Episode Description:
If you have ever wondered:
"Why am I so exhausted by my own competence?"
"How do I redefine success on my own terms instead of someone else's?"
"Who am I actually waiting for permission from?"
- this episode is for you.
In this warm, honest and quietly powerful conversation, Tess and Layne welcome Kemi Nekvapil - one of Australia's most respected executive coaches, Penguin author of The Gift of Asking, Power and Grounded Success, a Certified Dare to Lead facilitator trained by Brené Brown, host of the globally ranked podcast The Shift Series, flower farmer, and the woman who has personally coached Layne herself.
Kemi has built her life's work on one radical idea: that you are always worthy of the ask. In this episode she unpacks what that really means for the woman who is endlessly capable, the one everyone relies on, who cannot remember the last time she asked for something just for herself.
She shares the wake-up call that has threaded through her whole life - learning to ask how does it feel to be here - and the day she walked off stage to a standing ovation and thought, I am so bored. That boredom, she realised, was a full-body yes to change. Along the way she and the hosts explore why risk has seasons, how we get seduced into stepping over our own boundaries, and a live coaching moment where Layne works through her own surfing retirement in real time.
This is a conversation about redefining success by how it feels, not how it looks, and remembering that the only person you have ever been waiting on for permission is you.
You will hear about:
Why being endlessly needed quietly keeps capable women from ever asking for what they want
The difference between a full-body yes, a full-body no, and a performance yes
Why risk has seasons, and how to find the version of a leap your nervous system can actually take
How to redefine success by how it feels, and why 70% peace beats chasing more
The one question that ends years of waiting: who am I actually waiting for permission from?
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