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The Life She Built

The Life She Built

Sandra Bettina 4 Episodes Aug 18, 2026

The Life She Built is a podcast for women entrepreneurs who want to build a successful business without sacrificing their personal lives. Hosted by Sandra Bettina, an entrepreneur, wife, mother, and immigrant daughter, the show explores topics like balancing ambition with motherhood, overcoming shame around pivoting, and prioritizing health. Sandra shares her own experiences and insights to help listeners stop performing success and start living authentically.

Episodes

011: Is Showing Up Differently Making You Fake? | Sandra Bettina
011: Is Showing Up Differently Making You Fake? | Sandra Bettina Aug 18, 2026 15:53 Note: the audio quality in this episode is not as great as usual, but the message is still so important, please enjoy!What does being authentic actually mean if you show up differently at work, at home, and on the dance floor? For a lot of women building businesses, the advice to have one polished, recognizable brand voice can feel like it is asking you to shrink into a single personality. You sta
010: 10 Lessons and 6 Goals as I Turn 39 | Sandra Bettina
010: 10 Lessons and 6 Goals as I Turn 39 | Sandra Bettina Aug 11, 2026 31:43 Lessons learned in your 30s tend to surface right before a milestone birthday, and turning 39 is exactly what pushed Sandra Bettina to look back on the decade that built her. In this solo episode of The Life She Built, she opens up about the friendships, the marriage, the businesses, and the hard seasons that shaped who she is now, and the realization that peace is not something you find, it is so
009: How I Want to Age, and It’s Not Just Look Younger | Sandra Bettina
009: How I Want to Age, and It’s Not Just Look Younger | Sandra Bettina Aug 4, 2026 18:20 How I want to age is the question host Sandra Bettina keeps coming back to as she counts down to her 39th birthday, and it has nothing to do with looking young. In this solo episode of The Life She Built, Sandra unpacks why she stopped chasing her old #Forever26 mindset and started asking who she actually wants to become instead of how she wants to look. If you have ever felt pressure to reverse,
008: Are You Emotionally Expensive to Be Around? | Sandra Bettina
008: Are You Emotionally Expensive to Be Around? | Sandra Bettina Jul 28, 2026 10:51 High standards vs control is the line most ambitious women never learn to see until it starts costing them a relationship. If people leave time with you feeling smaller instead of lighter, if your spouse has quietly stopped initiating or your kids have stopped experimenting in front of you, the problem might not be your standards. It might be the control hiding underneath them. In this episode, Sa
007: 8 Business Mistakes That Cost Me Years | Sandra Bettina
007: 8 Business Mistakes That Cost Me Years | Sandra Bettina Jul 21, 2026 20:13 Business mistakes entrepreneurs make often start small, undercharging one project, saying yes out of fear, skipping a real schedule, and quietly compound into years of lost profit and burnout. If you have ever pushed harder instead of pricing higher, said yes when your gut said no, or hired someone in a panic, this episode names exactly why that happens and what actually breaks the pattern.Sandra
006: Being Low Maintenance Isn't a Flex | Sandra Bettina
006: Being Low Maintenance Isn't a Flex | Sandra Bettina Jul 14, 2026 14:38 “Low maintenance woman” is one of the most common compliments thrown at women today, but on The Life She Built, host Sandra Bettina argues it might be costing you more than you realize.If you have ever said, "I'm easy, whatever you want," while quietly resenting a choice nobody asked you to make, this episode is for you. Sandra unpacks the real difference between being flexible and being self-aban
005: AMA Part 2: Overgiving, Undercharging, and Scope Creep | Sandra Bettina
005: AMA Part 2: Overgiving, Undercharging, and Scope Creep | Sandra Bettina Jul 7, 2026 27:44 Overgiving and undercharging is why so many wedding pros and entrepreneurs end up trapped in scope creep. If you have ever said yes past what you were actually paid for just to keep a client happy, this episode names exactly why that happens and what it costs you. You will also hear what safety and success really mean when you grow up an immigrant, why the quiet, lonely moments in business rarely
004: AMA Part 1: Girls' Girls, Raising Daughters and Freedom to Grow | Sandra Bettina
004: AMA Part 1: Girls' Girls, Raising Daughters and Freedom to Grow | Sandra Bettina Jun 30, 2026 16:32 Over-functioning is what happens when doing more stops feeling like ambition and starts feeling like survival. If you have ever looked up from your business and realized you are no longer behaving like a person you are proud of, this episode is for you.In this special launch party AMA, Sandra Bettina answers real questions submitted by guests at The Life She Built launch celebration. From over-fun
003: Why I Don't Open My Laptop Before 11AM | Sandra Bettina
003: Why I Don't Open My Laptop Before 11AM | Sandra Bettina Jun 23, 2026 17:11 An ideal week schedule for an entrepreneur is not about doing more in less time. It is about knowing what matters to you, putting it in your calendar first, and building your work around that. If your business is running your life instead of supporting it, your schedule is the place to start. In this episode of The Life She Built, host Sandra Bettina, mom, entrepreneur, wedding planner with 11 yea
002: The Overachiever's Worth Wound: My Story | Sandra Bettina
002: The Overachiever's Worth Wound: My Story | Sandra Bettina Jun 23, 2026 34:17 Overachiever burnout is what happens when you build an entire identity around achievement because somewhere along the way, you learned that doing was the only way to be worthy.If you've ever hit every goal and still felt like something was deeply wrong, this is the episode for you. Sandra Bettina, host of The Life She Built and entrepreneur, wedding planner, and mother of two, shares her full orig
001: Her Business. Her Life. Her Design | What it Actually Means to Design Your Life with Intention | Sandra Bettina
001: Her Business. Her Life. Her Design | What it Actually Means to Design Your Life with Intention | Sandra Bettina Jun 23, 2026 15:03 Women entrepreneur clarity is not about doing more. It is about knowing who you are first.If you have been chasing goals that feel hollow, building a business that consumes you, or trying to measure up to a version of success that was never actually yours, you do not have a strategy problem. You have a clarity problem. And you are not alone.In this first episode of The Life She Built, host Sandra
Trailer | The Life She Built
Trailer | The Life She Built Jun 16, 2026 05:43 You want an incredible life and a beautiful business, and you are done pretending those two things have to compete.The Life She Built is a podcast for women entrepreneurs who are building something real without burning out their lives in the process.Hosted by Sandra Bettina - entrepreneur, wife, mom to two daughters, and immigrant daughter - this show has the honest conversations about business, m

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