316. Developing Your Business Intuition And Saying No To Mark Cuban With DELIGHTED BY Founder Makenzie Marzluff
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
I'm joined by heart-centered entrepreneur Makenzie Marzluff! Makenzie and I unpack what it looks like to be a powerful person in business, while also being deeply in tune with your intuition. We talk about the spiritual process that led her on the journey to launching product-based business DELIGHTED BY Desserts, KAKAO Ceremonial Drinking Chocolate, REQUESTbar, and starting a 501c3 non-profit. Listen in to hear more of our conversation about the balance between the feminine and masculine energies, how she connects with her higher self, and why it's so important to lead from your heart space.
In this episode we talk about:
- Taking challenging leaps of faith via your intuition
- Her Shark Tank journey
- Connecting with aligned investors
- Learning what surrendering and deep trust really are
- The power of being in tune with your body
- The role of failure
- What Makenzie is manifesting for 2022
- The biggest lesson that Makenzie is currently in
You can use the code POWERHOUSE on delightedbydesserts.com and requestbar.com for 15% OFF the entire store.
Click HERE to text the word MENTOR to (602) 536-7829 for weekly business + mindset tips delivered straight to your phone!
CONNECT WITH MAKENZIE
instagram.com/makenziemarzluff
delightedbydesserts.com
requestbar.com
flykakao.com
CONNECT WITH POWERHOUSE WOMEN
instagram.com/powerhouse_women
instagram.com/llindseyschwartz
facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity
ABOUT MAKENZIE
Makenzie Marzluff is a conscious creative on a mission to restore the heart into business and beyond. She is the Founder of DELIGHTED BY Desserts - home of The Original Dessert Hummus as seen on ABC's Shark Tank, Cosmopolitan, Oprah Magazine and hundreds of other media outlets. Makenzie started DELIGHTED BY on her credit cards and scaled to a multimillion dollar organization within 2 years by following her intuition and focusing on service every step of the way.
Makenzie is also the Co-Founder (along with her soulmate Michael) of KAKAO Ceremonial Drinking Chocolate, a 501c3 non-profit, and REQUESTbar, a mission-driven protein bar company produced out of Makenzie and Michael's very own high-vibe manufacturing facility in Bozeman, Montana.
EPISODE TIMELINE & DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
( 0:45 ) Welcome back to another episode of Powerhouse Women!
( 1:26 ) Lindsey introduces today's guest, Makenzie Marzluff.
( 3:10 ) Makenzie joins the conversation.
( 4:32 ) Lindsey asks Makenzie to take listeners back to the time she was launching DELIGHTED BY Desserts.
( 6:31 ) Makenzie explains the pivotal moment she experienced at a retreat in Sedona.
( 9:19 ) Makenzie talks about her Shark Tank experience.
( 13:03 ) Makenzie shares why she walked away from a deal with Mark Cuban.
( 14:31 ) Makenzie discusses how to develop your intuition.
( 15:42 ) Makenzie talks about her dark night of the soul in 2014.
( 19:02 ) Lindsey says, "Being in our actual bodies, as women especially, the power we hold is incredible."
( 20:31 ) Makenzie shares her interpretation of mascuiline and feminine energies as it relates to business.
( 22:56 ) Lindsey talks about how to join Girl Gang and shares a special offer.
( 25:09 ) Lindsey asks Makenzie to talk about balancing the duality of the masculine and femimine energies.
( 27:30 ) Makenzie says, "You have to be in a masculine energy at first in order to bring something to life."
( 30:39 ) Makenzie talks about how her failures have served her.
( 35:06 ) Lindsey asks Makenzie what she's looking forward to professionally and personally in 2022, and also what lesson she's currently in.
( 36:34 ) Makenzie says, "You have to surrender to a higher love versus giving into the preferences of your lower self."
( 38:10 ) Lindsey and Makenzie sign off on the episode.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | At times, that higher guidance is going to say you need to lean back. |
| 0:05.7 | And then there's going to be times where your higher guidance will say, |
| 0:09.2 | it's time to take step by step. |
| 0:11.0 | Like, take the next right step in bringing your dreams into the reality. |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm Lindsay Schwartz, your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, |
| 0:29.2 | and together we'll unlock the confidence and clarity you are looking for |
| 0:33.8 | to help you get out of your own way and into action around your next big idea. |
| 0:44.7 | If you are anything like me, I'm constantly trying to understand how to balance the really |
| 0:53.4 | driven, very action-oriented part of myself with my |
| 0:58.1 | intuition, the part of me that I know is leading exactly where my business and my personal |
| 1:03.7 | growth need to go. And I have the most perfect guest with me today to have this conversation and really unpack what it |
| 1:12.4 | looks like to be a powerful woman or person in business, but also be really deeply in tune |
| 1:19.5 | with the guidance within us all that is available any moment we want. So my guest is McKenzie Marsloff, and she is someone I've known for years. |
| 1:31.0 | I've gotten to see and really watch her expand and her vision expand. She's a conscious creative |
| 1:37.8 | who's on a mission to restore the heart into business, and she's also the founder of Delighted by D desserts, which you may have seen |
| 1:46.4 | on ABC's Shark Tank. It's been featured in Cosmo, Oprah Magazine, so many other media outlets. And she |
| 1:54.1 | started her company Delighted By on her credit cards. She scaled it to a multimillion dollar organization within two years, |
| 2:02.4 | and she talks about the deeply intuitive process that led her there. She's gone on to co-found |
| 2:10.5 | some amazing other companies, including a cacao company, a 501c3 nonprofit, a company called |
| 2:17.1 | Request Bar, which is one of the most high vibe |
| 2:20.3 | foods and protein bars that you could possibly get your hands on. And all of it really falls under |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lindsey Schwartz, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Lindsey Schwartz and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.