Episode Overview

In this deeply raw and powerful conversation, Priscilla Ann sits down with business coach and founder Lezly Kaye for an honest discussion about trauma, ambition, burnout, motherhood, and redefining success on your own terms.

Lezly shares her extraordinary journey from a chaotic and impoverished childhood to building a $20M recruitment business with a 40-person team — and the identity crisis and burnout that ultimately led her to walk away from it all. What followed was a courageous year of healing, unmasking, and coming home to herself.

This episode is a must-listen for founders who feel trapped by their own success, are questioning hustle culture, or are craving a more sustainable, soul-aligned way of building wealth and impact.

In This Episode, We Explore:

• How childhood trauma and scarcity shaped Lezly’s drive for success — and her workaholism

• Becoming a “cycle breaker” and the hidden pressure that comes with it

• Building a $20M business while working 12-hour days — and why it led to burnout

• The inflexibility around maternity leave that pushed Lezly to start her own company

• Sacrificing presence in motherhood in the name of financial security

• What it feels like to wake up as a “stranger” in a life that looks successful from the outside

• The courage it took to end her marriage, dismantle her business, and choose herself

• Why bigger is not always better — and how lean businesses create more freedom

• Redefining money as a tool for choice, not self-worth

• Building businesses that support your life, not consume it

Key Takeaways for Founders:

✨ Success built from fear and unhealed trauma is unsustainable
✨ Burnout is not a personal failure — it’s often a systems problem
✨ You can be both an ambitious entrepreneur and a present parent
✨ Lean, profitable businesses can outperform large, high-overhead ones
✨ Alignment sometimes requires burning down what no longer fits
✨ Money is not the goal — freedom, choice, and integrity are

Powerful Quotes from the Episode:

“My job, my capacity to earn money — that was my identity.”

“No one really understands what it feels like to wake up feeling like a fraud inside a life you built.”

“I had to unmask myself — strip away who I thought I should be to find who I actually am.”

“So many women have built prisons, not businesses.”

About Lezly Kaye

Lezly Kaye is a business coach and former recruitment founder who scaled her agency to a $20 million valuation before choosing to walk away in pursuit of alignment and sustainability.

Today, Lezly supports female founders to build lean, profitable businesses without sacrificing their health, relationships, or identity. She is also the founder of a not-for-profit initiative designed to support women recovering from burnout, with a bold mission to help 1,000 women become millionaires — consciously.

This Episode Is For You If:

• You feel successful on paper but unfulfilled inside

• You’re questioning hustle culture and burnout-normalisation

• You’re a mother navigating ambition and guilt

• You want to build wealth without losing yourself

• You’re ready to redefine success from the inside out

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In this powerful solo episode, Priscilla Ann opens Season 3 of Inspired Founders with a raw, heartfelt story behind the creation of the movement. For the first time, she steps out of her comfort zone to share the real journey — from losing her identity as a teenage ballerina, leaving home at 17, building and pivoting through multiple businesses, to experiencing a spiritual awakening that led to the birth of Inspired Founders.

This episode sets the foundation for Season 3 — a season dedicated to coming home to yourself, reconnecting with purpose, and building soul-led success that feels deeply aligned. Priscilla shares how external success without inner alignment led to burnout and emptiness, and how reconnecting with her spiritual self transformed not only her business, but her entire life.

This is an invitation to every founder who knows they are here for more — to stop chasing and start creating from the soul.

Key Topics Covered:

• The real story behind Inspired Founders and why it exists

• Navigating identity loss, pivots, and reinvention as an entrepreneur

• Leaving home at 17 and trusting inner guidance during uncertainty

• From external success to inner emptiness — the wake-up call

• Spirituality, faith, and intuition in business

• Why entrepreneurship is an initiation into personal growth

• Letting go of misaligned work and stepping into self-worth

• The “Inspired Founders” download and trusting divine timing

• Building success from the soul, not adrenaline

• What Season Three represents and where Inspired Founders is heading next

Notable Quotes:

“I wasn’t someone with a perfect roadmap. What I had was a deep knowing — and that knowing has always guided me.”

“I had created all this external success, but inside I felt empty. I realized I’d locked parts of myself away.”

“Entrepreneurship isn’t polished — it’s an initiation into you. It will crack you wide open.”

“You don’t need to be ready. You need to be willing. Fear doesn’t mean stop — it means expansion.”

Themes & Insights:

• True fulfillment comes from aligning business with soul and purpose

• Entrepreneurship is a personal and spiritual growth journey

• Identity loss can be a powerful catalyst for reinvention

• Success without alignment leads to burnout and emptiness

• Your story — especially the messy parts — is your greatest asset

• Inspired Founders are here to create impact, not just income

Actionable Takeaways:

• Reflect on where you may be chasing success instead of alignment

• Reconnect with the parts of yourself you may have locked away

• Let go of work, clients, or paths that no longer feel aligned

• Trust your inner knowing, even when logic doesn’t make sense

• Remember that fear often signals expansion, not failure

Follow-Up Questions for Listeners:

• Where in your life are you creating from pressure instead of purpose?

• What parts of yourself have you been disconnecting from to “succeed”?

• What would it look like to build your business from the soul?

• Are you willing to trust the calling, even before you feel ready?

Final Thoughts:

This episode is the energetic foundation of Season Three — an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and remember who you are beneath the titles and achievements. Priscilla’s story is a reminder that success doesn’t come from striving harder, but from creating in alignment with your deepest truth.

Season Three is about coming home to yourself — and this is just the beginning.

Connect & Continue the Conversation

✨ Join the Inspired Founders Facebook Community — a space to connect, learn, and grow alongside soul-led entrepreneurs
✨ Follow Inspired Founders for more conversations on purpose, business, and impact
✨ Share this episode with a founder who needs to hear it
✨ Leave a review to support the show and help this message reach more women

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