In this episode of Money Simplified, Aimee invites you into a grounded conversation about ease, identity, and the quiet ways financial support often shows up outside the timelines or structures we expect. She explores why growth doesn’t always look linear, why receiving can feel uncomfortable even when things are “working,” and how nervous-system safety plays a bigger role in money than most people realize.

This episode is for heart-centered entrepreneurs who are doing the work, showing up, and still wondering why things don’t look the way they thought they would by now. You’ll be guided into a softer perspective on money, success, and self-trust — one that makes room for nuance, possibility, and the idea that nothing may actually be wrong.

There’s no fixing here. Just space to breathe, reflect, and consider a new question: What if ease is closer than you think?

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I keep coming back to this question lately.

What if this didn't have to be hard?

What if it was possible?

What if it worked?

What if you could actually hold it, not force it, not like white knuck it.

Just be just have it.

Like what if this was easier than you thought?

That's what we're gonna be talking about today.

What can ease look like and the what if and the power of that.

So let's get to it.

This is Money Simplified, the podcast where I help female

entrepreneurs go from stress and struggle to unstoppable with money.

Money is more than just budgeting and p and Ls, and we're gonna

take you through all of it here.

We blend proven financial strategy with mindset work and energetic

alignment, so you can create unstop.

Finances, build an unstoppable business and truly enjoy your unstoppable life.

It's time to take my wisdom and my expertise to help you simplify

money and go beyond the numbers.

I'm your host, Aimee Cerka.

Welcome.

I'm so glad you're here.

If we haven't met yet, I'm Aimee Cerka money confidence coach and bookkeeper, and

over the last 13 years, I've helped over 1,250 women get outta survival mode and

make money simple so they can feel safe, clear and confident with their finances.

No shame, no restriction, and definitely no giving up your coffee to get there.

Welcome.

I'm so glad you're here.

Welcome back to Money Simplified.

I'm your host, Aimee Cerka, and today we're talking about the what if.

What if this was easier than you ever thought possible.

What if it was possible?

What if it didn't have to be hard?

What if it worked?

What if you could hold this?

What if you could reclaim your identity?

What if you didn't lose your identity?

So many times things don't show up in the way that we think they should,

in the way that we expect, right?

And.

I think a lot of us have created a belief that the fact that growth and success

and anything worth having, 'cause I can hear it in my head right now as I

say that, like, if it's worth having, you're gonna have to work for it, right?

That belief that it has to be hard, that it has to be painful, that it has to

be like this linear progression, right?

Like what if.

That whole, like you're 10 feet away from gold thing, right?

Like you're digging and you're digging, you're digging, and you're

digging and you're doing the work.

And what if like you had a massive a thousand time return, or maybe

it doesn't have to take that part.

Like what if,

and here's the reason why I'm leaning so much into this, okay.

Because we can expect progress to look a certain way because

we've got past case study.

Look at what we did in the past.

We've got all this evidence.

I can pull up the specific names of the way that your nervous system

works, the part that's firing in your brain like every second.

Looking for like scanning, like, Hey, do we know this?

Do we know this?

Do we know this?

We have all of this evidence, right?

This is the way that things.

Are, and if this is the way that things are, that's what

we can predict in the future.

So I wasn't worthy, I wasn't chosen, I wasn't made a priority.

That's what we had in the past.

So that's what we're predicting in the future.

We also do things like, oh, if we have more income, I'm gonna have more constant.

Constant confidence.

I'm looking at my notes wrong.

Or if I have income coming in consistently, that's

going to equal more safety.

What if you had like a one payment come in that was $10,000

as opposed to, oh shoot, I should have picked a different number that

I can do math with like $300 a day.

Yeah, that's close enough, right?

Well, what if, if you got the $10,000 payment in one day, like you would be set,

we wouldn't have to have the consistency.

Right.

Because real life doesn't work in these little boxes.

We're not computer systems we're built off of more than ones and zeros.

Right.

Especially as entrepreneurs, especially as heart-centered

entrepreneurs the person listening to this, that's not how life works.

And we end up that we feel like just because it doesn't look like the way

that we expected it, it's not working.

I just got off a coaching call with a client.

We had this conversation and it's a conversation that's coming up in the

30 day money magnet challenge as well.

That is still available for purchase.

That is gonna go away.

It's gonna go back inside the Unstoppable experience.

So if you haven't grabbed that, I'll put the link for that in the show notes.

'cause you can join us.

You get lifetime access to the content.

But we get so focused on like, I want to make money through this way.

And I know you wanna have a a hundred thousand dollars business, million dollar

business, and I'm sure that you will.

But if you're doing all the things to be in an energetic alignment with money,

you're doing what you're supposed to.

So often we've got the blinders on, but then over off to the side,

you're getting a raise at work.

In your job, your spouse is getting a raise, you've got a refund that's coming,

A check that comes like you're receiving.

Surprise gifts that you didn't know were coming.

Like you are receiving things, but you've got your blinders on.

You're like, this isn't working because it's not showing up in the

way that you thought it would work.

You are universally supported.

You are held.

You've got this.

Like, what if it just used came in from a different manner?

Does it make it any less worthy?

And if it does, then you definitely need to be in the money magnet challenge.

'cause that's where that right there is tying your worth.

Into money, and that's what we address on day one.

Okay.

Because life doesn't happen again.

Like that linear progression, it's gonna show up in your business.

I know it will.

This isn't about like, it's never gonna work, don't go there.

What if tomorrow the $10,000 payment came in, what if tomorrow the a thousand

dollars payment came in, like play with the numbers, what could it be?

The seeds that you planted a month ago, six month ago, a year ago,

what if that person showed back up in your inbox and was like,

Hey, I really wanna work with you.

Like, can we do this?

Because we're gonna have lows.

We're gonna have inbetweens because you know what?

We can't experience the highs that we wanna have, that success, the gratitude,

the love, all of those things that we enjoy in life without having the lows.

And the parts that are just eh.

And you know what?

We really don't remember the parts that are just eh, so it's okay.

Right.

Your identity though, and your belief, your capacity, all of those things,

like it shows up and who you are.

Are you being the person that could receive that, can play

that, or are you shutting it down?

I had a conversation with somebody, um, in a local group, another homeschooling mom.

We were talking about nervous center regulation, taking care

of yourself, doing those things.

And I even had a conversation earlier this week with somebody who's a close like

colleague, and we were talking about like the struggle to not lose your identity,

especially as you shift into motherhood.

And I think those who are mothers know this like.

What if it wasn't a struggle to know who you were outside of being a mother,

outside of being a wife, outside of being a girlfriend, outside of being a daughter.

Like who are you at your core and like that's the power

that we work on remembering.

And you might be thinking like we're listening to a financial podcast.

Like what are you talking about, Aimee?

Like, this is all of it though.

It's who you are.

Who you are at your core.

And if you can hold that, if you know, if you're solid in your identity, you

know who you are, you know what you stand for, you know what you love.

Like if you wanted to go and enjoy something like, well, what would you do?

You get a day to yourself to go do something that you enjoy.

What would you do?

Do you know what it is?

If you do share it with me on Instagram, but half the time we

don't even know what we would do.

Because we shut it down.

We're like, it's not possible.

It doesn't work for me.

It's just not possible.

I don't enjoy that.

How do you know you don't enjoy that?

Have you let yourself enjoy it?

Have you let yourself get a massage?

Have you let yourself go to a spa day?

Have you let yourself sit in a bubble bath?

Have you let yourself like go for a hike?

Like all of these different things.

How do you know that you don't enjoy them?

And I was somebody, we'll use this as an example.

I was somebody who would've said like, I am not like a super feno feminine person.

I'm a tomboy.

I do all that.

You're watching on YouTube, like you can see like, I don't have my nails done.

No, my fingernails, at least I do my toenails.

I would've told you that though.

Mm, five years ago, for sure.

Longer than that, definitely because that was the identity that I had taken on.

But you know what it was.

I never, Ooh, I'm feeling emotional now.

I did not give my per myself permission to try that on to see if it was

something that I liked because I didn't feel safe enough and I didn't

feel like it was possible for me.

And it all started with playing with the what if, what if

this wasn't the way it is?

What if I enjoyed it?

What if I don't?

Who cares?

Right?

Couple hours.

Try it.

Try the thing.

Look for the possibility

because if you go into this self-sabotaging, panicking, or like,

I'm not really gonna enjoy it 'cause I don't think it's gonna work or

I'm not gonna be able to sustain it, or what if they reject me?

And we can't hold it.

And if you can't hold it, you're not even truly experiencing it.

So you have to claim the identity that you get to try it on.

Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't.

Maybe it'll show up.

Maybe you'll meet the man of your dreams.

Maybe you won't.

You're gonna be okay.

Either way.

Maybe the business takes off today.

Maybe it takes off next month.

Maybe it takes off next year.

It's all coming.

What if,

what if you felt you were successful?

What if you felt powerful?

What if you were unstoppable?

What if you claim that now, even though it doesn't feel perfect,

what if you let yourself be successful?

What if you let yourself be loved?

What if you let yourself be seen?

What if nothing's wrong?

What if this experience is part of your journey?

It's like the best part of the story.

You know when you watch a movie or you're reading a book and it's like

that heartbreak moment that shows up and you're like, oh no, but it's that

moment that builds the rest of the story.

So what if this becomes a, because of that moment.

Because of this specific moment, everything that you

ever dreamed of was possible.

What if it was closer than you think?

We're gonna leave it there today.

Make sure to stay tuned next week because I've got something exciting and

special coming and I can't wait to share and celebrate it with you as always.

You've got this and I've got you.

Bye for now.

We'll see you next time.

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