084: Desperate to Determined Part 2

In this episode of "No Silver Spoons", host Sarah Beth Herman delves into the concept of manifestation as a leadership discipline, emphasizing its grounding in neuroscience and practical application. Sarah shares her journey from financial desperation to business success and explains how acting with belief and intention can rewire the brain to achieve desired outcomes. She discusses the impact of repetition and self-directed neuroplasticity on leadership behaviors, providing actionable steps for listeners to integrate these practices into their daily routines. Sarah also highlights the importance of receiving success confidently and creating a leadership identity rooted in sufficiency and trust. Throughout the episode, she offers personalized mentoring options and directs viewers to additional resources on her websites.

Chapters

• 2:33 Leading from Belief (Before Results Show Up)
• 4:07 Your Brain on Belief
• 7:12 The Practice: My Personal Daily Routine
• 8:32 The Power of Receiving as a Leadership Skill
• 9:53 “That’s Good” Moment: Manifestation Is Wiring, Not Wishing

Transcript

  📍  Welcome back to No Silver Spoons. I'm your host, Sarah Beth Herman. If you're joining for the first time, I'm a five time CEO mentor speaker, and someone who started a business in 2014  from absolute financial desperation, but more than titles. I'm here for you in real life, real business, and Real Leadership.

This is part two of a two part series all about manifestation. Mindset and the neuroscience of how to lead with intention. Last week, we walked through my story a little bit about how I turned desperation into direction, how I wrote out a single sentence that led to repeated $10,000 growth weeks and how the brain backs it all up.

If you have not heard part one yet, I suggest you go back and give it a listen. And if you are in the dental community, the free training blogs that go with these episodes are on dentistry support.com/freetraining. You'll find tools, links science and strategy to implement this with you, your team, and in your life.

And if you're not in the dental industry, you can head over to sarah beth herman.com and click on free resources and you'll see a plethora of information all geared towards anyone in any industry. Today we're going deeper. We're talking about how manifestation becomes a leadership discipline. This isn't self-help fluff.

It's the exact framework that I still use in business today. So let's walk through what it looks like to embed belief into your strategy, to anchor your actions and identity, and become the kind of leader who doesn't just set goals, but actually receives them. I also want to remind you that if something I say resonates with you.

You can always connect with me personally through mentoring. I work with business owners, leaders, and aspiring entrepreneurs on how to shift mindset and build legacy level impact. You can learn more and reach out to me@sarahbethherman.com or click the show notes for direct access to my calendar. Part one, believing Before you arrive, there's something powerful that happens when you lead from belief, and I don't mean fake positivity.

That's really annoying and I know a lot of people try to pinpoint that or can pinpoint that in people. I'm actually talking about true, grounded belief in who you are and what you are capable of before the outcome arrives. In the years that followed my big Beverly Hills job, I started applying this truth daily.

I acted like the business I wanted already existed. I led meetings like I was already running seven figure operations. I didn't wait for confirmation. I practiced the version of me that I was becoming. Dr. Daniel Goldman, the author of Emotional Intelligence. He writes that self-awareness and belief impacts decision making more than raw intellect.

Belief is leadership fuel. Your brain literally rewires with belief based actions. So when you act in alignment with your future self, you build new synaptic connections. Those connections tell your nervous system, this is safe, this is real. Let's do more of this. This means that showing up consistently leading that team call, updating that SOP, writing that newsletter when no one is watching is actually still working because your brain is building a new baseline.

You see, sometimes I have conversations with people and they'll be like, Sarah Beth, how do you have time for all of that? You do a podcast, you have a blog. You update your website yourself. You do your team training. You create new modules, new videos, new photo shoots. I'm doing the things that I was meant to do.

I'm not waiting for someone to watch me so that I get validation. I am just working on my brain's new baseline. When you lead from belief, you make decisions faster, you speak more clearly, you build trust. That's what happened when I have finally learned to let myself receive what I had actually worked for without shrinking back or self-sabotaging.

And in my mentor programs, I'm often helping others identify the gap between what they say they believe and how they behave. That gap is where we lose alignment. When we bring those back together, you stop doubting yourself and you start operating like someone who's already earned the opportunity, because most of the time you have.

So let's talk about why repetition works for a moment. The neuroscience of repetition, repetition strengthens your synapsis. Every time you say, I have built a successful, sustainable company. I have built a successful, sustainable team. I am a successful, sustainable leader.

Your brain actually reinforces that connection, like laying bricks. So the more you say it, the easier it becomes to believe and then act on. According to UCLA, neuroscientist , Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, self-directed neuroplasticity . Allows us to reshape the brain's patterns through focused repetition and awareness.

Repetition reduces fear response. So when you rehearse confidence, your amygdala, the fear center actually quiets. That's why you feel less anxious. The more you visualize success or repeat that speech, or rehearse that interaction. This is also why writing it, saying it, visualizing and acting on it all work together.

You're using your whole brain, the prefrontal cortex, which is for planning the limbic system, which is emotion language centers, which is meaning and the motor cortex, which is action. This is how I have trained myself not to just speak over my life, but to lead from what I was building.

When I mentor others, this is the first layer I walk through with them identifying what they're rehearsing mentally that doesn't align with their desired outcomes. When we write those phrases and start anchoring in new neural language, they begin to show up differently in conversations, in business, in strategy, and it doesn't really take that long.

The brain is ready to shift as soon as you give it something to shift towards. I wanna share exactly what my daily practice has looked like as I've been building out the next version of my business and businesses. First, my morning sentences. I write, I have built a thriving company that leads with excellence, clarity, faith, and ethics.

My spoken intention, I say it in the mirror and yes, out loud every day. It's weird at first, but then it becomes fuel.

I have a sticky note that says I already have it and on my computer as I'm logging in, it says the words keep going. One. Action. I made one decision per day as if the company already existed, as if the project was already going, as if the money's already coming in.

Dr. Terrace wart, a neuroscientist and the author of the source, she explains that when we act in alignment with written goals, our brain's executive function accelerates progress and reinforces motivation. It's not about perfection, it's about repetition, and that is discipline.

And in the people that I mentor, we personalize this routine to match their personality and their leadership style. Some of my clients record their sentence as a voice memo and play it for themselves in their car, so they hear their own voice over and over and over. Others create a morning leadership board, or they set daily calendar prompts.

Whatever the method, the point is to make it yours. That's how it becomes part of your identity, not just another item on your to-do list. You have to be able to receive what you're manifesting, so your leadership identity and the power to receive are huge.

You have to be able to receive what you're manifesting. That's a leadership mindset that most people skip. When I started hitting goals, I would shrink. I'd question if I was too much. It was too much. If I was saying too much, being too much, looking like too much, I'd overcompensate. That's not confidence.

That's conditioning. And many of us have been taught that too much success is suspicious. And here's what I learned. You have to be as good at receiving as you are building. That means let a compliment land saying thank you instead of downplaying holding space for your team to rise with you hiring before it is urgent.

Leaders who receive well inspire trust. They create calm and they lead from sufficiency instead of scarcity. Brene Brown teaches that worthiness is not earned through hustle. It's recognized in stillness. That truth changed how I received my own success with my mentoring clients. We work through this often, what receiving looks like as a leader, not just about money.

It's about help delegation, visibility, rest we uncover where they're blocking goodness and rebuild their capacity to say yes without guilt. This work is foundational, especially for women leading businesses, families, and teams. Of course, in every episode I like to bring forward our that's good moment. So here's what I want you to hear today.

Manifestation is not about wishing, it's about wiring. The more you train your brain to believe, behave, and build from vision, the more aligned your results become. You are not too much. You are not too late, you are not behind. You are just in the part of the story where you practice. This is what you need to practice every day.

Confidence is a byproduct of consistency. You keep showing up even if it's quiet, and dare I say, especially if it's quiet. action steps for this week, I want you to create your morning sentence, your one line present tense sentence. Speak it out loud every day for seven days. Visualize one aligned action.

Do it no matter how small and write down how it felt to receive something good this week. If you are wanting personalized support, mentoring, or to explore how to lead from a place of clarity and conviction, visit sarah beth herman.com. I offer one-on-one mentorship group intensives and workshops designed to help move you forward.

If you love this series, share it with someone who's building something meaningful and don't forget to check the show notes for free resources, science Backed Studies, and TED Talks, along with our free training blogs on dentistry support.com and sarah beth herman.com. All of the links that are there they're meant to help you expand.

And give validity to the information you've heard today in this episode. Thank you for being here. Your leadership, your mindset, and your future. They deserve to be practiced and received. Until next time, walk with boldness, lead with kindness, and manifest from a place of truth. You are already in motion.

 📍 I'll catch you on the next episode.