Who Am I Without What I Do? Finding Your True Worth with Angie Huestis
What happens when the roles, titles, accomplishments, and identities you've built your life around suddenly change?
In this deeply personal and empowering episode of SoulShift, Ali, Mindy, and Christine sit down with leadership development coach Angie Huestis, founder of Leading You to Freedom, to explore what it really means to know your worth beyond what you do, achieve, or provide for others.
Angie shares her personal journey from childhood fear and self-doubt to building a highly successful career, leading a multi-million-dollar organization, and eventually experiencing the profound loss of her mother and the collapse of the business she had built so much of her identity around. Those experiences forced her to ask a transformative question: Who am I without what I do?
The conversation explores how women can become disconnected from themselves through roles, expectations, comparison, people-pleasing, and the pressure to appear strong and successful. Angie shares how identifying her core values helped her stop comparing herself to other women and reconnect with who she truly was.
The conversation also explores the relationship between fear, childhood experiences, safety, and the patterns we carry into adulthood. Angie explains how fear of failure, fear of success, and fear of what others think affected her life—and how surrounding herself with supportive women helped her begin to feel safe enough to face those fears.
Together, the hosts and Angie explore why comparison can quietly steal our joy and confidence, how forgiveness can create freedom, and why the people we surround ourselves with can either reinforce old stories or help us rise into our potential. Angie also shares her simple but memorable approach to facing fear: “punch fear in the face” and do it afraid.
This episode is a powerful reminder that you don't have to earn your worth. You don't have to accomplish more, become more confident, or hold everything together before you are worthy.
You matter now. Exactly as you are.
In This Episode, We Discuss:
- Why so many women tie their identity and self-worth to achievement, roles, and success
- Angie's powerful question: “Who am I without what I do?”
- How major life transitions can create an identity crisis—and also open the door to transformation
- The connection between childhood experiences, fear, safety, and adult patterns
- Why fear of failure, fear of success, and fear of judgment can keep us playing small
- How comparison quietly steals joy, confidence, and personal freedom
- Using your core values to reconnect with who you truly are
- Why knowing your values can help you stop comparing yourself to other women
- The difference between being valuable for what you provide and knowing your inherent worth
- How forgiveness can become a powerful pathway toward freedom
- The importance of self-forgiveness and releasing stories that no longer serve you
- Why supportive community can help us grow beyond the limits we place on ourselves
- How to recognize when the people around us are reinforcing old patterns
- Why transformation doesn't require reinventing your entire life overnight
- Angie's practical approach to facing fear through small, courageous actions
- How taking one small step while afraid can gradually change our relationship with fear
- Learning to live with greater intention, choice, clarity, confidence, and freedom
Connect With Angie
Website: www.angiehuestis.com
Instagram: @angiedhuestis
Facebook: Angie Tanner-Huestis
Leadership & Community: Learn more about Angie's Leading You to Freedom work and Leader Connect through her website.
Resources & Links:
- Explore Mindy’s work at www.thefreedompromise.com
- Connect with Ali at www.aliandersonwellness.com
- Learn more about Christine at www.radiantheart.health
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