06/09/2026
Time to reflect on your wheel of life?
I hand this to every woman before we do anything else.
You've built the career. You carry the responsibility. On paper, your life looks sorted. But somewhere in there, a few things have been quietly sliding and you haven't stopped long enough to see which ones.
Ten minutes, and you will.
See exactly where each part of your life stands, not how it looks from the outside
Spot the one or two areas you've let slide without realising
Walk away with an honest, one-page snapshot of where you actually stand
Wheel of Life — LIMITLESS WOMEN LEAD
The life wheel technique is a simple tool that helps you evaluate where you are currently and how satisfied you are in your life. It allows you to view key areas in your life such as health, finances and relationships, prioritise them and decide which areas you need to focus on to create the shift
05/09/2026
I felt stupid.
I wasn't.
My Director told me I didn't need to prepare. Then asked me, in front of everyone, for a statistic I didn't have.
After that I read every document twice. Wrote down pages I'd never need, because I couldn't know which fact he'd reach for next time.
That's not confidence. That's armour.
We call it the curse of expertise, all that certainty we build up by our forties and fifties.
For a lot of us it didn't start with expertise at all. It started with being made to feel small in a room we were told not to prepare for.
Certainty felt like safety because for a long time, it was.
Nobody ever came and told us we could stop.
So I'm telling you. 🎧 New episode out now:
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-midlife-power-shift/id1896813802?i=1000787728349
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01/09/2026
Certainty is a leadership risk.
That’s the line I came for this morning.
Dr Kirstin Ferguson opened the Women in Leadership Summit in Brisbane with the question most of us never stop to ask:
Is what’s in my toolbox still serving me for my next phase?
Knowers already have the answer. They need certainty.
Seekers admit what they don’t know.
We’re all both. But the better we get at something, the harder the second one becomes. She calls it the curse of expertise, so busy being right that we forget to doubt ourselves.
This is the exact thing that makes a second chapter hard.
The women I work with aren’t stuck for lack of expertise. They’re stuck because their expertise became their identity, and reinvention asks them to be a beginner again.
So — what are you willing to unlearn?
Tell me in the comments. I’m genuinely curious.
📚 Framework: Dr Kirstin Ferguson, Blindspotting
