137 | How Overthinking and Self-Doubt Quietly Block Success featuring Steve Barton
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Career Growth for Working Women | Career Advancement, Visibility, Promotion, Raises
22 min
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8 chapters
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What internal thought patterns keep professionals from reaching their full potential?
What if the biggest thing holding you back in your career isn't your capability, but the thought patterns running quietly in the background? In this episode, I speak with executive coach Steve Burton about awareness, overthinking, self-worth, and the internal stories that shape confidence. Decision making and career growth. Steve shares his game of tin framework and explains why so many professionals unknowingly operate from fear, self-doubt, and old conditioning instead of recognizing their true value. Ready? Let's dive in.
Welcome to Career Growth for Working Women. If you're feeling tired in a way rest alone won't fix, or successful on paper but unsure what's next, you're not broken. You're not alone. I'm Shannon, a promotion and compensation coach, and this space is about helping women grow their careers with clarity, confidence, and sustainability, not pressure or hustle. Take a breath, settle in, and let's talk about what's really going on beneath the surface. Hello, welcome to the show. My guest today is Steve Barton, and what stood out to me about his perspective is directly how directly he talks about the internal patterns that quietly shape career growth. Steve spent decades helping grow his family's retail floral business from $200,000 to $2 million in annual revenue.
Along the way, he began noticing something that had very little to do with capabilities. capability and everything to do with awareness, confidence, and communication. Today, Steve works with executives and high performers on the internal side of leadership and performance, the thought patterns, self-doubt, overthinking, and pressure that influence how people show up, advocate for themselves, and make decisions. Steve, welcome to the show. I'm so excited for this conversation.
Well, thank you so much, Shannon. And I'm really excited to be with you. And I love your accent. And I hope you can understand me with a main accent. And we'll get we'll get through this.
We'll get through it with the y'alls and the everything. So um we were just talking about like capability and your awareness and your thoughts. So when did you start noticing a pattern with all of that?
I'm still noticing. It's it's an ongoing process of awareness.
How did Steve Barton’s experience growing a family business shape his coaching philosophy?
It's infinite. So I work from the finite to the infinite. In and familiar with that card totally the power of now. I work with enough. And enough is when you think of time space, time is always now. It always has been now. There is no future. The the past is done. It was the now at that time. And if you think of the infinite space. It's enough. And that opens up the portal to everything, awareness. Now is always and always has been enough. That's where manifesting happens, that's where miracles happen, that's where opportunities and solutions happen. But so often we get stuck in old patterns of thought that keep us stuck.
Yes. And those old and those old thoughts are usually not even true thoughts about ourselves.
They're old they're old. They're old food in your refrigerator that you think is still fresh.
Yes, exactly. But but that impacts our life and for the women listening, it impacts how they feel about themselves and how they show up in life and at work for their jobs. So What advice would you give to these women that maybe are struggling with just the feeling enough?
Well, I created a process called the game of ten for men and women. We are different, but we're also the same. Okay. We we are in in individually men have a feminine side and a masculine side. And typically they lean towards the masculine. Typically. Uh women have a masculine side too. If you're going to work every day in a masculine field, you're using your masculine a lot. And so it's really about balancing that within yourself. You have a partner, somebody's gonna be the man and someone's gonna be the woman. I don't care what if it's a gay relationship or I don't know what's like someone's a man and someone's a woman, or you're gonna cla clash like nobody's business. Right? Yes. Yeah, there's giving there's one's the giver and one's the receiver.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What internal thought patterns keep professionals from reaching their full potential?
0:00–2:36
2
How did Steve Barton’s experience growing a family business shape his coaching philosophy?
2:36–6:03
3
Why does over‑thinking trap high‑achievers and how can it be recognized?
6:03–9:17
4
What is the “Game of 10” framework and how does it shift scarcity thinking to self‑worth?
9:17–14:03
5
Which empowering phrases should you repeat daily to re‑wire limiting beliefs?
14:03–18:35
6
How can a simple visualization exercise help you release limiting thoughts?
18:35–21:54
7
What concrete action steps can listeners take right now to move from self‑doubt to confidence?
21:54–22:38
8
Where can listeners learn more about Steve Barton’s coaching and resources?
22:38–22:50
Speakers
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