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487: Mindset Hacks For Every Business Owner

Side Hustle Pro

Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media

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4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re diving into how to shift your mindset to set yourself up for success. Here’s the thing I’ve learned over the years that your mindset isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s the foundation for everything you’re trying to build. Whether it’s pushing past fear to finally launch your business, staying consistent when sales are slow, or silencing that little voice in your head saying, ‘Who are you to do this?’ it all comes back to how you think and how you show up for yourself.


In this episode I share:

  • The mindset hacks I use, like reframing limiting beliefs, to conquer my goals 
  • How to break down your goals into actionable steps to avoid overwhelm 
  • My experience with imposter syndrome and how I continuously overcome it


Highlights include:

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:00 Battling imposter syndrome
  • 04:14 Breaking free from overthinking
  • 08:05 Confidence is key
  • 14:05 Master Instagram Challenge
  • 17:50 Building mental resilience 
  • 21:28 Actionable steps to a mindset change

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0:00.0

Stop giving weight to these fantasies that you make up in your head that allow you to not go after or do your side hustle.

0:10.1

You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your side hustle from passion project to profitable business.

0:19.3

And I'm your host, Nikaela Matthew Zocome. So let's get

0:22.7

started.

0:28.9

Hey, friends, hey, welcome, welcome back to SideHustle Pro podcast. It's Nikaela here. If this is your

0:34.8

first time listening or watching, thank you, thank you.

0:38.3

And if you are an OG who's been listening for a while, watching for a while, thank you also.

0:43.3

Today I want to get into something that is very, very important to me.

0:47.3

It's something that is key for you to master if you want to be a successful side hustler.

0:51.3

And you could tell from the title, today I want tell from the title today I want to talk about

0:54.6

mindset I want to talk about how you can fool your mind into being confident when you don't feel

1:03.2

like it into being brave when you feel fear and overall how to be your biggest champion versus

1:10.6

your biggest hater.

1:11.8

So let's get right into it.

1:14.2

First, I want to share something that I don't think I've ever shared with you guys.

1:17.8

So when I was 12 years old, I participated in this program called the Math Science Institute.

1:25.3

If you were around in New York City at that time, you might

1:29.1

have heard of it. So basically, I went to junior high school in the Bronx. And in order to get

1:34.5

into what's called the specialized high schools in New York City, it's kind of like a magnet school.

1:40.3

You basically have to take a test to get into it. And anybody in the whole New York City,

1:44.8

all the boroughs can take this test to go to. At the time, it was three schools. Now it's expanded,

1:50.1

but imagine this for all high schoolers in New York City, there are three schools that are championed

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