Outgrowing Your Circle? Here's How to Find the Women Who Will Expand You
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Are you expanding at a rate that doesn't match the other people in your life? Today, I want to speak on one of the most uncomfortable parts that come with expansion: outgrowing your circle. Sometimes, our growth may require us to go on a solo journey. That's why I'm sharing tangible ways to support yourself through seasons of outgrowing your current relationships, and how to cultivate aligned friendships that allow you to expand at your own pace. Consider this your ultimate cheat code to move forward faster and step into your next expansion starting NOW!
HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 How we created a space for women to grow at their own pace.
06:40 The most common (and unexpected) threads from Expanders applications.
11:40 What makes women leaders feel so isolated or lonely?
17:45 Why "outgrowing" people is a necessary part of the journey.
21:00 The truth behind "expander friendships" + how to find your own.
28:00 Practical ways to start cultivating aligned friendships now.
32:10 How to get in the Expanders room to find your circle of expansive women.
RESOURCES + LINKS
Apply for the Fall 2025 Expanders Retreat HERE
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| 0:00.0 | There's just an easier way that feels differently in my nervous system to create the next level. |
| 0:05.9 | That doesn't look like just me defaulting back to Miss Independent and believing this lie that I can't trust other people and I can't truly rely on other people. |
| 0:18.5 | And I'm leaning into the ultimate discomfort, which is to open up to receiving support. |
| 0:26.5 | Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more. |
| 0:33.4 | Let's go. |
| 0:35.3 | Introducing your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, Lindsay Schwartz. |
| 0:40.7 | Hi. |
| 0:41.6 | If you're hungry to grow and expand your career, business, and life, you're in the right place. |
| 0:47.0 | You ready for your breakthrough? |
| 0:48.3 | Let's do it. |
| 0:49.7 | Powerhouse Women! |
| 1:01.3 | Today I want to talk about one of the more uncomfortable parts of growth. |
| 1:08.3 | And that is when you outgrow the people around you, whether that's your close family relationships or friendships, your social circle, it can feel so lonely as you're |
| 1:16.1 | growing when you look around and realize that people around you that you really deeply care |
| 1:22.3 | about may not be growing at the same pace. And in order for you to fully become the person you're meant to be, |
| 1:29.8 | in order for you to fulfill what you're here to fulfill, it might require you at times to |
| 1:38.1 | go in a little bit of a solo journey. And you never ever have to completely disconnect from friendships. I don't believe |
| 1:48.9 | in outgrowing most people, you know, who are genuinely close to us. Now, if it's kind of a toxic |
| 1:56.7 | friendship, that's another story. But, you know, when I look back at my journey and the women |
| 2:02.8 | that I am surrounded with, part of the reason I have the circle that I have is because a lot of us |
| 2:10.2 | have been on this journey for a while, women that I've known for some 15 years, some, you know, seven or nine years. And one of the things that's |
| 2:21.7 | a foundation in the friendships that I have is permission for each of us to be growing at our |
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