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Sheila Botelho is a business strategist guiding visionary leaders to more profit, freedom, and self-trust. With decades of experience in wellness, sales, and transformational coaching, she helps founders grow businesses that generate wealth and impact—without burning out or dimming down.
On this show, Sheila sparks future-focused conversations about growth, leadership, and the shifting landscape of business in an era of rapid change. Her self-trust-centered approach equips founders to align strategy with soul, scale sustainably, and create a legacy of influence and abundance that touches every area of life.
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One Voice Note Changed How I Run My Business | EP 536
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Ever find yourself staring at a big decision and second-guessing everything. Even the things you used to feel solid about?
In this week's minisode, I’m sharing the one simple founder habit that’s helped me spot patterns, make cleaner choices, and actually trust my instincts. It's not a new funnel or a team restructure. It's something far more personal. You’ll learn about a practice that had become essential for me during seasons of expansion, decision fatigue, and emotional recalibration.
If you're in a season of business growth, parenting shifts, or creative reinvention and you're craving clarity without overconsuming content, this is your reminder that you already have the wisdom. This episode will help you access it.
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There was a season recently where I found myself second guessing my next steps. Even those things I knew that I was born to do. But what changed everything? A simple voice note I recorded months earlier. In this episode, I'll show you the one founder habit that's helped me make decisions faster, trust myself deeper, and spot patterns I used to miss. If you're navigating a big season, business shifts, parenting transitions, energy pivots, this tool will help you make sense of it all. Because the data you're looking for isn't just in your dashboard, it's in your self-reflection. Hi, welcome to the podcast. I'm Sheila Botelho, and I believe true success is built from the inside out. This mini sode is designed to help you live into what lights you up this week. Let's talk about something that doesn't get mentioned often enough in the founder space. Self-trust. And I don't mean the believe in yourself Instagram version. I'm talking about the kind of self-trust that shows up when you're in a hard season, when the clarity is not obvious, and the stakes feel higher than ever. And you're still willing to listen to you. This year I had a stretch where I started second-guessing things that used to feel so clear. Big decisions, small ones, even parts of my identity that I knew were mine. But something changed that surprised me. And it came from a practice I didn't even start with the intention to be strategic. I started listening to my own voice notes. These weren't for my team or clients. They weren't even polished. They were private. Little walk and talk messages I left for myself in my notes app or on my voxer. And what I found when I listened back was a breadcrumb trail. There were themes that I missed in the moment. There were repeated desires I'd brushed off. There were truths I'd whispered but didn't act on yet. It was like past me was waving a flag the whole time and present me was finally still enough to notice it. This practice, audio journaling, gave me something that felt almost like a founder's sixth sense. It gave me a pattern recognition system that no KPI dashboard or team meeting ever could. And when I talk to other women in our world, high achieving, scaling, holding a lot, I hear a similar desire. They want less noise, more internal clarity, more trust in themselves, and more decisions that feel clean and aligned. And this is what I want you to walk away with today. Your voice already knows you just need a place to hear it. So here's how you can try this for yourself. Start a private thread, even if it's just in your notes app, and leave a one to two minute voice note a couple times a week for yourself. No need for structure, just here's what's swirling in my mind today, or here's what I'm sensing, here's what I'm unsure about. Then set a reminder once a month to go back and listen. You will be so surprised at how many of your ideas have been circling for months and how much clarity you already had, but couldn't quite act on at the time. This is especially powerful if you're in a pivot season, whether you're launching something new, you're transitioning, or you're in a stretch of big emotions. Your past self holds insights you couldn't fully hear in real time. And when you practice tuning into them, you become a safer space for yourself. You make decisions faster, you lead yourself with more grace and less over efforting. This is the founder energy that I believe in. One where well-being isn't just a bonus, it's the operating system. If this episode sparked something for you, share it with one other founder friend today. We're rewriting how we lead. And it starts with trusting the sound of our own voice. Thanks so much for listening. Check out how we can connect in the show notes, and I will see you on another episode.