790 Setting Better Boundaries for Career Success
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Are you managing other people's feelings more than you're managing your business? Are you doing tasks that drain you because you don't know how to delegate without guilt? Or you don't trust people to do it right? Are you walking on eggshells around your own team?
If you're a woman in a position of power, creating healthy boundaries at work can be challenging. You may feel mean or selfish. But disordered boundaries don't just make you tired; they can also cap your success. In today's episode, I'm sharing tips to help you become less drained, more productive, and more energized at work.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole show. In today's episode, |
| 0:06.5 | I'm answering a couple of questions that came into me by email about setting boundaries at work. |
| 0:14.0 | Right. Like what are the boundaries that you need to that will really support your success? Because when if you're a high functioning codependent, |
| 0:24.8 | if you're an empath, if you're a highly sensitive person and you're highly ambitious, |
| 0:29.2 | you probably have some disordered boundaries at work. And the more you can get them in line, |
| 0:36.7 | the healthier you're going to be, the better you're going to feel, the healthier your team is going to be, depending on what work it is that you do. All right. So before we get into it, I just want to say, oh, hi, friends. Thanks for coming. I'm so happy that you'll heal. I just really want to say, I know you could be doing lots of other things. |
| 1:00.1 | And I know I say it every week, but it really is the truth. Or I would change it. Your presence, I do not take for granted. And it makes me so happy every time you guys drop me comments or |
| 1:07.0 | let me know that you love the episode. Like, it really does. It is the fuel that keeps me going |
| 1:12.1 | and continuing to do this show. So thank you for tuning in. I really appreciate you. |
| 1:17.7 | And if you love the show, if you want to support it, it helps me so much if you will rate, |
| 1:22.2 | review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. And I want to say thank you to Karen Gouge for this five-star review, staying in my lane. |
| 1:30.6 | I truly believe it's never too late to learn. |
| 1:32.3 | And at 57 years old, I'm at last learning how to set boundaries with everyone in my life. |
| 1:36.7 | I found your show last month after having a, why do I care so much mental breakdown? |
| 1:41.4 | I am an HSP, highly sensitive person, empath and codependent, who is |
| 1:46.1 | slowly changing. Some days, it does feel mean to say no, but it is so liberating and stay in your |
| 1:52.4 | lane has become my mantra. Thank you, Terry. Well, thank you, Karen Gouge, because you writing |
| 1:58.4 | that five-store review, I guarantee you other people are watching, |
| 2:01.4 | listening and watching the Terry Cole show right now because of you. So thank you. Thank you. |
| 2:07.8 | Now let's move it on into today's episode. This is the Terry Cole show, and as you might have guessed, I'm your host, Terry Cole. |
| 2:26.7 | For over two decades, I've been a licensed psychotherapist, love and boundaries expert, |
| 2:31.5 | and I'm also the founder of The Real Love Revolution and Boundary |
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