Have you ever felt, deep in your bones, that the version of success you were chasing was no longer yours to carry? Melissa Bauknight had that moment twice. On the outside, she was a top-ranked corporate sales leader, but inside, it all cracked open. Her body. Her identity. Her carefully curated life. That breaking open became her becoming.

In this episode, Kami Guildner and Melissa Bauknight talk about the power of community for women entrepreneurs, the courage it takes to step into your truth, and how women are reshaping business and leadership by leading with authenticity, purpose, and connection.

In This Episode:

• Learn how authentic women’s communities fuel business growth, create belonging, and amplify confidence.
• Explore why community is the antidote to isolation and how circles of support help women embody their leadership.
• Hear how building a soul-led business weaves together trust, spirituality, and co-creation, redefining success with heart.
• Find out how safe spaces and small steps can shift you from hiding to fully embodying your message with visibility and confidence.
• Understand why women aren’t confused; they’re remembering. Reflection, pausing, and being witnessed unlock the clarity already within.

Melissa Bauknight is a business mentor, community builder, and founder of The Nova—a global network of soul-led women who are rewriting the rules of leadership, power, and success. A former top-ranked corporate sales leader turned feminine leadership catalyst, Melissa blends strategy with soul to help ambitious women build movements, not just businesses. Melissa has coached and mentored thousands of women across the globe, spoken on stages about purpose-driven entrepreneurship, and built one of the fastest-growing chapter-based women’s ecosystems in the country—all while raising a family, healing her body, and telling the truth about what it actually takes to rise. When she’s not mentoring women into their next level, she’s hiking in Colorado, hosting circles that feel like sacred homecomings, and reminding every woman she meets: You’re not confused. You’re learning to trust what you’ve known all along.

About the Host:

Kami Guildner believes women’s voices matter. She is a connector. A storyteller. A business coach for high vibe women entrepreneurs helping them #RaiseUP their Voice, Vision and Visibility for Impact and Business Growth.

Kami helps her clients build businesses they love with more time prosperity and more wealth prosperity. She weaves soulful-inspiration into mindful business strategies, and this Soul+Strategy™ approach to business helps her clients succeed in business and worldly impact.

Her clients scale and grow their businesses, with a more feminine, abundant approach. Her community of entrepreneurs is creating a new paradigm of entrepreneurship, helping each other raise up in a ripple effect of impact. Her clients have gone on to reach extraordinary heights as consultants, coaches and leaders – achieving exponential revenue growth, landing on big stages, starting software companies, launching new professional organizations, transforming corporate cultures and transforming lives. They are influential and they are changemakers.

Kami is the founder of the Extraordinary Women Ignite Conference and host of the award-winning Extraordinary Women Radio™. She is the best selling author of Firedancer: Your Spiral Journey to a Life of Passion and Purpose and was named to the 2020 Twenty-Five Most Powerful Women in Business List by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce.

“Community is like oxygen to me.” ~Melissa Bauknight

To learn more about Melissa, visit her website. You can also connect with her on LinkedIn and Facebook.

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