Embracing Your Spiritual Gifts in Business with Susie Schaefer

Please enjoy this transcript of the Crown Yourself Podcast, with Book Doula and Intuitive, Susie Schaefer [@finishthebookpublishing] and your host, transformational story coach, Kimberly Spencer (@Kimberly.Spencer)

Susie Schaefer is a transformational book coach and founder of Finish the Damn Book Publishing, known for helping authors turn their stories into movements. With a unique blend of business strategy, publishing expertise, and intuitive insight, she empowers entrepreneurs, executives, and thought leaders to share their message in a way that creates real impact.

Combining her background in marketing, human resources, media, and performance with her spiritual gifts as an intuitive channel, Susie guides clients beyond just writing a book—into building a brand, a platform, and a legacy. Her work bridges strategy and soul, helping authors heal, express, and amplify their voice while creating meaningful change in the world.

What if the very thing you’ve been hiding… is the key to your next level?

For years, we’ve been taught to separate strategy from spirituality. Business from intuition. Logic from magic. But what happens when you stop compartmentalizing—and finally let your full self lead?

In this deeply activating episode, I sit down with Susie Schaefer—intuitive business strategist and founder of Finish the Damn Book Publishing—to dismantle the biggest lie in modern entrepreneurship: that you have to choose between being powerful and being spiritual.

Through raw storytelling, oracle insights, and real business strategy, we explore what it actually takes to build a soul-aligned, high-performance business in the Age of AI—one that’s rooted in intuition, sustained by structure, and expanded through aligned action.

We dive into:

• Why your worthiness wounds are blocking your visibility and revenue
• The truth about “money bulimia” and self-worth patterns
• How to turn spiritual gifts into scalable, profitable offers
• Why sales is not manipulation—but a sacred conversation
• The balance between manifestation and doing the damn thing

This episode is your reminder: alignment without action is fantasy… and action without alignment is burnout.

If you’ve been feeling the pull toward something bigger—this is your permission slip to trust it.

Because your business was never meant to be built from fragmentation… but from wholeness.

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Embracing Your Spiritual Gifts in Business: How to Build a Soul-Aligned Brand That Scales

[00:00] The Truth About Embracing Your Spiritual Gifts in Business

Kimberly Spencer (host):
What happens when you stop compartmentalizing your spiritual gifts and you start building a successful business that actually reflects your soul? So many leaders feel like they have to choose between their spirituality bucket and their business bucket, but choosing between whether it's strategy or spirituality or publishing and your psychic gifts or community versus commerce, it's not actually an either or. It can be an. And when you choose to let yourself be all of you inside of your business.

Today's guest is proof that you don't have to choose at all. If you've ever felt called for something bigger, if you have known that there was more magic in your current business than you were actually giving yourself permission to experience, or if you've ever heard that whisper to just like, take the leap, do the thing. Build the community. Launch the yoga studio. And you wondered if you could actually trust that internal voice. This conversation is you.

Building a brand isn't just about visibility, it's about alignment.

And Susie Schaffer is revolutionizing her world by blending her spiritual gifts with publishing and podcasting.

[02:30] Integrating Spirituality and Strategy for Business Growth

Kimberly Spencer (host):
I know, and you were on the communication Queen podcast, sharing all about your knowledge and expertise, and rarely do we have crossover. But from our conversation I said she has to be on The Crown herself show because we have to dive deeper into the spiritual side of what it takes to build a business of what it takes to actually leverage all of your gifts into one cohesive business model, and that we don't have to have these, like, piecemeal. Like, this is my business box and like, stay closeted spiritually or closeted woo. And and really allow ourselves to bring our full selves to the table.

Susie Schaffer (guest):
Yeah, I agree, and I think that that was a pivotal moment for me in my business when I stopped trying to hide that side of myself and I integrated that into my business. My business changed almost overnight. It was incredible.

[05:00] Oracle Insight: Alignment, Manifestation, and Higher Power

Susie Schaffer (guest):
First card out is a four. So the number four is about balance. I think of number four like, you know an animal that has four legs. The table has four legs. It's stable like a table...

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SEO Insight:
This section powerfully reinforces how embracing your spiritual gifts in business includes trusting intuitive guidance, higher self alignment, and energetic balance.

[10:00] Healing Self-Worth and Its Impact on Business Success

Kimberly Spencer (host):
I remember healing myself from bulimia… like when I just shifted into the question of how do I actually want to feel?

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Susie Schaffer (guest):
Both of those are worthiness issues…

Key Takeaway:

Embracing your spiritual gifts in business requires healing:

• Self-worth wounds
• Money beliefs
• Identity limitations

[14:00] Inner Child Healing and Rewriting Limiting Beliefs

Susie Schaffer (guest):
I realized that there was a belief in my family… not to get too big for your britches…

Kimberly Spencer (host):
I saw this bold six year old…

SEO Focus:

Inner child healing is foundational to:
👉 Visibility
👉 Leadership
👉 Business expansion

[18:00] Trusting Your Intuition in Business Decisions

Susie Schaffer (guest):
Build it and they will come…

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Key Takeaway:

When embracing your spiritual gifts in business, intuition becomes:

• A strategic advantage
• A decision-making tool
• A growth accelerator

[22:00] Why Fear and Overthinking Block Business Growth

Susie Schaffer (guest):
I think you have to go back to the root issue, which is fear…

Kimberly Spencer (host):
That’s the unsexy conversation…

[26:00] Breaking Free from Imposter Syndrome

Susie Schaffer (guest):
It was definitely imposter syndrome…

Kimberly Spencer (host):
If you're not experiencing imposter syndrome…

[30:00] Sustainable Growth: Alignment vs Burnout

Susie Schaffer (guest):
Baby steps…

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Key Insight:

Growth requires:

• Nervous system regulation
• Physical integration
• Incremental expansion

[35:00] Sales as a Spiritual Practice

Susie Schaffer (guest):
Sales is not a bad word…

Kimberly Spencer (host):
It’s just a conversation…

SEO Highlight:

Embracing your spiritual gifts in business transforms sales into:
👉 Service
👉 Connection
👉 Alignment

[40:00] Building Stability While Growing Your Business

Kimberly Spencer (host):
Get a bridge job…

Susie Schaffer (guest):
I was working five jobs…

[45:00] Leveraging Relationships for Business Growth

Susie Schaffer (guest):
It’s all about relationships…

Key Takeaway:

Your network is your most powerful asset when:
👉 Built authentically
👉 Nurtured consistently
👉 Leveraged intentionally

[50:00] Integrating Spiritual Gifts for Scalable Success

Susie Schaffer (guest):
When I brought in my spiritual gifts… it was like the gods were applauding…

Core Message:

Your business expands when you:
👉 Stop hiding
👉 Start integrating
👉 Fully embody your gifts

🔥 RAPID FIRE Q&A

Favorite Character & Why

• Susie Schaffer: Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind—because of her complexity and resilience

Money Routine

• Express gratitude for money
• “Love on” money energetically
• Review finances at a high level

What Defines Your Queendom?

• Being unapologetically unique and “wacky”

What Does It Mean to Crown Yourself?

• Rewarding yourself
• Celebrating growth
• Integrating success with self-care

👑 Final Reflection: Embracing Your Spiritual Gifts in Business

This conversation is a powerful reminder:

👉 You don’t have to choose between spirituality and success
👉 You don’t have to shrink to scale
👉 You don’t have to separate who you are to build what you want

Embracing your spiritual gifts in business isn’t optional—
it’s your edge.

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