150. Create Your Rules for Success (with Heather Whelpley)

150. Create Your Rules for Success (with Heather Whelpley)

Heather is a speaker, award-winning author, executive coach, and leadership development consultant passionate about empowering women to live, work, and lead with grounded confidence. With her unique blend of expertise and authenticity, Heather has become a frequent speaker for conferences and companies, where she creates engaging presentations that encourage people to share their voice, create impact, and step into their authentic leadership. Prior to becoming a speaker, Heather spent over a decade at Cargill and Ameriprise in a wide variety HR, leadership development, and change management roles in both offices and plants across the U.S., Latin America, and Australia. She’s the author of two transformative books—An Overachiever's Guide to Breaking the Rules and Grounded Wildness: Break Free from Performing Your Life and Start Living It. Heather lives in Colorado where she spends as much time hiking and exploring as possible.

In this episode:

• Heather introduces her book, An Overachievers Guide to Breaking the Rules, that contains a lot of her own experience of being an overachiever (listen to the poem that is read by Sue at the beginning!)
• How identity can be attached to achieving and where it starts.
• Why we focus so much on proving ourselves.
• How our dependence on achievement can be tied to our need for love and belonging.
• What can happen in our brain, when we try to slow down from our fast pace life.
• Rules may also be known as limiting beliefs or stories.
• Why are we so focused on being liked?
• What are some examples of rules that people may not realize are rules that they are following?

Information on Heather:  

• HeatherWhelpley.com
• Heather Whelpley on LinkedIn (in/heatherwhelpley)

The Book that Heather Recommends:

• The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

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