Transcript of Episode 56
This morning, I wanted to come on and talk about this space between being here now, and contentment, and ambition. I vacillate between recovering overachiever, ambition, trying, creating, setting goals, and then also this beautiful presence of just loving what is.
If you’re here, and you’re going to stay and listen, say hi in the comments. I don’t have notes or anything. I just wanted to riff like I used to do in the old days. I’m going to share some things that are going on with me personally and privately with you guys because I feel like I’m not the only one doing this.
The other thing is this concept of one big purpose. This one big purpose. I found myself in two significant places in the last … Between Friday a week ago, I don’t even know. Yeah, Friday two weeks ago, and then also, this weekend after my vacation. I had some nice time away, I had some beautiful time with my husband, and one of the things I noticed about even being at the beach, and working on meditating, and praying at the beach, and having quiet time is that my brain just did not stop thinking about work. It was very frustrating and irritating and I would meditate, and I’ll tell you what, my ego was going nuts during my meditation.
The other thing that happened, I feel a little vulnerable sharing this, but the other thing that happened is I’m coming up on two years of my group membership program that I love. I love doing inner work. I, personally, am jazzed by outer work and business.
So I have this program. You all know I call myself “your favorite life coach.” I was in my leadership group talking, I don’t even know how it came up, and I just heard the words come out of my mouth that said, “Branding as a business coach is diluting my message.”
When that came out of my throat, it was funny because my friend, Michelle Mazur, who wrote this book, 3 Word Rebellion, nodded. There’s an element of something that I haven’t been revealing. There’s a new layer of truth rising up in me and a new message or a new connection. It’s not even a new message. That’s not the right word.
I call it babbling your way to brilliance. I’m just debriefing something with my leadership group, and all of a sudden, this truth comes out, and it’s very frightening for me to admit, don’t worry if you’re my client, nothing is changing right now, but I realized, oh my gosh… Since the first day I started coaching, I also was sent into training. I had a coach for two years as a real estate agent, I became a coach, and the day I became a coach, I also became a trainer. So not only was I growing as a coach, but I also grew as a trainer. I realized, “Oh, as a business woman, it’s almost all I’ve ever known.” I realized I have been training, training.
As I left Keller Williams, and I came online in 2010 and 2011, and started building my business, and I did now what we call Share Your Heart Show Your Work, I think those courses first started in 2014, ’15, and ’16, so in 2014. In 2013, people asked me, “Allison, how did you build your business online?” I ended up reverse-engineering it. I wrote my own outline of my own story and then I would teach that in an online course. I still love Share Your Heart Show Your Work content, but the same thing too, it was like, “Oh, how do you grow a successful coaching business?” That was the question that my audience was asking me.
The market wants to pay for “how do you make money doing this?” You guys see a lot of it. You see a lot of people that … Oh, I don’t know. Like Rachel Hollis right now, I saw that she opened up a coaching arm of her thing. She’s an inspirational motivator, a teacher, speaker, whatever, and all of a sudden, she’s a coach. Well,