Building A Career Without Losing Yourself with Nicolle Galyon

Nicolle mentions her time at Onsite's Living Centered Group Intensive in this conversation and the transformation thathappened for her during that program. If you want to know more about that experience, visit experienceonsite.com or give our team a call at 1(800)341-7432.

Have you ever built a life that looks like everything you wanted and realized you left the most important version of yourself behind?

What if going home and getting quiet enough to hear yourself was actually the bravest thing you could do?

Nicolle Galyon is one of country music's most decorated songwriters — BMI Songwriter of the Year, ACM Song of the Year winner, and the writer behind hits for Dan + Shay, Lee Brice, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Keith Urban, andcountless others. But beyond the number ones, Nicolle has done something harder: she stopped, looked inward, and rebuilt her life around what matters most.

In this conversation, you'll learn:

• How to Recognize When Achievement Has Become Your Medicator
• How to Find the Childhood Script Running Your Life Without Permission
• How to Trade the Pressure of Outcomes for the Freedom of Loving the Process
• How Stillness Unlocks the Creativity That Noise Has Been Blocking
• How to Build a Career Without Losing Yourself in It
• How to Cultivate an Abundance Mentality When Someone You Love Is Winning
• How Community — Not Achievement — Is the Real Marker for a Meaningful Life
• How to Navigate Success in a Marriage Between Two Creatives
• How to Raise Kids Who Feel Belonging Instead of Pressure
• How to Know When It's Time to Go Home

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Mentioned in This Episode:

• Songs & Daughters - @songsanddaughters
• Nicolle's Music

What We Discuss: 00:00:00 – Meet Nicolle Galyon

00:05:07 – Why Stillness Is Essential

00:07:51 – The Psychology of Boredom

00:15:08 – What Nicolle Rediscovered When She Finally Slowed Down

00:19:00 – Reframing Boredom

00:22:18 – Onsite's Living Centered Program Changed Everything

00:25:38 – Where the Drive to Achieve Really Came From

00:30:06 – Money Scripts And How They're Driving You

00:35:20 – Why Success Still Makes Her Emotional

00:45:53 – Love or Money? The Exercise That Shifts Everything

00:49:08 – The Moment She Knew She Belonged in Nashville

00:56:09 – Navigating Rejection When the Odds Are Against You

01:00:56 – Falling in Love with the Process Over the Outcome

01:03:55 – Songs and Daughters: Mentoring the Next Generation of Women

01:08:44 – The Moment She Felt Like a Hypocrite and What She Did To Change It

01:09:53 – Marrying a Songwriter

01:13:16 – How to Build an Abundance Mentality in Any Relationship

01:16:19 – Sterling, Kansas Was Her Superpower All Along

01:25:41 – The Most Meaningful Song Nobody Knows

01:30:51 – How She Found Out "Tequila" Blew Up

01:32:43 – What She Wants Her Kids to See in How She Lives

01:36:26 – Advice That Changed How Miles Shows up

01:38:11 – Firstborn: A Letter Written for Her Children

01:39:10 – Closing: Go Do the Work So You Can Come Home More Completely