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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.
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This Is What Expansion Can Really Feel Like | EP 538
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If you’ve ever felt like you had to push through a big season of change, this is your reminder that there’s another way.
In this minisode, I’m sharing something personal. I’m preparing to move from my home of 29 years. What this moment is teaching me about leadership, identity, and building a sustainable business as a woman goes far beyond logistics. It’s about what happens when we let go of what no longer fits and choose to expand with intention.
If you’re shifting your offers, location, relationships, or priorities, this episode will help you find your footing. I’ll share how high-achieving founders can recalibrate without losing momentum, and why self-trust is the real edge in this next chapter of growth.
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I've built a business, raised a family, and walked the same tree-lined street for 29 years. Now, as I pack the last boxes, I'm reminded that expansion doesn't always look like growth charts or launches. Sometimes it feels like stillness, quiet clarity, or letting go of something really beautiful. In this episode, I'm sharing what real expansion looks like when your foundation is shifting and how to recognize that what feels uncertain might actually be your most aligned next move. 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. Today I have a little behind the scenes to share with you. Some things that have been going on over the last couple of months that I was not anticipating, but that I'm really excited about. So my home that I'm in right now is where I have lived for the last 29 years. It was the first home Peter and I saw when we were looking to purchase, and then we went out and looked at 20 others just to make sure. But we ended up buying the first one, and we moved into it just days after our honeymoon. This house holds so many memories. It's where I birthed, raised, and educated my kiddos with my love. I've made music here, I've cultivated forever friendships, launched a brand, and learned how to grieve and to grow. And what we're doing right now is we actually decided to move house. And it's more than a move. It truly is a rite of passage. So the backstory. Back in August, Peter and I took a few day trips around southwestern and northern Ontario. And over Labor Day weekend, we actually ended up visiting three lakes in three days: Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. And on that Monday, we were sitting in Toronto by the lake in the distillery district when something shifted in both of us. It felt like this quiet inner knowing that came over both of us. We realized it was time to start thinking about our next home really seriously this time because it's something we'd been entertaining over the last four or five years. But of course, life gets busy and you put these things off and it didn't take center stage until this summer. So we decided we wanted to move, most likely, to the Niagara region of Ontario. And so we decided on the Monday, Labor Day, after seeing all these different lakes, we knew we wanted to be by water. And the question was, okay, which body of water is the one that we want to make the rest of our lives home? So we said we'd start looking in March of 2026. But here's what happens when we get clear on something. Sometimes timelines speed up. Literally, one week later, a dear friend told me about a home for sale in the exact community that we loved. And so I called the realtor. Turns out there was a conditional offer on it. And yet there was another house. So we decided, let's go take the trip. And we drove to the lake in Niagara, and we looked at both homes that night. And the second one, the one we didn't even know existed that morning, was the one. And on the drive home, we decided to make an offer and actually made the offer. So the next morning, I stayed at our house, had photos taken by the realtors in the afternoon, and by Friday, our home was listed. Eight days later, in a down market, it was sold. And now we move November 5th. It all happened so much faster than we imagined. And it reminded me that when alignment meets readiness, things can truly unfold with ease. And this is what expansion can feel like. Sometimes it's quiet, sometimes it's really messy. And sometimes it's beautifully fast. And my husband actually jokes. He's like, I don't know if it had to have moved this quickly, he may have changed his mind. Because it's a lot getting ready to uproot your life after almost three decades in one home in one community, and all of the things that go along with moving, as you may know, if you have moved more than once. And yet that fast feeling and the way everything moved, it was just wonderful. So expansion is not always about hustle or more action. Often it's about letting go, getting clear and letting go of what's familiar, letting go of an old rhythm that once served you. It's like the path of least resistance. Change takes a lot of energetic and emotional energy. So if your business is shifting, if your relationships are recalibrating, or if your priorities are changing, just remember you are expanding into alignment. Now, for me, this move is teaching me so much. It's teaching me that I can't scale chaos. I can only scale what is aligned. And the same applies in business. When your foundation changes, your growth takes on new meaning. You begin to make decisions from peace instead of from pressure. And there's a certain beauty in that. The balance of grief and grace, the soft strength of trusting what is next, even if you don't totally know what it will be like until you're there. Whatever new era you're walking into, I want you to know I'm cheering you on because what you and I are creating next will be magnificent. If this episode spoke to you, take a moment this week and notice what is shifting in your own world. Maybe it's time to expand, not by adding more to your task list, but by aligning with what feels true for you. And if you're ready to design your own expansion season with more peace and purpose, you'll find resources in the show notes to help you connect with your next season following my vision map framework. You can grab it in the show notes below. Thank you so much for listening, and I'll see you on the next episode.