We’ve all heard of a sabbatical, but have you heard of a “Soulbbatical”? According to today’s guest, a “Soulbbatical” is all about living and leading from a place of authenticity and courage. It’s about realizing that a fulfilling life means creating what you really want versus settling for what you think you should. It’s about leaning into your purpose in order to unleash your wildest potential and impact in the world. 

Today Erin is chatting with the founder of Soulbbatical, Shelly Paxton. Shelley’s the author of Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel’s Guide to Finding Your Best Life and she’s THE transformational speaker that you need to hear from right now if you have been feeling like you are stuck in a rut when it comes to really figuring out what your soul is shouting at you to chase down in this season. Shelley spent 26 years as a highly regarded marketing and advertising executive stewarding some of the world’s most iconic brands including Harley Davidson, Visa, McDonald’s and AOL. In 2016, she left the corporate world to become the Chief Soul Officer of her life and, ultimately, her own company.

She launched Soulbbatical with the mission to liberate the souls of leaders at organizations by inspiring them to realize their greatest purpose, their possibility, and their impact. As a certified professional coach, she works with executives at Fortune 100 companies and with rebel soul individuals and entrepreneurs. She has trained with some of the top teachers in the world, including the one and only Brené Brown. If you’ve been looking for a shot of courage right into your soul for your own Soulbbatical, you are going to love today’s episode.

 

In this episode you’ll learn how to: 

• Liberate yourself and your soul from society’s definition of success
  
• Realize your greatest purpose, possibility, and impact
  
• Unlock a life that’s success FULL not success EMPTY
  
• Cultivate clarity around what matters most for you in your life and your work
  
• Break away from expectations that others place on you
  
• Live in greater alignment with your truth
  
• Invest in the possibility of your future self
  
• Harness the courage to take that first step forward
  
• Authorize yourself to change your mind
  
• Springboard forward into greater levels of success 
  
• Recognize and experience these richer, deeper human experiences while they’re happening
  
• Surrender to the very vulnerable journey life has in store for us
  
• Release yourself from the “Shackles of Should”
  
• Give yourself permission to be passionately in what you’re in until you realize it’s no longer serving you, and then evolve
  
• Consciously create what you want in your future
  

 

Tweetables:

This isn’t about leaving your job. It’s about finding yourself. Soulbbatical is about making a choice. It’s a way of being of living in more alignment, greater alignment with your truth. And, in a way that’s more authentic, more courageous, more purposeful. — @soulbbatical on Twitter [0:10:30]

I love that you’re authorizing [us to] find that middle ground. Give yourself an amount of time that you are going to test it. You’re going to learn from it. And you’re either going to fly or going to take the lessons and fly a different direction. — @mrs_erin_king on Twitter [0:15:38]

You know what? I’m [giving myself] a year, but if I get six months into this and something’s not feeling right or I decide that I’ve made the complete wrong choice and I don’t feel lit up, I gave myself permission to course correct whatever that was going to look like in the moment.  — @soulbbatical on Twitter [0:16:03]

Yes, the voices [of others] are there, but I also have the agency and the choice as to how much of a vote I want to give those voices. So the reminder to me and the reminder to everybody listening is I just reminded myself they don’t get a voice.  — @soulbbatical on Twitter [0:23:44]

Getting quiet and giving yourself permission to let go of some of those things that aren’t bringing you joy that were somebody else’s vote in the first place, usually starts to create the space so you can see more clearly and invite in the things that do bring you joy. — @soulbbatical on Twitter [0:24:55]

You’re allowing yourself to change. You are allowing yourself to be passionately in what you’re in until you realize it’s no longer serving you. And then we watch you evolve. And this rebirth into the next season, the next thing. — @soulbbatical on Twitter [0:26:50]

Every morning when I check in with myself, I also, I learned this from Brené Brown. I ask myself, what do I need to do, not do, or feel today in order to show up as my most powerful self? — @soulbbatical on Twitter [0:27:30]

Let’s consciously create what we want going forward. Let’s choose to rewrite the script of success on our terms. Say goodbye to burnout and say goodbye to the mental health crisis and say goodbye to the patriarchy’s definition of success. — @soulbbatical on Twitter [0:29:22]

 

Links mentioned in today’s episode:

Soulbbatical.com

Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel’s Guide to Finding Your Best Life

Rebel Souls Podcast

 

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