EPISODE · Dec 1, 2025 · 32 MIN
EP 16: 7 Brutal Ways I Was Still Playing Small (And How I’m Rewiring Them)
from She's Iconic with Renee Marie · host Renee Marie
In this raw, unfiltered solo episode, I take you straight into the messy middle of my own identity rebirth — not the polished “after,” not the curated success story, but the real-time void between who I’ve been and who I’m becoming as I rise into leading the Iconic Woman movement.I asked ChatGPT to be brutally honest and name the ways I’m still playing small… and it called me out in seven painfully accurate places where I’ve been dimming my voice, softening my conviction, over-explaining, dripping my story instead of leading with it, and trying to “fit” into a lane when I am the lane.And instead of bypassing it or intellectualizing it, I’m taking all of this directly into my somatic practice — because you cannot think your way into a new identity. You have to rewire it at a body-based, nervous-system level or you’ll keep circling the same patterns, income ceilings, and self-protection loops.This episode is the part no one shares —the tug-of-war, the fear of being “too iconic,” the nervous system gripping onto the familiar while your soul is begging you to leap.If you’re in a transition, if you feel yourself toggling between identities, if you feel the ache of “I should be grateful, but this isn’t my truth anymore” — this conversation will land in your bones.In this episode, I dive into:• Why over-explaining and proving yourself are trauma responses• The 7 subtle ways you may still be playing small without realizing it• How to identify where your old identity still lives in your body• Why somatic work is the missing piece to collapsing time in your quantum leaps• The moment I realized I’m not leading a niche — I’m leading a movement• The deeper reason this work matters (and how my brother’s story fuels my purpose)Being iconic isn’t hard.Holding it is.And your nervous system has everything to do with that.Come sit with me in the fire of this identity shift.You’re not meant to rise alone.🎧 Listen now💬 Send me a DM on Instagram @xoreneemarie and tell me which part hit you the hardest xo
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In this raw, unfiltered solo episode, I take you straight into the messy middle of my own identity rebirth — not the polished “after,” not the curated success story, but the real-time void between who I’ve been and who I’m becoming as I rise into leading the Iconic Woman movement.I asked ChatGPT to be brutally honest and name the ways I’m still playing small… and it called me out in seven painfully accurate places where I’ve been dimming my voice, softening my conviction, over-explaining, dripping my story instead of leading with it, and trying to “fit” into a lane when I am the lane.And instead of bypassing it or intellectualizing it, I’m taking all of this directly into my somatic practice — because you cannot think your way into a new identity. You have to rewire it at a body-based, nervous-system level or you’ll keep circling the same patterns, income ceilings, and self-protection loops.This episode is the part no one shares —the tug-of-war, the fear of being “too iconic,” the nervous system gripping onto the familiar while your soul is begging you to leap.If you’re in a transition, if you feel yourself toggling between identities, if you feel the ache of “I should be grateful, but this isn’t my truth anymore” — this conversation will land in your bones.In this episode, I dive into:• Why over-explaining and proving yourself are trauma responses• The 7 subtle ways you may still be playing small without realizing it• How to identify where your old identity still lives in your body• Why somatic work is the missing piece to collapsing time in your quantum leaps• The moment I realized I’m not leading a niche — I’m leading a movement• The deeper reason this work matters (and how my brother’s story fuels my purpose)Being iconic isn’t hard.Holding it is.And your nervous system has everything to do with that.Come sit with me in the fire of this identity shift.You’re not meant to rise alone.🎧 Listen now💬 Send me a DM on Instagram @xoreneemarie and tell me which part hit you the hardest xo
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