Rise From Within, with Terri Pugh

Men comment on women's bodies. Their weight, their clothing, their appearance, their choices. They do it confidently, casually, and often without a second thought.
Where does that authority come from?
Not one of them has spent a single day living in a woman's body, navigating a world that judges bigger bodies and links body confidence to how seriously women in business are taken.
In this episode I'm pulling that apart. 
What men actually comment on and why they feel entitled to do it. 
What they genuinely don't know about what it costs a woman to get dressed, walk into a room, show up on camera, or charge what her work is worth. 
And where those absorbed opinions end up living in our memories for the rest of time, consuming the capacity that should be going into your business, your visibility, your decisions, your presence.
Their opinion is never data. It is never feedback. It is never the truth about you.
It is just noise from the outside, delivered with confidence by people who have never once had to live here.
Your head is far too valuable a space to keep renting out to them.
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In this episode of the Rise From Within podcast, I'm talking about something I've been experiencing recently — functional burnout. This is not the dramatic, can't-get-out-of-bed version most people picture. It’s the kind where you're still doing everything, still showing up, and still ticking the boxes, but something feels off and your body is telling you it's had enough.
I'm sharing what it actually looked like for me: the emotional strain, the snappiness, the tiredness, and the moment I realised I could see exactly where I was over committing but couldn't work out what to cut because I genuinely wanted to do all of it.
That's the tangle this episode is really about. What happens when the things draining you are things you love? How do you recognise burnout when your life is full of good stuff? And how do you make decisions about pulling back and cutting things out when stepping back feels like compromising and losing part of yourself?
I'm also sharing the signs that are easy to miss. There are plenty of indications that don't look like burnout on the surface but are definitely worth paying attention to. 
And I'm talking about what changed for me when I finally made some decisions on what to let go of, and why a Tuesday night making pancakes with my family felt like the most significant thing I'd done in weeks.
If you're still functioning, still showing up, but running on fumes, this one's for you.
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Do you ever leave a networking event realising you know exactly what everyone else does… but hardly anyone could say the same about you?
You might have had good conversations. You might have felt comfortable, even enjoyed yourself, and yet nothing has come of it. No follow‑ups. No referrals. No real sense that being in that room made any difference to your business.
In this episode of Rise From Within, I’m talking about why that happens.
This isn’t about having a better pitch, being more confident, or forcing yourself to sound salesy. It’s about the very common ways women hold back at networking events without realising — asking questions instead of speaking about themselves, minimising what they do, or moving the focus away from their work and asking others about what they do instead.
I explore what’s actually going on underneath those behaviours, why networking confidence can feel harder the more experienced you become, and how being liked at networking doesn’t automatically lead to being remembered or referred.
In this episode, I cover:
Why networking confidence often looks like being polite, asking lots of questions, and keeping the focus off yourself
The difference between being socially present and being professionally present at networking events
Why confidence at networking events can feel harder, not easier, as your business grows
The cost of being liked at networking but not referred
What it really means to own what you do without apology in business spaces
I also talk about the temptation to say “they weren’t my people anyway” and dismiss what's really happened, and why networking isn’t just about who buys from you now, but who might remember, recommend, or refer you later.
This episode is for you if you’re showing up to networking events, feel like you're doing all the right things, and still wondering why it’s not translating into opportunities and sales.
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If you spend a lot of your day thinking about how you look, it is easy to assume that your body image and confidence will change depending on what you see in the mirror. What you often miss is how much of your life has nothing to do with your appearance at all. 
Appearance anxiety can take over so quickly that you forget what your day actually involves. You forget the decisions you make, the people you support, the problems you solve and all the ways you show up without even thinking about it.
This week’s article walks you through what is really happening in your day and why your achievements will give you far better evidence of who you are than your appearance ever will. 
When you take a step back and look at your day properly, you will realise how much you do that has nothing to do with your appearance, and it is such a relief when you see it clearly.
So this week I give you an honest look at why feeling confident in your body can be more to do with your actions than your looks, and how much your life already proves this. 
In this episode I also mention Byron Katie's Four Liberating Questions. You can find more on that at https://thework.com/2017/10/four-liberating-questions/

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Do you ever find yourself worrying that you said the wrong thing or caused a shift in a relationship? Asking yourself “was it something I said?” or “what did I do?”.
Many women slip into overthinking relationships because old patterns make them assume they are at fault. One small change in someone’s behaviour and you’re in self-blame before you can even pause to question it.
This article looks at why you react that way and what might really be happening beneath the surface. I’m talking about the link between old patterns, the inner critic and relationships, and the instinct to blame yourself.
You will see how much of this comes from conditioning rather than truth, and how freeing it can be to question those automatic thoughts.
If you want a calmer, kinder way to understand your relationships, take a moment to read this one. 
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