What if changing your life is not about changing your location, your job, your relationship, or the people around you?

What if the real shift begins with the words you use after “I am”?

In this episode of Mindset Matters More, I sit down with Brooke Dawson, identity and mindset coach, host of The Process with Brooke Dawson, and a powerful voice on language, identity, self-concept, and micro actions.

This conversation is all about identity shifts, the language we use to define ourselves, and why moving across the world does not automatically make you a new person if you are still carrying the same internal story.

Brooke shares her own experience of growing up as “the smart girl” and how that identity followed her all the way from Canada to Australia. Even though she thought a new environment would allow her to reinvent herself, she found herself recreating the same role because her identity had not actually changed.

And that is the heart of this conversation.

You can change the scenery.

You can change the friend group.

You can change the city.

You can change the job.

But if you do not change the identity you are operating from, you may keep recreating the same pattern in a new place.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What identity really means

• Why your identity is shaped by the words that come after “I am”

• How self-deprecating language becomes part of your subconscious programming

• Why “I’m just joking” does not always protect you from the impact of your words

• How to use the word “yet” to create possibility

• Why micro actions create powerful identity shifts

• How to stop defining yourself through limitation

• Why awareness has to come before change

• How to audit your self-talk

• Why massive identity shifts can sometimes feel unsafe to the nervous system

• How small actions create evidence for a new version of you

• Why comparison can be reframed into possibility

• How “third-degree mentors” through books, podcasts, and online content can expand what you believe is possible

• Why language, action, and identity work together

• How Brooke’s singing lesson completely changed the story she had about her voice

• Why the smallest moment can create a massive internal shift

One of my favorite parts of this conversation is Brooke’s definition of identity:

Identity is any word that comes after “I am.”

I am bad at this.
I am not a morning person.
I am indecisive.
I am not good at cooking.
I am not a runner.
I am an alto, so I cannot hit that note.

Those statements may seem small, funny, or harmless, but they become instructions.

And the beautiful part is that you can begin shifting those instructions.

You can say:

I am not a morning person yet.
I am learning how to wake up earlier.
I am becoming someone who follows through.
I am willing to try.
I am giving myself permission to be bad at something while I learn.

This is where identity work becomes practical.

Not by forcing a massive overnight transformation.

But through tiny actions, new language, and building evidence that a new version of you is possible.

This conversation is for anyone who feels like there is more available to them, but also feels stuck in the story of “that’s just not me.”

Because maybe it is not that the thing is unavailable to you.

Maybe you have just been speaking from an old identity.

Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heybrookedawson

Podcast: The Process with Brooke Dawson

Brooke also offers one-on-one coaching, a free community with monthly challenges, and shares powerful reflections on identity, language, mindset, and personal growth.

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