The Abundant Practitioner Podcast By Dr Tilean

Ep. 67: Are You the Bottleneck in Your Business? How to Shift from Protection to Purpose-Led Growth

• Dr Tilean • Season 1 • Episode 67

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In this episode of The Abundant Practitioner Podcast, Dr. Tilean speaks directly to purpose-led psychologists, therapists, and coaches who’ve been feeling stuck in the growth of their business—despite their best efforts. You’re implementing strategies. You’re showing up. You’re doing the work. And yet, something still feels off.

The truth?

You might be the bottleneck.

Not because you lack drive or intelligence—but because your inner operating system is running on protection rather than purpose.

Dr. Tilean dives into:
•How high-achieving entrepreneurs unconsciously sabotage their visibility
•Why “busy work” is often masking fear and perfectionism
•The subtle but powerful difference between doing more vs. doing things differently
•How to lead from your mission, not your limitations
•The exact mindset shifts and behaviors that unlock soul-aligned momentum

If you’re ready to shift your energy, recalibrate your actions, and step into the leadership your mission requires—this is the episode for you.

Thank you for joining me today on The Abundant Practitioner Podcast. I’m so glad you carved out this time for yourself because you 100% deserve soul-nourishing and soul-aligned success!

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to our podcast, designed for psychologists, therapists and counsellors who want to take their business online and live a soul nourished and profitable life without compromise. If you want to know the secrets used by practitioners just like you to navigate the global e-learning market successfully, then you're in the right place. I'm Dr Talene, chartered Psychologist, business Mentor and your host, and welcome to the Abundant Practitioner Podcast. Let's talk today about the reason that you possibly, right, become the bottleneck in your business. Right, so I'm going to talk about becoming the bottleneck in your business. Right, so I'm going to talk about becoming the bottleneck in your business and how you can shift it, because this is often what happens when somebody sets out on their mission to do their purpose-driven business right, they know like God has gifted you with a mission and you are on it. Right, you're on it. You started, you're pressed forward. You've had all intentions to really drive forward and support people in transforming their lives. Right. However, you get to a place where you recognize that actually, I'm either distracted or I'm not moving forward as I need to, the business is not moving forward as it needs to and you're kind of getting a bit stagnant. That's what I want to talk to you today, right? So if you are new to me, I'm dr Talene. I am a psychologist and business coach for the purpose-driven, faith-led entrepreneur. Okay, I work with a lot of practitioners, coaches and consultants that are building and scaling mission-driven visions, and I really wanna bring this topic up today, okay, because often, when you're in that space, you're moving forward your mission-driven vision. Right, you know, I can't even talk about it. Yeah, you're moving forward your mission. Okay, you are doing all what is the right things, right, you are like showing up for it, you are doing the plans, you are reconstructing your programs, you are being visible, whatever it might be right, but you feel like you are taking action with it. You've got the vision, you want to amplify it, but you feel like you are taking action with it. You've got the vision, you want to amplify it, but you notice that it's really not moving as it needs to, right, and it's like but I'm, I see the strategy, right, I see the strategy, I'm implementing strategies, I'm implementing frameworks, I'm implementing systems, right, however, what about your own operating system? What about you? Right?

Speaker 1:

Today I've been on our Wednesday call with our clients in the Mindset Mastery Room and we're talking about the operating system of you. Right that? Where are you leading from right? What distractions are you creating that are getting in your own way of being visible? What distractions are you coming up with that and making things seem really harder than it needs to be?

Speaker 1:

Right, maybe there's a mentality that has been handed over to you, right, that you've been walking with, maybe knowingly or unknowingly, but that making heart, making things hard, has to be the way right, that it's got to be really really hard, like I've got to put in all this fall and plan in beforehand before I do the things right. And that because of this mindset, when you are doing things it's like you're making it really hard. And that whole phrase of like how do I let things be easy, how do I let things flow through. And when I say about how do I let things be easy, it's not that I'm saying building a business, scaling a business, gets to be easy. I'm not saying that like there's no work to be done, right, I know you are already. Somebody is that is prepared to put the work in and do the work right. But it's like, are you doing the things that are moving the needle in your business right? Or are you doing busy work? Right, are you doing busy work? Are you shifting things that actually matter to the back of the pile, right? Or are they actually at the front and center of what happens? This is why, in our academy, we have Money Making Monday.

Speaker 1:

Every Monday, it's like I want people's minds in the right space place to execute on their mission. Every beginning of the month we're around the beginning of April. I want everybody resetting and thinking, okay, how did March go? What's happened in April? What needs to happen? Right, these things are important because it's going to enable you to drive forward with intention on things that actually moving the needle, and not drive forward on things that actually like just making you feel like you're showing up and you're doing things, but they're not actually moving the needle. Okay, so are you making things harder than it needs to be? Check in on it, right. Are you, therefore, behind the scenes, constantly tweaking things, thinking that things are not right or ready enough before you even show up, trying to do things, maybe on your own right? Maybe you are, you know, really just not stepping in and asking for what you need? It's having the support that you need, right, right, it's really important to work out like how you actually may have become a bottleneck in your own success, your way of thinking right, your way of the behavioural patterns.

Speaker 1:

I'm not just talking about positive thinking and mindset, I'm talking about the behavioral patterns that are underlying, rooted in protection, not purpose, and you've got to drive forward from purpose and not from protection. When you drive forward from protection, you're driving forward on how do I do this safe? How do I do this? You know where I'm just safe, like in my bubble, right, and you've got to get out there big and bold and shine your light because you are on mission.

Speaker 1:

So why I jumped in to speak on this today is really for allow you to just pause and reflect and be like, instead of just doing more, should I do things differently? Instead of doing things more things, should I just do the things I'm doing differently? Right, as a behavior change, psychologist, right? I'm not just thinking about what you're doing. I want you to look at what's driving it right. I want you to think about your, the clarity you have around it, like how you might be preventing your ability to move forward. So really think back into that and think about, okay, okay, how I'm showing up. Am I showing up in a way that matches the outcome that I want to create. Next, right, am I showing up like with what I'm doing right now? Is that going to produce a result, or is it going to feel like it's working towards the result? Right, I hope that makes a subtle difference, but a huge difference.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so this is a short one, right, but I really needed to speak on this because often what is happening, right, so often is that you are the bottleneck within your success and you haven't even identified it yet. Right, the way in which you are operating is going against the grain of success. It's going against the grain of how things are meant to move forward, right, and so really recognize that actually, like, you have been gifted a vision, right, and it requires you to lead that vision right, and not just whack on that vision lead the movement. Okay, so that's it from me. I got to jump on another call. I hope you found this useful, um, and I will see you again soon. All right, take care.