What happens when you spend your life trying to meet everyone else's expectations?

In this episode, we sit down with entrepreneur, author, speaker, and identity and leadership strategist Kamini Wood to talk about one of the biggest obstacles to living an authentic and fulfilling life: outsourcing your self-worth.

Kamini shares how people-pleasing, external validation, guilt, shame, and unhealthy relationship patterns can cause us to lose touch with who we really are. We also explore how to break those patterns, establish healthier boundaries, rebuild confidence, and become the leader of your own life.

Kamini brings a deeply personal perspective to the conversation, including her experience leaving an abusive marriage, helping her children heal, and transforming her own relationship with herself.

In this conversation, we discuss:

• Why we become dependent on external validation
• The difference between people-pleasing and genuinely caring for others
• Codependency vs. healthy interdependence
• How toxic relationships can affect our identity
• Why setting boundaries can trigger guilt and shame
• How self-compassion builds resilience and confidence
• Breaking limiting beliefs and destructive behavior patterns
• How to stop living according to other people's expectations
• What it means to become your own “self-leader”
• How to rebuild your relationship with yourself

Kamini Wood is the author of OM: Life's Gentle Reminders, a speaker and the host of the RiseUp - Live Joy Your Way podcast. She studied positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and works with high achievers on confidence, imposter syndrome, boundaries, relationships, resilience, and authentic self-leadership.

If you've ever struggled with people-pleasing, needing approval, setting boundaries, or feeling like you're responsible for everyone else's happiness, this conversation is for you.

Learn more about Kamini and access her free ebook on limiting beliefs: kaminiwood.com

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