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When external success, titles, or markets shift overnight, or a business hits a wall, how do you keep your self-worth from crumbling with them? Michele Harris exposes a dark season in her career where fear convinced her to settle for work far beneath her capabilities—and how she mistook a temporary circumstance for a false verdict statement on her value.
Michele shares the full story of her professional trajectory—from running a multi-million dollar deals, to taking low-level contract work out of sheer panic and fear, and discover the framework she used to step back into her power, and radically redesign her career to encompass a three-brand portfolio on her own terms, rooted in freedom, abundance, and oceanfront peace.
Learn how temporary positioning issues can trick you into questioning your worth. If you’ve ever felt invisible or over-qualified in your current role, this episode is your blueprint to stepping back into your authority.
🎧 In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
- The Corporate Deck Reshuffle: How mergers wiped out a global advertising career and forced Michele to build her own entrepreneurial raft and start her first business.
- The Trap of "Safe" Busy Work: Why high-achievers often use low-level hustle as a shield to hide from the fear of taking a real risk on themselves.
- Separating Circumstance from Identity: How market evolutions can trick you into believing you've lost your value—and how to break free from fear-based scarcity decisions.
- The URISE Professional Reframe: How to apply Uncover, Release, Interrupt, Shift, and Embody to stop settling for less than your true value in your career or business.
🔗 Resources & Links Mentioned:
- Free Digital Guide: Download "Why You Still Feel Stuck" to identify your hidden blocks and where you might be settling in your career or in life at unboundlimitless.com
- Read More on the Insights Blog: Find inspiration on breaking through your career hidden blocks
- Book an Executive Breakthrough Session: Ready to break through your career ceiling, raise your rates, or transition into your true purpose? Connect with Michele for a private exploratory call at unboundlimitless.com
- Share the Episode: Know an entrepreneur, leader, or corporate high-achiever sitting in work that feels way too small for them? Send this episode their way!