The Nancy Levin Show

There comes a moment when living for everyone else quietly costs you your life. If you've been meeting expectations, carrying responsibilities that aren't yours, and calling it "just how things are," this conversation is for you.
When you spend years prioritizing others, you lose touch with what you want. You say yes when you mean no. You become needed instead of seen. And slowly, self-abandonment becomes your normal. My turning point didn't come from confidence or clarity. It came from willingness. The willingness to tell myself the truth and ask a question that changed everything: what do I actually want?
In this episode, I share how that question became my compass and led me to a proven framework for reinvention. Change doesn't require waiting for the perfect moment or becoming someone new. It requires permission, support, and a clear path forward. If you're ready to stop living for others and start choosing yourself, this is where it begins.
What we explore:
What self-abandonment looks like in high-functioning lives
Why success can still feel deeply misaligned
The hidden cost of people-pleasing and overfunctioning
How willingness creates momentum when clarity feels out of reach
Why you don't need to do this alone

If you're ready to stop waiting and start choosing yourself, join me for Reinvent Yourself, a four-day live virtual experience where we create real change together. Learn more and register at https://nancylevin.com/reinvent/
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Feeling stuck doesn't mean you're broken — it means something inside you is ready for more.
Change is one of the most misunderstood experiences of adult life. Many high-functioning, capable women feel a quiet dissatisfaction they can't quite name — not because something is wrong, but because something is no longer aligned. That inner dissonance isn't a failure. It's an invitation.
In this episode, I'm sharing why waiting for clarity, confidence, or a crisis keeps you stuck — and how reinvention doesn't require chaos or burning your life down. True change is a skill. It's something you can learn, practice, and move through intentionally, without abandoning yourself or seeking permission.
I walk you through the core myths that stop people-pleasers and perfectionists from changing, and introduce my proven reinvention framework so you can stop living reactively and start choosing your life consciously, with clarity and self-trust.
 
What we explore
Why feeling stuck is not a flaw, but a signal
The difference between reactive change and intentional reinvention
Why waiting for confidence or approval keeps you frozen
How people-pleasing and perfectionism block sustainable change
The Transformation Equation: vision, choice, and action
Why small, aligned actions create lasting momentum
How to stop abandoning yourself and start leading your life
 
If you feel the pull toward change but don't know where to begin, I invite you to join me for Reinvent Yourself, my four-day virtual experience for people-pleasers and perfectionists ready to stop waiting and start choosing. 
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When wanting feels unsafe, it's often because it reveals how worthy you believe yourself to be.
So many of us learned early on to edit our desires before we ever let ourselves feel them. We call it being realistic, responsible, or mature – but beneath that editing is often fear. Fear of disappointment. Fear of judgment. Fear of what wanting might expose about our self-worth.
In this episode, I explore why desire is not selfish, frivolous, or indulgent – it's diagnostic. What you allow yourself to want tells the truth about your relationship with worthiness, self-trust, and honesty. When desire becomes conditional, negotiated, or minimized, we slowly disconnect from our aliveness and begin living a life we didn't consciously choose.
This conversation invites you to stop chasing outcomes and start listening inward. Desire rooted in self-worth isn't desperate or frantic – it's grounded, clarifying, and deeply honest. When you allow yourself to want without shame or urgency, you stop abandoning yourself and begin rebuilding self-worth from the inside out.
 
What we explore:
Why many of us learned to shrink or edit our desires
How desire reveals your beliefs about self-worth
The difference between compulsive wanting and aligned desire
Why disconnecting from desire leads to numbness and quiet dissatisfaction
How honoring desire strengthens self-trust and self-worth
If this conversation is stirring something in you and you're ready to reconnect with what you truly want, I invite you to join my free five-day experience, Reignite Your Spark, at https://www.nancylevin.com/spark
 
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If you've already quit your resolution, this isn't a failure – it's an invitation.

There's a moment many people reach early in the year when the goal quietly falls apart – and shame rushes in to take its place. The routine slips, the promise breaks, and an old story resurfaces about not following through. I want to pause that moment and offer a different lens: quitting doesn't mean something is wrong with you. It means something deeper is asking to be heard.
Resolutions often fail not because of laziness or lack of discipline, but because they're disconnected from genuine desire. When goals are rooted in guilt, obligation, or the belief that you need fixing, they rarely last. Beneath every abandoned resolution is an unseen force – an underlying commitment that once kept you safe and is now keeping you stuck.
This episode is about recalibration rather than starting over. It's an invitation to listen beneath the goal, honor what once protected you, and consciously choose alignment over punishment. When desire leads and commitment becomes devotion, change stops feeling forced – and starts feeling like coming home.


What we explore:
Why most resolutions collapse early in the year
The difference between guilt-driven goals and desire-led commitments
How unconscious underlying commitments sabotage change
Why willpower alone can't create lasting transformation
How to recalibrate instead of starting over
What it means to align with what you truly want

If you're ready to reconnect with what truly matters and realign with your desire, join me for my free five-day Reignite Your Spark challenge at https://www.nancylevin.com/spark
 
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Feeling numb doesn't mean something is wrong with you – it means something important has been missing.

If you're doing everything right on the outside but feel disconnected on the inside, this episode is for you. Emotional numbness often hides beneath productivity, people-pleasing, and constant motion, quietly pulling you away from your truth without you even realizing it.
I explore why numbness isn't a failure but a survival strategy – a response to years of self-abandonment, over-responsibility, and living from obligation instead of desire. When your life hasn't made space for your truth, disconnection becomes the way you cope.
I then share three simple, grounded tools to help you gently interrupt autopilot and restore connection with yourself. This is about coming home – without force, without shame, and without needing to change everything all at once.
 
What we explore:
Why emotional numbness often looks like productivity
How people-pleasing quietly disconnects you from your desires
The cost of living on autopilot
Three simple tools to restore connection and self-trust
How to move from avoidance into aligned, honest action
Why your desires are signals – not problems
 
If this conversation is stirring something inside you and you're ready to reconnect with the part of you that's been dormant, I invite you to join my free five-day experience,
Reignite Your Spark at https://www.nancylevin.com/spark


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