#33 - When You’ve Outgrown Your Old Self (Millionaire Breathworkᵀᴹ Experience) (S2)

In this episode, I guide you through a powerful 12-minute breathwork session designed for the moment when you feel yourself outgrowing the version of you that once felt safe. 

If you’re standing at the edge of your next level — where the old identity no longer fits but the new one hasn’t fully landed yet. Together we breathe through the tension of expansion, crack open the shell of the old identity, and step into the light of what’s waiting for you next.

Inside This Session

⚡ Release the tension of outgrowing your current identity and embrace the expansion calling you forward
⚡ Regulate your nervous system while moving through the discomfort of the “void” between versions of you
⚡ Activate embodied leadership and the courage to take up more space in your life and business
⚡ Connect with the powerful visualization of breaking open the egg and stepping into your next chapter

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Transcript

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Today's episode is a little bit different. I'm gonna guide you through a breathwork that I originally recorded spontaneously for one of my clients inside the premium breakthrough experience, the live round of the premium breakthrough course. And it was in one of those moments where I could just feel that my client was really standing on the edge of her next level. And you know that moment when that version of you that got you to this certain place, that version simply cannot contain the person that you're becoming anymore. This is what I call the egg metaphor, often described as you outgrowing the egg. At the beginning of your journey, that act felt really safe. It kept you warm, it helped you grow, it held you, it protected you. But at some point, you keep growing. Your vision grows, your capacity grows, your power grows, and suddenly that same container becomes too small for you. And when that happens, staying inside of that act is no longer safe anymore. Welcome to the Bolt Expansion Podcast. You are here because you know your business is meant for more. I'm your host, M.A. Drost, and this is where you'll learn how to make more money, create transformational offers, and step into your truth as a leader. Through premium strategy, identity work and my signature method, Millionaire Breathwork. Each week you'll get the strategy and the shift to expand your wealth, your impact, and your freedom. This is bold expansion. Are you ready? This is what I see happening very often with my clients, especially when they finally lean into strategy and they start showing up. Because the truth is, most of the time your identity is not ahead of the game when you make a decision. You are talking with your future self, you're making decisions based on what could potentially happen, but that's not integrated yet. So as you start moving forward and you start implementing strategy, what happens is that your identity cannot stay behind. And that's when the identity work becomes really important because your business starts asking more of you. You grow faster than that your old identity can keep up with. Clients start asking more of you, life is asking more of you. And yet there's still this part of you that is connected to that old version that fits in that old shell of that egg. The truth is, your next level doesn't require just a strategy up level. It requires strategic and an identity up level. Inside this framework of Millionaire Breathwork, we work with three pillars that activate that shift internally. The first pillar is embodied leadership, which is all about becoming the person who can hold and execute on that vision. The identity, the nervous system capacity, energetic leadership, taking up more space. Embodied leadership is about becoming the person who can hold the life and the business that you're truly calling in. The second pillar of winner breathwork is wealth capacity. This is the ability to receive, hold, and circulate more money, more opportunity, and more responsibility without collapsing into old patterns. This is when you have a money ceiling or visibility ceiling, success anxiety, fear of success, fear of failure, upper limits. This is really where the capacity work is done. And the third pillar of main breath work is sales alchemy. This is where leadership and capacity turn together into sales, into clients, impact, money, and it's the expression of your expansion. So this is very practical where you take action right after the breath work, and it's very connected to showing up in sales strategically, in your content strategically. But this episode today, I'm gonna share more about the breathwork that we're gonna do together, is about embodied leadership. And the breathwork that we're gonna do is all about breaking out that egg shell. And that is exactly what embodied leadership is about, because leadership is about identity expansion. And inside Moviner Breathwork, we work with three different types of breath methodologies: daily breath, shift breath, and breakthrough breath. Daily breath are the short ones, they're only five minutes, so that you can really integrate them in your day whenever you're waking up, or when you just need a five-minute shift in your energy and how you've been showing up. The shift breath work, still a shift in your energy, but a little bit longer. It's between 10 to 15 minutes, and we do different types of breaths, so it's really a reset, a quick reset in your energy. It's really used to ground yourself, to find some emotional regulation, to reconnect to your power, to find a quick shift in your energy. And a deeper breath work that I guide people through is the breakthrough breath, which is on average 25 to 40 minutes, and that's where we go really, really deep into old patterns, identity transformation, releasing old patterns, moving through fear or anxiety, stepping into a new version of yourself, and this is really the higher activation. Breakthrough breath is the breath that we use when someone is really at the edge of their next identity. But when I was doing this session, it was a client session for the premium breakthrough course, it was a group experience, and we didn't have time to go into the breakthrough breath. So, even though most of the time the shift breathworks are a little bit more designed to do a quick shift in energy, this is actually a more powerful one because of the frequency and the energy that she was in as we put this breathwork together and I guided her through it. And it's really this energy of leaning in, and there's so much more possible in just 12 minutes, because it's just 12 minutes is breathwork, where you can really visualize and activate you breaking out of this egg shell. So, in this session, that's what we do. We visualize something really, really powerful. You are inside of an egg, and first that egg represents safety, but now you've grown so much that that egg just cannot contain all of you anymore. The discomfort that you feel at your next level isn't because you're not ready, it's because the old container no longer fits. And this is so often true. And when you start to really see this, you become more comfortable in the uncomfortness of the void. How often? I know often because you are listening to this bold expansion podcast, but so many of you are constantly shifting your identity, you're constantly up-leveling who you are, and in those moments in between, where you know something new is waiting for you, but you haven't fully unlocked it yet, that is where discomfort lives. And it's because of this, because you've outgrown the egg that fitted your old identity, and the new egg is not created yet. So that is a little bit of the background about this episode, and it's a really freaking powerful breath work. I'm gonna guide you through it in a moment. I am gonna break down what you can expect from this breath. So the shift breath that we're gonna do, you can compare it a little bit to pranayama. There's different styles of breath, and I'm gonna introduce the different ones we use in this specific flow so that you know what is gonna happen. But I also guide you through it in the session itself, so you can also forget it. It's just so that you know already ahead of the breath work. And like I said, this is a pillar of embodied leadership. It's 12-minute breath work, so make sure you have 12 minutes, and the energy behind it is release and activate. So the breath flow for this specific breath work is we start with the breakthrough breath, which is into the belly, into the chest, and then you drop it. And I would say it's almost a three-counter where you're in and then your chest, and then you drop it. And with the exhale, we don't use a lot of force, but yeah, this is a short breath exercise. So, yeah, we go for a little bit of force without everything that we do, and the breakthrough breath is only for four minutes. Then we're gonna do a bottom hold, which means all the air completely out, completely empty, empty, empty yourself, and you stay in the emptiness for a little bit more than a minute. Of course, listen to your own body. If you do need to start breathing sooner, you can. Your body wisdom is higher than mine. Then we're gonna do another round of the breakthrough breath, three more minutes, and then we're gonna end with a hard coherence breath, which is breathing in through the nose, out through the nose, and both times it's six seconds in and six seconds out. And I'm guiding you through this in the session as well. You're gonna do this breath sitting up. You can lay down, but I would not recommend it. It's really a quick breath with the breakthrough breath. If you're used to doing breath with me, then yeah, we lay down because that's the deeper transformation where we don't want to sit up and waste our energy with that, although it's always also a choice of your preference. But for the shift breath work, I recommend that you sit up, upright. And yeah, that's it. I'm very excited for you to experience this. Make sure that you're in a safe space, that you're not gonna be interrupted, that you're not driving. And I will see you on the other side. It's gonna be 11 minutes, and we're gonna release, crack open, and enjoy. And we're gonna do it mainly with the breakthrough breath. So that's the the core breath. Make sure that you're sitting in a in a way that you can powerfully breathe. Okay. When you feel ready, close your eyes. Sit up a little bit more straight. Take a deep breath in through the nose and out through the mouth. And start breathing the breakthrough breath through the mouth, into your belly, into your chest and let go. Into your belly, into your chest and let go. Into your belly, into your chest and let go. And find your own pace with this, your own strength. It's a short amount of time, so whatever you need in this time, give it to yourself. And I want you to visualize that egg. You being boxed in by the egg, feeling your body contract, being smaller than you know yourself to be. Because the truth is, before it fitted. When you just started this journey, you fit it in the egg. But the last couple of months, you've been taking up more space. You felt how your body grew, your presence grew, you grew. Keep breathing into your belly, into your chest, and let go. And it's almost like the egg is coming in on you. Like there's no space for you to be in the egg anymore. I feel a little bit of the anxiety come up, but know that you can hold yourself through that feeling of anxiety. And know that the anxiety comes from you being too small in a too small of a space. It's not because you cannot handle the outside, it's because you feel there's not enough space for you. Keep breathing. Sit with the anxiety and feel the shell of the egg pressing against your body. The knowing that this is not how it's meant to go on. The knowing that you cannot sustain this any longer. You have outgrown the egg. You need to break through. And you need to do it yourself. So feel how the shell pushes you. How you're losing your comfort. And how you know there's no way back. Because you're not gonna shrink anymore. You're only going to grow more, take up more space, shine brighter, because that is your path. And keep breathing, keep breathing into the discomfort. Because you know it's time to leave the comfortness of this safe act that once provided you the safety. But you know there's no way to go back. This is the end of a chapter. And it's scary because there's a void. Keep breathing. You don't know what's gonna happen outside of the act. But you know that something needs to change. And that you need to take back your power and create that change. And keep breathing into your belly, into your chest and let go. Speed up a little bit more, 30 more seconds of this breath, into your belly, into your chest and let go. You're building up, you're preparing to break the egg. And start to feel more ready. Start to think different thoughts. Start to support yourself in a different way. Into your belly, into your chest, and let go. Be with the anxiety and be the bigger person. Feel how you're growing and growing and growing. And take your final breath because of your resistance. And do a bottom holds, complete bottom bottom holds through the darkest times and your ability to bring light. And as you're here, you start to notice how the egg doesn't need your force. How the egg is ready to open for you.

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I'm proud of how you handle disappointment and don't disappear with the fear. You keep the faith and push it. I'm proud of your view of life and their ability to see your perspective. Not just the one you feel fits best. I'm proud of the love you shower everyone, regardless if they don't deserve it. I'm proud of the friends you offer, the sister, the daughter in the park. I'm proud of the mistakes you turned the lesson. I'm proud of the journey. The fall and get right back. I'm proud you never once gave up. Never lost up. You fought to always show your heart.

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Take a breath in through the nose and release out through the mouth. And start with the breakthrough breath again. Into your belly, into your chest, and let go. Into your belly, into your chest, and let go. Feel the shift. Look at the egg. Can you see the light cracking through? Can you see how the void is not dark and scary, but bright and warm? And how it's calling you forward. How it's almost magnetic. How your heart leads you towards the other side. Keep breathing into your belly, into your heart, and let go. Into your belly, into your heart and let go. Into your belly, into your heart and let go. Can you open more to the light? To the next chapter. And as you're breathing, feel the expansion in your body. The strength, the power, the fierceness. Feel how you're called and drawn to the light. Relax your jaws, you're breathing. Relax your spine. Feel your own softness and your feminine energy. Oh, there's no force. Just a deep knowing, a natural unfolding. And as you're fully stepping out of this act into the light, into your next chapter. Feel the ease. And take your final breath of the breakthrough breath and then transition into the heart coherence breath. In through the nose, six seconds and out. In one, two, three, four, five, six, out, two, three, four, five, six, in, two, three, four, five, six, out. Keep going. Wherever you are right now make it brighter. See how everything you touch there becomes gold. Your reality. Your choice. If there's any part left of the egg that scared you, now you're out of it. Stepping out of it. Touch it. And give it your heart. Give it your gold. And as you feel your own strength, you know there's more. There's always more. So touch yourself with your hands and see how you are turning into gold. If you want to touch your heart. The egg cracked open. The old stories are released. And you get to fully enjoy this next chapter. Where everything you touch turns to gold, including yourself. And as you're breathing in through the nose, notice that there is a golden warm liquid flowing through your body. And with the exhale, that golden warm liquid stays with you and goes around you. Of how you get to feel in your own body when you choose to be bigger than the egg. When you choose to break through the egg. When you choose to honor your gentle strength, your power. Before taking your final breath, connect to this new version of you. Really let her be and be her. And as you feel the shift, take your last breath and exhale the old version of you. And when you feel that part is completed, open your eyes with intention. Welcome back. I hope that was a beautiful experience for you. And if you felt something crack open inside of you during this breathwork, I would love to hear from you on Instagram. You can text me at at amedrost or at Millionaire Breathwork. And yeah, just share with me what landed for you, what you experienced. It's beautiful to hear. And if you want, I would love for you to share this episode with one other person that really would benefit from having this experience. And if you really want to support me, get the word out about the beautiful work that I do, then you can share something on your stories and tech me and spread the word that way. I would be very, very grateful for that. And if you want to do more of this work, then that is exactly what we do inside of the Millionaire Breathwork Club. This is my signature membership. It's opening soon as we speak. It is not open yet, and only my expanded mastermind clients have access to all these recordings. But this is a space for coaches here specifically. Who know that their identity is key in growing their business and they are ready to embody that next level financially, energetically as leaders. They want to work on those pillars that I mentioned, the embodied leadership, wealth capacity, and sales alchemy. And this is not just something that you are meant to do only once, right? It's not like going to the gym once and expecting to be completely ripped and to be in the best shape of your life. This is something that you want to do consistently and integrate in your week. This is something I recommend to all my clients anyway, to have something like a somatic Sunday or another somatic moment, not just in a moment that you feel already overwhelmed and like you already need it, but in the moments that you just schedule in and be ahead of the game. Because nervous system regulation, that's one thing. But really expanding your nervous system, that happens intentionally, not just to kind of like make the fires go out when you're already overwhelmed. It's something that you do prevent it. And that's what Millionaire Breathwork also is meant to be. Because yeah, that's how you expand your capacity, to work with your capacity. Not by waiting for breakdowns, but consistently stepping into that next version of you. And the founder's rate for the Millionaire Breathwork Club is now open. So if you want to get on the wait list to be the first to know about this, the first members unlock this special rate for the membership and also some extra bonuses. You will find the link here in the show notes, or you can DM me the word club on Instagram, and I'm happy to share the link to the wait list with you. Thanks for tuning in into another bolt expansion podcast episode. If this episode inspired you, then hit subscribe so you won't miss any of the upcoming episodes. Write a quick review and share it with one friend who really needs to hear this. And if you really felt a big shift, then share it on your Instagram stories and tag me with at MDross. I would love to celebrate with you about your breakthroughs, and it helps me reach more people with my work. See you next week for another bolt expansion episode.