Guilt-Free Ways to Stop People Pleasing & Rediscover Yourself with Heidi Koch
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
How much are you prioritizing "you" in the decisions you're making? For women especially, we're often praised from a young age for being agreeable, for being accommodating. But what happens when you make the decision to live your life for you? Today, I'm joined by Heidi Koch, fresh off the heels of the Expanders Retreat, to dive into the step-by-step process on how to prioritize yourself without guilt, fear, or shame. Our conversation covers everything you need to take the next aligned step in life, from the first moment of awareness to discovering what you truly want and how to make it a reality. Along the way, we'll share tangible tools to break old patterns of over-accommodation, set and keep boundaries, and connect to your power of authenticity to live your most aligned life.
HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 How do you define yourself when stepping into a whole new version?
03:05 The one pivotal question that opened Heidi up to self-realization.
06:50 The first step to creating a more aligned life.
09:00 When did you realize you weren't prioritizing yourself in your own life?
13:15 How to become aware of old patterns of accommodation.
16:30 Hidden ways over-accommodating shows up in our lives, careers, and businesses.
20:15 How to reprogram the conditioning keeping you small.
24:25 Why our biggest triggers allow us to meet ourselves.
29:50 How does expansion manifest in physical ways?
34:25 Advice for the woman who doesn't prioritize herself.
39:40 How living in your authenticity impacts the way you see yourself.
42:05 Celebrating Heidi's Powerhouse moment of allowing herself to cry free of judgement.
RESOURCES + LINKS
Want to connect? Visit Heidi's website for more information HERE!
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Join the waitlist for the 2026 Powerhouse Women Event HERE!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | At what age were you when you were at your very best? |
| 0:03.7 | And it was an immediate 23. |
| 0:06.4 | 23 was the last time that I made every decision for myself. |
| 0:12.4 | Anyone looking at the outside would have seen this beautiful family, two doctors. |
| 0:17.7 | This is a powerful woman. |
| 0:19.0 | This is a woman who has the dream. I was praised for being |
| 0:22.3 | accommodating. As I got older, they were bigger concessions. They were bigger accommodations. |
| 0:29.6 | It's great to love on other people and want to do everything you can for those that you love. |
| 0:36.7 | But do I even know what I want anymore? |
| 0:39.8 | Do you know what you want? |
| 0:41.1 | I do now. |
| 0:42.2 | What words of advice do you have for the woman listening |
| 0:44.5 | who's realizing she's seeing herself in your story? |
| 0:48.4 | What do you really want her to know? |
| 0:53.6 | Three to what? our house women! |
| 0:57.0 | I am joined today by a fellow Expander and we are here in Nashville. |
| 1:05.0 | We are just on the heels of the Expander's retreat and it's been so fun to sit down with some of the women who attended |
| 1:10.8 | and just dive deeper into their story. This is someone who I've had the opportunity to get to know |
| 1:15.9 | through a few of our different programs, Dr. Heidi Cook, and her story really resonated with me |
| 1:20.9 | because it's one that I think as women especially, we can resonate with this idea of |
| 1:26.9 | prioritizing everybody else as we're making decisions |
| 1:29.8 | about the next aligned step to take in life and forget to also include ourselves in that process. |
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