She was loud, outspoken, sarcastic… all of the things that I relate to.
I hired her because I believed she could help me grow my business faster than I was already growing.
So I invested multiple 5-figures to work with her at a private client level.
During our time working together, whenever I brought up an issue or something I wanted to do, and asked for guidance on to make it happen, I would be met with:
“What does your gut say?” or “Here’s a journal prompt to try out”.
I never once received any tangible advice or support. I would even answer her questions with “I don’t know” and she would say “But what if you DID know?”….
Um, what?
The worst part is that, after our time was up, I never heard from her again.
I felt like a transaction, not a person.
And what I needed at that time, what we ALL need (all the time), was to feel like a person. Someone who was important. Someone who mattered.
I hear stories like this from my clients all the time when they tell me about past experiences with other coaches.
I often get messages that say “you’re so different from other coaches”, because I actually treat my people as HUMAN BEINGS. I genuinely care about them as a person, not as a “someone giving me money”.
And when they ask for help on how to achieve one of their goals, I give them real, tangible support and guidance. Action plans and reviews. Feedback and accountability.
I don’t tell them to go meditate and ask their higher self how to do it.
I don’t tell them to just trust their gut and the answers will come to them.
(While I do believe mindset plays a massive role in success, strategy also matters a huge deal.)
Over the past few years, as I’ve really honed in on what I’m good at (planning, strategy, and execution), I’ve shed some of the skins I was wearing when I worked with this coach and believed I had to be like her in order to make money like her.
I let go of layers and layers of beliefs that didn’t serve me.
I completely transformed my business from “throw it at the wall and see if it sticks” to a very strategic process for how I show up, how I create, how I sell, and how I continue to scale my business.
Since doing so, incredible things happened for me:
- My stress and anxiety around money practically disappeared
- My belief that I had to do it “her” way, instead of my way is GONE
- My confidence is up 10x and I have ZERO doubts about my goals
- My income doubled from last year (and I’m working LESS)
- My perfect, Ideal clients come to ME and ask to hire me- I can actually sleep through the night without waking up (pretty sure this one was stress-related)
- My monthly passive & recurring income more than tripled
- I actually have money in savings (this is totally new to me!)
I am THRIVING. My business is thriving. My clients are thriving.
And I couldn’t be more grateful and excited for what’s about to happen next. On my terms. Always.