The One Where Success Gets a New Definition

Liz has spent years chasing a version of success she never actually chose. The ladder, the title, the highest paid, the hardest working. In this episode, she traces where that definition came from, and what it quietly cost her along the way: the comparison, the self-criticism, the sense of never quite arriving.

She unpacks why that model was always going to leave people feeling behind. It was built on a shared scoreboard, not a personal one. And she offers a different starting point. Success, she argues, isn't something to inherit. It's something to define, from the inside, using the values that actually matter to you.

Liz walks through a values elicitation she uses in coaching, a simple process of naming what matters, rating its importance, then checking how closely your life actually reflects it. She shares her own three: integrity, freedom, and creative expression. She also unpacks what this looks like for young people, whose sense of success can shift day to day depending on capacity, hormones, and season, and why learning that early changes everything. Then she introduces the shift from goals to intentions, and why choosing who you want to be might matter more than where you end up.

This episode is an invitation to put down someone else's measuring stick and build your own.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and download the free ⁠Values Elicitation Worksheet here⁠

Connect with Liz:

Instagram: @the.you.movementWebsite: ⁠www.youmovement.com.au⁠Email: ⁠[email protected] ⁠

The One Where Your Sensitivity and Their Strong Will Finally Make Sense.

Liz sits down with parenting coach Maysaa, a mum of four and former primary school teacher who walked into motherhood believing her years in the classroom had prepared her for anything. Then she met her own strong-willed child, and everything she thought she knew about behaviour, compliance and connection was turned on its head. What followed was a deep dive into temperament, self-reflection and the patterns she was carrying from her own childhood, and it changed the way she parents, coaches and understands people entirely.

Together, Liz and Maysaa unpack what it really means to be a highly sensitive person raising a strong-willed child. They explore why sensitivity is so often mistaken for weakness when it's actually a heightened form of awareness, how a strong will in a child is a strength waiting to be guided rather than a challenge to authority, and why the way we were raised doesn't always fit the children in front of us now. Woven through the conversation is an honest look at what sensitivity costs when it goes unsupported, from emotional overwhelm to burnout, and what shifts when parents begin to understand their own temperament as clearly as their child's.

Maysaa also shares the practical side of her work: setting boundaries that hold both parent and child, making self-care non-negotiable rather than optional, and opening the kind of communication that helps children feel safe to express who they are.

Whether you're a parent, an educator, or someone who has spent a lifetime feeling everything deeply, this conversation offers a different way to see yourself. Your sensitivity holds information. Your child's will holds direction. Learning to work with both, rather than against them, might be where the real leadership begins.

Connect with Maysaa at www.coacheq.com.au and on Instagram @coachmayseq

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The One Where You Block Out the Noise and Come Back to Your Truth

In this episode, Liz reflects on the closing of a fifteen-year chapter in education and the emotional complexity of endings, identity shifts and stepping into the unknown.

After a conversation with her principal about evidence-based practice in schools, a bigger question surfaced. Where do tools like Human Design and Astrology fit in a world that values science, proof and measurable outcomes?

This conversation explores the tension between external evidence and inner knowing, the role of discernment, and how self-trust is built when there is no clear path forward.

Liz unpacks The YOU Framework and The YOU Method as practical tools for accessing the wisdom of the mind, body and heart, while also sharing how Human Design and Astrology have shaped her own journey, not as truth systems, but as reflective tools that helped her understand herself more deeply.

She also explores the neuroscience behind signs, inspired by the work of Tara Swart in The Source and The Signs, and shares the deeply personal symbolism of butterflies appearing everywhere in her final days of teaching.

This is a conversation about learning how to receive opinions, information and advice without losing yourself inside them.

A reminder that not every opinion needs to become your belief.

And sometimes the truth you’re looking for isn’t outside of you.

It’s already within.

Connect with Liz:
Website: The YOU Movement
Instagram: @the.you.movement

Referenced in this episode:
The Source by Tara Swart
The Signs by Tara Swart

The one where we talk about what happens when the thing that shaped your identity no longer exists.

In this conversation, Liz sits down with Morgan, former competitive dancer, friend and coaching client, to explore what it means to rebuild yourself when the version of you that once felt certain begins to shift.

For years, Morgan’s world was built around performance, discipline, achievement and external validation. Dance gave her purpose, structure and identity. Stepping away from it left her facing a question many people meet at some point in life: Who am I when I am no longer doing the thing that defined me?

Together, Liz and Morgan unpack the invisible weight of identity loss, the pressure of perfectionism, and how easy it is to confuse achievement with worth.

Morgan shares what it looked like to reach a point where something needed to change, the courage it took to ask for support, and how coaching became a space to reconnect with herself in a new way.

This conversation moves through self-worth, vulnerability, letting go of old narratives, and learning to choose yourself from a deeper place of self-awareness.

If you have ever felt unsteady in a season of change, questioned your worth outside of what you produce, or found yourself outgrowing a version of who you once were, this one will meet you there.

Inside this episode:
• The hidden impact of tying worth to achievement
• What identity loss can feel like after leaving high-performance spaces
• How vulnerability creates room for real change
• Redefining success in a way that feels true to you
• Why choosing yourself changes everything

Connect with Liz:
Instagram: @the.you.movement
Website: www.youmovement.com.au
The YOU Space: https://forms.gle/H4cVnQvoDfDk5bPv9

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How much of who you think you are is actually true? And how much of it has been shaped by the words, expectations, and projections of other people?

In this episode of MindKind: The Podcast, I explore the labels we collect throughout life and the powerful ways they shape identity, influence the nervous system, and quietly guide the stories we continue to live by.

This conversation was sparked by a recent YOU Lab workshop with a group of Year 10 students, where I asked one simple question: What labels have you collected about yourself? The answers were honest, vulnerable, and deeply familiar.

Too sensitive. Too much. Slow to learn. Not smart.

It brought me back to the labels I’ve carried too.

Through the lens of neuroscience, education, and my own lived experience with ADHD, we unpack how labels become embedded, why the brain holds onto them, and how they can shape the way we see ourselves for years.

Inside this episode, we explore:

• How childhood labels can become identity
• Why the brain searches for evidence to reinforce what we already believe
• The power of reframing traits like sensitivity, slowness, and “too much”
• The role of ego in holding onto familiar identities
• What it means to outgrow a version of yourself
• How to reconnect with who you are underneath the roles, titles, and projections

This is a conversation about identity, self-awareness, discernment, and the courage it takes to question the stories you’ve been living inside.

Self-leadership begins when we stop accepting inherited stories as truth and start choosing what feels aligned, honest, and true for who we are becoming.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Join the waitlist / learn more about The YOU Space

Explore The YOU Movement
www.youmovement.com.au

Connect with me on Instagram
@the.you.movement

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This week on MindKind, Liz explores The Art of Allowing.

After waking up feeling flat, low in energy and disconnected, Liz found herself doing what many of us do, trying to analyse, solve and make sense of it. Was it hormones? Overwhelm? Tiredness? The mental load? Or something deeper?

Instead of forcing herself out of it, she chose something different.

She allowed it.

In this episode, Liz unpacks what it means to sit with ourselves rather than immediately trying to fix what we feel. She explores the discomfort of slowing down, our relationship with time, why we often tell ourselves we “don’t have time” to feel, and what that might reveal about what we truly value.

This is a conversation about self-awareness, discernment, nervous system wisdom, self-trust and learning to listen to the signals your body is constantly sending.

Liz also shares how creating space led to unexpected clarity around the fear she’s holding as she steps into a new chapter of life, and why sometimes the answers don’t come straight away and that’s okay too.

In this episode:
• Why allowing is a skill and a practice
• The difference between analysing and listening
• How our relationship with time shapes our relationship with ourselves
• Why creating space matters for clarity, creativity and connection
• How self-trust is built in small everyday moments

Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is stop trying to figure it all out and simply allow ourselves to be where we are.

Connect with Liz:
Instagram: @the.you.movement
Website: www.youmovement.com.au

EFT Tapping Video: https://www.youmovement.com.au/resources/v/eft-tapping-demonstration

The one about self-leadership, discernment and learning to trust yourself.

In a world full of opinions, information, algorithms and AI, how do we know what is actually right for us?

In this solo episode, Liz explores why self-leadership may be one of the most important skills of our time and why it starts with understanding yourself.

She unpacks the relationship between self-awareness, discernment, self-trust and self-leadership, sharing reflections from her own journey, insights from her work with clients and students, and lessons from the book The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks.

Liz explores:

-What discernment is and why it matters more than ever
- How to distinguish between fear, conditioning and your deeper knowing
- Why self-trust is built through evidence, not certainty
-The Upper Limit Problem and how we unconsciously hold ourselves back
- The role of intuition, reflection and self-connection in decision-making
- Why self-awareness and self-leadership are essential skills for the next generation

This episode is an invitation to spend less time searching for answers outside yourself and more time learning to hear your own voice.

In a world where information is everywhere, perhaps the greatest skill we can develop is the ability to hear many voices and still recognise our own.

Connect with Liz:

Instagram: @the.you.movement

Website: www.youmovement.com.au

Explore The YOU Movement: www.youmovement.com.au

Listen, reflect and remember: the relationship you have with yourself shapes every other part of your life. 

The one about Human Design, alignment, intuition, expansion and trusting who you truly are.

In this episode of MindKind: The Podcast, Liz sits down with Human Design expert and founder of Designed As You, Hillary McVeigh, for a conversation that explores self awareness, personal growth and the power of understanding your unique design.

Together, they dive into the world of Human Design through a grounded and practical lens, discussing how greater self understanding can support more aligned decisions, deeper trust in yourself and a stronger connection to who you truly are.

Hillary shares her journey from working as a lawyer to building a business centred around helping people reconnect with themselves, honour their energy and embrace the way they are designed to move through the world. The conversation explores burnout, identity, intuition, purpose and the signs that often appear when life is asking us to change direction.

Liz and Hillary also discuss the collective shift towards authenticity and self leadership, why understanding yourself matters more than ever, and how Human Design can be a powerful tool for creating a life and business that feels aligned rather than forced.

Whether you're completely new to Human Design or already exploring your own chart, this episode offers thoughtful insights, practical reflections and an invitation to trust yourself more deeply.

Connect with Hillary

Website: https://www.hillarymcveigh.com

Get Your Free Human Design Chart: https://www.hillarymcveigh.com/generate-human-design-chart

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hillarymcveigh/

Connect with Liz

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.you.movement/

Website: https://www.youmovement.com.au

Explore The Essence of You: https://www.youmovement.com.au/the-essence-of-you

The one about reimagining the schooling system.

In this episode, Liz sits down with Kristian, co-founder of KIN College, an innovative new K–13 school in Sydney designed to support neurodivergent young people through a more integrated, human-centred approach to learning.

Together, they explore the gaps within the current education system, the emotional reality many families and young people are navigating, and why the future of education requires more flexibility, understanding and humanity.

This conversation dives into neurodiversity, emotional wellbeing, life skills, belonging, family support and the importance of creating environments where young people feel safe to learn, grow and be fully themselves.

A powerful conversation for parents, educators, wellbeing leaders and anyone passionate about creating a world where young people are genuinely supported to thrive.

Explore KIN College and submit an expression of interest here:

KIN College website

Connect with Liz:

The YOU Movement

Instagram: @the.you.movement

The one where we unpack the pressure to always be doing.

In this episode, Liz explores masculine and feminine energies, not as male versus female, but as the energetic patterns and archetypes we all hold within us.

Through personal stories, reflections from education and business, and conversations around burnout, rest, self worth and nervous system awareness, this episode invites you to reconsider the way you move through life.

What if slowing down wasn’t failure?
What if rest wasn’t something you had to earn?
What if life was something we were allowed to experiment with instead of perfect?

A grounded and honest conversation about reconnecting to yourself in a world that rarely stops moving.

Connect with Liz at @the.you.movement
and The YOU Movement