What if the permission you've been desperately seeking was always yours to give?

In Part 2, Rachael Resk reveals the brutal truth most people never realize: we spend our entire lives waiting for someone else to give us permission to be authentic , when we've been holding that power all along.

Through her revolutionary "Reclaim" framework, Rachael shows why successful people with good jobs, relationships, and homes still feel stuck they're seeking approval from everyone except the one person who matters most: themselves.

Her game-changing revelation: "You are the permission slip. Nobody else."

If you've been waiting for the "right time" or the "right person" to validate your dreams, this episode will shatter that illusion. Rachael breaks down exactly how to stop approval-seeking behavior and start living authentically on your own terms.

Key Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:15 Meet Rachael Reck: Life and Confidence Coach
00:45 The Philosophy of Calm, Clarity, and Confidence
02:10 Understanding the Reclaim Framework
02:30 Challenges Faced by Clients
03:25 The Three-Phase Program: Release, Rise, Reclaim
05:06 The Evolution of Rachael's Coaching Program
06:39 Encouraging Movement and Overcoming Stagnation
07:45 Rewiring Conditioning for Lasting Change
10:33 Final Thoughts and Contact Information
11:01 Closing Remarks and Gratitude

The Permission Journey: From seeking external validation → Recognizing the pattern of waiting for approval → Understanding "you are the permission slip" → Learning to give yourself permission to be authentic → Breaking free from approval-seeking → Living life on your own terms

Stop waiting. Start living. The permission you need is already in your hands.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.
This is part two.
We're running into anotherepisode of Rachel Risk.
How are you and tell everybody,remind everybody who you are
but, more importantly, what youdo today?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm so wonderful.
Thank you so much again, Baz.
My name is Rachel Risk.
I'm a life and confidence coach.
I actually work with men andwomen.
I have one-on-one programs aswell as group programs.
I guess my goal is to bringpeople to calm, clarity and
confidence.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
I love that Calm, clarity and confidence.
Where did you come up with it?
Because I know the answer butthe audience doesn't.
Where did you come up with itand the reason behind it?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I think, where I came up with it.
I think life is short and Ithink one of the key things that
we need in life is peace andclarity and confidence.
I actually put confidence quitea bit higher than a few other
things, because if you have highconfidence means that you have
both.
If you have a high confidence,it means that you have both

(01:11):
self-acceptance as well asself-awareness.
You have a lower stress leveland a higher ability to ask for
what you want.
Find your voice and go outthere and be bold.
I've always learned thatfortune favors the bold.
I've always learned thatfortune favors the bold.
Also, again, if you haveconfidence and self-acceptance,
my little line if it's not okay,it'll all be okay in the end.

(01:34):
If it's not okay, that journeyto the end, which in my mind, is
joy and doing something thatmakes you personally feel joyful

(01:55):
and happy and purposeful, notwhat somebody else thinks.
So I guess that's where itcomes from.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I love that.
What has been the biggestfactor of people coming towards
you and what are their normalchallenges when they first come
to you?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, let me just share.
Actually, first of all, I callmy framework, it's called
Reclaim, and it's called Reclaimbecause I firmly believe that
we have what we need inside ofus and what we're doing actually
through reclaim is justshedding those things that erode
our confidence, our purpose,our joy or happiness over time.

(02:30):
But I think people come to mefor a whole host of reasons,
right, but I think that the mostcommon one, what I said, is
that they've reached 40, 50 orwhatever, and though they may
have a good job, a husband, wifeor somebody, kids, nice house,
all like the outside trappingsof success, inside they're

(02:54):
overwhelmed, filled withself-doubt, they're stressed or
burnt out and they really don'thave a purpose right.
So they do not have a drivingforce and when you don't have
that, it's very difficult tohave joy.
I guess through my program weand, by the way, my program is
not like some surface levelprogram and stuff like where you

(03:16):
learn this and learn that andthen your life is great it's
about let's go deep and stripaway again those things that
hold us back.
I have a three-phase programstarts with release right, which
is where, like we're doing thatright, where we get rid of our
triggers our negative self-talk,our energy drainers which we

(03:39):
all have, whether they're homeor at work our professionism,
our overthinking, overthinking,imposter syndrome.
And so we let that go right.
So it's not like a forceful, wejust let that go.
And then the second phase isactually called rise.
Right, we're building ourconfidence, our boundaries and
our clarity.

(03:59):
Through all that obviouslycomes calm.
Third phase is reclaim, wherewe're taking all that obviously
comes calm.
Third phase is reclaim, wherewe're taking all that our
newfound confidence, boundariesand calm and clarity and aligned
habits right.
How we live today is what ourhabits are and we move forward

(04:21):
into again our definition of asuccessful, happy life.
But yeah, so most people cometo me overwhelmed and
overburdened and so much so andstuff.
It's hard to think about muchelse.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
I think that's all very true and also I think your
program delivers a lot of whatpeople are seeking.
Now, how did you come to devisethe program and also what were
the defining factors for you toput it all together and say this

(04:58):
is what people are looking for,this is what I want to deliver
to the world?
How did that all come together?

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I think it all came together probably now, about
three or four years ago.
I think it came togetherprobably now about three or four
years ago.
I actually started out as ahealth and weight loss coach
women only and so I'd helppeople and stuff with that,
right.
But I very quickly found outthat the key issue was actually
not health or weight loss, itwas stress.

(05:28):
I turned myself into a stresscoach.
I found out through that thekey problem was confidence and
lack of purpose.
So this is how I evolved.
But I guess one of the thingsalso that I am is efficient and
raw and authentic, right.
So I always like to bringpeople not through a long

(05:51):
process of just like to givethem only what they need and
only that.
But I form my program.
Base is what I went through,right.
So this is not something new,right.
This is something that I putmyself through as I changed my
program and refine it.
It's based on either me or thefolks that I have helped.

(06:11):
So it's a proven program and Iam actually one of the results
of it.
So I want strength andresilience and joy, and I guess
life gets hard, right.
I want people to be able to getthrough the hard times and not
just get through, but getthrough with hope and joy,

(06:35):
knowing, like I said, I'll beokay in the end.
Stuck when I say stuck, itmeans that they are no longer
moving forward.

(06:56):
They don't like where they'reat, they don't know where to go
or they're afraid to stepforward.
They certainly don't want to goback, and so they become stuck.
And as you get stuck youprobably know this, know this
your physical state, right likeyou, tend to gain all sorts of
weight or get unhealthier.
Your stress goes up, yourmental state is getting down or

(07:20):
stressed or overwhelmed, filledwith self-doubt.
I guess what I like to do isencourage movement through life.
That's what I learned.
Yeah, I've actually helped outcountless people, so you know
folks don't want to be stuckanymore.
Life is short.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
I love that and yes, you are completely right, life
is too short.
No-transcript, un or rewire theconditioning in people so they
can create that change.
But more importantly, how doesit last?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
how does it last?
I think the only way it canlast is if you go deep down to
the core and acknowledge it andobviously change habits.
So what?
How?
My coaching is we're basicallywe.
I like to use the wordcuriosity, right, so we are.

(08:19):
We are the only expert on us.
I am not the expert on you oron whoever I work with, so you
are the expert of you.
What I do is I share somethingthat has helped me and countless
other people in idea and we,through my coaching, either
group or one-on-one, explorethat and get curious, without

(08:43):
judgment, and notice what we do,what we think, how we react,
how we respond to things as wenotice them.
It's just folks come to me andsay I'm broken, right, but all
they are is patterned and we canchange the pattern once we know
what it is.
So I guess a core tenet of whatI teach is to notice ourselves

(09:09):
with curiosity and not judgment,and then we change it at the
core and it becomes easier,right, because, again, the
primary state of all people ishealthy and happy.
So what we're doing is we're Ilike to call it letting go of
things that do not serve us,whether it's actions, habits or

(09:32):
beliefs or thoughts or,unfortunately, work environments
or people or whatever else, andthen I call it that we're
getting rid of our shroud and,as our confidence builds up,
people have the confidence rightto peek out and see wow,
there's a whole world out therefull of love and happiness and

(09:53):
joy, and they start to letthemselves.
And I guess I have another wordI use.
I think that we often holdourselves back the most.
I talk about in my coaching aconcept of allowing ourselves
and giving ourselves permission,and one thing that I use, which

(10:15):
folks used to say that you arethe permission slip right,
nobody else, so you are all thatyou need.
If you say, yes, go do it,nobody has to hold you back.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I love what you're doing here as well.
Where can people find you ifthey want to get hold of you, if
they want to check out what youdo?
And obviously LinkedIn is there.
Anywhere else you'd like tosend them?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Though I do have a website.
It's not fully up to date, soI'm not sure if I want to share
that, but LinkedIn certainly andstuff, and I actually will have
a website up or updated soon.
Awesome, and it's rachelr-a-c-h-a-e-l last name r-e
s-k-r-e-s-k rachel, you've beenamazing.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Is there any last thoughts or tips, advice you'd
like to share with the audiencebefore we depart today?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I think I want to tell people that if you're in a
rough spot we all have seasonsof life and you two will get
through this.
You've got it and you are notalone I love that that's what I
want to end with I love that.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Thank you very much, rachel, for your time, your love
, your energy and your expertise.
My audience please share themessage.
Inspire someone's life, changethem.
If you like the show and youcome across it, please leave a
review.
Press the five star If youdon't just someone else's show,
not mine, myself and Rachel.

(11:49):
Thank you for joining, thankyou for listening, thank you for
sharing and thank you for beinga part of my world.
I am forever, ever grateful,rachel.
You've been amazing to myself,from myself to you.
Let's keep connected, let'skeep talking Absolutely and for
my audience.
I love you.
You're awesome.
Have a great day and have anamazing day on purpose Until

(12:16):
next time, on Roast from thefrom the ashes podcast.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
I'm your host.
Be blessed and have a great day.
Thank you so much, everybody.