Redefining Success™ Podcast

Most entrepreneurs have about two hours a day when their thinking is at its best, and those hours drive more of their success than anything else on the calendar. For me, they generate about 60% of my revenue. They’re also the hours most likely to be broken up by small interruptions that feel like good work while they’re happening. In this episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast, I talk about th...

Most successful entrepreneurs can tell you exactly what they invested in their business this year. Ask what they invested in themselves through business coaching, a mastermind or their own growth, and the answer usually takes a little longer. In this episode, I talk about why so many high achievers stop investing in themselves once their business is running well, and what that decision costs over...

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 entrepren...

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 th...

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 dif...

Episode 53: Productive Avoidance Looks a Lot Like Responsibility What if the thing keeping you on autopilot isn’t procrastination? It’s productivity. For successful entrepreneurs and high achievers, avoidance rarely looks like doing nothing. It can look like answering emails, taking care of clients, solving problems, learning something new, or handling something yourself because you know you can g...

Your business is successful, you generate significant revenue, and your clients are happy. But your mind is still running at 11 p.m., and even when you’re technically off, part of you is still carrying your business. For many successful entrepreneurs, this isn’t a time management problem. It’s what happens when the habits, responsibilities, and operating patterns that helped you build your success...

Episode 51: Don’t Miss Your Life While You’re Building It What is all of your success actually for? After moving my son Mason into college, I found myself thinking about how quickly certain seasons of life pass and how easy it is, especially as an ambitious entrepreneur, to stay focused on what you're building next without fully noticing the life happening right now. You can have a successful busi...

What's the real cost of never slowing down? For high-achieving entrepreneurs, constant productivity can look like success. The business is growing, clients are being served, and everything keeps moving. Underneath those results, you may be making important decisions from exhaustion, reacting to what feels urgent, and losing the space you need to think clearly about what you actually want. In Episo...

Episode 49: Why You Keep Shrinking at the Next Level You’ve built a successful business. You know how to make hard decisions, solve problems, and create results. So why can the next level of success suddenly make you question yourself? In this episode of Redefining Success®, Laura Flood explores why successful entrepreneurs and high achievers can become more cautious as their businesses grow, even...

What happens when you realize the rooms, conversations, and expectations that once fit your life don’t quite fit anymore? In Episode 48 of the Redefining Success® Podcast, Laura Flood explores a part of personal growth and success that high achievers don’t talk about enough: the loneliness that can come with growth. As you become more successful, your ambition, priorities, and vision for your life...

What if the next level of growth didn't require longer hours?   Many entrepreneurs and high achievers reach a point where business growth starts creating more complexity instead of more freedom. More clients lead to more moving pieces. More opportunities create more decisions. Before long, success begins to feel heavier than it should.   In this special episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast,...

A chance conversation at the Apple Store turned into the episode so many high achievers have been waiting for. Laura was picking up a new iMac when Jillian, the woman helping her, asked about her two businesses. They got talking. And then Jillian shared that she was going back to school to become a Physician's Assistant and quietly wondered if doing that was taking something away from her daughter...

It's July. Half the year is behind you. And if you're honest, you're probably in one of two places right now. You're behind on your goals and quietly avoiding them because looking at them feels worse than ignoring them. Or you're ahead on paper and completely exhausted, running so hard you haven't stopped to ask if the direction you're running in is still the right one. Either way, this episode is...

What This Episode Is About Success is always changing you. The question is whether it's changing you into the person you want to become. We talk about what success gives you. We talk about what it costs you. But we almost never talk about what it does to you,  how it quietly reshapes your habits, your relationships, your identity, and your sense of self. Often without you noticing. This episode is...

Have you ever told yourself, "I'll be happy when I hit that revenue goal"? Or "Things will be better when the team is finally in place"? If so, you're not alone and you might be caught in the most common trap high achievers fall into. In this episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast, Laura Flood breaks down the "I'll Be Happy When" trap: the pattern where every milestone brings happiness that la...

More Success. More Fun. | When Did Life Become So Serious? At some point, many successful people become incredibly good at handling responsibilities. The business grows. The calendar fills up. More people depend on you. Before long, you've become the person who can manage just about anything. Somewhere along the way, fun quietly slips to the bottom of the list. You keep telling yourself you'll slo...

Have you ever spent weeks or even months thinking about a decision, conversation, or situation that could have been addressed in far less time? In this episode of Redefining Success®, Laura explores why high achievers, entrepreneurs, and business owners often carry things much longer than necessary. From difficult conversations and overdue decisions to commitments we've outgrown, many of the thing...

Do you feel like you're constantly trying to catch up, even though you're working hard, staying organized, and doing all the things you're supposed to do? What if the problem isn't a lack of time? What if it's a lack of capacity? In this episode of Redefining Success®, Laura explores why so many successful entrepreneurs, business owners, and high achievers feel overwhelmed despite having productiv...

Many high achievers spend years adding more. New goals, another new commitment. An opportunity that seems too good to pass up or another responsibility that gradually becomes theirs to carry. Then one day, they realize their life feels full, but not necessarily in the way they intended. In this episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast, Laura explores a different side of growth. Not what to add,...

You Don't Need Permission to Reinvent Yourself What happens when the version of success you worked so hard to create no longer feels fully aligned with the life you want now? In this episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast, Laura explores why reinvention can feel uncomfortable for high achievers and how staying connected to an outdated version of yourself can quietly keep you from creating the...

Summer has a way of revealing how connected people really are to their work. Even during vacations, dinners, baseball games, weekends at the lake, or slower evenings with family, many high achievers still feel mentally attached to their business all day long. Their schedule may look more flexible, but their mind never fully slows down. In this episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast, Laura talk...

In this episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast, Laura Flood shares a powerful conversation about resilience, emotional strength, attitude, and the way people respond when life feels hard. There are seasons where things don’t unfold the way we hoped. Plans change, pressure builds, disappointment shows up unexpectedly, and effort doesn't always immediately produce the outcome we wanted. During t...

Success changes people emotionally. Not just through pressure, responsibility, or higher expectations, but through the subtle ways high achievers begin protecting the life and identity they’ve already built. In this episode of the Redefining Success® Podcast, Laura Flood shares one of the most important conversations high achievers need to have with themselves after they’ve already created success...

There are parts of your business that are already working. They move, they produce results, they don’t require much from you anymore… and still, there’s this instinct to stay close to them. To check again, think about it one more time, or keep yourself mentally connected just to make sure everything is working. In this episode, Laura talks about why “easy” can feel so uncomfortable for high achiev...