To a Billion with Joy: Recent Episodes
Alison Cardy | our journey to heal and uplift a billion hearts while staying happy, healthy and grounded
Is it possible to go for a crazy goal while actually enjoying the journey? Join entrepreneur Alison Cardy, along with her colleagues, coworkers, mentors and friends as they aim to heal and uplift billions while creating great lives in this weekly podcast. Learn more at www.toabillionwithjoy.com.
“We do make our own world.” -Kathy Lemak
“To be able to put myself out into the world as who I really am.” -Amy Steindler
“You can’t out-think your emotions.” -Tamara Arnold
“I think the key to life is connection. If you get connection in business, that’s wonderful… if you don’t have that connection in your personal life you can get lost.” -George O’Shea
“When we are all doing something that brings us personal joy, that taps into our unique skills, we will make ourselves happy and have a positive influence on others in the world.” -Beth Ridley
“You get one pass at this (life).” -Martin Sullivan
“We need to help each other in achieving our mission on earth, our dreams.” -Anthony Perdrix
“Why do you do what you do?” -Chris Yoko
“It starts with equity. I dream of a world where there is equity and equal access.” -Glenn Block
“Just slowing down and allowing yourself to connect more deeply with the beauty that’s in front of us.” -Helen Young-McLaughlin
“I really enjoy helping the people around me also achieve what they’re trying to achieve.” -Pramod Raheja
“The dream I have for myself is really the dream I have for everyone – to have the freedom and the courage to be who we are.” -Beth Solomon
“I want to be a facilitator of some more fruitful discussions about some of the real big issues we’re facing in society.” -Chris Degnan
“If you can just reach one person, you made a difference. And it’s ok if changing that one person is yourself.” -Matt Mills
“Fear is always of the unknown. I do not fear something that I already know about.” -CK Taneja
“Mental hygiene around discrimination is like physical hygiene like washing our hands.” - Meredith Holley
“For the world reaching a point where people can do anything they can dream.” - Mathieu Guerville
“100% of the time those difficult experiences have led them to be exceptional at what they’re doing now.” -Cyndy Porter
“You always have to leave the other person in choice.” -Yolande Grill
“I want a business to be the solution to their problems.” -Sarah Yost
“What feels like fun? What would be easy? How can we actually use what comes naturally for us?” -Caryn Gillen
“My vision for my business is to use it as a tool to promote equity.” -Christine Clapp
“One of the most important things for people is to actually feel good about themselves.” -Hunter Moore
“What we do for others has everything to do with how we feel about ourselves.” -Charlie Janes
“What are you most proud of? What do you want to purge? Where do you want to be most productive today? What are you grateful for?” -Helen Young-McLaughlin
“The sleep and the rest really do matter for everything.” -Pramod Raheja
“Seeing that step as fuel vs. a moral imperative. I do that to support my business and my life. Not because it makes me a good person.”-Sarah Yost
“It’s natural for us to sleep, to do nothing, to run, to sweat, to jump.” -Anthony Perdrix
“Remembering the importance of doing nothing.” -Chris Yoko
“Being intentional is like my mantra these days.” -Glenn Block
“You have to do less to do more.” -Christine Clapp
“Resilience needs to have victories along the way.” -Hunter Moore
“You can do anything, but you can’t do everything.” -Charlie Janes
“I realized that the turnaround was the juice.” -George O’Shea
“We live in this culture of productivity and always doing.” -Beth Ridley
“It’s not necessarily that I have to turn everything off, but just focus somewhere else.” -Martin Sullivan
“For me it’s been music. For me music is healing.” -Chris Degnan
“My work is helping the people who crashed from go-go-going so much.” -Leah Chischilly
“10 years of change is happening pretty much in 10 months.” -Matt Mills
“If there are brakes in the car, then you can go fast.” -CK Taneja
“I really try to be mindful about taking breaks.’” -Josh Henkin
“If we’re doing well, we can actually help people.” -Meredith Holley
“You have to find time to start winding down.” -Kevin Roney
“What are you committing to fail at to accomplish your goal?” -Caryn Gillen
“We do a commute in the morning anyway.” -Mathieu Guerville
“Leave your camera on, but turn off the view of yourself.” -Cyndy Porter
“Sometimes you have to give permission to end the day.” -Yolande Grill
“Even though I need to be focused on the writing, I also need the breaks. I’ll do this, and then I come back.” -Kathy Lemak
“I made a conscious decision to assume that I belonged where I was.” -Amy Steindler
“I had to make friends with resistance. Resistance was actually the guide that I was looking for.” -Tamara Arnold
“My favorite client likes to say intellectual honesty. I learned that’s the key to business.” -George O’Shea
“A lot of times you don’t appreciate how helpful you are.” -Beth Ridley
“The source a lot of times makes a difference. Where is the information coming from?” -Martin Sullivan
“We're always telling the little ones how to feel and what to feel.” -Kathy Lemak
“If I'm trying to help, I'm not helping.” -Amy Steindler
“When someone's crying or having a moment, that's part of their growth.” -Tamara Arnold
“What's my intention behind helping them? Do I want to solve, tell, or be there for them to help them grow?” -Helen Young-McLaughlin
“You will attract all the work that the people who have set boundaries don't want to do.” -Beth Solomon
“The ppl who come back to us are the best public speakers you know.” -Christine Clapp
“I thought community was for other people. OMG, I get to play with other people.” -Hunter Moore
“Believing in the person is helpful.” -Charlie Janes
“I help ppl to see that the perspectives are different. Nobody is totally right or totally wrong. They are looking from a different perspective.” -CK Taneja
“If we give feedback and then ask, ‘what do you think I just said?’” -Josh Henkin
“What is actually helping? And what is pretending to be helping to get praise?” -Meredith Holley
“You're probably not going to give them the answer they need right now, but it's still important for them to know that you're there.” -Chris Degnan
“We forget that doctors are just ppl and they don't actually know everything.” -Leah Chischilly
“Anyone who tells you that this is the way that it has to be done is wrong.” -Matt Mills
“You may have to lower your façade to a great degree (to ask for help).” -Kevin Roney
“Always have a list of 10 things that you need, so that you’re able to ask for help all the time.” -Caryn Gillen
“If everyone who loves to give never receives then we have no one to give to.” -Sarah Yost
“If you want to give more, you have to become more.” -Anthony Perdrix
“I try to look for people who are going to disagree with me.” -Chris Yoko
“One thing that has been really helpful is having mentors or guides who have really taken the time to understand me.” -Glenn Block
“You should meet as many people as you can to broaden the surface area of serendipity to happen.” -Mathieu Guerville
“You kind of get what you give.” -Pramod Raheja
“What you do every day is really what shapes you.” -Anthony Perdrix
“You put those beliefs out there and you start to act in alignment with them.” -Chris Yoko
“Marketing is guilty of saying that technology will solve everything.” -Glenn Block
“Incredible talent can end up with poor results if they are not working in the same direction.” -George O’Shea
“Resilience is a foundational leadership competency.” -Beth Ridley
“What bigger resources are being provided that I can use?” -Martin Sullivan
“The best public speakers are the people who are having a 1-1 conversation with everyone in the audience.” -Christine Clapp
“My work is getting to that decades old conversation.” -Hunter Moore
“When we’re feeling confident, we always do better.” -Charlie Janes
“What worse can happen? Let’s try. Bankruptcy is bankruptcy. When the fear of failure was not there, the opportunities started showing up.” -CK Taneja
“Get out of the laboratory.” -Josh Henkin
“We don’t see the way we’re buying into our own powerlessness at first.” -Meredith Holley
“What’s worth saving? What needs to change? These are not easy questions.” -Chris Degnan
“Your body’s so smart, and it will tell you when something is amiss.” -Leah Chischilly
“Running has this power to show you something about yourself that you didn’t know was there.” -Matt Mills
“If you have a tender brain, you need to work with someone who understands a tender brain.” – Sarah Yost
“What is the mission? – first and foremost. Organizational design is actually the last part.” -Kevin Roney
“Other people’s dreams don’t make your dreams less important.” -Caryn Gillen
“The language we had was vastly different than the language of customers. That language disconnect was the first clue.” -Mathieu Guerville
“You can be more creative when you let go of some old mindsets.” -Yolande Grill
“So many people have so much to offer that they don’t give themselves credit for.” -Cyndy Porter
“It’s not about who’s right. It’s about what’s right.” -Pramod Raheja
“If we’re not intentional, it’s very easy to go back into automation.” -Helen Young-McLaughlin
“What would it feel like to just be able to speak your truth?” -Beth Solomon
“It’s frustrating when someone comes and squashes your dreams, especially your parents.” -Kathy Lemak
“I didn’t realize what a prison having to know was.” -Amy Steindler
“Spirit is trying to bring you everything you want right now.” -Tamara Arnold
“Technology is not the solution to everything.” -Glenn Block
“Define what you want to accomplish first.” -Chris Yoko
“What is it that I can do with my life?”-Anthony Perdrix
“Innovation is an ongoing process of learning from failures.” -Martin Sullivan
“Leaders often think they are more in touch with what is going on in the company than they actually are.” -Beth Ridley
“Getting comfortable is the thing that hurts companies going to market.” -George O’Shea
“I think magic happens with rapport.” -Hunter Moore
“You as the owner can't be doing all the work and making all the decisions.” -Charlie Janes
“Every single person can be a great public speaker.” -Christine Clapp
“The most under used path to get a job is networking.” -Josh Henkin
“We identify talking about the behavior as more of a problem than the problem itself.” -Meredith Holley
“I help them find opportunities in themselves and identify where they can bring value.” -CK Taneja
“The endocrine system has been downplayed for a long time.” -Leah Chischilly
“It’s amazing what will happen when you start your day with a run.” -Matt Mills
“The best thing you can do is whatever assignment you have, do a great job.” -Chris Degnan
“Where are you keeping yourself comfortable in a way that’s stealing money from your business?” -Caryn Gillen
“We don’t have to have all our problems solved to be of service in the world.” -Sarah Yost
“Technology is an enabler for the business, not the business itself.” -Kevin Roney
“Ask the best questions of your data so you get the best results.” -Yolande Grill
“Other people judge us based on how we look – whether we like it or not.” -Cyndy Porter
“It’s healthy to have some amount of turnover and diversity.” -Mathieu Guerville
“Mid-level managers are the key to profitability.” -Helen Young-McLaughlin
“People make mistakes all the time in the workplace.” -Beth Solomon
“Hey, why can’t we just use a drone?” -Pramod Raheja
“I’m not stuck in my circumstances. I’m stuck in my thinking.” -Amy Steindler
“I am so ready universe. Bring me all the things. And yet inside we're blocked.” -Tamara Arnold
“Writers can look like they’re daydreaming all the time.” -Kathy Lemak
“Ultimately what we decided to do was work with orgs who have a passion or purpose beyond profit.” -Chris Yoko
“Man, maybe I don’t need all this stuff to be happy.” -Anthony Perdrix
“There’s a lot of value in understanding the customers and bringing it back to the team.” -Glenn Block
“There are really some basic principles of what helps to bring out the best in others.” -Beth Ridley
“I like to find people that are looking to disrupt.” -George O’Shea
“What if? What about? What is it you’re not telling me?” -Martin Sullivan
“If you’re running in the right direction, growth is easy.” -Charlie Janes
“One of the things that’s important to me is to lift up people who speak differently.” -Christine Clapp
“Who you've considered yourself to be may not be who you actually are.” -Hunter Moore
“There are so many issues in the workplace that lead people to leave their career or change jobs to protect themselves.” -Meredith Holley
“What gives purpose is loving people and helping them grow.” -CK Taneja
“What I realized fairly early on was that these people were totally unprepared to show an employer what they could bring to my organization.” -Josh Henkin
“Running helps people to anchor in their goals.” -Matt Mills
“Things don’t stay the same, but what stays the same is promoting understanding of other parts of the world.” -Chris Degnan
“Health is so individual; it really is different from person to person.” -Leah Chischilly
“The way we talk about ourselves creates who we become.” -Sarah Yost
“Failure is an acceptable process by which you learn.” -Kevin Roney
“We have the job of leading first every time.” -Caryn Gillen
“When we show up with confidence, the world reacts to us in a different way.” -Cyndy Porter
“Innovation is actually a soft skill.” -Mathieu Guerville
“It is better to be kind than to be right.” -Yolande Grill
“Pain is just learning at a rapid pace.” -Beth Solomon
“We’re going through a whole aerospace revolution right now.” -Pramod Raheja
“If you give people time to work on themselves, you can start to see team results.” -Helen Young-McLaughlin
"How you breathe in real life is how you receive energetically." -Tamara Arnold
"Everyone is magic." -Kathy Lemak
"I know you think you leave your crazy at home, but you don't. You bring it right in here (to work) with you." -Amy Steindler
- Some reflections on what this project has been and what it has taught me
- What were you thinking about six months ago?
- Why extreme success isn’t enough
- How the podcast shifted over time
- Why I’m ok with sharing this unpolished and imperfect period of my life
- Learning in public
Quotables
“It’s about to get a whole lot more valuable and interesting.”
“Everything passes.”
“All of those things give color to life.”
“I also shifted the podcast from my journey to our journey.”
“Life is an opportunity to learn and grow and contribute and give and create in the world.”
“It’s ok to be on the journey of finding out what’s in alignment for you.”
“To consciously create your life and to connect to what’s true for you and who you are and then to share that with the world.”
- The way my year end goals actually went
- Who I’m loving as my clients
- Sleep rhythms
- New career coaching clients we’re excited to work with
- Accepting what is
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“What a different world we have the potential to create when we’re more tuned in to not just our intellectual minds, but our physical bodies, our intuition, our energy, and our feelings.”
“We had a long lull, about a six month lull.”
“It was a really great week.”
“Super happy to get to do all that I get to do.”
- Some thoughts on community building
- What I felt like I missed from some groups
- My intention to create a soft place to land
- Our first newsletter for our podcast guests
- Technology for the win
Quotables
“I’m sure I’m a better person just from getting these cool people’s input into my brain.”
“I’m much more interested in the well-being of the leaders.”
“Just a sense of caring for folks. That’s really what I love to do.”
“I hope it’s a good experience for people to be on the podcast and I hope I can create a good community feeling for people.”
“You’re not that far away from people.”
- Centering and cleaning
- A break from podcast recording
- Season 4 applications
- The benefit of having a project to focus on
Quotables
“I’m hoping to have this symbolize and represent being a little more organized and responsible around finances.”
“It feels really good.”
“My crew is doing well.”
“Clean out your stuff every now and again.”
- The habit I have around this podcast
- What I’m noticing about the rate of things bubbling up
- Re-centering in appropriate boundaries
- The downsides of positivity and optimism
- How optimism plays into vision and aim
- Grappling with Covid and cashflow
- Letting go of perfection
Quotables
“I did realize, ohmygosh, I bit off quite a bit here.”
“It has also been giving some time and space for things to bubble up.”
“I can out positive almost anybody.”
“As you may imagine, it’s a little less fun to be in not as great an energy and headspace.”
“It’s been interesting watching my mind.”
“Am I right? Am I wrong? Am I going to make a mistake?”
“Am I trying? Am I putting out effort?”
- A different definition of work
- The most beautiful thing I get to work on
- Increased awareness of my brain
- Who I’m really excited for you to meet!
Quotables
“Is to be that still place for them.”
“Good job me for getting to work with such amazing, strong people.”
“I’m doing alright.”
“Let’s create this moment.”
- A change up to the daily routine!
- Where I’m putting my attention for 30 mins a day
- What I’m putting more into my life
- An experience of finding what’s true for me in the moment
- Pod formation
- Some concern and compassion around blind spots
Quotables
“Actually counting that self-care, quiet stillness, re-centering type stuff as part of my workday.”
“My mind has been a little confused.”
“I’ve been like, trying to do it right.”
“Integrity is like a river.”
“When is it appropriate to sit? When is it appropriate to surrender? When is it appropriate to create?”
“Don’t be afraid to give something a go.”
- The overlap between normal life and vacation
- Two things I noticed were creating a feeling of despondency
- Re-centering in compassion, forgiveness, boundaries and unconditional love
- Noticing a drive to prove and accomplish
- Some stuff that has crept into my internal world
Quotables
“Some of my normal routines, I generally kept.”
“I don’t have to crush the reading list while on vacation.”
“If just being me independent of doing and helping is enough.”
“I don’t remember that level of self-judgement being there before.”
“Taking vacations is a good thing.”
- An update on my podcast project!
- A state change into movement and play
- Girlfriend thoughts
- Resources for past, future, and present
- Unmuffling powerful people
Quotables
“I love creating.”
“I’d been very still the last couple weeks.”
“I’m just focused on my locus of control.”
“I love these powerful people.”
“In general, I just love seeing people shine.”
“You can’t create and be fearful at the same time.”
- Podcast transformation
- My hilarious monetary framing
- Unexpected benefits of hosting this podcast
- How my marketing hook hooked me
- My call for beautiful souls
- A cool practice I picked up from one of my spiritual directors
Quotables
“That time I outfoxed myself with my own marketing.”
“I’ll frame my podcast around money, and then I’ll talk about all these other concepts that I actually care about.”
“I started stepping into what it would mean to own a billion dollars and what it wouldn’t mean. This was a fabulous mental exercise.”
“I’m not motivated by money. I’m motivated by being helpful.”
“It’s about each of us sharing our unique gifts and being supported along the way.”
“Don’t be afraid to get your podcast premise completely wrong for 2.5 years, because you can always change it.”
- An experience of spaciousness and stillness
- A book discussion group experience
- New thoughts about the future of this podcast
- Letting the slowness in
Quotables
“I needed to update my husband on some of my inner world.”
“An identity of having more of a spiritual bent.”
“I really do believe having people in our corner supporting us makes a big difference.”
“I’m excited by the potential to build community with this podcast.
- Plans for the future of this podcast!
- The contrast between my expectations and the reality for 2020
- A season of extracurriculars
- Lightening my mental expectation of myself
- Unhelpful messages I’d accidentally picked up
- Choosing influences that lift me
Quotables
“We can be very strong and passionate about our feelings.”
“I had a bit of a rough week.”
“The actual thing that I have created is different than that.”
“I’ve been trying to be more open to influence.”
“Wow, buttercup, no wonder you’re dragging.”
“It’s really important to surround yourself with people who are achieving and doing things that you want to be doing.”
- Speaking, reading, thinking, and re-writing my brain rules
- Grappling with scarcity and abundance mindsets
- How do I make a more thoughtful, planned endeavor?
Quotables
“This week I was a little bit off.”
“It’s appropriate in relationships for emotions to come up.”
“I’m aware that if I do nothing, what I currently built is working.”
- A big debate about my cat, Boots
- The foundational habit I’m improving
- My goals for the next few weeks
- Multiple things I’m exploring
- A shout out to our wonderful clients and to coach Michele
- An exciting financial update after 11 years in business
Quotables
“Who cares about all the other stuff. Am I sleeping well?”
“Kids books are reassuring and nice.”
“People are great. And people go through a lot of stuff around work and career choices and business ownership.”
“I feel very grown up. I’m having a salary.”
“Darn if I don’t win almost every single day.”
- What’s been happening by Thursday in my workweeks
- The 180 degree financial switch taking place
- My switch from an exploration phase to a working phase
- Two ways I needed to mature
- My financial to-read list
- Common small business owner financial errors
Quotables
“Did I actually do anything this week?”
“My stance over the past few years has been spend out, expand, reach, push, stretch, do uncomfortable things with money, be ok with taking on debt, learn how to cope with different monetary positions.”
“I don’t regret doing any of them, because they helped me click certain things in place.”
“I was trying to figure out, where is my next level of business?”
“I really went hard on the independence thing.”
“A business owner that other people can rely on needs to have their money in order.”
- Our new podcast intro!
- An update to my family
- A great month end to January
- What I’m spending a lot of time reading and learning about
- The two frames I see around thinking about money
- New questions I’m asking myself that I’m so proud of
- The weird habit I noticed
Quotables
“It’s important from a marketing point of view to get into the avatar’s way of looking at things.”
“I’m looking for powerhouse, visionary executive level women who feel trapped in some type of work identity that really isn’t true to who they are.”
“It was nice to be validated in not panicking because panicking really doesn’t pay off.”
“There’s just a lot to learn when you’re a small business owner.”
“You need to watch your cashflow.”
“Oh, this is how you handle money in a business.”
“There’s something to being willing to go through the learning curve.”
- What I walked into and right back out off
- What affects our experience of life the most
- The lessons I learned from playing with money, relationship dynamics, independence, and client avatar
- Why I’m letting go of a specific monetary target
- A brand update that’s coming into view
- A new learning about money
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“Things are clicking over here, which is awesome. I notice that I feel good pretty much all the time.”
“In going for that goal I got a $250,000 lesson.”
“It feels like there is a whisper of a dream that is creative, artistic, or a healing aspect.”
“These themes are really important in terms of these clients: relationships, money, creativity, independence, security.”
“The thing that I’m most about is setting people free.”
“My main thing is this calm, still water: spacious, white space, peace.”
“Just going for a goal always has rewards.”
- My journey to our journey
- What really motivates me
- My typical experience as a podcast guest
- A sweeter purpose
- A takeaway on changing your mind
Quotables
“I also just want this to be a place of collaboration.”
“I really don’t see it as a competition.”
“I’m looking forward to bringing on some guests moving forward.”
“I see that there’s a big scope of work.”
“Oh, I have not really made any sales.”
- Re-jiggering morning and evening routines
- A dark chocolate habit
- 2019 year end numbers and tax prep
- Closing in on an ideal avatar
- Getting caught in my own marketing hook
- What I prefer to look at instead of money
- A big podcast shift!
Quotables
“It feels like so much more consciously creating.”
“I felt really great this whole week.”
“It may shift over time, but that’s where I’m starting.”
“I think anywhere where there’s someone living out of the truth of who they are.”
“Who had felt guided away from who they are.”
“A billion is out of the range of a lot of people’s imagination.”
“I could never get done in twelve months what I can get done in ten.”
- One of the best vacations we’ve had
- The importance of staying up-to-date with a partner
- What I was listening to instead of my body
- A reflection on 2019 and my lessons learned
- The downside of a bubble of positivity
- The new questions I’m asking myself this year
Quotables
“It seemed to just take the whole day to do that.”
“I felt very restored, rested.”
“I’d fallen into a restrictive mindset.”
“It makes sense that I’d need to pay attention to food.”
“It’s grand to express anger.”
“It’s totally ok to share freely now.”
“What are you actually feeling?”
“Healing is in the lead for me, not achievement.”
- What I did during my holiday
- My year end reflection process
- Why I’ve been reaching into the unknown
- Letting go of some communities I’ve been a part of
- Plans my husband and I made for the new year
Quotables
“I did some great reading.”
“This past year has been a really relational year, a healing year, and an exploratory year.”
“Things getting in the way are old protective mechanisms.”
“Let’s put some concerted attention into this relationship thing.”
“If I’m putting so much emphasis there, then I’m neglecting my priority.”
“It’s a good idea to pause and re-calibrate your life.”
- What made me feel impatient with my 2020 plans
- The jolt I’m anticipating with re-entry into action
- Trying to find the match between what I do best and new clients
- My tangible monthly financial goal
- What feels like settling… in a good way!
- Lessons I’m picking up from some phenomenal leaders
Quotables
“I’m interested in that collaboration and seeing how it all comes to fruition.”
“I need to still keep good boundaries and give myself room to decompress and wind down.”
“I notice some zest or zing.”
“Make sure my priorities are in order.”
“I’d gotten switched around a little bit and started putting work above everything else.”
“Can I live my priorities as well?”
“It’s fun to live life and figure things out and make mistakes.”
- The research I really appreciate
- The new lens I’ve been learning and talking about
- A tree grows in my office
- The area that I often forget
- Where I’m feeling some trepidation in my 2020 planning
- The form of healing that can go on in all sorts of relationships
Quotables
“Thank heavens we have therapists in the world.”
“What’s the clean takeaway from all of that?”
“I learned all the ways that we can be good to one another.”
“Whatever feeling you’re feeling is ok.”
“That’s kind of a strength of mine, just sticking with it.”
“We all want safety.”
- Realizing I can change my bat signal
- Continuing evolution of my client avatar
- Thoughts about 2020 goals
- New skills I’m developing
- Is my old goal still relevant?
Quotables
“It’s always so interesting to see the world through different people’s eyes.”
“Big massive improvement in self understanding.”
“I’m interested in continuing to do some more professional development.”
“I do want to keep improving and sharpening the saw.”
“I do notice a feeling of slipping away from that goal.”
- Some of the huge gifts that I’ve received
- The really tall walls I built
- The downside of not being open to input
- What I think can be more valuable than peer support
- An error in my prioritization
- One upping personal development
- A Thanksgiving lesson and a breakthrough in the nightstand dilemma
Quotables
“We all pick up a lot of stuff from our families.”
“I haven’t really been past focused at all.”
“One thing about being human is that we can all have blind spots.”
“Looking for the flaws or trying to get the broader perspective can be really appropriate.”
“Business goals are fun and there are a lot of things to learn in business.”
“It’s those personal relationships that really matter.”
“I was so worried that someone that I cared about would say something negative.”
“Our outer worlds are reflections of our inner worlds.”
- The Reeses incident and where it led
- An update on my research project
- Why I’m leaving some groups
- The commonality between business and mandalas
- Clearing out the past for future to come in
Quotables
“Bright lines work really, really well for me.”
“I know that eating not good for you food does not make you feel good.”
“What if I really took some time and put it towards our relationship?”
“If I miss a couple waves of timing in the market, but I have a strong relationship at home, that’s worth it.”
- How strangers have been treating me
- The next step that brought up a lot of resistance
- The actual theme of the past two years
- Some gushing about my husband
- What I notice happens when I hang out with marketers
- The difference between my communication on air and off air
Quotables
“Wow, there are some amazing people in the world.”
“Hello again! I need help again!”
“Over two years ago I started this podcast.”
“Maybe I can cut myself a little slack.”
“What would happen if I did nothing for a year?”
“Sometimes we do not know what we’re actually going through when we’re going through it.”
- Straightening out some money things
- The not fun thing I noticed about my behavior
- Releasing a really tight grip
- What’s improving because of my big goals
- What I’m appreciating right now
- The generosity and kindness I’m witnessing
- What makes reaching out to people worth it
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“That was probably enough for one week.”
“I was so devoted to getting this business going and doing work that I really enjoyed.”
“I didn’t know that was an issue I was having.”
“Thank heavens for big goals!”
“I am loving working with my clients.”
“There is some inertia and resistance around that.”
- Morning routine creep!
- Did I overshare on facebook?
- A really good conversation with my husband
- Where is the place for anger?
- The benefits of coaching youth soccer
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“Numbers are just numbers.”
“I do better with quiet and focus.”
“You need to feel and express and anger.”
“My husband and I have an opportunity for a next chapter in our relationship.”
“I always have this thought that if I do something there will be a flood of response.”
- What had me talking to cows
- The decisions I’m facing and what has me feeling nervous
- Re-connecting with a former mentor of mine
- The downside of my extreme sunshine
- The freedom of genuine yeses and nos
- The completely natural thing anyone would bump into as they’re growing
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“My marketing instincts are poor.”
“My work is to help them get who they are out into the world.”
“I wasn’t seeing any problem at all. I was like that’s the way you do things. You gotta go along. You gotta be nice.”
“I wasn’t really listening to that truth inside of myself about what I was really wanting.”
“I was trying to positive my way out of feeling what I actually felt.”
“Any emotion that you’re feeling, any experience that you’re having, it’s not wrong to have.”
“We’re all on a journey. We’re all learning. We’re all doing the best we can.”
- The pleasant surprise of a recent effort
- Bragging on our clients
- Intensive re-cap
- What created a slow and steady journey for me historically
- A meta-lesson around mentor selection and allowing influence
- A new development on retirement savings
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“Our clients are inspiring, beautiful, wonderful people.”
“How can I show up with good integrity and not needing people to change, but influence the relationships in a positive way?”
“Sometimes when you hit things it’s actually a wonderful opportunity.”
“We’re talking about moving forward doing more things in partnership together.”
“I had a long stint of I just want to do things my way.”
“Set a goal. Start working towards it.”
- Some eye opening lessons learned from an intensive
- The impact of things that feel so right
- Why I’m grateful for my goals
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“We can clean up our inheritance or we can get run by it.”
“I can be a very tricky client to work with.”
“I think it’s a really good thing to do our inner work.”
“It’s cool to get support.”
- The cool things are happening in my world
- A place where I’m seeing a need to work
- The surprising physical signal I just caught onto
- My newest humbling lesson as a soccer coach
- Why I value being involved in my community
- Money stories and their impact!
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“I didn’t know how to figure some things out on my own.”
“We all need help because we can’t see our own psyches very clearly.”
“I really like my style.”
“We either repeat or rebel against a pattern.”
“It stings a little bit when you’re doing your best and looking at the world one way and then somebody points out, hey, you’re missing something.”
“It’s funny to see I built this whole business and in a way it’s a shell.”
“Money is neutral. There’s only the story we tell about it.”
“I unlock extreme potential into the world for the benefit of the world.”
- The people in my life who are kicking butt
- The philosophy I believe wholeheartedly
- A bold proclamation
Quotables
“To see smiles of recognition of what’s really in somebody’s heart and being able to put a name to that.”
“Yes, I’m excellent at client selection, and yes, I know how to help.”
“Gosh darn it, I’m ready now.”
- Can’t talk too long!
- Things that are helping my focus
- How I’m feeling at the moment
- The thing that has surprised me over the past few months
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“I had a wonderful, relaxing, restorative, active vacation.”
“I feel like I am pointed well.”
“Ok, tried that investment size once. Let me try it again and see if I can get what I need this time around.”
“For sure I’m going to grow in the pursuit of this goal.”
- A new co-coach for me
- Morning routine expansion
- My favorite book at the moment
- Making room for what’s next
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“All the fall things are starting.”
“Wow, it’s so fun to help people move forward and through things.”
“A really interesting perspective that’s so different from my day-to-day world.”
“So there’s a bit of an in-between feeling there.”
- Re-centering… or procrastinating?
- The best, beautiful, brilliant work I get the privilege of doing
- Some observations on generational fears and inheritances
- The thing we’re all really driving towards
- What has me feeling sore
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“I do feel very close to asking for what I want, for being dogged, for getting things booked.”
“After the call I was walking around slightly dazed.”
“She was just realizing that much more was possible for her than she had ever thought before.”
“Wow, we as a people have a whole lot of work to do.”
“I really appreciate people who take the time to write things down.”
- My mis-speak on episode #
- How a trip with friends magnified an issue for me
- My next level of boundary setting and why it’s tricky
- The strength I’m finding at home
- The things I see that have gotten me to this point
- The food signal I’d been getting around social settings
- A lightbulb moment around profit first
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“Which means it’s time to say goodbye.”
“I love tough conversations and conflict.”
“In the past this level of greatness would have been what I was looking for.”
“I get to say no. How fun is that!?”
“Thank goodness for all these amazing people.”
“I’m really interested to see what the 100% yeses are.”
“I can miss out and love it.”
- An unexpected win from reachouts
- An update from a trip with friends
- Moving back into the client delivery seat
- Scouting out places to build
- How I’m feeling about this season of business
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“I want to consume all the books immediately.”
“I saw buttes.”
“What are all these people doing on my calendar?”
“This is why I went through all that work to find these people.”
“I can know there are plenty of fish in the sea.”
- New connections and new ideas
- A branding reflection
- Some feelings of insecurity
- Curiosity about who I’m going to meet next
- Upcoming travel plans for a working trip
- My new hobby that I’m really enjoying
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“Really wanted to get some data to see if the tactics that we’re using are resonating with people.”
“It’s really fun to see all these amazing leaders in the world.”
“I also know that even the most amazing person is human. We’re all human.”
“Let me be of service.”
“I’m really looking for people who it feels like a privilege to work with them.”
“Landing these bigger fish clients is really just the beginning.”
- How we spent a heatwave weekend during a sales drought
- The big turnaround that occurred this week
- My natural mode of taking action in the world
- Reachouts and coping mechanisms
- An invitation that served me well already
- Where are you putting your effort and attention?”
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“Should I be worried? Will this work out?”
“I’m pleased. I feel like I can trust my systems really well.”
“It’s wonderful to set people free. That’s what I like to do.”
“It was just uncomfortable to not know how to do it perfectly.”
“It feels like things are going into motion, which is fun.”
“Anything in your life, if you put attention to it and make an attempt to improve it, it will likely improve.”
- Fun and resistance with office re-decoration
- Dealing with an unexpected refund
- The new, jaw-dropping prospect I called in
- Should I be worried now?
- A dawning realization of a place where I am an extremist
- What we covered in my four hour coaching session that knocked me out
- Peeking around the corner into taking a stand
- My philosophy around what you bump into when you set goals
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“I had my office in a certain way for a number of years and just accepted that that’s the way it was.”
“Just to make this office represent where I am now and who I am now.”
“I really want this high level match between who the client is and who I am and the work that we’re doing in the world.”
“Clients always come in. They always land. Money always flows.”
“I think it will be really helpful to have a point of view instead of just a problem that I help people solve.”
“All of a sudden I was like, oh, maybe I should go make some money.”
“It’s good to have good people around you. It helps a lot.”
- An incidence of massive action and how it felt
- How staring at branding impacted my brain
- How I feel about big goals
- What ratcheted up my confidence
- Power suit resistance
- The feedback mechanism I love
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“I’m not totally sure what had me waiting so long.”
“Why do I pick such hard goals?”
“I started to believe because of my actions that I’m really doing this and it’s really going to happen.”
“I did get a little bit hooked about my image.”
“I don’t totally understand how to balance authentic expression with what people need to see in my image to feel comfortable.”
“I like seasons of taking action.”
- Why I climbed a 100 foot tree
- Gushing feelings of happiness and joy
- The issue that I’m best at solving
- New understanding from research conversations
- What had me grinning
- A financial update
- What exploration really feels like
- The nice thing about actions
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“I tend to attract really wonderful clients.”
“Oh, people aren’t just living in this place all the time.”
“My brain is expanding. Look at what we can do. And look at how fun it is.”
“I knew when I started making that ask, I’m going to make it in a big way.”
“I love untangling people and getting all the beautiful expression of who they are out into the world.”
“I love being in action.”
“People come for the result, but stay for the community.”
“Let me hone in to my focus. Let me take every action I see in front of me. Let me be courageous.”
“Clarity comes through taking action.”
- My first time doing this new thing
- What I was trying to keep up with on vacation
- Grappling with breaking with traditional female roles
- The most important thing to think about when hosting a workshop that I have historically forgotten
- The big project that is staring me in my face
- The one thing I don’t know how to do yet
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“I loved my vacation.”
“I’m so happy I have coaches in my life. They keep me on track and noticing things.”
“How do I know if I’m being successful.”
“We get to be outdoors. We get to be moving. We get to be coaching.”
“What’s interesting is that I’ve kind of run out of distractions and procrastination things.”
“My go-to is brute force, like just get this done.”
“I’m not overthinking things. For many many moons I was stuck in this overthinking things.”
“I just know that things tend to work out.”