Reese Hilburn is a multimillion-dollar entrepreneur, former award-winning tattoo artist, and the creator of the Shadow to Sales™ Method, a messaging framework, born from 18 years of tattooing mythic anti-heroes and warrior women, that uses archetypes to help entrepreneurs disrupt the unconscious patterns keeping them stuck and turn their story into their most powerful sales tool.
KC and Reese dig into the mechanics of the Villain framework, why a business can only scale as fast as its founder can lead herself, and the nervous-system work behind navigating big identity shifts — including Reese walking away from tattooing altogether to go all-in on coaching. They also preview Reese's upcoming ASR main-stage talk and what's next for As She Rises itself.
Topics Covered
The Villain framework: disrupting unconscious patterns to sell more powerfully
How 18 years of tattooing mythic anti-heroes led Reese to discover the Villain
Why Reese walked away from tattooing to go all-in on coaching — and the identity grief that came with it
The "unconscious payoff" — why we secretly want to stay stuck
Embodied leadership — why a business scales only as fast as its founder can lead herself
Ego death and rebuilding identity from vision instead of achievement
Why this year's ASR Live is the last in its current format and what Reese is bringing to the ASR main stage this year
"The business can only scale at which the founder can lead herself." — Reese Hilburn
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