#141: T.G.I.TED - Programming Your Mind for Success with Carrie Green
Sep 15, 2023
Thor Challgren
Have you ever felt that nagging self-doubt creep in just as you're about to pursue your dreams? That moment when you ask yourself, "Who am I to do this?"
In this episode, I dive into the remarkable TEDx talk, "Programming your Mind for Success," delivered by the inspiring entrepreneur Carrie Green.
The key takeaway for me in this talk is understanding the power of self-belief and its pivotal role in transforming your life.
Carrie Green's story, recounted in her TEDx talk, encapsulates the essence of self-discovery and empowerment. She shows us that recognizing our true values and aligning our actions with them can lead to remarkable personal and professional growth. Carrie's journey from a successful yet unfulfilled entrepreneur to creating a global community of women entrepreneurs is a testament to the extraordinary things we can achieve when we silence our inner critics.
By listening to this episode, you'll gain the invaluable insight that self-belief is the key to unlocking your full potential. You'll discover the strategies to reprogram your mind, replace self-limiting thoughts with empowering ones, and take confident steps towards your dreams. Tune in now and start your journey towards a more confident, empowered, and fulfilled life.
Have you ever felt that nagging self-doubt creep in just as you're about to pursue your dreams? That moment when you ask yourself, "Who am I to do this?"
In this episode, I dive into the remarkable TEDx talk, "Programming your Mind for Success," delivered by the inspiring entrepreneur Carrie Green.
The key takeaway for me in this talk is understanding the power of self-belief and its pivotal role in transforming your life.
Carrie Green's story, recounted in her TEDx talk, encapsulates the essence of self-discovery and empowerment. She shows us that recognizing our true values and aligning our actions with them can lead to remarkable personal and professional growth. Carrie's journey from a successful yet unfulfilled entrepreneur to creating a global community of women entrepreneurs is a testament to the extraordinary things we can achieve when we silence our inner critics.
By listening to this episode, you'll gain the invaluable insight that self-belief is the key to unlocking your full potential. You'll discover the strategies to reprogram your mind, replace self-limiting thoughts with empowering ones, and take confident steps towards your dreams. Tune in now and start your journey towards a more confident, empowered, and fulfilled life.
Have you ever had an idea to do something and then you say to yourself, ah, who are you to fill in the blank, who are you to do this thing? In today's show, I share the story of someone who asked that question, then shared her results in a great TEDx talk I just watched. If you're at a point in your life where you're starting something new a new job, a second career, a life beyond being a parent, say, and you faced any of those self-doubts this show today is for you. Welcome to. Every Day, a New Thought. I'm Thor Challgren. Every weekday I share a new thought, a new perspective. Today it's Friday and it's TGI TED, a feature in the series where every Friday, I look at a TED talk that inspired me. This is to celebrate the launch of my own TED talk, which is now available to watch. I'll put the link in the description below. Also, the show that I'm going to talk, that I'm going to feature today, will also be in the description below, so you can find that the talk that I want to share with you today is a TEDx talk called Programming your Mind for Success. It was given by an entrepreneur named Carrie Green. This is a talk given at TEDx Manchester. So Carrie is British. This talk is from nine years ago and she talks about her journey as a college student who started several businesses and then became hugely successful.
Thor Challgren:
There are three things that I want to share and talk about in this particular episode today. The first thing is this is a very engaging talk and opens in a great way. She makes the point with the audience in a way that everyone immediately understands why don't I take action? What stopped you? She says Bottom line. As she says, people miss out on opportunities all the time because of what's going on in their head. She demonstrates that in a very engaging way. I'm not going to give it away, but it's a great open. I think you'll really, as you see it, you'll see yourself and everybody in the audience in the way that they react to her question at the open of the talk. Great opening really gets in your mind and plants the idea of, okay, this is what we're going to talk about. The second point that I really enjoyed in her talk is it's a great example of knowing your own values, the importance of knowing what matters to you.
Thor Challgren:
She talks about in her talk that she needed money. She was around 20 years old. She was in law school and she needed money to continue law school. She knew that she had to start some kind of business or get some kind of job. She ended up starting a business where she unlocked mobile phones. This was 2007 and I vaguely remember that that was a thing Maybe it was more of a thing in England where people got phones that were tied to a carrier but they wanted to unlock them because they wanted to travel or whatever.
Thor Challgren:
Her business was unlocking mobile phones and she was really successful at it and became quite a good entrepreneur. But she realized at a certain point she was really successful. She was miserable. This was not a job that lit her up and she, as she thought about expanding, she started to ask questions of like is this really what I want to do? She says that, rather than feel bad about having that job, she said what can I do about it? It's a great question. Instead of feeling bad, what can I do about it? And she realized, as she said, that mobile phone unlocking was not my dream. This is an important point.
Thor Challgren:
She asked and looked at her own life and looked at her own values and what mattered to her. I'm reading a book now by John Dem artini called the Values Factor, and he talks about the importance of knowing what you value, then building your life, building the things that you do around what matters to you. So I think Carrie's example here is a great way to look at asking the questions of what matters to you. The third point that I want to share is she asked those questions, and she realized that she did like being an entrepreneur, but she realized that her journey, her experience, is one where she felt very lonely and isolated, and so what she wanted to do was help other people cope with something that she felt, which was that loneliness. So she imagined creating this worldwide community of women entrepreneurs who could help and support each other, and as she thought about this and dreamed of what it would be like, all of these negative thoughts started to flood in, the thoughts that are like well, who am I to do this?
Thor Challgren:
Why would anyone believe me? Why would I be the person to do this? If you've ever thought about starting something new, I'm guessing you've probably had exactly those thoughts, and maybe they sounded exactly like what Carrie Greens describes her thoughts. As she said, though, that she needed to reprogram her mind, that she had to ignore all of those thoughts and focus on the positive things, and there's a great quote in there that she said that. When talking about that, she said I knew that I could stop myself from thinking those things, and I did. I replaced the negative, annoying, rubbish thoughts. I love this. She's British, so she says rubbish. I replaced those annoying, rubbish thoughts and told them to shut up and I replaced them with positive thoughts that were empowering me, thoughts that were actually empowering me to move toward my goal. That's a quote from her talk. Well, how did this work out? She built one of the largest online networking groups of women entrepreneurs, with over 100,000 women involved at the time that she recorded the talk. I'm sure it's even bigger now. She makes clear that the reason that she was successful was that she got unbelievably clear about what she wanted to do.
Thor Challgren:
If you're looking for inspiration about what you have going on next, this talk by Carrie Green is a great place to start. She talks about all of her crazy goals which is her term that she set for herself and then she made happen. And when you hear them in the talk, you'll be like, really, she did that, she did it. So I have a question for you what are you doing this weekend? I suggest watching this talk Super inspiring about what could be next for you. That's the show for today. If you like this episode, please hit like. If you're watching on YouTube, if you're listening to the podcast, please subscribe or follow the show on your favorite podcast app. Until next time, thanks for listening.