Redefining Success: Business As Your Ultimate Spiritual Growth Practice

What if your business isn’t meant to be a grind...but a gateway to self-mastery?

In this powerful episode of Beyond Common Business Secrets, award-winning podcast host and spiritual business strategist Tracey Watts Cirino reveals a truth most entrepreneurs never hear:

✨ Your business is your ultimate spiritual growth practice.

If success feels hollow…
 If strategy keeps failing despite your effort…
 If you know you’re capable of more but feel blocked…

This episode will shift everything.

Tracey breaks down how:

• Business exposes worthiness wounds and unconscious patterns
• Energy ✨not effort is the true currency of success
• Every setback is sacred feedback guiding your next evolution
• Spiritual alignment is required for sustainable financial growth

You’ll learn how to recognize misalignment, heal the inner blocks sabotaging your success, and reclaim your personal definition of abundance—without burnout or hustle.

🎁 FREE RESOURCE: Download the CEO Worthiness Audit to identify the exact gap costing you money, energy, and joy.

This episode is essential listening for conscious entrepreneurs, visionary leaders, and spiritually-aligned CEOs ready to experience success that feels as good as it looks.

Check out the CEOPowercode.com/course

Transcript

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Tracey Watts Cirino: Hello, and welcome back to Beyond Common Business Secrets, the inner game of high ticket success.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I'm your host, Tracey Watts Cirino, and today, we're talking about deep stuff.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: like, the deep stuff, right? Like, very deep. So, I always laugh, because, like, stuff, that's not the most descriptive. So, we're talking about the deep stuff, the stuff that determines whether your success


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Tracey Watts Cirino: brings you joy, or just more empty to-do lists, we're talking about redefining success itself.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: More importantly, we're talking about redefining your version of success. Like, what does that really mean to you?


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And have you ever given yourself the space and time to really define what success means to you?


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: For too long, we've all bought into the old definition, right? Hustle, external validation, and chasing metrics. Some of them feel like vanity, because


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Tracey Watts Cirino: you're like, oh, I've got to chase this metric because that's what some other guru said I need to be or do to be successful.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So… If we're… if we're really being honest with ourselves.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And ask ourselves the question.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: like, what does success really mean to me? Like, what does it mean to me? You'll know that achieving milestones


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Tracey Watts Cirino: often feels like… like, sort of like tracking a false summit, right? It… it's like a peak.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: That does not bring any lasting peace. Like, often when we get there, like, when we get to that milestone, we're like, oh, really?


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Tracey Watts Cirino: is that it? Oh, you, like, were expecting so much more, like, you're expecting something so much bigger, and something more profound, so we're like, oh, it's like…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: definitely chasing and trekking a false summit would be the best way that I can put it into clear words, right? So, when you reach the top, the peak of the summit, there's no lasting peace. You're just kind of like, ugh. So, I'm here to offer


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Tracey Watts Cirino: what I'm calling the Beyond Common Truth. The Beyond Common Truth is your business… your business is your ultimate spiritual growth practice.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So, it's the fastest, most effective mirror you have for self-discovery and healing.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And until you treat it that way, true abundance, your true financial, like, command and financial empowerment will always remain just out of reach, like it's slipping through. And that's the thing, like.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I say this all the time, that if you really want to get to know yourself, open a business.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: have a baby. There's two ways to really get to know yourself from, like, what is, like, ultimately a deep spiritual practice, and that's gonna be, like, being in business for yourself, or having a baby, like, having a child and someone to care for. So…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I didn't start out knowing that, it was through


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Tracey Watts Cirino: the parts of… through growing various businesses, and discovering the parts of myself that, you know, weren't always fun to look at, that's where I really discovered this, and I've been teaching and training on this principle now for years. So.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I want to share with you this raw truth, that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Every single major business failure or setback that I've personally experienced was directly tied to an internal wound I needed to heal. Some of them I knew were there, and some of them were so far


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Tracey Watts Cirino: deeply beneath, you know, beneath the layers that I didn't even know that I needed to heal them. So…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: That… that's just something that I've experienced. So, my… like, when I look back, though, my business wasn't failing at all. My business wasn't failing, my success wasn't, you know, I wasn't sabotaging my own success. It was literally showing me exactly where I was operating.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: From a false… place of fear or inadequacy.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So, for example, when a high-stakes partnership I was in collapsed completely.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I blamed the contract. I blamed the other person they went with. Like, I blamed them at first for, like, taking it away from me. And that wasn't the truth at all, right? It wasn't the truth at all.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I'm… the deeper… the deeper truth, but the deeper truth that I…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: like, realized was my lack of clear communication


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Tracey Watts Cirino: in what… with myself of what I truly wanted, and confidence. This is a worthiness gap. It was what was actually… like, it was, like, what actually pulled this experience apart. Like, when I really went in and pulled it all apart.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I realized that my business was holding a mirror to my deepest insecurities, my deepest, profound insecurities. And once you know them.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: then you can heal them, right? So, this is the shift that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Business is a tool for self-discovery, and when you use it that way, you eventually get to self-mastery.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So, it demands that you evolve your mindset, right? It demands that you evolve your mindset, that you heal patterns.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: That you heal patterns.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So, as I said, the deeper truth, the deeper truth is that


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Tracey Watts Cirino: My lack of clear communication and confidence is a worthiness gap.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: This was what actually pulled the opportunity apart. It wasn't anyone else's fault, there was nobody else to blame. My business was holding a mirror to my deepest insecurity, and this is the shift


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Tracey Watts Cirino: for a business, this is a shift, so I like to look at it this way.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Business is a tool for self-discovery. It literally is a tool for self-discovery. It demands, it absolutely demands that you evolve your mindset, heal all of your past patterns.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And… ways of self-sabotaging, right? And then you step into your authentic


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Tracey Watts Cirino: living in leadership before it will reward you with more peace and prosperity that you really crave.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And this leads us to more self-mastery. So, if business is a spiritual practice, then energy is your primary currency.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And this means energy is far more important than strategy. And I know that's, like, crazy for me to say as a business strategist, right? But here's the thing. When…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: When we are aware of our energy and all the things that are affecting us under the surface.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: we can optimize and use this together, and that's where we truly become, like, unstoppable. So, you can have the perfect strategy, and I mean, I'll raise my hand. I had, in my past business life, before really discovering this, and


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And really growing… spiritually, as a person, which my business is what led me to do that.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I was guilty of this so many times, so you are not alone, my friend. There is no judgment here. This is just that thing, it's like,


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Tracey Watts Cirino: You… when you really look at this, it's like, you can have the most perfect strategy ever, but if your energy is scattered, stressed.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Chaotic, or rooted in scarcity.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: The strategy will fail every time. You don't even have to tell me what it is. Like, I've had so many clients try to… they want to tell me the whole story, it's like, I don't even need to know the story. I love you, but I don't need to hear… I don't need the story.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: we're going for a resolution, a solution. So.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: when it's rooted in scarcity, your strategy will fail. Spiritual growth is literally Business growth.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And they are in absolute alignment with each other. So, how do you sustain this energy? You need practical tools and systems. This is where…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: The practical application of


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Tracey Watts Cirino: programs that we have, like the CEO Power Code, or the Beyond Common Essentials program, that's where these come in. Like.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: both the… like, the CO Power Code and the Beyond Common Essentials program are…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: my signature frameworks, and in each one, they give you, like, the Beyond Common Essentials is the essentials. This is the foundational 12


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Tracey Watts Cirino: It's like the 12…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: most simple things you need to install in your business if you want to be successful. So that's, like, the foundational level. And then the CO Power Code is my signature framework that gives you the clarity systems that are needed to align your energy with your desires. So it allows you to protect your energy.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: By implementing boundaries.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And clear communication, ensuring that you take soul-aligned action, instead of just frantically chasing, like, that frantic effort of chasing all the things.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: You know, like, oh, I have to do all of it. Says who, right? So, what actually is an alignment for you


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Tracey Watts Cirino: to be…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: operating your business in service of your greatest good, right? Of the world's… the greatest good for all that are involved. So, you must master the system so that the spiritual practice isn't interrupted by the chaos and overwhelm. So, we…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I will often call this your guardrails, or your bumpers. Like, when you instill this system, this sort of operating system, the CEO of Power Code, into your life and business.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: it frees you up so that you're like, hmm, if something keeps coming up, then you know it's time to pull out your notebook and be like, why does that keep coming up for me? Like, what?


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Tracey Watts Cirino: What haven't I faced here?


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Tracey Watts Cirino: what is, like, this unheal… like, it allows you to dig in and do the deeper work, because when we don't do the deeper work, it just is in disguise. It's gonna show up again and again in a different way. So, that is how they work together. And this really allows you


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Tracey Watts Cirino: To know that… Energy trumps strategy every time.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So… When people are like, what's the strategy? Tell me exactly what to do.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I will tell you, I will always tell you.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: But I am also gonna tell you, my friend, that if you


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Just keep chasing strategy, and don't do the inner work, then…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: you're gonna be wasting all of your time, money, and energy. You're not gonna get the results you want. So, that's where we want to do things like the CEO Power Code, because you want to make sure


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Tracey Watts Cirino: You are growing.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: as a person, and your business is growing right along with you. Because you're never gonna grow… your business is never gonna grow beyond


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Where you are.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Right? I've always said this for years, like, anybody that has worked for me in any business knows that you cannot hang out with me and not grow. You cannot go through any of my programs or mentorships and not grow. If you don't grow, you're doing it wrong, right? You can't listen to Beyond Common


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Business Secrets Podcast, the inner game of high-ticket Success, you cannot be here


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Tracey Watts Cirino: and not be growing, right? We're growing, we're… we're deepening our awareness and our understanding. So…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: that's just, like, one of those things that sometimes people are, like, really shocked by that, because they're like, wait a minute. So, maybe… maybe it's not that you've been doing the strategy wrong. Maybe it's been perfect.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: But maybe you have some deeper work to do under the surface. And that's where, if you're hearing this and you're thinking, like, oh.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Oh, boy, Tracy, thanks, thanks a lot for sharing me another truth with me.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I don't know if I wanted to know this business secret.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Yeah, my energy is shattered, and my spiritual practice needs, deep healing, I'm all over the place.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Trust, my friend, that you are exactly where you need to be.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Just trust that you are exactly where you need to be. The CEO Power Code gives you the systems


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Tracey Watts Cirino: But… The true healing and self-discovery That often requires a safe, I… high-touch container, and…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: for me, I work with clients in the Aligned Woman private mentorship, This is where I reserve


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Tracey Watts Cirino: a higher level of guidance for this deep inner work, and this is where we go beyond just the system, right? Just the system.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: To dismantle the core scarcity beliefs that's holding your true definition of success hostage.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So, this exclusive partnership is the definitive, ultimate blueprint to rewrite your money story and step into your true


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Tracey Watts Cirino: what I like to call the financial command, but this is, like, your financial empowerment, right? It's all the pieces that allow you to command your


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Tracey Watts Cirino: true financial story, so that you're writing your own destiny, writing your own paycheck, right? If you're ready to stop seeing your business as a struggle.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And start seeing it as your destiny, Your guidance system


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Tracey Watts Cirino: this is the final step. You know, this is the final step to help you really implement


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And just dismantle all of those blocks that have been sabotaging you along the way, and holding you back.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So… My friends that are visionary leaders.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Where does this mirror show you misalignment?


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So, I want you to… if you're somewhere that you can get out a pen and paper, get out a pen and paper. If not, then you can always go back and re-listen to this, download it, save it for later. But I want you to really start asking yourself a couple of these questions. So.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: First one is, where does the mirror show you misalignment? Like, where are you feeling out of alignment?


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Is it with your pricing?


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Is it… an area of worthiness? Is there something in you that's making you feel unworthy?


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Of the success that you know you can achieve in your business.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Is it an area…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: that you're struggling with doubt? Is, you know, like, is there just that little thread of doubt? Is there an area there that you're struggling with? Is it that…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: other people's voices. Like, you know, you're afraid to… to launch the next division in your business, because so many people have told you that it won't… that it won't work, or you're crazy, you already have this successful thing going. Like, why would you… so is it that…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: people-pleasing, like, that you're afraid that they're not going to support you because they have doubt.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Because oftentimes, that's, like, about someone else's doubt, right? That's just them keeping themselves safe.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: They love you, and they are not trying to be mean. It's almost… it's not about you, it's about them, and their fear of…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: truly being successful and chasing their dreams. So, ask yourself these questions.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And when you give yourself the space to contemplate and really answer, you'll start to understand that there's always layers deep that could be blocking you.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So, if you feel a profound gap between your potential, like, you know you have this amazing amount of potential for success.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: And your current reality.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: you have… like, if you feel that there's a profound gap between the two, you, my friend, have a worthiness gap that requires diagnosis. So.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: you must know your score before you can claim your guaranteed financial breakthrough. It's guaranteed, if you do this deep inner work, you will get a breakthrough. Period, the end, it's guaranteed. It's like, I didn't create this rule, it's like a law of the universe, right? So, it has nothing to do with me, I'm just sharing it with you.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: So…


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Tracey Watts Cirino: You must… you must know your score before you can claim this guaranteed financial breakthrough. Your next act of soul-aligned action is this. I want you to go and download the free CEO Worthiness Audit right now. Take it out, do the audit.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: you will uncover so much truth. It is your diagnostic tool to pinpoint exact… like, you're gonna pinpoint the exact worthiness gap that is costing you thousands of dollars, but it's costing you more in


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Energy.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: in joy, and happiness, in your spiritual alignment, right? In your, like, self-expression. So, go ahead and do the audit. And as always, I want to thank you for tuning into Beyond Common Business Secrets.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: In… if this episode gave you the clarity you needed, and that deeper understanding of how Business!


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Tracey Watts Cirino: is… a spiritual lesson.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Please, please leave us a review and share this episode with a friend on social, and tag me at Tracey Watts Cirino.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I want you to go download that audit, and you're guaranteed transformation starts now.


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Tracey Watts Cirino: Take care, my friend!


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Tracey Watts Cirino: I'll see you on the next one! We love you so much!