100. Celebrating 100 Episodes: A Journey Of Growth

I've hit episode 100 - and it's two years to the day that The Energy of Success was born!

In this special milestone episode, I'm reflecting on an extraordinary two-year journey of evolution, growth, and showing up authentically in the world.

I open up about my own shift from leading with relatability to leading with inspirational aspiration, and how that was a total game-changer for me!

I talk about the three core values of impact, health, and growth, and I get really honest about the shadow side of a growth mindset, and how it can keep you stuck in loops if you're not careful.

Then comes the philosophy that underpins everything I stand for: you are already complete. You already have everything you need. Success isn't something you seek, it's something you own and remember.

If you've ever doubted yourself, dimmed your light, or waited until you felt ready, sit back, press play and enjoy.

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Transcript

Map Your Next Five Years

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If you were to map out your next year, two year, three, year, four, year, five year, if you were to map that out, what would you decide about yourself? Like me two and a half years ago that decided I'm gonna get this podcast out in the world, and that is it, I'm committed to it. What are the things that you can decide about yourself that you want to do in this world that you want to get out, that you want to take action on? What are those things and why are they so important to you? What's beneath those things? I can't quite believe that I'm actually here saying this to you, the 100th episode, and I am so excited that it's coming out two years to the day that I started this podcast journey. Two years to the day. And I want to just reflect back on that. For if you are here listening to this thinking, I really want to do something, I really want to do this thing, whatever the thing might be, and you know it's gonna give you incredible joy, incredible satisfaction, or create massive impact or transformation, or something for you. It's gonna allow you to feel something that you just might never have felt before. Then I urge you to lean in and do the thing. I want to take you back to probably two and a half years ago, where I had this real desire to bring a podcast out. I love talking, I love sharing my knowledge, I love sharing wisdom with people so that they can create change within themselves. I am so driven by micro moments of change. I knew I wanted to bring this podcast out. And back then, I dare to leap my brand and my company was all about overcoming fear. It was allowing people to really face their fear, but understand that it's always going to be there. Let it sit next to them in the car and carry on the journey, allowing themselves to believe in their brilliance and letting the fear shrink, evolve more, but not stop them in their tracks. So when the podcast first came about, it was called Becoming Fearless. And you can go back to episode one and you can listen to that first episode, Becoming Fearless, where I talk you through the journey that I went through to get the podcast out into the world. But I remember two and a half years ago, I was like, I really want to do that. I'm gonna choose a date and I'm gonna get it out into the world. And it was National Happiness Day 2024, 20th of March, National Happiness Day 2024. And I'm like, this is really important. I'm a positive psychology coach. Positive psychology is a science of happiness and well-being. I know so much evidence about happiness and how it affects people, but also how people grow through happiness, that it was definitely going to be launched on that day. And I did that, and I can remember launching it, and it was just so exciting. It was incredible. I remember feeling a flood of emotions within me and standing there thinking, I've I've actually got this out into the world, and there's people in different countries listening to this, and that just absolutely blew my mind. I can remember thinking the power that I have in my hands, in my voice, in the technology, in the support to be able to impact people all over the world. And I really took that idea and ran with it. And there are certain statistics all over around podcasts. Not many get past their first 10 episodes. People start them, people stop them, um, people give up on them. And my journey has always been an evolution. So it started out becoming fearless. It's had many, many names. There's an episode that you can go to that's about the many names of the podcast, which is also a massive part of my growth. And one thing that I always talk to people about you're never gonna stay exactly as you are, whether that is wonderful or whether that is really weary, you're not gonna stay there. There's gonna be times and spaces and stretches that move you through that particular identity. And I remember my podcast title being like that, very much like that, until I landed on the energy of success, which has been for quite a while. And it sums up everything. And that's what I want this episode to really allow you to think about for yourself, your your energy of success. What is that for you? The energy of success, what does it mean for you? Because it is super individual, it is so potent, it is so powerful, and it's everything that you are, everything that you are being, everything that you are in your soul, in yourself, in your entirety, in all of your relationships, in your dynamics with people, with money, with business, with impact. And one of the things around the energy of success, when I landed on that name, I'm like, this is it. This is the part of my journey where I'm not necessarily being or leading with relatability. I'm not necessarily like, here, my podcast is called Becoming Fearless, because you're all going to be listening because you're feeling the fear, and I'm going to be relatable, and I'm going to teach you and guide you to navigate the fear. I'm much more in a different space now. I'm in a different energy, and I'm very much at home with myself. So I'm not having that leading with relatability. I'm having that. This is me in my energy of success, in embodying it, and it's more the inspirational, it's more the aspirational aspect. And what happens energetically when you switch that, when you switch to being leading with relatability to leading with inspirational aspiration, there's no limit. Whereas before, when I was leading with relatability, I was like, I just want everybody to come on the ride. I want everybody to, I'm going to keep myself in this relatable place because then they'll come on the ride. And that was fair talking. It also keeps you limited, it keeps you diminished because you stay in that space of where you're going to be relatable. And the universe gave me multiple lessons on this, multiple lessons to be able to detach from that way of being. And that's what I really want you to think about. Where are you in dynamics, in relationships, in situations where you're there just because you want to be relatable? Where are you in the dynamics and relationships and situations and in business where you're like, I'm there because this is me. This is my energy. And some people will totally buy it. They will vibe off it, they will love it. And some people are like, who even is she? And being okay with that. And this is what I want to talk about today. The element of people pleasing that shaped a lot of how I showed up for myself. The element of self-worth, where it was in the pits, and I was like, oh, do you know what? Everybody's more worthy than me. That's just gone. The element of not feeling quite good enough, not feeling quite ready, so always in that pause bit, that bit's just gone. And when you allow yourself to be in this energy of yourself, the being of you, the success of you, by being you, you don't drain energy, you don't waste it, you don't dilute it, you don't have leaks. Because you're being your truest self. And this is one of the greatest gifts that I've been given on this planet to be able to impact more and more people in the world about this. Because so many people create relationships where they're just showing a part of themselves. And if you ever listen to all of my episodes, you will see this journey, this thread that's happened throughout every single part or iteration of myself. I've been challenged, I've been stretched, and I have been able to choose how I'm showing up for myself. So if we were looking at everything, what I would describe the energy of success as, it would be harmony, inner harmony. I used to call it inner peace, feeling good inside, but actually it's inner harmony. Harmony between all the parts of you, but harmony between all your systems, harmony between your mind and your body, harmony between your head and your heart, harmony between your nervous system and your inspired action, harmony between yourself and everybody else, harmony between yourself and your past and your future. I don't tend to talk about balance, I tend to talk about harmony. You've got all these pieces, and you want to create this harmonious way of living. So my hundredth episode. Wow, I am so grateful. I'm grateful for the younger me. I'm grateful for me today, and I'm grateful that I get the chance and the choice to keep impacting people. And what I want to touch on is what drives me to be me. Why is though that so important? Why is that so expansive for me? Why is that what I'm here to do? And it goes around living a life on purpose, feeling aligned with my values and creating the impact in the world that I'm here to do. But everything underlying that is my uniqueness. So I've been given lots of gifts on this journey of the podcast in the last couple of years. Lots of gifts. I've been given gifts of how to regulate my nervous system. I didn't even know it was shot to bits. I've been given the gift of being able to know, okay, this is kind of ruining or running your life a little. You're not having any element of burnout, but you're actually not necessarily that regulated within yourself, within your cells. The gift to be able to understand that, navigate it, understand breath work, understand personal training, understand the health behind it, the anatomy of regulating nervous system, how important that is to live a healthy life. I've been given the gift of everything that I work with people on all over the world about their mindset, about their high-performance habits, about how they show up for themselves, how they do the things that they really want to do, how they take action, how they live a life that they're really here for, where they find fulfillment. I've been in the gift of being able to understand how people's minds work, their subconscious, their conscious, their programming, their patterns, all of that stuff. I've been given that as a gift that I share with people. A massive part of my drive is to change how people think about their future. I've been given the gift of my spiritual connections, the gift of being able to tap into all sorts of spiritual guidance and receive the support and know that I'm not in this alone. And when you are a leader, when you are an inspirational person in the world that's here to share that anyone can change their life, it can feel lonely. So it's great to know that I've been given the gift of that expansion. And alongside all of that, I've been given the gift of life. The gift that I get to do this, the gift that I get to impact people. And my invitation to you listening is three things. What could you really be thankful for? What are the gifts that you get to do? What are the gifts that you get to do? That you get to have, do, receive, play a part in. Tune into them and understand them for yourself because it's really valuable and it's really expansive and energetically it's really clean and clear. The second thing if you were to map out your next year, two year, three year, four year, five year, if you were to map that out, what would you decide about yourself? Like me two and a half years ago that decided I'm gonna get this podcast out in the world, and that is it, I'm committed to it. What are the things that you can decide about yourself that you want to do in this world, that you want to get out, that you want to take action on? What are those things? And why are they so important to you? What's beneath those things? And then the third thing, what do you really value? And I was having this conversation with people that I'm super close to. What do you really value? Because your values are gonna really drive you. Ultimately, I want everybody to value themselves. Value the life that you have, value the time and the space that you have, value yourself. You are incredible, you are magnificent, you are one in a million. But how you live inside your values are really important, and I've been working with someone in Australia, and it's fascinating. Our worlds met, and we do very similar work, and we were talking about values, and she gave me a tool that she uses for her clients, and it's a very different tool than I've ever used. And I completed it and I saw my values in a very different way, and this is really, really important. I feel when we're talking about the energy of success, your energy is gonna be absolutely clean and clear when you are in alignment with your values. So, yeah, there are great things that I am in alignment with value-wise. I'm massively affected by fairness. I really respect honesty, I'm here for teamwork. There's all sorts of values that I really am a part of. But I was shown values in a different way, and I want to just talk about this on this 100th episode because it shows a real reason why I have this podcast, why it's so important, why I'm bringing experts on to talk about their stuff, why I'm creating the ripple effect with it, more and more and more and more. And it's because one of my top values is impact. It's one of my top values. I know I'm here to impact people. And this just blows my mind. I'm in like so many countries. So many countries, so thank you so much. Hundreds and hundreds of towns and cities, so thank you so much. People are listening, tuning in, downloading. I really do admire that, and I'm inspired by it. The fact that you get to choose to listen, and I am super grateful. So, impact is massive. The second value for me is health. I value health. My degree is in health. I work 20 years in mental health. Health is so important to me. It's something that I really am passionate about. Allowing people to feel good. That's why I do the work I do. It allows people to feel good. That's what inner harmony is, feeling good. Health is a part of that, it's a big value for me. But the third one I really want to touch on for you all, because it's one that I've got myself in all sorts of knots about. But this episode has really completed a lot of them, and I'm so grateful that I get the chance to share it with you. Because my third value is around growth. Growth. I love it. Wow, I'm gonna grow from this. If I do this, I'm gonna grow from this, and if I do this, I'm gonna grow from this. I love that. Honestly, it's like the best thing ever for me. I love it when somebody says, Charlotte, I have grown so much by being in your space, or I've grown by listening to the podcast, or I've grown by working with you, or I've grown by something you said. I am like, that just fills my heart. Absolutely fills my heart because I really hand on heart believe that growth is so, so valuable. And I want to talk about the flip side, the journey I've been on alongside this podcast in the last two years. Growth can be painfully uncomfortable, it can leave you in loops of searching, it can be validated because you're like, well, I'm still growing. This is okay, I'm growing, I'm growing, and I'm learning. You can justify things that just aren't right. You can allow yourself to stay stuck because you think there's a pattern that you've got to look for that's part of your growth. And that is a duality. Because as soon as you can see the other side and you're like, this, do you know what? The growth is, I get to choose that I'm gonna move through this particular bit a lot faster. I'm not gonna stay in this bit that doesn't feel so good. I'm gonna choose to move out faster. I'm gonna understand how to navigate the emotions, understand that I can complete the things that are in the way and dissolve the patterns and know how to do that. And I have those skills, and I'm incredibly grateful to myself for learning those skills. But I wanted to share this on this hundredth episode. It feels important, really important to share this piece with you about growth. You're already complete, you already have everything you need. There's no more searching or seeking. The energy is inside you, success is inside you, everything is inside you, and it's not about seeking to find, it's about owning and remembering. And how you do that is by creating space, creating time, slowing the mind, being mindful, creating opportunities to stretch you, being in spaces that inspire you, taking action, doing the things that you know are going to create a huge impact in your life. So the energy of success is important. To think about what that means for you. It's important to understand what that means for everyone else. So my energy of success is impact. It's creating a life where I feel super healthy. My health is paramount. I've have this inner harmony within all of my systems. My nervous system feels good. My heart feels really full. My body feels great and my mind feels on top form. They're really important for me. And then growth, where can I grow in a way that excites me? Where can there be more fun, more joy, more abundance, more connection, more love? Where can I allow myself all of that? Because that's what the energy of success is for me. And it will be something completely different for you. So whilst the podcast has reached so many people, whilst my business is wildly successful, whilst I get to impact so many people, I am living in my values. I am living in my energy. I have mastered my energy to be able to do this. And now I help people to master theirs to be able to do it for themselves. And for that, I'm incredibly grateful that I took action two and a half years ago to bring this podcast to you. And more than that, you took action to listen because that is the greatest gift. If any of these episodes have changed something in you, have brought a hard moment to you, a realization, some awareness, some growth, then that is what I'm here for. So huge, huge gratitude, thanks and appreciation to every single person who has listened to any of my episodes. I really do sincerely appreciate it. Now go and do the things that you're here for. Go and take the action, go and live the life, go and release anything that's not serving you. Go and rejuvenate your energy. Allow yourself to be in that space of abundance, joy, and happiness because you are incredible. You always have been and you always will be. Take care. Huge love to you.