If you want to start 2026 with clarity, confidence, and momentum, this episode is your reset. Inside, Laura walks you through a powerful year-end reflection process that helps you close the year proud and position yourself for a focused, fulfilling new year.

You’ll learn how to assess your growth, clear distractions, and reconnect with the version of you who’s ready to lead at a higher level, using her signature Redefining Success™ Possibility Blueprint and Focus Filter Framework.

This isn’t about pushing harder or cramming in more. It’s about becoming the version of you who creates results with clarity, belief, and aligned action.

• The 5-part year-end reflection Laura uses with every high-level client

• How to uncover your hidden wins and document your momentum

• Why identity shifts matter more than accomplishments

• The one question to ask when your calendar feels overwhelming

• How to use the Possibility Blueprint to plan 2026 from belief, not pressure

• The Focus Filter Framework that turns big vision into aligned action

• What it looks like to build your business around the life you want (not the other way around)

• Join the Redefining Success™ Collective

• Join the Life-First Business Reset while it's free!

• Register for the 2026 Focus & Profit Planning Workshop

• Check out our Holiday Sale!
• The Redefining Success™ Money Course Pre-Sale

If you're ready to finish strong and start ahead, don't just listen — take action. Let 2026 be the year success feels like freedom.

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In this powerful episode of The Redefining Success™ Podcast, we’re diving into one of the most important skills every high achiever needs: learning how to expect success even on the days when nothing looks like it’s working.

If you’ve ever felt stretched thin, distracted, or unsure whether your hard work is actually leading somewhere, this episode will shift you back into clarity, confidence, and grounded leadership. Most entrepreneurs try to create success from pressure, fear, or results. But sustainable success is built from identity, inner work, emotional leadership, and intentional energy, not constant hustle.

Inside this episode, you’ll learn how to:

This episode is packed with high-performance mindset coaching, emotional intelligence, identity work, and grounded strategies for entrepreneurs who want consistent growth, sustainable success, and an unshakable inner foundation.

You’ll hear a behind-the-scenes story from my own business journey, real coaching examples, and practical tools you can use immediately to feel more confident, clear, and in control, no matter what season you’re in.

If you’re a high achiever who’s building a meaningful business and a life that feels aligned and fulfilling, this episode will reconnect you with your power, your purpose, and your future.

Most high achievers build their success with one trusted tool: control. It makes you dependable, responsible, and the one who holds everything together.

But there comes a point where the same control that helped you rise starts quietly capping your growth, draining your energy, and keeping you from the life you are actually working so hard to create.

In this episode of The Redefining Success™ Podcast, Laura gets honest about the cost of control and walks you through what it really looks like to shift into clarity instead. You will learn how to step out of constant pressure mode and into grounded, calm leadership that honors both your ambition and your life.

If you have ever felt like you cannot fully relax because something might need you, this conversation is for you.

• Why control feels so safe, responsible, and familiar for high achievers
• The hidden cost of control on your body, your energy, your time, and your relationships
• The stories that keep you gripping tightly to every detail:
  • "If I do not do it, it will not be done right."
  • "If I slow down, I will fall behind."
  • "If I am not always available, I will lose trust."
• The difference between control and clarity:
  • Control is tight and fear based
  • Clarity is stable, confident, and grounded
• The Clarity Equation: Vision + Systems + Trust = Freedom
  • How to align your business with your current life vision, not the one from five years ago
  • How simple, documented systems give you your time, presence, and mental space back
  • How to build real trust in your systems, your team, and yourself

Laura also introduces some of the most powerful mindset tools she uses with her high-level clients:

• Manuals How the unspoken rulebooks you hold for other people (team, clients, partner, family) quietly attach your peace to their behavior and create constant disappointment and pressure.
• Emotional Adulthood What it means to take responsibility for your internal experience instead of handing your mood to other people or circumstances, and how this shifts you from reacting to leading from the inside out.
• Mel Robbins' Let Them Theory How to let people be who they are, move at their own pace, and have their reactions, while you protect your energy, standards, and peace.

These concepts come together to help you stop trying to manage every outcome and start leading from clarity instead.

Laura closes the episode with simple, tangible steps you can implement this week, including:

1. Choosing one area of your business to bring more clarity to
2. Noticing the moments where you tighten your grip and feel pressure to handle it all
3. Identifying one manual you are holding for someone in your life or business
4. Practicing emotional adulthood in one conversation or situation
5. Trying the Let Them Theory and noticing how much lighter you feel
6. Giving yourself credit for every moment you lead yourself well

These small shifts are what create a business and a life that feel spacious, grounded, and aligned, without sacrificing your standards or your results.

• Join the Redefining Success™ Reset Masterclass If this episode sparked something in you and you know your strategy, schedule, and energy need a reset, this masterclass is your next step. You will bring together your clarity, systems, boundaries, and focus so you can lead your business and your life with calm confidence instead of constant pressure. Join us for the next Masterclass. LauraFlood.com/Reset

• Explore The Redefining Success™ Collective For ongoing support, strategy, coaching, and community, the Collective is where high achievers learn to build sustainable success that supports their life. This is where you turn high-level concepts into daily behavior and structure. LauraFlood.com/Collective