January 10, 2024 • 46 mins
Have you ever wondered what it takes to become the hero of your own story? Emily from the "Empower with Em" podcast joins us to shed light on how she transformed her life from feeling stuck in an unfulfilling career to launching her own spirited coaching business. Emily is a trailblazer who embraced the unknown by stepping out & listening to the whisper of her intuition! We talk about the importance of KNOWING YOUR SUPERPOWERS & taking leaps of faith!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, girlfriend, welcome to Journey to Limitless
Podcast.
Together on this show, we areon a mission to build belief in
ourselves and live a life offreedom, despite what tries to
hold us back.
I'm your host, court, anempowerment coach, travel
enthusiast and a chronic illnesswarrior who, over the last
seven years, has built a lifethat I am so obsessed with and
proud of.
But it definitely has not comeeasy.
(00:25):
So on this show, we're going tokeep it real as we talk about
adapting positive mindsetsthrough hardship, taking action
towards our dreams and findingpeace and freedom from hustle,
culture and chronic stress.
Are you with me?
Let's get going on your ownJourney to Limitless.
Welcome back to another episodeof Journey to Limitless.
Thank you for joining.
I'm Courtney, your host andtoday's episode.
(00:47):
You're going to find a lot ofempowerment in this episode
because we have Emily on thepodcast.
Emily is the host of theEmpower with M podcast and she's
here to help us become our ownsuperhero in our life, because
the reality is no one's comingto save us.
We have to be the ones to takeaction.
We have to be the ones toovercome the fears and let go of
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the limiting beliefs in orderto create the lives that we
really want to for ourselves.
So I think that you're going tolove this episode.
Emily is sharing with us howshe has become a woman who helps
other women start businesses,and how she really followed the
curiosities of starting herpodcast, which has led her to a
path that she didn't evenrealize was possible for her,
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and we also talked about herrecent travels in Canada, where
she left her home country ofAustralia, followed the
curiosity of that and solotraveled in Canada for six
months.
We talked about the lessonsthat she's learned and what
really has came from thatexperience.
So I think you're going to lovethis episode and if you do, you
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And before we jump into theepisode, I wanted to make sure
that I reminded you aboutjourney to limitless the
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community.
It is the community space forjourney to limitless podcast
listeners and women who aregetting behind the mission here,
which is to break the cyclesthat are holding us back and not
letting our circumstances holdus back from the lives that we
want to live, full of freedom,joy and confidence.
So it is a free community space.
So we have a WhatsApp group.
We also host monthly events.
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So this past Jan well, this pastweek we hosted a welcome 2024
event and I'm planning out somereally epic events coming up.
So we have a breathwork comingup and then we also have some
other workshops and just minglesand stuff.
So different ways to connect inthe community space.
So it is a free space.
So if you are looking for morecommunity in your life and for
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women to really support yourdreams, this is going to be a
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So head to the show notes andfind the link to join the
community there and I lookforward to seeing you in there
and we'll go ahead and jumpright into the episode.
Welcome, emily, to Joining toLimitless podcast.
(03:21):
I'm so excited to have youtoday.
We have connected through theDMs recently and I just think
that your story just reallyaligns with what we're about
here.
So really honored to have you.
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Thank you, I'm so excited to be here.
I can't wait to dive into ourconversation.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, so, yeah.
So today's episode is really astory of becoming our own
superhero and living a life thatis an alignment for us, and can
you just tell us first of alljust a little bit more about you
, like where you're from, whatyou're currently doing, and then
what has your journey tolimitless really looked like?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah Well, it's been a couple of years that I've
probably intentionally been onthis journey.
Now, on December of this year,it'll be three years that I've
been in business and I'd saywhen I really did first take
that leap into starting mybusiness was probably where I
really would consider fullyleaning into my journey to
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becoming limitless.
So it was probably around Julyof 2020.
At the time I was 22 years oldand I was studying my Masters of
Architecture and I was alsoworking a job in the
architecture industry and atthat time I was just
experiencing this insane amountof emotional turmoil within
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myself.
I was so unhappy in the degreethat I was in.
I was so unhappy going to the95 job that I was going to
Beautiful environment, beautifulpeople but I just deep down
felt like I was on a path thatwas not meant for me and this
was a path that I had beenfollowing since graduating high
school.
So I had been really committedto this path for the last five
(05:00):
years of my life.
I had spent thousands andthousands of dollars on
university tuition and thousandsof hours slaving away to.
You know, get to that point inmy degree and I was kind of
reaching a breaking point whereI took an intentional moment to
pause and question why am Ifeeling the way that I'm feeling
and how do I want to be feeling, moving forward from there?
(05:23):
And so it was at that pointwhere I really realized I needed
to take control of my life, andthat meant changing the path
that I was on with my career.
At the time, I didn't know thatI was going to start a coaching
business specifically, but I hadmy podcast, which is the
Empower them podcast that I hadbeen building as a passion
project just around documentingmy own personal development
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journey, and that was the thingthat was lighting me up.
That was the thing that I wasexcited to be building, that I
wanted to be building, and so Idecided to start to build an
online community around that,and through doing that, I then
ended up aligning myself withthe coaching industry, and so it
was about 90 days I gave myselffrom that point of deciding
(06:09):
that I did not want to be in thearchitecture industry anymore,
that I wanted to drop out of mydegree.
I gave myself 90 days to get myshit together, essentially, and
so by the end of those 90 dayswe rolled up to around December
I decided it was time to hand.
In my letter of resignation Iwas pulling the plug on that
path that I was on and I wasgoing all in on starting a
(06:31):
personal development coachingbusiness, and so that was really
where I had to push myself tostep into a limitless mindset
because I knew I had massivegoals for what I wanted to
achieve in that space.
I had never run a business youknow of my own like that before.
I had never even coached anyonebefore, you know and I knew
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that I had to put myself in alimitless mindset in order to
succeed.
So I did that.
I did everything I could toreally frame my mindset as I was
taking that leap out of my nineto five job and into doing my
business full-time.
And eight months later I hitsix, six figures in my business
and I largely, largely put thatdown to the limitless mentality
(07:13):
that I really pushed myself toembody during that transition
yeah, so it really started withyour podcast.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So I kind of want to talk with you there, because I
know that there is somebodylistening who is maybe in a job
right now that isn't feelingaligned and they're kind of
afraid to follow the cure, thecuriosities, because maybe
they're afraid of putting themthemselves out there, they're
afraid that they're going tofail.
They're afraid of, you know,just doing something and maybe
not liking it right, and so Ijust kind of want to understand,
(07:43):
like your mentality when itcame to starting your podcast,
like what was that whole processlike for you?
Because it truly again the thepower of listening to your
curiosities.
You started that podcast and itpropelled you into this
direction that you couldn't haveeven imagined for yourself.
So, yeah, can you break thatdown for us?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
well, when I started my podcast, I definitely did not
see it going in the directionof the business that I started.
At that time I had been likedabbling in network marketing
and that was really where I gotmy first exposure to the online
business space, and so there wasso much personal development
involved in that type ofbusiness structure that that's
what prompted me to really startthat podcast, because I was
(08:20):
like, well, there's so manyother people my age, younger,
older, like there's just so manypeople in that network
marketing community that are onthe same sort of journey, and so
I figured, well, if I couldshare my story with them, share
my personal growth experienceswith them, then you know I'm
going to feel like I'm making apositive contribution and what
goes around comes around right.
(08:41):
So I wasn't really thinking, oh, I'm going to start this
podcast to make money.
It was more I'm going to startthis podcast to serve and create
those connections.
So if you are like reallyleaning towards trying something
new, maybe exploring a newcareer path or starting a
passionate, passion project ofsome sort, just don't place
pressure on yourself.
I never put any heavyexpectations around the podcast
(09:04):
for it to have to be anything,you know, and so I just gave
myself that space to experimentand have fun with it, and and I
backed myself in doing so aswell.
Right, of course, there's goingto be fears that come up in the
process.
A big one, particularly for mewhen I was starting my podcast,
was the fear of judgment.
Right, because you know how itis we're laying ourselves out
(09:25):
there and anyone can get accessto this stuff, and I was
thinking, what if my co-workersfind this, or what if my uni
friends find this, or what if myboyfriend finds this right?
And so there was that fear ofjudgment, of like, what are
other people going to think ifthey see me doing this?
And so I had to release thatjudgment and any other fears
that would come up as well.
So then I could fully embracethat opportunity and that
(09:48):
experience.
And maybe you are interested intrying podcasting for yourself,
but then through trying that,you discovered that that's not
fully for you.
You should be proud of yourselffor trying.
Anyway, that was me withnetwork marketing.
That was the first businessmodel that I really tried in the
online space and I gave it ashot, but it turned out that it
wasn't for me.
(10:08):
But because I started networkmarketing, I then started my
podcast and then I started mybusiness.
So by giving something a try,it's going to open you up to
other opportunities that maybeyou otherwise wouldn't have
become in alignment with.
So remove that pressure offyourself.
Don't place expectations.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Be open to giving it a try and just release whatever
fears you need to in order tofully embrace what it is that
you want to do yeah, oh my gosh,I feel like I can see so much
of my story in yours, because I,first of all, I actually
started a blog back in 2020because I was like I just want
to document my health journeyand then, through that, I wrote
(10:46):
one blog and I was just like Ihate writing, like this is not
for me.
And then when I found the potlike found, you know, found the
idea to start a podcast, it justfelt like a yes for me, even
though I had no idea where Iwanted it to go.
And again it me showing up andpodcasting and helping people.
And I found the love forhelping people and that
(11:08):
propelled me into becoming acertified life coach.
So I feel like podcasting iteither.
I mean, either way, it's allfeedback.
Right, it's either you.
You try it and you decide like,oh yeah, maybe I don't really
like this, that's feedback.
That's like, oh, okay, so youmaybe don't want to speak, maybe
you want to share in adifferent platform.
Nothing is a failure.
(11:30):
I don't know where, along alongour human journey as a society,
we came to the conclusion thattrying something and it not
working out is a failure,because I think trying things is
a part of the human experience.
We do not know whether we likethings or not unless we try them
, but for some reason our egoand society tells us that we are
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just supposed to know what wewant to do, and that's just not
the way that it is, you know,yeah exactly that.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It's kind of like dating when you think about it
right like you're not going tofind the perfect partner the
very first time that you know,the very first time you go out
on a date with someone, becauseyou don't necessarily know what
you like, what you're lookingfor and all of that.
But through going on multipledates, trying multiple people,
you're going to become clearerand clearer and clearer on who
that ideal partner is that youare looking for.
(12:18):
And it's the same with business, it's the same with anything
your hobby is, you know,whatever it is in life.
You've got to try multiplethings to gain the full
understanding around what you dowant, what you don't want and
then it actually cut you off aminute there.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So can you just repeat that, so can you just say
it's going really well.
But I think when you said, it'skind of like dating, and then
can you just give us that wholespiel again because it like
completely cut out.
So sorry, yeah you're a good.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
It's kind of like dating when you think about it.
Right, you're not going to goon your very first date and all
of a sudden know that that's theexact person that you want to
spend the rest of your life with.
If that's the only personyou've ever connected with,
you've got to put yourself outthere.
You've got to explore optionsand discover what do you want,
what don't you want, until youreally can get clear on who is
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our perfect partner and who isan alignment with that.
And so it's the same when itcomes to business or starting
any projects, you really need tobe gaining that experience for
yourself, right, in terms ofgiving different things to try,
giving different things a taste,seeing what you do like, seeing
what you don't like and thennavigating from there.
It's the same way that you knowthrough um, testing out network
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marketing and a couple of otherdifferent business ventures in
my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Then was I able to discover, okay, I do want this
or I don't want that, and I wasable to then align with where it
is that I know, and it is justremoving that like societal
expectation, because I think alot of people get caught up who
you know, are in their 30s ortheir mid 30s and they're like
I'm still in this trial anderror period, like when am I
going to figure out what I wantto do?
(13:58):
And it's just like againsurrendering to the process and
not putting the expectation and,uh, just getting rid of the
societal expectations of likeyou need to know what you want
to do by age 30.
Like I'm almost 30 well, I'llbe 30 next year and I'm like I
don't know what I'm doing.
I don't know.
Yeah, I'm like having a crisisand I'm like I just have to
surrender to the process of I'min trial and error period and
(14:19):
like that's so OK, yeah, exactly.
So you talk a lot aboutbecoming your own superhero.
Like what does that mean?
And how can people really startto show up as their own
superhero in their own life?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah Well, it's really interesting.
So this year, at the start ofthis year, I decided to start
seeing a psychologist becausethere's a lot of baggage that I
just wanted to work through frompast relationship that I was in
that was really triggeredthrough that situation and a lot
of it really came back towanting to work on my
self-esteem and really buildthat in new ways.
(14:55):
And there was actually thisexercise that my psychologist
got me to do one session whereit was sitting down and while we
were on the call, I had to drawmyself as a superhero and then
I had to explain what it wasthat I drew, why it is I drew
myself that way and so on, andit was a really powerful
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exercise to do.
I know it sounds so childish ina sense to sit there with some
textors and some pencils anddraw yourself as a superhero,
but what that really enabled meto do was tap in and connect
deeper to myself and actuallystart to identify what are those
qualities about me that areactually my superpowers, that I
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want to be able to celebratemore and leverage more and just
recognize more.
So it's a really simpleexercise that you can do for
yourself and it was massive forme, because it really allowed me
to just sit and recognize howpowerful I am as an individual
and what it is that I really dohave to offer and bring to
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everyone that I work with,anyone that I'm in a
relationship with, myfriendships, my family, all of
it.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, I love that so much because I think a lot of
times we as humans, I think westruggle with taking action,
because I think that there's adoubt that we can actually make
something of it, and I thinkalso, I think a lot of times
people think that it will justhappen for us and the reality is
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that we are the only personthat can change our life.
We are the only person that canbring our dreams into life.
And I love what you also saidabout finding your superpowers,
because I think that's just agood thing to always know about
yourself, to always reflect on,because it can be so easy to be
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in the self-loathing cycle offeeling like we have nothing to
bring to the table.
But if you're a generous human,if you deeply listen to people,
if you have the power to makepeople feel seen, there are so
many superpowers that you canleverage in your life and really
create something, really usethose superpowers to your
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advantage and really hone themin and create something magical
and really live your purposethrough that.
But I think it's becoming clearof what do you bring to the
table, what superpowers do youhave in you?
Naturally, it isn't alwayslooking for something outside of
us.
We have it within us.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's it, and we're all so unique as well, and when
we're so focused on what someoneelse has, it can really put us
in this mentality of what welack and we become very scarce.
We focus on wow, courtney, hasthis, that, and that I mean that
devalues me because I don'thave any of those things, and we
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get into this veryself-critical mentality.
So, when we can be reallyintentional about actually
reflecting and connecting withwhat are these things that are
unique to me, what are thesestrengths or skills that maybe I
carry that are different fromwhat you, courtney, have to
offer to the rest of the world,and how can I leverage what I
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have and bring that in serviceof others or even just in
service of yourself?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, and I think what you said is it can be so
easy to look at other people andsee their power, see their
skills, and be like, oh, I don'thave that, so I have nothing to
offer.
When it's like, reality is theperson that you're comparing to.
They also have weaknesses thatlikely are your strengths
sometimes.
So I think it's always justreminding ourselves of that is,
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every single person that weadmire also has weaknesses.
No single person is just onthis pedestal and is above
anyone else, and then I justlove the whole superhero of OK.
So what are my superpowers?
What are the things that peopletell me that they appreciate
about me?
What are the things that Iappreciate about me?
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I'm really good at like reallybecoming clear on that, because
I think that's a confidenceboost thing too.
Always just really important toremind ourselves Completely
agree, yeah, so recently you arecurrently in Arizona, but you
have been.
You're from Australia, butyou've been on this side of the
world in Canada and the US forfour months now.
(19:22):
Yeah, about that, yeah, so talkto us about that journey of
picking up your life and movingacross the world for four months
and, just you know, reallydiving into your journey here.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, it's been a pretty wild journey, to be
honest, and it's crazy that,like, this whole period of
travel that I've been in isstarting to actually come to an
end, because I feel like I wasso focused on getting to this
place for so long that it'sfunny how you get there and then
time all of a sudden flies andit's like you're blinked and
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it's over.
So it was really last year.
I went through a very heavyrelationship, one that was like
very narcissistic and had a lotof like mental and emotional
abuse.
That was really experiencedthroughout that and I remember
getting towards the end of likeleaving that relationship and
all of a sudden I felt thismassive pool to start like
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traveling and exploring theworld and just breaking outside
of that.
You know that that nest that Ihad been in my whole life.
Right, because I moved out ofthat relationship and had to
move back in with family while Iwas trying to reground myself
and refine my feet, andnaturally I had my business,
which I had been building for acouple of years, and so there
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was a level of like freedom thatmy business had already had
created the potential to be ableto afford me, and for a very
long time, like even when I hadfirst started my business, I
knew that travel was somethingthat I wanted for myself, but
then, as circumstances would youknow unfold, I never really
fully ended up embodying this.
So I had just gotten out of thisrelationship, I wasn't tied
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down to anyone or any leaseanywhere or any job anywhere for
that matter, and so I had thisopportunity that I was like I
need to grab this and I need torun with it.
So I decided that I wanted topack up my life in Australia,
travel over to Canada and justgo abroad for up to six months,
because that was the duration ofthe visa that I had gotten for
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myself, and so I left it veryopen and I wanted to just step
into a season of solo travel, sothen I could fully come back to
myself, start to heal my energy, start to experience life more,
start to embrace and like fullyum, I guess embody the freedom
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that the lifestyle, freedom thatmy business has afforded for me
and, above all, I think, justlike finding joy in life again.
Right, because it was a verylong time where I actually felt
like all the joy had been takenout of me, and so it was such a
big thing for me to just be ableto lean into that season of
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solo travel and and just openmyself up to whatever it is it
was going to bring me.
And so that brings us to today,where I'm heading home in about
10, 9 or 10 days from now, andI feel like all of those things
that I really wanted to gainfrom this travel experience I've
been able to gain, as well asso much more that I didn't even
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expect um for it to bring.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, wow, I mean, I'm such an advocate for solo
travel if you've listened to afew episodes um, I, I'm a solo
traveler as well, so I justalways love like hearing about
other people's stories of solotravel, because it truly is.
If you want to empower yourselfas a woman, I understand it can
be really, really scary to solotravel, but I feel like solo
travel like I don't know ifthere's anything else that I've
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experienced in my life that isas empowering as solo travel.
Maybe you can relate to that.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I can agree completely, because before I
actually came away to do thesolo travel, I had never done
any in my life before, and soI'm 25 now and this was the
first time where I was reallylike stepping out onto my on my
own, um, and for me there waslike a lot of fears around, a
lack of self-trust.
You know.
There was a lot coming up inthe way of feeling like am I
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going to be able to carry myselfthrough this experience?
Am I going to stay afloatfinancially?
Is my business going to crash?
Like all these different fears.
Will I be able to navigatearound a foreign country?
Like you know, I was reallybeing flooded with every fear
that was trying to keep me inthat security blanket of my home
.
Um, but I knew what I needed wasto actually step out and go do
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that solo travel to prove tomyself that, hey, I can do this.
And the thing is like I hadproven to myself in so many ways
that I can be independent, Ican, you know, get resourceful
and create things like.
I was able to prove so much ofthat to myself through my
business before I even startedtraveling but, honestly, just
having stepped out into a worldor into an environment where I
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don't have my friends, I don'thave my family, I don't have the
um comfort of a regular routine.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
It just even further strengthened that self-trust
that I was looking for it tostrengthen and when it came down
to going, did you have anyonein your life that was like don't
do it?
Like what are you doing?
You're crazy my mom.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Of course, I feel like all moms are very much like
that, um, but she's, you know,real home body, never been the
type that really wants to gooverseas herself and, you know
very much, is the type thatcradles her children also.
So she was flooding, floodedwith all these fears of like, oh
, my baby is leaving, she'sgoing into a different country.
I can't protect her.
So I very much understood whereshe was coming from with her
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concerns but nonetheless, like Iwas in such a state of mind
where I knew deep down like itis what I needed to do for
myself, and I could acknowledgeher concerns and, rather than
embodying them, I just kind oflike put them in the back of my
head as like something to justbe conscious of and aware of.
Right, like, of course, strangerdanger being in different
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countries.
I mean being in the US.
Obviously there's guns you'reallowed to carry around here and
that's something that is soforeign in Australia and so
naturally it's like you couldfocus on that and be scared of
that, or you could put it in theback of your mind and just have
it as an awareness andsomething to be cautious and
conscious of as you do go around.
So, all of those fears that youknow she sort of did have
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around my travels, rather thanallowing me to hold them back, I
took them as like a pinch ofsalt, as something that it's
like right, this is good for meto have in my awareness, but
it's also not something thatneeds to limit me because, like
you know, the fear doesn't needto speak louder than the reality
of the situation totally andalso the more that you do things
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that are true for you.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
First of all, that builds your confidence in
yourself.
And also what I found in mylife I've been, I've been
traveling.
My mom, like has never left theeast coast.
My mom's never been on anairplane um the east coast of
the USA.
And I mean I've been travelingfor eight and a half years now
and the first trip that I tookwhen I was 20 years old was like
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a cross-country road trip and Imean I had my parents talking
all the fears into me.
But when you just come back toyourself and you're like there's
something in me that is tellingme to do this, you have to
listen to that and yes, you cantake these things and be like
okay, thanks for bringing thatinto my awareness, that you know
, make sure that I carry mace,make sure that I carry a flat
(26:41):
tire like a fixed flat tirething in my car.
Like, make sure all thesethings, yeah, make sure I.
You know, just take care.
You know I'm being cautious andeverything, but like you cannot
let these things hold you back.
Um, and I noticed that the morethat I do this as an adult.
Like I just went to Greece soloback in March and this time my
parents were just like all right, be safe, because they know
(27:04):
that I'm gonna listen to myself,they know that I'm going to be,
they know that I'm gonna be assafe as I can be and that them
telling me not to do it, justlike that's not gonna, that
doesn't work anymore.
You know, yeah, I completely.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I think I feel like that's a big um thing, you know,
connecting when you arebuilding yourself trust,
naturally, like your intuitionbuilds with that as well, and so
something that I've been reallyconscious of as I've been
traveling is like listening tomy intuition, listening to those
gut feelings.
If I feel like I'm in asituation that doesn't feel safe
, remove myself, like listen tothat sign, that signal that your
(27:38):
intuition is giving you, andwhen you really do have that um
level of self trust, you're thengoing to trust those feelings
and you're going to be able totake the action to remove
yourself from situations youdon't want to be in.
Or even, I think like one ofthe biggest things when it does
come to fears, especially aroundtraveling with a business, is
that fear of well, what if I runout of money?
What if I you know what if myclients um start dropping off?
(28:03):
What if I then can't carrymyself forward from there?
And what is really funny isstepping into these travels.
That was one of the biggestfears I had was okay, well, I'm
not going to be in a stableenvironment, so what happens if
my income stops rolling in?
And then it actually hit apoint in my travels, where I
made the decision to stopsigning clients, I was like you
(28:26):
know what?
I'm here in this foreigncountry, I've been traveling and
working for two months.
I've got two more months of youknow, back to back travel
that's ahead of me and I justfelt deep within my gut that I
didn't want to be doing salescalls.
And so there's that fear part ofmy brain that's saying no, you
need to keep doing sales callsbecause otherwise you're going
(28:46):
to run out of money.
But there was this uh, it wasmy intuition was calling me to
actually put a halt on scalingmy business and putting a halt
on hard selling and just fullygive myself space to just be
here in this experience oftraveling and soaking up
everything that it has to offerthat's outside of business.
So I found it really funny whenI recognized that, hey, the
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thing that was a fear in theback of my mind when I was
stepping into this travel.
I have actually said stuff youfear, I'm going to do this thing
anyway because I don't want tobe selling and I trust that the
money's still there, I stillhave enough.
I will still be able to call inmore when and if I need it and
because of that deep sense ofself-trust, I then was able to
(29:32):
give myself space to take likean entire month off of business,
essentially right.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
So I think that was a really powerful like
breakthrough of my own that Ireally came to in these travels
and purely because I openedmyself up to these experiences
yeah, and I've seen you knowfrom a lot of other business
coaches or you know people inbusiness that I've watched is
that all the same, A lot oftimes that the more that they
travel, the more that they takespace, the more money they
(29:58):
actually make.
Yeah, that's good, becauseultimately a lot of us who I
mean I'm building a coachingbusiness as well, I mean I'm not
anywhere at the spot where I'mready to go full time yet at all
, but like that's the dream.
And I think a lot of times whenwe see people like, oh, she's
taking a month off of herbusiness, traveling, like I want
(30:18):
, I want what she's having, Iwant to be a part of that.
Like you're embodying you'renot just like you're not just,
you know, stuck into the workand showing you know you're
showing that it gets to be both.
Like you get to be wildlysuccessful and you also can take
time off of your business andenjoy yourself.
Like that's ultimately whatpeople want.
I know for me, I don't want togo full time in my business so I
(30:40):
can be stuck to my computer allthe time.
I want to be full time in mybusiness because I want to have
this space and the capacity tobe able to go, you know, be a
digital nomad and travel theworld.
Like that is the mostattractive thing for me, and I
know that someone else who'slistening to this podcast feels
the same way.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So, yeah, so yeah, that's exactly it.
Oftentimes we're in business tocreate that freedom for
ourselves.
I know, when I first started mybusiness, I started it because
I wanted lifestyle freedom.
I wanted to be able to go anddo what I want when I want to be
able to experience travelingthe world and so on.
But then our fears can reallyget us stuck in those sort of
(31:18):
like patterns or habits where weactually end up working a nine
to five job just from thecomfort of our own home right.
And so I had realized, prior totraveling, that that's where I
was Like I was becoming a slaveto my business.
I was working in and out longdays and it just wasn't feeling
good to me, because what Iwanted to begin with was the
(31:40):
freedom to be able to travel andto explore and to experience
life, and it took me having togo to the outside of the world
to actually fully realize that,hey, like I can create this
space for myself.
It doesn't always have to beworking.
I can create that balance wherethere's even periods where I
don't do any work at all.
(32:00):
So yeah, if you are in thatposition where that's something
that you're wanting to worktowards.
I mean, a large part of whyI've shared so much of my
holidays and adventures on myInstagram has been to strike
inspiration.
You know, when people likeyourself who want to create that
for yourself also, it's justreally important to get clear
that that is what you want andthen start to take that aligned
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action within your business inorder to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, yeah, as a business owner, we always think
that the more that we do, themore that we do, the more that
we do, that's gonna help us notbe in our lack mindset.
Right, that's going to, themore that we have, the more that
the lack mindset won't be there, the more safe that we will be.
And a lot of times I feel likea lot of us.
(32:44):
We strive for these six figurebusinesses and then we get the
six figure business and thenwe're like but that's still not
good enough, that's still notenough.
We still need to do more, more,more.
And it's like actually doingless is actually where the power
is.
I think.
For me, when I think aboutstructuring my business in the
future, knowing that I want tolive a life of travel, I cannot
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be doing more, more, more, more,more.
All the time I'm gonna have tocreate systems and strategies to
allow me to have the capacity.
But also it's quality overquantity, right.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Completely, and here's the thing it's about
finding the balance for you.
There's always going to be.
This is always gonna lookdifferent in everyone's
businesses.
I think there's also gonna beseasons where you're probably
gonna push a little bit harderthan other seasons as well.
But it's about finding how doyou want to run your business?
And this is a question I alwaysask my clients when they enter
my world is okay, what doesbeing in alignment with your
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business look like for you?
Does it mean having onlyfour-week work days?
Does it mean being able totravel full-time?
Does it mean something else?
And you really want to getclear on that so then you can
actually build out a strategythat's in alignment with that
right.
So I go through seasons myself.
So far, while I've beentraveling, it's been a season
where I've wanted to step back,where I've wanted to work less.
(34:06):
I've really just prioritizednurturing the students that I
have, rather than pushing to dobig launches and scale my income
.
That's not what it's been aboutfor me while I've been
traveling, because this has beena season of me right and a
season of just experiencing life.
But I've also been in seasonswhere I have wanted to lean
deeper in, particularly when Ifirst started my business, that
(34:29):
was very much a season of fullyleaning in, taking big action
and, yeah, making somesacrifices so I could get myself
further ahead.
But when it comes to justbusiness in general, I like to
personally embody that mentalityof less is more, because that
is how I want to run my business.
I want to run my business in away where I have space to even
(34:51):
just sit and do nothing on aWednesday if I feel like taking
a day for myself, and what thatthen means is I need to make
sure my systems are set up tosupport that.
I need to make sure my teamstructure is set up to support
that.
Even though I've been traveling, and even though I took a whole
month off of business while Iwas traveling, my business was
still moving forward because myteam was in place to ensure that
(35:13):
it continued to move forward,even when I wasn't fully in the
front end of it, right?
So it really really comes backto asking yourself that question
of what does having an alignedbusiness look like for you?
What does that balance looklike and what season are you in
right now?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
And that's really gonna influence the way that you
take action in your businessand the way that you actually
set up your business as well100%, I think, definitely just
being clear of, like, how do youwant to feel in your business
and the values and justdefinitely making sure that you
have the structure, the systemsof support and making sure
they're not getting too farahead of yourself If you want to
(35:51):
have you only wanna work 20hours a week.
Making sure that you set asidetime for the back end stuff and
not just all of those beingcalls and things like that.
So just being really clearabout your structure, being
really clear about how you wantto feel in your business and
your boundaries in your business.
Like there's a lot to it thatwill help you set up for and I'm
(36:11):
saying this because I'm sayingthis to myself too Like Courtney
, remember this as you'rebuilding your business.
Like, remember these things.
But yeah, just, you know wehave to have the systems in
place in order to really not getto a place of overwhelm.
I think always just remindingourselves that more isn't always
better, right, like we don'tneed to be doing more, doing
(36:32):
more, doing more.
Like I think also, when itcomes to business, it's just
making sure that you're alwaysaligned and in what you're doing
, and also just kind ofreleasing releasing the pressure
for more, because if we, like,are always striving for more,
we're never going to besatisfied.
We're never gonna feel like wehave enough.
(36:53):
We're never feeling like we'regonna be at a place where our
nervous system can actually calmthe F down.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, One of the biggest things with that as well
is the way you want yourbusiness to feel when you get to
the destination needs to betaken into consideration on your
journey to actually buildingthere.
And there's actually like in thepast year or two in particular
within the coaching industry,I've actually seen a lot of
seven figure coaches steppingdown from their businesses
(37:21):
because they were so focused onhustling to get to that seven
figure point that once theyreached that seven figures,
their business wasn't actuallyset up to be in alignment with
the lifestyle that they desired,right?
And so if you desire to havethat space when you get to that
point of making six or sevenfigures, then you need to be
taking action to create that inthe journey to actually getting
(37:44):
there, because simply reachingthat milestone isn't then going
to bring you the lifestyle thatyou want.
If anything, it's just gonnacreate a whole lot of stresses
because, and a lot of cleaningup because of the lack of care
that was put into the journey toensure that you had those core
values that you desire of thelifestyle, the space, whatever
(38:07):
it may be, at the actualdestination.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Right and I think it's so important, like thank
you for that so much, but Ithink that that is missing so
much when it comes to thecoaching space, like, oh, when I
hit this milestone, then I cando this.
It's like, no, if you embodythe way that you want to feel,
if you were set up your schedulein the way that you really
would love it, ideally, that'sgonna set you up for when you
actually do hit these bigmarkers, like six figure, seven
(38:32):
figures, like it isn't just likegetting to a finish line and
then you deserve to have thesystem that make you feel good.
You deserve to have the systemsthat make you feel good from
day one.
Exactly that.
Yeah, so, aside from you knowthe realizations and the life
lessons that you've gotten fromyour travels when it comes to
your business, Like, are thereany other Thing, like epiphanies
(38:54):
or things that you have doing alot of?
You've been doing a lot ofreflecting on since your travels
.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Yeah, I feel like I've had a lot of space to
myself while I've been away andI also went a bit offline when
it came to, you know, constantlybeing in communication with
friends and family back home.
Like, I really did just take alot of space for myself and I
think doing that, I reallynaturally became More curious
about what I want for myselfwhen I get back home.
(39:20):
What do I want to be creating?
And, yeah, I guess an epiphanythat came to me was just
realizing, like, what is it thatI really want with my next
steps in life?
Like, what do I want to befocusing on when I get home?
A big thing as well was likethis Realization that I really
can create anything that Idesire for myself.
You know, I was able to createthis experience of traveling for
(39:41):
four to five months on my ownand I was Flooded with an
abundance of opportunities inthat, like I haven't gone
without, you know, anything thatI wanted to experience on this
journey, and then that made mereally realize that, hey, when I
get home, like it can be thesame, whatever I desire I really
can call into my life, and soI've just found a lot of clarity
(40:01):
in terms of, like you know whatI really want to be planning
roots with when I get back homeand, big picture, like you know,
for the Long game of my life,what is it that I desire?
You know, really finding thatclarity and having that space to
actually create those ideas,create that vision of what I
really want to be stepping intonext.
So, if you are someone who hasbeen feeling a bit blank or a
(40:23):
bit stuck on what it is that youactually want, take the
pressure off yourself fromhaving to think and think and
think it through and insteadjust create an environment for
yourself that's naturally goingto allow you to discover that.
For me, that meant going awayfrom everyone I know and
everything that was familiar andhaving some forced time to
myself, having some time forplay, for experimentation, to
(40:46):
really be able to come intoalignment with yeah, what it is
that I want to be creating nextfor my life.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Yeah, and I think a lot of times as humans I do this
myself where we sometimes, like, we search, we hunt, we have to
find clarity, when a lot oftimes, gaining clarity is just
as simple as giving ourselvesspace and clearing out things
that don't serve us.
Like I always think of our,like you know, our being as kind
(41:13):
of like a bottle.
And you know, I think a lot oftimes, when we're trying to find
clarity, we can't find itbecause we're literally filled
up with all these things thatdon't serve us, all of these
thoughts, all of these stresses,all of these triggers, all of
these traumas, all of thesethings that don't serve us.
I think we need to take spaceto release the things that don't
serve us, and that's whenclarity has the space to
(41:34):
actually come in.
So, yeah, space, I think, isthe most important thing.
I think, yeah, this is where alot of times, we can get hung up
because we're like, I need tofind it and it's like, actually,
you don't have any room to findclarity.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yeah, right now.
Yeah, you need to create thatspace, and that was very much
where I was before, and you knowit's not like anything in
particular was creating thatclock like within me to be able
to not move and find what Idesire, but it was a whole range
of things.
You know, there's the peoplearound you who have certain
opinions, impressions.
There was baggage that I wascarrying from the past.
(42:08):
There was Environments that Iwas living in that were making
me feel really stagnant, andsometimes just removing yourself
from all that can really createthat space for you to actually
breathe and think clearly andFeel clearly, to then be able to
step into alignment with thosethings.
That, those answers that you'relooking for.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah, and sometimes the answers come at the most
unexpected times, like you know.
Yeah, I mean, I think I want totravel when you're, when you're
spending time by yourself.
Yeah, I think I think clarityWill come, because I think a lot
of times we just need to, weneed to close out the noise of
where we currently are, like,honestly, take a trip, like,
even if it's like, even if it'sjust like a day trip out of your
town it doesn't need to begoing to the other side of the
(42:48):
world to be impactful.
Like you know, a lot of myfriends lately you know I live
in Colorado, but they've justbeen taking like weekend trips
to the mountains, just lookingin Airbnb it could just be an
Airbnb an hour away justspending one night by yourself
and just like allowing yourselfto just be important to yourself
.
And it's crazy sometimes theclarity that can come through.
But I think we need to likequiet the mind, need to quiet
(43:09):
the environment, exactly that.
Yeah, well, thank you, emily,for your time today.
This was really incredible andit was one of those
conversations again where I havemy notes and I feel like I
barely use them because ourconversation was just so
effortless and I love thosetypes of conversations, but
before we hop off, can you justshare, like a song or an
(43:29):
affirmation that you go to whenyou need the reminder that you
are limitless?
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yeah, what would it get a Affirmation be?
I suppose I really just comeback to the basic ones.
When it comes to affirmations,you know, if you want to be
limitless, tell yourself you'relimitless, right, like say I am
limitless or I am enough, I ampowerful.
I remember Before, like after abreakup I went through, I just
(43:54):
kept on telling myself I am theprize, I am the prize, like.
I like to keep them reallysimple and just find something
that does connect with me onthat sense.
But rather than an affirmationfor you, I might just give you a
quote which is one that reallycarried me through my transition
out of, you know, my myArchitecture job into the
(44:14):
coaching industry, and then it'salso just followed me
throughout everything I've beendoing, even my travels as well,
and it's if you have the courageto begin, you have the courage
to succeed.
So whenever you are sort oflike feeling nervous or Unsure
about something that you'reabout to step into, come back to
that and tell yourself you know, I have the courage to begin.
Therefore, I have the courageto succeed.
(44:37):
If you want to turn that into alittle affirmation, I love that
.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I need to use that for myself right now.
Yeah, thank you so much, emily,and where can the listeners
find you to connect with youmore?
Speaker 2 (44:51):
I am so easy to find because it's the same name on
all platforms.
So if you want to come checkout my Instagram that's where
I'm the most active and I'm justempower with em on Instagram or
if you want to listen to myvoice more and have a listen to
my podcast, I've got I thinkit's over 200 episodes, since
I've been running this podcastfor the last three years of my
(45:13):
journey, so you can go check outthe empower with them podcast,
which is streaming on allplatforms.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Yay, amazing, yeah.
So thank you so much for beinghere.
It was such a joy to connectwith you and I feel I feel
really empowered just chattingwith you, so I'm sure the
listeners do too, and justappreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
I'm so glad.
Thank you so much for having me.
It was such a powerfulconversation.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Thank you so much for tuning in.
It means so much to me thatyou're here and that you're
taking the time to listen to thePodcast.
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so much to me if you shared itwith your friends, who you think
could also really benefit fromthis message.
You can take a screenshot ofyou listening and tag me in your
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(45:54):
That also gives me the chanceto connect with you and say
thank you.
So until next week, I hope thatyou have an amazing week ahead
of you and I'll talk to you then.
Hey, girlfriend, welcome to Journey to Limitless
Podcast.
Together on this show, we areon a mission to build belief in
ourselves and live a life offreedom, despite what tries to
hold us back.
I'm your host, court, anempowerment coach, travel
enthusiast and a chronic illnesswarrior who, over the last
seven years, has built a lifethat I am so obsessed with and
proud of.
But it definitely has not comeeasy.
(00:25):
So on this show, we're going tokeep it real as we talk about
adapting positive mindsetsthrough hardship, taking action
towards our dreams and findingpeace and freedom from hustle,
culture and chronic stress.
Are you with me?
Let's get going on your ownJourney to Limitless.
Welcome back to another episodeof Journey to Limitless.
Thank you for joining.
I'm Courtney, your host andtoday's episode.
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You're going to find a lot ofempowerment in this episode
because we have Emily on thepodcast.
Emily is the host of theEmpower with M podcast and she's
here to help us become our ownsuperhero in our life, because
the reality is no one's comingto save us.
We have to be the ones to takeaction.
We have to be the ones toovercome the fears and let go of
(01:09):
the limiting beliefs in orderto create the lives that we
really want to for ourselves.
So I think that you're going tolove this episode.
Emily is sharing with us howshe has become a woman who helps
other women start businesses,and how she really followed the
curiosities of starting herpodcast, which has led her to a
path that she didn't evenrealize was possible for her,
(01:32):
and we also talked about herrecent travels in Canada, where
she left her home country ofAustralia, followed the
curiosity of that and solotraveled in Canada for six
months.
We talked about the lessonsthat she's learned and what
really has came from thatexperience.
So I think you're going to lovethis episode and if you do, you
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And before we jump into theepisode, I wanted to make sure
that I reminded you aboutjourney to limitless the
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listeners and women who aregetting behind the mission here,
which is to break the cyclesthat are holding us back and not
letting our circumstances holdus back from the lives that we
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So it is a free community space.
So we have a WhatsApp group.
We also host monthly events.
(02:34):
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So we have a breathwork comingup and then we also have some
other workshops and just minglesand stuff.
So different ways to connect inthe community space.
So it is a free space.
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So head to the show notes andfind the link to join the
community there and I lookforward to seeing you in there
and we'll go ahead and jumpright into the episode.
Welcome, emily, to Joining toLimitless podcast.
(03:21):
I'm so excited to have youtoday.
We have connected through theDMs recently and I just think
that your story just reallyaligns with what we're about
here.
So really honored to have you.
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Thank you, I'm so excited to be here.
I can't wait to dive into ourconversation.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, so, yeah.
So today's episode is really astory of becoming our own
superhero and living a life thatis an alignment for us, and can
you just tell us first of alljust a little bit more about you
, like where you're from, whatyou're currently doing, and then
what has your journey tolimitless really looked like?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah Well, it's been a couple of years that I've
probably intentionally been onthis journey.
Now, on December of this year,it'll be three years that I've
been in business and I'd saywhen I really did first take
that leap into starting mybusiness was probably where I
really would consider fullyleaning into my journey to
(04:16):
becoming limitless.
So it was probably around Julyof 2020.
At the time I was 22 years oldand I was studying my Masters of
Architecture and I was alsoworking a job in the
architecture industry and atthat time I was just
experiencing this insane amountof emotional turmoil within
(04:38):
myself.
I was so unhappy in the degreethat I was in.
I was so unhappy going to the95 job that I was going to
Beautiful environment, beautifulpeople but I just deep down
felt like I was on a path thatwas not meant for me and this
was a path that I had beenfollowing since graduating high
school.
So I had been really committedto this path for the last five
(05:00):
years of my life.
I had spent thousands andthousands of dollars on
university tuition and thousandsof hours slaving away to.
You know, get to that point inmy degree and I was kind of
reaching a breaking point whereI took an intentional moment to
pause and question why am Ifeeling the way that I'm feeling
and how do I want to be feeling, moving forward from there?
(05:23):
And so it was at that pointwhere I really realized I needed
to take control of my life, andthat meant changing the path
that I was on with my career.
At the time, I didn't know thatI was going to start a coaching
business specifically, but I hadmy podcast, which is the
Empower them podcast that I hadbeen building as a passion
project just around documentingmy own personal development
(05:46):
journey, and that was the thingthat was lighting me up.
That was the thing that I wasexcited to be building, that I
wanted to be building, and so Idecided to start to build an
online community around that,and through doing that, I then
ended up aligning myself withthe coaching industry, and so it
was about 90 days I gave myselffrom that point of deciding
(06:09):
that I did not want to be in thearchitecture industry anymore,
that I wanted to drop out of mydegree.
I gave myself 90 days to get myshit together, essentially, and
so by the end of those 90 dayswe rolled up to around December
I decided it was time to hand.
In my letter of resignation Iwas pulling the plug on that
path that I was on and I wasgoing all in on starting a
(06:31):
personal development coachingbusiness, and so that was really
where I had to push myself tostep into a limitless mindset
because I knew I had massivegoals for what I wanted to
achieve in that space.
I had never run a business youknow of my own like that before.
I had never even coached anyonebefore, you know and I knew
(06:52):
that I had to put myself in alimitless mindset in order to
succeed.
So I did that.
I did everything I could toreally frame my mindset as I was
taking that leap out of my nineto five job and into doing my
business full-time.
And eight months later I hitsix, six figures in my business
and I largely, largely put thatdown to the limitless mentality
(07:13):
that I really pushed myself toembody during that transition
yeah, so it really started withyour podcast.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So I kind of want to talk with you there, because I
know that there is somebodylistening who is maybe in a job
right now that isn't feelingaligned and they're kind of
afraid to follow the cure, thecuriosities, because maybe
they're afraid of putting themthemselves out there, they're
afraid that they're going tofail.
They're afraid of, you know,just doing something and maybe
not liking it right, and so Ijust kind of want to understand,
(07:43):
like your mentality when itcame to starting your podcast,
like what was that whole processlike for you?
Because it truly again the thepower of listening to your
curiosities.
You started that podcast and itpropelled you into this
direction that you couldn't haveeven imagined for yourself.
So, yeah, can you break thatdown for us?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
well, when I started my podcast, I definitely did not
see it going in the directionof the business that I started.
At that time I had been likedabbling in network marketing
and that was really where I gotmy first exposure to the online
business space, and so there wasso much personal development
involved in that type ofbusiness structure that that's
what prompted me to really startthat podcast, because I was
(08:20):
like, well, there's so manyother people my age, younger,
older, like there's just so manypeople in that network
marketing community that are onthe same sort of journey, and so
I figured, well, if I couldshare my story with them, share
my personal growth experienceswith them, then you know I'm
going to feel like I'm making apositive contribution and what
goes around comes around right.
(08:41):
So I wasn't really thinking, oh, I'm going to start this
podcast to make money.
It was more I'm going to startthis podcast to serve and create
those connections.
So if you are like reallyleaning towards trying something
new, maybe exploring a newcareer path or starting a
passionate, passion project ofsome sort, just don't place
pressure on yourself.
I never put any heavyexpectations around the podcast
(09:04):
for it to have to be anything,you know, and so I just gave
myself that space to experimentand have fun with it, and and I
backed myself in doing so aswell.
Right, of course, there's goingto be fears that come up in the
process.
A big one, particularly for mewhen I was starting my podcast,
was the fear of judgment.
Right, because you know how itis we're laying ourselves out
(09:25):
there and anyone can get accessto this stuff, and I was
thinking, what if my co-workersfind this, or what if my uni
friends find this, or what if myboyfriend finds this right?
And so there was that fear ofjudgment, of like, what are
other people going to think ifthey see me doing this?
And so I had to release thatjudgment and any other fears
that would come up as well.
So then I could fully embracethat opportunity and that
(09:48):
experience.
And maybe you are interested intrying podcasting for yourself,
but then through trying that,you discovered that that's not
fully for you.
You should be proud of yourselffor trying.
Anyway, that was me withnetwork marketing.
That was the first businessmodel that I really tried in the
online space and I gave it ashot, but it turned out that it
wasn't for me.
(10:08):
But because I started networkmarketing, I then started my
podcast and then I started mybusiness.
So by giving something a try,it's going to open you up to
other opportunities that maybeyou otherwise wouldn't have
become in alignment with.
So remove that pressure offyourself.
Don't place expectations.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Be open to giving it a try and just release whatever
fears you need to in order tofully embrace what it is that
you want to do yeah, oh my gosh,I feel like I can see so much
of my story in yours, because I,first of all, I actually
started a blog back in 2020because I was like I just want
to document my health journeyand then, through that, I wrote
(10:46):
one blog and I was just like Ihate writing, like this is not
for me.
And then when I found the potlike found, you know, found the
idea to start a podcast, it justfelt like a yes for me, even
though I had no idea where Iwanted it to go.
And again it me showing up andpodcasting and helping people.
And I found the love forhelping people and that
(11:08):
propelled me into becoming acertified life coach.
So I feel like podcasting iteither.
I mean, either way, it's allfeedback.
Right, it's either you.
You try it and you decide like,oh yeah, maybe I don't really
like this, that's feedback.
That's like, oh, okay, so youmaybe don't want to speak, maybe
you want to share in adifferent platform.
Nothing is a failure.
(11:30):
I don't know where, along alongour human journey as a society,
we came to the conclusion thattrying something and it not
working out is a failure,because I think trying things is
a part of the human experience.
We do not know whether we likethings or not unless we try them
, but for some reason our egoand society tells us that we are
(11:51):
just supposed to know what wewant to do, and that's just not
the way that it is, you know,yeah exactly that.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It's kind of like dating when you think about it
right like you're not going tofind the perfect partner the
very first time that you know,the very first time you go out
on a date with someone, becauseyou don't necessarily know what
you like, what you're lookingfor and all of that.
But through going on multipledates, trying multiple people,
you're going to become clearerand clearer and clearer on who
that ideal partner is that youare looking for.
(12:18):
And it's the same with business, it's the same with anything
your hobby is, you know,whatever it is in life.
You've got to try multiplethings to gain the full
understanding around what you dowant, what you don't want and
then it actually cut you off aminute there.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So can you just repeat that, so can you just say
it's going really well.
But I think when you said, it'skind of like dating, and then
can you just give us that wholespiel again because it like
completely cut out.
So sorry, yeah you're a good.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
It's kind of like dating when you think about it.
Right, you're not going to goon your very first date and all
of a sudden know that that's theexact person that you want to
spend the rest of your life with.
If that's the only personyou've ever connected with,
you've got to put yourself outthere.
You've got to explore optionsand discover what do you want,
what don't you want, until youreally can get clear on who is
(13:10):
our perfect partner and who isan alignment with that.
And so it's the same when itcomes to business or starting
any projects, you really need tobe gaining that experience for
yourself, right, in terms ofgiving different things to try,
giving different things a taste,seeing what you do like, seeing
what you don't like and thennavigating from there.
It's the same way that you knowthrough um, testing out network
(13:32):
marketing and a couple of otherdifferent business ventures in
my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Then was I able to discover, okay, I do want this
or I don't want that, and I wasable to then align with where it
is that I know, and it is justremoving that like societal
expectation, because I think alot of people get caught up who
you know, are in their 30s ortheir mid 30s and they're like
I'm still in this trial anderror period, like when am I
going to figure out what I wantto do?
(13:58):
And it's just like againsurrendering to the process and
not putting the expectation and,uh, just getting rid of the
societal expectations of likeyou need to know what you want
to do by age 30.
Like I'm almost 30 well, I'llbe 30 next year and I'm like I
don't know what I'm doing.
I don't know.
Yeah, I'm like having a crisisand I'm like I just have to
surrender to the process of I'min trial and error period and
(14:19):
like that's so OK, yeah, exactly.
So you talk a lot aboutbecoming your own superhero.
Like what does that mean?
And how can people really startto show up as their own
superhero in their own life?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah Well, it's really interesting.
So this year, at the start ofthis year, I decided to start
seeing a psychologist becausethere's a lot of baggage that I
just wanted to work through frompast relationship that I was in
that was really triggeredthrough that situation and a lot
of it really came back towanting to work on my
self-esteem and really buildthat in new ways.
(14:55):
And there was actually thisexercise that my psychologist
got me to do one session whereit was sitting down and while we
were on the call, I had to drawmyself as a superhero and then
I had to explain what it wasthat I drew, why it is I drew
myself that way and so on, andit was a really powerful
(15:15):
exercise to do.
I know it sounds so childish ina sense to sit there with some
textors and some pencils anddraw yourself as a superhero,
but what that really enabled meto do was tap in and connect
deeper to myself and actuallystart to identify what are those
qualities about me that areactually my superpowers, that I
(15:37):
want to be able to celebratemore and leverage more and just
recognize more.
So it's a really simpleexercise that you can do for
yourself and it was massive forme, because it really allowed me
to just sit and recognize howpowerful I am as an individual
and what it is that I really dohave to offer and bring to
(15:58):
everyone that I work with,anyone that I'm in a
relationship with, myfriendships, my family, all of
it.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, I love that so much because I think a lot of
times we as humans, I think westruggle with taking action,
because I think that there's adoubt that we can actually make
something of it, and I thinkalso, I think a lot of times
people think that it will justhappen for us and the reality is
(16:31):
that we are the only personthat can change our life.
We are the only person that canbring our dreams into life.
And I love what you also saidabout finding your superpowers,
because I think that's just agood thing to always know about
yourself, to always reflect on,because it can be so easy to be
(16:53):
in the self-loathing cycle offeeling like we have nothing to
bring to the table.
But if you're a generous human,if you deeply listen to people,
if you have the power to makepeople feel seen, there are so
many superpowers that you canleverage in your life and really
create something, really usethose superpowers to your
(17:15):
advantage and really hone themin and create something magical
and really live your purposethrough that.
But I think it's becoming clearof what do you bring to the
table, what superpowers do youhave in you?
Naturally, it isn't alwayslooking for something outside of
us.
We have it within us.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's it, and we're all so unique as well, and when
we're so focused on what someoneelse has, it can really put us
in this mentality of what welack and we become very scarce.
We focus on wow, courtney, hasthis, that, and that I mean that
devalues me because I don'thave any of those things, and we
(17:52):
get into this veryself-critical mentality.
So, when we can be reallyintentional about actually
reflecting and connecting withwhat are these things that are
unique to me, what are thesestrengths or skills that maybe I
carry that are different fromwhat you, courtney, have to
offer to the rest of the world,and how can I leverage what I
(18:14):
have and bring that in serviceof others or even just in
service of yourself?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, and I think what you said is it can be so
easy to look at other people andsee their power, see their
skills, and be like, oh, I don'thave that, so I have nothing to
offer.
When it's like, reality is theperson that you're comparing to.
They also have weaknesses thatlikely are your strengths
sometimes.
So I think it's always justreminding ourselves of that is,
(18:41):
every single person that weadmire also has weaknesses.
No single person is just onthis pedestal and is above
anyone else, and then I justlove the whole superhero of OK.
So what are my superpowers?
What are the things that peopletell me that they appreciate
about me?
What are the things that Iappreciate about me?
(19:02):
I'm really good at like reallybecoming clear on that, because
I think that's a confidenceboost thing too.
Always just really important toremind ourselves Completely
agree, yeah, so recently you arecurrently in Arizona, but you
have been.
You're from Australia, butyou've been on this side of the
world in Canada and the US forfour months now.
(19:22):
Yeah, about that, yeah, so talkto us about that journey of
picking up your life and movingacross the world for four months
and, just you know, reallydiving into your journey here.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, it's been a pretty wild journey, to be
honest, and it's crazy that,like, this whole period of
travel that I've been in isstarting to actually come to an
end, because I feel like I wasso focused on getting to this
place for so long that it'sfunny how you get there and then
time all of a sudden flies andit's like you're blinked and
(19:57):
it's over.
So it was really last year.
I went through a very heavyrelationship, one that was like
very narcissistic and had a lotof like mental and emotional
abuse.
That was really experiencedthroughout that and I remember
getting towards the end of likeleaving that relationship and
all of a sudden I felt thismassive pool to start like
(20:20):
traveling and exploring theworld and just breaking outside
of that.
You know that that nest that Ihad been in my whole life.
Right, because I moved out ofthat relationship and had to
move back in with family while Iwas trying to reground myself
and refine my feet, andnaturally I had my business,
which I had been building for acouple of years, and so there
(20:42):
was a level of like freedom thatmy business had already had
created the potential to be ableto afford me, and for a very
long time, like even when I hadfirst started my business, I
knew that travel was somethingthat I wanted for myself, but
then, as circumstances would youknow unfold, I never really
fully ended up embodying this.
So I had just gotten out of thisrelationship, I wasn't tied
(21:05):
down to anyone or any leaseanywhere or any job anywhere for
that matter, and so I had thisopportunity that I was like I
need to grab this and I need torun with it.
So I decided that I wanted topack up my life in Australia,
travel over to Canada and justgo abroad for up to six months,
because that was the duration ofthe visa that I had gotten for
(21:27):
myself, and so I left it veryopen and I wanted to just step
into a season of solo travel, sothen I could fully come back to
myself, start to heal my energy, start to experience life more,
start to embrace and like fullyum, I guess embody the freedom
(21:48):
that the lifestyle, freedom thatmy business has afforded for me
and, above all, I think, justlike finding joy in life again.
Right, because it was a verylong time where I actually felt
like all the joy had been takenout of me, and so it was such a
big thing for me to just be ableto lean into that season of
(22:08):
solo travel and and just openmyself up to whatever it is it
was going to bring me.
And so that brings us to today,where I'm heading home in about
10, 9 or 10 days from now, andI feel like all of those things
that I really wanted to gainfrom this travel experience I've
been able to gain, as well asso much more that I didn't even
(22:29):
expect um for it to bring.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, wow, I mean, I'm such an advocate for solo
travel if you've listened to afew episodes um, I, I'm a solo
traveler as well, so I justalways love like hearing about
other people's stories of solotravel, because it truly is.
If you want to empower yourselfas a woman, I understand it can
be really, really scary to solotravel, but I feel like solo
travel like I don't know ifthere's anything else that I've
(22:51):
experienced in my life that isas empowering as solo travel.
Maybe you can relate to that.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I can agree completely, because before I
actually came away to do thesolo travel, I had never done
any in my life before, and soI'm 25 now and this was the
first time where I was reallylike stepping out onto my on my
own, um, and for me there waslike a lot of fears around, a
lack of self-trust.
You know.
There was a lot coming up inthe way of feeling like am I
(23:18):
going to be able to carry myselfthrough this experience?
Am I going to stay afloatfinancially?
Is my business going to crash?
Like all these different fears.
Will I be able to navigatearound a foreign country?
Like you know, I was reallybeing flooded with every fear
that was trying to keep me inthat security blanket of my home
.
Um, but I knew what I needed wasto actually step out and go do
(23:43):
that solo travel to prove tomyself that, hey, I can do this.
And the thing is like I hadproven to myself in so many ways
that I can be independent, Ican, you know, get resourceful
and create things like.
I was able to prove so much ofthat to myself through my
business before I even startedtraveling but, honestly, just
having stepped out into a worldor into an environment where I
(24:07):
don't have my friends, I don'thave my family, I don't have the
um comfort of a regular routine.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
It just even further strengthened that self-trust
that I was looking for it tostrengthen and when it came down
to going, did you have anyonein your life that was like don't
do it?
Like what are you doing?
You're crazy my mom.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Of course, I feel like all moms are very much like
that, um, but she's, you know,real home body, never been the
type that really wants to gooverseas herself and, you know
very much, is the type thatcradles her children also.
So she was flooding, floodedwith all these fears of like, oh
, my baby is leaving, she'sgoing into a different country.
I can't protect her.
So I very much understood whereshe was coming from with her
(24:54):
concerns but nonetheless, like Iwas in such a state of mind
where I knew deep down like itis what I needed to do for
myself, and I could acknowledgeher concerns and, rather than
embodying them, I just kind oflike put them in the back of my
head as like something to justbe conscious of and aware of.
Right, like, of course, strangerdanger being in different
(25:15):
countries.
I mean being in the US.
Obviously there's guns you'reallowed to carry around here and
that's something that is soforeign in Australia and so
naturally it's like you couldfocus on that and be scared of
that, or you could put it in theback of your mind and just have
it as an awareness andsomething to be cautious and
conscious of as you do go around.
So, all of those fears that youknow she sort of did have
(25:38):
around my travels, rather thanallowing me to hold them back, I
took them as like a pinch ofsalt, as something that it's
like right, this is good for meto have in my awareness, but
it's also not something thatneeds to limit me because, like
you know, the fear doesn't needto speak louder than the reality
of the situation totally andalso the more that you do things
(25:59):
that are true for you.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
First of all, that builds your confidence in
yourself.
And also what I found in mylife I've been, I've been
traveling.
My mom, like has never left theeast coast.
My mom's never been on anairplane um the east coast of
the USA.
And I mean I've been travelingfor eight and a half years now
and the first trip that I tookwhen I was 20 years old was like
(26:21):
a cross-country road trip and Imean I had my parents talking
all the fears into me.
But when you just come back toyourself and you're like there's
something in me that is tellingme to do this, you have to
listen to that and yes, you cantake these things and be like
okay, thanks for bringing thatinto my awareness, that you know
, make sure that I carry mace,make sure that I carry a flat
(26:41):
tire like a fixed flat tirething in my car.
Like, make sure all thesethings, yeah, make sure I.
You know, just take care.
You know I'm being cautious andeverything, but like you cannot
let these things hold you back.
Um, and I noticed that the morethat I do this as an adult.
Like I just went to Greece soloback in March and this time my
parents were just like all right, be safe, because they know
(27:04):
that I'm gonna listen to myself,they know that I'm going to be,
they know that I'm gonna be assafe as I can be and that them
telling me not to do it, justlike that's not gonna, that
doesn't work anymore.
You know, yeah, I completely.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I think I feel like that's a big um thing, you know,
connecting when you arebuilding yourself trust,
naturally, like your intuitionbuilds with that as well, and so
something that I've been reallyconscious of as I've been
traveling is like listening tomy intuition, listening to those
gut feelings.
If I feel like I'm in asituation that doesn't feel safe
, remove myself, like listen tothat sign, that signal that your
(27:38):
intuition is giving you, andwhen you really do have that um
level of self trust, you're thengoing to trust those feelings
and you're going to be able totake the action to remove
yourself from situations youdon't want to be in.
Or even, I think like one ofthe biggest things when it does
come to fears, especially aroundtraveling with a business, is
that fear of well, what if I runout of money?
What if I you know what if myclients um start dropping off?
(28:03):
What if I then can't carrymyself forward from there?
And what is really funny isstepping into these travels.
That was one of the biggestfears I had was okay, well, I'm
not going to be in a stableenvironment, so what happens if
my income stops rolling in?
And then it actually hit apoint in my travels, where I
made the decision to stopsigning clients, I was like you
(28:26):
know what?
I'm here in this foreigncountry, I've been traveling and
working for two months.
I've got two more months of youknow, back to back travel
that's ahead of me and I justfelt deep within my gut that I
didn't want to be doing salescalls.
And so there's that fear part ofmy brain that's saying no, you
need to keep doing sales callsbecause otherwise you're going
(28:46):
to run out of money.
But there was this uh, it wasmy intuition was calling me to
actually put a halt on scalingmy business and putting a halt
on hard selling and just fullygive myself space to just be
here in this experience oftraveling and soaking up
everything that it has to offerthat's outside of business.
So I found it really funny whenI recognized that, hey, the
(29:10):
thing that was a fear in theback of my mind when I was
stepping into this travel.
I have actually said stuff youfear, I'm going to do this thing
anyway because I don't want tobe selling and I trust that the
money's still there, I stillhave enough.
I will still be able to call inmore when and if I need it and
because of that deep sense ofself-trust, I then was able to
(29:32):
give myself space to take likean entire month off of business,
essentially right.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
So I think that was a really powerful like
breakthrough of my own that Ireally came to in these travels
and purely because I openedmyself up to these experiences
yeah, and I've seen you knowfrom a lot of other business
coaches or you know people inbusiness that I've watched is
that all the same, A lot oftimes that the more that they
travel, the more that they takespace, the more money they
(29:58):
actually make.
Yeah, that's good, becauseultimately a lot of us who I
mean I'm building a coachingbusiness as well, I mean I'm not
anywhere at the spot where I'mready to go full time yet at all
, but like that's the dream.
And I think a lot of times whenwe see people like, oh, she's
taking a month off of herbusiness, traveling, like I want
(30:18):
, I want what she's having, Iwant to be a part of that.
Like you're embodying you'renot just like you're not just,
you know, stuck into the workand showing you know you're
showing that it gets to be both.
Like you get to be wildlysuccessful and you also can take
time off of your business andenjoy yourself.
Like that's ultimately whatpeople want.
I know for me, I don't want togo full time in my business so I
(30:40):
can be stuck to my computer allthe time.
I want to be full time in mybusiness because I want to have
this space and the capacity tobe able to go, you know, be a
digital nomad and travel theworld.
Like that is the mostattractive thing for me, and I
know that someone else who'slistening to this podcast feels
the same way.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So, yeah, so yeah, that's exactly it.
Oftentimes we're in business tocreate that freedom for
ourselves.
I know, when I first started mybusiness, I started it because
I wanted lifestyle freedom.
I wanted to be able to go anddo what I want when I want to be
able to experience travelingthe world and so on.
But then our fears can reallyget us stuck in those sort of
(31:18):
like patterns or habits where weactually end up working a nine
to five job just from thecomfort of our own home right.
And so I had realized, prior totraveling, that that's where I
was Like I was becoming a slaveto my business.
I was working in and out longdays and it just wasn't feeling
good to me, because what Iwanted to begin with was the
(31:40):
freedom to be able to travel andto explore and to experience
life, and it took me having togo to the outside of the world
to actually fully realize that,hey, like I can create this
space for myself.
It doesn't always have to beworking.
I can create that balance wherethere's even periods where I
don't do any work at all.
(32:00):
So yeah, if you are in thatposition where that's something
that you're wanting to worktowards.
I mean, a large part of whyI've shared so much of my
holidays and adventures on myInstagram has been to strike
inspiration.
You know, when people likeyourself who want to create that
for yourself also, it's justreally important to get clear
that that is what you want andthen start to take that aligned
(32:21):
action within your business inorder to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, yeah, as a business owner, we always think
that the more that we do, themore that we do, the more that
we do, that's gonna help us notbe in our lack mindset.
Right, that's going to, themore that we have, the more that
the lack mindset won't be there, the more safe that we will be.
And a lot of times I feel likea lot of us.
(32:44):
We strive for these six figurebusinesses and then we get the
six figure business and thenwe're like but that's still not
good enough, that's still notenough.
We still need to do more, more,more.
And it's like actually doingless is actually where the power
is.
I think.
For me, when I think aboutstructuring my business in the
future, knowing that I want tolive a life of travel, I cannot
(33:05):
be doing more, more, more, more,more.
All the time I'm gonna have tocreate systems and strategies to
allow me to have the capacity.
But also it's quality overquantity, right.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Completely, and here's the thing it's about
finding the balance for you.
There's always going to be.
This is always gonna lookdifferent in everyone's
businesses.
I think there's also gonna beseasons where you're probably
gonna push a little bit harderthan other seasons as well.
But it's about finding how doyou want to run your business?
And this is a question I alwaysask my clients when they enter
my world is okay, what doesbeing in alignment with your
(33:44):
business look like for you?
Does it mean having onlyfour-week work days?
Does it mean being able totravel full-time?
Does it mean something else?
And you really want to getclear on that so then you can
actually build out a strategythat's in alignment with that
right.
So I go through seasons myself.
So far, while I've beentraveling, it's been a season
where I've wanted to step back,where I've wanted to work less.
(34:06):
I've really just prioritizednurturing the students that I
have, rather than pushing to dobig launches and scale my income
.
That's not what it's been aboutfor me while I've been
traveling, because this has beena season of me right and a
season of just experiencing life.
But I've also been in seasonswhere I have wanted to lean
deeper in, particularly when Ifirst started my business, that
(34:29):
was very much a season of fullyleaning in, taking big action
and, yeah, making somesacrifices so I could get myself
further ahead.
But when it comes to justbusiness in general, I like to
personally embody that mentalityof less is more, because that
is how I want to run my business.
I want to run my business in away where I have space to even
(34:51):
just sit and do nothing on aWednesday if I feel like taking
a day for myself, and what thatthen means is I need to make
sure my systems are set up tosupport that.
I need to make sure my teamstructure is set up to support
that.
Even though I've been traveling, and even though I took a whole
month off of business while Iwas traveling, my business was
still moving forward because myteam was in place to ensure that
(35:13):
it continued to move forward,even when I wasn't fully in the
front end of it, right?
So it really really comes backto asking yourself that question
of what does having an alignedbusiness look like for you?
What does that balance looklike and what season are you in
right now?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
And that's really gonna influence the way that you
take action in your businessand the way that you actually
set up your business as well100%, I think, definitely just
being clear of, like, how do youwant to feel in your business
and the values and justdefinitely making sure that you
have the structure, the systemsof support and making sure
they're not getting too farahead of yourself If you want to
(35:51):
have you only wanna work 20hours a week.
Making sure that you set asidetime for the back end stuff and
not just all of those beingcalls and things like that.
So just being really clearabout your structure, being
really clear about how you wantto feel in your business and
your boundaries in your business.
Like there's a lot to it thatwill help you set up for and I'm
(36:11):
saying this because I'm sayingthis to myself too Like Courtney
, remember this as you'rebuilding your business.
Like, remember these things.
But yeah, just, you know wehave to have the systems in
place in order to really not getto a place of overwhelm.
I think always just remindingourselves that more isn't always
better, right, like we don'tneed to be doing more, doing
(36:32):
more, doing more.
Like I think also, when itcomes to business, it's just
making sure that you're alwaysaligned and in what you're doing
, and also just kind ofreleasing releasing the pressure
for more, because if we, like,are always striving for more,
we're never going to besatisfied.
We're never gonna feel like wehave enough.
(36:53):
We're never feeling like we'regonna be at a place where our
nervous system can actually calmthe F down.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, One of the biggest things with that as well
is the way you want yourbusiness to feel when you get to
the destination needs to betaken into consideration on your
journey to actually buildingthere.
And there's actually like in thepast year or two in particular
within the coaching industry,I've actually seen a lot of
seven figure coaches steppingdown from their businesses
(37:21):
because they were so focused onhustling to get to that seven
figure point that once theyreached that seven figures,
their business wasn't actuallyset up to be in alignment with
the lifestyle that they desired,right?
And so if you desire to havethat space when you get to that
point of making six or sevenfigures, then you need to be
taking action to create that inthe journey to actually getting
(37:44):
there, because simply reachingthat milestone isn't then going
to bring you the lifestyle thatyou want.
If anything, it's just gonnacreate a whole lot of stresses
because, and a lot of cleaningup because of the lack of care
that was put into the journey toensure that you had those core
values that you desire of thelifestyle, the space, whatever
(38:07):
it may be, at the actualdestination.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Right and I think it's so important, like thank
you for that so much, but Ithink that that is missing so
much when it comes to thecoaching space, like, oh, when I
hit this milestone, then I cando this.
It's like, no, if you embodythe way that you want to feel,
if you were set up your schedulein the way that you really
would love it, ideally, that'sgonna set you up for when you
actually do hit these bigmarkers, like six figure, seven
(38:32):
figures, like it isn't just likegetting to a finish line and
then you deserve to have thesystem that make you feel good.
You deserve to have the systemsthat make you feel good from
day one.
Exactly that.
Yeah, so, aside from you knowthe realizations and the life
lessons that you've gotten fromyour travels when it comes to
your business, Like, are thereany other Thing, like epiphanies
(38:54):
or things that you have doing alot of?
You've been doing a lot ofreflecting on since your travels
.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Yeah, I feel like I've had a lot of space to
myself while I've been away andI also went a bit offline when
it came to, you know, constantlybeing in communication with
friends and family back home.
Like, I really did just take alot of space for myself and I
think doing that, I reallynaturally became More curious
about what I want for myselfwhen I get back home.
(39:20):
What do I want to be creating?
And, yeah, I guess an epiphanythat came to me was just
realizing, like, what is it thatI really want with my next
steps in life?
Like, what do I want to befocusing on when I get home?
A big thing as well was likethis Realization that I really
can create anything that Idesire for myself.
You know, I was able to createthis experience of traveling for
(39:41):
four to five months on my ownand I was Flooded with an
abundance of opportunities inthat, like I haven't gone
without, you know, anything thatI wanted to experience on this
journey, and then that made mereally realize that, hey, when I
get home, like it can be thesame, whatever I desire I really
can call into my life, and soI've just found a lot of clarity
(40:01):
in terms of, like you know whatI really want to be planning
roots with when I get back homeand, big picture, like you know,
for the Long game of my life,what is it that I desire?
You know, really finding thatclarity and having that space to
actually create those ideas,create that vision of what I
really want to be stepping intonext.
So, if you are someone who hasbeen feeling a bit blank or a
(40:23):
bit stuck on what it is that youactually want, take the
pressure off yourself fromhaving to think and think and
think it through and insteadjust create an environment for
yourself that's naturally goingto allow you to discover that.
For me, that meant going awayfrom everyone I know and
everything that was familiar andhaving some forced time to
myself, having some time forplay, for experimentation, to
(40:46):
really be able to come intoalignment with yeah, what it is
that I want to be creating nextfor my life.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Yeah, and I think a lot of times as humans I do this
myself where we sometimes, like, we search, we hunt, we have to
find clarity, when a lot oftimes, gaining clarity is just
as simple as giving ourselvesspace and clearing out things
that don't serve us.
Like I always think of our,like you know, our being as kind
(41:13):
of like a bottle.
And you know, I think a lot oftimes, when we're trying to find
clarity, we can't find itbecause we're literally filled
up with all these things thatdon't serve us, all of these
thoughts, all of these stresses,all of these triggers, all of
these traumas, all of thesethings that don't serve us.
I think we need to take spaceto release the things that don't
serve us, and that's whenclarity has the space to
(41:34):
actually come in.
So, yeah, space, I think, isthe most important thing.
I think, yeah, this is where alot of times, we can get hung up
because we're like, I need tofind it and it's like, actually,
you don't have any room to findclarity.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yeah, right now.
Yeah, you need to create thatspace, and that was very much
where I was before, and you knowit's not like anything in
particular was creating thatclock like within me to be able
to not move and find what Idesire, but it was a whole range
of things.
You know, there's the peoplearound you who have certain
opinions, impressions.
There was baggage that I wascarrying from the past.
(42:08):
There was Environments that Iwas living in that were making
me feel really stagnant, andsometimes just removing yourself
from all that can really createthat space for you to actually
breathe and think clearly andFeel clearly, to then be able to
step into alignment with thosethings.
That, those answers that you'relooking for.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah, and sometimes the answers come at the most
unexpected times, like you know.
Yeah, I mean, I think I want totravel when you're, when you're
spending time by yourself.
Yeah, I think I think clarityWill come, because I think a lot
of times we just need to, weneed to close out the noise of
where we currently are, like,honestly, take a trip, like,
even if it's like, even if it'sjust like a day trip out of your
town it doesn't need to begoing to the other side of the
(42:48):
world to be impactful.
Like you know, a lot of myfriends lately you know I live
in Colorado, but they've justbeen taking like weekend trips
to the mountains, just lookingin Airbnb it could just be an
Airbnb an hour away justspending one night by yourself
and just like allowing yourselfto just be important to yourself
.
And it's crazy sometimes theclarity that can come through.
But I think we need to likequiet the mind, need to quiet
(43:09):
the environment, exactly that.
Yeah, well, thank you, emily,for your time today.
This was really incredible andit was one of those
conversations again where I havemy notes and I feel like I
barely use them because ourconversation was just so
effortless and I love thosetypes of conversations, but
before we hop off, can you justshare, like a song or an
(43:29):
affirmation that you go to whenyou need the reminder that you
are limitless?
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yeah, what would it get a Affirmation be?
I suppose I really just comeback to the basic ones.
When it comes to affirmations,you know, if you want to be
limitless, tell yourself you'relimitless, right, like say I am
limitless or I am enough, I ampowerful.
I remember Before, like after abreakup I went through, I just
(43:54):
kept on telling myself I am theprize, I am the prize, like.
I like to keep them reallysimple and just find something
that does connect with me onthat sense.
But rather than an affirmationfor you, I might just give you a
quote which is one that reallycarried me through my transition
out of, you know, my myArchitecture job into the
(44:14):
coaching industry, and then it'salso just followed me
throughout everything I've beendoing, even my travels as well,
and it's if you have the courageto begin, you have the courage
to succeed.
So whenever you are sort oflike feeling nervous or Unsure
about something that you'reabout to step into, come back to
that and tell yourself you know, I have the courage to begin.
Therefore, I have the courageto succeed.
(44:37):
If you want to turn that into alittle affirmation, I love that
.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I need to use that for myself right now.
Yeah, thank you so much, emily,and where can the listeners
find you to connect with youmore?
Speaker 2 (44:51):
I am so easy to find because it's the same name on
all platforms.
So if you want to come checkout my Instagram that's where
I'm the most active and I'm justempower with em on Instagram or
if you want to listen to myvoice more and have a listen to
my podcast, I've got I thinkit's over 200 episodes, since
I've been running this podcastfor the last three years of my
(45:13):
journey, so you can go check outthe empower with them podcast,
which is streaming on allplatforms.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Yay, amazing, yeah.
So thank you so much for beinghere.
It was such a joy to connectwith you and I feel I feel
really empowered just chattingwith you, so I'm sure the
listeners do too, and justappreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
I'm so glad.
Thank you so much for having me.
It was such a powerfulconversation.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Thank you so much for tuning in.
It means so much to me thatyou're here and that you're
taking the time to listen to thePodcast.
If you found this episode to bevaluable to you, it would mean
so much to me if you shared itwith your friends, who you think
could also really benefit fromthis message.
You can take a screenshot ofyou listening and tag me in your
Instagram stories.
I am at journey to limitlessunderscore.
(45:54):
That also gives me the chanceto connect with you and say
thank you.
So until next week, I hope thatyou have an amazing week ahead
of you and I'll talk to you then.
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