How to Be Ambitious Without Losing Your Relationships
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How can you be intentional about priorities so ambition doesn't ruin relationships?
For people who are highly ambitious, they want to pursue their dreams, but they don't want to lose their relationships. What would you say?
Firstly, be intentional about it. What are my two or three top priorities in this season? It's not easy when you're really ambitious to pour into all areas of your life all the time. I really do think something's got to give.
And I don't think people know how to navigate resentment. I think that they just push it down.
I've learned the resentment lesson the hard way. We can often think that the honest conversation is going to ruin relationships. And I think it's the resentment that ruins relationships from the conversations we didn't have. You talk about the difference between burnout and functional freeze. What I would first say is you could let go of most of 80% of the things you're doing and your business results wouldn't change.
You're trying to be everything for everyone else and you lose yourself. Do you have insight as to where that started in your life?
When I had my first daughter and trigger warning for anyone with birth trauma, you might want to skip this part.
What if building a wildly successful business wasn't about working harder, but creating success in a way that actually supports your life and freedom? Welcome back to the Healing and Human Potential podcast. In this episode, we're gonna explore how to pursue your ambition without sacrificing your relationships, burning out, or losing yourself along the way. We'll also unpack freedom-based entrepreneurship, identity, and why doing less can actually lead to more. Joining us is one of my best friends, Natalie Ellis, who's the founder of Boss Babe. She's an entrepreneur and author and creator of one of the largest communities for ambitious women in business. This is a good one. Let's dive in. I'm so happy that you're here.
I want to have a conversation about business, but from the lens of using your business for personal development, because all of our patterns get projected onto our businesses. And so for people who are highly ambitious and they want to pursue their dreams, but they don't want to lose their relationships from your experience, what would you say to people like that? How do they really honor their heart and what they want to create without losing their relationships?
I love this question because I think everything is in seasons in your life and in your business. And we all know you cannot have 10 priorities. Otherwise, they are not priorities. They are a to-do list. And for me, what I have realized is every season requires something different of me, whether it's more of a personal season or a business season. And what I really like to do when I know I'm going into a new season, firstly, be intentional about it. What season am I going into? What are my two or three top priorities in this season? Is it, you know, my kids, my marriage, my business? Okay, great. Well, guess what? I need to be all in there and I need to let go of the guilt of not pouring into other relationships at that time.
But it has to be a season because if that's how I'm running 24-7. that's not what I want my life to look like so for my book launch it was very much okay I'm going into book launch for a month I'm going to be all in my top priorities are my kids my marriage my book beyond that I don't have a lot of space and time I'm going to be more delayed texting friends back I'm going to be saying no to the dinners but coming out of that season how do I change up the structure of my priorities how do I get my nervous system back in regulation where I can now pour into friendships and my marriage and my kids and my business. And I think everything like that comes in season and you just have to be really intentional about it.
It's not easy when you're really ambitious to pour into all areas of your life all the time. I really do think... something's got to give in each season and if you constantly feel bad about not pouring into every single area of your life you'll feel this constant guilt and always feel like you could be doing more because there's always more we can do yeah especially as entrepreneurs the work is never done there's always more we can give and I think you have to give yourself grace with that yeah I like the seasons because it feels like there's a finite it's not like forever
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Chapters
4 chapters
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How can you be intentional about priorities so ambition doesn't ruin relationships?
0:00–9:27
2
What practical steps stop resentment from damaging friendships and teams?
9:27–34:42
3
How did childhood patterns of self‑abandonment shape entrepreneurial behavior?
34:42–48:03
4
How did a birth trauma become a turning point for speaking your truth?
48:03–1:03:58
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