Waiting for Permission to Live Your Life?

What if the only thing standing between you and the life you want… is the permission you’re waiting for?

In this solo episode of A Beautiful Fix, Tracy explores a pattern so many women fall into without even realizing it. Waiting for the right time. Waiting for clarity. Waiting for someone else to confirm what they already feel inside.

From small everyday decisions to bigger life shifts, it’s easy to look outside ourselves for answers. But what happens when no one gives you the permission you’ve been waiting for?

This episode is a real, honest conversation about self-trust, decision-making, and the subtle ways we outsource our power to external validation, expectations, and opinions.

Tracy shares how this shows up in her own life, why it’s so common for women to second guess themselves, and how self-trust is actually built through small, consistent choices.

She also introduces the concept of Human Design as a tool for understanding your unique decision-making style, helping you reconnect with your inner authority and trust the answers within.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why so many women wait for permission before making changes

• How external validation keeps you stuck and second guessing yourself

• The hidden ways you may be outsourcing your power

• How self-trust is built in everyday decisions

• Understanding your Human Design authority and inner guidance

• What shifts when you stop waiting and start choosing

If you’ve been feeling stuck, overthinking your next move, or looking for clarity outside of yourself, this episode will help you reconnect with what you already know.

Because the truth is… no one is coming.

And maybe that’s the permission you’ve been waiting for.

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Transcript

Waiting for Permission to Live Your Life?

A Beautiful Fix

Who has to say yes to you, for you to say yes to yourself?

Welcome to a Beautiful Fix. I'm Tracy Hill. Each week we'll dive into the latest thought, Jim recharging and reconnecting with what lights you up and makes you feel alive. Let's discover your next beautiful fix together.

Hey, real quick before we dive in, you're powerful and sometimes you just need someone to remind you what's already in you. That's what human design does. It's the difference between guessing and knowing so you can stop searching outside yourself and start trusting the answers within. I promise you, they're there.

Grab your free chart@abeautifulfix.com and when you're ready to go deeper, book a one-to-one session with me. Alright, let's get into the episode.

I wanna ask you something. Who are you waiting for permission from? Like, who are you waiting for permission from to take that trip? To change your career? To take a cooking class? Hell to go to Paris to take that cooking class, take a dance class, write that book you've always had in you. Who are you waiting for permission from to tell someone no.

Or, or, yes. To walk away to open that door or raise your hand to go for the promotion to get up and walk out of that room to walk in the room with your 

Head held high and your shoulders back. To leave the group chat. You know that chat that is just so irritating. There's always that one person, you know that has something to say.

Yeah, that one to just leave it to try meditation or go on a retreat to take a girl's trip, to call him am to call her to try something new that maybe no one around you understands. To cut your hair, to dye it purple or add a fun pink streak

to do the thing that keeps tugging at you, but maybe it, it scares you a little bit to go to dinner by yourself to go to the movies by yourself. I remember the first time I did that. It's not so bad. Once the lights go down, you're good. Who are you waiting for permission from? Who has to say yes to you, for you to say yes to yourself?

And why? Why do they get to decide? One of my favorite quotes from Mel Robbins is, no one's coming. No one. No one is coming to push you. No one is coming to turn the TV off. No one is coming to tell you to get out the door and exercise.

Nobody's coming to tell you to apply for that job that you've always dreamt about. Nobody's coming to write that business plan for you. It's up to you. And if you really sit with that, it's a little uncomfortable. It's a little. Confronting. It's a little of a cold glass of ice water right in your face.

It's like, Ooh, no one's coming to hand me the answer. No one's coming to tell me. It's time. No one is coming to give me permission. So if no one is coming, then what do we do? I'll tell you what we do. We decide. We decide. We decide. That we're doing it. When I finally got brave enough to leave my career, I just decided it took, it took a little bit of time.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat this, but it was a decision when I decided to start my podcast. It was just a decision I made and actually followed through on. When I decided to get certified in human design, again, I just made the decision. We just decide that we're going to do it. But see, a lot of us have gotten really used to outsourcing that decision.

We ask, we check, we gather opinions. We look for confirmations. And again, I'm not above any of this. If you read this week's Thought, Gem, and you can sign up for those on my website or you can get the link in the show notes. But if you read this week's Thought, Gem, you already know I can turn a simple dinner plan into a full blown research project.

My God, it was not pretty. It was not pretty. The work that I put into that, it should be illegal. So this is a habit that I still catch myself in all the time, but if you can just zoom out with me for a second. 'cause this really isn't just about dinner. You see research, it actually shows that women are more likely to seek external validation before making decisions, especially when it comes to things like identity or career or relationships.

We're more likely to ask for input or second guess ourselves, or, you know, go with the consensus and then wait for some kind of signal that tells us we're on the right track. There's actually a Harvard Business Review study that found that women tend to underestimate their readiness and wait until they meet nearly 100% of qualifications before going for something.

While men, they apply when they meet about 60%. Someone recently, um, they recently shared a quote with me, be as confident as a mediocre man. Now, I'm not male bashing. You guys know I have four beautiful, gorgeous sons love men. This is not about male bashing. This is just about pointing out how sometimes we.

Make ourselves, um, you know, crazy, whereas men will just go for it. So none of this is really random. It's conditioning. In human design, we call it conditioning. We've been taught to be thoughtful or responsible or to consider everyone else's opinions to get it right. And somewhere in there we just started to believe that someone else might know better than we do.

But here's the thing, clarity. It comes from self trust and self-trust is built. It's like a muscle we have to exercise. It's not something you just wake up one day and you just suddenly have, it's built in the small moments, the small, little daily decisions that you make because every time you listen to yourself, you follow through on something that feels right.

You stop over explaining. You choose something without polling five people first. You build evidence and then over time that evidence turns into trust. This is all another reason why I love human design because it gives you a way to understand how you are meant to make decisions that are in alignment with you and your energy.

You authorities, what they call it. It's your internal guidance system. Mine happens to be emotional and anyone who knows me knows. I can be emotional, my emotions, you know, um, they're a big part of who I am. And since that is my authority, it just means that I don't get to decide in the moment. I have to feel things out.

I have to ride the wave of my emotions. I have to wait for neutrality. I have to just give myself a little bit of space and time. And if something still feels like a yes after time, then it's a yes. And other people have sacral authority. Now, this is the one I'm a little envious of. 'cause it's immediate, it's in the moment, it's in the body, it's a gut response.

And then some have splenic authority. It's quiet and it's that subtle knowing it, it only speaks once and then it gets quiet. There's, there's, there's several more authorities. But the point is you have a way. Your body has a way, and most of us we're just never taught to trust it. So instead, we trust Google or the group chat or other people's opinions.

Maybe it's what makes sense on paper or what looks good, what feels safe, what what feels familiar, and we end up disconnecting from the one thing that actually knows us, our bodies. So I'll bring this back to you. Where are you still waiting for permission? I want you to think about that, and this week I'll invite you to just try something before you ask anyone else, pause.

Ask yourself first. Let your answer be the first one in the room and see what happens. Because more often than not, you already know. This is exactly the work that I do. I help women trust the answers within, through human design. I help you understand how your unique energy works, how you make decisions, and how to actually trust what's already there.

Because when you stop outsourcing your power, everything changes. And until next time, keep getting high on life one beautiful fix at a time.

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