Continuing on from part one... Ever feel like you're chasing someone else's definition of success? You're not alone. For too many ambitious women, achievement feels hollow when it doesn't align with who we truly are.
As a female success strategist, I've seen this pattern repeatedly - we compartmentalize ourselves into "professional" and "personal" versions, never allowing the two to meet. This separation creates a fundamental disconnect that prevents genuine fulfillment, no matter how many external goals we achieve. The water bottle I brought to this presentation (borrowed from my three-year-old daughter) perfectly symbolizes this truth: authentic success comes when we stop pretending to be perfectly polished professionals and start bringing our whole selves to everything we do.
Success begins with reconnecting to your intuition - that inner voice many women have been systematically taught to ignore since childhood. When operating from our feminine energy, having done the inner work of aligning with our authentic selves, we become truly magnetic, attracting the right opportunities rather than exhausting ourselves chasing external validation.
The framework I share helps you identify your unique values (which might surprise you!), create practical systems for living by them daily, and build your success strategy across five key pillars: wealth, freedom, transformation, balance, and fulfillment. Through real-life examples from my own journey as an entrepreneur and single mother who spends winters in the Caribbean with my daughter, I demonstrate how apparent limitations can be overcome when your definition of success is truly your own.
Ready to transform how you approach success? This episode provides actionable strategies for mapping your exit (knowing what success means before you begin), implementing regular value check-ins, and creating accountability systems that accelerate your progress. Your version of success is waiting - let's define it together.
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🤍 You’ll hear travel content, but I’m not an influencer. I’m a businesswoman first.
I’m Lauren Riley: a strategist who helps ambitious women design lives of freedom. Featured in Forbes, The Times, HELLO! and the BBC.
This podcast is for women who’ve built a life they’re proud of, but know there’s more. You’re too invested to walk away, but you’re too awake to stay where you are. You make good money, yet cost of living has you feeling squeezed, and you’re done believing you have to choose between your responsibilities and your happiness.
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