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Are You Trying To Pivot In Your Career, But Feel Paralyzed ? 68% of Women Are Blocked, Because of Fear & Here's How To Change That, 86

Episode Summary

What if the reason you're not seeing good career-opportunities has nothing to do with opportunity and everything to do with fear disguising itself a “your rational brain”? Helena, host of Where Boundaries Dissolve podcast about exploring transformative leadership, inner growth, and conscious entrepreneurship for women building businesses on their own terms, gets raw about her own resistance to returning to entrepreneurship after a hard first attempt, and what finally broke through it.

Episode Notes

What if the reason you're not pivoting and spoting good career-opportunities has nothing to do with opportunity but everything to do with fear disguising itself a “your rational brain”?

Helena gets raw about her own resistance to returning to entrepreneurship after a hard first attempt, and what finally broke through it.

We explore:

• Why 68% of women in leadership (KPMG, 2023) cite fear of public failure as their #1 barrier to taking risks and what that means for the opportunities we're denying ourselves access to
• The perfection paralysis keeping women from applying for roles, pivoting into new industries, and betting on themselves — even when all the evidence says they should
• The concept of "misplaced loyalty" (McKinsey Women in the Workplace, 2023) and why staying loyal is costing women their careers
• How shadow work and one powerful journaling question helped Helena dismantle her limiting beliefs about sales, entrepreneurship, and what she was actually capable of
• The clenched fist metaphor: why trying to control every outcome is blocking the very opportunities you're looking for
• Why your network is your greatest asset (more than a degree, more than capital) and how to lean into community when uncertainty feels overwhelming

Timestamp, Chapter Title

| 00:00:00 | When Fear Almost Stopped Farrah, Irvine's First Brown, Muslim Mayor, From Running Again 

| 00:02:00 | The Stats: How Fear Shows Up In Women's Careers 

| 00:04:30 | Our Limiting Beliefs Cause: Perfection Paralysis, Misplaced Loyalty, And Obeying Rules We Didn't Make 

| 00:05:00 | Why I Almost Said No To Entrepreneurship & Almost Missed The Opportunity of A lifetime Because of It

| 00:07:00 | F.E.A.R.: False Evidence Appearing Real 

| 00:08:30 | The Shadow Work Question During Journaling That Changed Everything 

| 00:11:00 | How To Get Honest About Your Belief System (Without Gaslighting Yourself) 

| 00:13:00 | The Open Palm Visualization Method To Releasing Control In order To Receive New Opportunities |

| 00:15:30 | Community As Your Greatest Investment 

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