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Sustainable Confidence for Driven Women

Nicole Stewart
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Last night I delivered part two of a three part series for female business leaders for a company called Press Play Ventures on behalf of LaunchVic (a Victorian Government agency)...

I don’t do this often (or ever, really) but last night’s call was 👌🏼 (if I do say so myself 😅)

So I’m sharing the recording of the call with you!

The session is titled ‘Becoming Powerful & Unshakeable’ and it’s about creating sustainable confidence as a female leader and riding the ups and downs that inevitably happen as a business owner.

The reason last night’s call was so good, was despite there being a few dozen women in the program, for some reason only THREE women showed up last night. Usually when running a live event, this could be seen as a bad thing, but I secretly-not-so-secretly LOVE working with small groups of women!

The intimacy and the chance to curate the teachings to the women who are there is so different to big groups. But, I digress.

The women who were on the call last night brought some super powerful discussion points that we unpacked together in ways that are going to be SO valuable if you’re a woman who wants to feel more confident and empowered on your journey to creating your dreams.

I’ve put an overlay on the video so the women are anonymous, but you can still hear all their questions and shares.

Tune in (it’s just under 90 minute) and let me know what you learn and what your takeaways and ‘aha’ moments are.

Happy Friday!

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Never underestimate the power of your past. Because it’s not in the past. It’s here in this living moment with you – woven into your responses, choices and perceptions; baked into your nervous system and psyche through and reinforcement and repetition.

That doesn’t mean your past has to define you, not at all.

Though, you’re lying to yourself if you say ‘its in the past’, yet have done no work to clear the ripples of that past from your system to create space for something new.

Yesterday, in a session with my coach, I went ‘back in time’ to the end of 2020, when I went through an experience that was somewhat challenging for me.

Here is a sublime example

Despite acknowledging the challenge at the time, I realised looking back that I hadn’t fully resolved or digested what happened there.

Part of me stayed frozen in that experience, and on the subtlest of levels, I have gotten in my own way unconsciously ever since.

That past experience was with me in every moment. It informed my capacity and energy levels, choices and perceptions.

And this is how the past shapes us – you have experiences that your system ‘learns’ from, and you then – often completely unconsciously – adjust accordingly to avoid repeating painful or difficult events.

We are such clever adaptive creatures.

But, those ‘adaptations’ will inadvertently shape your behaviour, attitudes, thoughts and feelings in a way that can begin to inhibit your ability to fully show up for your business or career, relationships, and life in general.

If you bring the process of ‘learning’ from these past experiences into consciousness, you gift yourself the chance to mine the gold from the past, get the learnings and gifts link example: and then move forward with your life.

„ QUOTE DESIGN: I CALL THIS PROCESS ‘DIGESTING’ YOUR PAST EXPERIENCES, AND HAVE SPECIFIC PRACTICES I TEACH TO SUPPORT YOU TO DO THIS.“

I call this process ‘digesting’ your past experiences, and have specific practices I teach to support you to do this.

The challenges of the past – and your adaptations – can become like a cage you find yourself living in if you’re not aware, but this digestion process ensures your continued liberation…

Which past experiences do you need to free yourself from?

And this is how the past shapes us – you have experiences that your system ‘learns’ from, and you then – often completely unconsciously – adjust accordingly to avoid repeating painful or difficult events.

We are such clever adaptive creatures.

But, those ‘adaptations’ will inadvertently shape your behaviour, attitudes, thoughts and feelings in a way that can begin to inhibit your ability to fully show up for your business or career, relationships, and life in general.

If you bring the process of ‘learning’ from these past experiences into consciousness, you gift yourself the chance to mine the gold from the past, get the learnings.

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