Expansion with Desi Batista
How can you build the business and life you actually want?
My name is Desi Batista, and I've spent years obsessed with one question. Why do people who do everything right still get stuck? Now I'm building Expansion into the place you come to break that pattern for good. I share what I've learned about identity, business, and growing without losing yourself along the way. Time to Expand.
Episodes
25 episodes
Hustle Harder is Sabotaging Your Business | Kelly Adams
Kelly Adams built a six-figure business and burned out doing it. In this episode, she talks about what actually happens when high-earning women hit a ceiling and why it almost never has anything to do with their marketing.We cover how ch...
Why I Quit Corporate
Why I quit corporate: I left a stable accounting job to build my own thing. The boss moment that broke me, the psychology that keeps you stuck, and how to know when it's time to go.
Vision Boards vs Mind Movies | Which Gets Results?
Mind movie creation is a highly effective way to visualize success and speed up goal achievement. Stop relying on static boards.Most people create vision boards only to let them gather dust on a wall. A mind movie changes this by util...
You Know Your Worth But Can’t Reach Your Goals? | Tracy Astle
Not enough. Burnout. Exhaustion. Doing all the right things and still feeling empty. These are the words women hide behind for years before they hear what's actually happening underneath.Tracy Astle is an EPC-certified eating psychology ...
You Know Your Worth But Can’t Reach Your Goals? | Tracy Astle
Not enough. Burnout. Exhaustion. Doing all the right things and still feeling empty. These are the words women hide behind for years before they hear what's actually happening underneath.Tracy Astle is an EPC-certified eating psychology ...
Million Dollar Vision, Survival Mode Behavior: Why High-Achieving Women Stay Sick | Nikki Stewart
Survival mode. Burnout. Toxic workplace. Suppressed depression. High-achieving women hide behind these words for years before someone names what's actually happening to them.Nikki Stewart is an ICF Identity and Alignment Coach who helps...
Nervous System Regulation for Women (You Tried Everything)
You've done the mindset work. You've read the books, done the journaling, gone to the retreats. And the same ceiling keeps showing up. This conversation goes into why. The part most people skip is that success isn'...
Your Success Mindset Is Working Against You
Your success mindset might actually be the thing slowing you down. Stay with me.You know the cycle. You start strong — new habits, new goals, new energy. Then around week three, it all just... stops. You go back to exactly who you were b...
Mindset Mastery Is a Lie (Here's What Actually Works)
Mindset mastery helps you manage your thoughts, but it doesn't close the knowing-doing gap. This episode breaks down the self-improvement loop quietly keeping high-achieving women stuck.You've consumed the content. You know what t...
She Ran a $40M Business — Then Realized She Was Codependent | Rhonda Petit
Rhonda Petit was running a $40 million business with 12 employees, two kids at home, and a marriage that was unraveling. From the outside, she'd made it. Inside, she was performing — for everyone — and burning out trying to hold it all t...
You're Saving A Dress For A Day That Isn't Coming | Lee Forrester
You have a dress in your closet you're never going to wear. You know which one.You're saving it for a day that isn't coming. And you've been doing it for years.In this episode, reinvention strategist Lee Forrester names what most ...
Why High Achievers Sabotage Their Own Success | Molly Sapp
What separates a six-figure earner from a seven-figure one isn't more strategy, more hustle, or a better offer. According to Molly Muret Sapp, it's the identity they're running on and most high achievers never stop long enough to look at it.
The Inherited Rules That Are Secretly Capping Your Income
The rules you grew up with are still running your business and they have nothing to do with your strategy, your mindset work, or how hard you're trying.In this episode, I'm breaking down the invisible revenue ceiling that keeps high-achi...
Why Your Income Plateau Isn't a Strategy Problem | Jess Pinili
You've changed the strategy. Hired coaches. Tried the new content angle. Why is the ceiling still there?In this conversation with business mentor Jess Pinili, we get into why most women in service businesses stall at a specific revenue ...
Why You Keep Burning Out with AI.
AI freed up your time. So why are you still stuck?You've got four carousels in drafts. Twenty tasks from last week's schedule you haven't touched. A framework ready to launch that's still sitting there. But instead of shipping, you're in...
Why High-Earning Women Stay Stuck After Doing Everything Right — Tanya Pluckrose
She did everything the experts told her to do. Four years later, her business had stalled and her marriage had ended.Tanya Pluckrose thought she had a strategy problem. She didn't. She had an identity problem. In this episode, she breaks...
"Your Income Keeps Resetting Because Your Identity Hasn't Caught Up | Jeni Jonte
Why does your income keep landing at the same number no matter what you try? Jeni Jonte went from physical therapist and Navy lieutenant commander to identity coach, and she kept hitting the same pattern in her own business: a little growth, th...
Why Your Business Won't Scale (And It Has Nothing to Do With Systems)
You're stuck doing everything in your business. And you won't give that work to anyone else because part of you believes that work IS your value.But here's what I'm seeing with the women who actually scale: they don't stop being excellen...
Identity Shifts That Change Everything | Melissa Bright
Most of the women we know who feel stuck aren’t lazy, confused, or missing some magical productivity system. They’re high-achievers. They’re responsible. They’re doing the work. And yet their income, confidence, boundaries, or consistency keep ...
The Filter That's Keeping Smart People Stuck
You probably know someone, maybe it's you, who has everything it takes but keeps hitting the same wall. It's not a talent gap. It's not even a knowledge gap. It's something most success psychology conversations never act...
She Built a Million Dollar Business and Cried in Her Car | Sailynn Doyle
What if you hit the revenue goal and instead of freedom, you got more trapped? Sailynn Doyle built a million dollar business and was working 80 hours a week, crying in her car at 9am on a Tuesday. Not because something went wrong. Because nothi...
Why Hitting the Goal Doesn't Fix the Feeling
What if you hit the goal and it still doesn't feel like enough? Not because something went wrong. But because nothing feels the way you thought it would.In this episode, Desi digs into why high-achieving women hit their revenue targets, ...
The Operating System Running Your Income Was Built When You Were 7 | Judy Tsuei
Have you ever done everything right and still felt like something was off? Like no matter how much you achieve, it's never quite enough?In this episode, Desi sits down with Judy Tsuei, an executive performance coach and NLP practi...
The Strategy Isn't the Problem. It Never Was.
If you've been doing everything right and it's still not working, this episode is for you. Desi breaks down the pattern she keeps seeing in her interviews with high-achieving women. The strategy is rarely the problem. The real ceiling is intern...
Why High Achievers Stay Stuck (It's Not Strategy)
Most people who feel stuck aren't missing a better plan. They're missing a version of themselves that matches what they're reaching for.In this first solo episode I break down the self-image ceiling, why changing your circumstances never...
