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Balance & Beyond
Jo Stone
162 episodes
14 hours ago
Fear is the common thread behind perfectionism, procrastination, stress and overwhelm. We explore how this powerful emotion, designed to keep us alive, has evolved to hold us back from what we truly want in modern life. • Only two fears are innate (loud noises and falling from heights) - all others are conditioned • Perfectionism stems from fear of making mistakes and ultimately fear of rejection • Procrastination is actually a protective mechanism to avoid the fear of getting it wrong • Str...
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Fear is the common thread behind perfectionism, procrastination, stress and overwhelm. We explore how this powerful emotion, designed to keep us alive, has evolved to hold us back from what we truly want in modern life. • Only two fears are innate (loud noises and falling from heights) - all others are conditioned • Perfectionism stems from fear of making mistakes and ultimately fear of rejection • Procrastination is actually a protective mechanism to avoid the fear of getting it wrong • Str...
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Self-Improvement
Education,
Business,
Careers,
Health & Fitness,
Mental Health
Episodes (20/162)
Balance & Beyond
The Fear You Don’t Know You’re Carrying (and How It Runs Your Life) (Vault)
Fear is the common thread behind perfectionism, procrastination, stress and overwhelm. We explore how this powerful emotion, designed to keep us alive, has evolved to hold us back from what we truly want in modern life. • Only two fears are innate (loud noises and falling from heights) - all others are conditioned • Perfectionism stems from fear of making mistakes and ultimately fear of rejection • Procrastination is actually a protective mechanism to avoid the fear of getting it wrong • Str...
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4 days ago
10 minutes

Balance & Beyond
The One Question That Led Lisa to a Volcanic Island in the Atlantic
What would you regret more: staying where life feels predictable or choosing a path that feels alive? We sit down with former executive, best-selling author, and master coach Lisa Toste to unpack how she moved her family from Canada to a volcanic island in the Azores and redesigned work, health, and identity without abandoning ambition. This isn’t a fantasy montage. It’s a practical, warm, and funny roadmap for anyone who senses “there has to be more” but worries about the how. Lisa shares t...
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1 week ago
31 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Whispers, Shouts, or Full Punch in the Face. Which One Are You Ignoring? (Vault)
Your body speaks in whispers, shouts, and sometimes punches to the face when you ignore its needs. Women are particularly susceptible to burnout due to perfectionism, people-pleasing, and putting everyone else first. • The whispers of burnout include trouble sleeping, brain fog, headaches, and constant tension • Shouts escalate to anxiety, adrenaline surges, digestive problems, and emotional fragility • Punches in the face are serious health crises like cancer, autoimmune conditions, or comp...
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1 week ago
9 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Quiet Quitting: The Silent Revolution Freeing Women Leaders From Burnout
For ambitious women who've given their all to corporate life, 'quiet quitting' isn't the lazy retreat it's made out to be—it's a revolutionary act of self-preservation. After years of answering emails at 3 AM, giving 150% to everything, and carrying everyone else's emotional burdens, many high-achieving women are discovering an emptiness that signals they're finally done operating this way. The breaking point comes differently for everyone. Sometimes it's fighting tooth and nail for a deserv...
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2 weeks ago
11 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Why You Always Feel Behind, Even When You’re Winning (Vault)
There's power in holding two perspectives simultaneously rather than falling into black and white thinking that dominates much of self-help literature. We can embrace both the gap (what we still want) and the gain (how far we've come), allowing us to celebrate progress while still pursuing growth. • The gap is the space between where we are now and where we want to be • Living only in the gap creates feelings of "not enough" and triggers unhealthy striving • Many high achievers believe focus...
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2 weeks ago
10 minutes

Balance & Beyond
The Billionaire Who Couldn’t “Be” (and the Lesson Every Over-Achieving Woman Needs)
What if one unexpected act of kindness could rewire a lifetime of armour? We sit down with peak performance coach and life strategist Jessie Torres to trace a path from long-term abuse and unimaginable loss to a grounded, joyful life built on worthiness, boundaries, and fierce grace. Jessie doesn’t tell a story to blame; she tells a story to reveal how meaning is made, how microtraumas lodge in our bodies, and how we can choose a different future even when the past feels heavy. We explore th...
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3 weeks ago
28 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Why You Don’t Know What You Want (and How to Change That) (Vault)
We explore the crucial difference between change driven by fear versus change pulled by desire, and why many women struggle to connect with what they truly want. This mindset shift is essential for breaking free from burnout and creating a life of joy and fulfillment rather than mere survival. • Running from fear (the modern "lions" of bosses, inboxes, and perfectionism) creates unsustainable change and leads to burnout • Sustainable change happens when we're pulled toward our desires, not p...
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3 weeks ago
10 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Why More Gold Stars Don’t Give You More Confidence
What if your most trusted career strategy—collect more proof—has been the very thing keeping you from real confidence? We dig into the hidden gap between competence and confidence and explain why high achievers feel like imposters despite glowing resumes, promotions, and degrees. Drawing on years of coaching women at every level, we unpack the early conditioning that links safety to perfection and people-pleasing, and we show how that wiring turns us into validation seekers who outsource wort...
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4 weeks ago
10 minutes

Balance & Beyond
How to stop hiding your uniqueness and own your “too much.” (Jo Moment)
If you’ve ever been told you’re “too much,” this conversation hands you the mic back. We trace the quiet conditioning that teaches high achievers to shrink—dial down ambition, soften edges, and convert natural ease into proof of effort. That script morphs into “because I could, I should,” a mantra that hijacks strengths and turns them into obligations. The result? Endless hustle, moving goalposts, and wins that feel strangely hollow. We open up about the years spent overfunctioning—carrying ...
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1 month ago
8 minutes

Balance & Beyond
The Secret to Success: Unlocking the Dark Art of Strategic Subtraction
Are you drowning in an endless sea of more? More work, more expectations, more skills required—all while racing against diminishing time and resources? What if I told you that success isn't coming from doing more, but is actually being stolen by it? The dark art of strategic subtraction might just be the revolutionary approach you need. In this eye-opening episode, I challenge the fundamental belief that adding more to your plate leads to greater achievement. Instead, I reveal how intentiona...
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1 month ago
16 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Why Trailblazers burn out faster (Vault)
We're navigating a once-in-a-generation shift as women balancing careers and motherhood. Understanding our place in history helps us recognize we're not alone in wanting both professional success and present parenting. • Within just one generation, women have moved from needing male cosigners for bank accounts to comprising half the workforce • Until the 1960s, it was legal to refuse employment to women solely because of their gender • Most families today require two incomes, yet our subcons...
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1 month ago
9 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Horizontal Is the New Hustle: Escaping Miserable Success
Ever felt like your confidence vanished overnight? That spark of self-trust gradually eroded by society's constant message that you're simply not enough? You're far from alone. In this transformative conversation with Cortney McDermott—motivational speaker, bestselling author, and advisor to Fortune 500 executives—we uncover the hidden path back to trusting yourself in a world designed to keep you searching elsewhere. Cortney reveals how our relentless pursuit of external success creates wh...
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1 month ago
28 minutes

Balance & Beyond
How AI Is Quietly Breaking High-Achieving Women’s Confidence (Jo Moment)
As AI capabilities rapidly advance, women who've built their identities on being the smartest and most dependable in the room are facing a confidence crisis as these traits are being replaced by technology that doesn't tire or have family obligations. • Many women are responding by working even harder and trying to "outgrit the algorithm" • Learning about AI is valuable, but using it just to get more done accelerates burnout • This technological shift is threatening not just roles but identi...
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1 month ago
8 minutes

Balance & Beyond
The Confidence Crash: What Happens After Burnout (and How to Rebuild from Zero)
Show up without working harder in just 5 days with the Confidence Kickstart Challenge. It's free and sent directly to your WhatsApp. We start Monday 13th October - Join today! https://www.balanceinstitute.com/kickstart Burnout doesn't just drain your energy—it shatters your confidence, leaving you disconnected from yourself and questioning who you really are beneath the high-achieving facade. The real struggle begins after the crash, when you're standing in the rubble of your former ide...
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1 month ago
18 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Why You Say Yes When You Want to Say No (Vault)
People pleasing behaviours develop in childhood and become deeply ingrained by age eight, creating a pattern where we believe we must earn love through meeting others' needs. This psychological conditioning leads to resentment, career limitations, and an inability to set boundaries that ultimately holds us back from becoming true leaders and women of influence. • People pleasers have a strong need to be liked, are often high achievers, perfectionists, and struggle to say no • The pattern beg...
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1 month ago
8 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Beating the Odds: How This CEO Took on a 50% Survival Rate and Rewrote the Rules for Success
What happens when life forces you to completely step away from the business you've built over 30 years? For Jennifer, CEO of Integrity Marketing Solutions, this unexpected journey began with a breast cancer diagnosis that changed everything. When Jennifer discovered she had metaplastic triple negative breast cancer—a rare and aggressive form affecting just 1% of breast cancer patients—the statistics were grim. With a 50% five-year survival rate, she made a powerful decision: "I just have to ...
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1 month ago
37 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Reclaiming Smart: The Part of Me I Spent Decades Shrinking (Jo Moment)
We often hide parts of ourselves that we've been told are "too much," but reclaiming these disowned aspects is key to wholeness and freedom. I share my personal journey of hiding my intelligence because it made others uncomfortable, creating compensatory behaviours and identity fragmentation. • Intelligence became something I downplayed despite teaching myself to read and finding school came easily • Developed hypervigilance about how my achievements might make others feel • Created unhealth...
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2 months ago
8 minutes

Balance & Beyond
The 6 Biggest Confidence Killers for Women
Tired of working harder only to feel less confident? You're not broken – you've just been following a broken model. Most ambitious women have been caught in a vicious cycle, believing that if they just work harder, polish their presence, gain more credentials, or wait until they've conquered self-doubt, then they'll finally feel confident. But the truth is shocking: these very strategies are what's killing your confidence. In this revealing episode, we unpack the six hidden traps drai...
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2 months ago
17 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Why Your Perfectionism is Fear in Disguise (Vault)
The journey from proud perfectionist to recovering perfectionist is crucial for career advancement and personal wellbeing. Perfectionism acts as a ceiling that limits growth, creativity, and influence when left unchecked. • Perfectionism often stems from early career mistakes that damage confidence • Common signs include excessive time spent on details, procrastination, and fear of making decisions without complete information • Perfectionism and procrastination always come together, both dr...
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2 months ago
10 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Anger Is the New Black: The Midlife Meltdown That Might Just Save You
Ever wondered why that headache appears right when you finally sit down after a hectic day? Or why your back pain intensifies during stressful periods despite no physical injury? The answer lies in the profound mind-body connection that many of us have lost touch with. Dr. Evette Rose joins us from Bali to unravel this mysterious relationship between our emotions and physical wellbeing. She explains how many women become "numb from the neck down," disconnected from bodily sensations until pa...
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2 months ago
32 minutes

Balance & Beyond
Fear is the common thread behind perfectionism, procrastination, stress and overwhelm. We explore how this powerful emotion, designed to keep us alive, has evolved to hold us back from what we truly want in modern life. • Only two fears are innate (loud noises and falling from heights) - all others are conditioned • Perfectionism stems from fear of making mistakes and ultimately fear of rejection • Procrastination is actually a protective mechanism to avoid the fear of getting it wrong • Str...