Ellevated Achievers™

What stage are you in when the chaos hits?

Molly Thompson dives into the five stages of chaos that occur when things fall apart, sharing deeply personal anecdotes and insights on moving from blame to an authentic future focus.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The five stages of chaos are loss of control, scarcity, self-doubt, anger, and action.

• Awareness of your current stage impacts the decisions you make.

• Moving past blame is essential to step into authentic action.

LINKS & RESOURCES

• Website: www.ellevated-achievers.com 

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mollythompson135

ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™

Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.

Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it. This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.

MUSIC CREDITS

Music by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if the key to unlocking growth isn't reaching more people, but connecting more deeply with the right ones? In this special episode, host Molly Thompson turns the microphone around to interview her own podcasting mentor, Tamar Routly, founder of the Podcast Impact Studio.

Tamar shares the powerful story of how saying "no" to a misaligned client, despite the financial fear, opened the door to multiple better opportunities. This conversation is a masterclass in moving from a scarcity mindset to one of sovereignty, and from performing for an audience to building genuine connection.

Molly and Tamar explore the strategic importance of niching down to your "one person," the difference between a host who performs and one who connects, and why embracing the "messy middle" is more powerful than pretending to be perfect.

Our Guest

Tamar Routly is the founder of the Podcast Impact Studio, where she helps entrepreneurs and leaders find their authentic voice and create podcasts that forge deep audience connections. Drawing from her own journey of recovery and entrepreneurship, Tamar's approach is rooted in the power of vulnerability, storytelling, and speaking directly to the listener who needs to hear it most.

Website: https://podcastimpactstudio.com/

Key Takeaways

• The Power of No: Saying no to opportunities that aren't a good fit isn't a loss; it's an act of creating space for what is meant for you.

• Find Your "One Person": When you try to talk to everyone, you connect with no one. Focusing your message on a single ideal listener creates a ripple effect of authentic connection.

• Connection Over Performance: Leading with credentials and polish can create distance. Leading with your real story, including the struggles, builds trust and relatability.

• Perfect Isn't Relatable: The pressure to appear perfect is an illusion. Your audience connects with the real, unedited journey, not a flawless highlight reel.

• Your "Why" is Your Anchor: To avoid burnout and stay motivated, continuously reconnect with the core reason you started your work. The emotion you feel is the emotion your audience will feel.

LINKS & RESOURCES

Website: https://www.ellevated-achievers.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mollythompson135

ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™

Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™. Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes powerful in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance, not despite your wiring, but because of it. This show is about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.

MUSIC CREDITS

Music by EVGENY from Pixabay

Do you feel like you're living someone else's life?

Molly Thompson dives deep into the hidden challenges faced by neurodivergent leaders, guiding listeners to embrace their authentic selves rather than concealing their true brilliance. Discover how to navigate the chaos and transform your energy into impactful leadership.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Embrace your unique wiring as a source of strength.

• Stop shrinking to fit systems not designed for you.

• Build a life and work aligned with your natural rhythm.

LINKS & RESOURCES

• Website: www.ellevated-achievers.com 

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mollythompson135

ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™

Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.

Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it. This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.

MUSIC CREDITS

Music by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if the biggest shift you need isn't a new strategy — it's a new way of thinking?

Molly sits down with Gary Mottershead — CEO of GCP Industrial Products, author of Nimble Future, and a Strategic Coach workshop leader who's coached thousands of entrepreneurs over 30 years — for a conversation about why most entrepreneurs don't get stuck because of what they're doing, but because of how they're thinking. Gary shares his framework for reinterpreting your past, protecting your present, and engaging your future with clarity. He brings real stories from navigating tariffs and trade uncertainty, a powerful analogy about fog lights, and the moment a Chinese business partner said nine words that changed everything.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Ellevated Achievers don't get stuck because of what they're doing — they get stuck because of how they're thinking. The shift in thinking is what changes everything else.

• If you don't have to make a decision right now, don't. Gathering information and waiting isn't weakness — it's wisdom. Gary held off on salary cuts through months of uncertainty and never had to make them.

• Your past doesn't define your future, but it can shape your direction — bring only what will sustain your orbit. Everything else is a booster stage to jettison.

• Clarity is like fog lights, not high beams — more energy in the fog just glares back at you. The right kind of light, aimed low and specific, shows you the center line and the edges of the road.

NOTABLE QUOTE

"If you believe in yourself, we believe in you."

ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAY

Where in your life are you turning on the high beams in the fog — pouring more energy into something that's only glaring back — when what you actually need are fog lights aimed at just the next stretch of road?

LINKS & RESOURCES

• Book: Nimble Future — Gary Mottershead 

• GCP Industrial Products 

• Gary Mottershead's Clarity Generates Confidence podcast * Strategic Coach: Ellevated

• Achievers community: www.ellevated-achievers.com

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/

ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAY

Where in your life are you turning on the high beams in the fog — pouring more energy into something that's only glaring back — when what you actually need are fog lights aimed at just the next stretch of road?

ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™

Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.

Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.

This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.

MUSIC CREDITS

Music by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if the bravest thing you could do is simply want what you want?

In Part 2, Molly and Nicole Solitar go deeper into the intersection of courage, vulnerability, and intuition — and why all three are essential for building a life that's truly aligned with your unique ability. Nicole shares why vulnerability isn't weakness but actually the gateway to better strategy, why every strength overutilized becomes a weakness, and why wanting what you want is exponentially harder for women — and why doing it anyway is the whole point.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Vulnerability isn't weakness — it's what allows others to come all the way in, sit all the way down, and actually help you. Hiding what's uncertain means cutting off your access to the best strategy.

• If a commitment doesn't generate the "oh crap," it's probably incremental — real growth comes from committing to the unknown, not repeating what you already know how to do.

• Every strength overutilized becomes a weakness — even vulnerability. Know when it's serving you and when it's becoming a comfortable place to hide instead of grow.

• Wanting what you want is 10 times harder for women — the pressure to be responsible, selfless, and relationally accountable makes unapologetic desire feel dangerous. But it's the North Star that makes everything else work.

NOTABLE QUOTE

"To not lean into how you create value, to trust your intuition and to get intentional with how you protect time to do it is truly a disservice to the world in its entirety."

ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAY

If you could want what you want — without justifying it, apologizing for it, or making it smaller — what would you be running toward right now?

LINKS & RESOURCES

• Nicole Solitar — Strategic Coach program advisor and coach 

• Strategic Coach: strategiccoach.com

• Ellevated Achievers community: www.ellevated-achievers.com

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/

ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™

Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.

Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.

This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.

MUSIC CREDITS

Music by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if protecting your energy matters more than managing your time?

Molly sits down with Nicole Solitar — program advisor and coach at Strategic Coach — for a conversation about what happens when high-achieving women stop chasing productivity and start designing their weeks around energy, intuition, and impact. Nicole has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs clarify their unique ability and build lives around what truly matters, and over the past year, she's helped Molly create what she now calls the Ellevated Week — a system built around energy, not obligation.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Ease does not mean less valuable — in fact, the things that come easiest to you are often where your greatest value lives. When you're pushing against something, it's usually a sign you're out of your groove.

• Slowing down to speed up isn't a cliché — it's a strategy. Giving things the proper space and time actually lets you move faster because you're not constantly cleaning up the mess of moving too quickly.

• The ceiling of complexity isn't about capacity — it's about what you're filling your capacity with. Transitioning from quantity to quality is how incremental growth becomes exponential.

• Female entrepreneurs may actually have a better opportunity to design an elevated week because intuition — when trusted — is a more powerful filter for what should and shouldn't get your attention than any time-blocking system.

NOTABLE QUOTE

"Ease does not mean less valuable. In fact, a lot of times the things that are more easy are where the value really is."

LINKS & RESOURCES

• Nicole Solitar — Strategic Coach program advisor and coach 

• Strategic Coach: strategiccoach.com

• Ellevated Achievers community: www.ellevated-achievers.com

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/

ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™

Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.

Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.

This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.

MUSIC CREDITS

Music by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if the thing you've been shutting down is the thing that sets you free?

In this Ellevated Moments episode, Molly shares something deeply personal — a raw, real-time recording from the middle of an anxiety episode. She opens up about being misdiagnosed with anxiety and depression six years before her ADHD diagnosis, the shame that lives underneath the overwhelm, and the moment she discovered that talking her way through it was the way out. This is Molly at her most vulnerable, and it's exactly the kind of conversation Ellevated Achievers need to hear.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Anxiety and depression are classic markers for ADHD — Molly was misdiagnosed six years before getting the right diagnosis, and that reframe changed everything

• The chatter in your head isn't a disease — it's a reaction to overwhelm, and naming it takes away its power

• High-achieving women can be in a room full of people and still feel deeply isolated — shame thrives in silence, and connection is the antidote

• The best response to fear isn't calm — it's action. Talk your way through it, reach out to your community, and move

NOTABLE QUOTE

"By not shutting down, by reaching out to people, I got into communication with a friend. I started talking to people and I got into action."

ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAY

When the chatter gets loud and you start to shut down, who is the first person you could reach out to — and what would it take to make that call?

LINKS & RESOURCES

Ellevated Achievers community: www.ellevated-achievers.com 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/

ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™

Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.

Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.

This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.

MUSIC CREDITS

Music by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if the key to real wealth isn't knowing more — it's knowing yourself?

In Part 2, Molly and Carolyn Nolan go deeper into the messy, real intersection of money, identity, and power. Carolyn shares what taking back control actually looks like during the hardest chapter of her life, why 80% of wealth is psychology not strategy, and what truly wealthy women do differently — which has nothing to do with being excellent at everything and everything to do with building the right team, knowing your values, and being unapologetically yourself.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The only thing you can control is your behavior — not the markets, not your ex, not your kids. When you genuinely embrace that, you stop wasting energy on what you can't change and start solving what's real.

• 80% of the value of a great financial advisor is behavioral — helping you make better choices, not picking better stocks. Wealth is psychology, not strategy.

• Truly wealthy women don't do it all themselves — even when they could. They focus on what they're brilliant at and build a team of people, tools, and systems around everything else.

• Your core values are the best decision filter you have — when something makes you crazy, it's almost always because it went against a value you didn't know you had.

NOTABLE QUOTE

"Being unapologetic doesn't mean “fuck what everyone else thinks.” It means being honest about what gives you energy and what drains it."

ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAY

What's one thing you're holding onto — because you're excellent at it — that's actually keeping you from the thing that would make you come alive?

LINKS & RESOURCES

• Carolyn Nolan's team / wealth advisory practice 

• Ellevated Achievers community: www.ellevated-achievers.com 

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/

ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™

Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.

Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.

This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.

MUSIC CREDITS

Music by EVGENY from Pixabay

Why do so many women feel out of control even when they have more wealth than ever?

Molly sits down with Carolyn Nolan — a next-level private wealth advisor who leads a women-led team repeatedly ranked best in the state — for a conversation that's not about portfolios or products. It's about power, identity, and what it actually looks like to show up to the money conversation. They explore why women are still underserved in financial services, where confidence breaks down, and what changes when you stop delegating your financial power and start owning it.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Women aren't lacking intelligence about money — they were never taught. And the people who were supposed to teach them often don't understand it themselves, they just sound more confident.

• The biggest thing women can do right now is show up to the conversation and ask everything that's on their mind. Curiosity isn't weakness — it's the fastest path to confidence.

• You can retrain your brain to think before you emote — pause between feeling and action, run it through your values and strategy, and sometimes the best move is not moving at all.

• Confidence with money doesn't come from knowing everything — it comes from knowing yourself, staying in your lane of genius, and surrounding yourself with people who complement what you're not.

NOTABLE QUOTE

"Our job is to make the money stuff really boring so you can actually focus on your life."

ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAY

Where in your financial life are you sitting out of the conversation — and what would shift if you showed up with full curiosity and zero apology?

LINKS & RESOURCES

• Carolyn Nolan's team / wealth advisory practice 

• Ellevated Achievers community: www.ellevated-achievers.com 

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/

ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™

Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.

Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.

This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.

MUSIC CREDITS

Music by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if the traits you've been told to fix are actually your greatest superpowers?

In Part 2 of this soul-rich conversation, Molly and Shannon Waller go deeper into what it actually looks like to work with your wiring instead of against it. They explore the unique ability framework — incompetent, competent, excellent, and unique — and why the most successful entrepreneurs focus on fewer than two things. Shannon shares why hyperfocus is the forgotten superpower of differently-wired brains, how the right support partner can transform your life and business, and what it really means to be a hunter in a farmer's world.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Distractibility, impulsivity, and risk-taking are hunting instincts — not character flaws. When you understand yourself as a hunter in a farmer's world, you stop fighting your own design.

• Hyperfocus is the forgotten superpower — when you're operating in your unique ability, distractibility disappears. That's not a contradiction. That's the signal you're in the right place.

• Ultra high net worth people say they're really good at 1.8 things — not six, not five. The fewer things you focus on, the more impact you create.

• The biggest myth about entrepreneurs wired like us isn't that we're flaky — it's that we should be different. How we're wired is perfectly fine. What we need is the right support, the right structure, and the right tribe.

NOTABLE QUOTE

"I don't have any experience of distractibility when I'm in my unique ability."

LINKS & RESOURCES

• Shannon Waller's Team Success podcast 

• Book: Multiplication by Subtraction — Shannon Waller 

• Book: Superpowered — Shannon Waller * Book: The Team Success Handbook — Shannon Waller 

• Book: Business Is Business — Amy Bruske & Kathy Kolby 

• Entrepreneurial Attitude assessment: yourteamsuccess.com 

• Strategic Coach: strategiccoach.com 

• Ellevated Achievers community: www.ellevated-achievers.com 

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/

ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™

Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.

Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.

This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.

MUSIC CREDITS

Music by EVGENY from Pixabay