09. Darrah Brustein On Borrowing Confidence, Hype Files and Aligning With Your Values

Explore the intricate dance of identity, control, and personal evolution in this conversation with Darrah Brustein. As a lifestyle business expert, Darrah’s focused efforts have led her to found 5 businesses and collaborate with visionaries like Deepak Chopra. Today’s conversation uncovers the challenges of knowing when to walk away and the triumphs of building a life that genuinely aligns with one’s values. Darrah also shares her unique insights into borrowed confidence and the invaluable role of feedback in personal growth. This episode promises a candid look at striking a balance between pleasing others and preserving self—all through the lens of becoming the boss of one's own life.

What you'll learn in this episode:

- How your intuition influences when to quit and when to continue

- Why borrowed confidence can immediately uplevel the way you show up in life

- How to build a lifestyle business by aligning your values to your work

- How to recognize and move past the nature of people pleasing

- How to embrace the dual nature of feedback and integrate it for growth 

ABOUT DARRAH:

Darrah Brustein is a 5x founder, author, and coach. She helps overwhelmed business owners and entrepreneurial-minded executives access the freedom, flexibility, and impact they desire. 

After spending 10 years over-working and burning out while building a credit card processing company into 38 states and a networking events company for over 30,000 people (which she later sold), she learned the wrong way to do it, and then discovered that there was a better way.

A prolific writer and interviewer, she's worked with Shaq, Deepak Chopra, Seth Godin, Bobbi Brown, Jillian Michaels, Adam Grant, Robert Herjavec, Nastia Liukin, Cam Newton, and the list goes on as well as brands like Chase, Visa, Toyota and FedEx.

Her motto: “Design your life, build a career to fund it, and a network to support it" has inspired millions to reach higher and dream bigger. 

Follow Darrah:

- Website

- Instagram

- Linkedin

Mentioned in this episode:

- "The Dip" by Seth Godin

- Diving Deep with Deepak and Darrah video series

- Life Design and Discovery Lab: Darrah’s coaching program that guides clients in aligning their lives with their core values

- Darrah’s 9 Questions to Ask Your Network to Find Your Path