Be Un-Frikin-Breakable!"- 8 Ways to Take Your Power Back at ANY age | Dr Mindy Pelz PT1

Women of Impact

Impact Theory

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this episode, Lisa Bilyeu is joined by health expert, author, and all-around empowering badass Dr. Mindy Pelz. Together, they dig deep into why so many women feel pressured to live up to exhausting expectations set by society… from how we look, to how we show up as moms, wives, and at work. Dr. Mindy shares her own stories and insights from groundbreaking research, showing how these childhood messages quietly shape our boundaries, self-confidence, and relationships (and why so many of us feel “not okay” trying to keep up). You'll hear a refreshingly honest take on body image struggles, people-pleasing, and the relentless chase for outside approval. Plus, Dr. Mindy offers a glimpse at her game-changing toolkit for helping women find their voice and finally start living for themselves. SHOWNOTES How Girls Lose Their Voice (and Why It Matters) Living for Outside Approval — Why It’s So Exhausting The “Bag of Burden”: Beauty, Kids, Cooking, and More Trying to “Do It All ”— Rosie the Riveter Myth Why We Feel Not Okay (and How to Change That) How Chasing Validation Hurts Us 8 Steps to Get Your Voice Back: The Mini Rebellion How Solo Moments of Peace Reset Your Intuition What to Ask Yourself During Alone Time Unpacking the Father Wound When Your Marriage Is Built on Pleasing Others Movement Should Be Fun—Ditching the Gym “Shoulds” Soul-Fueling Conversations vs. Friend Drama Why Your Inner Circle Shapes Your Self-Esteem Butterfly, Potentialist & Anchor Friends Explained Overcoming Self-Doubt & Body Image Issues Thank you to our sponsors: Macy’s: Upgrade your glam at https://macys.com Vital Proteins: Get 20% off by going to https://www.vitalproteins.com and entering promo code WOI at check out. Found: Open a Found account for FREE at http://found.com True Classic: Discounts at https://trueclassic.com/WOI OneSkin: 15% off code LISA at https://oneskin.co Magic Spoon: code LISABILYEU $5 off https://magicspoon.com/lisabilyeu Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/lisa Follow Dr. Mindy Pelz: Website: https://drmindypelz.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrMindyPelz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.mindypelz FOLLOW LISA BILYEU: Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lisabilyeu/⁠YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/womenofimpact⁠Tik Tok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@lisa_bilyeu?lang=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisabilyeu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Lisa Billiou and this is Women of Impact. Now here's our truth that a lot of us women don't want to hear,
0:05.8	but we must, must, must talk about it in order for us to actually break free of the velvet handcuffs I like to call them and live their life on our terms.
0:13.7	Now, here's the truth. Most of us women don't lose our confidence because we're weak. We actually end up losing it because, let's face it, we are somewhat
0:21.2	trained to abandon ourselves. We weren't born, second guess in our words, we weren't born
0:26.9	afraid to set boundaries. We actually learn early that being liked was actually safer than being
0:31.5	honest. And that lesson, well, it ends up following us around and leads us into either toxic
0:37.2	relationships, burnout, people pleasing,
0:39.6	and that gut feeling of why do I keep betraying myself?
0:43.3	That's so freaking heartbreaking, guys.
0:45.2	But once you actually understand how this conditioning happens, you can actually undo it.
0:50.1	And that's the best news.
0:51.4	And that's where you come to Women of Impact so that we can learn the skills to undo the wiring that doesn't serve us. And that's why today I'm sitting down with the epic, one of my favorite humans on the freaking planet, Dr. Mindy Pels. Now, guys, if you don't know who she is, she's a best-selling author, researcher, and one of the few voices actually calling out the invisible rules that us women live by and she's
1:11.9	showing us how to freaking break them once and for all. Now today we're diving into why your voice
1:16.9	actually starts to disappear way earlier than you think and how you can stop blaming yourself
1:21.6	and finally see the rule root or the patterns so you can unwire them. We also talk about the
1:26.6	invisible bag of expectations that
1:29.0	we've all been carrying and how we can actually stop dropping it immediately to free us up
1:33.9	to have the beautiful energy, confidence and self-respect that we actually all dream about having.
1:39.5	And finally, we go into the first concrete steps that you can start to take immediately to get
1:44.7	your voice and your opinion back.
1:47.0	So you can stop people pleasing and you can start actually trusting yourself and feel grounded
1:51.8	in who you are and how you show up every day.
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