Emily watched the Knicks win the NBA championship Saturday night and could not stop thinking about Jalen Brunson, a guard who was told for years he was too small to carry a team and then dropped 45 points in the final game. The epiphany hit her on the couch. There are no rules. Every ceiling we live under was written by someone who doesn't even know us. In this episode, Emily walks through what it actually means to take your power back, rep by rep.

This episode is for the ambitious mom who has caught herself polling the group chat, waiting for her husband to sign off on a decision that was always hers, or hiding behind coaches and courses in the one part of her business she actually wants to be the loudest in. Emily names the quiet form power-outsourcing takes, why we do it most in the places we have not fallen yet, and the one tiny rep you can take today to start handing nothing else away.

Questions Answered in This Episode:

• What is outsourcing your power and why does it never feel like you are giving anything up?
• What did Jalen Brunson teach Emily about the made-up rules someone else wrote for your life?
• Why do we hand our power away most in the places where we have not fallen yet?
• Where did Emily catch herself outsourcing her own power and what was she really hiding from?
• What does it look like to wait for permission on a decision that was always yours?
• Why is falling on your face actually the entire point and the only thing that builds self-trust?
• What is the one tiny rep you can take today to start taking your power back?

Previous Episodes Mentioned in this episode:

Episode 64: The Two Non-Negotiables I'm Testing as an Entrepreneurial Mom for the Next 90 Days

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Emily has spent the last two weeks feeling completely paralyzed. Not by one big thing, but by everything shifting at the same time. Summer is starting, homeschool is ending, the nanny is moving on, the baby just turned six months, and her husband's startup is asking more of him than ever. In this episode, Emily shares how she got unstuck and the two non-negotiables she is testing for the next 90 days.

This episode is for the ambitious mom who has been quietly telling herself that locking in does not apply to her because something always falls apart. Emily walks through why that story is so tempting, why she's choosing to disagree, and the single line that fell out of all of this: the one thing you always get to control is what you refuse to negotiate.

Questions Answered in This Episode:

• What does it look like when an ambitious mom of five hits total paralysis and what does Emily do with it?
• Why is the "locking in doesn't work for moms" story so tempting to believe?
• What two non-negotiables is Emily testing for the next 90 days and why these two?
• What is the "never skip twice" rule and why does it matter for momentum?
• Why is making the bare minimum non-negotiable smarter than going all in on a maximalist plan?
• What is the one thing every CEO mom always gets to control, even when everything else is moving?

Mentioned in this episode:

Episode 61: 5 Rules I'm Breaking Right Now as the CEO of My Life and Business

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People ask Emily this question everywhere she goes. At the coffee shop, from friends, from friends of friends. How do you do it all with five kids, two businesses, homeschooling, and a travel schedule most families would call insane? For a long time she had a version of the answer. This weekend, the real one finally clicked. In this episode, Emily shares the epiphany that stopped her in her tracks at her son's baseball championship and the one mindset shift that has quietly been holding her steady through what is, right now, a genuinely hard season in her business.

This episode is for the ambitious mom who is currently in a hard part of motherhood, a hard part of business, or both at the same time, and is tired of being told to grit her teeth and white-knuckle her way through it. Emily walks through why the hard parts of both motherhood and entrepreneurship are not in the way of the woman you are becoming, they are what is actually building her. She names what hard seasons actually do for you that the easy stretches never can, why the resilience you build in one part of your life pours straight into the other, and the question she is asking herself right now instead of "should I just burn it all down." She also shares the specific year that broke her wide open as a mom and built the exact CEO she is today, the difference between morning-routine questions and the question that actually matters in a hard season, and an invitation to lean into your current hard part instead of waiting it out.

Questions Answered in This Episode:

• What is the epiphany Emily had this weekend at her son's baseball championship?
• Why are the hard parts of motherhood and business not in the way of the woman you are becoming, but actually what is building her?
• What can you only learn about yourself in a hard season that you can never learn in an easy stretch?
• Why does leaning into a hard part of motherhood make you a stronger CEO, and how does the same work in reverse?
• What is the specific year that broke Emily wide open as a mom and built the exact CEO she is now?
• Why is the morning-routine question the wrong question, and what should you be asking instead?
• What is the one question Emily is asking herself right now in a hard business season instead of "should I just burn it all down?"

THE CEO BESTIES MEMBERSHIP:

A Membership For Ambitious Women Building Profitable Businesses Alongside CEO Besties Who Get It.

Join the membership: https://theceobesties.com/membership/

CONNECT WITH EMILY:

1. ✨ Website: www.emilycollins.com
2. ✨ Instagram: @heyemilycollins