When you are operating at a really high level and you start to go beyond whatever level of success that you saw examples of growing up or that you see examples of in your current circle, especially, it's vital that you seek out new environments where your wildest dreams are someone else's everyday reality.

Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more.

I'm Lindsay Schwartz, your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, and together we'll unlock

the confidence and clarity you are looking for to help you get out

of your own way and into action around your next big idea.

If you've ever experienced feelings of guilt for your ambition, for your level of success, or maybe it's just for your growth,

for how you've changed, and maybe outgrown some environments, some relationships that were

once a bigger part of your life. And you feel guilty for that. Today's episode is for you.

I'm going to talk about how you can break through this upper limit, how this feeling is actually

just tricking you into playing smaller than you are designed to play. Because typically,

I'm sharing this as someone who has felt all of these feelings

before and has had to do a lot of work around this feeling. But typically, this is a sign that

you're ready to move into a level in your life, in your career, in your business that you haven't seen many people

around you actually reach. And it's this fear that gets triggered of maybe feeling abandoned,

maybe feeling really lonely like there's not many people who get you anymore, and that can trigger the fear.

Or it's a fear of how your growth, your success, your ambition is going to make someone else

feel. And all of this combines to keep us playing smaller than we are designed to play.

And that doesn't feel any better than the guilt does.

So I'm going to really unpack this today because it's a common question that I hear.

It's a comment that I'll hear, especially from women in our programs who are experiencing

a really incredible level of success. And it's almost surprising sometimes to them

that the success can come along with these feelings of guilt that they didn't expect.

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