The Change Effect - Inspiration and Strategies for Creating Success on Your Own Terms
The Change Effect helps you turn life transitions into powerful new beginnings one story, one shift, one breakthrough at a time.
Your host, Noelle Van – a leadership coach and change strategist, spent years in corporate America helping innovators and leaders break through barriers to create success on their own terms – she now works with women to step into change to create a life they love.
Whether you're putting yourself at the center of your own story, redefining success or making a power pivot in your life, career or business - you're in the right place.
Each week, we dive into conversations with trailblazers, change-makers, and everyday women experiencing the ripple effects that come from overcoming the fear and doing it anyway. Providing actionable steps, practical strategies, and a whole lot of fun along the way.
The Change Effect - Inspiration and Strategies for Creating Success on Your Own Terms
The Hidden Cost of Hustle: Three Things That Come Back When You Finally Slow Down
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You worked hard. You proved yourself. And success arrived exactly the way you planned it. So why does it still feel like something is missing?
In this solo episode, I take a candid look at hustle culture, what it really is, why ambitious women are especially vulnerable to it, and the quiet but significant price they pay over time.
I walk through three archetypes I see repeatedly in my coaching work: the corporate high performer , the entrepreneur and the life hustler.
But this episode isn't just a diagnosis, it's an invitation. I share what I've personally learned about stepping out of hustle mode, and the three powerful things that return when you give yourself permission to slow down.
In this episode, I discuss:
- What hustle culture actually is and why it's fundamentally different from simply working hard.
- Why ambitious women have been particularly vulnerable to hustle culture's messaging.
- Three archetypes I see in my coaching: the overworked high performer, the entrepreneur recreating the pattern and the life hustler who can't stop doing.
- The uncomfortable truth about success: why reaching your goals doesn't automatically bring ease, fulfillment or freedom.
Below is a free Hustle Audit, a slowdown challenge and journal exercise designed to help you identify where hustle culture has taken hold in your life, and what might open up when you give yourself permission to slow down.
👉 Download the Hustle Audit here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jx4U8T4G2WdkcURNZZtZyLT73ag46SUO1nE0S4aOHZQ/edit?usp=sharing
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