199 | How Pressure is Blocking Your Business Growth
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Your Money, Your Rules | Financial Mastery, Wealth Mindset, Leadership Principles, Intuitive Decision-Making, Human Design
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Why do high‑achieving women struggle to embrace play and pleasure?
Welcome back. I am so glad you're here today. I want to talk about something that is really near and dear to my heart, something that I'm very passionate about. I have spent the last seven years becoming very intimate with this activity because it was missing in my life. And I believe that it is missing in a lot of women's lives, especially high achieving women, women running businesses and carrying all the things and that is play and pleasure. So let's dive in. I wanted to share a quick little update with you. I am coming back to YouTube. It feels really aligned for me where I am right now. I have someone that I'm super excited about that's helping me edit and put everything up there for you guys. You know, as a consumer, I love to watch people on YouTube.
you know, when I listened to podcasts and also, you know, for me being on there to connect with you, like I love connecting video is another way that I love to connect so that you can see me face to face and have these conversations in a deeper way. I want to say that the episodes will be released on Thursdays. This is going to allow more continuity across all of the platforms and everything that I am giving and sharing with you guys. So stay I just want to say thank you for being here, for listening, for growing alongside me, for all of the changes that I've made along the way as I've learned and iterated and refined. I just want to say thank you. If you're new here, I want to say welcome. So you can listen to me here like you continue to do. And if you want to come visit me and join me on YouTube, I'll be there as well.
You know, many of us have been conditioned to believe success or we've even accomplished or achieved success through pressure, through discipline, through seriousness, through pushing what I call being always on and always connected. Like my two-year-old, which is, oh, I just, I still have a little bit of guilt when it comes to this. Cringe a little bit when she knew my phone number because I was always on the phone talking to employees. I was always on, always connected. A two-year-old knowing my phone number, like it's crazy to think about that. But I think a lot of us are always on, always connected. And if we aren't physically talking, we're in our heads thinking about our business. And we have had a lot of success from this energy, right? We have a mountain of evidence because we have created the success in our lives from this place. I know I resisted play for so long because I just had so much evidence that, you know what, it worked this way.
And I want to say here that there isn't a right or a wrong way. Like anything that I give you, this is the way you actually have to do it. What I always want you to come back to is how does this actually feel in my body? When you are prioritizing play, when you are prioritizing pleasure that feels so much better in the body than it does pushing and forcing and not allowing yourself to have fun. So that is what I would encourage you throughout this podcast to really think about is there is no right or wrong here, but what actually feels better.
How does constantly being “on” create hidden pressure and burnout?
And I want to define play and pleasure because they are different. And I know we can use them interchangeably, but play is actually the act of doing and pleasure is the act of receiving, which I think we as women can get so much better at building that muscle. So play is you're actively engaged for enjoyment, recreation, amusement, spontaneous exploration, rather than for what they call a practical or a serious purpose. It's often characterized by freedom, by imagination and fun. And pleasure is a feeling. I think about play as like the action and pleasure is like receiving the feeling, right? It's a feeling of enjoyment, of satisfaction, of happiness, of joy, of sensory delight. Experience when something is enjoyable, comforting and or rewarding.
So just remember, play is like what we do and pleasure is what we, it's like an internal feeling. It's what we receive. And I think so many of us have learned that if we relax too much, it's coming from this energy of fear. If we relax too much, if we enjoy ourselves too much, if we have too much fun, right? Or we rest too much.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why do high‑achieving women struggle to embrace play and pleasure?
0:00–3:00
2
How does constantly being “on” create hidden pressure and burnout?
3:00–5:52
3
What’s the difference between play (action) and pleasure (receiving) and why does it matter?
5:52–9:15
4
How can shifting from masculine “force” to feminine “receiving” boost creativity and business success?
9:15–12:07
5
What practical steps can I take to schedule more joy, play, and presence in my life?
12:07–15:56
Speakers
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