My Guest Presentation At Ian Koniak's Uysp 2025 Retreat

Today, I’m sharing a raw, personal presentation I gave at Ian Koniak’s Untap Your Sales Potential retreat, where the theme was Scars to Success. I reveal my full backstory: growing up in poverty, struggling with perfectionism, chasing achievement for self-worth and the breakdown that changed everything.

You'll hear the painful (and funny) moments that shaped me, the survival strategies that got me far (until they didn’t), and the emotional healing I had to do to finally feel like I was enough, exactly as I am.

If you’ve ever felt like achievement is the only way to prove yourself, this episode will hit home in a powerful way.

🎯 In this episode:

↠ Growing up in chaos, and how it shaped my nervous system
↠ Using achievement as a way to earn love and worth
↠ Why people-pleasing and perfectionism eventually collapse
↠ The burnout moment that forced me to finally look inward
↠ Learning self-compassion and modeling it for the first time
↠ Why you don’t need to fix yourself to be worthy
↠ The power of “protecting the asset” (aka YOU)
↠ What growth looks like without proving yourself

Ready to finally feel focused again?
▶️ Press play, take notes, and try one small shift today.

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Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
01:36 – Childhood chaos and the “scars to superpowers” theme
02:48 – Growing up with addiction, poverty, and uncertainty
06:47 – Homeschooling, cousins, and emotional invisibility
11:54 – The identity of “The Achiever” is born
14:07 – Faking her way into a six-figure tech job
17:09 – Job change, entrepreneurship, still feeling empty
18:59 – The spiral: kids, business, survival mode
20:16 – Breaking point: "Just stay alive until he gets home"
21:25 – Healing starts: “I am worth caring for”
22:15 – PTSD diagnosis and the Grand Canyon metaphor
25:05 – The power of self-compassion and ChatGPT’s role
27:18 – There’s nothing to fix — just armor to shed
32:10 – You’re already worthy. Growth doesn’t require proof
33:43 – Closing words and invitation to connect