let’s talk about glass ceilings.
we all have them.
and we can all break through them.
it doesn’t matter where you fall on the spectrum of self-worth and busting past limiting beliefs, even theeee most successful people in the world have subconscious glass ceilings in their minds that they need to reprogram.
for some people, maybe it’s not about money, or career, or fame, or the amount of eyeballs you’re willing to have on you, or going after your dreams with wild abandon. for some maybe it shows up in relationships, or health, or romantic love, or parenting. because let me tell you, i’ve been in rooms with the leaders in my industry time and time again—and just because someone is at the top of their game doesn’t mean they have it all figured out in every area of life.
actually sometimes, the more success they have in one area, the more the other areas suffer. but it doesn’t HAVE to be that way. so i became determined to figure out how to make sure that never happened to me.
there are a few ways we can bust past those beliefs, and i believe there are a handful of people existing out there in the world right now who are FREE from any/all glass ceilings. you know the ones. they’re absolutely on fire. they’re thriving in all areas. they have nothing holding them back anywhere at all. they work hard but they know what really matters in life, and they are not fooled by smoke and mirrors.
it is my goal to become one of those people.
and i believe that to be one of those people, you must work through your life bucket by bucket and see where you still have limiting beliefs lingering around.
the big buckets in life are typically health, money, career, family, romantic love, self-worth, friendship, creative expression, assets, and so on.
so at the top of the year, because i am a serial entrepreneur through and through… i started asking myself the question: “what is my financial glass ceiling? and what can i do to bust all the way through it and shatter it into smithereens?”
and pretty quickly, the rough number became clear to me.
i've been in this influencing space for a long time. fourteen years to be exact! and for the majority of those years, i’ve made a similar number every year. for over a decade… i didn’t even look at those numbers! i felt freedom, i knew i was doing well, and i knew my team had the exact financials handled.
but in recent years, the financial details on the backend started to pique my interest more and more.
you’ve probably noticed, if you’ve followed along for a long time, because whereas i used to never talk about money (i thought it was tacky and taboo and truly ick behavior), i now talk about it openly and freely. i realized that me believing that talking about it was tacky and ick, was actually a glass ceiling in and of itself. because what is a glass ceiling, anyway?
a glass ceiling, in my view, is an invisible limit we place on what we believe we’re allowed to have, hold, receive, become, or even speak about. and the wild part is that most of the time, we don’t even know it’s there… we just call it our personality, our values, or in my case… it was so important to me to BE HUMBLE and not be annoying and not rub anyone the wrong way, that i thought talking about money was only reserved for people who didn’t actually grow up having money. and because i did grow up around it… i felt it was off limits for me.
limiting belief, much? or actually… inherited belief, much?
underneath that belief is usually the fear or feeling that’s running the whole show, and that’s the more interesting part that i really wanted to examine. for me, the question was, “what would happen if i made more than that number i roughly make every year, and what would happen if i doubled, tripled, or quadrupled it?”
and right then and there, my limiting belief was WILDLY clear to me.
read on to hear about what it was, how i busted past it, the exact scripting i used to rewrite the story of my life when it comes to financial glass ceilings (and soon enough, all glass ceilings in general—THIS WILL BE YOUR FAVE THING EVER), what that looks like for me with visibility, work, and life in general.
ready? this one is about to be the most vulnerable heart-spill of all time. let’s go.
my biggest limiting belief around making more money was…
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