What “Rich & Wealth” Actually Means for High-Functioning Women!

Hey, beautiful souls.

Welcome to Reclaim Your Inner Rockstar, the space for high-capacity leaders who lead boldly yet often feel overstimulated beneath the surface. I'm Amy Robinson, aromapsychologist and cognitive coach with more than 25 years of helping others find emotional clarity through scent and science. My work began when I realized scent could instantly shift my thoughts and regulate my entire inner world. And I knew women like me needed access to that same power. Each week you will receive grounded tools and conversations that help you steady your nervous system and think more clearly. Are you ready to feel like yourself again? Then you're in the right place.

Hey, beautiful soul, welcome back to Reclaim Your Inner Rockstar. Before we get started, I want to welcome you here to this space. This is a space for high-capacity women like yourself, high-functioning women who feel all the pressure but yet It's all on the inside. Everybody thinks you're collected and cool and calm, but your insides are going stir crazy. You crave clarity, steadiness, and emotional regulation. You've come to the right place in this podcast because we're gonna talk about all things that capable women like ourselves, whether we're young and just getting into the industries that we're getting into, or we're in midlife and we're overthinking, creating relational triggers, hormonal shifts, and all that invisible pressure of being the strong one. We're going to have those conversations, and I've already started having those conversations. So if you're just coming in here, binge my content. You're going to love what I have to say because you came here because you were drawn to me. There's something about my voice, about my way, that is connecting you to yourself again. And I'm so happy that you're here. If you know that you need deeper tools, I encourage and invite you to come into my Rockstar Regulation Collective, which is my self-led coaching space where I coach cognitive and scent-based tools that help your nervous system settle quickly. If you need even deeper support, one-on-one curated intimate support where I can love on you and care for you and guide you through loving yourself again with fire, then join my private coaching. You can apply for that. My private coaching gives tailored one-on-one support where you can go deep within yourself, and I guide and create accountability for you to be able to do that so that you can walk away with some superpowers that you never thought you really even had. If you know that you need something immediate, you'll find my 5-Minute Reset Guide very, very powerful for you. It helps you to be able to connect with yourself really quickly within 5 minutes, and you can walk away with something tangible that you can be able to apply on a daily basis. If any of these or all of these appeal to you, all the links are in my show notes. And so I look forward to spending time with you, beautiful soul, and to working with you intimately because you are me and I am you. I understand you. So today's topic, we're gonna have a conversation around the idea of what rich really means. So many women, think of wealth and being rich as the ultimate goal in their life, especially high capacity, high functioning women. But I wanna have a conversation around what most people don't talk about because so many of us, maybe we come from a spiritual space or we battle with this of what really is wealth and what is riches and what does that look like in my life? It does mean something different for everybody, but most of us We're trained to think that rich is only one category. It's money, it's income, it's revenue, it's success metrics. And don't get me wrong, money does matter. We have to pay our bills, we have to live, we have to survive in this world, right? Financial stability matters. Being smart with our money, that is so important. To be able to live our life the way that we want to live it. But how much is too much and how little is too little? That is really where the question lies and where our nervous systems have some major triggering moments around it. What I've observed in the women that I work with, and honestly, really in my own life, is something very, very interesting. Some of The most capable women I know are financially successful, myself included, and privately we have been exhausted. As a matter of fact, I'm just coming out of a 9-month financial flow hiatus because I was so exhausted. I needed to take that time for rest, but even within that, I created this podcast and I was able to shift my energy to be able to support in a different way. And that's where you find me here. Many of the women I've observed, the women that have been in my space, my coaching space, my life, they've built businesses, they've managed teams, they've handled complex decisions every single day. I know personally I thrive on those things. But internally, our nervous systems were constantly running in the background, like a computer with too many tabs open. Does this sound like you? We look successful, but our bodies are exhausted, our capacities. We function, but at what cost? A high-functioning woman is incredibly good at endurance. There's a hidden cost for being that strong one. You're able to negotiate deals, you're able to lock in on contracts, you're able to lead conversations, you're able to hold families together, you are able to solve problems quickly. But the question that I've started asking more often is, is the life you're building actually allowing you to live, or is it just something you're managing? Because a lot of women are running extremely sophisticated lives, yourself included, but your nervous system— their nervous system— never gets to exhale. There's always going to be a contract. There's always going to be a conversation that needs to be led. There's always going to be a space you need to walk into. But what are your energetics, beautiful? Are you running on fumes? Are you performing calm, or are you living it? So that leads me to talk about richness that I have found in my life, my version of what being wealthy and rich really are. And I've noticed this in the lives of the women that I've helped transform. When I think about rich now, it looks incredibly different. When I first started out in my business, I I set my intentions on making my first 6 figures, and I did that. I surpassed that. I did it fast. I did it unapologetically. I landed it. And at the end, I was exhausted. I was bracing. I was so tired, which led me to my 9-month hiatus. But in that time, that's when my creativity started to shift, and here I am. For me, being wealthy, being rich, is waking up without my nervous system already bracing for the day. I don't set an alarm unless I have to. Yes, I have responsibilities in my life. I lead a very rich spiritual, emotional, physical life. We lead a very rich life. But I also value slow mornings, coffee steaming in the kitchen, waiting for me and Hubs to get up and have our coffee time. We get up every day and have coffee conversations. Because for us, being wealthy and being rich is having a strong marriage, having a close marriage, intimate, deep conversations that need to be had. We love our quiet. We live for our quiet moments, but we also lean into the beauties and joys that life presents to us. Because being rich, being wealthy, is the ability to say to the person you love, let's go somewhere new this week, let's explore, let's try a new spot for breakfast, let's enjoy this new environment we're in. It's not about escaping our life. See, the world in general has wealth and rich completely wrong. So many people reach for the stars so that they can retire and have it all, but they miss out on their life while they're doing it. That to me is not wealth. That to me is not riches, because it has nothing to do with what I have in my bank account. I've chosen years ago to not escape my life. I let go of the 9-to-5 for that very reason. I wanted to create space in it. So rich to me is having time to explore new things, new towns, new streets, new cafes. Not rushing, not performing, just living. That kind of wealth is deeply underestimated. My husband and I have had 10 international moves. We have explored new places. We have lived. And it's amazing what people say when we tell them our story. A majority of them lean into, why do you move so much? What's your problem? And yes, some of our moves were forced on us. Some of those were through the time of COVID where we were living in Mexico and we're visiting our family in Canada and the country shut down. Canada shut down its borders. And so we had to make some tough choices and we chose to live in Canada for a year and a half while COVID was happening. And so that meant not going back to our beloved home in Mexico for at least 4 years. And yeah, that was a struggle for us, but at the same time, we were so grateful for being able to have the freedom to do that. We were so grateful to be able to have the opportunity to be safe in an environment that was safe. Yeah, it was in another country, but it really is amazing how it challenges people's thinking when you live the life that they want to live and don't know how to live. That is true wealth, isn't it? It's not about money, it's about freedom. And that's right before you when you lean into it. One thing that I want to lean into in having this conversation is the importance of having the nervous system peace most people miss. Freedom doesn't feel good if your nervous system is constantly activated. You can be sitting on a beach and still feel anxious. You can be on vacation and still feel like your mind is scanning for problems. That's why emotional regulation matters so much, because wealth without internal steadiness still feels like pressure. Your nervous system has to learn how to settle. That's where the work I teach comes in. I've been there, I've experienced that, I've lived in that space for a long time. And so because of that, I am able to support you through capacity expansion, cognitive tools that help you interrupt spiraling thoughts. And scent psychology helps you shift your physiology quickly. Certain essential oils are able to communicate directly with the limbic system. They help your brain to register safety faster. And when your nervous system registers safety, your body actually lets you experience your life. I've been on both ends of the spectrum. I've been able to embrace massive situations with ease, and then when new things came my way and I was in a beautiful situation that I later came to appreciate, in that moment my nervous system wasn't ready for it. So I know what the two feel like, and I can differentiate what that can be for you. For you, the woman listening, I want you to have financial success. So whatever that looks like for you, because it's different for everyone, is important. We're living in a world where inflation is growing quickly. Just to live each day, the cost of living is rising. So of course it's important to have money coming in. Absolutely. But even more than that, I want you to feel rich or wealthy in the places that actually change your life. What are those places? Your time, your calm, your clarity, the ability to sit across from someone you love and not feel like your brain is still at work. The ability to explore new places without carrying your stress with you. That kind of wealth is real. If something inside you settled while listening to this episode, that's exactly the work I coach. Inside my Rockstar Regulation Collective, I share these cognitive tools and sense psychology practices, as well as nervous system strategies that help high-functioning women regulate quickly and lead their lives from steadiness. It's a self-led space filled with coaching tools designed for women who want clarity without overwhelm. You need deeper support? Apply for my private coaching. We can work together to help support you and curate a tailored program for you. You're not ready to work with me yet? I get it. And you need something quick? My 5-Minute Reset Guide is going to be an option for you. All the links are in my show notes. And if this episode helped you regulate something inside you, hit follow so that you don't have to search for these tools next time you need them. And if you know someone in your life who can benefit from my support, from my voice, from my stories, from my experiences, share. I'd love for them to come my way. Let's all make a community together. Love you. I'll catch you in the next episode.