Stepping In to Release Control and Self-Abandonment Through a Forced Stop from the Corporate, Powerhouse Hustle with Meredith Vaish
In this episode, Kara is stepping in with Clarity Coach and Pause Box founder and CEO, Meredith Vaish. They are talking about the journey she went through after years of making it all happen as a powerhouse female hustling in Silicon Valley during the tech boom of the early 2000s, followed by a 16-year career as Marketing Communication Strategist at Stanford University all while operating as an amazing family woman, married to the love of her life and raising their 2 daughters. Kara and Meredith talk about her forced stop when her body suddenly hit a wall and said with symptoms, “Hey, I can’t do all the hustle anymore.” Meredith shares how she had to really pay attention and change some of the ways she was doing all things.
Highlights:
Learning to take up space. Are you comfortable needing space?
Feeling shame to ask for the space needed, afraid to let her team down.
The voices in our head become the voices we imagine others are thinking about us.
It takes trust to give up a good thing, knowing it’s not for you.
Take a “soul-batical” to rest and do some creative things.
Releasing it all and being ok with, there is nothing.
Take time to listen and stop trying to figure it all out.
Explore the 3 energies of hustle – pleasing, proving, and perfectionism.
Learn self-honoring as part of succeeding.
If you want to feel more golden, you have to dial up trust (which means turning down control) and turn on self-honoring (no more self-abandonment in the name of outcomes and success).
Being very successful and yet feeling like a failure
Turn on trust and self-honoring (and have compassion) when you see yourself in abandonment.
Meredith shares her energy quiz to help you identify where you are operating from – hustle, struggle, autopilot or the golden, creative zone.
Quotes:
“I would just deliver, deliver, deliver. There was nothing I've never delivered. I don't even think I'd had a failure.”
“Who am I if I am not doing all the things?”
(After taking space and going through healing,) “With solidarity, I knew I never want to go back…I couldn’t heal in a corporate cubical.”
S “The need to prove yourself and be valuable is a thread that needs to be untied. We are valuable.”
“I had to let go of the idea that I was being betrayed…My body is not betraying me (with the symptoms). She is my ally”
“After 50 we are so powerful. How do you want to use your power today?”
Connect with Meredith:
Website: https://pauseboxco.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pauseboxco/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meredith.vaish
Meredith Vaish (pronounced: Vesh) is a Clarity Coach, Pause Box CEO, and Host of The Full Living After 50 Podcast. She’s passionate about helping women CREATE WHAT’s NEXT through intuition and soul-guided action so they can step into their biggest dreams without draining themselves. Meredith is a certified Sourced (™) Coach & Retreat Leader and lives in the SF Bay Area.