Ep. 89: The Feminine Flow of Success (Why Hustle Culture Doesn’t Work for Us)
[20 MIN LISTEN]
“Hustle harder. Do more. Push through.”
That’s the message we’ve been fed for years and it’s left so many women exhausted, disconnected, and questioning whether success is even worth it anymore.
In this podcast episode, I share what happens when we finally stop chasing the hustle and start embracing feminine flow — a way of living and working that honors our natural rhythms, emotional needs, and capacity for rest.
If you’ve ever found yourself caught in the burnout loop, this episode will help you remember that you don’t have to prove your worth by running yourself into the ground. There’s a better way to create, lead, and thrive.
The Burnout Loop and Why Hustle Culture Doesn’t Work
Hustle culture tells us that the harder we push, the more we’ll succeed. But what really happens? We become disconnected from our intuition, our joy, and our purpose.
Burnout isn’t just physical exhaustion; it’s emotional depletion. It’s waking up tired even after sleeping. It’s the loss of creativity and the constant feeling that you’re behind, no matter how much you accomplish.
This episode unpacks how the “always-on” mentality keeps us trapped in survival mode and how to begin shifting out of it.
Shifting into Flow
1. Notice Where You’re Forcing
Start by bringing awareness to where you’re pushing past your limits. Is it in your work? Your relationships? Your self-care? Forcing results disconnects you from your intuition. The moment you pause and allow space to listen, you can make decisions that actually feel aligned.
2. Redefine Productivity
Productivity doesn’t have to mean doing more, it can mean doing what truly matters. Ask yourself: What tasks actually move me closer to how I want to feel? When you align your energy with purpose, you naturally become more efficient, without the frantic pace.
3. Allow Space for Rest and Creativity
Rest isn’t laziness; it’s where your best ideas are born. When you let yourself slow down, inspiration has room to surface. Creativity and clarity thrive in stillness, not in overdrive. Flow happens when you trust that rest and action both serve your growth.
Aligned Success Is the New Hustle
True success doesn’t come from constant motion; it comes from alignment, from choosing what feels true, sustainable, and energizing.
Aligned success means trusting your timing, honoring your boundaries, and letting your worth stand apart from your output.
When you release the pressure to do it all, you make room for life to meet you halfway.
So take a breath. Step out of the burnout loop. And start creating from flow, not force.
Episode transcript:
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Welcome to The Life with Liz Podcast, the place to be if you wanna go from invisible to vibrant in your life, and embrace the power you didn't know you had inside of you. I'm your host, Liz Fleming, business owner, mom, military spouse, entrepreneur, founder, CEO, and life coach, who is passionate about helping ambitious women like you step into their power and their purpose on purpose so they can experience as much joy, success, satisfaction, and abundance as humanly possible.
Now without further ado, let's dive right into this episode.
Liz Fleming: Today, we are tackling hustle culture.
13 00:01:14.140 --> 00:01:21.810 Liz Fleming: Oh my goodness, please, can we talk about this? I feel like there's so many podcasts and platforms that have discussed this topic.
14 00:01:22.490 --> 00:01:23.929 Liz Fleming: Now it's my turn.
15 00:01:24.050 --> 00:01:27.810 Liz Fleming: We're talking about hustle culture and why it doesn't actually work for women.
16 00:01:28.090 --> 00:01:29.410 Liz Fleming: And…
17 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:40.930 Liz Fleming: You know, we've been taught as a society that success looks like grinding 24-7, checking boxes, never stopping, like, gotta make the paper.
18 00:01:41.350 --> 00:01:43.970 Liz Fleming: Chasing a paper.
19 00:01:44.270 --> 00:01:48.910 Liz Fleming: Yeah, no. We're not about that life. As master manifestors, we are not about that life.
20 00:01:49.440 --> 00:01:52.690 Liz Fleming: And… You know where this comes from?
21 00:01:53.480 --> 00:02:04.060 Liz Fleming: I found out, you know, as I was moving through all of my manifestation work over the last 5 years, one of the first things I found out about was something called a limiting belief.
22 00:02:04.170 --> 00:02:11.060 Liz Fleming: Which is essentially the lie that you tell yourself about why you can't have something, or why it's true or not true.
23 00:02:11.210 --> 00:02:20.189 Liz Fleming: So… I mean, the word lie is literally in belief. It's a limiting belief. It's a belief that limits you. So, an example of a limiting belief would be, like.
24 00:02:21.320 --> 00:02:30.039 Liz Fleming: I don't come from money, so I'll never have money. Or I have to work really hard to make money. I have to hustle if I want to be heard.
25 00:02:30.660 --> 00:02:34.470 Liz Fleming: those are examples of limiting beliefs, and I think for…
26 00:02:35.290 --> 00:02:39.249 Liz Fleming: Most of us, especially women, we grew up around…
27 00:02:40.090 --> 00:02:50.300 Liz Fleming: People and… and environments and experiences, where we saw our parents and our grandparents, Struggling in this way.
28 00:02:51.440 --> 00:02:59.309 Liz Fleming: And… I know for me, that's 100% what it is. Like, my limiting beliefs are tied to generational traumas. Like…
29 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:05.849 Liz Fleming: that, you know, I'm like… Currently in charge of Healing the lineage.
30 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:08.599 Liz Fleming: And what an undertaking that has become.
31 00:03:08.790 --> 00:03:20.669 Liz Fleming: But, let me give an example from my life, because I guess that's why we're here, going super personal on the podcast. So, the thing that comes up for me a lot is, I come from a family of entrepreneurs, right?
32 00:03:20.730 --> 00:03:29.669 Liz Fleming: And most people become entrepreneurs because they want the flexibility of working for themselves, they have a passion, they've nurtured, and they just…
33 00:03:29.970 --> 00:03:34.019 Liz Fleming: It's in their blood to just DIY.
34 00:03:34.310 --> 00:03:43.129 Liz Fleming: And… My grandfather… He… my maternal grandfather, Gino. Sweet Gino. RIP.
35 00:03:44.660 --> 00:03:53.409 Liz Fleming: he… he worked in many roles in his life, you know? He was a chemist for a long time, and then when he retired, he…
36 00:03:53.860 --> 00:04:08.059 Liz Fleming: just dove in to gardening. I mean, this man loved gardening so much. He was a master gardener. He had, like, over 500 tomato bushes in his backyard on a small piece of property in upstate New York.
37 00:04:08.760 --> 00:04:13.259 Liz Fleming: On top of many other things. I mean, peas, pumpkins.
38 00:04:13.510 --> 00:04:27.870 Liz Fleming: you know, strawberries, blueberries, you name it. Him and his wife, Ginny, RIP nanny, they ran the farmer's market locally, and it was like that for as long as I can remember.
39 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:37.089 Liz Fleming: Seeing those two in their 70s, their 80s, their 90s, Growing every season?
40 00:04:38.510 --> 00:04:40.940 Liz Fleming: you know… harvesting.
41 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:47.129 Liz Fleming: Lugging all that crap down to the farmer's market, on top of being in charge of all the other vendors, like…
42 00:04:47.230 --> 00:04:52.130 Liz Fleming: And what did they take home? A few hundred bucks, here and there, but they loved it.
43 00:04:52.830 --> 00:04:54.460 Liz Fleming: I know my grandfather did.
44 00:04:55.610 --> 00:04:58.200 Liz Fleming: I know my grandpa did. So…
45 00:04:58.760 --> 00:05:07.620 Liz Fleming: I, you know, growing up around that, I mean, just seeing how hard they worked with such a little return, other than, like, the love that they had for what they did.
46 00:05:07.810 --> 00:05:22.920 Liz Fleming: that's what I grew up around, but my grandfather was also very, you know, he loved money. He was like the running family joke. It was like he counted every… every cent, every penny, and he cherished it. And more than anything, like.
47 00:05:23.290 --> 00:05:33.199 Liz Fleming: you know, I just have wanted to give my family money. I just, like, you know, not that we struggled, really, we were very well taken care of, but…
48 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:39.010 Liz Fleming: My grandfather gave, and my grandmother gave to everyone, and…
49 00:05:39.180 --> 00:05:42.570 Liz Fleming: I just… I use this as an example because…
50 00:05:44.550 --> 00:05:50.869 Liz Fleming: You know, just seeing how much work they did for such little financial return.
51 00:05:51.090 --> 00:06:03.149 Liz Fleming: I think, kind of primed into my head that you have to work really hard to make money. And I've experienced, because of that, I was a part of the hustle culture. I, like, dove into, like.
52 00:06:03.450 --> 00:06:05.680 Liz Fleming: the most, what I thought.
53 00:06:06.200 --> 00:06:12.339 Liz Fleming: was the most glamorous career because of the Hallmark movies I grew up around. I became a publicist.
54 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:17.450 Liz Fleming: And… not knowing that I was gonna be working, you know.
55 00:06:17.950 --> 00:06:20.090 Liz Fleming: Sometimes 14 hours a day.
56 00:06:20.670 --> 00:06:31.770 Liz Fleming: And I didn't care. I was like, I just want to get to the top, I don't fucking care. And I was really good at what I did. So I hustled, I hustled, I grinded, I grinded, because it's all I ever knew, it's what I grew up around.
57 00:06:31.940 --> 00:06:37.470 Liz Fleming: It was like, if you… if you love what you do, you work and you work and you make that money. You chase the paper.
58 00:06:37.960 --> 00:06:44.589 Liz Fleming: And I don't think there's anything wrong with hard work, you guys. There's absolutely nothing wrong with working hard and loving what you do, and…
59 00:06:45.460 --> 00:06:57.289 Liz Fleming: It is… that is what it is. But I'm just using this as an example of where this limiting belief of mine comes from, that we have to grind 24-7, that I have to check the boxes, that I have to never, ever, never stop.
60 00:06:57.460 --> 00:07:04.040 Liz Fleming: Like, the machine just keeps going and going. So, I worked in the PR industry in a very unhealthy industry.
61 00:07:04.590 --> 00:07:17.700 Liz Fleming: For 10 years, and then I went out on my own, and even though I was working for myself, I was still grinding that many hours a day, because it's all my body knew. That's, like, what my…
62 00:07:17.810 --> 00:07:20.980 Liz Fleming: habits had become. That was, like, my norm.
63 00:07:21.260 --> 00:07:24.850 Liz Fleming: And when I pivoted… no. Pre-pivot.
64 00:07:25.230 --> 00:07:35.730 Liz Fleming: when I had my kids, it was like my kapow wake-up call. It was like, this is not sustainable. This is not the life that I want to live.
65 00:07:37.210 --> 00:07:40.919 Liz Fleming: But it was really hard to retrain my brain and my body to…
66 00:07:42.780 --> 00:07:45.410 Liz Fleming: Live a… start living a different lifestyle.
67 00:07:45.970 --> 00:07:47.530 Liz Fleming: Because you have to provide.
68 00:07:47.760 --> 00:08:00.549 Liz Fleming: We're mothers, we're parents, we need to provide, right? So it's almost like the burnout just kind of transformed to a new thing, if you will. It, like, went from being career burnout to parenting burnout.
69 00:08:01.100 --> 00:08:06.029 Liz Fleming: It's evolved, it's taken many forms, but now, here I sit.
70 00:08:06.370 --> 00:08:16.899 Liz Fleming: 2 years postpartum after having my second child, And I'm finally starting to… feel like I have…
71 00:08:17.100 --> 00:08:20.220 Liz Fleming: more control than I've ever had over…
72 00:08:21.430 --> 00:08:27.180 Liz Fleming: how I move through life, and that no longer feels like the hustle culture. And of course, as parents, like.
73 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:39.720 Liz Fleming: your kids, like, they go to school, right? Like, there's day-to-day little hustles. They're little, like, mini hustles. And I think that's just how it goes until you get into a groove.
74 00:08:40.090 --> 00:08:43.959 Liz Fleming: But, when it comes to you and your day-to-day.
75 00:08:44.330 --> 00:08:58.410 Liz Fleming: that's up to you and how you choose to use your time. You can wake up earlier, you can add buffer times to things, right? Like, there are definite workarounds, and that's what I'm learning right now, and I don't think we'll ever perfect this, but…
76 00:08:58.940 --> 00:09:09.140 Liz Fleming: what I'm getting at here is that it's so important to know the root cause of your limiting beliefs around hustle culture. Like, where does that stem from for you? Because…
77 00:09:09.530 --> 00:09:15.969 Liz Fleming: There's no way for you to heal that unless you get really honest with yourself about the root cause.
78 00:09:16.650 --> 00:09:25.760 Liz Fleming: And boy, oh boy, is that something that we talk about in depth inside of my new book, Powerhouse, and more. It is just so eye-opening what you can learn about yourself.
79 00:09:25.980 --> 00:09:28.530 Liz Fleming: So… Anyway…
80 00:09:28.780 --> 00:09:38.659 Liz Fleming: That's my little burnout story. So, I… yeah, I… we've all experienced burnout. I have burned out in many ways, not just from work, but from parenthood, and to me, that's like…
81 00:09:39.100 --> 00:09:46.879 Liz Fleming: just a level of exhaustion I can't explain. I mean, my body will have also a physical response, I'll get sick, I'll catch a cold.
82 00:09:47.290 --> 00:09:54.020 Liz Fleming: And, I don't know, my eyes will start twitching, you could get, like, an eye infection, you know? Styes are pretty common when it comes to stress.
83 00:09:54.810 --> 00:10:05.710 Liz Fleming: Oh, what else has happened for me? I'm gonna say for me, not to me, because every single time I've been burnt out, I've, as shitty as it has felt, I've also felt gratitude.
84 00:10:05.780 --> 00:10:18.729 Liz Fleming: For my body signaling me in that way. It's a lesson for me to just be like, oh, okay, this is when I should have slowed down. I shouldn't have let it get this far, but, you know, like, a week ago, I had this inkling, and I should have listened.
85 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:19.960 Liz Fleming: So…
86 00:10:20.550 --> 00:10:33.999 Liz Fleming: there are definite signs, personally, that you're gonna experience, or that you are experiencing burnout. And I think the biggest sign that you can get is, like, when you ignore your intuition when it comes to this stuff.
87 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:52.410 Liz Fleming: Like, if you're grinding really hard, and you're constantly having thoughts like, this sucks, I shouldn't be doing this, this doesn't feel right, I just feel like even your… if you're focusing in on your body, if you're not taking full deep breaths, if your heart is often racing, if you're getting night sweats, like, if you're just, like, fucking stressed all the time.
88 00:10:53.170 --> 00:11:06.389 Liz Fleming: It is so important that you listen to what your body is saying. Your body is trying to give you all of the answers. It has all of the answers. It is trying to feed them to you. It's only when you choose not to listen
89 00:11:07.090 --> 00:11:10.709 Liz Fleming: That you could potentially hurt yourself. That you burn out.
90 00:11:11.150 --> 00:11:13.369 Liz Fleming: And we don't want that. That's not what life's about.
91 00:11:13.940 --> 00:11:15.740 Liz Fleming: Hustle culture does not work.
92 00:11:16.140 --> 00:11:19.009 Liz Fleming: It doesn't. And again, nothing wrong with working hard.
93 00:11:19.430 --> 00:11:25.650 Liz Fleming: Good on you. I think that's super cool that you love what you do, or, like, there's something that lights you up enough that you want to do it all the time.
94 00:11:26.020 --> 00:11:31.300 Liz Fleming: But as we've talked about many times, boundaries, baby. Boundaries are healthy. So…
95 00:11:33.270 --> 00:11:50.839 Liz Fleming: hustle culture, it just… it doesn't work. You ignore your natural cycles, you are totally disregarding your intuition, you're stifling your creativity, and it's prioritizing output over alignment. Alignment is when we just feel so lit up. We feel like our…
96 00:11:51.060 --> 00:11:55.619 Liz Fleming: Like, the absolute healthiest, best versions of ourselves, energetically.
97 00:11:56.110 --> 00:11:59.650 Liz Fleming: But when we're prioritizing, you know…
98 00:12:00.310 --> 00:12:05.039 Liz Fleming: Sending out emails, or closing a deal over
99 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:10.879 Liz Fleming: I don't know. Our physical well-being? Hmm, probably not the best idea for us.
100 00:12:11.630 --> 00:12:26.599 Liz Fleming: So, that's usually a sign that you want to just kind of take a step back. I mean, I'm not telling you to, like, be reckless and quit your fucking job, like, we all need to make money and take care of our… our people, but there are smart and healthy ways to go around this, like…
101 00:12:27.140 --> 00:12:29.630 Liz Fleming: If you can't get out of a job that you hate right now.
102 00:12:29.870 --> 00:12:31.529 Liz Fleming: Be in your awareness with it.
103 00:12:31.650 --> 00:12:35.910 Liz Fleming: You know, maybe on your lunch break, you take 10 minutes to journal it out or meditate.
104 00:12:36.050 --> 00:12:39.010 Liz Fleming: Instead of just, like, having a…
105 00:12:39.250 --> 00:12:42.990 Liz Fleming: hateful vent sesh with your BFF coworker.
106 00:12:43.310 --> 00:12:52.449 Liz Fleming: And creating more of that negative energy. Or maybe when you get home, you go on a 15-minute walk on the trail with your dog.
107 00:12:52.610 --> 00:12:57.260 Liz Fleming: All things that I've done, my friends. There are workarounds for this stuff.
108 00:12:57.590 --> 00:13:08.250 Liz Fleming: It's not like you can just… we can all, you know, up and quit our jobs and go on a luxury vacation to the Mediterranean for 6 months and find ourselves, though we would very much like to.
109 00:13:08.670 --> 00:13:23.200 Liz Fleming: But it's all about being in your awareness and determining how you want to feel, how you want to live each and every day. Do you want to live it continually suffering? Because we're not here to suffer. I can tell you that right now. That's not why we're here.
110 00:13:23.520 --> 00:13:25.650 Liz Fleming: Or, do you want to move through your day?
111 00:13:26.230 --> 00:13:30.769 Liz Fleming: Feeling… feeling pretty great, and, like, thinking good thoughts about yourself and others.
112 00:13:31.410 --> 00:13:33.409 Liz Fleming: I'll take the latter, please.
113 00:13:33.630 --> 00:13:46.140 Liz Fleming: So, what does this feminine flow of energy look like? I'm not calling it hustle culture, I'm calling it, like, the feminine flow of energy. This is what it looks like. Listen to your energy cycles. Like.
114 00:13:46.300 --> 00:13:53.920 Liz Fleming: feel into your body. When you're in a good energy, like, acknowledge that. Be in your awareness with it. What does that feel like? Why?
115 00:13:54.270 --> 00:13:58.379 Liz Fleming: Same for when you're low energy, or, like, neutral energy. Just kinda…
116 00:13:58.640 --> 00:14:01.380 Liz Fleming: Don't trash talk yourself about it, right?
117 00:14:01.510 --> 00:14:20.470 Liz Fleming: We're not here to spirit shame ourselves into oblivion and, like, positive thinking only! Like, that is not how life works. It is certainly not how energy work works. I want you to just listen to your energy cycles and, like, your tells for your energy levels, and what those feel like, and learn to be in them, and nurture them.
118 00:14:21.060 --> 00:14:30.799 Liz Fleming: I want you also to allow space for creativity and rest. That is what feminine fucking flow feels like.
119 00:14:31.510 --> 00:14:37.100 Liz Fleming: We get to finally do what we want from a place of pure creativity.
120 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:43.540 Liz Fleming: And just… Chillin', man. Like, rest. Rest is essential.
121 00:14:44.770 --> 00:14:48.119 Liz Fleming: Success is built on alignment, not exhaustion.
122 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:51.009 Liz Fleming: And it can feel really hard to slow down.
123 00:14:51.530 --> 00:14:56.339 Liz Fleming: I know it has for me, I went from working 12-hour days to maybe 1 or 2 hours a day.
124 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:16.320 Liz Fleming: And that has been a several years long adjustment. So even still, when I come in here, after I put my kids down for a nap, my hustle brain is like, sit at your computer and churn out as much as you can do in the next 2 hours. But now my, you know, feminine flow brain is like.
125 00:15:16.460 --> 00:15:18.959 Liz Fleming: Hmm, no, I'm gonna go,
126 00:15:19.110 --> 00:15:25.259 Liz Fleming: do my wall Pilates for 10 minutes. I'm also going to meditate for 10 minutes.
127 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:30.109 Liz Fleming: I'm probably gonna, like, journal it out a little, and then I'm gonna sit at my desk.
128 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:43.440 Liz Fleming: And whatever feels good for me to work on in this energy is what I'm gonna do. And… that is always when I am my most productive. And it is also always when my kids sleep the longest. Thank you, universe. Thank you. Thank you, God.
129 00:15:44.790 --> 00:15:51.800 Liz Fleming: So… Things like that, my friends, are really how you can start to… Shift yourself…
130 00:15:52.410 --> 00:15:57.309 Liz Fleming: Into a new, elevated energy that's gonna serve you instead of stifle you.
131 00:15:57.970 --> 00:16:09.889 Liz Fleming: And here's how you can shift more toward that flow. So, just notice when you're forcing things. Like I just said, if you're sitting at your desk, wherever you are, maybe you're in your car, going on your way to a job, and you're just like.
132 00:16:10.460 --> 00:16:18.210 Liz Fleming: Being a bully to yourself, or you're trash-talking the people around you, you're in, like, your… negative spiral.
133 00:16:18.520 --> 00:16:20.040 Liz Fleming: Just kinda notice it.
134 00:16:20.160 --> 00:16:21.720 Liz Fleming: You know, we all love our days.
135 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:23.540 Liz Fleming: You know, we like to bitch.
136 00:16:23.830 --> 00:16:26.769 Liz Fleming: We gotta vent somehow. But just notice it.
137 00:16:26.880 --> 00:16:30.279 Liz Fleming: Notice what you're noticing, and notice when you're forcing.
138 00:16:30.520 --> 00:16:38.949 Liz Fleming: Especially when it comes to the work part. Like, if you're sitting at your desk and you're like, what else can I check off on this list? I must, I must, I must. That feels forceful.
139 00:16:39.390 --> 00:16:47.409 Liz Fleming: Let's not do that. Maybe, like, let's get up and let the blood flow through our legs and our body for a little bit, and dance to a song or two.
140 00:16:49.020 --> 00:16:51.620 Liz Fleming: You can also shift toward flow by slowing down.
141 00:16:51.910 --> 00:16:53.970 Liz Fleming: We can experiment with slowing down.
142 00:16:54.170 --> 00:16:59.260 Liz Fleming: You know, we don't have to slow down every single day. But I also don't think it's slowing down is just for the weekends.
143 00:16:59.640 --> 00:17:05.229 Liz Fleming: Can we, like, integrate slowing down into our daily routines, please? Because it is so, so good for you.
144 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:10.090 Liz Fleming: And also, not just during the holiday seasons, either, or vacations, like.
145 00:17:11.500 --> 00:17:15.619 Liz Fleming: Weave slowing down. Make that, like, a natural part of your life.
146 00:17:16.900 --> 00:17:18.500 Liz Fleming: It feels so good.
147 00:17:18.790 --> 00:17:22.719 Liz Fleming: It takes 21 days to make something a new habit, 30 days to make something a new habit.
148 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:27.840 Liz Fleming: So, try that. Experiment. Give yourself a little challenge of slowing down.
149 00:17:28.310 --> 00:17:30.110 Liz Fleming: Throughout the day. Like…
150 00:17:30.450 --> 00:17:37.049 Liz Fleming: One of my favorite ways to do this is, like, from moment to moment. I've stopped rushing from moment to moment, right?
151 00:17:37.550 --> 00:17:41.809 Liz Fleming: For example, trying to get the kids out the door in the morning. I'm like, okay.
152 00:17:42.520 --> 00:17:56.509 Liz Fleming: It's time to get our shoes on to go to school, which always takes, like, 39 hours. But here I am, allowing them to try it themselves, but I've added buffer time, so I can slow down and be in the moment with them, with it.
153 00:17:57.280 --> 00:18:00.260 Liz Fleming: Plus, it just gives us something to do before school.
154 00:18:00.770 --> 00:18:12.249 Liz Fleming: And then, you know, I just have chosen, like, I don't want to rush from thing to thing to thing. Rushing is, like, my number one pet peeve, you guys. I cannot stand it. Like, I've always been the girl that's like, you're either 15 minutes early or you're late.
155 00:18:12.540 --> 00:18:20.489 Liz Fleming: I, I, like, leave early for everything, I'm the girl that's at the airport 7 hours before a flight takes off. Like, I just don't like to be rushed.
156 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:24.239 Liz Fleming: But, because of the career that I grew up in.
157 00:18:24.800 --> 00:18:30.830 Liz Fleming: that's all I've ever known, is like, rush, rush, rush, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, like, get in, go, go, go! So…
158 00:18:31.330 --> 00:18:39.429 Liz Fleming: My body still feels that way sometimes, but I know the tells, and I'm able to just consciously experiment with slowing down.
159 00:18:39.840 --> 00:18:43.570 Liz Fleming: And it feels real good. Feels real good when you get in a good groove with that.
160 00:18:43.760 --> 00:18:48.690 Liz Fleming: And then, finally, to shift toward flow, like, redefine your productivity.
161 00:18:49.020 --> 00:18:51.800 Liz Fleming: As… aligned output.
162 00:18:52.950 --> 00:18:57.579 Liz Fleming: Like, when you complete tasks, make sure that they feel in alignment.
163 00:18:57.900 --> 00:19:03.370 Liz Fleming: With who you are, and your values, right? You're not just a worker drone. You're not a worker bee.
164 00:19:04.250 --> 00:19:06.000 Liz Fleming: And you want to do a great job.
165 00:19:06.560 --> 00:19:07.630 Liz Fleming: Which I love.
166 00:19:07.950 --> 00:19:08.950 Liz Fleming: Go you.
167 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:10.709 Liz Fleming: Don't we all?
168 00:19:12.250 --> 00:19:16.270 Liz Fleming: But, remember who you are, and remember what you value.
169 00:19:16.530 --> 00:19:23.619 Liz Fleming: And nothing and no one is going to benefit from you being in a negative, icky, tired, burnt out.
170 00:19:24.070 --> 00:19:25.770 Liz Fleming: Hustle-heavy energy.
171 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:34.370 Liz Fleming: So, I hope that… You take this episode to heart, because it's something that…
172 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:41.719 Liz Fleming: has always been a huge trigger for me, and I wish that I had a resource like this to just listen to all those years ago.
173 00:19:42.080 --> 00:19:48.460 Liz Fleming: All those years ago, when I was just so caught in the grind, the hustle grind, And…
174 00:19:48.670 --> 00:19:52.910 Liz Fleming: That hustle culture, it just doesn't create sustainable success.
175 00:19:53.280 --> 00:19:54.640 Liz Fleming: The flow does.
176 00:19:55.010 --> 00:20:00.780 Liz Fleming: And it's so important that you know what your good, energetic flow feels like.
177 00:20:01.950 --> 00:20:07.569 Liz Fleming: And when you step into that feminine flow, you'll notice life starts to feel lighter.
178 00:20:07.790 --> 00:20:13.359 Liz Fleming: And easier, and more in alignment with who you are, and what you value, and what you love.
179 00:20:13.510 --> 00:20:17.250 Liz Fleming: And that… My friends, is the name of the game.
180 00:20:17.770 --> 00:20:23.879 Liz Fleming: That's the essence of Powerhouse 2, my new book, Creating Success That Doesn't Cost You Your Soul.
181 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:31.160 Liz Fleming: And that pre-order link is down in the show notes, so go get yourself a copy, and if you do, when you do.
182 00:20:31.190 --> 00:20:48.149 Liz Fleming: before it comes out on November 12th, you also get a free 9-minute guided meditation from me to help you step further into your power. It's one of my favorite meditations that I've ever recorded, and I'm so excited to share it with all my pre-order purchasers, like you.
183 00:20:48.270 --> 00:20:53.810 Liz Fleming: So go out there, be a powerhouse, and remember, you don't have to hustle to get there, baby.
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