Ep 180: You Don’t Need a Breakdown to Rise: Reframing Mentorship Before Burnout

You don’t need to be in crisis to ask for support.
In this episode, Jessica dismantles the three most common myths that keep soul-led women stuck in survival mode, waiting until something is broken before they invest in help.

If you've ever told yourself "I'll hire a mentor when things slow down... when I make more money... when something actually goes wrong," this episode is your wake-up call.

Jessica shares the energetic shift that changed everything in her business, seeing mentorship not as a repair shop, but as a launchpad. You’ll hear how high-level women lead themselves before the breakdown, why investing from clarity creates exponential expansion, and how to build a business your nervous system can actually hold.

Whether you're scaling, stretching, or sitting in the in-between, this conversation will help you anchor into congruent leadership, proactive support, and sustainable self-trust.

Inside this episode:

• The 3 myths that keep intuitive leaders waiting until it’s “bad enough” to invest
• Why mentorship is not about fixing broken parts, it’s about amplifying your power
• The energetic difference between investing from fear vs. from expansion
• How Jessica’s own investments rewired her identity and capacity to hold more
• An invitation to stop treating support like a lifeline, and start treating it like leadership

This is the reframe your business and your body have been asking for.

Sacred Moments & Searchable Topics
[00:01:00] The truth about why high-level women invest early
[00:03:45] Myth #1: “I only need a mentor if something’s broken”
[00:06:30] Myth #2: “I have to earn support before I receive it”
[00:08:15] Myth #3: “Now’s not the right time”
[00:10:45] Building capacity vs. recovering from burnout

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Transcript

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Welcome to Resource with Jessica Reed. This is the podcast for visionary entrepreneurs who are here to build a thriving business and luminous life, fully resourced from the inside out. Here we unlock the magic of inner alignment, emotional mastery, and energetic strategies, so you can lead with clarity, confidence, and ease. This is your space to shed what no longer serves you, embody your highest potential, and expand into the next evolution of your business and soul's work. You are meant for more, and it all starts here. If you've ever thought, I would've love to hire a mentor, but nothing in my business is broken, keep listening. What if mentorship is not just for when you are stuck? What if investing before things actually break is actually what expands your capacity and your vision and your leadership? In this episode I'm speaking to the intuitive soul led woman who is wondering if she needs a mentor, but also questioning if anything is actually wrong enough to justify it. This is your reframe. This is your reminder. This is also your invitation to stop treating support like a lifeline and start treating it like a launchpad. That shift has changed my business. So much. Okay. I am not investing in mentors and masterminds because from the mentality of I need to fix something that is wrong and broken in my business. No. That was why I first invested, absolutely. But now I continue to choose to invest because I know that it keeps me growing, expanding like I am asking my clients to commit to. It keeps me in emotional congruence. And it's not some lifeline to break to fix a broken business. So today we are going to explore the three myths that keep women waiting until burnout, until their business is completely broken, and they're in a chronic state of stress before they actually invest in help. We're going to explore what it looks like to lead yourself through growth before the urgency hits. And how mentorship amplifies your power. Okay? Not patching your cracks. We're not doing that. We're also gonna explore why high level women aren't waiting for the breakdown before they evolve. Okay? So you will walk away with a powerful reframe around the timing of mentorship, embodied insight into your own edge for expansion. And a real invitation to say yes to support because you are ready, not because you are drowning. And as you listen to this episode today, if you are having something lit up inside of you and you are the high level leader who knows that you business does not need to be broken in order to get support, then I invite you to explore and apply for either my bespoke private mentoring. Where you will fill out a beautifully detailed application so that I can custom tailor an experience for you or explore and apply for my Transcendence high level Mastermind. Okay, so if you are brand new here, welcome. My name is Jessica Reed. I am an intuitive business mentor and alternative therapist. And honestly, if you have ever caught yourself thinking, I would love to work with a mentor, but I don't really need one right now, or maybe I'll wait until I launch this next thing and I'll see how it goes. I'll figure it out on my own first. If I invest, I'll invest. Sorry if something stops working, but there's something inside of you that has still been whispering, but what if now is the time? Okay, this episode is your reframe. This is for the woman who isn't burnt out yet. You're not lost. You're not in a breakdown. You're building, you are stretching. You are quietly holding a bigger vision, but you're also wondering if you're allowed to say yes to support even when I feels like nothing's wrong, because you've likely been taught to be strong and independent. You are the one who gets things done. Asking for help is hard. Unless something's broken. So let me tell you, you don't have to wait until it's broken to get support, you just have to be ready. Ready for growth, ready for expansion. So there are three myths that are going to keep you awaiting. Let's start by dismantling those because I have seen too many intuitive leaders sitting in the waiting room holding themselves back from greater levels of expansion. From meeting new edges, because that's what a good mentor does. They keep you meeting your edges, they keep you expanding internally, externally, you don't stay stagnant. So myth number one is that mentorship is only if something needs fixing. Okay? And this one is allowed in our industry too. But let's be really clear. Mentorship is not a repair shop, okay? It is an amplifier. Mentorship is a sacred mirror. A collaborator, a space where your leadership expands because someone can see what is already true and help you live it. Myth number two, that you have to earn the support. So there is this, this subtle belief that mentorship comes after you hit a milestone. Once I make this amount of money, then I can hire a mentor. Once I launch this thing, once I have an office suite, then I can hire a mentor. Once I rebuild this. But what if that mentorship is the thing that gets you there sooner? And actually the other one I hear a lot is, once I heal this thing, once I deal with this thing that I'm going through, what if the mentorship helps you get there sooner with less contraction? Let me tell you, nobody expects perfection when you come into a mentorship. I will meet you exactly where you are. I will hold space for the breakdown and for the brilliance. Okay, so what if this space helps you get there with less contraction, with no energetic leaks? And then the third myth that I hear all the time is that it's not the right time. So let me tell you something. This is a hard truth where you've all experienced it. You're always going to be busy. There will always be a project or a launch or a personal season. Leadership is not about timing. It is about alignment. Though aligned women move before the breakdown. They get their support, their scaffolding in place ready for if that happens, they move because they're ready to hold more because they value growth. Because they value expansion. And for a lot of you listening, in my world, I know that you expect your clients to value expansion. You want them to show up. Are you showing up for yourself in the same way you expect your clients to? There is a whole episode on energetic congruence. You can go and have a listen to that. So what does it look like to actually lead before the breakdown happens? Let me tell you a little truth from behind the scenes. The women inside of my private mentorship and my mastermind, they are not waiting to collapse. They are building their capacity on purpose. Okay? They are asking themselves, how do I hold this next level without burning out to hustle to the health of my nervous system? To build a business that is actually in alignment with who I am and what I value my season of life and what I want, how do I stretch myself and still stay regulated? They're asking how do I scale without sacrificing the intimacy, without having to always be on all the time and still giving a beautiful, high level experience to my clients. They are investing from clarity, not from crisis. Okay. Not to say they don't have holes in their business to plug. Absolutely. We all do. But that hole is not the energetic driver behind why they are continuing to invest in their growth. They invest because they wanna move with their body, not drag their body along for the ride. And that to me is real leadership. That is self-leadership. Because here is the other thing, when you only reach out for support after something breaks, you're not just managing. The strategy or the structure that needs adjusting. You're also managing a dysregulated nervous system. The emotional toll of doubt of whatever experience you've just been through, and often a spiral of self-trust, erosion, and it is harder to to grow. It is harder to evolve when your body feels like it is in survival mode. So proactive mentorship, that's different. That's where we are intentional about our growth, where it gets to happen with calm clarity. That is where energetic recalibration becomes a part of your rhythm, not some last effort, quick last ditch fix. Okay. That's where your expansion feels safe and grounded and truly embodied. I have always invested before I was ready. The first time I joined a Mastermind, I was not making consistent income. In fact, I think that year I made$5,000 and I did not feel qualified by any means. But I knew that if I wanted to hold more, if I wanted to rise faster, if I wanted to collapse the timelines by being in a room with women who stretched me by being in a space with mentors who could mirror things back to me. And that also, if I wanted that energetic reciprocation, I wanted clients who also valued the same things, then I needed to be that person. I don't invest because something is broken. I invest to continue my expansion, to have support when things break, to have scaffolding to support me. If I'm in a season where it is personal and hard, I invest to be ready for that. Okay, so this, you know, my, my experiences in terms of investing to continue to grow rather than to plug a hole, it's changed everything. Not because it gave me a specific strategy that I couldn't just Google, but because I actually remembered who I was, because I came into this beautiful space of congruence because that speaks to my clients. Because the more I grow, the more I can hold. Okay? I was held in a frequency where my vision wasn't too big, and that is what I offer now in both private containers and in my mastermind. Not a fix it plan, okay? But an actual real internal external calibration. So if you are listening and something in your body is saying, I wanna go deeper. I wanna move differently. I wanna rise before I actually unravel. Then this is your moment inside my bespoke private mentorship. You will answer a few short questions and then I will personally tailor a few. It's a detailed application, but it is very intentional. I wanna know that. I want you to know that's actually really important for you because then I will personally tailor a package that meets your needs, your goals, and your budget. Inside Transcendence, which is my high level mastermind, we walk together through strategy, identity, and energy. So you can rise into that next season because the woman who moves before it breaks, she's the one who is building something real, something sustainable, something legacy rooted, and you are one of those women. So you don't need a breakdown to rise, you just need a decision. So you can apply now for private mentorship. Or you can explore the Mastermind. There is links below. But please remember, you take anything out of this episode, you don't need to wait for it to break. Before you invest in your own growth, you simply need to check back in with what you truly value, what you expect your clients to value, and then bring yourself into congruence from that. Now I will see you next week on Resourced. Bye for now.