Design Your Life: How to Build a Life You Love with Erica Pieczonka - 108
Despite all your success, do you ever feel like you’ve lost yourself along the way? Or wondered if It really is possible to create a life that you love. In this episode of the Limitless podcast, host Jamie Ratterman is joined by Erica Pieczonka, an organizational psychologist and certified leadership coach, to explore transformative life design principles. Erica shares her inspiring journey from corporate burnout to successful entrepreneurship, highlighting the critical role of values alignment and family support.
They discuss what it takes to balance motherhood and entrepreneurship, energy prioritization, and the importance of self-care. Erica shares insights on defining success on your own terms, setting boundaries, overcoming perfectionism, and effective task delegation. Tune in to learn how to craft a life by design and thrive both personally and professionally.
The Good Girl Syndrome: Perfectionism, Control, People-Pleasing and the Inner Critic
Reflecting on personal experiences, Erica and Jamie share how being the good girl in institutional settings—whether as the A student or the helpful daughter—led to a point of exhaustion and dissatisfaction. This life design fosters perfectionism, martyrdom, and a desire to be liked by others. Drawing on Shirazad Shameen's book "Positive Intelligence," they explore how our brains are wired for negativity and the specific mindsets related to the good girl archetype: the perfectionist, the pleaser, the controller, and the high achiever. Each of these roles has its strengths, but they can become harmful when taken to extremes. For instance, perfectionists may strive so hard for flawlessness that they end up procrastinating or burning out.
Say Yes to What Matters: Tips for Setting Boundaries and Priorities
Erica and Jamie explore the concept of life design, focusing on defining success, understanding values, and setting clear priorities. they discuss the importance of creating a list of what's important to help protect your yeses by knowing what to say no to. By establishing boundaries, particularly with oneself, it becomes easier to make decisions that align with your goals. they delve into personal experiences of saying no to opportunities that don't match your priorities and offer practical advice on how to start this process. What are you saying yes to?
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Highlights
00:00 Intro
2:09 Erica shares her journey from corporate burnout to starting her own business.
6:17 Challenges of balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship.
10:15 The need for support systems.
11:50 Societal expectations and challenges faced by working moms.
12:40 The concept of life design focuses on values and priorities.
16:01 the importance of saying no to things that don't align with one's values.
28:28 Overcoming the Good Girl Syndrome
About Erica Pieczonka
Erica Pieczonka is an Organizational Psychologist and Certified Leadership Coach. She helps women leaders and working moms ditch burnout, build confidence, and design a life and career they love. Erica is on a mission to see more women leaders, CEO's, and founders doing what they love, challenging the status quo, and changing the world for the better. She is a wife, mom of two boys under 3, a pilates addict, and a lifelong learner.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erica-pieczonka/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erica_pieczonka/
Website: https://www.dreamlabcoaching.com
Learn more about Erica: https://www.dreamlabcoaching.com/renewed-mama
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