Because here’s what it’s been trying to tell you…
We all have that little voice in your head. Sometimes it whispers and sometimes it’s yelling.
You know the one. The voice that shows up right after a client responds, when you’re not sure why the prospect didn’t say yes, when you spoke up and the response was meh. It comments, critiques, advises, warns, and narrates your entire entrepreneurial life.
That voice has more power over your business than any system, strategy, or tool you’ve ever used.
The Voice That Shapes Everything
Why your internal dialogue is silently directing your performance
This inner narrator influences your confidence, your creativity, your boundaries, your problem-solving, and the way you show up when things get challenging—which lately, in this bone crushingly difficult year, happens quite frequently.
Rapid shifts in markets, tighter budgets, shorter attention spans, and more pressure to constantly “pivot,” your little voice works overtime. It tries to make sense of uncertainty, and in doing so, it becomes louder, more insistent, and sometimes more critical.
It affects decisions you haven’t even made yet.
What Is Your Voice Actually Saying?
Those quiet messages reveal your fears, beliefs, and hidden limits
“You should be further ahead.”
“Why can’t you figure this out?”
“It’s taking too long.”
“Don’t charge that—no one will pay.”
“Hustle harder, or you’ll fall behind.”
“Someone else is getting that business.”
“Failure and mistakes are not an option.”
These thoughts often masquerade as ambition, responsibility, or high standards—but underneath, they come from old patterns, unresolved pressure, and internalized expectations that never belonged to you to begin with.
Your business doesn’t just reveal who you are. It exposes every belief you have.
Your Inner Voice Isn’t the Problem
The goal is not to silence the critic—but to understand its purpose
People often want to eliminate the voice. Push it down. Overpower it. Outwork it.
But that voice exists for a reason. It’s trying to protect you from embarrassment, loss, uncertainty, risk, or repeating painful past experiences.
It wants safety. It wants control. It wants certainty in a world that doesn’t offer it.
And in its attempt to “keep you safe,” it may also be keeping you small.
What’s the Purpose of the Voice? To Push You or to Protect You?
Let’s take a look on whether your inner voice pushes you forward—or pulls you back
There are two types of internal voices:
The Guard: That voice is rooted in fear, past wounds, old narratives, and outdated identity. It cautions. It limits. It stops you.
The Leader: The voice aligned with your current truth, future vision, maturity, and potential. It guides. It challenges. It expands you.
Right now—especially this year where entrepreneurs are battling fatigue, burnout, instability, and reinvention—your voice may default to Guard mode. It doesn’t mean you’re stuck but it may mean your inner narrator is overdue for an update.
Teaching Your Little Voice a New Language
The questions that turn self-doubt into self-leadership
You don’t need to fight the voice. Rather, work with it and reprogram it.
- Is this true?
- Where is this thought or opinion coming from? Is it the traumatized child or the uncertain adult?
- Is the voice trying to keep me safe by keeping me at status quo or warning me of actual danger?
- What does my intuition tell me?
This is where transformation starts—not in your branding, not in your funnels, not in your productivity—but within your internal dialogue.
Because a business built on self-trust grows differently. Business decisions that are led with a steady inner voice make different decisions. A business rooted in alignment doesn’t collapse under pressure.
So… What Does Your Inner Voice Say?
When you take a moment to get quiet, meditate, walk or drive and you tune into yourself without judgment, you can hear the words running through your mind every day. As you evaluate what it is telling you, you gain invaluable insights on clarity, your power and agency.
Because once you identify the source of the voice, you get to decide whether to believe it, reshape it entirely.
Your business doesn’t need a bolder and louder strategy on becoming an authority. It needs a clearer inner narrator that is guiding you there.
The shift begins now
Today, take a pause. Listen. Write down what the voice has been saying lately. Then ask the defining question:
“Is this voice guiding me—or guarding me?”
And then evaluate it. Do the work.
Sometimes the biggest breakthroughs begin with the smallest whisper.
If you’re done letting an outdated inner voice run your business, let’s talk.
Book a free Uncovery Session and together we’ll identify what’s really driving your choices, tap into the version of you who leads with truth instead of fear, and design a strategy that matches who you are now—not who you used to be.
Let’s Grow,
Beate
Beate Chelette is The Growth Architect & Founder of The Women’s Code, a training company specialized in providing companies an ROI on Balanced Leadership. She has been named one of 50 must-follow women entrepreneurs by the Huffington Post. A first-generation immigrant who found herself $135,000 in debt as a single parent, she bootstrapped her passion for photography into a highly-successful global business, and eventually sold it to Bill Gates in a multimillion-dollar deal.
Beate works with business leaders and supports organizations by developing and providing training the training, tools, and expertise to create and maintain a balanced, equal and inclusive work environment that fosters creativity, employee engagement and corporate growth.
Recent clients include Merck, Women’s Legislative Caucus of California, Cal State University Dominguez Hills, Small Business Development Centers (SBDC), NFTE, CreativeLive, the Association of Corporate Growth, and TracyLocke.
Beate is the author of the #1 International Amazon Bestseller “Happy Woman Happy World – How to Go From Overwhelmed to Awesome” a book that corporate trainer and best-selling author Brian Tracy calls “a handbook for every woman who wants health, success and a fulfilling career.
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