The end of Digiteach as we know it

Something big is shifting.

In this episode, I spill the tea on what’s been happening behind the scenes and why I decided to close the chapter on Digiteach as we know it. It’s raw. It’s honest. And it’s the story of what happens when you finally stop forcing things that no longer fit and choose to follow your energy instead.

I’ll share:

• What this season has looked like for me.
• The tools that helped me move through fear with calm.
• And what you can expect from me and how I will serve you moving forward.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, misaligned, or just craving something more, listen to this episode and take this permission slip to go after what lights your soul on fire. 

Get comfy, grab your coffee. Let’s talk endings, beginnings, and everything in between.

If you are an established woman in business, but you know you are holding back from your next leap and you're looking for a business coach who can help you become the version of yourself who hits $20K+ months and beyond , email me MINDSHIFT. I will send you a short application and we can see if we are a fit.

I have very limited one to one spots available, so it is first come first served.

Transcript

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Welcome to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. My name is Michelle Smit, and I'm a business growth mentor and subconscious transformation coach. I work with established women in business who are ready to scale beyond what they ever thought was possible, helping them grow thriving businesses that feel as good as they look. If you're ready to elevate your identity, unlock your subconscious power and combine it with aligned strategy to create limitless results with more ease, freedom, and impact, then you're in the right place. Think of this podcast as your weekly dose of mindset upgrades and business expansion that will unlock your next level and help you thrive on your terms. We're going to have so much fun together. So thank you for pressing play today. Now let's dive in. Hello, my friend. Okay. Grab a coffee, get comfortable because I am spilling the tea on this episode, and we need a chat because things have happened this week. I am going to be giving you a little behind the scenes of what is going on in my life and in the world of Digiteach. So just think of this podcast episode as just one of those long catchups where you tell your best friend some news, some stuff that's been happening and hopefully they don't freak out. Okay. So it's been a week, and yeah. I'll just get right to the point. Digiteach, as you know it is coming to an end. I know, I know. Crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy for me to say that. I actually can't believe I'm saying that. I really thought I would be running Digiteach forever. In my mind it felt so good for so long I was like, this is amazing. But yeah, before you start panicking or thinking I'm just going to move off the grid and start milking cows in my free time. Don't worry. This isn't like the end, it's actually the beginning of something else. Something just way more aligned, something so exciting. And so let me dive into that. So this week I sent an email to my list. If you are on my list, you would've received it. And it was about the fact that Digiteach is ending as we know it. And that I'm moving away, I'm closing down shop and I'm moving into something else. And I must say, it's taken me a long time to get this to this point if you've been listening to my podcast episodes or on my newsletter, you know I've been in a rut for a long time. I'd say a year and a half at least I've been in a rut. And so making this decision was very difficult, but it was the one that I just was resisting for so long. So pushing the send button on this email was super scary. My palms were sweating, my brain was screaming like, are you sure? What are you doing? And then boom, I clicked it, I sent it. And you know what? Once I'd done it, I just felt this amazing sense of relief, this instant full body like sigh, like a sigh of relief. Like I could just breathe. It was like a weight had lifted off me. And yeah, that just is confirmation that it was the right decision. It's actually been the decision I've needed to make for a long time and I've just been not able to make it. And it's so funny because when something ends. That part where you're not able to make the decision feels really heavy. That inability to make the decision, even though you know something needs to end and you cannot make that decision. That's the worst part. It feels so misaligned, it feels so unpleasant. Because you know you need to do it, but you can't bring yourself to do it and then you freeze. You get stuck. And I've been in like this frozen space for a long time. And so when I sent this email, it literally felt like I was un unclenching a fist. And just softening, right? Because for years I have been feeling this misalignment and I knew I needed to change things. I knew I had outgrown the version of my business that once fit me so perfectly, it fit me so perfectly for so many years, actually. It was so aligned. It gave me so much energy for so long. And just for the last year and a half, it just hasn't. I have been struggling. And when I moved to Portugal, the energy started shifting for me and I just started having these downloads. Things started just coming through to me. And I just started paying attention to all of that, and so from like a month ago, I decided to stop selling DBA. And then I decided, you know what I want to close down Digiteach as we know it officially, and then that's going to allow me to free up the energy for the next vision and iteration of my business and where I want to go. And so I basically closed this door so that new energy could actually walk in. And I've said this so many times, when you want to shift and move into a new area of your business. If you're holding on and clinging onto the old, it's very hard to shift into that new space. I wasn't able to shift into the new version of me if I was holding onto Digiteach. They are just different versions of me. Digiteach is old version of me and I'm just not her anymore, so I had to let go so that I could become the version of myself who I am already, I am that version. But really step into this next level. Now, here's the thing though, old me would have spiraled. I'd have made a million pros and cons list. I would've cried in a pillow about it. I would've been like really stressed and dysregulated. But this time, in terms of making that decision, I felt like such a badass doing it because I was like, this is CEO me, like this is the next level of me making it right. And I've been using mind, shifting on myself to address all the hidden fears and all the things that were holding me back from making this decision. So if you've been listening to my podcast episodes, the last couple of episodes I have been talking about mind shifting, which is the most incredible subconscious rewiring modality. And i've been basically using it on myself to rewire, dissolve, and remove all these fears that were running the show for me behind the scenes. I was like so scared of so many things that was going to happen when I did made this decision. So I just couldn't bring myself to make the decision. But since using mind shifting, I just became so much more resolved about it and calm and instead of panic, I was just grounded. And it was just clear what I needed to do. And it honestly felt like my brain went from constantly thinking about, oh my God, what am I doing? This is so risky. What if I like, you know, my anxiety goes through the roof. I'll think crazy things like, oh, I'm going to land up on the street with no food to eat. That is where my brain goes. Hello, anxiety. If any of you experience anxiety, you would know. But I stopped thinking like that and I was just like, this is a boss move. I'm actually going to be way more successful if I do make this decision. And that's when you know you have really upleveled. The way I was approaching this decision just changed completely. I just was like, this is a no-brainer. I am a badass. I'm going to create magic in my life just like I have in the past. And just like how I will continue doing so. And I have a hundred percent confidence in myself that I'm going to do it. And that was such a shift in how I was approaching this evolution. And finally my nervous system felt like, okay, we're safe. You can make this decision because I had dissolved all these crazy fears and old identities that were standing in the way. And now I'm not even kidding when I say my energy is through the roof. You know that feeling when your favourite song comes on? It's the weekend the sun is shining and you've just had the best cash month in your business. That feeling of just expansion and also maybe you've signed an amazing new aligned client or something really exciting has happened. That feeling of expansion is just how I've been feeling so much in the last few days, in the mornings and stuff. Just waking up, feeling expanded. I've got different energy. I just don't feel heavy anymore. And I haven't felt this lit up in a long time. And for a while there I genuinely felt like something inside of me was dying. I was still doing all the right things. I was launching, I was showing up on Instagram, I was coaching, and I was selling stuff, and oh, even when I was making sales, it didn't feel good. Nothing was feeling good. I just felt so, blah would be the right word. Coaching actually always makes me feel good, so I wouldn't put coaching in that thing. I love coaching and mentoring all my clients, so that was never something I felt Bleh about. It was all the other stuff that was like, Ugh, heavy. And now it feels like someone's just plug me back into my own power source. I just feel alive again. And it reminds me of how I felt when I was shifting from the ESL niche. When I started my business. I started in the ESL niche. And I remember after two years I decided to shift into business coaching and helping teachers launch courses. And I remember the energy that I had and it was so aligned. I was on fire, I created DBA. It was like birthing this child that was always meant to be born. So easy and just came in my flow, and I feel like that again. And so I haven't felt like that for a while. And damn, I'm so grateful, I'm so, so, so grateful to be feeling like this again. Because it just reminds me of what alignment really feels like. I think when you've become so used to a feeling you can't really remember what it used to be like. It just becomes the new normal. And now I can see, no, that wasn't the right thing. This is the feeling I want. And another part of the shift is I have been in the room with some absolutely amazing woman in business. So I am in this business program filled with just powerhouse women and just being able to witness these Mastermind calls and being able to see the kind of calibre of the questions they ask and the standards that they hold. I'm just like, wow, this is the level. I'm surrounded by women who are brave enough to dream big again, and it's really contagious because I can feel my own standards rising just by being there. And oh, sometimes you don't need a new strategy, guys. Sometimes you just need to pay to get and sit in the room with people who remind you what's possible. I'm telling you that is one of the best growth hacks you can ever have is to surround yourself with people who are doing better than you. And for me, it's just amazing to be surrounded by women in business who are just very inspiring and show me what's possible. It really has been feeding my soul. But I do want to share a couple of things with you in this episode that has been really helpful for me to break through my rut and my frozen state. Because I know that we're all going through some element of this in our business, whether it's now, whether it's later. There will be times in your business where you are stuck and you cannot move forward. And it's like running into a wall repeatedly. It's so annoying. So these are three things that I think have made a really big difference. Okay. I'm actually going to say four. Four is good. Four is good for me. The first one is movement. So when I arrived to Portugal, I was like, I'm going to dance my way through this country. And I have been dancing my way through this country. I go to ecstatic dances a couple of times a month. I am going to lots of awesome music festivals where I listen to DJs that I absolutely love. I play music. I've got these awesome new headphones now that are just magical and I play music and I'm like dancing. So I just am dancing basically. I'm dancing my way through life and through dancing. I have been shifting energy. I have been literally somatically moving energy through my body and it's helped me process emotions of difficult things I've been going through. I have literally cried while dancing. And I'm telling you, you don't have to dance if you don't want to, but do something that is moving your body. It will shift your energy. Don't sit at your computer and think that's something's going to change. Don't sit on your butt on your couch and think that things are going to change. Go out and move your body. That's honestly been such a game changer. Number two is I started spending a lot more time outside in nature. As you know, Portugal's absolutely incredibly beautiful. And the sun is shining a lot. So we are going to the beach. We are walking, we are hiking. We are just spending time swimming in the ocean. Nature is the most healing magical place. It really brings your nervous system down. So if you are feeling dysregulated, go out into nature, it'll bring you back down to a very regulated state. And in that space is where you build capacity. And in that space is where you relax yourself. You become relaxed enough for insights to come through, four downloads to come through. If you are hyper stressed and dysregulated, those downloads aren't going to come through. I personally feel like I'm connecting to source whatever you want to call it. For me it's like the universe source. When I'm in nature I'm deeply connected with it. It just feels much more connected for me. And for me that's where the downloads happen. That's where clarity happens. So getting in nature, do it, do it, do it. And then the third thing is subconscious work. So for me, it has been using mindshifting on dissolving fears, the fear of letting go, the fear of what people will think, the fear of not making more money, the fear of sabotaging myself and ending up on the street. Just crazy irrational fears that keep you stuck. And the fear of the work that I'd have to do, the fear of all of these things that was stopping me from making a decision. Once I cleared that I just was like flipping a switch. I could just make a decision, be calm, regulated, and I could just implement and move forward. And the fourth thing is surrounding yourself with women who are doing amazing things. So whether you need to pay to be in that room, do it. I've paid so many times to be in incredible rooms with women. Whether you can go to just networking events for free, do that, do whatever you can to surround yourself with women who are doing better than you. And who think differently to you and who have higher standards, let's say. And you will recalibrate to that energy and that will also shift things for you so you can move through your own rut. Okay, so I swear by this combo. Movement, for me it's dancing, get outside in nature. If you can do some subconscious work on dissolving fears and things like that. Deep seated fears that are in your subconscious, I do mind-shifting. You can always come to me for that. And surrounding yourself with badass women who are doing better than you. So what's next for me, I haven't fully figured it out. I am not going to be rebranding any time very soon. I am going to do a rebrand. I'm going to shift things. Digiteach will slowly be phased out. But she's kind of changing outfits and it's not going to be Digiteach anymore as you know it, but it's still going to be me. I am Digiteach guys. I am the person that you would want to connect with. It's not Digiteach, it's me. So basically it's going to move towards more of a personal brand. Just me and I'm now stepping fully into my role as a business consultant and subconscious transformation coach for women in online business who had success, but they feel they are stuck invisible ceilings. These are the women that know the basics of business. They've had success, they've made money. Maybe they're very successful, and they find themselves spinning their wheels, in the hustle, grinding, very stressed, not able to enjoy their success. Or they are trying to hit their next level, but they are unable to push through. Things aren't working, and they're struggling to get to that next income goal. They keep hitting these invisible walls. So I'll be blending seven years of online business strategy. That I've done and six years of business coaching experience that I have with the subconscious rewiring tools. And when you marry those two things together. The energy and the strategy. The subconscious rewiring, the mind-shifting work. Shifts your energy like fast, fast, fast. And then we look at your strategy. We plot out plans. I keep you accountable, and basically you have the recipe. We remove all of the blocks that are preventing you from implementing it. So all of the fears, all of the identities, all of the stuff that just causes resistance and makes you feel like you just can't bring yourself to do it. Or you do it with the wrong energy and people can see it. If you're selling and you're not confident, we can just shift that completely. So it's not just business strategy anymore, it's really deep identity work. It's who you believe you are while you do your strategy. So that is just what lights me up. And honestly, I hope my story gives you a bit of permission. Permission to close a chapter of yours that has maybe run its course permission to not have all the answers before you move. Because I don't have all the answers, I don't have full clarity ahead. I haven't even got my rebrand. I don't even know what my colours are going to be. I'm just doing the thing and it'll come, right? And permission to say, you know what? This isn't working anymore. This is a beautiful chapter, but I'm ready to change. I'm ready to shift. Because we are complex human beings and we will keep evolving on planet Earth. Our soul is here to evolve, right? And our businesses, they have to evolve with us or they will suffocate us. There is such a cost to misalignment, no amount of money, for me makes a misaligned life or business worth it. I don't even care how much I'm earning. If I don't want to do it, I don't want to do it. So if something in your life or your business feels misaligned, then this is your sign. Be brave enough to end it, to let it go, and know that something far more magical is already on its way to you. The universe or whoever you want to refer to it as, will have your back. Always has your back as long as you follow what's truly in your heart and what feels aligned to you. And if you need support with that and you want to do subconscious rewiring, come to me, message me, email me mind-shift. And I can share with you how I can support you in deep subconscious rewiring work. Dissolving those fears, dissolving all of those things that are keeping you stuck so that you can implement faster, take action faster, and get results faster, and become the version of yourself who just creates amazing success, wealth, freedom, and all of the stuff you deeply desire. Okay, so that's where I'm at. You can probably hear in my voice how much energy I have. I'm sure you will be able to tell that I'm buzzing. But yeah, this is the end of Digiteach as we know it. But it's the beginning of something that is just so magical. And I'm going to take you on for the ride. So thank you for being here through every chapter, every pivot, and every messy middle. You've grown with me and I'm so grateful. So grateful to have you with me in this journey. Now go do something brave today. Go do something that maybe you have been putting off for yourself. Just go do it. Give yourself permission to do it. Do the thing you want to do. Don't think about disappointing other people and all of that as long as it's aligned for you and it's been on your mind for a while. Go and do the thing. Even if it's just admitting you are ready for more and just declaring it, that's already powerful. I hope you enjoyed the behind the scenes and hearing a bit more of what's happening in my world at least. And if this isn't aligned for you, you can always just stop listening. If where I'm going isn't aligned, I always said, you could unsubscribe, you can stop listening. But if this is speaking to you and you're inspired by it, then I would love to invite you into this next evolution of my journey, my business, and how I can serve you in a much more deep and impactful way. I am ready to go very deep with my clients. And I'm ready to really transform them from the inside out. It's not just strategy anymore. We are changing, we are removing things, traumas, fears, blocks that have kept us playing small for our whole lives. That's what I want to work on. That's what really, really lights me up right now. So hopefully I'll see you with me in the next chapter. And yeah, I'll let you know how we go with the rebrand. All right. Have a lovely day and I'll chat to you soon. Thanks so much for listening to today's episode. If you are an established woman in business who's ready to scale their business to the next level of success, and you don't just want strategy, you actually want deep, subconscious reprogramming and powerful identity shifts. Then email me Mind-shift, and let's see if you are a fit for my Millionaire Mind-shift one-on-one container where I help you rewire your subconscious so you can become the woman who can create and hold incredible success, visibility, and wealth with ease. I appreciate you so much, and I cannot wait to connect with you in the next episode. In the meantime, go create a business and life you love.