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Redefining Success™ Podcast

Redefining Success™ Podcast

Written by: Laura Flood | Success and High Performance Coach | Business Strategist
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What if you could create extraordinary success in both business and life—more income, more freedom, and more energy for what matters most—without the constant hustle or having to choose between your business and your life?

The Redefining Success™ Podcast is hosted by Certified High Performance & Life Coach, Business Strategist, CEO, and Top 1% Realtor Laura Flood. A multi–7 figure entrepreneur, Laura helps high-achieving women and driven professionals build profitable, sustainable businesses while protecting their time, energy, and happiness.

With over 30 years of experience, Laura has scaled her own family-first business while working less than 40 hours a week and never missing her kids’ events. Along the way, she has invested hundreds of thousands in high-level coaching and masterminds to master the strategies, systems, high-performance habits, and mindset that create lasting success. Twice recognized as the Best Success and High Performance Coach (2024 & 2025), Laura brings a proven track record to every conversation.

Each week, she shares real-world strategies and powerful coaching through the 5 Pillars of Redefining Success™:

✨ High Performance Habits & Mindset – Elevating how you think, focus, and show up
✨ Business Strategy – Driving sustainable growth without burnout
✨ Money & Wealth – Building financial freedom and abundance
✨ Health & Wellness – Protecting your energy and vitality
✨ Lifestyle & Personal Growth – Aligning your success with the way you want to feel and live each day

This is where you’ll learn how to:

  • Increase profits and build wealth while reclaiming your time

  • Lead with clarity, confidence, and conviction

  • Prioritize relationships, happiness, and freedom alongside revenue and growth

  • Design a business that supports the life you can’t wait to wake up to

Because success isn’t just about what you accomplish—it’s about who you become in the process. Subscribe now to the Redefining Success™ Podcast and redefine what’s possible for your business and life.

Visit LauraFlood.com/podcast for show notes and resources, and don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe so you never miss an episode.

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Episodes
  • Energy Is the Real KPI: The Missing Metric Behind Sustainable High Performance

    Energy Is the Real KPI: The Missing Metric Behind Sustainable High Performance
    Feb 19 2026
    What if the most important metric in your business isn’t revenue, productivity, or growth? What if it’s energy? In this episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast, Laura Flood unpacks why energy is the true leading indicator of sustainable success for entrepreneurs, Realtors, and high-achieving professionals. While most leaders obsess over time management, scaling strategies, and financial metrics, few examine the one input that determines the quality of their thinking, decision-making, and leadership capacity. Energy reveals whether your operating model is actually built to support you. If you’re successful on paper but feel mentally engaged all the time, unable to fully disconnect, or consistently depleted despite strong results, this episode will show you why. Laura breaks down how hidden energy leaks such as unfinished decisions, constant mental engagement, reactive calendars, and undefined boundaries quietly drain high performers. You’ll learn how to treat energy as leadership data, not a personal flaw, and how to redesign your rhythm so performance becomes sustainable instead of expensive. This conversation goes beyond burnout prevention. It addresses business structure, founder dependency, cognitive load, and how to build a business that supports long-term high performance without requiring constant attention. If you want sustainable growth, protected capacity, stronger focus, and high performance that lasts, this episode will shift how you measure success. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: Why energy is the missing KPI behind sustainable high performance How successful entrepreneurs still experience exhaustion while revenue is growing The difference between effort and available capacity How constant mental engagement drains leadership energy Why energy dips are feedback about your operating model How unfinished decisions and reactive calendars create hidden energy leaks The role of rhythm in preventing entrepreneur burnout Practical ways to increase mental energy without reducing ambition How to build daily structures that protect focus, clarity, and influence Action Steps From This Episode Rate your daily energy for the next 7 days to identify patterns Identify your biggest energy drain and examine what structural shift would remove it Protect your peak cognitive window for leadership work Create one daily energy-protecting rhythm, such as a first-hour protocol or shutdown ritual Audit your weekly rhythm to ensure restoration is built into your operating model Who This Episode Is For This episode is for high-achieving entrepreneurs, business owners, Realtors, and professionals who: Are successful but feel mentally engaged all the time Struggle to fully disconnect from their business Feel tired even when results are strong Want to scale sustainably without sacrificing energy or presence Are ready to redesign their operating model for long-term performance Work With Laura Everything shared in this episode is part of Laura’s Redefining Success® Method, which helps high performers simplify decisions, reclaim focus, and create success that supports their life. Get Access to the (free) Secret Podcast for the Life First Business Reset. Learn how to simplify your strategy, create space for clarity, and lead your business with confidence and alignment. https://LauraFlood.com/Reset You can explore working with Laura through: 1:1 Coaching for focused, private support LauraFlood.com The Redefining Success® Collective, offering three levels of ongoing coaching and guidance LauraFlood.com/Collective The Capacity & Clarity Audit: $97 Delivered in 3 business days. Identify where income still depends on your constant mental engagement and where structure can replace that load. You walk away with a focused plan that protects your time, clears mental space, and builds revenue that isn’t tied to your constant attention LauraFlood.com/Audit Let's stay connected: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/laurafloodcoaching/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/laura.s.flood/ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurafloodcoaching/
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    27 mins
  • Let Go of What You’ve Been Tolerating: It’s Costing You More Than You Think

    Let Go of What You’ve Been Tolerating: It’s Costing You More Than You Think
    Feb 12 2026
    High achievers are experts at “making it work.” The business grows, the revenue looks strong, the calendar stays full, and from the outside, everything signals success. Yet inside the day-to-day, there can be a quiet weight that never really lifts. This episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast looks at that weight through a very specific lens: what you are tolerating. We explore how tolerations in business and life drain capacity, create decision fatigue, and keep entrepreneurs, professionals, and Realtors operating below the level they are actually capable of. You will hear how unspoken standards, unconscious “manuals,” and outdated expectations shape your calendar, your relationships, and your energy more than you realize. This conversation helps you see where you have adapted instead of chosen and where you have quietly accepted a way of operating that no longer fits the leader you are becoming. In this episode, we cover: What “tolerating” looks like for high-achieving entrepreneurs and professionals when everything appears successful on paper How small, daily tolerations in your business, your calendar, and your relationships quietly drain energy and focus The link between tolerations, standards, and identity, and why your results tend to match what you are willing to allow How self-trust erodes when your stated values and your actual patterns do not match The “manuals” concept, and how unwritten rules about being a good leader, parent, partner, or entrepreneur keep you overextended The way high performers use capacity, responsibility, and reliability as reasons to keep carrying more than they actually want to carry A practical Toleration Reset framework to help you identify what you are tolerating, set new standards, and implement change in a grounded way You will walk away with: Clear language for naming the specific situations, habits, and relationships you have been tolerating in your business and life A deeper understanding of how your internal standards and identity drive what you accept in your schedule, your income, and your environment A simple reflection process to uncover the quiet rules you are following about what a “good” or “successful” person should be able to handle Permission to update those rules so they match the season you are in now, not the season where you started A step-by-step approach to releasing tolerations in a way that protects revenue, supports clients, and restores your energy Coaching style questions you can use to decide where to tighten access, refine pricing, shift communication, or restructure support This episode is for you if: Your business looks successful, yet your days feel heavier than they should You find yourself saying “it is fine, I can handle it” while feeling drained or resentful Clients, team members, family, or friends rely on your capacity, and you are starting to feel the cost of being the one who always holds everything together You know some part of your calendar, pricing, offers, or boundaries is overdue for an upgrade You want a high-performance approach that honors results and revenue while also protecting your time, your energy, and your life outside of work Resources and next steps If this episode is revealing how much you have been tolerating, and you want support applying this work directly to your business and life, here are ways to go deeper: Everything shared in this episode is part of Laura’s Redefining Success® Method, which helps high performers simplify decisions, reclaim focus, and create success that supports their life. Get Access to the (free) Secret Podcast for the Life First Business Reset. Learn how to simplify your strategy, create space for clarity, and lead your business with confidence and alignment. https://LauraFlood.com/Reset You can explore working with Laura through: 1:1 Coaching for focused, private support LauraFlood.com The Redefining Success® Collective, offering three levels of ongoing coaching and guidance LauraFlood.com/Collective The Capacity & Clarity Audit: $97 Delivered in 3 business days. Identify where income still depends on your constant mental engagement and where structure can replace that load. You walk away with a focused plan that protects your time, clears mental space, and builds revenue that isn’t tied to your constant attention LauraFlood.com/Audit Let's stay connected: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/laurafloodcoaching/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/laura.s.flood/ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurafloodcoaching/ You don't have to keep living at the edge of capacity while telling yourself this is just how success feels. You are allowed to raise your standards, release what no longer fits, and build a business and life that truly reflect the level you are meant to operate at. Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with a high performer in your world who needs a clear, honest ...
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    33 mins
  • Decision Fatigue: The Hidden Cost of Unfinished Decisions

    Decision Fatigue: The Hidden Cost of Unfinished Decisions
    Feb 5 2026

    Decision Fatigue: The Hidden Cost of Unfinished Decisions

    Most conversations about leadership fatigue focus on workload, time, or focus. This episode looks at something quieter and often overlooked: the mental cost of decisions that never fully finish.

    Decision fatigue doesn’t come from making too many decisions. It comes from continuing to carry them after they’ve already been made.

    In this episode, Laura explores why successful, capable leaders often feel behind even when things are working, how unfinished decisions quietly drain energy, and what changes when clarity is allowed to create closure instead of constant mental supervision.

    In this episode, you’ll learn:

    • Why decision fatigue shows up even when productivity and results are strong

    • How unfinished decisions stay mentally active and consume energy

    • The difference between making decisions and letting them fully settle

    • Why clarity stabilizes leadership faster than motivation or discipline

    • How constant internal renegotiation creates the feeling of being behind

    • What happens in the body and mind when decisions are finally allowed to complete

    Key takeaway:

    Decision fatigue eases when decisions are allowed to stay decided. Clarity isn’t about choosing better. It’s about closing loops so your mind can disengage.

    Integration from this episode:

    Identify one decision you keep revisiting internally. Reaffirm it. Let it be complete. Notice how your energy shifts when you stop renegotiating it.

    Who this episode is for:

    This episode is for high-achieving leaders and business owners who are capable, responsible, and successful, yet feel mentally crowded or quietly depleted without a clear reason why.

    Next steps:

    Some listeners deepen this work through private coaching, where decision patterns and internal load are addressed directly. Others choose ongoing support inside the Redefining Success™ Collective, where clarity becomes a way of operating, not a one-time insight.

    Everything shared in this episode is part of Laura’s Redefining Success™ Method, which helps high performers simplify decisions, reclaim focus, and create success that supports their life.

    Get Access to the (free) Secret Podcast for the Life First Business Reset. Learn how to simplify your strategy, create space for clarity, and lead your business with confidence and alignment. https://LauraFlood.com/Reset

    You can explore working with Laura through:

    • 1:1 Coaching for focused, private support LauraFlood.com
    • The Redefining Success™ Collective, offering three levels of ongoing coaching and guidance LauraFlood.com/Collective
    • Custom coaching packages designed around your specific season and responsibilities LauraFlood.com/Call

    Let's stay connected:

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

    Facebook https://www.facebook.com/laura.s.flood/

    Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurafloodcoaching/
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    29 mins
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