The real reason you can't break past $10k months

You’ve bought the courses, you've learned the strategy.

You’ve done the work.

So why are you struggling to push past your current income level in business?

In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on what really keeps high-achieving, spiritual women plateaued, even when they’re doing everything right.

We’re talking about subconscious sabotage, emotional safety, and why your next business breakthrough won’t come from another funnel… but from a felt sense of safety to receive more.

I’m sharing my story of being stuck at $10K months for years and how deep identity work finally moved the needle faster than any launch plan ever could.

If you’ve been secretly wondering “what’s wrong with me?” then this episode is for you.

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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. Hi, beautiful. So good to have you here. Today I am jamming on the fact that you don't need another strategy. You do not need another strategy to get your next business level. And I'm speaking specifically, if you have not if you're a beginner in business, then yes, strategy is where it's at. I double down on strategy. Because you need to learn some skills. We need to learn the skills in order to make sales online and all that good stuff. But if you're at 10K a month, for example, and you're trying to get to 20K a month and you're like buying all of the strategies under the sun, I'm telling you right now, your next business breakthrough is not hiding in a new funnel. It's not in a new course. It's not in a new launch strategy. What if I told you that the thing that's really holding you back isn't strategy at all? It is safety and self-love. Nope. That's what we're jamming on. Let's get right into it. Let me take you back a few years. I had been plateaued at 10 K months for ever it felt like. It was like two for two years at least. It was so consistent. It was always the same amount of money every month. I could not break past the 10 K amount. In terms of the monthly amount, it just felt so painfully capped. I just couldn't figure out what the hell was going on. I was doing all the right things. I bought all the courses. I tried every strategy under the sun. I did funnels, ads, webinars, launches, freebies. I became obsessed with the how, the tactics, the systems, the checklists. I spent all my money thinking that this next business coach is going to have the answer because she's got some strategy that works. But do you know what? Nothing really worked in that regard. And do you know what I never considered? I never even considered my energy, my beliefs, and my subconscious mind and my identity and all of that. That was at play. So I kept hitting the same wall over and over again, and every time I hit that wall, I thought maybe it's just another strategy. This is what I need. But you know what they say. If you want different results, then you're going to have to do different things. And for me, that meant looking within instead of out there. Because I have always been good at strategy. That is like my zone of genius in business. That's why I've been coaching business strategy for so many years. This was the shift. I started working on my relationship with money. My relationship with success and I did hypnosis, I did a lot of EFT tapping. It became my focus. I was like, something is not right here. It's got to be my energy, my beliefs, my identity, and all of that stuff that's taking over. I did money, rituals, journaling, visualization. I did all the things that I could do to help my body feel safe, receiving more. And when I say safety, I mean like nervous system safety, like that feeling of calm, it's okay for me to hold this. It's safe for me to have more, it's safe for me to be seen. It's safe for me to succeed. I would always say I'm safe. I'm safe. I would self-soothe. I would do all of that because what I realized is that I didn't feel safe at that next level. I felt safe at 10 K month. It was normal. It was what I knew. I was like, ah, whatever. I was neutral about it and it just felt like I predicted it. I was like, oh, I'm going to definitely make 10K a month this month. But the 20 K month mark felt scary. I just didn't feel safe in it. It felt unknown. And so I was constantly trying to push through and override this through strategy, but I didn't even realize that my subconscious mind was running the show the whole time. And that's what's happening with you too. Our subconscious minds 95% of everything. We only use 5% of our conscious brain. How crazy is that? 95% of our brain is in the subconscious that we're not even aware of. So what I realized is that I actually saw myself as a struggling business owner who couldn't break through 10 K months. I actually started to identify with that story, I was like, I'm a struggling business owner who can't break through 10 K months, and guess what? My results reflected exactly that. No strategy could fix it because my energy was misaligned, my beliefs were like, oh I'm just a 10K a month business owner. And it sounds ridiculous. But that was the story. I can't break through this. And I didn't feel safe breaking through it. There was a lot of negative consequences. There's always negative consequences to more money. And if it threatens your safety in any way, then you will sabotage. And so the strategy wasn't the bottleneck. I had very good strategy, my beliefs and who I was being was the bottleneck. And so when I shifted my inner game, that is when I started to actually see major shifts in everything else. Like when you start creating safety in more, in overflow, in money, and when you start shifting your identity from being like, I'm a struggling. This, or I'm not good at this, or not identity or beliefs and your self concept and all of that to match the future version of you, not the past version of you. That is when things really unlock, because when you shift that everything else cascades and follows. The results just come naturally from your being, from the energy that you have, from the thoughts that you think, it literally just ripples into your reality. So here's the truth that most women in business don't want to hear. What you're doing is typically not the problem, especially if you've had success. Maybe there's a few tweaks, of course. There's always strategy tweaks. We can always be improving and optimizing and whatever, but that's not the main issue. It's who you're being while you're doing it. So most women who are maybe sitting at 10 K months, it's not that they need another huge launch strategy or they need to change their entire business model. Maybe sometimes you do, but really not the case. Maybe a few tweaks to the offer, the sales process will help, but what's going to get you from 10 K to 20 K to 50 K to a hundred K a month. It's not a tactic. It's not one five step system. Although the world and the marketing world really wants you to believe it, it's like a five step system. It is your energy, it is your identity. It is who you are being. And do you know what controls that Your subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind runs 95% of our results and runs the show basically. And we're not even aware of it. That's why it's in the subconscious. We're not even aware of that stuff. And that's what makes it so damn sneaky. So no amount of strategy can outperform your subconscious mind and your beliefs about yourself. The deeply rooted beliefs that have been entrenched in your psyche, in your body since you were a child, since you were four years old. Nothing can outride that. Believe me, I'm excellent at strategy. I'm very confident in strategy. I have had so many launches. I have done so much in terms of business strategy. But I was subconsciously afraid of success. I was scared of losing friends, if I made more money, I was scared of visibility. I was scared of judgment. I was scared of what people would think if I started to really own my power and really step into that level that I really wanted to step into. I really wanted to be rich and wealthy and ambitious and I wanted to have nice things. But if I did that, I was worried about what everyone else would think. And deeply I sabotaged. That's what we do. Our body wants to keep us safe. Our mind wants to keep us safe. We'll do everything we can to keep ourselves safe. So if your subconscious believes that more money equals more sacrifice or more success equals losing love, or wealthy women are greedy, or if there's any part of that story that exists, then making more money will be a lot harder. You'll sabotage the hell out of your next level. And you'll do it without even knowing you're doing it. And it's not that our subconscious is trying to screw us over and things like that. It's just trying to protect us. That's basic survival mechanism. Basic, if there's something that's perceived as a threat, it will do what it can to keep us safe, to keep us comfortable. Anything unknown is typically a threat, typically. And 20 K or 30 K or that next level of your business is unknown. And so you'll perceive it as a threat and it'll just affect how you show up your energy, your actions, and the results you make. So the real work that we have to do, the real success, especially for women, and I'm just speaking to women now. It's an energy game. And I can spot very quickly who will so in business, just by their energy, just by who they are being. How they talk to themselves, how they talk about themselves, their identity. I can just see the women who are audacious, who own their worth, who say, why not me. They're confident. Obviously they've got imposter syndrome in all the normal inner critic stuff, but they don't listen to it. They just go. They're willing to put it all on the line. They're just like, whatever. I'm willing to fail. I don't care. This is what I deserve. This is what I want. I'm audacious about it. You got to be a little bit audacious. They scale fast. They make 50 K months look easy. Not because it is easy, but because they've created the capacity in themselves from their subconscious all the way through to nervous system, all the way through to creating safety around wealth, plus the strategy. They also have the strategy of course, but only on top of everything else can it work. The women who are constantly second guessing themselves, dimming their light, believing deep down that they're not worthy of big money. They struggle, they talk badly to themselves. They put themselves down. They are very negative about themselves. They have a very low sense of self-worth. They don't really love themselves as much or struggle to love themselves. They struggle. They work 10 times harder for half the results. You can literally look at the same two people right next to each other, and they will have the exact same strategy, but the one will be audacious, confident, and believe in herself, and she will go and absolutely smash it in less time. Like 50 K months looks easy. Then you've got another lady who talks to herself badly. She has a low sense of self worth. She doesn't believe she's worthy of success and money. She doesn't feel safe with money. She's terrified of what they'll think about her, and this is often deeply in her subconscious, she will spend years and years and years trying to get the same result. Even if they have the exact same skillset and same strategy. It's crazy. So growing a business without creating that inner game, that foundation for safety, self-love your identity or self-concept is like building a skyscraper on sand. It will never hold. Eventually it'll crack. And it does not work. So if you're in that place where you're working really hard, but you're not breaking through, I want you to hear me when I say this. It's not another strategy that you need. You need to go inwards. You don't want to go outwards. You need to go inwards now. And really there are like two foundations of creating safety and success. the way that I see it. Number one, obviously safety around money, wealth and receiving. So learning to feel safe when more clients come in. Learning to feel safe when money lands in your bank account and leaves your bank account both ways. In and out. Completely neutral. Not this intense anxiety and fear, just complete neutrality safe when things grow fast, faster and money comes in faster. Trusting and being regulated through that. And feeling regulated when money goes out as well and being trusting and safe with that. So that's one piece of the puzzle. It's a lot of money work, it's a lot of regulating yourself. And it's subconscious work. So you have to work with subconscious mind. And then number two is a deep sense of self love. That is what I really see. Like we need to learn ourselves. We need to learn how to turn the down, the voice of the inner critic. Because we all have that inner critic inside. And we need to turn up the voice of the inner mentor. The inner critic is very loud. It's very harsh. It's not true. It's rooted in fear and anxiety and keeping you safe. The inner mentor is soft. It's a whisper. It's a knowing. It's your intuition. And the inner mentor is the one that says, you've got this. You're capable, you're safe. You can do this. You can do big things. You can play big. You are made for more. Go after this thing. This is the thing you want. But the inner critic is harsh and hectic. And if we really want to grow businesses, we need to learn how to soften that inner a critic voice or ignore it. We'll hear it, but we ignore it and turn up the volume on our inner mentor and pay attention to that voice inside, because we all have both, right? And the only way to really work. And do this inner work. There's lots of ways. Obviously there's sematic ways you can do it, but the way that I've found to be most effective for me is subconscious work. So working with the subconscious mind. Now, affirmations are cute. Vision boards are cute. I love them. I've used them all the time. I've used them for years. But deep subconscious work. Working with the subconscious mind is actually where the quantum leap happen. It's where you make the big strides. when you shift your identity, deepen your subconscious, how you view yourself, everything changes. You shift your actions. When you shift your actions, you shift your reality. You shift your results essentially. And so your external world will catch up to your inner world. It'll reflect your inner world. And that's why I'm so passionate about the work that I do now, which is a lot of the inner world stuff. Now, I've been working in the outer world stuff for a long time. I've been doing strategy forever. What feels like forever. But what's so impactful and so transformational is when you go and you work with people on the inner game, the inner world, their identity, their beliefs, what they believe about themselves, money, everything, success, all of that. And the work that I do now. It's exactly what I do inside the Millionaire Mind shift experience, which is my private one-on-one container where we dissolve the subconscious limits that are keeping you small. That are creating this lack of safety and success and money in that next level for you. So you can step into the woman who knows she is meant for wealth. We look at your next business goal, maybe it's 20K a month, for example. We then plan out the strategy and the game plan to get there. Of course, we all need a strategy and game plan. But then once we do that, all of the beliefs, all of the fears, all of the insecurities get brought up to the surface. And then the real work that we do in this is we clear each one, we dissolve each one. All the subconscious blocks and the fears and the beliefs. I work with your subconscious mind and I clear them. I want you to imagine like you've got this big goal ahead of you and we've got this entire path ahead and you know the path. You can see the path, but on this path you've got big boulders that are in the way. And you have to walk around the boulders and over the boulders, and it takes long and it's time consuming and it makes everything so much harder to get to that goal. But with the mind shifting work that I do is we take away the boulder. Session by session we are removing these boulders completely from your path. So all you need to do is walk towards your goal and you walk towards your goal with certainty, neutrality. That goal, achieving that thing in your business becomes so certain in your energy, so normal. It'll be feeling like you're booking a plane ticket and you know your flight's already scheduled and you're just waiting to board the plane. Like there's no question about it. That's the energy I want to get you to for your next level in business and creating safety and capacity for yourself to receive that goal. To be able to receive it and not sabotage because it feels unsafe. And that is the magic guys. That is the thing that's just lighting me up beyond anything right now. So if you're listening right now and you feel like you've been doing all the things, but you're hitting the same wall, I want you to pause for a second. I want you to breathe and I want you to ask yourself, are you doing the inner work here? Have you been paying attention to any of that? If not. That is where you need to look. You need to go inwards. You need to start working with your subconscious mind. There's a lot there. If you can start moving those boulders away, you can become limitless. You can create whatever it is you want. You just got to start really working with your subconscious mind. You don't need another strategy. You need safety. You need belief. You need self-love. You need to become more of you, your whole you without all the stories and the baggage you've been carrying for years. And that is the work that I want to do with you. So, if this really resonates with you. If this is something you would like to do to grow your business, to step into the next level where you can play bigger. Then message me the word Mind Shift and I'll send you the application for my one-on-one container. And if you enjoy this episode, please share it with someone or give it some love by doing a review. It makes it so much easier for it to grow and reach more women in business and impact more ladies. Thank you for being with me today. As always, I so appreciate you choosing to tune into my podcast. I hope you have a beautiful day and I will connect with you soon. Bye. 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.