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the bossbabe podcast

360. Boundaries, Inner-Work That WORKS + Setting Yourself Free From “Over Responsibility”

the bossbabe podcast

Natalie Ellis

Entrepreneurship, Education, Marketing, Self-improvement, Business

4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Lindsay and I are sharing our top advice for letting go of over-responsibility once and for all. If you are a high-achieving woman who’s taking on too much - this one’s for you. Listen to his mini-episode to learn how to STOP feeling over-responsible and START doing more of what you’re meant to do. We go over the specific strategies + inner-work practices for rewriting those patterns holding us back. This episode will teach you how to set boundaries, get clear on what you REALLY want, and free yourself from limiting beliefs, so you can focus on bringing out your full potential. HIGHLIGHTS Why we need to stop being over-responsible if we want to ACTUALLY achieve more. Our top tools for managing overstimulating, over-responsible days. What over-responsibility means, and how it limits us from tapping into our full potential. Inner-work practices for setting boundaries, getting clear with your desires + setting yourself FREE. RESOURCES + LINKS Join The Société: The Place to Build A Freedom-Based Business FOLLOW bossbabe: @bossbabe.inc Natalie Ellis: @iamnatalie

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0:00.0

The relationship between ambition and freedom is to let your ambition guide you to just the things that you do well and just the things that only you can do and figure out along the way where you have to say no and you have to put a boundary up.

0:12.0

Is this the right thing for us to be spending time on right now? Is this the right place for me to be?

0:16.0

And that's actually where you get set free. It's not from doing everything. It's from doing just select things really, really well that are in full alignment and full authenticity. Lindsay, you know, you know I'm fucking sick off right now? What? All that responsibility? Oh my God, tell me more. I feel like, I feel like we need a good like little mini therapy session today because we're both all fired up about stuff I'm like okay let's just get out a pot and hammer this out because these are the real conversations we have every single

0:53.1

freaking day and I'm like people need to hear what we're going through.

0:55.6

Oh my God I feel okay so I was just texting back and forth with one of my

1:00.2

Capricorn friends also called Natalie and she was just asking me if I've been feeling

1:05.6

stuff this week and I'm like yes what's going on and she was saying I mean I mean and I think this applies to

1:11.5

Capricorn yes but generally to entrepreneurs and high achieving women

1:15.2

mothers you name it all of the things we all are and Natalie said the old responsibility is a big one

1:21.1

for our overall life lessons and growth and it's one of the hardest things for us to let go of because it stems from feeling more safe when we are responsible for something and in control of it versus anyone else and we trust ourselves but there's also like a big

1:35.8

heaviness in that as well. So it's been such a big learning for me over the

1:41.8

last couple of years to let go of over responsibility.

1:44.4

I mean in so many different ways like feeling over responsible for someone else's

1:48.9

feelings if they're not willing to go and do the work why am I taking responsibility for their emotions?

1:54.6

Like if they cannot go and process their emotions themselves, why should I take responsibility

1:59.2

for not being able to share my emotions because there's a bigger than mine.

2:03.8

That's been a huge, huge one, you know, jumping in to do other people's jobs

2:08.3

because I, you know, it's not happening and I want it to get done so I just take extra responsibility and jump in and do it,

2:15.1

going along with what other people want so I don't upset them, even though it's so not aligned with what I want.

2:21.2

I feel like I'm yelling at you but you know what I mean like

2:24.0

there's so much over like I do think high achieving women and I think especially if

2:29.2

you're running your own business we like control it's a problem yeah better at saying no to things that are

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