The ONE Thing Blocking You From Your Zone of Genius
Apr 24, 2025
The podcast dives into the distractions that derail business success, emphasizing the importance of finding your 'zone of genius.' It reveals how many are stuck in busy work and offers insights on recognizing what truly energizes you. Listeners learn why trying to excel at everything could be keeping them overwhelmed and broke. Daily habits for prioritizing impactful actions are shared, along with tips for enhancing customer experience and sales through focused productivity. Get ready to reclaim your passion and purpose!
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Outsourcing Your Genius Blocks Progress
Trying to outsource the genius of your business keeps you busy with unimportant tasks.
This blocks good things from coming into your business and stops forward momentum.
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Focus on Your Zone of Genius
Ignore distractions and focus on your zone of genius where you feel energized.
Let go of fear of others' opinions and just go for your biggest goals and dreams.
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Understanding Your Zone of Genius
Your zone of genius is what you do effortlessly that energizes you and yields high returns.
It often feels too easy and is undervalued by yourself and others.
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Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Gay Hendricks
In 'The Big Leap,' Gay Hendricks addresses the concept of the Upper Limit Problem, where individuals subconsciously sabotage their own success and happiness due to deep-seated fears and limiting beliefs. The book introduces four zones of activity: the Zone of Incompetence, Zone of Competence, Zone of Excellence, and Zone of Genius. Hendricks emphasizes the importance of identifying and operating in the Zone of Genius, where one combines what they love doing with what they are exceptionally good at. He also outlines four common hidden barriers to success: feeling fundamentally flawed, fear of disloyalty and abandonment, believing more success brings a bigger burden, and the fear of outshining others. The book provides practical advice on overcoming these barriers, embracing continuous growth, and achieving a balance between professional success and personal fulfillment.
If you’re not seeing momentum in your business, you’re probably doing EVERYTHING and yet NOTHING is working. In this episode, I break down the distractions that keep you broke, overwhelmed, and out of alignment with your purpose. I share how to identify your true zone of genius (spoiler: it’s the thing you’ve been undervaluing!), how to stay in it, and the method I use to cut the clutter and focus on the 2–3 things a day. Get ready to reclaim your zone of genius and build the business you were meant for.
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HIGHLIGHTS
The reason why you’re not seeing results (hint: you’re stuck in busy work).
How to recognize your zone of genius and why it often feels “too easy.”
The #1 distraction that sabotages your business.
How audience + sales solve 90% of your business problems.
Why trying to be good at everything is keeping you broke and burned out.
The daily habit that helps me prioritize income-generating action.
Earn Your Happy 