Big Stuff With Danielle Colley
You know who's going through BIG STUFF? Literally everyone. But it's how you handle it that makes the difference.
Award-winning author and life coach Danielle Colley gets real about the relentless expectations we put on ourselves, the comparison trap, and the gap between how life looks and how it actually feels.
For ambitious women who may be crushing their goals but are feeling crushed by them. Conversations that matter. A little advice, a little inspiration, and a lot of humanness. No toxic positivity - just raw honesty about what it really takes to thrive.
If you're burnt out from achieving everything or tired of pretending it's all fine, this is for you. Because life should feel GOOD to live.
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Big Stuff With Danielle Colley
Still Working From Her Hospital Bed - Fleur Marks And Breaking Up With Overachieving
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She had the wardrobe, the fancy car, the career leading teams across multiple markets. From the outside, Fleur Marks had built the life. And if you'd asked her how she was doing, she would have told you she was fine.
She was not fine.
Fleur is a globally recognised leadership strategist, speaker, and author of the brand new book The Overachiever's Reset. She spent 20 years building a high-performance career on drive, relentless standards, and the unshakeable belief that if she just worked hard enough, everything would stay together. Until her body sent a message she could no longer ignore — a rare, incurable autoimmune disease attacking multiple organs simultaneously. Then, just as she began to stabilise, breast cancer.
She lost the house, the income, the career identity, and almost her life. More than once.
Here's the part that stopped me: Fleur wrote this book from a hospital bed, not knowing if she'd live to see it published. She is still in treatment now. And she showed up for this conversation anyway.
This is one of the most honest, generous, and quietly life-changing conversations I've recorded. I threw out my questions within ten minutes and just followed where Fleur took us — and I'm so glad I did.
We talk about what it actually costs to tether your worth to your output, what collapse can unlock that ambition never could, and why the word "fine" might be the most important red flag you're ignoring right now.
Find Fleur here - https://fleurmarks.com.au
Or here - Instagram
Or here - LinkedIn
Buy her book here - The Over Achievers Reset
CHAPTERS
00:00 — Intro
03:00 — In treatment, still showing up
07:00 — The old Fleur: Wonder Woman with a badge of busy
13:00 — Where impossibly high standards come from
18:00 — The first signs
23:00 — Losing everything at once
38:00 — The blue esky on the porch
44:00 — Becoming a high-performing sick person (and seeing the pattern repeat) 49:00 — What FINE really stands for
53:00 — The moment the light went out
58:00 — Mortality, faith, and why Fleur believes she was kept here
63:00 — Ambition after the reset — sequins, not superwoman
67:00 — Close and thinking points
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