S02 EP10 | Choosing Self: Making Yourself as Important as Everyone Else

In this deeply personal and empowering episode of the WholeHearted Living Podcast, Debs Thorpe tackles one of the hardest challenges high-achieving visionaries face: choosing yourself when you have people depending on you.

This isn't about bubble baths and saying no to coffee dates. This is about standing on a hard edge, when choosing your truth, your vision, your wholeness means risking everything you've built.

Debs opens with a vulnerable story about buying a house in Italy: how she knew in her bones it was right, how her parents expressed concern, and how she had to come back to her knowing and choose herself anyway. This real-time example anchors the entire episode in lived experience, not theory.

You'll discover:

• Why choosing yourself when the stakes are high is the hardest (and most necessary) practice
• The myth of selflessness and the real cost of putting yourself last
• What it means to stand alone in your vision when others don't understand yet
• The loneliness of being a visionary, and how to navigate it
• A powerful mantra: "What is best for me is best for everyone else" (and why it's not selfish)
• How choosing to move to Italy created ripples of good for everyone, not just Debs
• The hard truth about outgrowing the life you built
• Practical steps for choosing yourself when you have employees, family, and responsibilities
• What's on the other side of choosing yourself (spoiler: it's always worth it)

This episode is Stage 6 of the WholeHearted Technique, the critical turning point where you stop abandoning yourself to keep others comfortable and start honouring your truth.

Perfect for: Leaders, business owners, parents, visionaries, and high achievers who are standing on a hard edge right now, seeing a vision others don't see yet, feeling a pull others don't understand, and wondering if they're brave enough to choose themselves.