What happens when you achieve everything you thought you wanted - and discover you're still not free?
This week on Coached, I sit down with entrepreneur, speaker, bestselling author, and BossBabe founder Natalie Ellis for one of the most honest conversations I've had about ambition, success, motherhood, and the very, very high cost so many of us pay in pursuit of them all.
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Natalie built one of the largest communities for female entrepreneurs in the world. From the outside, she had everything: a thriving business, millions of followers, financial success, a beautiful family, and a life many people dream about.
Then she found herself sitting on her bathroom floor at 2 a.m., exhausted, anxious, and questioning everything.
In this conversation, Natalie shares the moment that changed the trajectory of her life and business, the painful process of stepping away from what she had built, and how she ultimately returned to create something far more aligned.
We discuss:
- Why success without freedom eventually becomes a trap
- The hidden cost of building a business around other people's definitions of achievement
- How postpartum anxiety and burnout became an unexpected catalyst for transformation
- Why defining your personal "enough number" changes everything
- The danger of lifestyle creep
- Freedom versus financial security
- The role motherhood played in reshaping Natalie's priorities
- How to stop making decisions from FOMO
- The systems every entrepreneur needs to create a freedom-based business
- Why one offer often beats many offers
- What alignment actually looks like in practice
- How to identify the part of your business you should never delegate
Natalie offers us a powerful reminder: Freedom isn't something you earn after success. Freedom is something you must build into success from the beginning.
Connect with Natalie
Website: https://www.bossbabe.com/
Instagram: @iamnatalie
https://www.instagram.com/bossbabe.inc/?hl=en
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bossbabe-podcast/id1453389736
Book: The Freedom-Based Business Method
Connect with Coach Keren
Website: Coach Keren Eldad
Instagram: @coachkeren
Book: Gilt Free = Ditching Your Gilded Cage for Good
Book a Clarity Call with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad
