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Mary Farias & Sophie Berry
Economy Creators
Have you spent so much time taking care of everyone else that somewhere along the way, you lost yourself?
In this episode of Economy Creators, Mary Reiss Farias sits down with **Sophie Berry, Master Life Coach and NLP Practitioner**, to talk about survival mode, self-worth, limiting beliefs, confidence, motherhood, self-image, and what happens when a woman finally begins choosing herself again.
Sophie has spent 28 years as a diagnostic radiographer, helping people through moments that are often frightening and uncertain. Now she's taking the skills, compassion, and experiences she's accumulated throughout that career and building a coaching business designed to help women on a deeper level.
Her focus is personal.
Sophie works with women who have spent years raising children, working, supporting families, and caring for everyone around them—while continually putting themselves last.
She knows that experience because she lived it.
For years, Sophie saw herself as a **survivor** and felt that life was happening *to* her.
Today, she sees things differently.
Instead of asking why circumstances happened to her, she began asking what those experiences had developed within her.
She even replaced one identity with another:
**Survivor → Conqueror.**
In this conversation, Mary and Sophie explore:
• What it means to live in survival mode
• Why women and mothers can lose themselves while caring for everyone else
• Questioning thoughts with: **“According to who?”**
• How limiting beliefs influence self-worth and confidence
• Sophie's experience with Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
• How she approaches belief-change work with clients
• Timeline therapy and examining past experiences from a new perspective
• Moving from “life happens to me” to “life happens for me”
• Why repetition is essential for building confidence
• Using a self-image script to become the person you want to be
• Simple breathing practices for slowing down and thinking more clearly
• Releasing inherited beliefs about what a “good mother” should be
• Creating time for yourself without guilt
• The importance of asking for help
• Developing personal non-negotiables
• Sophie's transition from employee to entrepreneur
Sophie also shares something especially important for anyone who wants to build a new chapter without immediately leaving their existing career.
She once believed she couldn't successfully build her coaching business while continuing her nine-to-five.
Then she questioned the belief.
Why couldn't she build both?
Today, Sophie is intentionally building her coaching practice alongside her radiography career, with a vision of gradually reducing her hours as her business grows.
That's a YOU-Shaped Economy in action.
You don't necessarily have to destroy what exists to create what's next.
**You can begin building from where you are.**
And for the woman who has spent years putting everyone else first, Sophie's message is beautifully simple:
**Believe in yourself. You can do way more than you think you can.**
CONNECT WITH SOPHIE BERRY
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/sophie.l.berry71
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-berry-39597644/
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