How High-Achieving Women Often Ignore Their Genius

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When I went through burnout 11 years ago it meant the end of my corporate career. I didn’t know if I would ever work again. 

I was so much in a hole. I couldn’t do the thing that I thought I was supposed to be doing with my life, so I found myself wondering, what on earth happens? Looking at the life that I have now, it is on a different scale to the life that I pictured for myself then.

As high-achieving women, we are constantly pushing towards a goal - to be the best, always be the fastest, always get the best grade. And we carry that through into work and other areas of our lives. We want to excel in all the things. We want an amazing career or an amazing business. If we’re in a relationship, we want to be good to our spouse or partner. If we’re parents, we want to be emotionally nurturing. 

But so often, it’s like we’re trying to live three or four different lives at once and in the rush, you miss everything. That constant drive for the next thing means we don’t slow down to look at what we have or what makes us happy. 

And in that rush we can dismiss things that we find easy as worthless. We don’t value them because we haven’t had to work hard to master them. They don’t take effort so we don’t see they have any value and we may even hide them away, or stop ourselves from doing them. But those things are valued by others.

This week on the Seven Figure Consultant Podcast my guest is Debra Sunderland, who is on a mission to awaken people’s genius. Debra challenges leaders by inviting them to create a collaborative, vibrant, responsible, and joy-filled culture, which fosters highly desirable results.

We talk about:

• Life being play even when you’re at work
• Not seeing your greatness because it’s easy for you
• How being an entrepreneur involves learning to be unsafe
• Sitting with discomfort
• Our capacity to create

🎧 Head here to listen to this week's episode in full 086: Choosing To Be In Your Genius

Let me know in the comments, what do you love doing that you tell yourself you don’t have time to do?

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