Ellevated Achievers™

What if the traits you've been told to fix are actually your greatest superpowers?In Part 2 of this soul-rich conversation, Molly and Shannon Waller go deeper into what it actually looks like to work with your wiring instead of against it. They explore the unique ability framework — incompetent, competent, excellent, and unique — and why the most successful entrepreneurs focus on fewer than two things. Shannon shares why hyperfocus is the forgotten superpower of differently-wired brains, how the right support partner can transform your life and business, and what it really means to be a hunter in a farmer's world.KEY TAKEAWAYSDistractibility, impulsivity, and risk-taking are hunting instincts — not character flaws. When you understand yourself as a hunter in a farmer's world, you stop fighting your own design.Hyperfocus is the forgotten superpower — when you're operating in your unique ability, distractibility disappears. That's not a contradiction. That's the signal you're in the right place.Ultra high net worth people say they're really good at 1.8 things — not six, not five. The fewer things you focus on, the more impact you create.The biggest myth about entrepreneurs wired like us isn't that we're flaky — it's that we should be different. How we're wired is perfectly fine. What we need is the right support, the right structure, and the right tribe.NOTABLE QUOTE"I don't have any experience of distractibility when I'm in my unique ability."LINKS & RESOURCESShannon Waller's Team Success podcast Book: Multiplication by Subtraction — Shannon Waller Book: Superpowered — Shannon Waller * Book: The Team Success Handbook — Shannon Waller Book: Business Is Business — Amy Bruske & Kathy Kolby Entrepreneurial Attitude assessment: yourteamsuccess.com Strategic Coach: strategiccoach.com Ellevated Achievers community: www.ellevated-achievers.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.MUSIC CREDITSMusic by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if the key to building your dream team starts with understanding yourself?Molly sits down with Shannon Waller — entrepreneurial team strategist, author, Kolbe certified consultant, and 34-year veteran of Strategic Coach — for a soul-rich conversation about what happens when you stop trying to fit into someone else's system and start building from how you're actually wired. They explore why knowing yourself is the foundation of every great team, how the right partnership can transform a business, and why letting go of wrong-fit relationships is sometimes the most compassionate thing you can do.KEY TAKEAWAYSFinding your tribe changes everything — Shannon spent years feeling like a fish out of water until she found Strategic Coach at 26, and that sense of belonging became the launchpad for her entire careerInvesting in capability over cash pays compound returns — when given the choice between a bonus and Kolby certification, Shannon chose the capability, and it became the foundation of 30 years of coachingWrong-fit team members aren't bad people — they're just in the wrong seat. Move them, refit them, or compassionately free them to the marketplaceCore values are factory installed — you can shift skills, roles, and even mindset to a degree, but core values aren't alterable, and misalignment there means it's time to let goNOTABLE QUOTE"I wasn't raised to make myself feel bad or to feel like I was supposed to be somewhere different, but it didn't mean that I felt like I fit in."ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAYWhere in your life or business are you trying to force a fit — with a person, a role, or a system — instead of honoring how you're actually wired?LINKS & RESOURCESShannon Waller's Team Success podcast Book: Multiplication by Subtraction — Shannon Waller Book: Superpowered — Shannon Waller * Book: The Team Success Handbook — Shannon Waller Book: Business Is Business — Amy Bruske & Kathy Kolby Entrepreneurial Attitude assessment: yourteamsuccess.com Strategic Coach: strategiccoach.com Ellevated Achievers community: www.ellevated-achievers.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.MUSIC CREDITSMusic by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if the instinct that terrifies you is the one that sets you free?Molly shares what happened when she stopped gripping the wheel at 220 km/h in a Ferrari racing through the Italian countryside — and why that moment of release is the same shift Ellevated Achievers need in business, leadership, and life. This episode explores chaotic discipline, the difference between impulse and intuition, and what it means to ride the fire horse in 2026.KEY TAKEAWAYSGripping tighter when things move fast doesn't save you — it destabilizes you. Your momentum needs your presence, not your panic.Chaotic discipline isn't recklessness — it's holding structure lightly enough that it can respond. Letting go isn't the same as letting go of the wheel.Intuition isn't the absence of analysis — it's the compression of everything you've already learned, processed faster than your conscious mind can articulate.2026 is the year of the fire horse — the archetype of fierce independence, unconventional brilliance, and disruptive vision. Women born during fire horse years were considered so powerful, they were feared.NOTABLE QUOTE"High achievement doesn't come from controlling the horse. It comes from becoming the kind of rider the horse will trust."LINKS & RESOURCESEllevated Achievers community: www.ellevated-achievers.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAYWhere in your life are you gripping so hard you're actually slowing yourself down — and what would shift if you held the wheel lightly?ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.MUSIC CREDITSMusic by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if the armor you built to protect yourself is now the thing holding you back?Molly explores the difference between being vulnerable, fragile, open, and undefended — and why that distinction matters for high achieving women who've confused armor with identity. This episode dives into what it actually costs to be guarded in your body, your relationships, and your business, and what becomes possible when you stop defending yourself against a threat that stopped being real decades ago.KEY TAKEAWAYSBeing guarded looks almost exactly like strength from the outside — but the cost is enormousUndefended doesn't mean defenseless — it means you're not spending energy protecting yourself from something that's no longer a threatReal vulnerability requires preparation — burning off emotional heat before the conversation, not winging it from a fragile placeThe emotional load and physiological load are not separate things — unprocessed feelings land in your bodyNOTABLE QUOTE"Undefended doesn't ask me to perform openness or manufacture softness. It just means I'm not spending energy defending where I am. I'm just here in the truth of it. No armor required."LINKS & RESOURCESBook mentioned: Atlas of the Heart — Brené Brown LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAYWhere in your life are you spending energy defending yourself against something that is no longer a real threat?ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.MUSIC CREDITSMusic by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if the parts of you that feel "wrong" are actually your greatest strengths?In this conversation, Molly sits down with David Kolbe — CEO of Kolbe Corp and son of the late Kathy Kolbe — to explore conation: the instinctive part of the mind that drives how we actually take action. Conation is distinct from personality or intelligence; it's about understanding the natural rhythm that's been yours all along and finally giving yourself permission to lead from it.KEY TAKEAWAYSConation is the third part of the mind — distinct from intelligence and personality — and it's the key to understanding how you naturally take actionYour Kolbe result doesn't tell you what you're good at; it tells you how you're wired to operate — and there's no score to improveThe myth of self-improvement in this context: low numbers on the Kolbe aren't weaknesses to fix — they're simply not your zoneWomen are held to different expectations around "failing forward," and Kolbe gives language to reclaim your natural strengths without apologyCollaboration isn't optional — even a "solo" entrepreneur is always working with others, and understanding instinctive differences makes those relationships exponentially betterNOTABLE QUOTE"You're really amazing and you haven't been recognized for it — as a matter of fact, those things about you that are most amazing, you've been told they were things you needed to get away from."LINKS & RESOURCES* Kolbe Corp website: https://kolbe.com * Book mentioned: Do More, More Naturally — David Kolbe * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAYWhat would shift in how you lead — or how you show up in your business — if you fully trusted that the way you're wired isn't a flaw, but a feature?ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.MUSIC CREDITSMusic by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if the wobbling isn't a character flaw — just a missing leg?In this solo episode, Molly introduces the Three-Legged Stool Framework — the three things high-energy, fast-moving entrepreneurs actually need to stay steady. This isn't about discipline or better habits. It's about understanding the specific structure that matches how you're wired.KEY TAKEAWAYSStructure isn't about what's in your calendar — it's about whether how it's organized matches how your brain is wiredAccountability is the bridge between good intentions and actually doing the thing — and it doesn't have to be heavy, just realSupport isn't just for when things fall apart — it's what keeps things upright when everything is going well, tooWhen you start to wobble, overthink, or stall — don't make it mean something about your value. Ask which leg is missingNOTABLE QUOTE"It's not a character flaw, it's just a missing leg."LINKS & RESOURCESLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAYWhich of the three legs — structure, accountability, or support — feels most wobbly in your life or business right now?ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance — not despite your wiring, but because of it.This is not about chasing productivity or managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.MUSIC CREDITSMusic by EVGENY from Pixabay

What if you're not broken—you're just brilliantly wired differently?Molly sits down with Barbara Annis, founder and CEO of the Gender Intelligence Group, to explore how understanding your wiring changes everything. From feeling like a foreigner in your own workplace to discovering the competitive advantage of divergent thinking, this conversation reveals why women work 5-10 times harder—and what happens when you finally stop fighting yourself and lead from your brilliance instead.KEY TAKEAWAYSWomen are so much harder on themselves, often working 5-10 times harder than men because we internalize everything as "something's wrong with me"—but the real issue is a mismatch between our wiring and linear systems.Once women understand what's authentic to them, everything shifts: you breathe differently, you calm down, and you become grounded in your power instead of performing.The old golden rule (treat people as you'd like to be treated) keeps us stuck—the new rule is treat people as they would like to be treated, which requires curiosity and letting go of assumptions.The question we should be asking: How do we get ready for a future where the majority of talent are women who refuse to shrink themselves?NOTABLE QUOTE"What's so powerful about this conversation is that once women get what is authentic to you, you breathe differently, you calm down. That level of hypervigilance goes away. You're grounded in your being."LINKS & RESOURCESBarbara Annis - The Brilliance of the Female Mind (book)Barbara Annis - Gender Intelligence Group Barbara Annis, John Gray - Work with Me (book)The Upgrade by Louann Brizendine (recommended reading)Barbara LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraannis/Molly’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAYWhere in your life are you working harder instead of trusting what's authentic to you?ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance—not despite your wiring, but because of it.This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.MUSIC CREDITSMusic by EVGENY from PixabayEllevated Achievers™ is produced by ⁠Podcast Impact Studio⁠ — helping visionary entrepreneurs turn their Energy into Impact™ through strategic podcast production.

What if chaos isn't the enemy—it's your natural rhythm trying to break through?Molly shares the moment she realized discipline has been lying to us. Staring at a perfectly color-coded planner that made her feel like she was suffocating, she discovered chaotic discipline—a version of structure that works with your brain, not against it. This episode explores why traditional productivity wasn't built for how you're wired, why momentum creates clarity (not the other way around), and how to build discipline on your own terms.KEY TAKEAWAYSYou're not inconsistent—you're rhythmic. The issue isn't your motivation or willpower; it's a fundamental mismatch between linear systems and how you actually work.Chaotic discipline follows three core anchors: vision over plans, energy over time, and adaptation over perfection.Momentum creates clarity, not the other way around. You don't need it all figured out before you start—you need to start and build momentum, then clarity emerges.Awareness always precedes discipline. For the next seven days, just track your energy—notice when momentum shows up and when it drops, without judgment or trying to fix anything.NOTABLE QUOTE"The moment you stop resisting the way your brain actually works is the moment that you get to unlock your true potential."LINKS & RESOURCESLinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAYWhere in your life are you trying to force consistency when what you actually need is rhythm?ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance—not despite your wiring, but because of it.This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.MUSIC CREDITSMusic by EVGENY from PixabayEllevated Achievers™ is produced by ⁠Podcast Impact Studio⁠ — helping visionary entrepreneurs turn their Energy into Impact™ through strategic podcast production.

What if the problem wasn't you—it was the measuring stick?In this solo episode, host Molly Thompson shares the journey from ADHD diagnosis to building the Ellevated Achievers community. She explores why "work-life balance" is the wrong question for women wired differently, and introduces a framework that honors natural rhythm over linear systems.KEY TAKEAWAYSManaging energy creates alignment—not the other way aroundCommunity amplifies what's possible when you stop trying to do it aloneThe "Connect, Create, Collaborate" framework turns isolation into exponential growthDifferent wiring isn't something to manage—it's the foundation for impactNOTABLE QUOTE"I don't have a disorder. If my brain is genetically wired to be different—that's not a problem to fix."LINKS & RESOURCESLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymollydolly/ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS TAKEAWAYWhere in your life are you using someone else's measuring stick—and what becomes possible when you stop?ABOUT ELLEVATED ACHIEVERS™Ellevated Achievers™ is a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. Through soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds, we discover what becomes possible when you lead from your brilliance—not despite your wiring, but because of it.This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.MUSIC CREDITSMusic by EVGENY from PixabayEllevated Achievers™ is produced by Podcast Impact Studio — helping visionary entrepreneurs turn their Energy into Impact™ through strategic podcast production.

Welcome to Ellevated Achievers™ — a podcast for high-achieving women entrepreneurs who are ready to stop concealing, start trusting intuition, and turn their Energy into Impact™.Hosted by Molly Thompson, diagnosed with ADHD later in life, this show explores how different wiring becomes power in leadership and business. This podcast creates space for soul-rich conversations with founders, leaders, and creative minds who lead from their brilliance, not despite their wiring, but because of it. This isn't about managing yourself better. It's about understanding how you actually work and building a life and business based on your natural rhythm, not someone else's linear system.Season 1 launches February 17th with conversations featuring Barbara Annis, David Kolbe, Nicole Solitar, Shannon Waller, and other brilliant minds who understand why leaning into your unique energy matters.This podcast is for you if:You're a high-achieving woman who leads differently. You often feel like you see the world through a different lens; ADHD may be part of that story. Traditional systems drain you. You crave depth and real connection. You're ready to lead from your brilliance, not your performance. You're not broken. You're not even bent. You're just wired differently — and that's your power.Come all the way in. Sit all the way down.