Mindset Isn’t Your Problem: The Hidden Identity Trap Blocking Your Success (and How to Break It)
You’ve journaled, visualized, affirmed, healed, and hyper-self-analyzed… yet your manifestation still hasn’t shifted. Queen, if you’ve ever wondered, “Why am I doing all the inner work but my reality won’t budge?” — this episode is your breakthrough.
Inside this deeply personal and powerfully practical transmission, Kimberly pulls back the curtain on the missing link most high-performers overlook: identity-level embodiment. Not mindset tweaks. Not prettier affirmations. Not more healing loops. But the actual recoding of the subconscious rules shaping your behavior, your bank account, your relationships, and your environment.
Through raw storytelling, real-life examples, and the physiology-driven strategies she used to rebuild her income, business, and self-worth, Kimberly reveals:
✨ Why affirmations fail when your identity says “Nope.”
✨ How your posture, breath, and micro-actions rewire your nervous system for success.
✨ The secret reason you repeat the same patterns — even after breakthroughs.
✨ How to spot your unconscious beliefs by reading your environment like a manifestation mirror.
✨ The embodiment practices (Pilates, yoga, qigong) that shift you faster than journaling ever will.
This isn’t surface-level mindset work. This is sovereign-level self-mastery — the alchemical process of becoming the version of you who already holds the crown.
If you’re ready to rise beyond awareness into embodied transformation… welcome to the next level of your reign.
Enjoy, sovereigns!
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast listening platform. You can also watch the episode on Youtube.
Quotes:
“A limiting belief isn’t just a thought. It’s the way your mind is set.” ~ Kimberly Spencer
“You can’t out-affirm an identity that still believes it’s not safe to succeed.” ~ Kimberly Spencer
“Your environment is a mirror of your subconscious programming.” ~ Kimberly Spencer
Moments of Note:
00:00 – Welcome to the Crown Yourself® Podcast
Introduction to conscious leadership, sovereign identity work, and what this episode will help you transform.
01:00 – The Real Reason Your Manifestation Isn’t Working
Why journaling, affirmations, and visualization fall flat when your identity is misaligned with your desired reality.
02:40 – The Jarring Divide Between Mindset and Embodiment
Kimberly’s story of hitting a 13K month… followed by an unexpected collapse. What actually happened inside her nervous system and subconscious identity.
05:15 – How Subconscious Rules Override Your Conscious Mind
What limiting beliefs really are: not thoughts, but the rules your mind is set by.
07:40 – The “Dirty Dishes” Metaphor for Subconscious Build-Up
How unresolved identity patterns accumulate until they overflow into your external environment.
10:25 – Why Surface-Level Mindset Tools Don’t Create Real Change
Journaling + affirmations = awareness, not transformation. What’s missing is identity recoding.
12:45 – Using Your Environment to Decode Hidden Beliefs
Your results—bank account, relationships, habits—reveal your unconscious programming.
15:55 – Kimberly’s Story of Bulimia, Money Bulimia & Identity Shifts
A transparent look at how identity expresses itself through health, relationships, and finances.
20:10 – How Identity Shapes (and Sabotages) Your Success
Why you recreate the same outcomes—even after breakthroughs—unless you shift who you are being.
22:40 – Why Affirmations Don’t Work (and What Does)
Embodiment vs. performing confidence. Wealthy people don’t affirm wealth… they are the identity.
25:30 – Embodiment: The Fastest Path to Identity Change
Why transformation begins in your physiology. The power of posture, breath, Pilates, yoga, and qigong.
29:15 – How to Spot Limiting Beliefs Through Your Bank Account
Money patterns are subconscious patterns. Learn how to read them and reframe them.
32:40 – The Three Roots of All Limiting Beliefs: Safety, Control, Acceptance
How society normalizes struggle—and how to break free from collective programming.
35:00 – How to Interrupt Old Patterns With State Shifts
Real-life parenting example: how Kimberly disrupted emotional loops through conscious state shifting.
38:20 – Behavior, Not Thoughts, Creates Identity Rewiring
Why identity integrates only through repetition, embodiment, and micro-actions—not mental concepts.
41:55 – The Path to Becoming the Version of You Who Has It All
Your breath, posture, and micro-actions anchor your new identity into your subconscious.
44:10 – Invitation to Join The Collective
Building your empire from the inside out with mindset, systems, marketing, leadership, and generational wealth strategy.
46:00 – Final Sovereign Activation: Own Your Throne
Encouragement to embody your sovereignty: Your reign is now.
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Transcript:
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