What if the business you're building isn't just a way to make money — but the very vehicle through which you heal? In this episode, Amanda sits down with Jacob Peggs, the solopreneur behind Modern Maker, known for shipping businesses "like a mother flower" and his signature one offer, one post, one email a day method. But beneath the impressive track record is a far more tender story: a boy from Cyprus with divorced parents and a one-way ticket to America, who kept meeting his own wounds at every stage of success — and kept saying yes to healing anyway.
Jacob shares, more openly than he ever has on a podcast, the four or five monumental inner events that shaped him: buying back his mother's childhood home when the family was about to lose it, a two-year court case against a relative who tried to take his company, a high blood pressure diagnosis at 26 from working 70-hour weeks, and the mentor's question — was this the dad he wanted to be? — that broke him open and changed everything. Each moment of outer crisis became, as Amanda names it, an initiation into the next level of who he was becoming.
This conversation dissolves the false wall between business and inner work. Jacob explains why people come to him for money but stay for something much deeper, why you can scale from a 5k to a 50k month and your trauma will still come with you, and why the strategy is actually the easy part — believing you can be the person who executes it is the real work. He also breaks down, in refreshingly simple terms, what a funnel actually is, why you don't need to reinvent anything, and how building at the intersection of your interests makes you unmissable.
Whether you're a healer who's scared to sell, a burnt-out agency owner behind a mask, or someone who's tried and flopped and wonders if that means something about you — this episode will feel like sitting on the floor with a friend who's a few steps ahead, handing you back your belief in yourself.
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