Increase the Surface Area for Success to Find You
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The real growth edge doesn't just happen from visibility, but from exposure to rejection. In this episode, I talk about the idea of increasing the surface area for success to find you. This means putting yourself in a position where more opportunities you desire will find you, even when you've been avoiding it. I share tangible ways to increase your surface area, embrace rejection and fear, and take the initiative to move the needle forward. Get ready to push your edge and create momentum for actual expansion to happen!
HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 What does it mean to increase your surface area for success?
05:10 Why actual expansion doesn't happen in visibility alone.
11:05 How exposing yourself to rejection becomes your growth edge.
14:40 What does it look like to expose yourself to rejection in your relationships?
17:00 Ways to increase your surface area in your daily life.
21:35 How to take the first step towards more vulnerability.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I think the real edge that I know that I often avoid, and maybe you do too, is not just |
| 0:08.4 | increasing your exposure to visibility, not just hearing this as you should post more, |
| 0:17.3 | you should go to more events, just be seen more. |
| 0:20.1 | I think that the real magic in increasing |
| 0:23.3 | the surface area for success to find you is increasing your exposure to rejection. This is where |
| 0:30.2 | the actual expansion happens. I recently I recently heard this idea that I want to share with you because it has been profoundly impacting my day to day and my expansion journey right now. |
| 0:52.9 | And I wish that I could tell you exactly where I first |
| 0:55.3 | heard this so that I could give it proper credit. But it was this idea of increasing the surface |
| 1:02.1 | area for success to find you. And when I first heard it, I was like, wow, that's such a cool way to talk |
| 1:10.5 | about just putting yourself |
| 1:12.6 | in more positions to find the connections that you desire, to get chosen for opportunities |
| 1:21.1 | that you want to find, whether it's new customers, or to connect with more people who you |
| 1:27.1 | could serve. |
| 1:27.7 | You know, I heard it initially through the lens of just being more omnipresent so that you |
| 1:35.1 | have more opportunities percentage-wise to connect with the thing that you really want. |
| 1:41.0 | And I think when I hear the word surface area, I hear just the sheer number of |
| 1:46.7 | opportunities for alignment to find you. So increasing the surface area is increasing the number |
| 1:52.9 | of opportunities for the most aligned thing, the most aligned version of the thing that you want |
| 1:58.2 | to connect with you. So initially, especially since one of |
| 2:01.7 | the areas that I'm working on in my own expansion journey right now is visibility. Initially, it was |
| 2:07.5 | easy to hear that as, you know, post more, go to more events, be seen more. And I do agree that that is true. |
| 2:16.5 | We're going to give some really tangible examples for |
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