Ellevated Achievers™

By Molly Thompson

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

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September 16, 2026Understanding Your Unique Wiring
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
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9min
July 28, 2026Your Past Doesn't Define Your Future — But How You Think About It Does
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
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57min
July 14, 2026Want What You Want — Why That's 10x Harder for Women Entrepreneurs
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
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32min
June 30, 2026Stop Time Blocking Like a Man — Design Your Week Around Energy Instead
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
...more
43min
June 16, 2026The Shame No One Talks About: Anxiety as a High-Achieving Entrepreneur
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
...more
12min
June 02, 2026What Truly Wealthy Ellevated Achievers Do Differently (It's Not What You Think)
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
...more
56min
May 19, 2026What Ellevated Achievers need to know about Money and Power
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
...more
55min
May 05, 2026The Ultimate Paradox: Why the Fewer Things You Focus On, the More You Earn
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
...more
38min
April 21, 2026What If the Team You Need Starts With Understanding Your Own Wiring?
What if the key to building your dream team starts with understanding yourself?
Molly sits down with Shannon Waller — entrepreneurial team strategist, author, Kolbe certified consultant, and 34-year veteran of Strategic Coach — for a soul-rich conversation about what happens when you stop trying to fit into someone else's system and start building from how you're actually wired. They explore why knowing yourself is the foundation of every great team, how the right partnership can transform a business, and why letting go of wrong-fit relationships is sometimes the most compassionate thing you can do.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Finding your tribe changes everything — Shannon spent years feeling like a fish out of water until she found Strategic Coach at 26, and that sense of belonging became the launchpad for her entire career
Investing in capability over cash pays compound returns — when given the choice between a bonus and Kolby certification, Shannon chose the capability, and it became the foundation of 30 years of coaching
Wrong-fit team members aren't bad people — they're just in the wrong seat. Move them, refit them, or compassionately free them to the marketplace
Core values are factory installed — you can shift skills, roles, and even mindset to a degree, but core values aren't alterable, and misalignment there means it's time to let go
NOTABLE QUOTE
"I wasn't raised to make myself feel bad or to feel like I was supposed to be somewhere different, but it didn't mean that I felt like I fit in."
ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAY
Where in your life or business are you trying to force a fit — with a person, a role, or a system — instead of honoring how you're actually wired?
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
...more
41min
April 07, 2026What a Ferrari at 220 km/h Taught Me About Trusting Your Intuition
What if the instinct that terrifies you is the one that sets you free?
Molly shares what happened when she stopped gripping the wheel at 220 km/h in a Ferrari racing through the Italian countryside — and why that moment of release is the same shift Ellevated Achievers need in business, leadership, and life. This episode explores chaotic discipline, the difference between impulse and intuition, and what it means to ride the fire horse in 2026.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Gripping tighter when things move fast doesn't save you — it destabilizes you. Your momentum needs your presence, not your panic.
Chaotic discipline isn't recklessness — it's holding structure lightly enough that it can respond. Letting go isn't the same as letting go of the wheel.
Intuition isn't the absence of analysis — it's the compression of everything you've already learned, processed faster than your conscious mind can articulate.
2026 is the year of the fire horse — the archetype of fierce independence, unconventional brilliance, and disruptive vision. Women born during fire horse years were considered so powerful, they were feared.
NOTABLE QUOTE
"High achievement doesn't come from controlling the horse. It comes from becoming the kind of rider the horse will trust."
LINKS & RESOURCES
Ellevated Achievers community: www.ellevated-achievers.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/
ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAY
Where in your life are you gripping so hard you're actually slowing yourself down — and what would shift if you held the wheel lightly?
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
...more
14min

FAQs about Ellevated Achievers™:

How many episodes does Ellevated Achievers™ have?

The podcast currently has 17 episodes available.