Beyond the Script

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Beyond the Script is the podcast for visionary women who are ready to lead from within and uncover their true path. Hosted by Nikki Lynn Mayo, a spiritual life coach and intuitive business mentor, each episode helps you reconnect with your inner authority, understand your intuition, and create a life and business that reflects the script you're meant to write and create; not the one you were given. nikkilynnmayo.substack.com

  1. 5 days ago

    EP 37 Fear of Success Is Just People-Pleasing in Disguise

    What if your fear of success has nothing to do with being afraid to actually succeed? In this episode of Beyond the Script, I’m unpacking something that came through for me recently: fear of success is actually be a form of people-pleasing. Because success changes things. Your habits change. Your priorities change. Your availability changes. You change. And if you’ve spent years making sure everyone around you is comfortable, even at your own expense, becoming the version of you who gets what she wants can feel a whole lot more uncomfortable than staying where you are. We’re talking about what fear of success can actually look like, why familiar chaos can feel safer than the unknown, and why you have to stop making yourself responsible for everyone else’s emotions and perceptions. I’m also giving you three journaling prompts to sit with: What about success makes me afraid? Where am I holding on to things I need to let go of? How am I not putting myself first? You only get to be you once. At some point, the fear of staying the same has to become bigger than the fear of who might be uncomfortable when you change. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 🧘‍♀️ Meditation I mentioned: Watch Here ✍🏼 Subscribe to The Creator Edit on Substack: 📱 Follow me on TikTok + catch my lives:https://www.tiktok.com/@nikkilynnmayo 💻 Ready to turn your experience into a digital offer? Grab Digitalize Your Expertise:https://stan.store/nikkilynn/p/digitalize-your-expertise-3dl8johx ✨ Want to work with me 1:1 to map out your offer + sales strategy?https://stan.store/nikkilynn/p/leadership-identity-intensive Get full access to The Creator Edit by Nikki Lynn Mayo at nikkilynnmayo.substack.com/subscribe

    EP 37 Fear of Success Is Just People-Pleasing in Disguise
  2. 1 Sept

    EP 36 How to Turn What You’ve Lived Into What You Sell

    There is money in what you’ve lived. The experiences you’ve had, the patterns you’ve broken, the lessons you’ve learned, and even the things you had to figure out the hard way can become something that helps someone else—and something you get paid for. In today’s episode of Beyond the Script, I’m talking about how to recognize the value in your own story and stop overlooking your lived experience simply because it feels normal to you. I’m also sharing the story of a client who discovered what kept causing the same pattern in her relationships. Once she understood what she had lived, what she had learned from it, and how her experience could help someone else, she was able to turn that knowledge into something she could sell, and she made money from it. We’re getting into the difference between simply having a story and knowing how to use your story, and how your lived experience can become part of what you teach and sell. Ready to turn your story into income? Inside How to Get Paid to Tell Your Story, I teach you how to recognize the value in what you’ve lived and turn your experiences into something you can actually monetize. → How to Get Paid to Tell Your Story Already have an idea but need hands on support to execute on your strategy? My Sales & Leadership Identity Intensive is a private 90-minute strategy session designed to help you identify what you can sell and how to do it. Bring me the idea, the sales problem, and the decision you keep circling for us to map out in our session so you can walk away fully knowing what to sell and how to sell it. → Book the Sales & Leadership Identity Intensive It’s time to get to work and stop circling the same ideas. Get full access to The Creator Edit by Nikki Lynn Mayo at nikkilynnmayo.substack.com/subscribe

    EP 36 How to Turn What You’ve Lived Into What You Sell
  3. 19 Aug

    EP 35 You're Not Indecisive, You're Seeking Approval

    What if you’re not actually indecisive? What if you learned so early to consider everyone else’s feelings, reactions, and expectations that you stopped knowing how to make a decision based solely on what you wanted? In this episode, we’re talking about approval seeking. Where it can begin in childhood, how it follows us into adulthood, and why it can eventually look like overthinking, second-guessing, people pleasing, and struggling to make even the decisions we already know we want to make. Because there’s a difference between asking someone for advice and asking them for permission. We’re getting into: * How childhood roles can teach us to look outside ourselves for approval * The connection between approval seeking and chronic indecision * Why you can know exactly what you want and still struggle to choose it * The difference between gathering advice and gathering permission * How other people’s potential reactions become part of our decision-making process * Why simply telling yourself to “trust yourself” usually isn’t enough * How to start building evidence that you can make decisions you trust I also share the identity loop underneath approval seeking: how an identity that once helped you maintain connection, avoid conflict, or feel valuable can continue running your decisions long after you’ve outgrown the environment that created it. And if this episode has you realizing, oh s**t…this is bigger than people pleasing, this is exactly the kind of pattern we’re unpacking inside The Parentified Child Playbook. DM me “PLAYBOOK” on Instagram for more details. The Parentified Child Playbook is an experience designed to help you identify who you learned to be, understand why that version of you needed to exist, recognize the identity loops keeping old patterns alive, and intentionally begin becoming the version of you who gets to make different choices. Because the goal isn’t to stop caring what anyone thinks. It’s to be able to hear what everyone thinks without abandoning what you know. Reflection question:If nobody else was going to have an opinion about your decision, what would you choose? Get full access to The Creator Edit by Nikki Lynn Mayo at nikkilynnmayo.substack.com/subscribe

    EP 35 You're Not Indecisive, You're Seeking Approval
  4. 12 Aug

    EP 34 The Identity You’re Protecting Might Be the Thing Keeping You Stuck

    What if the thing keeping you stuck isn’t a lack of motivation, discipline or even self-trust, but an identity you’re still trying to protect? In this episode of Beyond the Script, we’re diving into identity protection: the ways we unconsciously defend the stories we’ve built about who we are, even when those stories no longer serve the life we’re trying to create. And it isn’t only the identities we perceive as negative. Being the strong one, the independent one, the responsible one, the successful one, or the caretaker can become just as restrictive when maintaining that identity prevents you from exploring who you’re becoming next. We’re connecting identity protection to intuition, those persistent “what if?” thoughts, fear of the unknown, self-sabotage and the identity loops that can keep recreating the same outcomes even when you consciously want something different. You’ll understand: * Why both empowering and limiting identities can become cages * What happens when new information threatens the story you believe about yourself * How identity protection can interfere with following your intuition * Why the unknown can send you running back toward familiar patterns * The connection between identity protection, self-sabotage and identity loops * Why getting exactly what you wanted can trigger an old identity * How to recognize the identities you may be unconsciously defending * Why creating your next identity requires evidence, action and self-trust You’ll also get a series of questions you can use for journaling or self-reflection to uncover where identity protection may be showing up in your own life. Identity protection keeps the old story alive. Intuition questions the story. Identity loops recreate the story. Self-trust gives you permission to write a new one. So the question I want to leave you with is: What are you protecting yourself from becoming? Connect with Nikki Lynn Mayo on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Substack @NikkiLynnMayo. Get full access to The Creator Edit by Nikki Lynn Mayo at nikkilynnmayo.substack.com/subscribe

    EP 34 The Identity You’re Protecting Might Be the Thing Keeping You Stuck

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Beyond the Script is the podcast for visionary women who are ready to lead from within and uncover their true path. Hosted by Nikki Lynn Mayo, a spiritual life coach and intuitive business mentor, each episode helps you reconnect with your inner authority, understand your intuition, and create a life and business that reflects the script you're meant to write and create; not the one you were given. nikkilynnmayo.substack.com