Why “Good Enough” Is Holding You Back

You’ve done everything “right” — the career, the degrees, the grind — yet something still feels off. In this unapologetic kickoff episode, Dr. Kimberly Dunlap exposes the hidden trap of “good enough” and why it quietly keeps high-achieving women of color small, safe, and stuck.
 She breaks down what it means to live Beyond Elevated — a life of abundance, alignment, and unapologetic purpose.

Tune in if you’re ready to stop performing for validation and start walking boldly in divine elevation.

✨ What You’ll Learn:

• Why “good enough” is the new comfort zone
• How to identify the moment you’ve outgrown your environment
• The mindset shift that opens the door to overflow
• What Beyond Elevated really looks like in real life

🎧 Listen, share, and rise. You weren’t created for average — you were created for elevation.

✨ Connect & Elevate with Dr. Kimberly Dunlap

🎙️ She’s BEYOND Elevated is the unapologetic podcast for ambitious women of color who are brilliant on paper but know deep down—there’s more.

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🔥 Ready to go from boxed-in to BEYOND? Your elevation starts here.

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Transcript

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Yeah. Hello beautiful you tuned in to She's Beyond Elevated with Doctor Kimberly Dunlap. The space where purpose meets power and faith meets execution here. We don't play small, we rise, we heal, and we elevate on every level. So get ready to shift your mindset, reclaim your brilliance, and step into the version of you that's been waiting to emerge. Let's get into it. Hey, beautiful, welcome to She is beyond elevated the very first episode. So this podcast was created for ambitious women, mostly of color, who are really brilliant on paper but desire more. Know that there's more to them. Most if not all of the women that I encounter have dealt with corporate corporate politics on some level and being in the corporate space more than 25 plus years, I have. Walk those journeys. I have experienced all of the things, and so I wanted to create a space where you were safe to have the conversations that aren't being had, where you are safe to feel the things that you're feeling. Then to have someone who is advocating for your success at all times. So let me introduce myself my name is Doctor Kimberly Dunlap I am a premier career and elevation strategist and I'm a speaker. I am a legacy mentor and I. Speak for the women that look like me who have checked all of the boxes. You've done everything right you've got the degree, you've got the job, you you did all of the things and you still feel unfulfilled and I. Have been there and I can relate and I understand. So that's why I'm here. So welcome. I thank you and I do not count it on robbery that you are here. I thank you for sharing this space this time with me. So let's get into it now. Just just to tell you something that actually may surprise you, right? I didn't really start this journey because everything fell apart. I stepped fully into my purpose because everything fell apart. However, on paper, I have by all accounts been. Successful Most people strive to make 6 figures in a year. I have been making six figures. In outside of outside of my business, but incorporate for probably 15 plus years. And at the time that I started in that space, it was unheard of for an African American woman, especially one that dropped out of high school. Went back later on went back. Graduated, I am, I was a teenage mother, I am divorced, all, all of the things. So you didn't see someone that looked like me have the level of success or what was countered to be a success. And I had all of those things. But what happened?Was is, although I had all of those things on paper, I, I just didn't feel fulfilled. It wasn't. I don't want to say that it wasn't enough because I'm very, very grateful of everything, but I felt like I was. I was destined here to do more after losing my eyesight. For more than 17 hours due to a diabetic coma, I started to really, really look at life differently. I had a one year old at the time and my greatest fear was to not ever be able to see her graduate high school. See her graduate high school and. As as my health was starting to be restored and my life was shifting, my mindset started to shift. And it was back in that time when I discovered that you really had the ability to. Draw into your life what you want and some of the things that you don't so. Again, I had all the titles, I did all of the things I have left, been in a position of leadership in every single role that I've ever possessed throughout my 40 plus years, 48 years now and I remember sitting in a Zoom meeting yet another one. Looking at my calendar and it had all of these things that I should be doing or that I needed to get done. And I was thinking to myself like this cannot be it. This cannot be my life right now. And that moment taught me or it or in that moment is when I realized I wasn't. We ate it just for good enough, right? I was created for. Beyond, I was created for the overflow. I was created and I was preserved to be elevated and I had a responsibility to do that. So that is what I did. This episode we're going to talk about why being good isn't good enough anymore, right? We're we're, we're good. I was good in, in in all senses of the word. I was truly good. I got to live where I wanted. I got to drive what I wanted. I wore what I wanted, I bought. What I wanted, I gave my children what I wanted. And out of all of those things, there were nights still that I cried because I knew that it was more to it. I knew I can I can remember sitting in a pool in one of a a performance evaluation and thinking to myself. How dare you? Shrink who I am or attempt to shrink who I am. In this place. And so I knew that it was more So what what I realized is that good is just an applause. You get for subtlety, right? Because let's be real, if you've got your choice. You would be doing excellent, right So. Good. I'm doing good. All right. Think about that. Even when you speak to someone. I'm doing good. I'm well, right? It's it's just enough. However, the moment that you realize that you are destined for great, you are destined or you are destined for excellent, good stops being good enough, right? You followed the rules. I, I, I mean, I'm speaking for myself. You did the work, you went to college, you sacrificed you, you know, skipped parties or, or, or if you're like me who went to school while being a family, further my degree while having a family, I, you know, didn't get to go to the pool with the kids. I just got to sit out by the pool with the kids and, and. With my laptop working because I had a paper, an assignment due on Monday or Sunday night

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59 on Sunday has to be done over 4th of July weekend. Even though your entire family is here and you want to be in the pool too. But you make those sacrifices and you sacrifice. Because you want more, you want better. And just to share my story a little bit, I often sign my emails with a Purple Heart. A black square and a sheep. And what that symbolizes for me is I am going to pay homage or I am going to. To exalt the black sheep in me, and I used to identify being a black sheep as a negative. I no longer do that. I look at being a black sheep in my family because I was labeled. Because I desired more than the norm, I went against the grain of what was acceptable in my family. And so because I went against that, I was the outcast. And I don't blame my family. I love my family for, for, for, for all of all of the things I love them for being for shaping me to be that person or the person that I am right now. I love them for that. I, I, I don't have any, any ill feelings because that. Title. Is what got me here Doctor Kimberly Dunlap so I'm OK with the title and and I no longer. Correlate being a black sheep as being negative. That's not my story. I choose not to take to to to to identify with that story. If you're a woman of color who's brilliant, you're gifted, you're well educated, and you're still wondering why am I not further along?I created this podcast for you right? If you checked every box, you still feel like you're overlooked. You've done all the things right. You're the most highly educated there in your in your your line of business, yet you're the the the lowest paid, right? This is your space and if you want to step. Out-of-the-box of expectancy and stop playing by the rules and and. Understand that the rules were never built for you. You're ready to start elevating by your terms. This is your show. OK, so each week I'm going to serve you a mix of. Solo coaching sessions where I break down how I rise with strategy and with soul, Right. We're going to have raw conversations with powerhouse women because there will be guests each month talking about a thing and showing how they were able to elevate. Themselves from the inside out and we're going to talk about spirituality, we're going to talk about mindset. We make able into religion because these are all the things that shape me. But we definitely will be reconnecting to the voice of God that's within you and the voice that you have. Whether you call it God, the universe, what whatever, whatever spirit, whatever you call it, I'm confident enough to say my God, whatever you want to call it, we're going to connect to that, that that voice, that space in you. OK, so. This is not going to be long. I'm not going to keep you a long time. Some conversations may run over and some not. We're going to be obedient to the Spirit. We are going to be obedient to the call. And I'm going to give you what I think that you need or what my Spirit has said that you need in that moment. OK, but before I let you go, here's your power prompt. I want you to think about over this next week, where in your life have you settled for just good when you know that greatness is calling? Is it in your job? Is it in your love relationship? Is it in your? Church relationship is it? Is it in your familiar? Familiar relationships or, or your relationships with your family. I want you to sit with it. I want you to journal on it. I really want you to talk to yourself. And then when you've done that, I want you to take one small step towards the version of you that's been waiting. The version of you that you have placed on the back burner OK, if this episode sparked something in you and I know that it was short, I don't I I that is purposeful don't keep it to yourself right share it with another woman who's. Already elevated, already rising, but is ready to elevate. OK, I want you to hit the subscribe button, leave a review and let's keep growing together this. Is something that I'm doing scared? This is what I'm called to do and I'm going to be obedient to the call. OK, if you're ready to go deeper. Head to www.weelevatehet.com/5daychallenge. And register or be put on the wait list to work with me one-on-one in a five day challenge. OK other events as well. And let's just stay connected. I want to see you win. I want to see you thrive. This is not just about success, but elevation, OK? And not just elevation. She's beyond elevated. You are beyond your greatest fear. You are beyond your greatest limiting belief. You're beyond all of that. You're beyond elevated. She's beyond elevated. I thank you so much and I. Again, do not count it as robbery. I'm so grateful to have you here. Leave a comment. Let's have the discussions. Tell me things that you like for us to talk about and we will definitely get those things done. I wish you peace. I wish you love. I am continuing to hold love and light, space and light. For you. Thank you for joining. Well, beautiful, thank you for tuning in to She's Beyond Elevated with Doctor Kimberly Dunlap. If this episode spoke to your soul, share it with another woman ready to rise. Remember, elevation isn't a destination, it's a decision. Keep shining, keep walking in purpose, and I'll see you in the next episode. No.