204 | When Mentors Become Stand-Ins for Your Parents

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You can hire the best coaches, buy every course, and still feel unsure about your decisions.

Because sometimes you're not actually looking for strategy.

You're looking for permission.

In this episode, I share a personal realization that completely shifted how I make decisions in business. I unpack how many entrepreneurs unconsciously replace parental validation with mentor validation, and how that pattern quietly keeps us disconnected from our own intuition.

We explore what it really means to trust yourself, receive support without surrendering your authority, and make decisions from confidence instead of approval.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why mentors can become stand-ins for parental validation
• The difference between advice and permission
• How childhood approval patterns affect business decisions
• Why trusting yourself creates better leadership
• Powerful reflection questions to help you reclaim your own authority

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