The drive: What challenges have you overcome?
You’ve seen that I have overcome many challenges in my business and in my life in the last twelve years, but none more challenging than the state of my own mind.
Mental illness, in my case, in the form of self-loathing, addiction, depression, and postnatal depression that presented as anger, is something that I have experienced at various times since I was a little girl. My mental health was always something I just managed. I didn’t know I could understand it. I thought I just had to either deal with it or drug it. I didn’t know I could permanently heal from what caused it, and yet I have.
The process of studying Time Line Therapy® and Hypnotherapy requires you to practise what you learn with other students. The profound breakthroughs I experienced during that course helped me get to the root causes of my traumas and conditioning, the limiting decisions and beliefs that I was holding as truth, and it helped me to develop tools and techniques to ensure that when (not if, because there’s nothing like employment trauma to peel the layers of the onion) I have a recurrence, I am equipped to resolve it quickly with deep understanding, patience, and respect for the healing process.
For better or worse: What are the pros and cons of running your own business?
Considering that I am building a business that enables me to live location independent anywhere in the world, a pro/con dynamic is that I am doing it on my own. Yes, I have wonderful clients, and yes, I have a small, growing cohort of fabulous women in my Grounded Presence group; however, working on my business, I am on my own.
I recognise it for what it is, though. It’s a now problem, but it’s not forever. I will eventually need an assistant. I will eventually want someone else to do the marketing and social media (soon, please!). All these things come with patience and a deep belief in the work that I do. What I can be grateful for, that I didn’t have growing up, is that building my business to be location independent enables me to be at home and fully available to my children while they’re still young, at the same time as maintaining my career.
Hopes and dreams: What next?
Ohhh… I love Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals!
Mine… well, remember that Nigerian husband of mine? We’re building a house and establishing a farm in Lagos, Nigeria. Our goal is to relocate there after our youngest starts primary school. I have always had the traveller’s spirit. I want that for my children, too. I want them to live in their culture and learn their language. I want them to know their grandmother and their extended family, and to experience a country that is vastly different from Australia. Building a location-independent business gives me the freedom to live anywhere in the world – to travel, work online, and thrive by design.
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