T.G.I.TED - Programming Your Mind for Success with Carrie Green #141

Have you ever felt that nagging self-doubt creep in just as you're about to pursue your dreams? That moment when you ask yourself, "Who am I to do this?" 

In this episode, I dive into the remarkable TEDx talk, "Programming your Mind for Success," delivered by the inspiring entrepreneur Carrie Green.

To watch Carrie's talk on YouTube, CLICK HERE.

As I mentioned, you can watch MY TEDx talk here:

https://www.thorchallgren.com/tedx

The key takeaway for me in this talk is understanding the power of self-belief and its pivotal role in transforming your life.

Carrie Green's story, recounted in her TEDx talk, encapsulates the essence of self-discovery and empowerment. She shows us that recognizing our true values and aligning our actions with them can lead to remarkable personal and professional growth. Carrie's journey from a successful yet unfulfilled entrepreneur to creating a global community of women entrepreneurs is a testament to the extraordinary things we can achieve when we silence our inner critics.

By listening to this episode, you'll gain the invaluable insight that self-belief is the key to unlocking your full potential. You'll discover the strategies to reprogram your mind, replace self-limiting thoughts with empowering ones, and take confident steps towards your dreams. Tune in now and start your journey towards a more confident, empowered, and fulfilled life.

As always, thanks for listening!

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Episode Transcript

Thor Challgren (00:00):
Have you ever had an idea to do something and
then you say to yourself, ah,who are you to fill in the blank
, who are you to do this thing?
In today's show, I share thestory of someone who asked that
question, then shared herresults in a great TEDx talk I
just watched.
If you're at a point in yourlife where you're starting

(00:23):
something new a new job, asecond career, a life beyond
being a parent, say, and youfaced any of those self-doubts
this show today is for you.
Welcome to.
Every Day, a New Thought.
I'm Thor Challgren.
Every weekday I share a newthought, a new perspective.

(00:44):
Today it's Friday and it's TGITED, a feature in the series
where every Friday, I look at aTED talk that inspired me.
This is to celebrate the launchof my own TED talk, which is
now available to watch.
I'll put the link in thedescription below.
Also, the show that I'm goingto talk, that I'm going to

(01:05):
feature today, will also be inthe description below, so you
can find that the talk that Iwant to share with you today is
a TEDx talk called Programmingyour Mind for Success.
It was given by an entrepreneurnamed Carrie Green.
This is a talk given at TEDxManchester.

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So Carrie is British.
This talk is from nine yearsago and she talks about her
journey as a college student whostarted several businesses and
then became hugely successful.
There are three things that Iwant to share and talk about in
this particular episode today.
The first thing is this is avery engaging talk and opens in

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a great way.
She makes the point with theaudience in a way that everyone
immediately understands whydon't I take action?
What stopped you?
She says Bottom line.
As she says, people miss out onopportunities all the time
because of what's going on intheir head.
She demonstrates that in a veryengaging way.

(02:13):
I'm not going to give it away,but it's a great open.
I think you'll really, as yousee it, you'll see yourself and
everybody in the audience in theway that they react to her
question at the open of the talk.
Great opening really gets inyour mind and plants the idea of
, okay, this is what we're goingto talk about.
The second point that I reallyenjoyed in her talk is it's a

(02:36):
great example of knowing yourown values, the importance of
knowing what matters to you.
She talks about in her talk thatshe needed money.
She was around 20 years old.
She was in law school and sheneeded money to continue law
school.
She knew that she had to startsome kind of business or get
some kind of job.
She ended up starting abusiness where she unlocked

(03:00):
mobile phones.
This was 2007 and I vaguelyremember that that was a thing
Maybe it was more of a thing inEngland where people got phones
that were tied to a carrier butthey wanted to unlock them
because they wanted to travel orwhatever.
Her business was unlockingmobile phones and she was really
successful at it and becamequite a good entrepreneur.

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But she realized at a certainpoint she was really successful.
She was miserable.
This was not a job that lit herup and she, as she thought
about expanding, she started toask questions of like is this
really what I want to do?
She says that, rather than feelbad about having that job, she

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said what can I do about it?
It's a great question.
Instead of feeling bad, whatcan I do about it?
And she realized, as she said,that mobile phone unlocking was
not my dream.
This is an important point.
She asked and looked at her ownlife and looked at her own
values and what mattered to her.

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I'm reading a book now by JohnDem artini called the Values
Factor, and he talks about theimportance of knowing what you
value, then building your life,building the things that you do
around what matters to you.
So I think Carrie's examplehere is a great way to look at
asking the questions of whatmatters to you.

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The third point that I want toshare is she asked those
questions, and she realized thatshe did like being an
entrepreneur, but she realizedthat her journey, her experience
, is one where she felt verylonely and isolated, and so what
she wanted to do was help otherpeople cope with something that
she felt, which was thatloneliness.

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So she imagined creating thisworldwide community of women
entrepreneurs who could help andsupport each other, and as she
thought about this and dreamedof what it would be like, all of
these negative thoughts startedto flood in, the thoughts that
are like well, who am I to dothis?

(05:05):
Why would anyone believe me?
Why would I be the person to dothis?
If you've ever thought aboutstarting something new, I'm
guessing you've probably hadexactly those thoughts, and
maybe they sounded exactly likewhat Carrie Greens describes her
thoughts.
As she said, though, that sheneeded to reprogram her mind,

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that she had to ignore all ofthose thoughts and focus on the
positive things, and there's agreat quote in there that she
said that.
When talking about that, shesaid I knew that I could stop
myself from thinking thosethings, and I did.
I replaced the negative,annoying, rubbish thoughts.
I love this.
She's British, so she saysrubbish.

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I replaced those annoying,rubbish thoughts and told them
to shut up and I replaced themwith positive thoughts that were
empowering me, thoughts thatwere actually empowering me to
move toward my goal.
That's a quote from her talk.
Well, how did this work out?
She built one of the largestonline networking groups of

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women entrepreneurs, with over100,000 women involved at the
time that she recorded the talk.
I'm sure it's even bigger now.
She makes clear that the reasonthat she was successful was
that she got unbelievably clearabout what she wanted to do.
If you're looking forinspiration about what you have

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going on next, this talk byCarrie Green is a great place to
start.
She talks about all of hercrazy goals which is her term
that she set for herself andthen she made happen.
And when you hear them in thetalk, you'll be like, really,
she did that, she did it.
So I have a question for youwhat are you doing this weekend?
I suggest watching this talkSuper inspiring about what could

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be next for you.
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