Vicky Shilling
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19/05/2026
I used to think the harder I pushed, the further I’d get.
Getting on for 10 years of self-employment taught me otherwise.
Because you can push really hard in the wrong direction.
You can be incredibly busy avoiding the thing that actually matters.
You can grind through self-doubt without ever understanding what it’s trying to tell you.
Hard work isn’t the problem (we’re REALLY good at that - honed for years!)
Working from fear is.
The shift that changed everything for me wasn’t working more.
It was understanding what was getting in the way of the work I already knew how to do.
Swipe through for the full list ➡️
Save this for the next time you catch yourself pushing harder instead of asking why it feels so hard. Which one resonates most?
18/05/2026
I didn’t plan to find my coaching philosophy in a poolside book. But here we are.
‘s The Antidote put words to three things I’ve believed for years but struggled to articulate.
Why manifesting makes me uneasy.
Why I’ve never been comfortable with before and after transformation stories.
And why sitting in uncertainty might actually be the most useful skill you can build as a solopreneur.
Swipe through for all three ➡️➡️
The slide about making €17k and then shutting the whole business down is the one that will probably land hardest 😬
Save this if it resonates 📌
And if you’ve read The Antidote, come and tell me what hit you most - I loved 4000 Weeks, I think this one is older and was a gift from my mother that’s been sat on the shelf for years 🫣😆
This isn’t for everyone 🫣
But if you also think most mindset coaching is expensive waffle that changes nothing in your actual business, you’ve just found the account for you.
Because honestly? I’ve thought the same thing.
I’ve sat in rooms and on calls where someone talked beautifully about limiting beliefs and inner work and left with nothing I could actually use on a Tuesday morning when I couldn’t make myself write the sales page or kept finding busier and busier tasks that don’t really move the needle on where I want to be.
Knowing you have a mindset block and knowing what to do about it are two completely different things.
What I do is specific.
You find the exact belief running your avoidance.
You understand where it came from and why your brain still thinks it’s keeping you safe.
Then you run a small, real experiment to start building evidence against it 👩🏽🔬
Not affirmations. Not visualising your dream life. Actual evidence, from your actual business, that your brain can start to trust.
It works. Not because it’s magic. Because it’s specific to you, grounded in what you’re actually doing, and it gives your brain something real to update on.
If you’ve been burned by vague mindset work before, this is what’s different.
If this resonated, there’s more where this came from. Link in bio 🔗
Helloooo 👋 Are you out there?!
You know the advice.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Just take the leap.
Stop overthinking and start doing.
And you’ve tried. You really have.
But pushing through fear without understanding it doesn’t make it go away.
It just makes you tired.
And quietly more convinced that something is wrong with you because it’s still not working.
Nothing is wrong with you.
Fear that gets pushed down doesn’t dissolve. It finds another way to show up. A different task to avoid. A new reason to wait.
The work I do goes underneath the pushing.
What is the fear actually about?
Where did it come from?
What tiny experiment could prove to your brain that it’s safe to move?
That’s a different conversation entirely.
If you’ve been waiting for someone who takes the inner work seriously but still wants you to take real action in your business, then Hiiiiii 👋 You found it 😌
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