Transforming Limiting Beliefs: The Power of Labels on Your Life & Career

🚀 The words we use shape our reality. Are the labels you carry empowering you—or holding you back?

In this episode of Investor Evolution: Elevate, Kimberly Hoyt explores the power of labels—the ones we give ourselves and the ones we place on others. Whether you call yourself a “perfectionist,” a “people-pleaser,” or “not good enough,” these labels influence your actions, mindset, and success. But here’s the truth: you can rewrite your identity.

🔥 In this episode, we cover:
✅ How self-labeling affects confidence, mindset, and personal growth
✅ Why some labels feel permanent (but aren’t)
✅ The hidden power of the labels we place on others
✅ How to rewrite your identity and choose empowering words
✅ Practical action steps to shift limiting labels into ones that serve you

💡 What You’ll Learn:
•How labels become self-fulfilling prophecies in your life
•How to recognize and challenge limiting labels
•How to stop unconsciously labeling others in ways that hold them back
•A simple Label Reset Challenge to start shifting your identity today

📌 Timestamps:
00:00 – Welcome to the Investor Evolution: Elevate Podcast
02:15 – The Power of Labels: How They Shape Identity
06:40 – Labels We Give Ourselves & Their Hidden Influence
12:10 – Where Do Our Labels Come From? Childhood, Society & Subconscious Beliefs
18:45 – The Labels We Give Others & How They Shape Relationships
25:30 – How to Use Labels to Elevate Your Life & Mindset
30:50 – Action Steps for Rewriting Your Identity & Label Reset Challenge
35:10 – Closing Thoughts & Call to Action

🎯 Who This Episode Is For:
✔️ Women in healthcare and business looking to grow personally and professionally
✔️ Anyone struggling with limiting beliefs and self-doubt
✔️ Real estate investors and professionals looking to elevate their mindset
✔️ High-achievers who want to break free from past labels and step into success


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Transcript

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Welcome to investor evolution, elevate. Whether you're looking to create financial freedom, reclaim your time, or find harmony while you're thriving in your career, this show is for you. Join me each week. As we uncover strategies to grow your wealth, nurture your personal development, and elevate your life to new heights, so you can live with purpose, joy, and confidence. Hey everyone. I was thinking this week about labels, specifically name tags, and the names and the labels that we give ourselves. This could be simple things like mama, wife, business owner, entrepreneur, medical professional, but there are a lot of labels that we have stuck on ourselves that some are empowering. But a lot are these deeper, negative, limiting beliefs that we have that we've labeled ourself with. For example, perfectionist, procrastinator, not enough, imposter, bad with money, too emotional. Those are some of the labels that I know I have on me in different places. And it's interesting how we get these labels and I wanted to explore how can we change these into empowering beliefs and take off the labels that no longer serve us that we didn't want in the first place and create an identity that is moving us towards our future self. So that's what we're going to talk about today. I think back to when I was deciding what I wanted to do with my life and I can see where these labels played a huge role in why I chose what I chose. When I was Going into college, I wanted to be a pharmacist and when I took organic chemistry, I decided I'm not going to be a pharmacist. I'm not good at organic chemistry. That limiting belief, that label that I put on myself, I'm not good at organic chemistry, which I did get an A in, so I was pretty okay at it, but that, that label that I put on myself changed the trajectory of my career. And because I put that label on myself, I shifted. Now, sometimes these are good things. I'm I'm grateful for where I am, what I've accomplished, what I've done with my career, but it's interesting how these things can affect us. And I want us to explore how are the labels that we have on us, how are they affecting us? How are they helping us? How are they hindering us? So we're going to talk about that today. When we think about these labels, where do they come from? Sometimes they come from experiences where things don't turn out like the way we hoped. Maybe organic chemistry was really difficult for me. And so that became a limiting belief of maybe I'm not smart enough to be a pharmacist. That's probably how that all came about. Sometimes this is repetitive thoughts that we have. For example, I'm bad with money. If we think that often enough, anytime something goes negatively with money, with finances, with our budgeting, our reticular activating system says, Oh, I'm paying attention to that. You, you say you're bad with money and this, this seems to correlate. So we're going to bring that to your attention. And so it brings it to your attention and that becomes the self fulfilling prophecy. Oh, I'm bad with money. I missed my budget this month and whatever that might be. So sometimes it's a repetitive thought that keeps showing up and because we repeat it, what you think about, you bring about because we repeat that thought, it becomes our truth. Not that it is true, but it becomes our truth. So that can happen. Sometimes those labels we acquire from others. Maybe intentionally, but I think more often than not it's unintentional. For example, if you were struggling with math and someone said, maybe you're just not a math person. Not meaning to tell you you, you're not good at math, but It correlates, right? You were struggling with math. I'm not a math person. And then you adopt that like, you're right. You're right. I'm not a math person. And that becomes a label that you put on yourself, whether it's true or not. Correct? When I think back, I was great at organic chemistry. Was it difficult for me? Yes, but I did it and I got a good grade in there. But the story that I told myself became my reality. So we have to be careful about the labels that we collect and we allow others to put on us. So we want to be careful about that. Now, thinking about that, let's flip that. We can unintentionally Put labels on others as well. When I think about how this happens, I think about a kid. So let's say mom goes to the store and runs into a friend and little Johnny who's three or four is toddling around behind her and sees this new person who he's never met before and hides behind mom's leg. And she's like, Oh, Johnny's just shy. And if that happens a couple of times, Johnny may adopt that identity of being shy. Even though that may have only been certain situations in which He finds himself being reserved, in every other situation, he's full of energy and excitement and the life of the party. But if it, if he hears it enough, he may adopt that identity that, oh, I'm shy. So sometimes those things happen inadvertently. We don't mean to say things that people take personally, but, but that can happen. So, we gotta be careful about the words that we say, and what we imply with those words. This is something I'm being more mindful about, especially with my kids, because I want them to be Empowered. I want them to have empowered beliefs that they can do anything, they can be anything, they can create anything that they want to, and so I'm watching the words that I say to them. So as we think about these labels and we can see how they impact us, how can we use them to our advantage? How do we use them wisely? How can we rewrite our own identity and support others as they are improving themselves. And as we all step into our highest potential, really we can use these labels as, our future self calling us is the way I like to look at it. One of the things I want us to do this week is take a minute and write out your labels. Write down the labels that you've put on yourself. You've heard some of mine. Not enough, not good with money, procrastinator, imposter, smart, good at science, great at connecting, different, different ones. Write all of them down. Write the good ones. Write the ones that you don't wish you didn't have because I want you to take that list and I want you to ask yourself, is this label empowering to me or is it limiting to me? Do I want this label on me or do I want to get rid of it? And as you go through that list, it's going to be pretty obvious the ones that are serving you and the ones that aren't serving you. So let's take those limiting beliefs, those Labels that we've put that no longer serve us, either get rid of them or rewrite them. For example, if one is, I'm not confident, but you want to be confident and you can see yourself stepping into that confidence, maybe you write down, I'm growing into my confidence every day. I'm taking steps each day to build my confidence, whatever that looks like for you. Those are the statements. Those are the things that are going to move you forward and help you become who you want to be. And this goes into choosing your future identity. Ask yourself, who do I want to become? And maybe you write down several identity statements to reflect your highest self. I am someone who follows through. I am a confident speaker. I am a strong decision maker. Some of the things that I say every morning, or I write down every morning in my journal, I am whole, perfect, and complete just as I am in this moment. I also, one of the other ones is, I'm great at figuring things out and I always find the best solutions because those are things that I want to be true, and I want my brain to look for those things. Look, you did figure it out. Oh, you found a great solution for this. And reinforce that positive aspect versus the negative things. So, find those Identity statements that reflect your higher self and write them out. Maybe, maybe those are your affirmations in the morning that you're doing on a regular basis. Maybe it's something that you print out and you can have behind your computer, behind your screen so you can see it on a regular basis. Oh, I am someone that follows through. And help it reinforce the behavior that you want to have. The third thing that we're going to talk about in our action steps is being intentional with how we're labeling others. And being mindful of the things that we say so that we're creating a growth mindset and not just labeling people as difficult or lazy. Ask yourself when you're thinking about certain people that maybe you have specific labels on. Am I reinforcing this identity in them? Is my actions and my words reinforcing that identity? And if so, how can I reframe this in a way that encourages growth instead of stifles it? I think that's really important. One thing we can do is challenge ourselves, and I will do this as well. Find one person in your life who you've given a limiting label to, and shift how you see them. Change the words, change the, the thoughts that you have about them to encourage growth and empowerment, and watch how that changes for you and for them. I think it could be really powerful, so we'll do that together. All right, and with that, let's recap. So the words that we use matter. They shape our reality. They shape our relationships. They shape the way that we show up in the world. We have the power to rewrite our story, to choose the labels that align with our highest selves and to help others rise by seeing them for their potential and not just their past. We have that power, so let's use it wisely. Key takeaways that I hope you got today. The labels that we give ourselves can empower or limit us. Same with the labels that we give others and Sometimes we can subconsciously reinforce those labels in others, and we want to make sure we're reinforcing those positive, empowering labels. And third, we can rewrite our future. If there are labels that are no longer serving us, or have a negative connotation, we can rewrite those to align with growth and empower us to move into our higher selves. All right, everyone, that's it for today, short and sweet on this episode. Please like, subscribe, and share this episode with someone who is looking for mindset shift, and let's keep elevating together. Until next week.