Before You Go to the Next Level, You'll Be Given the Opportunity to Prove That You Can Hold It

Powerhouse Women

Lindsey Schwartz

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 912 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Any time you're about to go to the next level, you'll be given the opportunity to prove to yourself that you can actually hold it. Today, I break down the initiation that happens before we can hold the next level of risk, responsibility, abundance, and more. If you're someone who is calling in massive expansion, you're likely being given opportunities to prove that you can hold it right now (in the form of tests, challenges, or triggers). This is your sign that it isn't the time to pull back… this is the time to lock in, stop defaulting to old patterns of behavior, and prove you can handle the version of yourself you're stepping into.

HIGHLIGHTS

00:00 What is the first step of holding the next level?

03:40 What is the initiation and how does it show up in our lives?

05:15 How writing my book helped me move through fear.

10:00 The typo that stretched me to choose expansion over perfection.

14:50 Unexpected ways the next level challenges us.

21:00 The biggest lesson I learned from my skin cancer scare.

27:00 What happens when we're faced with the opportunity for expansion?

31:05 How to find the opportunities that prove you can hold the next level.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I don't always know what the next level requires, but it's always shown to me in some way,
0:05.0	shape or form in the midst of a challenge that really presses up against the edge of my ego,
0:13.6	essentially. It's, it presses up against the edge of the thing I would really like to be able
0:20.4	to control. Things like how others perceive me,
0:24.4	you know, can I hold more visibility while also allowing more people to misunderstand me?
0:29.9	But it's getting to that emotional reaction and almost having this point of seeing where you
0:35.2	would normally default to and you can see that path or you can see the path
0:39.4	that's far less comfortable because it is going somewhere new and it requires you to step beyond
0:45.3	your own comfort. I was reminded of something so powerful this last week. And if you are someone who is also calling in
1:05.6	massive expansion right now, this is for you. If you can feel it, you can feel that the next level is so
1:14.2	close, but also that you're not quite there yet. You haven't quite embodied the version of yourself
1:21.3	who's showing up that way. This may be the missing piece. And this is kind of like your initiation
1:27.3	into being able to
1:30.7	hold the next level. And this is the lesson that I was reminded of. Every single time I go to the
1:38.6	next level, whenever I'm about to break through, I'm about to experience a breakthrough in the external version of the
1:49.7	life that I'm living. I'm like about to step into a new level. I will be given the opportunity
1:55.7	to prove to myself that I can hold it. Anytime I'm about to go to the next level, I am given the opportunity
2:04.6	to prove that I can hold the next level of risk, of responsibility, that I can hold the next
2:12.6	level of visibility and judgment, the next level of abundance and all of the positive things that come
2:24.3	with it, I will be given the opportunity to prove that I can handle it. And this is usually in a form that comes to test whether or not I've outgrown the old
2:39.9	program I was operating in, whether I'm going to default back to what's comfortable, or whether I'm
2:47.4	going to keep stepping forward, you know, I've usually been in momentum already. I've been
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