Learn how healing the success wound will change your life and increase your self-worth.

This interview with Brooke Taylor is packed with wisdom, courage, and inspiration. Host Natalie Benamou explores with Brooke the five common ways the success wound manifests in successful women leaders. Brooke emphasizes the importance of recognizing the success wound, creating an internally driven vision, and taking decisive steps towards healing.  

Brooke Taylor, a transformational career coach and former marketing lead at Google and shares her personal journey of growing up in the competitive environment of Silicon Valley.  How that experience influenced her perception of self-worth, success, and productivity. We dive deep into the concept of the "success wound," the notion that our value is tied to our achievements, and the damaging impact it can have on our emotional well-being.

"We don't rise to the level of our confidence, we fall to the level of our self-worth."-Brooke Taylor

Discover the steps Brooke took to heal her own success wound, which included leaving her job at Google, moving to Australia, and more. In our discussion, we explore the five common ways the success wound manifests in ambitious corporate women and how we can work towards healing and redefining our vision of success.

3 Key Takeaways:

1. Understand the difference between confidence and self-worth and how we need to shift our perception and raise the bar for how we feel about ourselves.

2. Learn about the "success wound," the concept Brooke developed that our value is tied to our achievements, and what happens when we shift our perspective.

3. Discover the 5 ways the success wound manifests in successful women leaders and how to navigate these challenges.

This episode is full of wisdom, courage, and inspiration, empowering listeners to face and heal their own success wounds. Redefine your vision of success and embark on a journey of self-discovery and healing.

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About Brook Taylor Brooke Taylor Coaching

Brooke Taylor is a Transformational Career Coach for women and a former Marketing Lead at

Google. She was named a “Top Career Coach to Watch” by LA Weekly and Australian Business

Journal and has been featured in Women’s Health, Forbes, Business Insider, and more. Her clients are top female executives at Goldman Sachs, Google, Uber, Coinbase, Meta, and more. Her transformational group coaching programs and workshops at companies like Google, Uber, the BBC, and McKinsey have changed the lives of over 5,000 women globally.

Brooke is the global expert in a phenomenon she coined “the Success Wound”, which is the pain high-achievers experience when they mistake their success for their self-worth.

Thank you, Brooke, for sharing your story with us and for giving so many valuable ways we can take action. Special thanks to our alliance partner Claire Wasserman, Founder, Ladies Get Paid!

This podcast is sponsored by HerCsuite™ Personalized Development Programs. Wherever you are in your career, we help you navigate your path. Schedule a call and let’s talk about how you can gain clarity.

Host Natalie Benamou, helps individuals and organizations gain visibility, clarity and achieve measurable results through blue ocean strategies. Natalie is a speaker and impact entrepreneur making a difference with HER Health Equity Council and HerCsuite™ Women’s Growth Network.

Resources:

Brooke Taylor Coaching Website

Brooke Taylor LinkedIn

Brooke Taylor Instagram

Brooke Taylor TikTok

HerCsuite.com

Natalie Benamou LinkedIn

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