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  • 230. You Deserve the Money with Bookkeeper Ashley Chamberlain

    230. You Deserve the Money with Bookkeeper Ashley Chamberlain
    May 28 2024

    We are going deep into your relationship to money. What I love about this interview is the discussion about the confidence, energy, and mindset someone needs to have around money to actually work well with a bookkeeper.

    Ashley Chamberlain founded Chamberlain and Good Company, a force for good, championing financial empowerment for small and mid-sized service companies with bookkeeping and fractional CFO services. Her mission is twofold to provide top notch bookkeeping services and to be a beacon of hope for those looking to take control of their financial destinies.
    If you've ever thought that you don't deserve the money you're earning or you're about what making "too much" will do to you, this is the episode for you.

    Ashley says she started her business to do what she needed at a time in her life when she didn’t know someone who could help her. She has now spent over 3,000 hours helping more than 300 single mothers get back on their feet financially.

    “Have a good accountant that you can talk these things through because sometimes you know the answer,” says Ashley. “You just need to be guided to it. That's super empowering to feel like you knew more than you thought you did.”

    When it comes to money, it’s almost like there is a worthiness block. I don’t deserve to make this much money. It’s not okay to make this much. These kinds of beliefs block you from the truth that you deserve money, you deserve to be happy, you deserve to feel abundant in your life.

    For Ashley, she says money and worthiness was deeply rooted as someone who grew up in poverty. She was told, if you have a lot of money, you aren't supposed to talk about it. That people who have more money are evil, or money can turn people into evil people.

    She also heard “that's too expensive” or “we can't afford that.”

    “Growing up with very little money, I had a really weird relationship with it,” says Ashley. “When I needed to learn more about it, there was this hesitation … am I going to become an evil person if I make good money?”

    People need to hear it's okay to make good money. It's okay to talk about making good money. There is a way to portray that you make good money and not feel icky about it.

    Everyone will have days where they aren’t feeling their best, and they might not feel “worthy.” Ashley likes to look to the past and find perspective. The Ashely of 15 years ago, was she worthy of making money? Because she’s the same person and getting better.

    “Making $12 an hour then felt like making $100 an hour now, because it was everything I needed at the time,” says Ashley. “It's all about mindset and making that first big jump to $20 an hour. ... I thought, okay, well, I'm Beyoncé.”

    In these conversations around business, the most important thing is energy you bring. If you believe you are not worthy of making a lot of money helping people, you won't make it. If you don't believe in the way that you are creating your services, you're not going to sell them. It's all about mindset and attracting those things that you want to come in.

    Connect with Ashley Chamberlain: https://www.chamberlainandgoodcompany.com/

    Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

    How to Clear a Money Fog https://sarahwalton.com/clear-money-fog/

    When Your Life Falls Apart Because of Money (And Your Career Is Born) https://sarahwalton.com/michelle/

    Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people!

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    #FinancialFreedom #MoneyMindset #AbundanceManifestation #MoneyAffirmation #ProsperityMindset #ManifestMoney #WomenInBusiness #WomenInAccounting #SalesCoach
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    35 min
  • 229. Plant Power: How One Meal a Week Makes Big Health Impact With Ali Essig

    229. Plant Power: How One Meal a Week Makes Big Health Impact With Ali Essig
    May 21 2024
    A mother of six, Ali Essig found herself in the emergency room with her husband. He’d suffered a stroke at 37. After multiple tests, the doctors found no clear answers, and they encouraged her family to avoid saturated fats, trans fats, and cholesterol and to eat more fiber. Ali dived deep into the research and found that eating a plant predominant diet would not only decrease her husband's risk of another stroke, but also decrease all types of chronic disease. You know I love to bring you women who have done something extraordinary with their own life experiences. They've taken their talent and their expertise, and they turn it into a business -- today's podcast interview will show you how true that actually is. Ali is a plant-based nutritionist and Founder of PlantWhys, where she offers busy women simple solutions to lose weight and overcome emotional eating and food addictions through positive psychology and a plant-based diet. She is also my first cousin! After her husband’s stroke, she took the piece of paper from the hospital outlining what to eat and what to avoid; it felt like a foreign language. “I was this insatiable person, just reading every single book; I read all of them,” says Ali. “I read anti-vegetarian; pro-plant based. I read all of them. I want to find the truth. I don't care what the truth is.” She found most books focused on three to six months, but she wanted to go beyond that. She wanted to see the long-term studies that would reduce heart disease. “Everything pointed to eat more plants,” says Ali. “We're not eating enough fiber, and reducing our animal consumption. And what I found too is you don't have to be perfect.” With six children, Ali needed flexibility. When it came to figuring out how to make a plant-based diet work in her home, she chose not to buy meat and dairy from the grocery store. “I can control what I can control in my in my house. And after that it's like, whatever,” says Ali. Ali said she didn’t intend to start a business from her experience, but people started asking her questions. And that led to her earning a nutritionist certification and starting a course. She says for some people, it was a great fit because they had a major life event like hers. Others wanted to lose weight. There's a lot of emotional weight that we carry. There's a lot of food addictions. There's a lot of emotional reasons we eat. Over time, Ali says her business transformed into looking at what do people need to change and let go of for an emotional reset. Ali says her favorite statistic is that if you were to switch out 3% of your animal protein with plant protein, that’s one meatless meal a week, it will decrease your risk of dying from all causes by 10%. That small little change can decrease so many things from cancer, heart disease, diabetes, you name it. Ali says what breaks her heart is when people say they went vegan for three months, and it was too hard, and they gave up. She says, why did you give up? Why can't you just keep it two meals a week? It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Ali is offering a free 30-day trial to the PlantWhys membership: https://www.plantwhys.com/offers/jYZNxfAq Connect with Ali Essig : https://www.plantwhys.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGrQa7v7G9e2m61DAT6UKKA Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: What is Emotional Eating and How Can You Stop https://sarahwalton.com/emotional-eating/ Liberate Yourself from Weight Loss Conversations https://sarahwalton.com/functional-medicine-weight-loss/ You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.) #PlantBasedDiet #PlantBased #Vegan #VeganDiet #AskExpert #NutritionCoach #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #WomenInBusiness #EntrepreneurLifestyle
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    35 min
  • 228. What to Do When ‘You Can’t Do Anything Right!’ with Coleen Greco

    228. What to Do When ‘You Can’t Do Anything Right!’ with Coleen Greco
    May 14 2024
    If you're breathing, you've probably had one of these negative thoughts: I suck, I can never do anything right. What's wrong with me? Why does everybody else know this but me? Today’s guest, Coleen Greco, is a compassionate, empathetic, and violently authentic human being. But she wasn't always like that. In many ways, she has been plagued by her own self-defeating thoughts, which she generously shares in this episode. Colleen calls herself a Joyologist. She provides mindset and nutrition coaching, as well as personal training to people who want to reclaim the joy in their life with the SNAP Method™. Note this episode has mentions of suicide. In college, Coleen says she pursued the money. She went for the highest-paying internship, earned an MBA, and started working for EMC, now Dell. She did this for 26 years. “I just woke up one day and realized this is not my life and then made it switch,” says Coleen. “I never got quiet enough with myself to realize I had another option.” Six years ago, her 10-year-old son had a suicide attempt (he was unsuccessful and is now doing well!). Coleen and her family were shattered. They struggled to find help. Coleen says she ate, drank, and gained weight. “In these types of situations, there's very little that you can control, but I can control how I respond to situations,” says Coleen. She says the nutrition coach she was working with didn’t see the connection between mindset and food choices. Coleen knew she could do it better. It was through her own healing journey where Coleen realized they had to center everything around joy. Joy became almost an obsession. “It was my choice to just see the beauty in everything, even in the darkest of moments, to be in a place of gratitude for the opportunity to change so much of what was going on,” says Coleen. It’s not that it's not painful and not that it's not real, but there's always a next. There is the ability here to choose not only what goes into your body, and how you view that choice. Coleen says the SNAP Method found her. She says when she started writing and thinking through the triggers, she realized if she was telling herself one story, then that means she could tell a different one. It’s a battle with the ego that’s trying to protect you. When the negative stories come up, and you feel triggered, that's the ego saying, here's the story. Remember, you're not smart enough. You're not good enough. And I have the evidence right here. Breaking the emotional connection to those stories and then retiring those stories is really the power. For Coleen, it was how she kept the weight off. She says food’s job is to keep you alive, but we put all these unfair expectations on food, and that's what gets us into trouble. Listen in for more about the SNAP Method and how you can use it to help rewrite the negative thoughts you tell yourself. Looking at where they came from, challenging and analyzing them can help you tell yourself a different story. Coleen has a free gift for listeners to help you CRUSH Limiting Beliefs: https://coleen-greco-joyologist.ck.page/limitingbeliefs Connect with Coleen: https://www.coleengreco.com On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thecoleengreco/ On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=547468763 Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: The 5 Stages of Healing: https://sarahwalton.com/stages-of-healing/ What is Emotional Eating and How Can You Stop: https://sarahwalton.com/emotional-eating/ You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.) #NegativeThoughts #LimitingBeliefs #NutritionCoach #AskExpert #WomenInBusiness #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #MindsetReset #FindingJoy #EntrepreneurLifestyle
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    28 min
  • 227. How to Clear a Money Fog With Mikelann Valterra

    227. How to Clear a Money Fog With Mikelann Valterra
    May 7 2024
    What can I afford? How much is enough? What is now possible? Now, these are big questions you want to be able to answer. Mikelann Valterra’s mission is to help all of us heal our relationship with money and really understand how to use it in today's world. What I hope you listen for today as we talk about her new book, Rise Above the Money Fog, is how we talk about money with our loved ones. (Check out her book here: https://www.riseabovethemoneyfog.com) Mikelann says people feel stress and anxiety over being financially vague. The money fog is this combination of the feelings we feel as a result of not being clear about our money. Fog stands for stands for when we're in fear about our money, when we're in overwhelm, or when we feel guilty around our money. “There's just all of this secrecy around money that we all carry because we have this message from childhood that says, don't talk about money,” says Mikelann. In her book, Mikelann describes three different types of families. (Listen in for their challenges!) As parents, normalize talking about money. For many, the first time they talk about money is college funding – that’s a bit late. Mikelann recommends helping children look at what they need versus what they want. List making with kids – what they want as gifts, or what they need for school – is a good way to talk about money. Then, over time, you bring your kids into family meetings. Some things cost a lot of money, and that's okay. Look at where we want to choose to put our money as a family. Mikelann says she has all her clients create needs and wants lists. “Many of us are suppressed in our needs and wants and our desires,” says Mikelann. “We have been trained to keep our needs small, and this has an impact on our relationship to money. Guilt starts to settle in of like either ‘I'm selfish for wanting it’, or ‘I should feel guilty for wanting it’ as opposed to ‘how could we make this happen?’ ” As people rise out of the money fog, they come to the place in their life where they know the answers to what they can afford, how much is enough and what's possible in their life. The problem is when transition happens, the answers to those three questions tend to change. That can catch us by surprise. And while some transitions are not voluntary (inflation, the pandemic, the economy), we still have to ask the questions. When people aren't clear about their money, it leads some people to overspend or underspend. They don't know how much is enough. They don't know what the goal is around earning. They know something's not quite working, but there's no clarity there. That's why the money fog creates so much anxiety. Mikelann says the answer to knowing how much is enough for you is to create an annual income and spending plan. “What's exciting is it's about vision,” says Mikelann. “What do you want your year to look like? And now let's put numbers in it.” She says most of the fear lies in getting to the number. But a lot of times, the number is different or lower than the what’s in her client’s heads. It’s powerful and empowering. Take the money fog quiz: https://seattle-money-coach.mykajabi.com/money-fog-quiz-ebook Connect with guest Mikelann Valterra: https://www.seattlemoneycoach.com Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: Do You Know Your Financial Personality: https://youtu.be/LCqgmcXJotM?si=ixf9XKkZ-AUuTzE4 What Women Need to Know to Manage Their Money: https://sarahwalton.com/money-management-women/ 3 Money Myths Keeping You Broke: https://youtu.be/za8Lvortnr0?si=qBroGpJDEUUXn506 You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.) #FinancialPsychology #MoneyTalk #FamilyMoney #MoneyManagement #FinancialFreedom #MoneyCoach #SalesCoach #MoneyFog #AskExpert
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    40 min
  • 226. The 5 Stages of Healing With Anat Peri

    226. The 5 Stages of Healing With Anat Peri
    Apr 30 2024

    The stories that pull at us, that keep us anxious and upset, that we tell ourselves over and over -- I'm not good enough. This isn't going to work. I've already tried this. – they all come from what we haven't healed.

    Anat Peri has dedicated her life to teaching people how to heal, specifically when it comes to generational trauma. In this episode, Anat walks us through the five stages of healing and gives us a timeline for how long it takes to truly heal.

    Anat says self-improvement found her at 25. She did her first self-development program and instantly felt at home. She loved witnessing people having breakthroughs and discovering who they really are.

    But her business wouldn’t come for another 10 years. She says she felt like an imposter at the time. But she has no regrets, she herself, was healing and seeking the tools she needed.

    “It's messy, it's uncomfortable, it's scary, it's painful,” says Anat. “It's all the fields. It's the full spectrum of our feelings and our emotions.”

    Whether you're listening in and you are on your own healing journey, or you're a practitioner and you have clients understanding the five stages is going to show you either what stages you've skipped or what the stages are to guide you.

    Stage 1: Awareness. Everyone comes with some step of awareness, but there is so much depth and exploration, even just in that stage of learning what safety strategies you use that keep you stuck. What limiting beliefs are running the show?

    If you’re on your own healing journey, use a journal to dump everything unfiltered that is showing up and triggering you. Then go back and connect the dots by circling anywhere that you wrote “I feel … I am …” which will connect you back to your inner child. Your inner child is your emotion – it’s the part of you that feels and is holding your limiting beliefs.

    Stage 2: Acceptance. This is the hardest stage for people to get past; it's the stage where people need the most support, says Anat. Acceptance means letting go that there's anything to fix or change, and most of the time there's still this programing in us who judges and wants it to change.

    For some people, it's normal for them to live in chaos and anxiety. But then, being in peace and harmony, suddenly they're hypervigilant and self-sabotage it because it's unfamiliar.

    In this stage, it's learning to observe what is happening at the level of sensation. We label things as “good or bad,” which becomes now I feel this way, how do I fix it? Instead, ask yourself where do you feel it in your body? Describe the sensation. When you speak in sensation, there is no good or bad – there just is.

    “I want you to think about acceptance like you're in the ocean … and there's waves,” says Anat. “Your role in acceptance is you're learning to ride the wave instead of being afraid of it and dunking your head under or just breathing. You're riding it. You're learning to ride the wave of your emotion.”

    Listen in for the last three stages of healing. Remember, healing takes time. It might be 18 months later and then you're good, and you don't even remember what it was like to be that other person.

    Connect with guest Anat Peri: https://www.trainingcampforthesoul.com

    Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

    Committing Until It Takes with Kimberly Spencer
    https://sarahwalton.com/business-commitment/

    Sick of People Pleasing? Childhood Trauma Might Be The Source with Kalpa Gupta
    https://sarahwalton.com/people-pleasing-trauma-response/

    You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton

    Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people!

    (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.)

    #StagesOfHealing #InnerChild #Reparenting #HealYourInnerChild #AskExpert #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #WomenInBusiness #HealingJourney
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    50 min
  • 225. Recognizing Your Self Worth When Things Feel “Too Hard” With Tiffany Houser

    225. Recognizing Your Self Worth When Things Feel “Too Hard” With Tiffany Houser
    Apr 23 2024
    Only you can compromise your self-worth. No one else can. This isn’t about your compensation or competence; we're talking about your intrinsic belief in yourself that you are worthy and valuable as a human being. Self-worth is often used incorrectly in the entrepreneurial world; we say things like “charge what you're worth.” (I’ve done it, too!) But you are a human being. Your worth is invaluable. As an executive and leadership coach and entrepreneur, Tiffany Houser knows firsthand about the rollercoaster ride of self-worth. As the founder of EVOLVE, Tiffany coaches senior leaders who are ready to experience powerful breakthroughs around their self-worth, authentic leadership style, vision, and purpose. “What gets a lot of us, if not all of us through change, is our worth and our value to know what has us resist change and what has us embrace change,” Tiffany says. “But then when we really looked at the behavior, the habits and all of the research that was going into this, we started to see it was our self-worth. It was how we valued our self, what we thought about ourself, how we treated ourselves.” Tiffany says compassion is rarely talked about in the workplace. It is an advantage to understand your own experience with self-worth. Those feelings of being an imposter, insecure, self-doubt or fear are nuanced for the individual. Her team looks at first is language and how we are speaking, writing, reading and even listening. These words are what is poking holes and having us compromise our own self-worth. What Tiffany tends to hear is, “Oh, I've been treated this way, or I have been passed over for this and no one has hired me for that, or I can't get my team to do XYZ.” That has nothing to do with your self-worth, your value or your impact, your contribution. You're either compromising your self-worth or you're grounded in your self-worth – there is no positive or negative. Tiffany helps to support people with neutralizing their language and their words. The number one word is “hard”. It’s too hard. Hard is a throwaway word. Your subconscious is using that without even really being descriptive about what is going on. The way Tiffany supports leaders or teams is to have them get specific. What exactly is hard? Tell me more. Think about all the teams and all the entrepreneurs that have thrown the baby out with the bathwater because of hard. They walk away from investments. They walk away from people. They walk away from clients. They walk away from opportunities. Because one aspect of that was not easy. Or maybe you just didn't have all the context around what that was. This is a lifelong journey of transformation, leadership and knowing your worth and value because the biggest things that evoke and provoke your imposter feelings and your insecurities are change and new. The world is constantly evolving around us and that's where that compassion piece comes back into play. So rather than beating yourself up, you get compassionate. And when you are compassionate with yourself and other people, that births curiosity rather than judgment or pressure. Mentioned: Self Worth Advantage® Online Course: https://www.selfworthadvantage.com/offers/29LBSesk/checkout Connect with guest Tiffany Houser: https://www.selfworthadvantage.com Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: Coaching the Unconscious Mind: Unlock Your Genius: https://sarahwalton.com/coaching-unconscious-mind/ Why You Shouldn't Under-Price Your Work: https://www.youtube.com/live/Hm0DhT4Lo88?si=5HFXzsMNCCJ616SV You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.) #SelfWorth #SelfConfidence #ImposterSyndrome #AskExpert #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #WomenInBusiness #EntrepreneurLifestyle
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    39 min
  • 224. Master the Art of Hiring with Jamie Van Cuyk

    224. Master the Art of Hiring with Jamie Van Cuyk
    Apr 16 2024

    If you start a small business, you're the one doing everything and it takes a lot of courage and a lot of trust to start to turn things over to someone else. Today’s guest will share three steps to help you delegate and hire the right people.

    Jamie Van Cuyk, the owner and lead strategist of Growing Your Team, helps women who own small businesses become confident leaders who hire right every single time.

    Drawing from over 15 years of leadership experience, Jamie teaches her clients how to master the art of hiring. By learning the dynamics of each company and their specific needs, she helps them find their perfect-fit, long-lasting team members and avoid the hiring and firing cycle.

    Jamie’s journey to entrepreneurship wasn’t a straight line. She learned everything she could about running a business while still in corporate. She went into management to learn how to manage people and took on special projects to gain insight into other departments.

    When Jamie quit her job, she chose to try to start a software development company on the side while she cared for her young daughter. She did not know how to program, but her husband did.

    She lasted six months learning to program before she realized it wasn’t for her.

    “I realized I loved consulting,” says Jamie. “The main projects that I ended up working on were all around leadership development. One was a big training program for some of their leaders, and another one was helping a first-time manager really come fully into their role.”

    She had a Chamber of Commerce membership, and she started networking with small business owners attending those events.

    “I kept hearing over and over again that hiring was their number one problem,” says Jamie. Her plan was to help corporate clients, but she heard again and again the need for hiring solutions at a small business level.

    Her business now focuses on hiring, education and really focusing on narrowing down to that ideal candidate and making sure the business owner has what they need to find that candidate.

    Even with this service offering, Jamie had to change her mindset and realize that she too could delegate tasks and enhance her offerings.

    Jamie outlines three steps to build trust when hiring a candidate to delegate your tasks to.

    Be clear on who you’re going to hire. How are they going to fit into your organization? What is the expected communication style? Who are you as a manager? What does it mean for someone to be successful in this role?
    Set up a hiring process that brings you directly to your ideal candidate. You need to be specific. It's okay with your job posting to turn people off.
    Onboarding takes time. The onboarding path and timeframe will look different for every position, but you have to train on all your expectations. Keep that in mind is even if someone is an expert at what they do and they're bringing their expertise to your business, you have to teach them how to do it inside your organization.

    It's that constant feedback loop and being able to let them do small things incrementally until they figure out how to do it the way you want it done.
    Connect with Jamie Van Cuyk: https://growingyourteam.com

    Jamie’s hiring checklist: https://growingyourteam.com/hiring-checklist/

    Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

    What Workplace Culture Really Means
    https://sarahwalton.com/workplace-culture/

    Do You Know Who Your Team Is?
    https://youtu.be/9ax9hDZQZ3I?si=iSkNYpmZeXxwA9dB


    You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton

    Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people!

    (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.)

    #HowToHire #BuildATeam #HRPartyOfOne #HireTheBest
    #HumanResourcesTips #Hiring #AskExpert #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #SalesCoach
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    35 min
  • 223. Feeling Stressed? Catch Your Breath with Harmony Slater

    223. Feeling Stressed? Catch Your Breath with Harmony Slater
    Apr 9 2024

    With stress management and spiritual wellness techniques, Harmony Slater is focused on supporting spiritually curious entrepreneurs with science backed Wu to eliminate burnout.

    If you're running a business and you're feeling the day-to-day stress Harmony gives us tangible, workable tips in this episode that you can start using right away for free.

    Harmony is a National Board-Certified Health Coach, trained in Quantum Coaching and in the Mastery Method. She's also Certified Ashtanga Yoga Teacher, one of less than 20 women in the world to hold this honor, after training in India for 15 years.
    Harmony says she has always felt a deep spiritual connection. She recalls her mother taking her to various churches, teaching her how to meditate and about yoga.

    “It felt like for me that this idea of God, a higher power, was very much just normal and something that was real. … But also there was a keen understanding that that doesn’t always show up in one way,” says Harmony.

    Her journey took her to China to study Buddhism and India where she learned about Indian philosophy, culture and practicing yoga.

    “I think that you can connect to something that really feels like it's from your heart, and it doesn't have to be the same as someone else, but that the principles are the same, right?” says Harmony.

    There are heart-centered emotions and values such as love, peace, goodwill, generosity, courage and compassion that every religion talks about.

    Harmony says the idea of going it alone – that you have to do everything yourself and work hard feeds into the myth that the harder you work, the more you’re going to get and the more successful you will be.

    But this creates a disconnect. It keeps us in a constant state of fight or flight. You start to see division and sides and it creates all kinds of chaos, physically in our bodies and mentally and emotionally in our experience of the world and with each other.

    For example, if you’re in a fight or flight state because you’re stressed out at work and then you get cut off in traffic, your response might be over the top.

    Overstimulation, hypervigilance, fear of the future and the desire to change the past can have a direct effect on our nervous system. It can reinforce the idea that you’re not safe and affect your trust in yourself, your decisions and can ramp up stress.

    Breathwork is powerful. It's in control of our heart rate, our digestion, reproduction activities, and hormones.

    Our breath is the one function we have control over, explains Harmony. Our inhale is connected more to a sympathetic state. It's leading, it's expansive, it's energizing. The exhale is connected to that surrender, that resting, that relaxation, the parasympathetic state.

    People reflect and mirror each other because we have this awareness of what someone else's energy is like, says Harmony. We co-regulate. If you're someone who is in that beautiful state feeling relaxed and calm -- you're automatically more attractive to everyone around you. They want to be near you because they just feel better by being in your presence.

    Download Harmony’s guided audio for a two-minute breathwork exercise and check our her course on Ancient Breathing: https://harmonyslater.com/ancient-breathing-2-0
    Connect with Harmony Slater: https://harmonyslater.com/

    Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

    Curious About the World of Spiritual Energy?
    https://sarahwalton.com/karen-foote/

    World Events, Stress & Your Ambition — How They Go Together
    https://sarahwalton.com/stress-ambition/

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