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January 16, 2019

Updating my name

Press Release


My business hasn’t changed but it did expand when I published my book, Wiser and Wilder.  My business name, Awakening Business LLC is still the legal name but for all other purposes my business is called Kaya Singer,  Wiser and Wilder and this reflects who I am and what I offer to the world.  I know you aren’t confused.  Keep expecting the same wonderful and inspiring help from me.




 

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Published on January 16, 2019 14:19

May 29, 2017

Leah Jorgensen: Wise and Wild Wine Maker, 039


Leah Jorgensen is owner and winemaker for Leah Jørgensen Cellars, a wine company dedicated to creating distinctive wines with an appreciation for French Loire Valley style.


Leah grew up with an Italian mom, and that had an influence on how she saw the world. She has early memories of being around the table with a lot of  great food and sharing of wine, and what it meant culturally to her family.


In this fascinating interview Leah shares how she didn’t even realize that the wine industry was an actual field or industry. She never really stopped to think about how wine was created  and what kind of career that would be”.


She shared that it all began with managing a cute, little wine shop in Washington DC where she grew up.


Like many women I have interviewed she began her career as part of the corporate world in Washington DC which trained her to work hard. Eventually she decided to enroll into a top notch wine course and so her new career began.


Leah shares that she’s been in this for almost 17 years and learned a lot, but there’s always things that need to change or be different, certainly as a woman wine maker and business owner in this industry. She wants to be able to continue to inspire and motivate and cultivate opportunity for other women and minorities. Leah says a woman can do this work as easily as a man and yet it tends to be a good old boys club as guys  like to hire guys. She had to find men who were more forward thinking.


It bothers her that there are virtually no minorities in the American Wine Industry, other than  a few sprinkled here and there. She wants to be a part of  the conversation about how to shift this from being such a white privilege culture.


I asked Leah to share how my book “Wiser and Wilder,” helped her.


 “There’s this classic, masculine way of how we all approach business… and that’s just not how my brain was wired. Even though I’m a very bright person and did very well in school, there are these moments where it made me feel dumb because it wasn’t my language.  So much of the way we do business in the wine industry is masculine dominated. You wanna talk about circles and squares.. It was all squares.


“By the time I found you and your book, I knew that model wasn’t working for me. I have advisers who do help me with my business.  They’re all men and they all present stuff in a certain way and tell me what I  need to do to grow my wine business..and I knew that what they were suggesting would never happen for me.  When I found your book, I loved the Circles…It made sense. As I was doing the exercises and  I was able to take the knowledge that was in that square material that these people were presenting to me, and  sort of fashion it in a way that fit more for me and how my brain works, how I’m wired.”


Leah says her biggest challenge now is to not get caught up in anxiety around money. She shared how starting a wine industry requires a lot of money ongoing.


“So for me, I get in that sort of panic fight-or-flight mode with how overwhelming the financial side of this can be. But the truth is, it always works out and that’s validation that I’m on the right path. Even these gigantic, enormous, very scary sums of money that might be due, the voice that I’ve had to listen to so often is to just remind me that it’s just money. It’s just energy: Flow in, flow out. That’s all it is. It’s just energy. It’s like that wild woman is constantly telling me that in the back of my head that it’s just energy. Let it go. It’s fine.” You get it, you lose it.. You get it, you lose it. When I really listen to it, then I don’t feel the anxiety.”


I asked Leah what she thought she might be doing in her Crone years. She had gone to a small college and majored in creative writing and learned from Mary Oliver yet she she knew she needed more life experience first. Her vision is that in her Crone stage she’ll have a long silver braid, a pencil behind her ear, and like Mary Oliver, walk along the beaches in Oregon and write poetry.


Leah’s wisdom tip” “When it comes to going out into the world, and speaking your truth, wanting to create your work, and put your soul creativity and your empathy out into the world and all those feelings of wanting to use your gifts to make the world a better place. The biggest thing is just knowing your gifts. Meditate on it, go for walks, sit down and REALLY, really identify, “What are my gifts?” And then you can navigate. You can really figure out how you can find your mission”.


You can find Leah on Facebook – Leah Jorgensen Cellars  and her  website LeahJorgensenCellars.com


This podcast episode is part of the one year birthday celebration of my book “Wiser and Wilder, A Soulful Path for Visionary Women Entrepreneurs.”


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Published on May 29, 2017 03:00

May 22, 2017

Marcia Chadly: Creative Connection Guide, 038


Marcia Chadly is the co-founder of the Creative Life Center in Westminster, Colorado. In this interview Marcia shares her story of how she moved out of the engineering field into a whole new way of  being that allowed her to express her passion and develop what her soul was calling for.


 


 


She originally wanted a job that would pay her well and allow her to support her kids and have the freedom she wanted. Eventually she changed inside and her work needed to change too.


Marcia has been guiding women into connection with their hearts and inner wisdom for over 10 years.


Although she loved being a creator of community, teaching soul collage and other contemplative art processes, she realized she needed to learn more about how to run a business.


In this interview Marcia shared how she tried to run her business in a similar way she had been working as an engineer and it didn’t work.  When she read “Wiser and Wilder,” she discovered a different way of working that involved listening to her inner Wise and Wild woman rather than  the things she thought she should do. She discovered that listening to her inner voice, instead of operating out of her head, was so important. She realized that is she didn’t operate from her heart her new Center wouldn’t work.


She says, ” When we get a room full of women together who are talking about their changes, which are each unique, and they’re on their own sacred path in life, and just knowing other people have done similar things or are also going through changes, is supportive. That’s what we  offer to women in our area”.


Marcia also shares about how they use labyrinths as a transformative tool. They have created one in their center and they also do New Moon walks each month in the Denver, Boulder area. Marcia is also a Soul Collage facilitator.


Marcia’s wisdom tip for her listeners: “Listen to your heart. You have to make space for you. Even if it’s five minutes in the bathroom if you can’t find anywhere else. But you are so worth any time you can give to yourself, to hear who you are because you’re here to be you in the world.


You can find Marcia at www.creativelifecenter.org and on her Facebook group for Creative Life Center or Wisdom Sharing path.


 


This podcast episode is part of the one year birthday celebration of my book “Wiser and Wilder, A Soulful Path for Visionary Women Entrepreneurs.”


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Published on May 22, 2017 03:30

May 15, 2017

Lori Park: Wild Woman De-clutterer, 037

Lori Park has been though the fire in her own way and completely transformed herself as part of the process.  


It was during her work of feng shui, elemental space clearing and clutter clearing when Lori realized that the clutter comes from deeply within oneself.


Raised in Western Montana in the Bitterroot Valley, Lori grew up playing along the river banks. Gooey mud, craw daddies, garter snakes and cow pies were her childhood toys.


She was raised next door to her grandmother; a Wise German crone. She learned holistic brews, spending most of her childhood tagging along beside her and being her helper.


Through many life trials, personal and professional, Lori floated along, searching, accepting daily life. When her professional career hit bottom, she took off on a “walkabout.”  While spending time at a nunnery in Idaho, she began walking, praying and meditating until she connected with her inner priestess.


In this soulful interview Lori shares her own story of feeling obligated to work in order to pay off student loans and the process of going to work feeling unhappy. She felt she was, “buried in darkness.”


Lori shares how she connected with me via my book, “Wiser and Wilder,” and found it light and free unlike so many self-help programs out there. Lori was someone who did every activity in the book and felt that it sparked her creativity and made her mind flow. Although I was thrilled to hear how my book was making such a huge difference to her, I also know it was the Wise and Wild Women within the book that connected to Lori’s within herself. It was a gift to us both.


Lori calls herself an intuitive and she says that in today’s world women need mentors so they have a place to go. She shares, “When this shift inside happened to me,  realized this is who I am and this is where I’m going because I want to help women. I want to help women inside, within, because you can put on makeup, you can put on whatever on the outside, but until you come within yourself, you’re still stuck. Part of expressing that and once that happens, is the fear of being judged. Yes, it’s huge. Because here’s this woman who’s always had dinner ready, she went to work, she went to ball games, she went to meetings, and then all of a sudden she’s found her boundaries and she’s saying, No instead of Yes.”


Today Lori’s clients begin with what’s holding them back from living a life of their soul purpose. Her clients come full circle. 


Lori shares, “This full circle relates exactly your practice in your book of standing within a square then standing inside a circle”. 


Lori’s wisdom tips is “Never let go of your Wiser Woman’s hand. Always know that she’s there. When those days come that are tough, dark, struggling or stuck, you’ve let go of that hand.  You can find Lori Park in her Facebook group, Lori Emerging or call her (406) 360-6092


This podcast episode is part of the on year birthday celebration of my book “Wiser and Wilder, A Soulful Path for Visionary Women Entrepreneurs.”


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Published on May 15, 2017 03:00

May 8, 2017

Barbara Techel: Creative Guide and Soul Whisperer, 036

Barbara Techel gently  guides women to creatively tap into their intuition and to connect with their True Self to live a more meaningful life. As an author and SoulCollage® & workshop facilitator, she enjoys encouraging and inspiring others to  listen deeply and capture what it is that matters most.


Most women will relate to Barbara’s story of being afraid to be who they really are. When she was younger she chose to hide rather than face other people’s judgments or non-acceptance.


She shared how exhausting it was to try to wear all those masks.


It was in 2006 that Barbara’s dachshund Frankie became paralyzed and that ultimately lead to profoundly changing Barbara’s life forever. The little red dog who rolled through life in a wheelchair helped Barbara to overcome shyness, let go of worrying what others thought and find the courage to stand tall in who she is.


It was ground-breaking work that Frankie and Barbara did, as they visited over 400 schools in Wisconsin and many more via Skype.  She had no idea she could be a speaker and this helped her to grow in confidence.


It was her second disabled dachshund, Joie’s unexpected death, that had Barbara pausing and listening to a new whisper in her heart, one in which she was feeling called to help guide women to their own soul”s intuitive knowing so that they too could live more meaningful lives.


Barbara’s books include two memoirs: Wisdom Found in the Pause – Joie’s Gift and Through Frankie’s Eyes – One woman’s journey to her authentic self, and the dog on wheels who led the way, and a children’s book series, Frankie the Walk ‘N Roll Dog.


As this wonderful interview was part of my one year book celebration I asked Barbara how “Wiser and Wilder,” had made a difference in her business or life.  She cited Chapter One, A woman’s Way that talked about how all business choices affect  family, health, values, and lifestyle because they are all inter-connected. She said,  “I really resonated with that idea! I wanted to live my life where I’m weaving in my creativity as part of who I am. Reading your book, it was just so validating, and it helped to free this part in me. My work needed to be about making a difference in the world.”


Barbara supports women though her Soul Collage workshops, talking stick workshops and connecting people with nature.


Barbara ended the interview sharing a quote from a book  by Joan Anderson called, “The Second Journey”. She said,  “It really speaks to my heart and I hope it will speak to your listeners’ as well”.


“Nothing happens over night. Developing a relationship within the unknown takes time. In doing so, the secret is granted the greatest gift of all- Clarity. I have come full-circle, yet again. I must always be willing to journey forward, spiral into the center, and then back out again. Then, and only then, will I be whole and touched with all that I am.”


“This is what I want leave the listeners with: You continually are in transition and to be open to that. It’s about going into the center and going back out again. That’s what life, and the circle of life is all about.


 You can reach Barbara through her website: www.joyfulpaws.com


This Podcast Episode is a part of the one year birthday of “Wiser and Wilder, A Soulful Path for Visionary Women Entrepreneurs.”


“Thank you for writing the book. There’s nothing like it. I’ve not come across anything like it out there about how a woman deals with their emotions and how they have to weave that, not only into their basic functions of life, but their business as well”.  Barbara Techel


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Published on May 08, 2017 03:00

May 1, 2017

Paula Nuspl: Wise Woman Space Decorator, 035

Paula Nuspl is an independent interior decorator. Her passion is helping women create living and working spaces that truly reflect who they are and what brings them joy.


Paula and I had such a fun conversation about what happens when you invite your Wise and Wild Women into your home decorating process.


Paula started her business 20 years ago. She said she always struggled with the part of interior design that felt very surfacey, and about glamour and the fashion of the moment. Plus the idea that design is solely for people who have a lot of money and can afford it, felt wrong to her.  She took a break from her business while her children were little and now that she is fully back she is creating it in her own more organic way.  Paula views home as a very sacred, supportive place that offers support to do ones work in the world.


Paula says, ” You only do your best work when when you stand fully in a place that only you can, and so often, people’s living environments and their work environments sort of happen by accident. She says, “What you teach in your book “Wiser and Wilder,”  is that when you be who you are, and you respect your Wise Woman within,  the answers are there when we’re quiet and listen.  For instance, women will know what color their walls need to be if they trust themselves”.


Paula says, “I always encourage women to create a small alter of some kind in their home from objects that have meaning for them. It could be simple things, like gifts from their kids. These are  sacred objects that bring your heart joy. When you bring those things into your home, it fills your heart. Your Wild woman is allowed to  express who she truly is and not hold herself back.


In your  book  you tell women to embrace those two sides of themselves, so that they can manifest the life that they truly want and desire. I think that’s why it spoke so much to me because I try to do that same thing within my business and creating spaces”.


Paula shared that she grew up in a family that didn’t nurture or support her artistic side. She was told to work hard to make money so she ended up in a job she wasn’t excited about.  She studied radio and broadcasting at Purdue university and  did advertising and marketing for the media for a long time and then realized that it just wasn’t creative enough for her. She was was stifling a part of herself that needed to be expressed.  She  back to school for interior decorating and learned what she already intuitively knew.


Paula says she hopes to write a book sometime about the way she now does interior decorating which involves women listening to her Wise Woman inside. “Interior decorating is really the interior of you, your inside and what you do on the outside reflects that true part of yourself. Your home, your office, where you do your business, is a sanctuary. It’s a place that you can be exactly who you are.”


Paula’s wisdom tip for listeners: you have the answers inside of you, you already do, you always have and regardless of the things that you’ve been told over the course of your life, you are enough.  Listen to what your passions are, your desires, and don’t be afraid to be the Wild Woman either. Don’t let anybody tell you can’t or that you’re not enough. No matter where you’re at in life, no matter how much knowledge you have, at that moment, wherever you’re at, you’re enough. If you just tap into her, the woman that is deep inside of you and listen to her, she will guide you, and she will always guide you in the right way.  You can connect with Paula at www.paulanusplinteriors.com


 


This Podcast Episode is a part of the one year birthday of “Wiser and Wilder, A Soulful Path for Visionary Women Entrepreneurs.”

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Published on May 01, 2017 07:00

March 14, 2017

How to Create the Life and Business You Want

If you’re like most visionary women who own a businesses, you have a life as well as a business and you also have ideals that include balancing your business with the rest of your life.


I mean- this is supposed to be one of the benefits of working for yourself- having time off when you want it, being able to hang out with your kids, be more creative….more freedom. Right?


But you may have realized that this ideal can be a challenge because even though you want it, you can get off-track so fast.



You are interesting, creative and smart and yet you tend to get caught in a tornado of swirling emotions that throw you right out into a storm that makes you feel like screaming and giving up.


Being open emotionally is such a positive trait for women, and yet like most things there is a flip side. The positive side of being emotionally wired is that you are so empathetic and caring for others. But sometimes your emotions are in response to yourself and you go to some very challenging places of fears and self-doubts.


When you can transform these emotions into intuitive awareness it’s awesome, and this is one way your Wise Women speaks to you. You feel something deeply, then you listen to her, you remember your truth, breathe  it in and take action from that place. Your attitude shifts and you feel empowered. When this happens you are on fire and joyful as you are tapping into your own inner sight and cosmic power.



The flip side is when you get lost in a tidal wave of emotion and it takes you into negative inner-self talk, addictive-default action-habits and a hopeless-disempowered state of mind.


You can lose hours and days of productive work and happiness when this happens. You say hateful things to yourself, you lose yourself into your addictions and you feel  negative and hopeless.


It’s horrible and the bane of every woman business owner. It is such a waste of your energy and yet it’s one thing you have total control over. Certainly emotions come up when you work at a job too, but really for business owners, it is like a full time personal growth workshop.


I have grown so much over the years because of being an entrepreneur since age 26. I’ve had to deal with feeling “not good enough”, low-self-worth, comparing myself to others and shame for being inept with money.


This graphic above shows the three areas I’m talking about. Here is another version of the same three areas.



Your Self-talk is your inside voice and it’s often background words throughout your day. Listen to yourself and what do you hear?  Are you being critical, abusive, shaming or judgmental or are you saying kind, loving and accepting words to yourself all day?


Your actions are often default habits and might include addictions, hiding in bed and hours on Facebook. Your healthy supportive actions are so different. They might include eating well, good boundaries around work time, doing yoga, writing- this is so personal. What are your default habits and what kind of actions will support your joyful work and healthy lifestyle?


Your state of Mind is your overall attitude. Negative or positive.  If you’re confused by what an attitude is think of a teenager with an “attitude:” cynical, uncooperative, unwilling, slugish.  That same teenager can be happy, willing, contributing, funny, smily.  Does this give you an idea? What kind of attitude do you have about yourself and your life? Can you see how it is your choice to shift your mood, regardless of what might be happening externally?


Certain things will trigger emotions:


Money stress

Feelings of failure

“Shoulds”

Overwhelm

Self-doubt


The important thing is to remember you have a choice as to how you respond. I suggest you make your own circle and divide it into three parts like the graphic above and fill it in with all your positive, healthy choices in each category. You can color it in if you are an artsy type. I’d love for you to share it with me when you are done. You can send it to me via email or if you are brave and willing, post it on my Wiser and Wilder FB group page.  If you aren’t yet a member, just ask to join.


I’ve done this activity over and over and it has helped me immensely to transmute my emotions into intuitive insight. From there it is so easy and joyful.

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Published on March 14, 2017 12:30

November 12, 2016

10 Crone Ways to Make the Biggest Difference

Hi My Dear Tribe


I feel called to write to you today.


My inner Crone has peeped around the grandma tree and encouraged me to share this in an offering of solace. If you’re like me, you are so connected to your heart and soul on the inside and yet the world outside feels very frightening right now.


How can you cope with this apparent clash of values?


I have put together 10 things you can do every day to make the biggest difference in a positive way. They came from my own Wise Crone and I am sharing them with you. Read each one slowly and turn inside and notice how it makes you feel.


1. Recognize your own power. Where does it live in your body, mind and spirit. That power is huge and you need to stand in it fully. If you could describe it what color would it be and what shape? Draw it on a paper with markers.


2. Know your dharma. This is another name for what you are meant to do here on Earth in this lifetime. What did you come here to accomplish? Own it and name it right in this moment. Add that to your paper.


3. Gather support around you; others who can see in you what you are not able to see in yourself yet. These people are your tribe and their energy will be there to guide you and help you stay focused. Write their names to help bring them in.


4. Be an activist for the change you want to see. Speak out, write, connect, perform. Whatever is your way. This is not a time to hide in your self-doubt. Self-doubt can be an indulgence and way to avoid facing your power.


5. Visualize success and do what it takes to create it. If you’ve been going around in circles and not reaching your vision and not even sure about the next steps it’s ok, but it is time now to get real help. The help you get for your business will trickle over to every part of your life. It’s so worth the investment.


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6. Build your own community and be a leader. Be seen for someone who is a person people can turn to. This means being visible and authentic with your truth and your story in a way that people are attracted to you. It is part of charisma; being real and not holding back. Do this in your way.


7. Understand how change works. It can begin with one person. Just one person can begin a movement. Something small can make huge impact.


8. Transmute your emotions into insight and transformation. Whatever you feel is all good and important and yet there is a fork in the road. One way takes you into a spiral of death and your energy goes down the drain. The other choice will bring you deep insight and from there you know what to do next.


9. Spend time in nature and this means putting your feet on Mother Earth and feeling the moon shining on your face. When you do this you realize you are part of it all. You are growing here on Earth just like the trees. Trees don’t hate or blame. They are whole.


10. Be in circles with other women (or men). We are so powerful when we are together. We can move mountains and make the sun shine brighter when we stand together.


Doing these 10 things will help you to BE who you want to be regardless of what has happened?


Are you willing to make a commitment to grow in these ways and do whatever it takes?


If you feel like you need help, Contact me. Helping you is my true path and I feel so grateful you are here!


This could be a hard four years and yet it could also be transformational for you. I’m so glad you are part of my tribe. I need you as well.


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Published on November 12, 2016 08:56

September 14, 2016

How to Run Your Business with Heart

30 years ago when I was just tip-toeing into the world of business, I never heard anyone talk about having a “Heart Centered Business”. 


It was still a thought form in the ethers and waiting to be born.  I’m totally convinced that visionary women helped bring this concept into birth.  We just could no longer do it the male way without becoming crazy women!


At that time I was hesitant to step into doing my business full-on because I thought I would have to be someone I wasn’t. The very thought of it made my inner Wild Woman feel closed in, and scared of being sucked into a vacuum of doing stuff I hated. I felt incompetent and I was afraid of begin exposed as such.


 I’ve discovered that women still feel this way! I hear it from my clients everyday!  There is a deep down embedded fear of having to be who you aren’t, in order to succeed. 


Do you ever feel these ways? 

• You are missing the entrepreneurial genes 

• You just don’t want to do all the businessy stuff as it will block your creativity  

• You would rather stay small then have to face learning all the marketing, systems, etc.


If you read my book, “Wiser and Wilder“, you know I have written a whole Chapter 4 on this topic. Well, in some ways the entire book is on this topic as this is my mission – to help women like you to let go of having that small voice and instead BE BOLD!


What does it mean to be bold? 


It means choosing to speak out and stand for your truth. Be controversial if necessary and not being afraid of being rejected. 


I heard an interview on NPR last week with a man who was explaining why your vote really doesn’t count. He supported his argument by talking about the electoral college and other logical and factual data.


I listened and realized this was bullshit!  Voting is all about energy. It means you are taking a stand and caring enough to mark your ballot. Your energy is what matters!! 


This is what the suffragettes were all about around giving women the right to vote. They were tired of having their mouths taped shut.  They knew they had opinions, missions and  wanted to be heard.


This is also what it means to have a Heart Centered Business: standing in that energy where only you can stand. Be bold, colorful and real. 


You might be feeling my energy though this writing. These thoughts are so dear to my heart.


I recently had a conversation with my friend and peer, Flora Bowely, the talented artist and art teacher. She is awesome all around and our conversation was part of her monthly Studio Diaries, a juicy collage of inspiration every month. This  video below is part of her September offering.  We talk all about these issues of growing a business with Heart, the Wise and Wild Way. Let me know how our conversation affected you and what ahas you are talking away, either in the comments below or send me an email. Love to hear your voice!



 


 

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Published on September 14, 2016 16:12

September 5, 2016

Healing Money Issues and Self-worth

As I was riding my bike to my favorite TeaShop this morning I had an epiphany of sorts. I was thinking about my Wiser and Wilder Retreat that’s happening in October. I thought about the wonderful women who have joined and the excitement I’m having in holding the space for transformation, deep sharing and for each women to receive whatever is for her highest good.


I know it will happen and it always does. There have also been a few women I’ve talked to who really wanted to come and be with us and yet were stopped by the price and based on their own situation felt that however much they wanted it, they couldn’t afford it. That phrase is so charged with energy.  It takes me right back to my own story.


If you read my book, “Wiser and Wilder“, you might remember Chapter 5 on Money Wisdom, where I transparently shared about my own money issues and challenges. It was so hard to expose my story but it was also part of my own process of pulling the last weeds out of my prosperity garden. 


I was stuck at a certain income level in my business for quite a few years. No matter how much I worked I couldn’t seem to get past about $65,000 a year, and although on some level my business was working, that income was way too low for the lifestyle I needed to sustain and the long hours I was working.  Mind you, this was gross income so my take home was much less.


I knew I needed help but felt I couldn’t pay the high prices that those really good coaches were charging. I felt I couldn’t afford to go to conferences, pay plane fare, hotels, etc.  so I stayed in that struggle place.


I remember when the ice began to crack and I began to see that my issue had nothing to do with my income or expenses. It only had to do with my mind-set. I didn’t identify as someone who was prosperous and I didn’t trust that if I borrowed money to pay for the kind of help I needed, that I would be able to pay it back. The real issue was my self-worth. I had the self-worth of a $65,000 girl who was working 24/7.


once you “see” something you can never again not see it. (1)


I remember Ram Dass sharing in one of his books about awareness and insight and how once you “see” something you can never again not see it. So once I really got it that the issue was my self-worth, I saw it everywhere and I couldn’t not face it.


I began borrowing money to get quality coaching help and tiptoed out of the mindset I had bought into for my whole life; someone who was financially disabled, not that smart and not good enough. I remember swearing and crying as though this would help. In some way it did help me to let out the emotions but I had to begin being a grown-up, prosperous business owner and believe in myself and my ability to double my income and more, if I chose to.


Some years later when I attended Andrea Lee’s Wealthy Thought Leader event, I had shifted enough to be there. Before that I wouldn’t have identified as a wealthy person and I wouldn’t have belonged. I spent over $1,000 on that trip (no plane ticket because I drove) and still worried that my husband would think it was extravagant and be upset because I put it on my credit card. But actually he believed in me more than I believed in myself.


I loved being there of course, and when she presented the ways we could work with her I wanted the top diamond program at $30,000 but there was no way I had the self-esteem to do it. Instead I chose the lowest price program and then in the end over the next few years, I ended up spending way more than I had planned.


I remembered all this while riding my bike to the TeaHouse today. I have shifted so much since those days and I no longer make a decisions just on the price or my self worth. If there is something I know will help me and it feels aligned in my soul I will figure out how to do it. Writing and publishing my book dissolved the last shreds of my fear around money and the I can’t afford it attitude. The publishing costs were much higher than I thought I could spend and yet I knew I had to do it.


Now I can see so clearly that whatever your self-worth is, your mindset goes with it, and will determine what you do, how you make decisions and the risks you will take. 


So back to my Wiser and Wilder Retreat. I can see that the women who have registered will be the perfect group, and yet I wish I could speak to the souls of those women who want to come and are still struggling the way I was. If this is you, I wish I had a magic wand to help you move through it faster and be able to join us, because I know you might arrive to the retreat feeling your own story of self-doubt or fears, but you will leave with so much more trust of who you are and what you are meant to do in the world.


Being Wiser and Wilder means:


•  Facing yourself and all the crap that holds you back from doing your real work in the world.

•  Taking risks in your own behalf and listening to your inner truth and making decisions from that place instead of your old story.

•  Rewriting your story one step at a time. 

•  Running your own business and keeping your power over decisions rather than giving it to someone else; your partner, employees, inner child

•  Finding your tribe of women who get it and will see you in your genius. 


This is part of what the Wiser and Wilder Retreat is about. There is space for you.

Contact me if you know you are meant to come. I can help you find a way.


 

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Published on September 05, 2016 15:12