Money guilt is one of the most common blocks to building wealth among high-achieving women. Some of the most powerful money mindset shifts start with the small permissions you give yourself every day.

In this episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast, I sit down with Denise Duffield-Thomas, money mentor, Hay House author, and creator of Money Bootcamp. Denise has helped more than 10,000 entrepreneurs around the world charge premium prices, clear their money blocks, and build a profitable business that supports the life they love.

We talk about where money stories really come from, and why they often have little to do with how much money your family had. Denise walks through her economy-to-first-class exercise, the small upgrades that build an abundance mindset, and the three beliefs at the heart of her book Chill and Prosper: there's always more money, there are easier ways to make money, and I'm allowed to be rich too.

If you're a woman entrepreneur or high achiever who feels guilty spending money on yourself, struggles with pricing, or keeps running into a self-imposed income ceiling, this conversation offers practical tools and a lot of permission to build wealth on your own terms.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How inherited money beliefs and family money stories shape your relationship with money
• The economy, premium economy, business class, and first-class exercise for spotting where you're settling
• Simple, free ways to practice abundance, like building buffer time between clients and leaving early so you never rush
• Why money guilt, more than money itself, is often the biggest block for women
• "It's this or nothing": a boundary-setting phrase for running your business your way
• How to break through self-imposed glass ceilings, such as out-earning a parent or partner
• The "This is what a wealthy woman looks like" mirror affirmation
• Why money doesn't cure money blocks or imposter syndrome, and how to keep going when you feel afraid
• How to talk with your kids about money without passing down your own money blocks

Connect with Denise Duffield-Thomas

• Website and free resources: DeniseDT.com
• Instagram: @DeniseDT
• Books: Lucky Bitch, Get Rich, Lucky Bitch!, and Chill and Prosper (available on Audible, Kindle, and in paperback)

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.

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You worked hard to build a successful business, make great money and create more freedom in your life. At some point, that success should start giving something back to you.

But that doesn’t always happen automatically.

As your business grows, it’s easy to keep operating according to decisions you made years ago. You stay available because you’ve always been available. You keep responsibilities that made sense when you had fewer resources. You find a more efficient way to do something, create a little extra capacity and immediately fill the space with more work.

Before long, you can have more success, more experience and more choices than you’ve ever had while still giving your business just as much of yourself.

In this episode of Redefining Success®, I’m asking you to look at the return you’re getting on everything you’ve built.

Money is absolutely part of that return. I love making money because of the choices it creates. But if your business has become more successful, shouldn’t some of those choices start showing up in the way you actually live and work?

That could mean having more control over your calendar, paying for support that makes your life easier, spending more of your working hours doing what you’re exceptional at or being able to step away without your business constantly pulling your attention back.

It also means recognizing when you’re still trying to earn something you’ve already earned.

Your business may be in a completely different place than it was five years ago, but your habits haven’t necessarily caught up. You can have plenty of evidence that you know how to create results and still feel like every open afternoon should be used to get ahead.

That’s one of the biggest conversations we’re having in this episode.

You may already have more freedom than you’re using.

I’ll walk you through my Success Return Audit, which will help you look at three questions:

What has my success given me access to that I’m not fully using?

What is my success costing me that it no longer needs to cost?

What do I want my success to give back to me over the next 90 days?

Then we take it one step further:

What would have to change for your business to need 20% less of you without reducing your results?

If you currently work 40 hours a week, that’s eight hours.

Where could those hours come from?

This isn’t about disappearing from your business, working as little as possible or becoming less ambitious. I love my businesses, I love working, and I have plenty more I want to create.

I also don’t believe every next level of success should automatically cost more of your time.

There may be work you’re still doing that no longer needs your level of experience. Someone else may be ready to take ownership of something you’ve continued carrying, or your availability may be teaching people to bring things to you that could easily be handled another way.

Sometimes you don’t need fifty changes. A few smart changes in the way you operate can give you back hours every week without reducing your results.

And then you get to decide what you want to do with that capacity.

You can use it to grow your business and make more money. You can use it to finish earlier on a Friday, take a trip without bringing your laptop or finally have room for an idea you haven’t had time to pursue.

That’s the point.

You decide where the return goes.

If your business is successful but still depends too heavily on you, and you’re ready to change that without sacrificing your ambition or the results you’ve worked so hard to create, the Redefining Success® Challenge starts soon.

Over 21 days, I’ll help you look at where your business is taking more of your time, attention and capacity than it needs to and start making practical changes in the way you operate.

Go to LauraFlood.com/challenge to join us.

More Success. More Life.

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.

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What if the pressure you feel to act immediately isn’t coming from the situation itself, but from how uncomfortable it feels to wait?

Successful entrepreneurs are often rewarded for moving quickly. You solve problems, make decisions, respond fast, and keep things moving. Those qualities can help you create extraordinary results.

But when urgency becomes your default, it gets harder to tell the difference between something that actually needs your attention and something that simply feels like it does.

In this episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast, I’m talking about ambition without urgency and why emotional regulation is an essential high-performance skill for entrepreneurs and high achievers.

We’ll look at how urgency can disguise itself as productivity, responsibility, and ambition, especially when you’re used to being the person who gets things done. I’ll also show you how emotional urgency can lead to reactive business decisions, pull your attention away from your highest-value work, and keep you mentally connected to work long after the workday is over.

You’ll learn how to recognize the difference between real urgency and emotional urgency, create more space between how you feel and what you decide to do, and stay with a strategy long enough to find out whether it’s actually working.

We’ll also talk about why high performance doesn’t mean operating at maximum intensity all the time, how self-trust changes the way you respond to uncertainty, and what becomes possible when you stop treating everything like an emergency.

If you’re a successful entrepreneur who wants to keep growing without living in a constant state of pressure, this episode will help you protect your focus, make better decisions, and pursue your next level of success with more intention.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why urgency can feel productive even when it isn’t creating better results
• How to tell the difference between real urgency and emotional urgency
• Why uncertainty can trigger the need to take immediate action
• How emotional regulation improves business decision-making
• Why high performers need more than one operating speed
• How urgency can follow you outside of your working hours
• Why self-trust makes it easier to stay steady when you don’t know the outcome yet
• A simple question to ask before reacting, changing the plan, or creating more work
• How to stay ambitious without making everything an emergency

If you’re successful but your business still takes more of your time, attention, and energy than you want it to, the 21-day Redefining Success® Challenge will help you change the way you’re operating without sacrificing your ambition.

Over three weeks, we’ll look at what’s taking more from you than it should, the habits and rules keeping you always on, and the changes that can help you make more money without working more hours.

The next Challenge is coming up soon. Get the details or join the waitlist at LauraFlood.com/Challenge

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.

Work With Laura

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Focused, private support for entrepreneurs ready to evolve how they operate and stop carrying the business mentally all day.