Is Personal Development Actually Slowing Down Your Transformation?

The energy of miracles is all around us, we just need to know how to tap into it. In this episode, we revisit my conversation with David Ghiyam, co-founder of MaryRuth Organics, one of the leading wellness brands in the world. We dive deep into the ancient spiritual principles of Kabbalah that guide every area of our everyday lives, our businesses, and our relationships. We unpack how these principles can actually show you how to manifest your desires starting from the soul-level, expand your consciousness, and unblock yourself towards limitless possibilities.   HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 How pain expands us to receive more opportunity. 08:50 The spiritual foundations of Kabbalah. 12:35 How to connect to the light of the Creator. 22:15 Which spiritual principles were key to scaling your business? 28:50 The #1 thing that shifts all founders towards success. 34:05 How do competing desires limit our ability to receive (and how to break through it)? 39:15 How to confront your fear of visibility. 44:10 Why does energy make a difference when pursuing opportunities? 49:59 How does Kabbalah influence your business? 55:35 What is the best way to support MaryRuth? 58:35 Celebrating David's Powerhouse moment of taking a three week break for himself.   RESOURCES + LINKS Learn more about David HERE Join us for the event of the year - grab your ticket to Powerhouse Women 2026 HERE!   FOLLOW David: @davidghiyam Powerhouse Women: @powerhouse_women Lindsey: @lindseymarieofficial Visit the Powerhouse Women website: powerhousewomen.co Join the PW Community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity

Before there was the Powerhouse Women you see today, there was a tiny seed, a small voice. Today, I share the story of how a $75,000 mistake ended up being the most valuable lesson about business I've ever learned. This was the moment that I could have viewed as a massive failure… but instead, it became an opportunity to connect back into my inner knowing. I reveal how to reframe any expected detours life throws your way into a powerful asset that'll help you tap into your big vision, listen to your intuition, and move powerfully from 2025 to 2026.   HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 Why our failures and mistakes are all a part of the growth journey. 05:15 Why I'm focusing on intuition going into the new year. 11:10 The $75K mistake I made + what it taught me about business. 16:20 How to reframe detours into a lesson in trusting your inner knowing. 20:40 What do you need to powerfully move into 2026?   RESOURCES + LINKS Apply for the Fall 2025 Expanders Retreat HERE   FOLLOW Powerhouse Women: @powerhouse_women Lindsey: @lindseymarieofficial Visit the Powerhouse Women website: powerhousewomen.co Join the PW Community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity

You can have the dream, you can have the vision, but if you don't have the money…? Today, I'm joined live on stage with four brilliant women who have scaled different types of businesses in different types of ways: Lori Harder, Veena Jetti, Janice Omadeke, and Kelly Kussman! We get into powerful funding strategies for female founders, so you can lean into the best one that works for your business. Our expansive conversation will provide the money habits, operations, and systems we wish we had known sooner to scale faster and smarter. Whether it's bootstrapping for as long as possible, fundraising for the first time ever, or finding the right investor, you'll discover how to finance your big dream!   HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 Meet the women behind the 2025 PW Event Finance Panel with Lori Harder, Veena Jetti, Janice Omadeke, and Kelly Kussman! 15:40 The top three priorities to bootstrap a product-based business. 20:15 What made Lori decide to fundraise for glōci? 24:30 One operational system to help you scale faster. 31:50 What do investors look for beyond the numbers? 38:50 When is the right time to take on money + what should you look for in outside investors? 44:45 Preparation steps for when you know you're ready to start fundraising. 53:55 Realistic funding paths for a service-based business.   RESOURCES + LINKS Join the waitlist for the 2026 Powerhouse Women Event HERE   FOLLOW Lori: @loriharder Veena: @veenajetti Janice: @janiceomadeke Kelly: @kelly_ward_kussman Powerhouse Women: @powerhouse_women Lindsey: @lindseymarieofficial Visit the Powerhouse Women website: powerhousewomen.co Join the PW Community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity

The longer you delay taking action, the more you suffer. Today, I break down how personal development can actually be the thing slowing down your transformation. It's so easy to get stuck in planning mode and hesitate on taking the next action step, even if you know what it is you need to do. I'm sharing how to turn awareness into immediate action, shift away from overthinking, focus on building momentum over results, and align your current identity with the next version of you.   HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 Can personal development slow down our transformation? 05:00 How to use awareness to find the next action step. 07:35 Ways we get stuck in planning mode versus taking action. 10:50 Why we should focus on momentum over results. 13:15 My challenge to you: Take the immediate action you know you need to do.   RESOURCES + LINKS Apply for the Fall 2025 Expanders Retreat HERE   FOLLOW Powerhouse Women: @powerhouse_women Lindsey: @lindseymarieofficial Visit the Powerhouse Women website: powerhousewomen.co Join the PW Community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity

Before you become, you must first unbecome. Today, I'm excited to share the stage with Brittainy Noel, founder and creator of Heart Talks and transformational speaker. She is someone whose voice and experience really speaks to the heart of the transformation process, what it looks like in the messy middle of it, and rediscovering who you are after trauma. She shares how to get radically honest with yourself and create space to step into the next identity upgrade your transformation requires. We also open up the room for an interactive segment that highlights the real struggles high-achieving women face, including the fear of success, rewriting limiting beliefs, and tapping into your worthiness after seasons of living in survival mode.   HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 Meet Brittainy Noel, transformational speaker and creator of Heart Talks! 03:35 The role of self-destruction in the transformation process. 07:40 How to find your identity when you don't know who you are. 12:05 What we had to let go of in order to become successful. 18:25 How do you navigate the fear of success when opportunity comes your way? 21:55 One tool to celebrate your wins, even during a busy season. 25:15 How to rewrite the script you've been telling yourself for years. 30:10 Ways to tap into your inner worthiness after living in survival mode. 36:50 What happens when we slow down and become more present in our lives? 40:05 Brittainy's invitation for you to become the main character of your life.   RESOURCES + LINKS Join the waitlist for the 2026 Powerhouse Women Event HERE   FOLLOW Brittainy: @brittainynoel Powerhouse Women: @powerhouse_women Lindsey: @lindseymarieofficial Visit the Powerhouse Women website: powerhousewomen.co Join the PW Community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity

When you're facing a difficult situation, or a lot of change and uncertainty leaves you struggling to see your next steps, remember this: Fear narrows, curiosity expands. This week, I share how to identify, navigate, and shift away from the energy of uncertainty in order to expand what you see and believe as possible. I break down what it looks like to operate in fear versus curiosity, the biggest indications you're operating in one over the other, and how to tap into your intuition even in a fear-based world. The goal isn't to spiritually bypass or lie to yourself, the goal is to open your mind to infinite possibilities you can't see when operating from fear.   HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 How fear affects our mindset in the moment (fear narrows, curiosity expands.) 03:00 How to tell if you're operating from fear or curiosity. 05:55 Ways to shift the energy of fear and expand what you see as possible. 12:10 Questions to ask yourself to switch into curiosity-based thinking. 15:00 What is blocking you from seeing your next step?   RESOURCES + LINKS Apply for the Fall 2025 Expanders Retreat HERE   FOLLOW Powerhouse Women: @powerhouse_women Lindsey: @lindseymarieofficial Visit the Powerhouse Women website: powerhousewomen.co Join the PW Community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity

Ready to be seen on a larger scale? Then you're in the right place! I took the stage with Krista Williams, Kat Norton, and Lori Harder to unpack the visibility blueprint for growing your audience, your business, and your impact like never before. They share how they grew their massive online platforms using their unique business models, how to build pre-launch hype, where collaboration comes into play, and even more. Plus, a real-time Q&A with our community of Powerhouse women on growing locally, balancing your audience with your vision, and making powerful investments in your team.   HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 The visibility blueprint to grow your audience. 03:30 Where and how are you building your platforms? 14:40 The audience growth strategy for social media. 18:35 Ways to strategically utilize collaboration to gain more visibility. 21:00 How to leverage your message to grow your audience. 24:00 Lori's text launch strategy. 29:50 The key to build pre-launch hype. 35:05 How do you build a local community? 39:45 What is the best way to grow your podcast? 43:45 How to balance what your audience needs with your vision. 50:20 Winning strategies to build your team while staying lean.   RESOURCES + LINKS Join the waitlist for the 2026 Powerhouse Women Event HERE   FOLLOW Krista: @itskrista Kat: @miss.excel Lori: @loriharder Powerhouse Women: @powerhouse_women Lindsey: @lindseymarieofficial Visit the Powerhouse Women website: powerhousewomen.co Join the PW Community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity

The energy of receiving is the exact energy of abundance we need to call in big things. On this live podcast episode, I sit down with my community audience to answer their questions around taking action, opening yourself up to receiving, navigating visibility, and living as the woman you want to become. I talk about how to not only envision the life of your dreams, but how to take the next actionable step towards embodying it on a deeper level. Plus, tips for how to balance visibility and privacy while growing your business online and how to slow down, pour into yourself, and enjoy the process while you chase the next achievement.   HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 How do you overcome imposter syndrome to take the leap? 05:00 What happens when we open ourselves up to the energy of receiving in all forms. 13:00 The difference between having a roadmap versus letting it all unfold. 20:30 How to dream big and live in the future you imagine for yourself. 25:00 How do you balance visibility with privacy? 28:10 What to do when your content attracts negativity. 33:15 A reminder for all high-achieving, ambitious women wondering, "Is there more?" 39:40 How to slow down and pour into yourself when you're goal-oriented.   RESOURCES + LINKS Join the waitlist for the 2026 Powerhouse Women Event HERE   FOLLOW Powerhouse Women: @powerhouse_women Lindsey: @lindseymarieofficial Visit the Powerhouse Women website: powerhousewomen.co Join the PW Community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity

One of my favorite things about the Powerhouse Women event every year is bringing together brilliant, like-minded women together in one place. Today, you're getting a front row seat to a very special LIVE stage where my dear friend Lori Harder sat down with Kim Perell, serial entrepreneur, speaker, author, and startup mentor. She shares how she turned a $10k loan from her grandma into a $100M business, the "70% rule" to transform overthinking into instant action, and the importance of finding your tribe, your mentors, that'll guide you to the next level of success. Plus, the biggest red flags founders should avoid, building a healthy relationship with failure, protecting your energy through designated life audits, and even more tactical needle-moving tips!   HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 How Kim built a $100M company from a $10k loan. 07:00 What is the biggest mistake that cost you millions (+ how did you get through it)? 10:00 The "70% rule" to stop overthinking and make faster decisions. 13:30 How your relationship to failure can help you as a leader. 17:15 Kim's life audit hack to protect your energy and remove toxic energy drains. 20:25 How do you manage risk, balance, motherhood, and entrepreneurship? 26:00 Why asking for help is so important (+ how to ask for it). 31:30 How to know when and where to invest in. 32:40 Tips to overcome the 4 P's (perfectionism, procrastination, paralysis, and pessimism). 35:40 How did you build a strong support system of women? 40:50 The three things Kim looks for when investing. 43:10 What is the biggest ask you have for our audience?   RESOURCES + LINKS Get your copy of "Mistakes that Made Me a Millionaire" by Kim Perell HERE Learn more about Kim Perell HERE Join the waitlist for the 2026 Powerhouse Women Event HERE   FOLLOW Kim: @kimperell Powerhouse Women: @powerhouse_women Lindsey: @lindseymarieofficial Visit the Powerhouse Women website: powerhousewomen.co Join the PW Community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity

If you're here, that means you're ready to grow (whether you consciously realize it or not)! On this live podcast episode, we talk through some of the biggest blocks and resistances that stand in our way from growing. Even when we already know what our next course of action should be, or even if we recognize exactly what needs to change, it can feel scary to actually do the thing. That's why I want to pull back the curtain to the process of shedding your old identity to step into your upgraded version, how to show up and be seen without fear, and take action FASTER to reach the breakthrough you need. This conversation is your unlock to less self-sabotage and resistance and more expansion, more healing, and more transformation!   HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 What is getting in your way and stopping you from growing? 13:05 How to tell if you're healing or hiding. 18:05 What is the next action you need to take, and how do you take it? 24:45 What actually keeps us tied to our old identities. 27:55 How to identify blocks we are subconsciously resisting. 37:25 Ways to overcome a deeper fear of success. 46:10 How to take action after you make the decision.   RESOURCES + LINKS Join the waitlist for the 2026 Powerhouse Women Event HERE   FOLLOW Powerhouse Women: @powerhouse_women Lindsey: @lindseymarieofficial Visit the Powerhouse Women website: powerhousewomen.co Join the PW Community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity