Are you where you thought you’d be halfway through 2025? This is your checkpoint—not your report card. Your chance to pause, reflect, and realign for the back half of the year. In Episode 286 of Monday Morning Pep Talk, I walk you through a mid-year Q3 Audit rooted in the Take Flight philosophy. This isn’t about motivation—it’s about recalibration. I am not here to tell you what to do. I’m here to challenge you through questions designed to provoke clarity, sharpen your self-awareness, and reignite your vision. If you’ve been reactive, coasting, or feeling off-course, this is the moment to reset.

💡 What You Will Learn in This Episode • How to evaluate your mindset, energy, and daily boundaries • Why Q3 is the most important quarter to recalibrate momentum • What to track, clean up, and eliminate to finish strong in 2025 • The 7-part audit system top producers use to stay aligned • Why you do not need a complete overhaul—just the clarity to act
Think of it like cleaning out your closet. Dump everything on the bed. Put back only what serves you. That is how high performers course-correct without burning out.

🧠 Prompt of the Week
Block 90 minutes this week. Print the 7 sections from this episode. Sit down, journal your answers, and plan from clarity—not chaos.

"If I could only fix one thing in my business this quarter, what would it be—and what would that unlock?"
Use this audit to eliminate the noise and re-establish momentum with purpose.

📆 Mid-Year isn’t the time to coast. It’s the time to gain altitude.
High performers don’t drift for long. They check in, adjust, and keep moving toward the version of themselves they committed to becoming.

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📚 RESOURCES
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📍 Halfway Home: Your Mid-Year Check-In | Monday Morning Pep Talk 286

Lezly Kaye shares a raw and transformative journey of learning to thrive in business, motherhood, and love without sacrificing any of them. After building multimillion-dollar businesses and chasing external success to compensate for childhood wounds, she reached a breaking point that led to a spiritual awakening, deep self-reflection, and a radical reevaluation of her life. Through her experiences, she discovered that true fulfilment comes from integrating all aspects of life—relationships, motherhood, personal growth, and business—rather than compartmentalising them. Lezley emphasises the importance of self-awareness, conscious communication, and creating safe feedback loops in relationships, where both partners hold space for vulnerability, emotion, and reflection. By learning to self-source safety, navigate triggers, and embrace both her power and her desire to be held, she illustrates how it’s possible to build deep connection and love while still achieving professional success.

ABOUT LEZLY KAYE

Lezly Kaye is a high-performance coach, business strategist, and leadership mentor who helps ambitious women scale their businesses while remaining deeply aligned with their values, purpose, and personal wholeness. Having built, lost, and rebuilt multi-million-dollar enterprises, she brings both hard-won wisdom and practical strategy to her clients, combining her business acumen with emotional intelligence, somatic practices, and authentic leadership. Out of her own journey through adversity, she developed frameworks such as The Self Responsibility Code™, designed to empower women to step into grounded leadership, unlock their potential, and create sustainable success. Through her coaching, programs, and speaking, Lezly is known for her raw honesty, compassion, and ability to help others not only achieve financial freedom but also cultivate resilience, authenticity, and fulfilment in every area of life.

CONNECT with LEZLY

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/lezlykaye/
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WEBSITE: https://lezlykaye.co/

EP 33 - Thriving in Business, Motherhood & Love Without Sacrifice with Lezly Kaye


On this 299th episode of Take Flight Weekly, I want to recognize all of you who are toggling between your life and your business and navigating an industry that never slows down. Will it ever be easy? No. But here's what I know for certain: you've earned the right to want things and achieve things.

You've put in the work, you've weathered the storms, and now it's time to claim what's yours: clarity, fulfillment, and a business that is predictable, sustainable, and enjoyable.
Over the past year, I've watched many of you wrestle with uncertainty—new compensation models, big industry changes, rising costs, new pressures, heightened expectations. But beneath the stress is something else: proof. Proof that you belong here. Proof that you've earned the right to design a business that rewards your expertise, not your exhaustion.
In this episode, I walk you through the hard truths of what you've overcome:

Working for months in a 100% commission environment with no financial reward until closing
Tending to your family and friends while negotiating deals with stressed clients
Rebuilding your systems, protecting your compensation, and staying composed when everyone else is overly emotional
Caring for clients at all hours while trying to nurture your own mental and physical health
Resisting the constant pull to compare yourself to others

You've developed a craft that looks effortless because you've mastered what few ever will. Your value isn't in the transaction—it's in your consistency, your resilience, and your ability to lead with calm during chaos.
We have entered a new chapter in this business. The hobbyist era is ending, and that's good news for true professionals. The transactional model is fading. The relationship model is the future. Your clients don't just want service; they want stewardship. They want you.
That's why the rest of this year and into 2026 is about right-sizing: simplifying what no longer serves you and doubling down on what does. It's about moving from wide and shallow to narrow and deep. You've earned the right to stop proving yourself and start refining yourself.
Here's your challenge this week:

Decide what you want next—financially, personally, and relationally. Ambition is not arrogance.
Commit to one decision that honors your growth; something that makes your business work for you instead of against you.
Acknowledge how far you've come. Write down five moments this year that prove you've earned the right to want things and achieve things. Own them.

You don't need permission to want more. You've already earned that right through every late night, every interrupted dinner, and every risk you've taken. Stop apologizing for your ambition. The life and business you want won't happen by luck—it will happen because you finally decide you're worthy of it.
Re-listen to this. Make the decision. Claim it.
You! Have Earned! The Right! To Want Things! And Achieve Things! 🏆

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Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/askjimmiller
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📚 RESOURCES FOR REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS

My 2024 Real Estate Reading List → https://askjimmiller.com/my-reading-list-2024/
Business Planning Docs + About Me → https://askjimmiller.com/take-flight-2/


Take Flight Weekly Episode #299: You Have Earned the Right to Want Things and Achieve Things ⭐

Raw and real conversations on courage, consciousness and leadership.

Jim Miller is a success mentor and life coach who guides top real estate brokers from around the country while managing 2.3B+ in sales production as Designated Managing Broker with Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty in Chicago, Illinois.  He is also recognized as a top real estate coach to top Sotheby's International Realty brokers in 35 luxury markets.

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