June 30, 2025 • 20 mins
In this heartfelt episode, I share what helped me emotionally and practically after the sudden passing of my Mum, including how I continued to run my coaching business with just 2–3 hours of work over the next month.
If you’re a coach, course creator, or online entrepreneur, and you’ve ever wondered how to build a business that can help you create your dream life AND hold you through real-life hard seasons, this episode is a must-listen.
You’ll hear:
- The emotional tools I used to process grief and stay grounded (like EFT, journaling, and nervous system support)
- What I had in place that kept my clients supported and sales coming in
- And that running a successful business and living a happy and meaningful life does NOT mean everything has to be perfect.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Today's episode is a really personal one.
I'm going to share what helpedme keep going emotionally and in
my business after my mum passedaway recently, including how I
continue to make sales even andserve clients during one of the
hardest months of my lifebecause your business should
support your dreams but itshould also hold you through the
(00:20):
hard times and yes it's possibleto have both.
So if you're building a coachingbusiness that needs to work even
when life doesn't, this episodewill show you what to put in
place now so you're supportedwhen you need it most.
Hey, welcome to the ConfidentCoach Academy podcast.
I'm your host Kushna Chadwickand if you have an audacious
dream to really be of service inthe world, build a profitable
(00:41):
coaching business online andhave an awesome life offline,
then my love, you are in theright place.
Together we're going to talkstrategy, mindset,
manifestation, thought work,energy work, all the things.
So let's dive in.
Hey my friend, welcome back.
Today's episode is a bit of atender one and also honestly for
(01:03):
me it's a really important one.
It's a bit more personal and Ireally debated about whether or
not to share about this and talkabout this publicly or not.
So it's definitely not a likehere's your five point checklist
kind of episode.
But yeah, I really want to talkabout what's happening or what
(01:24):
happens when life you know, justhappens when things go wrong or
when things are hard, like whensomething big or awful or
completely unexpected turns yourworld upside down.
Because for me recently, thatwas losing my mom.
And even though I have deepfaith, even though I, you know,
(01:48):
I know I'll see her again.
And even though I even had thiswonderful piece about her not
being in pain anymore it stillreally hit me like a truck quite
honestly so I want to share withyou what actually helped me
emotionally mentally andspiritually and also practically
(02:09):
what allowed my business to keeprunning even when I stepped away
and just you know focused onbeing a daughter and a human so
you know whether I you're inyour own hard season or you just
want to know how to build abusiness that can support you
through hard seasons, I hopethis episode really speaks to
(02:30):
you and helps you.
So let's dive in.
I just want to take you back fora second because I mentioned my
mum passed away, but the storyactually starts before that.
So we had this beautiful weekendand just last month or actually
it was the end of May because mymom's birthday is May 30th and
(02:52):
all the family gathered togetherlike tons of us.
She was living in Melbourne withmy brother and she was turning
80 or she turned 80 and so wewere there to celebrate her 80th
birthday.
We had like a Friday night, noyeah the Friday night on her
actual birthday dinner and justfor like the adults who wanted
(03:12):
to come and enjoy the eveningwithout children.
And then Saturday we had a bigfamily one.
I think there's about 60 of usthere.
But anyway, it was awesome.
You know, I've got the photosand the videos of us just
laughing and being silly and mumlooking amazing and soaking up
the goodness of it.
Like we had such an incredibletime.
(03:34):
and made so many beautifulmoments and memories.
And I'm so grateful.
And actually, my mom looked likea total baddie.
She looks so awesome.
We took her on a shopping spreethe day before her birthday.
It was myself, my sister Leanne,her partner Catherine, and my
daughter Aaliyah.
We took her out, you know,brought her some clothes.
(03:55):
She looks so awesome.
And I We just had a great time.
And away from the birthdayparties, we had some really
great conversations.
And I'm really grateful,actually.
Me and each of my children wereable to have some really
special, amazing moments withher.
So that was awesome, right?
And then a week later, we got acall from my brother, Daniel,
(04:20):
who she was living with, sayingthat mom couldn't keep her food
down and they were taking her tothe hospital.
And We were actually celebratingmy brother's birthday here on
that day and we just were reallyjust being hopeful that you know
it was something small.
Though my mum has like had a lotof different illnesses, had a
(04:41):
lot of different healthchallenges, we were just being
optimistic honestly and thinkinghopefully it was just something
that like she ate that she can'treally handle, she shouldn't
really have really eaten and youknow and they'll be able to help
her.
But at 4 30 a.m the next morningwe got another call and her
(05:02):
organs were shutting down andthey said that there was nothing
that they could do and obviouslywe were all gutted like you know
that kind of feeling when maybeyour whole body goes cold or
you're like you can't swallowproperly because it's like this
lump in your throat it was likethat kind of feeling and anyway
(05:25):
I struggled to think aboutgetting on a plane to try and go
see her because I was afraid shewould pass away while I was in
the air.
But, you know, by the grace ofGod, I got a flight along with
one of my daughters, a sisterand a nephew.
(05:45):
And we made it.
And I'm so grateful.
I made it to her bedside abouthalf an hour, 40 minutes before
she passed.
And I was able to, you know,hold her hand and tell her that
I love her.
And I thanked her for like allthe awesome things she'd done as
(06:10):
my mom.
And then she was gone.
And even though I've walked withgrief before, this felt really
different.
And I know some of you willrelate in different ways, right?
(06:32):
And I'll say even though I knewshe was at peace, you know,
because she was in a lot of painbefore she went, even though I
had so much faith, I just feltlike a part of me died with her.
And like I was still functioningand I was making decisions and,
(06:57):
you know, doing my best to showup for my family, particularly
my siblings.
But I felt like my spark wasjust gone.
So what do you do when thathappens, right?
So how do you not fall apartcompletely?
Well, you know, and I'm notsaying you shouldn't fall apart
(07:19):
completely, you know.
But how do you hold yourselftogether, not in a power through
it way kind of thing, but in agentle, loving way so you can do
what you need to do in life?
(07:40):
You know, because for us, therewere a lot of decisions that
needed to be made reallyquickly.
And even little things like itwas a public holiday in
Melbourne.
where she lived the next day andso there was just lots of little
challenges and decisions thatneeded to be made and so and I
needed to be a part of thatprocess so here's what I did and
(08:05):
I'm sharing this in case ithelps you when your version of
hard comes because let's be realnone of us are immune to life
being lifey, you know?
So I just really quickly want togo through some of the things
that were really helpful for me.
And these are tools that Iteach.
all of my clients whether you'rein a course of mine like high
(08:29):
ticket sales or you know whetheryou're in the high ticket sales
accelerator or whether you're inmy leverage mastermind or a
private coaching client like umor any or not all of my other
little low ticket courses butyou know some of them but I love
to teach a lot of these toolsbecause life lives so anyway the
(08:51):
first one is EFT or tapping andI've been using tapping for
years I think I'm coming up Ithink it's around 18 years now
but that particular weekhonestly it became like my
lifeline I did some tapping onthe plane I did tapping after
(09:12):
receiving the news that shewould pass away I even tapped in
the hospital and quietly in ahospital room.
And I want to add this, forthose of you who know EFT or
emotional freedom technique, youknow, called tapping, it wasn't
to get rid of the feelings.
(09:33):
Okay, I just want to be reallyclear on that.
But it was just to help meprocess and breathe through.
And I know that like there's alot of different opinions on
grief.
I don't think there's any setperiod of of time that's the
right amount of time to grievebut I think we can look at our
lives individually and say likehow long do I want to grieve and
(09:58):
how long do I feel I want tolike sit in all the hard
feelings of it all right and sofor me I knew that it was
probably going to come like thewaves of grief but I didn't want
to sit in it like a really longtime.
(10:20):
So I started doing work to helpme breathe through it from the
day that it started.
Another thing that I did is Ireached out to one incredibly
safe friend.
Now I did speak to multiplefriends who I love all of them
(10:40):
and I'm so grateful for all ofthem.
But in terms of me reaching out,I reached out to You know, I
didn't post about it.
I didn't message 20 people.
I just messaged one friendinitially.
And that's the one I knew wouldbe there no matter what I was
(11:00):
feeling.
And if you don't have a friendlike that yet, I want you to
know it's possible.
It does take time.
You have to invest in the, youknow, in the right people.
But oh my goodness, it's worthit.
So of course, I had clients andpast clients and friends reach
out and all of that meant somuch to me.
And like I said, I was reallygrateful.
(11:22):
But yeah, I think when you'regoing through your season of
hard, it's important for us alsoto just reach out to that one
person ourselves.
And for some of you, if youreach out and that one person's
sucky, then reach out one moretime.
(11:42):
Okay.
Anyway, so that's what I did.
It was really helpful for me.
The next thing that I did was Ilooked after my body and I,
okay, a confession.
I rushed to the airport and Ionly grabbed magnesium as my
supplement.
I really didn't bring anythingelse.
I literally packed two pairs ofsocks and one of them I lent to
my niece on the second day I wasthere.
(12:04):
So for, I think almost entireweek, you know, cause I didn't
have time to like go to theshops and anyway we're all a bit
of a hot mess but I had like onepair of socks which I was like
thank goodness my feet don'treally sweat and anyway so I was
there and I got sick I it wasfunny because one of my sisters
(12:28):
was sick here who was visitinglike before we heard the news
about mum and And I was like,I'm fine.
My immune system's strong, blah,blah, blah.
But the moment I heard thatmum's body was shutting down,
that her organs were closingdown, I could feel myself like,
like, nah.
I was like, my body literallysaid to me, nah, you're getting
(12:48):
sick.
And I mean, I laugh about that,but it was awful.
Actually, it spiraled soquickly.
Like, so from the time of, like,I didn't, like, we actually had
heard that you know, like Isaid, the day before mum passed
away that she was sick.
Um, and then we got a call at1230 with news that she might
(13:11):
need like surgery.
And there was a whole bigdiscussion on that.
From that point on, I was, Icould feel myself starting to
like, Oh, this is starting toget to me.
And so, um, and I just sharethis cause I don't normally get
sick.
Like I can count on two fingers,the number of times I've gotten
sick over the, like, I don'tknow, the last 15 years.
Right.
And that was one of them.
And, um, Yeah, I got so sick.
(13:35):
And in our culture, we actually,so for those of you who don't
know, I'm part Māori, and sonative New Zealander.
And what many of us do is wewill have the body, it's called
a marae, M-A-R-A-E, if you wantto look it up, a marae, or at
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our house, if we don't haveaccess to a marae.
And being in Australia here, wedon't have a marae.
And so anyway, mum came back toour house and we lay with the
body.
And usually it's like for threedays.
And because the body's beenembalmed, the room's going to be
(14:18):
cold.
And so it's winter.
It was still winter inMelbourne.
And so it was freezing and I wassick and grieving and doing a
lot of things.
And yeah, so...
How did I look after my body?
I'm like telling you a bit of along story there.
But, you know, I did a lot ofthings.
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So supplements was one of them.
When I got home, I got back tohigh quality food and I added my
supplements back in.
And within days, I could feel myenergy shifting.
And it wasn't about beingperfect.
It's just supporting myself asbest as I could.
We have to support ourselvesnow.
(15:02):
even in our grief or the heart.
And in fact, I would saysupporting our body and looking
after our body, especially inthe hard seasons of life is so
important.
So another thing that I did is Ijust sat in my infrared sauna.
It's like my little cocoon ofsafety.
I'd go in, sweat it out, put onhealing frequency music and just
(15:23):
be no agenda, no pressure tofeel better, just release.
And Often I do, like, journalingwhile I'm sitting in there or
tapping or sometimes I studywhile I'm in there as well.
But a lot of the time I just satand sometimes– I journaled,
which was the last thing that Iwant to say.
I did it not every day and notin a dear diary way, but when
(15:46):
things felt too much or I justwanted to let out some of my
feelings, I'd write.
And it helped a lot.
It made the swirling thoughts orthe heavy feelings a lot wider
and a lot better.
And I had some amazing insightsand beautiful revelations,
actually, in the sauna.
It was amazing.
(16:06):
Anyway.
So that's that side of things.
Now, let's go to the businessside of things, right?
Because I do run a business andI've got coaching clients and
programs, a podcast, launches,content, all the things.
And I want to be super honestwith you.
I didn't run everything.
(16:29):
I didn't keep runningeverything.
You know, I wasn't showing updaily on social media, you not
even in my own Facebook group.
And there were little thingsthat didn't get done.
And you know what?
I just think that's totallyokay.
You need, well, I say you need,I think we need to normalize not
(16:54):
being on all of the time.
So if you feel like you alwayshave to be on, I just want to
say you don't have to always beon to run an amazing business
that you can, you know, thatsupports you in your life.
So yeah, I just wanted tonormalize that I didn't do
everything.
Everything didn't go likeexactly the way it would have if
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I had like, you know, beingworking in my business as usual.
So yeah.
you're allowed to not perform,especially when your heart is
shattered.
So that said, my business didn'tfall apart, right?
Because I'd set it up to supportme even when I can't or don't
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want to support it, you knowwhat I mean?
So I calculated the amount oftime I worked, not exactly
because my mind's a little bitfoggy from some bits, but I
think I probably worked two tothree hours max the month after
mum passed and my business keptgoing clients were still being
(18:01):
looked after people were stillenrolling in my courses money
still came in and it's notbecause you know I'm some
amazing whatever it but it'sbecause I've built something
that I um that I call the hybridmodel and a lot of other coaches
also use a hybrid model becauseit's amazing right and So let's
(18:24):
talk about that for a sec,because this is the thing I'm
feeling really passionate aboutnow, helping coaches like you
build a hybrid model that givesyou both freedom and income.
So what does that actually mean?
So it means you have...
low ticket and high ticketoffers.
(18:44):
It means you've got evergreenprograms that people can join
every day.
It means that you've got systemsthat sell and deliver for you
even while you're asleep or yousob or you sit in the corner,
corner, the sauna.
Oh dear, dear, dear.
I mean, you could sit in thecorner in the sauna.
(19:04):
Anyway, that model, thatstructure is what carried me
through the darkest month of mylife.
I wasn't doing sales calls Iwasn't pushing a launch I wasn't
showing up every day like I saidbut people were still finding me
buying from me getting coachedby me all because the business
had been built that way onpurpose it's what I help my
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clients do now not just to scalebut to have something that
actually supports their life youknow because life like I said
earlier life will life and whenit does I just want you to have
a business that can breathe withyou as well so um Yeah, okay, if
you're still here listening, Ijust want to say thank you.
Thank you for letting me sharemy heart.
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And if this hit home for you, ifyou want help building that kind
of business, a business thatmakes great money, serves your
people beautifully, and givesyou room to rest, grieve,
travel, live, then come find meon Instagram.
Just come to Krista ChadwickOfficial.
And make sure you message mebefore you get distracted by
(20:09):
your life or by whatever is onInstagram.
Just go into my DMs and I'll puta link and just comment leverage
or yeah, just message me theword leverage and I'll send you
the details or more info aboutmy leverage mastermind.
It's where I love helping myclients make this hybrid model
(20:30):
your new normal.
It's where your offers, yoursystems, like all the structure
and your energy finally worktogether to build a business
that you'll love and that willsupport you and your clients.
So thanks again for being herewith me.
Take care of yourself.
Lots of love and sunshine andI'll catch you soon.
Today's episode is a really personal one.
I'm going to share what helpedme keep going emotionally and in
my business after my mum passedaway recently, including how I
continue to make sales even andserve clients during one of the
hardest months of my lifebecause your business should
support your dreams but itshould also hold you through the
(00:20):
hard times and yes it's possibleto have both.
So if you're building a coachingbusiness that needs to work even
when life doesn't, this episodewill show you what to put in
place now so you're supportedwhen you need it most.
Hey, welcome to the ConfidentCoach Academy podcast.
I'm your host Kushna Chadwickand if you have an audacious
dream to really be of service inthe world, build a profitable
(00:41):
coaching business online andhave an awesome life offline,
then my love, you are in theright place.
Together we're going to talkstrategy, mindset,
manifestation, thought work,energy work, all the things.
So let's dive in.
Hey my friend, welcome back.
Today's episode is a bit of atender one and also honestly for
(01:03):
me it's a really important one.
It's a bit more personal and Ireally debated about whether or
not to share about this and talkabout this publicly or not.
So it's definitely not a likehere's your five point checklist
kind of episode.
But yeah, I really want to talkabout what's happening or what
(01:24):
happens when life you know, justhappens when things go wrong or
when things are hard, like whensomething big or awful or
completely unexpected turns yourworld upside down.
Because for me recently, thatwas losing my mom.
And even though I have deepfaith, even though I, you know,
(01:48):
I know I'll see her again.
And even though I even had thiswonderful piece about her not
being in pain anymore it stillreally hit me like a truck quite
honestly so I want to share withyou what actually helped me
emotionally mentally andspiritually and also practically
(02:09):
what allowed my business to keeprunning even when I stepped away
and just you know focused onbeing a daughter and a human so
you know whether I you're inyour own hard season or you just
want to know how to build abusiness that can support you
through hard seasons, I hopethis episode really speaks to
(02:30):
you and helps you.
So let's dive in.
I just want to take you back fora second because I mentioned my
mum passed away, but the storyactually starts before that.
So we had this beautiful weekendand just last month or actually
it was the end of May because mymom's birthday is May 30th and
(02:52):
all the family gathered togetherlike tons of us.
She was living in Melbourne withmy brother and she was turning
80 or she turned 80 and so wewere there to celebrate her 80th
birthday.
We had like a Friday night, noyeah the Friday night on her
actual birthday dinner and justfor like the adults who wanted
(03:12):
to come and enjoy the eveningwithout children.
And then Saturday we had a bigfamily one.
I think there's about 60 of usthere.
But anyway, it was awesome.
You know, I've got the photosand the videos of us just
laughing and being silly and mumlooking amazing and soaking up
the goodness of it.
Like we had such an incredibletime.
(03:34):
and made so many beautifulmoments and memories.
And I'm so grateful.
And actually, my mom looked likea total baddie.
She looks so awesome.
We took her on a shopping spreethe day before her birthday.
It was myself, my sister Leanne,her partner Catherine, and my
daughter Aaliyah.
We took her out, you know,brought her some clothes.
(03:55):
She looks so awesome.
And I We just had a great time.
And away from the birthdayparties, we had some really
great conversations.
And I'm really grateful,actually.
Me and each of my children wereable to have some really
special, amazing moments withher.
So that was awesome, right?
And then a week later, we got acall from my brother, Daniel,
(04:20):
who she was living with, sayingthat mom couldn't keep her food
down and they were taking her tothe hospital.
And We were actually celebratingmy brother's birthday here on
that day and we just were reallyjust being hopeful that you know
it was something small.
Though my mum has like had a lotof different illnesses, had a
(04:41):
lot of different healthchallenges, we were just being
optimistic honestly and thinkinghopefully it was just something
that like she ate that she can'treally handle, she shouldn't
really have really eaten and youknow and they'll be able to help
her.
But at 4 30 a.m the next morningwe got another call and her
(05:02):
organs were shutting down andthey said that there was nothing
that they could do and obviouslywe were all gutted like you know
that kind of feeling when maybeyour whole body goes cold or
you're like you can't swallowproperly because it's like this
lump in your throat it was likethat kind of feeling and anyway
(05:25):
I struggled to think aboutgetting on a plane to try and go
see her because I was afraid shewould pass away while I was in
the air.
But, you know, by the grace ofGod, I got a flight along with
one of my daughters, a sisterand a nephew.
(05:45):
And we made it.
And I'm so grateful.
I made it to her bedside abouthalf an hour, 40 minutes before
she passed.
And I was able to, you know,hold her hand and tell her that
I love her.
And I thanked her for like allthe awesome things she'd done as
(06:10):
my mom.
And then she was gone.
And even though I've walked withgrief before, this felt really
different.
And I know some of you willrelate in different ways, right?
(06:32):
And I'll say even though I knewshe was at peace, you know,
because she was in a lot of painbefore she went, even though I
had so much faith, I just feltlike a part of me died with her.
And like I was still functioningand I was making decisions and,
(06:57):
you know, doing my best to showup for my family, particularly
my siblings.
But I felt like my spark wasjust gone.
So what do you do when thathappens, right?
So how do you not fall apartcompletely?
Well, you know, and I'm notsaying you shouldn't fall apart
(07:19):
completely, you know.
But how do you hold yourselftogether, not in a power through
it way kind of thing, but in agentle, loving way so you can do
what you need to do in life?
(07:40):
You know, because for us, therewere a lot of decisions that
needed to be made reallyquickly.
And even little things like itwas a public holiday in
Melbourne.
where she lived the next day andso there was just lots of little
challenges and decisions thatneeded to be made and so and I
needed to be a part of thatprocess so here's what I did and
(08:05):
I'm sharing this in case ithelps you when your version of
hard comes because let's be realnone of us are immune to life
being lifey, you know?
So I just really quickly want togo through some of the things
that were really helpful for me.
And these are tools that Iteach.
all of my clients whether you'rein a course of mine like high
(08:29):
ticket sales or you know whetheryou're in the high ticket sales
accelerator or whether you're inmy leverage mastermind or a
private coaching client like umor any or not all of my other
little low ticket courses butyou know some of them but I love
to teach a lot of these toolsbecause life lives so anyway the
(08:51):
first one is EFT or tapping andI've been using tapping for
years I think I'm coming up Ithink it's around 18 years now
but that particular weekhonestly it became like my
lifeline I did some tapping onthe plane I did tapping after
(09:12):
receiving the news that shewould pass away I even tapped in
the hospital and quietly in ahospital room.
And I want to add this, forthose of you who know EFT or
emotional freedom technique, youknow, called tapping, it wasn't
to get rid of the feelings.
(09:33):
Okay, I just want to be reallyclear on that.
But it was just to help meprocess and breathe through.
And I know that like there's alot of different opinions on
grief.
I don't think there's any setperiod of of time that's the
right amount of time to grievebut I think we can look at our
lives individually and say likehow long do I want to grieve and
(09:58):
how long do I feel I want tolike sit in all the hard
feelings of it all right and sofor me I knew that it was
probably going to come like thewaves of grief but I didn't want
to sit in it like a really longtime.
(10:20):
So I started doing work to helpme breathe through it from the
day that it started.
Another thing that I did is Ireached out to one incredibly
safe friend.
Now I did speak to multiplefriends who I love all of them
(10:40):
and I'm so grateful for all ofthem.
But in terms of me reaching out,I reached out to You know, I
didn't post about it.
I didn't message 20 people.
I just messaged one friendinitially.
And that's the one I knew wouldbe there no matter what I was
(11:00):
feeling.
And if you don't have a friendlike that yet, I want you to
know it's possible.
It does take time.
You have to invest in the, youknow, in the right people.
But oh my goodness, it's worthit.
So of course, I had clients andpast clients and friends reach
out and all of that meant somuch to me.
And like I said, I was reallygrateful.
(11:22):
But yeah, I think when you'regoing through your season of
hard, it's important for us alsoto just reach out to that one
person ourselves.
And for some of you, if youreach out and that one person's
sucky, then reach out one moretime.
(11:42):
Okay.
Anyway, so that's what I did.
It was really helpful for me.
The next thing that I did was Ilooked after my body and I,
okay, a confession.
I rushed to the airport and Ionly grabbed magnesium as my
supplement.
I really didn't bring anythingelse.
I literally packed two pairs ofsocks and one of them I lent to
my niece on the second day I wasthere.
(12:04):
So for, I think almost entireweek, you know, cause I didn't
have time to like go to theshops and anyway we're all a bit
of a hot mess but I had like onepair of socks which I was like
thank goodness my feet don'treally sweat and anyway so I was
there and I got sick I it wasfunny because one of my sisters
(12:28):
was sick here who was visitinglike before we heard the news
about mum and And I was like,I'm fine.
My immune system's strong, blah,blah, blah.
But the moment I heard thatmum's body was shutting down,
that her organs were closingdown, I could feel myself like,
like, nah.
I was like, my body literallysaid to me, nah, you're getting
(12:48):
sick.
And I mean, I laugh about that,but it was awful.
Actually, it spiraled soquickly.
Like, so from the time of, like,I didn't, like, we actually had
heard that you know, like Isaid, the day before mum passed
away that she was sick.
Um, and then we got a call at1230 with news that she might
(13:11):
need like surgery.
And there was a whole bigdiscussion on that.
From that point on, I was, Icould feel myself starting to
like, Oh, this is starting toget to me.
And so, um, and I just sharethis cause I don't normally get
sick.
Like I can count on two fingers,the number of times I've gotten
sick over the, like, I don'tknow, the last 15 years.
Right.
And that was one of them.
And, um, Yeah, I got so sick.
(13:35):
And in our culture, we actually,so for those of you who don't
know, I'm part Māori, and sonative New Zealander.
And what many of us do is wewill have the body, it's called
a marae, M-A-R-A-E, if you wantto look it up, a marae, or at
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our house, if we don't haveaccess to a marae.
And being in Australia here, wedon't have a marae.
And so anyway, mum came back toour house and we lay with the
body.
And usually it's like for threedays.
And because the body's beenembalmed, the room's going to be
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cold.
And so it's winter.
It was still winter inMelbourne.
And so it was freezing and I wassick and grieving and doing a
lot of things.
And yeah, so...
How did I look after my body?
I'm like telling you a bit of along story there.
But, you know, I did a lot ofthings.
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So supplements was one of them.
When I got home, I got back tohigh quality food and I added my
supplements back in.
And within days, I could feel myenergy shifting.
And it wasn't about beingperfect.
It's just supporting myself asbest as I could.
We have to support ourselvesnow.
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even in our grief or the heart.
And in fact, I would saysupporting our body and looking
after our body, especially inthe hard seasons of life is so
important.
So another thing that I did is Ijust sat in my infrared sauna.
It's like my little cocoon ofsafety.
I'd go in, sweat it out, put onhealing frequency music and just
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be no agenda, no pressure tofeel better, just release.
And Often I do, like, journalingwhile I'm sitting in there or
tapping or sometimes I studywhile I'm in there as well.
But a lot of the time I just satand sometimes– I journaled,
which was the last thing that Iwant to say.
I did it not every day and notin a dear diary way, but when
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things felt too much or I justwanted to let out some of my
feelings, I'd write.
And it helped a lot.
It made the swirling thoughts orthe heavy feelings a lot wider
and a lot better.
And I had some amazing insightsand beautiful revelations,
actually, in the sauna.
It was amazing.
(16:06):
Anyway.
So that's that side of things.
Now, let's go to the businessside of things, right?
Because I do run a business andI've got coaching clients and
programs, a podcast, launches,content, all the things.
And I want to be super honestwith you.
I didn't run everything.
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I didn't keep runningeverything.
You know, I wasn't showing updaily on social media, you not
even in my own Facebook group.
And there were little thingsthat didn't get done.
And you know what?
I just think that's totallyokay.
You need, well, I say you need,I think we need to normalize not
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being on all of the time.
So if you feel like you alwayshave to be on, I just want to
say you don't have to always beon to run an amazing business
that you can, you know, thatsupports you in your life.
So yeah, I just wanted tonormalize that I didn't do
everything.
Everything didn't go likeexactly the way it would have if
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I had like, you know, beingworking in my business as usual.
So yeah.
you're allowed to not perform,especially when your heart is
shattered.
So that said, my business didn'tfall apart, right?
Because I'd set it up to supportme even when I can't or don't
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want to support it, you knowwhat I mean?
So I calculated the amount oftime I worked, not exactly
because my mind's a little bitfoggy from some bits, but I
think I probably worked two tothree hours max the month after
mum passed and my business keptgoing clients were still being
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looked after people were stillenrolling in my courses money
still came in and it's notbecause you know I'm some
amazing whatever it but it'sbecause I've built something
that I um that I call the hybridmodel and a lot of other coaches
also use a hybrid model becauseit's amazing right and So let's
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talk about that for a sec,because this is the thing I'm
feeling really passionate aboutnow, helping coaches like you
build a hybrid model that givesyou both freedom and income.
So what does that actually mean?
So it means you have...
low ticket and high ticketoffers.
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It means you've got evergreenprograms that people can join
every day.
It means that you've got systemsthat sell and deliver for you
even while you're asleep or yousob or you sit in the corner,
corner, the sauna.
Oh dear, dear, dear.
I mean, you could sit in thecorner in the sauna.
(19:04):
Anyway, that model, thatstructure is what carried me
through the darkest month of mylife.
I wasn't doing sales calls Iwasn't pushing a launch I wasn't
showing up every day like I saidbut people were still finding me
buying from me getting coachedby me all because the business
had been built that way onpurpose it's what I help my
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clients do now not just to scalebut to have something that
actually supports their life youknow because life like I said
earlier life will life and whenit does I just want you to have
a business that can breathe withyou as well so um Yeah, okay, if
you're still here listening, Ijust want to say thank you.
Thank you for letting me sharemy heart.
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And if this hit home for you, ifyou want help building that kind
of business, a business thatmakes great money, serves your
people beautifully, and givesyou room to rest, grieve,
travel, live, then come find meon Instagram.
Just come to Krista ChadwickOfficial.
And make sure you message mebefore you get distracted by
(20:09):
your life or by whatever is onInstagram.
Just go into my DMs and I'll puta link and just comment leverage
or yeah, just message me theword leverage and I'll send you
the details or more info aboutmy leverage mastermind.
It's where I love helping myclients make this hybrid model
(20:30):
your new normal.
It's where your offers, yoursystems, like all the structure
and your energy finally worktogether to build a business
that you'll love and that willsupport you and your clients.
So thanks again for being herewith me.
Take care of yourself.
Lots of love and sunshine andI'll catch you soon.
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