E044 - The Single Life Secret: Self-Confidence is the Key to True Love | Tracy Harmoush
May 26, 2024
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Former investment banker Tracy Harmoush discusses her journey to entrepreneurship, the importance of self-confidence in relationships, debunking fitness myths for women, overcoming gym anxiety, balancing work life, and priorities in relationships.
Self-confidence is crucial for healthy relationships.
Transitioning from corporate to entrepreneurship fosters personal growth.
Embracing single life cultivates self-discovery and confidence.
Balancing career and relationship priorities requires conscious choices.
Deep dives
The Importance of Self-Healing and Confidence in Relationships
Being healed, comfortable, and confident with oneself is paramount in maintaining healthy relationships. An individual's ability to give properly in a relationship is hindered if they lack self-confidence. Picking partners and navigating relationships becomes challenging without a solid foundation of self-assurance.
Transition from Investment Banking to Entrepreneurship
The journey from a corporate role in investment banking to entrepreneurship displays the personal growth and transformation that individuals can undergo. This transition often involves shifting from a structured corporate environment to a more dynamic and independent entrepreneurial path, leading to new opportunities and challenges.
Navigating Singlehood and Self-Discovery
Singlehood can offer valuable periods of self-exploration and discovery. Taking time to be single allows individuals to build confidence, understand their preferences, and break patterns of unhealthy relationships. Embracing single life can lead to greater self-assurance and a clearer sense of identity.
Balancing Career Growth and Relationship Priorities
Balancing career aspirations and relationship priorities requires conscious choices and commitment. Recognizing the need for both personal development and nurturing relationships is essential. Prioritizing healthy communication, mutual respect, and self-awareness can contribute to long-term fulfillment in both career and relationships.
The Importance of Confidence in Relationships and Decision-Making
Confidence plays a crucial role in navigating life successfully, especially in relationships and decision-making. Finding confidence through skills, knowledge, and experience enables better decision-making, setting boundaries, and choosing healthy relationships.
Balancing Delayed Gratification with Enjoying the Present Moment
Practicing delayed gratification while keeping a balance between work and leisure allows for enjoying the present moment, collecting experiences, and personal growth without overly fixating on work or financial success.
Managing Business Partnerships with a Spouse
Collaborating in business with a spouse involves allocating specific roles and responsibilities, maintaining individual projects and tasks, and minimizing direct day-to-day involvement to avoid unnecessary conflicts.
Identifying Role Models and Inspirations for Personal Growth
Gaining inspiration from various individuals and industries, rather than having a single role model, allows for learning and applying different strategies to personal and professional growth, enhancing creativity and innovation.
Tracy Harmoush is a former investment banker turned growth mindset speaker & entrepreneur whose focus lies in fitness. In spite of “social pressure to consider”, Tracy made the bold decision to shift direction from the 9-5 corporate world to build her fitness brand. Her app, Untraceable, shares a holistic approach to health and wellness, integrating Tracy’s expertise and passion for fitness into customised workout plans and nutritional guidance. Tracy is emerging as a key speaker in leadership and self-development, thanks to her Podcast “What They Don’t Tell Us” where she interviews thought leaders to provide her listeners with the tools to shape their mindset. In this episode, Tracy and I discuss life as an entrepreneur, covering work life balance, relationships, confidence and more.
0:00 Introduction 3:22 The reality of 9-5 corporate work: Tracy’s experience in corporate investing / trading in Dubai 7:45 The evolution of Dubai culture (2000s to now) 10:33 Entrepreneurship vs corporate job: which one should you choose? 14:11 Tracy’s fitness app & why basics beat gimmicks 18:00 Dispelling common training & diet myths for women 23:05 How to overcome gym anxiety 27:12 Dubai Dating & cold approaching in the gym 32:22 How Tracy’s big success with Untraceable was an “accident” & her motivation with the podcast 38:44 Priorities & work life balance as an entrepreneur 42:00 Careers & relationships 49:33 When the relationship simply doesn’t work: not the right one, but no reason to leave 55:44 Why being comfortable alone is crucial before being in a relationship 57:20 Negative energy exchanges & how feeling confident whilst single is “the best feeling ever’ 1:00:22 Why are women attracted to bad boys? 1:03:22 Unrealistic standards & expectations 1:07:12 Building a network & valuable friendship group 1:14:05 Opening up to your partner & protecting yourself from negative energy 1:18:33 Should men speak out more about their emotions? The toxic masculinity of “men will be men” 1:22:03 Masculine & feminine energy 1:28:12 Male dating struggles in their early 20s 1:31:22 Regrets, appreciating the now & gratitude 1:38:02 The wholesome story behind Tracy’s ice cream business 1:45:20 Tracy’s current business ventures 1:50:31 Role models 1:52:11 Tracy’s #1 advice to young women