Harmonious Wealth
Harmonious Wealth is the podcast for women entrepreneurs who want to build profitable businesses without sacrificing their capacity, financial peace, or actual lives. Hosted by Iyanna Vaughn, Revenue + Finance Strategist and founder of Lovely Financials Group, this show explores what it really takes to grow a business where revenue, profit, and capacity can expand together. Through honest reflections, practical strategy, client case studies, and conversations about business design, you’ll learn how to make better decisions around revenue, cash flow, owner pay, pricing, team, marketing, capacity, and sustainable growth. Because making more money is not the whole goal. The real go...
49: Before You Lead Your Business, You Need to Be Led
You can rebuild your business model and still carry the same fear into the rebuild.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn reflects on the difference between discipline and depletion, what it means to let God shape the plan before asking Him to bless it, and why a profitable plan can still cost too much in peace, presence, and capacity.
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Why changing your offer, calendar, or business model doesn’t automatically change the patterns underneath itThe shift from asking “What does the business need?” to “God, what are You asking of me in...48: The $2K Capacity Exercise: Do You Actually Lack Money, or Just Access? [BONUS]
“I can’t afford it” sometimes means exactly that.
But sometimes it really means, “I don’t have an extra $2,000 sitting in checking right now.”
Those are two very different financial situations.
In this bonus episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn walks through a practical exercise for determining whether an investment is truly out of reach, whether financial capacity could responsibly be created, or whether the right answer is simply “not this season.”
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Why having access to money doesn’t automatically mean you should spend itHow to tell the differenc...47: How Much Visibility Does Your Business Actually Need?
A marketing consistency problem isn’t always about discipline.
Sometimes it’s capacity. Sometimes it’s the format. Sometimes visibility itself brings up fear or resistance.
And sometimes, you simply haven’t done the math.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down visibility math: how to work backward from a revenue goal to determine how many clients, conversations, and qualified opportunities your business actually needs before creating more content.
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Why marketing often gets pushed behind client work and other urgent prioritiesHow to tell whether your con...46: Your Calendar Is Telling You the Truth About Your Business
Your calendar can tell you the truth about your business model before your revenue report ever does.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down why a scheduling problem is often actually a business model problem, how to separate CEO time from delivery time, and how to redesign your week around the life and business you actually want.
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Why ongoing service work naturally expands into every available space unless you create boundaries around itThe difference between delivery time and CEO timeThree signs your scheduling problem may actually be a...45: Why Scaling Should Start With Unit Economics, Not Headcount
A business can look fully scaled from the outside — strong revenue, a full team, steady momentum — and still be built on a fragile foundation.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn looks back at her highest-revenue year, what the following year exposed about the infrastructure underneath it, and why scaling should start with understanding the economics of one unit before adding more people, clients, or complexity.
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What Iyanna learned after reaching $370K in revenue with 25+ recurring clients and a full teamThe difference between having a team and actually having infrastructureWhy a bu...44: Revenue Doesn't Fix Your Relationship With Money
You can be great at helping other people with their money and still be avoiding your own.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn reflects on a season when her business was growing while her personal finances were still unstable, and what changed when she decided to treat her own money with the same care, structure, and accountability she gave her clients.
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Why increasing revenue doesn’t automatically fix pressure, boundaries, people-pleasing, or financial avoidanceWhat changed when Iyanna began treating her personal finances like a client’sWhy being highly functional unde...43: Founder Dependency: The Difference Between Valuable and Required
A business can grow, hire a team, and still fall apart the moment the founder steps away.
That’s not just burnout. That’s founder dependency.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn shares how her own business became increasingly dependent on her presence, why delegation alone didn’t solve the problem, and what it actually takes to build infrastructure that can carry responsibility without everything flowing back to the founder.
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How Iyanna’s business evolved from bookkeeping into strategic financial consulting and fractional CFO workThe question every founder...42: Your Business Can Be Profitable and Still Be Draining You
A business can still be profitable and still be too expensive to run.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn explores the difference between financial profit and energetic profitability, and what happens when your life and capacity change but your business keeps operating as if nothing has.
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Why money left over doesn’t automatically mean the business is sustainableHow recurring burnout can point to an operating-system problem, not just a hard seasonWhy your calendar may need to change when your capacity changesWhy white space has to be intentionally designedHow rest, mo...41: How to Know When It's Time to Change Your Business Model
A business doesn’t have to be failing for you to outgrow the way it operates.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn reflects on her decision to close the service-heavy version of her company after nearly 11 years and asks a different question:
Does this business work — or does this business still work for me?
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Why recurring revenue also creates recurring responsibilityWhy capacity matters financially even though it never appears on the P&LHow two businesses with the same revenue can create completely different lives for their ownersWhy Iyan...40: Your Business Makes Money...But Is It Actually Profitable? (How to Tell and What To Fix)
Clients are being served. Revenue is coming in.
So why does cash still feel inconsistent — and why are you still paying yourself last?
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn explores the difference between activity and fruitfulness, and what Scripture can teach us about order, stewardship, and building a business that produces more than revenue.
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Why busyness and revenue don’t automatically equal financial healthWhat Genesis 1 reveals about order, structure, and multiplicationHow Matthew 6:33 can shape the way you think about stewardship in your businessWhy revenue alone doesn’t tell y...39: What Happens in Your First 60 Days With Us: A Financial Launch Pad™ Walkthrough
Getting financial support should do more than hand you reports.
It should help you understand what’s happening in the business, what the numbers mean, and what decisions need to happen next.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn walks through the structure she used to onboard clients into deeper financial strategy support and the key areas every business owner should understand when building stronger financial infrastructure.
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Why financial support shouldn’t leave the CEO dependent on someone else to understand the numbersWhat a thoughtful onboarding process can reve...38: Overflow on Autopilot: How Jillian Maintains $50K+ in Business Cash Through Seasonal Unpredictability
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn sits down with Jillian Smith-Austin, founder of OneTouch Events, to talk about the relationship between personal money habits, business finances, cash flow, profitability, and building a company that actually supports the life behind it.
Jillian shares how her early experiences with money shaped the way she approaches business today and what changed as she moved from simply making money to managing it more intentionally.
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How Jillian’s early experiences with saving, tithing, and money shaped her financial mindsetThe transition from managing personal finances to...37: You Don’t Need More Revenue—You Need a Rhythm (And a Profit Plan)
Revenue growth doesn’t automatically create wealth.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down the fourth phase of her signature framework, The Overflow Method: Wealth Flow Design, and explains how to move beyond chasing revenue toward building a business that actually supports profit, owner pay, and long-term wealth.
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Why more revenue doesn’t automatically mean more wealthThe role of a profit plan in creating intentional cash flowHow stewardship and strategy work togetherThe four cash flow quadrants and how they shape the way money movesWhy owner pay should be plan...36: Are You Losing Money Without Knowing It? How to Catch Profit Leaks in Your Business
Many business owners think they’re profitable when they’re really just not broke.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn walks through the third phase of The Overflow Method and explains how hidden profit leaks can quietly weaken a service-based business, even when revenue looks healthy.
She also introduces the Keep Half Diagnostic, a way to think more intentionally about what the business is actually keeping after the money comes in.
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Why profit leaks often hide in everyday expenses, not dramatic purchasesHow subscriptions, contractors, and recurring costs can...35: Financial Storytelling: Making Sense of Your Numbers
Your numbers are telling you a story.
The question is whether you know how to read it.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn walks through the second phase of The Overflow Method and explains how financial storytelling can help business owners move from confusion and avoidance to clarity, confidence, and better decision-making.
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Why financial reports are more than a collection of numbersHow your P&L can help you understand what happened and what’s actually workingWhy trends matter more than looking at one isolated monthHow financial storytelling tu...34: Vision Casting: Building With the End in Mind
If you don’t know what you’re building toward, your finances will always feel like a moving target.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn introduces the first phase of The Overflow Method and explores why vision has to come before the financial plan.
Because the goal isn’t to build a business that looks successful from the outside.
It’s to build one that actually supports the life, values, and legacy you want.
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Why financial goals can feel arbitrary when they aren’t connected to a bigge...33: This 4-Part Method Helped My Clients Build Margin & Master Their Money
Making more money doesn’t automatically create more clarity, more profit, or more peace.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn introduces The Overflow Method, her signature financial strategy framework designed to help entrepreneurs understand what their business is producing, where money is leaking, and how to build greater margin between revenue and everything the business requires.
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Why financial clarity requires more than simply increasing revenueThe four parts of The Overflow MethodHow vision and legacy planning give your financial goals directionWhy understanding your financial story helps you make stronger decisionsHow pr...32: Why Titles Don’t Matter—But Clarity Does: Understanding What We Actually Do at Lovely Financials
Titles don’t build wealth. Clarity does.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down the different roles that can exist inside a business’s financial ecosystem and why simply having a bookkeeper, accountant, CFO, or money coach doesn’t automatically mean the business has a cohesive financial strategy.
The real goal is understanding what your numbers mean, how the different financial functions work together, and how to use that information to make better decisions.
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Why financial titles can create a false sense of securityThe difference between bookke...31: Why the Keep Half Principle Works – Setting Intentional Profit Targets for Financial Clarity
Revenue can grow while the amount you actually get to keep barely changes.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn introduces the Keep Half Principle, a framework for thinking about revenue, operating costs, profit, and CEO pay more intentionally.
Instead of starting with how much revenue you want to make, the goal is to understand what the business costs to run and whether the model leaves enough room to pay the owner, invest, and grow without constantly feeling financially stretched.
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Why revenue alone isn’t the best measure of...30: How to Reverse Engineer Your Business Income (Start with Your Salary!)
A revenue goal should mean something.
It should connect to what the business needs to pay the owner, cover expenses, account for taxes, create profit, and fund growth.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down how to build a revenue goal from the business backward instead of choosing a number because it sounds impressive.
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Why arbitrary revenue goals can create financial instabilityHow CEO pay can help anchor the revenue targetWhy your revenue goal needs to account for expenses, taxes, and reinvestmentWhy pricing should support profit, not...29: Why Underpaying Yourself is Hurting Your Business (And How to Fix It for Scaling Coaches)
Underpaying yourself can make a business look more profitable than it really is.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down why CEO pay has to be part of the financial model, how underpaying yourself can create burnout and resentment, and why a sustainable business should support the person who owns it too.
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Why underpaying yourself can create a false sense of profitabilityWhy a business that depends on the owner taking less isn’t truly sustainableHow CEO pay affects the way you think about pricing, expenses, and growthWhy your bu...28: How to Calculate Your CEO Salary Based on Your Lifestyle (The Right Way for Scaling CEOs)
Your salary as a CEO isn’t just a personal number.
It affects the revenue your business needs to generate, the expenses it can support, and the kind of financial life the business is supposed to help you build.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down how to think about CEO pay more intentionally and why your personal financial needs belong inside the business planning process.
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Why CEO pay should be part of the financial strategyHow your desired salary can help inform your revenue goalsWhy personal bu...27: Watch How you Talk to Yourself about Money
The way you talk about money shapes the way you interact with it.
If your internal dialogue is rooted in fear, shame, or avoidance, it can become harder to look at the numbers clearly enough to make better decisions.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn explores the relationship between self-talk, financial anxiety, and avoidance, and why greater financial confidence starts with being willing to face what’s actually happening.
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How the language you use about money can shape your financial behaviorWhy negative self-talk can reinforce avoidance and fe...26: Where Did the Money Go? Demystifying Cash Flow in Your Business
A profitable business can still feel cash-strapped.
That’s because profit and cash balance are not the same thing.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down how cash actually moves through a business, why your bank balance doesn’t tell the whole story, and how the Statement of Cash Flows can help you better understand what’s happening financially.
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Why profit and cash balance are two different numbersHow cash moves in and out of a businessThe basic cash flow equation: beginning cash + cash in - cash outWhy...25: Is Your Equity Protected? What Every CEO Needs to Know About Owner’s Equity
Revenue tells you what came in.
Profit tells you what the business earned.
But equity tells you something different:
What does the business actually own after accounting for what it owes?
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down business equity, how it shows up on the balance sheet, and why understanding it matters for long-term financial health and wealth-building.
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The basic equity formula: assets minus liabilitiesWhy the balance sheet matters for understanding long-term financial healthWhat owner’s equity representsHow distributions and retained ea...24: Liabilities, Leverage & the Line Between Growth and Chaos
Debt isn’t automatically bad.
The real question is whether the liability is helping the business grow or quietly putting pressure on cash flow.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down how liabilities work, how they show up on the balance sheet, and why business owners need to understand what they owe in relation to what the business owns.
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The difference between current and long-term liabilitiesWhy understanding your balance sheet matters for financial healthHow liabilities can support growth when they’re used strategicallyWhy debt has to be e...23: Assets: The Foundation of a Stable Business
Revenue tells you what came in.
Profit tells you what the business earned.
But your balance sheet helps you understand what the business actually has.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down business assets, the different types of assets that can appear on the balance sheet, and why understanding them matters for cash flow, stability, and long-term financial health.
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Why the balance sheet matters for understanding business stabilityThe difference between current, non-cash current, and long-term assetsHow assets support cash flow and financial flexibilityWhy some...22: Unlocking the Secrets of Profit in Business
Revenue can tell you how much money came in.
Profit tells you how much of that revenue the business actually gets to keep.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down the different types of profit, why profit margins matter, and how looking at trends over time can help you make better pricing and operating decisions.
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The difference between gross profit, operating profit, and net profitWhy profit margin percentages can give you a clearer view than revenue aloneHow operating expenses affect profitability even when revenue is strongWhy...21: Mastering Your Business Expenses
Not all business expenses affect profitability in the same way.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down the difference between direct costs and operating expenses, how each one affects profit margins, and why understanding your expense structure matters when you’re pricing, planning, and growing a service-based business.
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The difference between direct costs and operating expensesWhy direct costs are tied to delivering the serviceHow operating expenses affect the business even when revenue fluctuatesWhy understanding your cost structure matters for pricing and profitabilityHow to review expense trends over timeWhy a...20: 3 Things You MUST Know About Business Revenue
Revenue going up and down isn’t always the real problem.
Sometimes the bigger issue is that you don’t understand why it’s moving.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down how to track revenue more intentionally, identify what’s driving changes, and plan for seasonality so fluctuations don’t automatically create panic.
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Why disconnecting from your numbers makes revenue swings feel more chaoticHow to track revenue against your actual goalsWhy categorizing revenue can reveal which offers, clients, or channels are driving performanceHow to identify your stron...19: From Side Hustle to Full-Time Impact: Dr. Joy Harden Bradford on Building Therapy for Black Girls
What starts as a simple idea can become something much bigger when the mission is clear.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn sits down with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, founder of Therapy for Black Girls, to talk about how the platform evolved from a blog into a growing mental health brand, business, and community.
They also talk about money mindset, sustainability, family, team culture, and what it looks like to build something that creates both impact and long-term value.
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How Therapy for Black Girls started as a...18: Reclaiming Health and Wealth: Jasmine Espy on Advocacy, Community, and Living with HS
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn sits down with Jasmine Espy to talk about her journey with Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) and how that experience shaped her work in advocacy, community-building, and health equity.
Jasmine shares how she moved through bullying, chronic illness, therapy, spirituality, and ultimately the decision to turn her personal experience into work that helps other people feel seen, supported, and less alone.
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Jasmine’s experience living with Hidradenitis SuppurativaHow bullying and chronic illness affected her early lifeThe role therapy and spirituality played in her healingWhy advocacy be...17: Faith, Family, and Clean Beauty: Ameka Coleman’s Journey with Strands of Faith
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn sits down with Ameka Coleman, founder of Strands of Faith, to talk about building a purpose-driven beauty brand while navigating faith, family, personal growth, and entrepreneurship.
Ameka shares how her experiences shaped the mission behind Strands of Faith, what she’s learned about funding and delegation, and why building a sustainable product-based business requires more than simply having a good idea.
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How Ameka built Strands of Faith around the needs of textured hairThe role faith has played in her personal life and entrepreneurial jo...16: How to Prepare your Business for a 7-Month Sabbatical with Jereshia Hawk
What would have to be true financially and operationally for you to step away from your business for a year?
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn sits down with Jereshia Hawk to talk about the financial and business decisions that made her year-long sabbatical possible.
Jereshia shares how living below her means, prioritizing profit, standardizing her offers, and reducing owner dependency helped her build a business that could continue functioning without requiring her constant presence.
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How Jereshia financially prepared for a year-long sabbaticalWhy prioritizing profit and living...15: Navigating a 4-Month Maternity Leave as an Entrepreneur with Danielle Desir Corbett
What does it actually take for a self-employed business owner to step away for maternity leave without everything falling apart?
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn sits down with Danielle Desir Corbett to talk about how she planned for a four-month maternity leave, prepared financially, built support systems, and adjusted her business so she could make space for motherhood.
Danielle also shares what returning to work looked like and how the experience changed the way she thinks about business, income, and capacity.
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How Danielle created a clear...14: How to plan your creative work around your cycle as an entrepreneur with XayLi Barclay
What if your productivity problem isn’t really a discipline problem?
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn sits down with XayLi Barclay, camera confidence coach and creator of Brave on Video, to talk about how menstrual health can affect energy, productivity, focus, and the way you operate your business.
XayLi shares her personal experience with painful periods and PMDD, how she began paying closer attention to the different phases of her cycle, and what changed when she stopped expecting herself to operate at the same level every day of the month.
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13: Creating Hormonal Harmony | How Investing in Your Menstrual Health Will Contribute to Business Growth with Berrion Berry
What if understanding your menstrual cycle could help you make more informed decisions about your energy, work, and capacity?
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn sits down with Berrion Berry, menstrual health educator and women’s health coach, to talk about cycle awareness, hormonal health, and what it can look like to build a business with more respect for the rhythms of your body.
Berrion also shares her own journey into women’s health advocacy and how that work has shaped the way she thinks about rest, nourishment, nervous system regulation, and self-care.
12: How to Stop Overspending In Your Business: 3 Part Framework for Making Financial-Based Decisions
There are things you need to invest in to grow and sustain your business.
But spending more doesn’t automatically mean you’re making better decisions.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn breaks down how overspending can make it harder to scale and shares a three-step framework for evaluating financial investments before you commit your time, money, or capacity.
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Why overspending is often a decision-making problem, not just a budgeting problemHow to tell whether an offer is right for you right nowWhy investing because you “should” can lead to...11: Stop Telling Yourself You're “Worthy” of the Investment — You're Justifying Emotional Spending
Another offer launches.
You know it could help your business, so you buy it.
Then the payment hits, cash gets tight, you’re struggling to pay yourself, and you’re too overwhelmed to even implement what you purchased.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn explores why emotional spending shows up in business, how sales psychology and money beliefs can influence investment decisions, and what to consider before saying yes to another coach, program, service, or payment plan.
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Why investing in yourself isn’t automatically the same a...10: How to Stop Idolizing Selling and Put God at the Forefront of Your Business
Sales matter.
But when your sense of peace, identity, or worth starts rising and falling with your revenue, something deeper is happening.
In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn explores what it looks like when business success becomes too important, how sales can quietly become an idol, and why faith has to shape the way you hold revenue, ambition, and uncertainty.
