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The Terri Cole Show

792 Is Your Inner Child Running Your Business?

The Terri Cole Show

Terri Cole

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Do you feel like you're overworking without feeling satisfied? Do you have difficulty accepting praise or compliments? Do you suffer from perfectionism? Do you have trouble asserting yourself with your clients?

If you're nodding your head yes, then today's episode is for you!

On today's episode, we're exploring how your inner child might be influencing your business decisions and how to put your adult self back in charge.

Read the show notes for today's episode at terricole.com/792

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, hello there, my friend, and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole Show. I'm so happy that you are here with me today.

0:08.9

All right. So let's start. What are we going to be talking about? Well, I want to ask you a couple of questions.

0:14.1

Do you ever feel like you're overworking in your career or your business if you're an entrepreneur, but not really feeling satisfied.

0:23.2

Do you have difficulty accepting praise or acknowledging success? Does perfectionism

0:29.5

prevent you from completing things? Do you have a fear of visibility? But you really want

0:36.6

recognition. So it's like an inner conflict. Do you have difficulty fear of visibility? But you really want recognition. So it's like an inner conflict.

0:39.6

Do you have difficulty asserting authority with your clients? Okay, that's enough. You get it.

0:43.5

If this is you, you're not in your head. Then you, my friend, are in the exact right place at the

0:49.3

exact right time of your life. Because in this episode, I'm going to be asking you talking about and unpacking

0:55.4

is your inner child running your business or your career? That is what we're talking about.

1:02.5

So before we get into it, I just want to say thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you,

1:07.9

as I always do. I want to make sure that you guys are subscribed because so many, like such a large percentage

1:16.3

of people who listen, not to complain, because I am being grateful and I am, but are not

1:21.4

subscribed, which I don't get.

1:23.7

So please subscribe.

1:25.6

Either way, thanks for tuning in because if not, it would just be me talking to a void, which would be super duper depressing. And if you love the show, if you want to help me, it helps me so much if you rate, review and subscribe. And yeah, I'm talking to you, my friend, who's thought about doing a review for like five years since I've been doing the show for 10 years

1:45.5

and you just haven't done it. If you are a regular listener, I still don't have commercials.

1:53.4

Come on now. Go do that review. Why don't you? It would be really helpful to me. And I want to say

1:58.8

thank you to NPR at work for this five-star review

2:02.5

of the Terry Cole show. Terry Cole has helped me to spot the lies, quote unquote, that I've been

2:07.3

trained to believe, so helpful to recognize what is mine to own, fix, and heal. And more importantly,

2:13.1

what is not mine to own fix and heal. Highly recommend to anyone who struggles with taking on too much.

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