DNP 208: Isis Woods: Live Your Purpose and Your Dream

Everybody experienced trauma at some point in his life. And this trauma would, most of the time, hold you back instead of pushing you forward. Everybody faces this struggle of handling trauma - you end up losing trust in yourself or in others, not moving on and thinking you deserve the trauma you got and it's only you who goes through it. 

What we sometimes don't realize is, we are not alone in this situation. Once you listen to other people's stories, you'll realize you're not the only one experiencing trauma. And this will help you to better handle your own and even help other people who go through it. 

That's why the perfect journey to listen to now is in this episode with Isis Brianna Woods. She had to deal with trauma at a young age but she was able to use her story to help other people and turned her purpose into profit by becoming an entrepreneur.

Isis transitioned from a kindergarten teacher to a successful entrepreneur in less than 8 months by selling Lightroom presets as a side hustle. Now, she's a Digital Guru helping others use social media platforms to effectively monetize their brands and create digital products that sell.

Here's what you missed:

Inventory of your past life

• "...every time I really got to talk to parents and I talked about their divorce and parents would tell you the tea most of them got divorced over something that had to do with money..." (02:48)
• "How could I trust myself to make decisions? If I was the same person who put myself in situations for that to happen too..." (03:37)
• "…there's a lot of decisions that she had to make that were tough because. We didn't have the money...a lot of it has come down to the fact of the lack there, of, of money." (04:18)
• "But I have realized when I have the finances and when families have the finances, they fight through a lot more things." (04:55)

This ain't my final destination

• "I would say I was doing fine. Um, and then I really, I found Lord again on my own." (08:27)
• "... the feeling of safety that came over me just to say it. And I was like, yeah, me too. That's all I said. And I burst out crying and the whole room was like, what's happening? We're hugging. Um, and I, but in that moment, I just felt empowered" (09:09)
• " in that moment I realized just the power of support and I knew I've always been that person. Like when something. Feels good to me. I want to give it to somebody else." (09:46)
• "... I'm going to get my book and I'm going to be a New York Times best seller, and I'm going to help so many people. Um, and that did not happen. The book is not written. I don't know if that's something I want to do anymore, but I'm glad that it brought me to Instagram. " (10:28)

Jumping into entrepreneurship

• "... but I feel like it's so disrespectful to God when he gives you something that you don't use it. " (11:51)
• " I was blessed enough to have two people in my life who were entrepreneurs and who are I say work" (13:47)
• "...if it won't kill you. And what's the worst that can happen?" (14:44)
• "You work more because you pour more energy into it. " (15:12)
• "I don't think it was a big jump for me because I am such a planner... So for me to go on entrepreneurship, I had a, what I would consider a pretty nice cushion to do whatever I want it to do." (15:29)
• " Like everybody's so used to sticking to the status quo and we'll have a job take sick days when you're not sick. And the principal's looking down on us, like, I know y'all were on vacation and I was just like, I don't need this. I mean, I want to enjoy my life."17:28)
• "And it wasn't until somebody deemed me, cause I was just sending them to people for free. And so my ideal to me and said, how much are your presets?" (18:57)
• "...it's $25 if you want one of them. And then if you want me to make a custom package for you, like one just for you, it'll be a hundred for three. And she paid me a hundred dollars" (19:26)
• "I stepped back from creating them and I put out a course to teach people how to make it themselves. " (19:43)

The coaching chose me

• "So I will say I did not choose coaching. Coaching chose me" (22:09)
• "And I started to realize a lot of people were again, deeming me asking me questions because I was sharing publicly my success." (23:23)
• "And I was like fine at the time. I wasn't thinking about selling my value. I was thinking about literally the time