Tell me about your vision.
My vision, um,
really has to do with this one moment where I decided to quit my job and become
a coach. It was pretty scary to consider that.
I just met the person who ended up becoming my husband, but, um,
I didn't want to lose relationships and I, it was kind of a difficult thing.
And so I remember that my background was,
I was the VP of marketing sales and client experience for a publishing company.
And the one thing I was in charge of was managing the businesses business plan.
And I decided to create one for myself before I left.
And what that ended up was a lot,
but I remember things started to fall apart,
which is what kind of got me to move on.
And I think a lot of people have that where their health starts getting weird.
They start having weird conflicts at the job and they want to leave.
And they're like, how do I do this?
And you get a lot of signs that it's probably time to go. Um,
but you kind of feel trapped because you don't know how to mitigate the risk of
launching a coaching practice. And so, um,
I ended up creating the plan. I executed the plan. And, um,
I would say that that's the single most important thing that I did because all
of my worries and all of the major decisions about the business were already
made before I left. I knew where I was going.
I was not confused and I launched my first business and got that to six figures
and then I ended up pivoting with the same strategy only because people asked me
I was a panic attack coach first.
And then I started teaching my modality to folks and they were like, wait,
wait, wait, could you just teach me how you did the business part?
Because we all know what we're doing over here. And I was like,
I'm very happy to walk you through that process.
And then the birth of the life coach business schools came, came to be.
So my vision is really to help coaches get there because it can just be scary.
And from someone who didn't have any formal business,
business training before I got into like management, um,
there was just so many things that I didn't know that I now know.
And I just kind of walk my clients through and the vision is to help them.
That's awesome. What does it mean to you to keep your eyes open for mentors?
Yeah, well, it comes from,
well, I have a background in teaching.
So first it comes strictly from me knowing there's so many learning styles out
there. Um, you know, I remember when we're being trained as,
as a teacher, as a teacher,
I was a professor in college, uh,
adjunct professor teaching micro before I had a cool, fun spiritual awakening.
That's a long story for another time. Um, but I remember you,
there's so many people taking information in different ways. So,
I mean that first pretty literally, like there are people who,
who you might resonate with because they just simply could explain things in a
way that they couldn't have done before. And that could be the linchpin into a
marketing problem or a sales problem or a business problem for a coach.
And then the second has to do with personality. Um,
sometimes, sometimes like what I consider myself an empathic person and some
folks are not.
And so if you don't have a good relationship from the person you're learning for,
from, um, it could be a limiting factor in how well you do. Um,
a lot of times coaches I find are getting blamed for their mindset for not being
successful business owners,
but there's many factors that affect your success with a coach.
And it's not always your mindset.
Sometimes it's the strategy, the way it's presented,
the way you learn and the way you gel with your coach.
So that is what I meant by that sentence.
How can leaders lean into funding the vision? How do you,
how do they overcome whatever it is that's preventing them from doing?
So if I'm wrong and you don't see that happening, then by all means,
feel free to hit it hard.
And I'm just,
I'm always excited to hear what visionaries who have funded their visions are
getting after it. How you go?
Well, first of all, I think the root of this question, um,
rather, I think this taps in on the root of a problem,
which is everyone's always looking to mitigate risk.
And so people will reduce risk if they see value in what they're investing,
or they'll perceive less risk if they perceive more value in what they're
investing.
So things that affect someone's perception of value has to do with decreasing the
time to get some kind of outcome.
They will always perceive that as more valuable, or if they,
um, if how closely is the outcome that said,
you know,
situation is going to get them to the thing they want.
So let's say someone wants to lose 10 pounds.
If you're going to invest in a vision,
you better be pretty close to getting that 10 pounds loss if that's your vision.
Right. Um,
so things that affect, um, likelihood of achievement of a goal are always
perceived as more valuable.
So if you increase the value in something that someone's going to invest in to
fund their vision,
then the risk will seem a lot lower and they were more likely to invest.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned into vision pros live.
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move
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Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a vision pro
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