1106: How to Rewrite the Hidden Beliefs that Hold You Back with Muriel Wilkins

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Muriel Wilkins uncovers the hidden assumptions that dramatically shape how you work and live.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to spot when a belief has stopped serving you

2) The 7 key beliefs that hold you back

3) The key to reframing your mindset

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— ABOUT MURIEL —

Muriel M. Wilkins is the founder and CEO of the leadership advisory firm Paravis Partners. She is a sought-after, trusted adviser and executive coach to high-performing C-suite and senior executives who turn to her for help in navigating their most complex challenges with clarity and confidence. She is the coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence and host of the award-winning podcast Coaching Real Leaders. She holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Learn more at murielwilkins.com.

• Book: Leadership Unblocked: Break Through the Beliefs That Limit Your Potential

• Instagram: @coachmurielwilkins

• LinkedIn: Muriel Wilkins

• Website: MurielWilkins.com

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• Book: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer

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0:00.0	The research has shown how you think about something does have an impact on how you experience it.
0:15.5	That rule that you have in your head that may have served you at some point is not a universal rule.
0:22.3	You have to be able to adapt and recognize when is it helping you and when is it not.
0:27.4	You have so much more in control than you might give yourself credit for.
0:31.4	And true agency is an ability to have a choice.
0:34.2	And one of the areas and probably the primary area that I believe we all have a
0:38.6	choice with is how we think about anything.
0:52.3	That's Mira Wilkins. She's the founder and CEO of the leadership advisory firm, the heir of his partners.
0:56.9	She's a sought-after trusted advisor and coach to high-performing senior executives who turn to her for help in navigating their most complex challenges.
1:04.1	Her new book is Leadership Unblocked, Breakthrough the Beliefs that Limit Your Potential.
1:08.3	There, she shares how to identify the beliefs that are holding leaders back. So you'll learn, one, how to spot when a belief has stopped serving you. Two, the seven key beliefs that hold us back. And three, the key to reframing your mindset. And if you want a quick summary write up of the actionable takeaways that Muriel shares here, I recommend you sign up for the free Golden Nugget email newsletter found at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now here's Muriel.
1:36.9	Miriel, welcome back. Thank you. I'm delighted to be back. Well, I'm delighted as well. Last time
1:41.6	we talked executive presence, and that was very fun.
1:45.3	And it looks like your executive presence, and star has continued to rise and rise.
1:50.1	So congratulations on everything.
1:52.0	Thank you so much.
1:52.5	You got a fresh book here.
1:54.5	Leadership unblocked, breakthrough the beliefs that limit your potential.
1:58.2	That sounds so important.
2:00.4	And I would love to hear, for starters, what's one of the
2:03.9	most common beliefs you're seeing widespread that is limiting a lot of folks' potential in their
2:10.3	careers? I think probably the one, they're all equal opportunity, but the one that I see that
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