COURSE

Removing Your Inner Blocks To Success

In this course, you’ll be guided through some of the most effective tools and strategies to become a conscious leader and stay calm, focused and happy as you pursue your goals. These teachings are for anyone who wants to play bigger in their career and life, by helping you to lower everyday stress and anxiety, stop feeling overwhelmed, and enhance your productivity. People today feel a lot of pressure to succeed in all aspects of their lives. This fast-paced, always-on mentality, alongside 24/7 connectivity, causes many high-potential leaders to feel exhausted and burned out. Over the next ten days, you’ll learn how to let go of the constant demands and pressures so you can more easily connect with the deep wisdom and peacefulness within. Using neuroscience and the latest brain research, this course will enable you to release the fears and beliefs blocking you from achieving your greatest potential. Improve focus by harnessing the natural rhythms of your brain. Get more done and set audacious goals with our weekly planning tool and visualization technique taught at Stanford Business School. Conscious leadership involves looking at your own patterns of behavior with curiosity and loving awareness, and creating positive change in yourself that expands to those around you. By developing a more positive outlook on your life and your priorities, you will leave this course with renewed energy and enthusiasm, along with practical, straightforward and immediately implementable tools to prioritize yourself and take action towards your most meaningful goals.

Performance Stress Stress & Anxiety Visualization Self-Compassion Consciousness Spirituality Leadership Confidence Health & Happiness Workplace

Meet your Teacher

Vanessa Loder

San Francisco, CA, USA

Vanessa Loder is a keynote speaker, leadership development facilitator, and founder of the Create Work You Love group coaching program for women. As a women’s leadership and mindfulness expert, Vanessa been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, the Huffington Post and Glamour Magazine. Her Tedx Talk “How to Lean In Without Burning Out” has over 139,000 views. Vanessa teaches leadership workshops at Stanford Business School and at Fortune 500 companies including AirBnB, Cisco, Goldman Sachs, Google, LinkedIn, Mattel, PwC, Salesforce, Uber, and many others. Known for her energetic, authentic and inspiring teaching style, Vanessa has guided thousands of people through her popular retreats and courses. She’s a sought after keynote speaker on topics such as; The Inner Game of Leadership, Sustainable Success, and How to Lean In Without Burning Out. Vanessa has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and spent ten years working in finance on Wall Street and as an investor in Silicon Valley before realizing she'd climbed to the top of the wrong ladder! Loder is a self described over-achiever whose endless quest for perfectionism and unfulfilling experience of continual career climbing left her burned out, exhausted and eager to find another way. Vanessa's own soul awakening inspired her to support others in living their soul's purpose. Loder is certified in past life regression hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming and executive coaching. She studied Vipassana meditation with Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock. Vanessa lives in Lafayette, CA with her husband and two children - who remind her to be mindful and take "mommy time-outs" when she's losing her marbles.

10 Days

10.7k students

4.8 stars

17 min / day

Performance

English

Lesson 1

The Truth About Taking Responsibility

The pressure to succeed in a fast-paced world with 24/7 connectivity causes many high performing leaders to feel exhausted, overwhelmed and burned out. Using mindfulness and a powerful framework of E+R=O, this lesson will teach you how to pause, be fully present and make more intentional, positive choices. Discover the tools to stop complaining and start taking radical responsibility for the outcomes you desire.

Lesson 2

Improve Focus & Increase Productivity

In this session, you’ll learn how to optimize your performance and improve productivity by harnessing the natural rhythms of the brain and working in pulses. The guided meditation will support you in increasing your attention span and conscious awareness so you can have a laser like focus on your top priorities each day.

Lesson 3

Your Unique Genius: The Key To Feeling Motivated and Energized at Work

The key to feeling motivated and energized at work is to spend as much time as possible in your zone of genius. Gallup surveyed over 10 million people worldwide on the topic of employee engagement and found that people who get to focus on their strengths are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs and three times as likely to report an excellent quality of life overall. In today’s session, you’ll identify your unique genius and discover the things you do best. You’ll also learn about the competency trap and how to avoid it. And you’ll perform an energy and flow audit to increase the amount of time you spend doing things you enjoy at work and at home.

Lesson 4

Use Neuroscience To Stay Calm Through Anxiety

Using neuroscience and the latest brain research, you’ll be learning a breathing technique to help you stay calm when feeling stressed or anxious. We live in a culture that values exciting, fast-paced, aggressive, high-stress work life and general intensity. This causes many of us to live in a chronic state of adrenaline overload. After today’s session, you’ll be able to self-regulate and soothe your nervous system so you aren’t always in fight or flight mode.

Lesson 5

Values Based Success

Pursuing success at all costs can lead to burnout and exhaustion. The secret to creating more sustainable success is to choose goals that are aligned with your core values. In today’s session, you’ll identify the core values that are necessary for you to live your best life. When you’re not living your values, you feel out of balance, or overwhelmed and out of touch with your heart. As you begin living your values more fully, you’ll feel aligned, purposeful, powerful and full of joy, with a deep knowing that you’re embodying that which is true for you.

Lesson 6

Conscious Goal Setting And Visualization

Based on a leadership program Vanessa teaches at Stanford Business School, today you’ll be guided through a visualization to connect with your future self over the next five years. Visualization is an effective tool to harness the power of your subconscious mind and achieve your goals with ease. This session will help you tune into a deeper wisdom that makes it easier to find the “right” path for you. You’ll leave today’s session with greater clarity and a vision for your ideal life that allows you to move forward with confidence.

Lesson 7

Weekly Planning Process To Have “Me” Time

In Day 7, you’ll learn a 10 step Weekly Planning Process to get more done and find time for replenishing activities so you end the day (and week!) feeling energized instead of depleted. Have you had the experience of just getting through the day, rushing around, responding to everyone else’s demands? Then, the day is over and you still haven’t done what’s most important or had a moment to spare for yourself? Not being intentional or prioritizing your time effectively is costly. Today’s class will teach you how to get even more done and ensure you’re focused on the most important tasks to move your career and life forward.

Lesson 8

Fears, Blocks And Limiting Beliefs

In Day 8, you’ll identify the fears, beliefs and excuses that have kept you stuck. What we resist, persists. Today, we’ll be bringing your unconscious blocks to the surface to be shifted and released with love and compassion. The guided meditation will support you in befriending and honoring your feelings and giving yourself the love and support you need. As you remove these blocks that have been stopping you from achieving the success you truly desire in your life, positive things will start happening all around you.

Lesson 9

The Voice That Lies To You

We all have an internal dialogue and constant chatter inside our minds. This voice inside our heads is often critical and demanding, leaving us feeling never good enough. In Day 9, you’ll learn how to quiet the voice of your inner critic and access the deep, compassionate wisdom that’s within. While many high performing leaders believe we “need” this inner critic voice to push us to be successful, research shows the opposite is true. Cultivating a strong inner coach strengthens willpower and allows you to take greater risks in pursuit of your goals. You’ll leave today’s session able to shift from critic to coach on demand, and better equipped to create a culture of support and appreciation with your colleagues.

Lesson 10

Success With Ease

In this session, you’ll learn how to trust that the seeds you've planted will bear fruit. Once you've taken the steps to be successful, it's important to cultivate patience in the process as it unfolds. Today's guided meditation will support you in surrendering, allowing and trusting that your higher self can lead you forward. You’ll leave Day 10 filled with gratitude and a clear understanding of how to incorporate all the tools you’ve learned over this course into your personal and professional life to create meaningful and positive change for yourself and those around you.

Ask your teacher

This course includes 352 community questions and 122 audio replies from Vanessa Loder. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Tety

June 21, 2025

Life changing course! Thank you so much!

Nicole

June 8, 2025

So many helpful segments. Thank you!

Vimarie

January 1, 2025

Wonderful course!

Thomas

August 30, 2024

Lots of really great tools brought together in an effective combination. Clear, approachable delivery with relatable context. Very nicely done. Thank you!

Jillian

June 12, 2024

Highly recommended, I'm happy to have found this course. Thank you!

Stephanie

February 7, 2024

This course was lovely, I really enjoyed the pace, your voice is so soothing, and I’m very glad I signed up for it. Thank you, Vanessa.

Sharon

February 5, 2024

Thank you Vanessa! Your personal story of change and transition is powerful and your course has plenty of great advice and tips. So glad I found you!

Julie

October 27, 2023

This was excellent!! I wasn’t sure how helpful this would be - but there are lessons in this incredible short course that I’ll keep with me always. So good. ✨

Kimberly

September 21, 2023

I will listen again. So many good tools that I want to implement. Especially visualizing m

Liz

September 18, 2023

Awesome

Dianne

July 27, 2023

This was a beautiful course. I am going to listen again to really allow these 10 steps to sink in. Thank you Vanessa 🙏🏻

Matt

July 21, 2023

Great course with several action items.

June 20, 2023

Thank you. Great course!

Eileen

June 17, 2023

Thanks

Patricia

May 27, 2023

Great content and well thought out … thank you! 🙏❤️

Kat

May 4, 2023

Great course with positive, implementable actions. Thank you!

Joy

April 13, 2023

I am so glad I took your course Vanessa. It flew by and I received a wise and beneficial gift each time. I have more than one inner critic and I have named them all. That one tool has lightened my load. The SAT meditation was powerful which I will return to and I purchased 'The Big Leap' which blew my mind after two pages. So thank you! 🙏🏽😁💖

Mamina

April 9, 2023

Vanessa did a terrific job curating topics and content that really resonated with where I am as an overwhelmed, burnt out physician, entrepreneur, and soon-to-be mom. Thank you, Vanessa! I really needed this and plan to repeat this course again.

ARYA

February 28, 2023

💖💖💖💖

Erin

February 16, 2023

Very helpful tools and perspectives. Thank you Vanessa for sharing your wisdom 💐💐

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