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
E155: The Hidden Cost of Staying in a Life You've Outgrown
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We often think of change as the risky choice.
➡️ Changing careers.
➡️ Leaving relationships.
➡️ Starting businesses.
➡️ Choosing something new.
But what if staying carries a cost too?
In this episode, we're looking at the quieter risks. The ones that accumulate over time. The energy drain, the erosion of self-trust, the dreams we postpone, and the subtle ways we adjust our expectations to fit our circumstances.
This conversation isn't about convincing you to make a change. It's about helping you see the full picture so whatever decision you make is one you've made consciously.
In this episode:
• Why we underestimate the cost of staying
• How self-trust gets worn down
• The hidden tax of postponing what matters
• Signs you're staying by choice or by default
• Questions to help you honestly assess where you are
Whatever your next step, my hope is that this conversation encourages you to pause and take an honest look at where you are. Sometimes staying is the right decision. Sometimes change is. The important thing is that the choice is yours, and that you make it with clarity, intention, and your eyes wide open.
If you want to go a bit deeper on this, I've attached a simple exercise for you called The Cost of Staying Audit, to take a closer look at what it may be costing you to stay where you are.
Download: 🖊️ The Cost of Staying Audit HERE
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