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Impact Ready
Harness the power of your impact with “Impact Ready”. Hosted by Steph Saffer, mindset coach, speaker, entrepreneur, and acupuncturist, this podcast is your guide to elevating your impact and sparking meaningful change.
Dive into insightful discussions on ownership and the transformative force of your energy, unlocking actionable strategies to create a ripple effect of exponential results.
Tune in and expand your thinking, create clarity, and unleash your potential to make a powerful difference in your life and the lives of others.
Get ready to impact.
Have you ever felt like you had great potential but couldn’t get to your next level? Harness the power of your impact with “Impact Ready”. Hosted by Steph Saffer, mindset coach, speaker, entrepreneur, and acupuncturist, this podcast is your guide to elevating your impact and sparking meaningful change. Dive into insightful discussions on ownership and the power of your energy, and unlock actionable strategies to create a ripple effect of exponential results. Get ready to impact.
Taking responsibility for someone else's happiness feels like love. There's a case that it's actually control.
Steph unpacks the hidden dynamics of codependency and people pleasing, and why taking responsibility for someone else's happiness can actually be disempowering. She breaks down how old saboteurs convince us that managing other people's emotions is our job, and why that belief keeps us stuck in shaky, unbalanced relationships. She walks through what it looks like to release that need for control, take radical ownership of your own feelings, and let the people you love do the same.
In this episode you'll discover:
- The argument that ”fixing” other people's emotions could be a selfish act
- How saboteurs and old childhood coping patterns create people-pleasing and codependent habits
- Why trying to control someone else's happiness is disempowering, not helpful
Your takeaways:
- Notice the exact moment you step in to manage someone else's mood, and check in with how it feels in your body before you act
- Tell the people in your life you believe they're capable of handling their own emotions, instead of stepping in to fix things for them
- Release the need for control in your relationships so they can become more genuine, connected, and honest
Chapters
00:00 Introduction: personal happiness and where our responsibility lies
02:10 The coach who called fixing others a selfish act
05:30 Why coaching assumes people are capable, resourceful, and whole
08:15 Saboteurs, childhood patterns, and the roots of people pleasing
11:40 Defining codependency and the illusion of control
14:00 Two steps to break the pattern: awareness and new behavior
17:20 Taking radical ownership of your own happiness
19:00 Closing thoughts and sign-off
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