Level 05
Significance
From Service back to Self
You are living and working in full alignment with your purpose, leading in ways that are both impactful and energizing. You focus on expanding your influence, guiding others, and leaving a meaningful legacy. You carry responsibility with intention, mentoring the next generation and creating structures that allow your contributions to endure. Your goal is to elevate your impact while staying replenished, ensuring your unique gifts continue to inspire without draining your energy. This is also an opportunity to step away from the path you’ve forged for others and into a new path for yourself.
is Élanoura’s self-discovery framework guiding women toward Living Intentionally, Fearlessly, and Transformatively. Each of the five levels represents a stage in the journey of growth, mastery, and meaningful impact, helping you understand where you are, what you most desire, and how to move forward with clarity and confidence.
You may be at the Significance level if:
- You are fully aligned with your purpose and lead in ways that energize both you and those around you.
- You naturally mentor, guide, or inspire others, helping them step into their own leadership.
- You feel called to create lasting impact and structures that allow your work to endure beyond your direct involvement.
- You are mindful of balancing responsibility with self-care, knowing that sustaining your energy is essential to your influence.
- You are focused on leaving a meaningful legacy, one that elevates others and inspires the next generation.
Not sure of your level?
Meet Your Spirit Animal
Leopard
The leopard embodies mastery, precision, and strategic power. She moves with quiet confidence, able to navigate complex terrain with precision and grace. At the Significance level, the leopard represents your ability to wield your expertise, influence, and leadership with wisdom and grace, inspiring, guiding, and lifting others while honoring your own strength.
Did you know? A pack of leopards is called a “leap” (which we feel is quite fitting in this era of lifting your own leap to the next level!).
Insights to fuel Your Next moves
Our founder Erika shares a message of gratitude and what she hopes for you next.
The Road to Real Significance: Leading What LastsYour Strengths
- You’re operating in full alignment with purpose, bringing clarity and direction to every action.
- You naturally inspire and guide others, mentoring them to step into leadership and impact.
- You’re strategically expanding influence, creating enduring structures and systems for long-term change.
- You’re working on balancing ambition with energy management, ensuring that personal fulfillment and contribution coexist.
- You’re focused on leaving a meaningful legacy that elevates others while reflecting their unique gifts.
Your Growth Edges
- Can feel burdened by responsibility, trying to do too much alone, leading to burnout.
- May struggle to delegate or trust others to carry the mantle, holding on to control.
- Risk of overextension, sacrificing personal fulfillment or self-care in pursuit of impact.
- Pressure to maintain influence or visibility can create stress or fear of letting others down.
- Vulnerable to perfectionism and over-identifying with achievements as a measure of worth.
What you might be desiring at this stage
To mentor, guide, and elevate others,
sharing wisdom and responsibility to
empower the next generation
Proof of enduring impact beyond
your own direct involvement, leaving a
meaningful legacy
Freedom to evolve and step into new
paths, explore uncharted opportunities,
and continue your own growth
the shadow that can keep you stuck
Caretaking
At the Significance level, the drive to leave a meaningful legacy and guide others can become a heavy weight. The need to caretake arises when you feel responsible for everyone’s growth, success, or well-being, or when you overextend yourself to maintain influence and impact. This shadow can manifest as burnout, perfectionism, or difficulty delegating, leaving little room for your own fulfillment. Trust that mentoring others and building systems allows your impact to expand without requiring you to do it all.
Remember: It’s not up to you to do everything yourself. The belief that only you can do it adds pressure and limits your ability to sustain influence. True impact grows when others carry the mantle with your guidance.
WORDS TO LIFT YOU
Your To-Do List
Dig Deeper
Download the guide “The Road to Real Significance: Leading What Lasts”
You’re living your purpose. It’s now about multiplying meaning through others.
Formalize Your Legacy
List the projects, systems, or contributions that represent your long-term impact. Ask: Which will endure without my constant oversight? Which need support? Refine and document the processes, structures, or supports that allow your work to continue without your constant involvement.
It’s succession planning that frees you up for your next moves.
Pay It Forward
Schedule time to mentor or guide someone emerging in your field. Focus on sharing wisdom and lessons you’ve gathered along the way.
Then introduce them to at least one additional contact to continue their development.
Lighting Your Own Path
Try a journal prompt to plot out what’s next for you: What would bring you the deepest sense of peace and fulfillment in this season of life? What is the next chapter you’re being called to write for yourself?
Honor the freedom you’ve created to light a new spark for yourself.
YOUr daily MANTRA
“I lead with purpose and presence, lifting others as I rise. I honor my energy, trust my support, and leave a legacy that endures. I step boldly into new paths, knowing my impact multiplies when I guide and empower others.”
Make today the day your next chapter begins.
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How to LIFT
Elevate into a new era.
The LIFT principles are tools and mindset shifts to lift you from one level to the next, toward purpose and meaning.
You’ve reached a level where your purpose and actions are fully aligned. You lead with impact and intention, guiding others, creating systems that allow your work to endure, and leaving a meaningful legacy. You carry responsibility thoughtfully, balancing your influence with your energy, and you recognize the value of your contributions while knowing the work doesn’t rest solely on your shoulders.
You’ll know you’re ready to LIFT at Significance when:
- You’re living your purpose everyday, aligning daily actions with your values, vision, and the legacy you wish to leave.
- You feel called to mentor, guide, and elevate others, sharing responsibility so your work thrives beyond your direct involvement.
- You’ve built the systems, structures, and support around you to allow your work to endure without requiring you to do it all.
- You’re drawn to explore new paths, take risks, and approach opportunities with the curiosity, reconnecting with the energy of Seeking.
LIFTing at Significance allows you scale your influence strategically, mentoring and guiding the next generation of leaders so that you can step into new paths and opportunities with curiosity and courage while maintaining your energy and creativity for your next chapter. It’s giving yourself permission to be a beginner again and to explore even more ways to lean into and expand your purpose.
HOW TO L-I-F-T TO SIGNIFICANCE
Seeking » Striving
L - Live your joy - take small steps toward what energizes you while building your self-trust muscle.
Striving » Steadfast
I - Intentionally focus on structure and systems that bring stability and consistency to your efforts.
Steadfast » Shining
F - Fearlessly step out of what’s safe, realign your work and life, and redefine success on your own terms.
Shining » Significance
T - Transformatively leverage your experience and skills to make your mark and expand your meaningful impact in the world.
