Do you define success based on what others think, or what makes you happy?

Kiley Peters had a vision to be successful to hit all of her numbers at her current company, while building a new company, while planning a wedding, while trying to plan for a family.

Now those are all amazing and exciting things, but at the same time, can you be successful with each?

It wasn’t until after she spent all of 2021 trudging through the muck, that she realized that if this was the supposed definition of "success," she needed to give herself space, and redefine her own vision of success.


Key Takeaways

• Don’t compare your success to others. You have no idea what it took for them to get there or what they are currently going through.
• Make sure your work is supporting your definition of success. If your work isn’t in alignment with your goals as a human, there might be another solution for you.
• Create a board of advisors for your life, and have them help you live out the answer to your own question of, “what do I want?”

Key Moments

{1:35} “I had spent a whole year balancing both of these, feeling like, ‘it'll work. I'll be fine.  It'll all be fine.’ And then I got engaged.  We celebrated my agency's five year anniversary. And then shortly after that, I realized I'd been having heart palpitations all year and I was like, ‘so it's probably not great. And also I hate all of this, like this all sucks.’”

{6:42} “And so in a lot of ways, I felt like I had failed. I felt like I had built something and I had abandoned and failed everyone who had ever given me the great gift of being able to make it a reality. And I wrestled with that for a long time.”

{21:44} “I want people to be able to figure this out. Faster and less painfully than I have, and so I ended up reverse engineering what I found my journey to be and adding my own, you know, touch to it in hopes of helping other people.”



More about Kylie

Kiley Peters is a keynote speaker, international award-winning serial entrepreneur, and small business advisor with over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience. She built and successfully exited her digital marketing agency to launch RAYNE IX, her executive leadership consultancy, and has helped hundreds of women launch, leverage, and exit their businesses in pursuit of greater autonomy, financial freedom, and ownership of their lives. She’s also the host of the “Welcome to Eloma” podcast.



Get in touch with Kylie

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kileypeters.com



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