Episode 78

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24th Feb 2026

From Burnout to Big Money: The Inner Work Behind High-Ticket Success with Stef Skye

Strategy builds businesses. Regulation builds sustainability.

In this episode of She Wears the Pants, Ashley Deland is joined by Stefanie Willis, also known as Stef Skye, a high-ticket sales coach, business strategist, and founder of a seven-figure empire built completely from the ground up.

Together, they unpack what it really takes for a high-growth woman to move beyond burnout, regulate her nervous system, and build wealth that actually feels sustainable.

This conversation goes far beyond sales tactics and strategy. Stef shares her unfiltered journey from low-ticket MLM burnout and corporate survival mode to becoming a woman who can hold money, power, and impact without self-sabotage.

If you’re a woman who feels called to more but knows something internal needs to shift before your next level arrives, this conversation will help you close the gap between strategy and self.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to:

  1. Transition from low-ticket burnout into high-ticket leadership with integrity
  2. Regulate your nervous system so you can hold more money without fear or self-sabotage
  3. Rebuild self-trust after burnout, guilt, and stepping away from visibility
  4. Separate your worth from your revenue so wealth stops feeling heavy
  5. Become the woman who can sustain success, not just create it

By the end, you’ll walk away with a clearer understanding of who you need to become in order to hold the wealth, impact, and freedom you’re building toward.

Meet Stef

Stefanie Willis, known online as Stef Skye, is a high-ticket sales coach, business strategist, podcast host, and seven-figure entrepreneur. Through her coaching programs and signature sales systems, she helps ambitious women transition out of low-ticket burnout and corporate survival mode into profitable, regulated, high-power entrepreneurship.

She is the host of the Call Her Coach podcast, where she explores identity, nervous system regulation, wealth, and leadership for modern women in business.

Website: https://callhercoachpodcast.com

Instagram: @stefskye

Continue the Work with Ashley

Step into your next level: Explore Private Advisory, high-touch strategic partnership, and fractional leadership support for women scaling with precision and power.

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Experience a full-business transformation in one weekend: Apply for Ashley’s Executive VIP Experience — an immersive, in-person strategic overhaul designed to collapse timelines and accelerate growth.

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Stay in proximity: For daily strategy, identity expansion, and behind-the-scenes insight, connect with Ashley on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/ashleydeland/

She Wears the Pants is where high-growth women come to build companies that match their calling. If this episode resonated, follow, rate, and review so more women can find these conversations.

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About the Podcast

She Wears the Pants
She Wears the Pants is the podcast for the women building more than businesses—they’re building identities, empires, and legacies.

Hosted by globally recognized business advisor, multi-business founder, and start-up investor Ashley Deland, this show lives at the intersection of strategy, structure, and self. Each week, Ashley pulls back the curtain on what it truly takes for women to scale companies that are financially sound, spiritually aligned, energetically sustainable, and structurally unshakeable.

This is where high-growth women founders come for boardroom-level strategy, identity evolution, feminine leadership, and the inner work required to hold the success they’re building.

Because strategy means nothing if the woman behind it can’t hold it.

Continue the Work with Ashley:

Step into your next level: Explore Private Advisory, high-touch strategic partnership, and fractional leadership support for women scaling with precision and power.
https://ashleydeland.com/inquire

Experience a full-business transformation in one weekend: Apply for Ashley’s Executive VIP Experience — an immersive, in-person strategic overhaul designed to collapse timelines and accelerate growth.
https://ashleydeland.com/inquire

Stay in proximity: For daily strategy, identity expansion, and behind-the-scenes insight, connect with Ashley on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/ashleydeland/

She Wears the Pants is where high-growth women come to build companies that match their calling. If this episode resonated, follow, rate, and review so more women can find these conversations.

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