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Welcome to Milestone Moments, the show where we explore the journeys that lead to success.

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I'm Sheila Slick, your host and founder of Five Milestones. In every episode, we will bring you

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insights from the minds of entrepreneurs, leaders, and experts who will share not just their expertise

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but the milestone moments that have reshaped their journeys and led to significant achievements.

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So if you're looking for motivation, you're in the right place. Subscribe now and discover the

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milestones that mark the path to success.

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Welcome to another episode of Milestone Moments in Business and Leadership. I'm Sheila Slick,

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your host, and today my special guest is Allison Bowen. Allison is a real estate investor and life

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coach based in Tennessee. She is dedicated to empowering women in the real estate investing

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sector through mentorship and encouragement. Allison Bowen is a positive intelligence coach

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who helps people unlock their potential by mastering the mental habits that lead to greater

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clarity, focus, and success. Her journey from corporate to positive intelligence expert has

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equipped her with unique insights into navigating challenges and achieve meaningful growth.

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Welcome to the show, Allison.

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Thanks for having me, Sheila. Thanks for having me.

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I'm excited to share your story today, and I love what you're doing with GetFocused

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Accountability. So before we dig into that, I'd love to know a little bit more about you.

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How did you get to doing what you do today?

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Well, my love of learning has always defined my life, and I have a drive to know more, do more,

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and be more. And as all of us face challenges in our lives, sometimes that can be the thing

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that carries us through those difficult times. So I moved to Tennessee and absolutely loved it,

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found real estate investing because I live right outside of Nashville, and Nashville is a hotbed

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of real estate investing activity. And so dove right into that. But what I realized as I began

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to build my own real estate investing business and surrounded myself with other people that were

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doing the same thing is accountability is so critical to us staying focused on our goals

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and making progress and moving that needle forward, even in micro increments. So we're

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headed towards the vision that we have of our future. And in the process, I discovered positive

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intelligence and it changed my life. And I knew that I was going to be able to bring that to my

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clients and just add another wonderful tool to help them build their mental fitness, use more

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of their brain than any of us realize is even available to us. And it's been going fabulously.

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Let's talk about accountability because I was going to ask you what were some of those obstacles

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that you overcame throughout the journey? And if it led you to do an accountability group,

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maybe accountability is one of those barriers you had to overcome?

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Well, accountability can be a game changer for most of us because if you're an entrepreneur,

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solopreneur, creatives, we have so many amazing ideas and we have so much inspiration

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that we're led by. A lot of times we get distracted easily. We call it squirrel. We have this term

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in the community about how easily we can think that, okay, I'm setting this goal. And then we

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hear about this another great idea and we're like, oh, maybe I should go in this direction.

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But following through until the completion of one thing before I start a new thing is very difficult

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for most of us who are entrepreneurs. And I found myself having a life full of busyness because I

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was so interested in so many things, but wasn't getting traction in any one thing. And Brandon

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Turner has been, he's from BiggerPockets. I follow him and he's an inspiration for me about

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what's possible through real estate. And he was the first person that I started to listen to about

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accountability. And I basically took his model. I looked for groups and we didn't find one that was

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kind of resonated with me. And you know what they say, if you can't find it, create it yourself.

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And so that's what I did.

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Love that. And I'm going to invite you to a whole different episode so that we can talk about all

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of the differences of accountability groups versus a mastermind and coaching and the different tools

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out there that people can find when they're looking for that push, for that support to keep

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them motivated in their journey. Today, I want you to now talk a little bit about what positive

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intelligence means. So positive intelligence is like a continuation of our intellectual intelligence,

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our IQ, our emotional intelligence, our EQ. And then now we have this new framework called

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positive intelligence, which we call PQ. And Shirzad Shamim created this framework. And he

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is from Stanford and has done research in Stanford. And what he discovered through his research is

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that part of our brain lights up when we are controlled by the more negative thoughts that

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we have. And if any of you have dabbled in neuroscience or personal development,

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you understand that we have a reptilian brain. We are wired for protection and safety. And so our

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brain is always on the lookout for danger. And what that does in a world where we were hunter

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gatherers is it kept us safe, right? It kept our tribe safe. Well, we don't live in that kind of

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world anymore. So those parts of our brain aren't as useful, but there's a whole other part of our

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brain and we call it the sage brain. And because we spend more of our time in the saboteur region

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of our brain, we don't even realize what we could tap into from the sage perspective.

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And Shirzad has done this amazing job of creating a framework. And so positive intelligence unlocks

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parts of our brain and allows us to move through our work, our relationships with more ease and

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flow, with more intentionality. We see more success in our performance and in our wellbeing

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and in the quality of our relationships. And these are just micro exercises. And we call it

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mental fitness. It's kind of like your physical fitness. When you're trying to build muscle,

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you're building with, let's say, free weights. And with your mental fitness, we're going to do

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very similar rep with the micro exercises that weakens the saboteur region of your brain and

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helps shift you into your sage perspective. And I just guide people through understanding this

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and then help them implement it in their life. Yes. So I was fortunate to go through the process

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of how you offer a free consultation with your clients. And I did the assessment and it was very

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eye-opening because you call them sabotage. Saboteurs. Yeah, you got to get the terminology.

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Right. So with the saboteurs, right, it was right on with mine. And as I'm connecting and reading

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these descriptions, I was also able to kind of see how some of my positive traits also have these

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saboteurs. And then you had me go through an exercise that just in less than like two minutes

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took me from one state of mind to just releasing and being in another so that I could be in a

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different mindset when we move forward to talk about these saboteurs.

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Yeah, that was, we had such a great time. And your very, your experience is very common.

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Most people when they do the assessment, they're not shocked by the results of their saboteurs,

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but I want to just point out to people that our saboteurs are actually based on our talents and

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our gifts. So there are things that we were given or that are placed in us when we're created.

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They're just used to an extent, maybe beyond their usefulness to us, to a point where they start to

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impact us negatively. And so putting them in the right place so that they just, they remain our

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gifts and talent, but then we tap into that sage brain. And what you experienced was an example of

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our PQ exercises, that two minute exercise that we did. And you're right, it does change our state

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of mind. And it gives us the ability to shift from a saboteur perspective, which most of us aren't

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even aware that we're there. We can, we call it the self command muscle. And you know, it's just,

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it's pivoting, it's helping our brain pivot. And then the whole sage perspective, we didn't even

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really tap into that much because there's some great exercises that I teach my clients and lead

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them through to help build that and strengthen that. But you know, it takes time and it takes

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time and it takes repetitive practice and it takes support and community though, cause those

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saboteurs don't want to let go. They're used to driving bus. This is fascinating. We're going to

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have to keep the discussion going and perhaps do a few episodes moving forward. So what is your

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next milestone? My next milestone is actually getting certified as a PQ coach. So I'm currently

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in the positive intelligence coach community and I'm coaching people, bringing through people,

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bringing clients through my eight week program and then offering them one-on-one or group coaching.

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But I want that certification. I want that recognition from positive intelligence so that

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I can just share it with more people. You know, my vision is to share this with more people.

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So I want to bring teenagers into this. I would love to have a group of youths going through a

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positive intelligence eight week program because I really want to see how it impacts their lives.

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Women are the community that I most gravitate to, but I do work both with men and women. So

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getting that certification and then I'm building my business. So just continuing to implement

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systems that are going to support me and being able to be more effective in bringing this to

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more people. So before we wrap up today's episode, what would be one key takeaway that you can leave

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our listeners so that they make a, where they take a step or they make a move to improve their life?

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Is it through accountability or through positive intelligence? That's up to you.

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I would encourage you to either find me and book a call so that we can do a free discovery call

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where I'm going to lead you through the results of your assessment. It's a five or 10 minute

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assessment. It's a 30 minute call and just that awareness. It's been amazing, the kind of

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breakthroughs that people have had in just that 30 minute call with me. You know, some people have

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been brought to a vulnerability in themselves that they don't often tap into. And that's why

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they're called positive intelligence. So you can do that. Or even just go to positiveintelligence.com

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and you can do the assessment yourself there, but you don't have me to explain it to you. So

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I can add a little bit more to your understanding.

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So I'm going to leave you with that. I'm going to leave you with a few tips that you can use to

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help you get through the assessment. So I'm going to leave you with a few tips that you can use to

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have me to explain it to you. So I can add a little bit more to your understanding. You can read the

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book. So where can they take the assessment through you? You can go to my Instagram,

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GetFocusedAccountability. And there there's a link to my website. And then you can find

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how to book a discovery call with me there. Also leave it in the comments so that employees

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can see it. And then you can find it on the website. So that's the name of the episode.

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You can just click from there. So you should write with me. Well, thank you so much for

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joining me today. Thank you for having me. This has been wonderful, Sheila.

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And I look forward to future episodes with you. I love being part of the Milestone Community,

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the five milestones. Thank you to all our listeners for tuning in to another episode

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of the Milestone Community. Thank you.