - successful companies that trap their owners in complexity and burnout. Karen shares her complete philosophy on intelligent leverage, the five pillars of business leverage, and provides a step-by-step framework for implementing leverage in your own business.In This Episode You'll Learn:Why scaling without proper leverage means "scaling your problems too"The difference...2025-04-2939 minBiohack Your BusinessWhy Your Marriage Might Be Hurting Your Business With Heidi DeCouxIn this episode of the Biohack Your Business Podcast, Karen Kissane sits down with entrepreneur and founder of Cashflowy.ai , Heidi DeCoux, for a powerful conversation on something most people never consider: how your marriage could be hurting your business.Together they explore what happens when high-achieving women find themselves stuck in misaligned relationships that drain their energy, sabotage their growth, and leave them holding it all together for everyone but themselves.Heidi shares her deeply personal story of building and selling four businesses, navigating infertility, COVID chaos, and caregiving, only to realize...2025-04-221h 05Biohack Your BusinessBefore It Breaks: The Marginal Year You Didn’t Know You Were InIn this episode of the Biohack Your Business Podcast, Karen explores a powerful concept from the world of health and longevity -The Marginal Decade - and applies it to entrepreneurship. What if you’re already in the final stretch before your business starts quietly breaking down… and you don’t even know it yet?Inspired by Peter Attia’s appearance on The Diary of a CEO, Karen unpacks the subtle signs of business decline and the compound effect of ignoring the small things. From outdated systems and patchwork operations to energy leaks and misaligned offers, this episode is your...2025-04-1525 minBiohack Your BusinessThe Invisible Ceiling: Upper Limits & the Real Reason You’re Stuck in Business with Louise FernandoIn this powerful episode of the Biohack Your Business Podcast, Karen Kissane is joined by Business Mindset & Energy Strategist Louise Fernando for a conversation that every entrepreneur needs to hear. They talk openly about the hidden patterns that sabotage growth, the unconscious upper limits that derail success, and the nervous system responses that quietly run the show behind your business decisions.Karen and Louise unpack why strategy alone is never enough and how your body, not your brain, often decides how far your business can go. From freeze mode and fight-or-flight to functional fawning, they explore how...2025-04-0851 minBiohack Your BusinessThe Future of Funnels: Human First, Funnel Second - How to Build Trust at ScaleIn this episode of the Biohack Your Business Podcast, Karen looks at the future of funnels and why traditional, transactional marketing systems are no longer fit for purpose. As the founder of ExpertSpace, a platform redefining what smart, simple, and scalable funnels look like, Karen reveals why human is now the most powerful currency in marketing and what this means for the way we build and design funnels that actually work.She breaks down why old-school templates and rigid funnel systems are quietly dying, and introduces a new model: human-first, trust-led, emotionally intelligent funnels that feel personal...2025-04-0124 minBiohack Your BusinessI Went Ice Diving, Turned 50, Got the Flu and Came Back RewiredI’m back. After a six-week break from the podcast, I’m kicking off Season Two with one of the most honest and transformative updates I’ve ever shared.In the past few weeks, I went ice diving in Finland, turned 50, and got completely wiped out by the flu. I never usually get sick, so this stopped me in my tracks. But instead of pushing through like I would have in the past, I did something different. I paused. I listened. I let my body guide me. And what came from that space has changed everything.In t...2025-03-2527 minBiohack Your BusinessDopamine, Discipline, and Dollars: Why Your Brain is Your Biggest Business Asset (or Liability)In this episode of Biohack Your Business®, Karen Kissane dives into the science behind motivation, execution, and success, revealing why most entrepreneurs unknowingly sabotage their own progress.If you’ve ever felt stuck, procrastinated on important tasks, or found yourself endlessly consuming content instead of taking action, your dopamine system might be working against you. This isn’t a motivation problem. It’s not about discipline either. It’s about harnessing the power of your brain chemistry to create unstoppable momentum in your business.Karen unpacks how dopamine influences decision-making, why traditional discipline doesn’t work, and h...2025-02-1115 minBiohack Your BusinessIce, Strategy, and the Art of Unbreakable Business, with Liz MelvilleIn this episode, Karen Kissane sits down with the incredible Liz Melville to explore the powerful intersection of business strategy and biohacking. From ice baths to retreats, from optimizing personal performance to scaling a business with simplicity, this conversation is packed with insights that will transform the way you think about success. Karen and Liz are also preparing for an upcoming ice dive in Finland, where they discuss the mental and physical benefits of cold exposure, mindset, and pushing personal limits.What You’ll Learn in This Episode:Why business strategy alone isn’t enough and how...2025-02-0434 minBiohack Your BusinessThe Strategy Trap: Why Your Plan Isn’t WorkingYour business should give you life, not take it away.The white elephant staring you in the face right now is that you have no idea how much it's costing you.I'm on a mission to put an end to this because too many amazing founders are wrung out, burnt out and missing opportunities to realize their potential. They're settling selling themselves short, feeling stuck, stagnant and short of the very things they value the most like freedom, time, money, impact,Strategy feels good because it's safe. It's planning, thinking, brainstorming. It makes...2025-01-2826 minBiohack Your Business11 Signs You’re Entering a Period of Accelerated Business EvolutionHave you ever felt like your old ways of running your business just aren’t working anymore? Like you're on the edge of something bigger, yet stepping forward feels uncertain? In this episode, I discuss the signs that indicate you’re entering a period of accelerated business evolution.Growth isn’t just about hustle. It’s about alignment, optimization, and leveraging your own personal and professional development. I explore the mindset shifts that guide this transformation, including simplifying your business, redefining success, and letting go of what no longer serves you. We’ll also talk ab...2025-01-2120 minBiohack Your BusinessBehind the Scenes of the Biohack Your Business Workshop: How to Plan Your Own Transformational EventIn this episode, I'll take you behind the scenes of the Biohack Your Business workshops, sharing the vision, planning, and purpose behind these events. Experience-led events can be a powerful tool for connecting with your audience, building authority, and driving sustainable business growth. This episode is packed with practical insights to help you design experiences that resonate and stand out.I'll also introduce the five entrepreneurial archetypes that inspired the workshops: the visionary, overachiever, strategist, innovator, and fulfillment seeker. Identifying your archetype can help you gain clarity on the changes you need to make for g...2025-01-1424 minBiohack Your BusinessBiohacking Unplugged: How Micro-Tweaks Create Mega WinsIn this episode of The Biohack Your Business Podcast, I’m breaking down what biohacking really is, why it’s not as “out there” as some people think, and how it can totally transform your life and business. Biohacking is all about optimizing your mind and body through simple, science-backed strategies and personal experimentation. It’s not about doing anything crazy, it’s about small, intentional tweaks that make a massive impact.I’m sharing how things like improving your sleep, tracking your hydration, eating better, and using tools like wearables can help you boost energy, focus...2025-01-0719 minBiohack Your BusinessThe Ice Dive Diaries: What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Cold Exposure, With Leigh EwinIn this episode, I sit down with Leigh Ewin to uncover the transformative impact of cold exposure and breathwork on performance, mental clarity, and business success. From Australia to Finland, Leigh has built a thriving career teaching the art of resilience through cold therapy and breathwork, including hosting retreats that culminate in breathtaking under-ice dives.We explore how these practices strengthen the immune system, enhance focus and energy, and build mental resilience. Leigh shares how learning to embrace discomfort in controlled settings, such as ice baths, can ripple into life and business, enabling you to t...2024-12-311h 19Biohack Your BusinessIf I Were Starting My Business Again: 16 Lessons I’d Tell My Past SelfIf I could sit down with my younger self at the very start of my business journey, there are 16 powerful lessons I’d share… insights I’ve gained through mistakes, U-turns, and growth that shaped the business I run today. In this episode, I unpack how avoiding a “monster business” and saying no more often is key to building something sustainable and joyful, not overwhelming. Biohacking has been my game-changer. Protecting and fuelling my energy is now a cornerstone of my success.I share why balancing quick wins with a long-term strategy is vital to a...2024-12-2431 minBiohack Your BusinessWhy Most Entrepreneurs Fail To Scale (And How 9 Simple Levers Change Everything)In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on the biggest misconception I see in business: the obsession with "more leads." While leads are essential, they’re just one piece of the puzzle. I’m going to share with you my Nine Lever Framework, a proven strategy that goes beyond lead generation to create a business that’s profitable, impactful, and, most importantly, joyful.We all know the narrative, “more leads will fix everything.” But if you’re focusing only on leads, you’re setting yourself up for frustration. Leads don’t pay the bills; clients do. ...2024-12-1723 minBiohack Your BusinessThe Ikigai Hack: How Entrepreneurs Find Purpose and ProfitIn this episode, I talk about The Entrepreneur’s Ikigai - a framework I designed to help entrepreneurs align their passion, skills, and purpose with a profitable business model. Drawing from the Japanese concept of Ikigai, and wrapping biohacking around it, I break it down into actionable steps, showing how this approach can simplify your business, create clarity, and ultimately help you scale with ease and fulfillment.Many entrepreneurs start their businesses with dreams of freedom and impact, only to find themselves overwhelmed, misaligned, or burned out. I look at why this happens and why traditional business st...2024-12-1027 min
The Naked Coach Collective#43 Resources for CoachesAside from getting drunk when you drink a shot every time you hear Ian say "Fascinating", in this episode of The Naked Coach Collective, Darshana, Bea, and Ian discuss various resources available for coaches, focusing on books and podcasts that can aid in personal and professional development. They share their favourite titles, insights from their reading experiences, and the value of listening to coaching podcasts to enhance skills and knowledge. The conversation emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and the diverse ways to gain insights in the coaching field. In this engaging conversation, the hosts explore various media and resources...2024-12-0353 minBiohack Your BusinessThe Moment Everything Changed: The Origin Story of Biohack Your BusinessIn this episode, I take you behind the scenes of Biohack Your Business®️ - the movement that’s redefining how entrepreneurs scale their businesses. I share the pivotal moments that led me to create this unique blend of business strategy, systems, and biohacking. What began as a focus on strategy for service-based entrepreneurs evolved into a realization that strategy alone isn’t enough. This is the story of how Biohack Your Business became a smarter, simpler, and more sustainable approach to business and personal optimization.Seven years ago, I started my business with a singular focus...2024-12-0320 minBiohack Your BusinessEnergy, Simplicity, Success: A New Way to Build a Beautiful BusinessIn this episode, I share the powerful story of how I discovered the synergy between biohacking and business and why this combination is the missing link for entrepreneurs looking to achieve long-term success without sacrifice. I introduce the core principles of her Biohack Your Business®️ movement, blending strategy, systems, and self-optimization to create a smarter, simpler, and more impactful way to scale a business.I talk about why strategy alone isn’t enough. You can have the perfect business model, systems, and offers, but if you don’t have the energy, clarity, and motivation to implement them, your su...2024-12-0315 minBiohack Your BusinessWhere Strategic Business Brilliance Meets The Science of BiohackingImagine being part of a movement, on an epic scale where every aspect of your business and personal growth is taken care of?Business strategy, automations and systems, personal leadership, mindset, energy management, spirituality, focus and health..Where strategic business brilliance meets the science of biohacking.I’m revolutionising the way entrepreneurs build and scale their businesses. I want to create a world where business experts operate at their peak performance and find their edge in business, whilst putting simplicity, energy and time at the centre of everything they do.This is...2024-12-0206 min
Bubbling Out.Hacking High Performance: Biofeedback + Intuitive Leadership with Karen KissaneIn this game-changing episode of Bubbling Out, I sit down with Karen Kissane, a scientist turned business coach and entrepreneur who's redefining leadership through biohacking. We unpack how optimizing your mind and body can catapult your leadership skills and business success to 10000x.Key leadership insights we dive into:(03:12) Turning adversity into opportunity: Karen's journey from workplace discrimination to entrepreneurial success(09:57) Cultivating an experimental leadership mindset for breakthrough success(17:57) Revolutionary strategies for building high-performing teams(25:27) How Karen's biohacking routine amplifies her leadership presence and decision-making(38:36) Leveraging breathwork and cold exposure for enhanced leadership resilience(41:16) Unlocking your c...2024-08-0754 min
The Naked Coach Collective#16 Guest Interview Karen KissaneIn this episode of The Naked Coach Collective Bee talks to Karen about her journey from Molecular Scientist in the UK to an award-winning Business Coach, Mentor and Author living in a Chateau in France.
Karen is an inspirational coach with so much experience to share and her interview will leave you energised and raring to get going or continue on your journey.
Whether you're just starting out, looking to scale to the next level or are already a high performing coach, with her signature anti-hustle ‘less is more’ and ‘scaling simply’ approach, Karen’s helped 1000 + coaches worldwide and in this inter...2024-05-2844 min
Smash Your Own Ceiling018 - From Corporate Career to Successful Coaching Business with Karen Kissane
Today I have the absolute pleasure of sharing a chat I had with the lovely Life and Business Coach Karen Kissane.
In this episode Karen shares all about her journey from corporate job, to sales trainer to running a successful coaching business, and so much more.
And...the book that Karen recommends is...The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
For more info about Karen go to https://www.karenkissanecoaching.com
2022-01-1431 min
The Ambitious Introvert® PodcastEpisode 65: Building a Business with Purpose with Samantha TouchaisI’m so excited for today’s guest episode of The Ambitious Introvert - Samantha Touchais is a business and mindset coach, and was recommended to the podcast by previous guest Karen Kissane who knew we’d have so much in common. And she was right - including the way we believe our businesses should be run, agreeing on why introverts can be successful, and the importance of healthy boundaries. I feel like I’ve known Samantha for years, so I can’t wait for you to listen in to our friendly chat!Topics:Approachin...2021-12-2039 min
The Launch Lab PodcastHow to Build an Online Business That Stands The Test of TimeHow do you make sure that your business is still around in ten years time? How do you ensure that your business not only has the resilience to stick around, but also to fund the lifestyle you want to live? Today I am joined by an amazing lady, who is also fast becoming a good friend Karen Kissane. And in this episode we're diving into how you set up a business that will truly stand the test of time AND compliment the life you aspire to have! We get into quite a...2021-08-1246 minThe Ambitious Introvert® PodcastEpisode 42: Creating a Mindset for Visibility with Karen KissaneAre you actually an introvert or an extrovert? It might help to remember that there’s a spectrum and it’s not always black and white, today’s podcast guest and business coach, Karen Kissane, reminds us of this. She’s also sharing how she’s made visibility work for her, even as an introvert and how you can change your mindset around showing up, too.Karen and I discuss:The benefits of using the digital space for your business and how to measure your impactWhat the compound effect is and why it’s impor...2021-07-1236 min
Thrive in Life & Business#38: How to create a successful life and business with guest expert Karen Kissane CoachingMy guest for today, Karen Kissane is an award winning Life and Business Coach with a passion for helping Smart Women take action towards building a business and life, that excites them and unlocks their potential. She help‘s women to find the clarity and confidence they need to pursue their big goals and achieve remarkable success, whatever success looks like for them. In this episode, we dive right into that, covering;How to create a successful life and businessHow to feel fear and face it anyway The importance of investing in yourself and your personal development And why...2020-09-2849 min