The Abundant Practitioner Podcast By Dr Tilean

Ep. 68: Why Your Next Level Requires You to Think, Decide, and Lead Differently

• Dr Tilean • Season 1 • Episode 68

Share episode

If you’re feeling stretched between where you’ve been and where you know you’re being called to go, this episode is your reminder — you are not lost.

You are evolving.

In today’s conversation, I’ll walk you through:
✨ Why sitting in the gap between your old and new visions can feel unfamiliar — and why that's a powerful sign of growth.
✨ How to recognise when your current ways of thinking need to evolve to match your next-level mission.
✨ What it looks like to move forward led by faith, not fear, even when you can’t fully see the next steps.
✨ How to embrace the discomfort of expansion as confirmation that you’re stepping into your God-given evolution.

You’ll leave this episode with deeper trust in your journey, and a renewed commitment to leading, deciding, and thinking at the level your next season requires.

You are not off course — you are being refined for your highest calling.

Links & Resources:
👉🏽 Learn more about the Soul Success Business Academy and join us here: https://academy.drtilean.com/starthere

👉🏽 Stay connected on Instagram: @dr.tilean

👉🏽 Subscribe and never miss a new episode!

Let's Connect:
If today’s episode sparked something inside you, I’d love for you to leave a review, share the show, and keep the mission moving forward — your dreams matter.

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!

If you’re keen to dive deeper into my world, here are my socials where you can learn more about how I specifically help Health & Wellbeing practitioners start and scale their own soul-aligned and profitable coaching business. As a fellow practitioner who has been operating in the online coaching world since 2015, I’m excited to help you successfully navigate it too. You can also reach out to me on these platforms, if you have any questions!

Company Website: https://drtilean.com/
Email: tilean@drtilean.com
WhatsApp: +44 7480 787366
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drtilean
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtilean
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drtilean/
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.tilean
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theabundantpractitioner/

Thanks again for tuning in, and I'll see you next time on The Abundant Practitioner Podcast!

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 about why your next level requires you to think, decide and lead differently. Okay, so I'm Dr Celine. I'm a psychologist and business mentor for the Soul Ed entrepreneur and I really want to have this conversation today about why, if you are in a space where you are feeling stretched right now, where you are recognizing that you're sitting in the gap between where you've been and where you want to go right with your God-given mission, and you know that you are being called to lead differently, that you are being called to show up differently, think differently, decide differently, and it's feeling super uncomfortable. I want to touch on this today because, if you are soul-led, god-led, right, like I am, there are going to be seasons multiple seasons in your life where you are sitting in that gap and it feels so uncomfortable and you're like how do I show up now. What do I do now? How do I operate now? In order to keep going, executing the mission. The vision, right, the idea that you've been gifted, right, but it requires a new level of you. Yeah, a new level of you.

Speaker 1:

All, right, I really want to start this conversation by really recognizing that we must evolve. Right, we are born in a way that God has designed us to only get better, only grow. Right that we have been born in a way where we can learn. We have the ability, as human beings, to learn things that we did not once know, and we can to learn things that we did not once know. And we can remind ourselves of that if we think back to ourselves as a child. Right, we learned how to talk. We learned how to walk, we learned how to just navigate the world. Right, and we learned those things whether we observed other people doing it, whether we heard things about how things should be done or the way you know in which they've been modelled to us right by the world around us. Yeah, through what we see, through what we hear. Right, through what we read. Right, and we adopt that into a belief, a perspective that we hold. We adopt that into recognising? Do you know what I can do, that I can walk? Do you see all these people walking around me? I think I could do that too. Let me try. And as we tried, we stumbled, we fell. We didn't succeed straight away, but we kept trying. We kept trying it Every time we tried, hopefully, you had around you people that kept praising you even as you fell right.

Speaker 1:

But why, as you are now adulting right, as you are now CEOing and moving your business forward, do you sit in this gap between where you have been and where you're going and maybe put poor judgment on yourself, talk to yourself badly, allow other people to talk to yourself badly, even potentially right? But the way in which you talk to yourself really, really matters. And I want you to really recognize that, as you shift through this period of this uncomfortable gap, into a season that God is calling you to, with your business, with your mission, with your life, right, that you recognize that it's going to require a different side of you that you've not necessarily experienced before. Right, new ways of thinking, yeah, a shifting perspective. All your ways of thinking that you currently hold is because you want to believe those to be true. And as we evolve in our life, we recognize that the way in which we think, the way in which we move, the way in which we act, we may have outgrown, that, it may not be serving a new season. And so it's assessing, right, whether the next level results are going to be hindered or helped by your current thinking, by the way in which you think the thought before, by the way in which you act before, if you carry on doing what you've always done, expecting a different result.

Speaker 1:

It's crazy, Right, it's crazy. We all know that you know the multiple sayings around that crazy. We all know that you know the multiple sayings around that, right. And so, instead of being loyal to the familiar because it's comfortable, because it's just familiar right, I don't even like to recognize it's comfortable because it's not, it's just the zone of familiarity, right. And recognizing that the zone of familiarity is now limiting to you, you allow yourself to be able to stretch and break free and jump forward into your next, even feel uncomfortable because there's a new space that you're sitting in, that you've not sat in before, and so it's gonna feel a little bit like oh, I haven't sat here, I haven't done things in this way, right, I haven't, um, I haven't been leading in this way, I haven't been serving in this way, right, I've always thought it had to be this way, yeah, but now I'm going to try it on in a different way, in a way that I really feel God is calling me to try it on differently.

Speaker 1:

You know, when I think about my own business journey of really breaking free of what everyone says you should do, right, all these weird, crazy marketing tactics or sales tactics, and I'm like that's not the way I'm meant to lead my business, that's not the way I'm meant to serve and show up. Right, and decided to show up differently. You know it was really about am I going to be okay to ditch that idea that the masses seem to be leaning in and leaning into what actually I know within my knowing that I'm being called to lead and serve and work in a different way? Right, and that felt uncomfortable at first. But you know what, the more I sat in that identity right, that was God-led, that was soul aligned, the more it just fit right, the more I was able to really like, just drive forward from that place in a way that really made sense. And that's where the quantum leaps really occurred, right, when I really allowed myself to be true to my God-given mission, true to my values, true to who I am, right In that season. And so really think about this.

Speaker 1:

If you are being encouraged, inspired to and guided to show up bigger, to make bigger impact, to make bigger income, right, to have bigger influence, that recognizing actually that it's time to upgrade the way in which you think about it's time to upgrade the way in which you think about your next season, the way in which you act to obtain what you can see in your next season. Right, it's going to require a different level of you. It's going to require parts of you to be released, old thinking patterns to be released, right. If you had used to have a real narrow view about what it means to serve in transformation, right? This is something I talk about quite a lot, right? How do we truly serve people in transformation? Is your business model set up with that in mind? Is your business model set up with that in mind, right? Or is it actually set on old paradigms which actually don't make sense for serving people in transformation? Then it requires you to do things differently to what you may have been taught in an educational institution or establishment, right. So that's the first thing really like if you recognize that you are listening to this because your next level you know it requires a new level of thinking, a new level of acting, a new level of leading.

Speaker 1:

Right, the first step is to recognize that actually, the way in which you are thinking right on old thought processes, old programming, right, you've got to acknowledge that I'm no longer in this season and I'm entering a new season and that requires a new level of me and this is what I'm going to let go of. Right, got to make peace with that. You got to let go of that. And letting go doesn't always feel like yippee, yada, right, that expansion can feel really uncomfortable, yeah, but there's so much beauty in allowing yourself to birth the new version of you right, the evolved version of you that God is really calling forth.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you know, it's really about as well allowing yourself to be obedient in that, to be led in that, to move with it right, to move with what you feel inside of you, move with it right, to move with what you feel inside of you right, and not just sit in old ways. The more you sit in old ways, uncomfortably right, the more you sit in that old way, the more you are sitting in a space of self-sabotage, right. And so it's about recognizing how long have I been in this season and cycle of self-sabotage, how long have I known that different is going to be required of me, but I've not chosen to follow that, right. And it's about recognizing that actually, as I sit in this space where I know different is required of me, even though that feels uncomfortable sitting here also is uncomfortable, right and not moving in the way that I know I'm meant to be moving differently, and so I'm going to move with fear, not with fear leading, but with it by my side as I try on this new identity that I'm being called into. Yeah, you know, like, really leading from this way is really not operating from a standpoint of like what if I fall? What if I fall? What if I fall? What if I fall, right? But it's actually operating in a standpoint of like oh my God, what if I fly? Oh my God, what if I really leaned in with what I could see here and not with what I can see here, right, what I can see in my heart, not with what I can see in my eyes, right In my head.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, how do I move forward? Really trusting and knowing and having real faith, right, that God moves, god makes a way. When even you might not feel or see, there is a way. Right, you know. It's about recognizing that actually I'm not going to react emotionally to every obstacle and I am going to, even in challenge, even in transition, I'm going to breathe through it. I'm going to lead myself through it. Right, I'm going to allow myself to be led through it from a place of recognizing that the end result I see but cannot see just yet. Right, is all unfolding and so I don't have to sit and move with fear and frustration leading the way. Right, but I can really lead and move with God leading the way. Yeah, and so, because of that, I'm able to make decisions. Right, I'm able to make decisions, I'm able to be decisive right, I'm able to really trust that decisions I'm making are a choice of momentum, that actually clarity comes through action. Right, and waiting actually often equals self-sabotage.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and so it's about recognising I bring this conversation to you today to recognise that we want to normalise that as we move in this space, which is a gap between where we sit and where we are going, that fear, resistance is normal. It's normal to hesitate and be like I'm going places I've never been before, I'm doing things I've never done before right, but it's because I know within me I'm being guided that way, yeah, and then you can recognize that it's safe to expand. You've got to be able to recognize with yourself that it's safe. It's safe to expand, it's safe to take the next step, it's safe to learn something new, it's safe to be in a new environment, right, recognizing that actually, our brains, our human brains, are wired for safety, right, and safety comes from what we can see, right, like, it's like, oh, we can see, like all of that. So when we're leading our way with our heart on things that we can't see, we're leaning in with faith. We cannot see right now with our physical, human eyes what we're creating, but we're leading with our heart, right, the brain wants to tell you it's unsafe. And you've got to remind yourself right through prayer, through meditation, for whatever practices that you have to ground yourself that it's safe to expand, yeah, and so it's recognizing that it's not about moving from a place of fearlessness, right, but it's about recognising that I'm moving from a place of courageous action, yeah, even when fear is present. So every big leap right that felt like a big leap, yeah, right Came with decisions that felt scary, yeah, but also stretched me.

Speaker 1:

And growth Right Requires you to enter the stretched zone. So growth will always feel unfamiliar at first, but you are growing Right or choosing to grow. If you're listening to me, if you found me, it's because you're choosing to grow, and so allow yourself to grow. All right, that's everything from me. I hope today's episode has really served you. If you are wanting to join us in the Soul Success Business Academy, jump on in All right. Go to wwwdrtelenecom. Press the link Academy. You'll be able to find out lots more and we'd love to welcome you in into a 12 month container where you are held, supported to lead differently, grow differently, be expansive, all from a soul led, psychologically backed, business based principles. Okay, I'm excited to welcome you in if that's the next right step for you. Otherwise, I'll see you on another episode, take care, bye-bye.