Done. You said yes to yourself. Look at you go.
Your slides and the 1-page checklist of the 5 steps to boundaries of steel are on their way to your inbox right now.
No strings, no catch, no 47-email sequence before you get them. They're yours.
What happens next
Check your inbox in the next 5 minutes for an email from me with both downloads.
Not there? Peek in spam or promotions. Conference wifi and email filters are not friends.
Save the checklist somewhere you'll see it the next time a yes is halfway out of your mouth.
1 thing to try before the email even lands
You don't have to overhaul your whole life tonight. You just have to notice the moment. That's where every boundary starts.
The next time someone asks you for something this week, don't answer on the spot. Say: "Let me check and get back to you."
Then ask yourself if it's a real yes, or a yes you'll resent by Thursday.
If it's the second one, you already know what to do. And no, you don't owe anyone a 3-paragraph explanation with footnotes.
2 ways I can help, depending on what's draining you
Some of you want to keep working on the boundaries. Some of you want a business that stops undercharging you. Some of you, honestly, want both.
1:1 LIFE & RELATIONSHIP COACHING
For women in midlife who are done being everything for everyone. We unbecome everything you're not, find who you are at your core, and help you live as her, even when the people around you don't love it.
- Boundaries that hold past the first awkward week
- Less resentment, less overexplaining, fewer apologies to furniture
- In English or Portuguese
THE DOCTOR'S PIVOT
For women physicians building or rebuilding a coaching business. I build it with you or for you, from the offer to the website to the emails, priced so you feel neither guilty nor resentful.
- Offers and pricing that stop the undercharging
- Tech, funnels, and emails set up and actually live
- Done for you, or step by step with me
Recovering people-pleaser. Former cancer surgeon. Still not great at saying no to West Coast Swing.
I spent 20 years as a breast cancer surgeon, including time at Memorial Sloan Kettering and New York Presbyterian, and 13 years running my own practice. I also got a stomach ulcer as a surgical resident from being nice to everyone except me.
Now I'm an iPEC-certified coach of 7 years, and I bring the same clinical rigor to boundaries that I used to bring to the OR. Just with more jokes and fewer scalpels.
Being nice isn't the problem. Being nice to everyone except you is.
Thanks for spending 30 minutes with me. Go check your inbox, then go disappoint someone a little. You'll survive. I promise.
Dr. Manuela Powell