You’re Not Behind. You’re Becoming.

In this powerful kickoff to the new Build in Public podcast series, Chantal Cox shares the raw, real story behind her decision to return to CALYL, not with a polished “I’m back,” but with an honest reemergence in motion.

This episode explores what it means to lead through chaos, reclaim your voice after burnout, and build a business that aligns with your soul...not just your strategy.

Through vulnerable storytelling and strategic clarity, Chantal walks you through:

• The inner pull that reignited CALYL

• Why she’s publicly modeling the messy middle of leadership reinvention

• And how she’s inviting you, a Purpose-Driven Impact Leader (PDIL), to join her in designing a business (and life) that’s spacious, impactful, and aligned

If you’ve been feeling behind, this episode is your reminder: You’re not behind. You’re becoming.

🔑 What You’ll Learn:

• Why “next-level leadership” isn’t about doing more, it’s about becoming more of who you already are

• How Chantal is using her own story to model her Unleashed Impact Leadership™ Framework in real time

• What Build in Public really means (and how it builds trust and momentum)

• What to expect from the upcoming series (and how to walk this journey with her)

🕒 Episode Timestamps:

• 00:00 – Welcome to the Build in Public Series

• 00:59 – A season of burnout, AI focus, and the nudge back to CALYL

• 03:25 – The role of PDILs in a world craving purpose and transformation

• 05:37 – Why I’m choosing to lead transparently (and imperfectly)

• 07:37 – An invitation to rise...together

• 08:28 – What’s next and how to stay connected

📬 Stay Connected:

• 💻 Website: Create a Life You Love Coaching

• 📸 Instagram: @createalifeyoulovecoaching

• 💼 LinkedIn: Connect with Chantal

• 💬 Free Facebook Community: Create a Life You Love Community

🎧 Love the Episode? Let Others Know!

Please take a moment to rate and review the show — it helps us amplify this movement of purpose-driven leadership.

👉 RateThisPodcast.com/calyl

✨ Call to Action: Ready to Go Deeper?

If you felt something stir during this episode...the nudge to pause, to realign, to step more fully into the leader you already are, then this is your invitation.

In my 1:1 coaching, we don’t just talk about transformation. We co-create it.

Together, we will:

• Uncover and release what’s keeping you stuck or small

• Reconnect you with your vision, your values, your voice

• Design a business that’s aligned, sustainable, and impactful

• Use AI tools with intention to free up your energy and amplify your leadership

You’ll get high-touch support and walk beside someone who’s walking it with you, in real time.

If that’s what you’re craving, let’s explore it.

👉 Book a free Connect Call and tell me what part of this episode landed most for you.

I’d love to hear your story.

#UnleashedLeadership #PDIL #RippleEffectLeadership

Episode Transcript

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What if your next level ofleadership wasn't about doing more?

(00:04):
Rather, it's more about becomingmore of who you already are.
So right now, if you're like me, you'vebeen in maybe a period of feeling very
overwhelmed, but also feeling called,called to rise, called to lead, called
to be a light in this world right now.

(00:26):
That's what this podcastseries is gonna be all about.
Welcome to the Create a Life You Lovepodcast, the go-to podcast for people
who are called to make a positive impact.
Through the power of coaching,you'll hear encouraging stories from
coaches sharing their journeys andtheir lessons learned along the way.
Tips from top experts who helpcoaches thrive in their life and

(00:49):
their business and so much more.
So if you are ready to createa business and a life of impact
that you love, let's get started.
Hey everybody, welcome back to the Cradle.
If you love podcast, I'm ChantelleCox and it has been a minute, so I
absolutely love this podcast, butI had to put this and pretty much

(01:12):
all of cradle life you love on hold.
To go focus on building the foundationsof our other business AI Biz Connection,
where we are building AI tools, systems,frameworks to help purpose-driven leaders,
leverage technology and AI to really makethe impact that they're meant to make.

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And as I was doing that work and asthe world is just kind of happening.
I found myself personally with a lotof anxiety and uncertainty, and I
was reacting to things that I can'tcontrol, but I can control how I
respond to it, how I feel about it,how I process it, what I do with it.

(01:58):
So I kind of asked if I don'twant where I'm at now, this
spiral anxiety, blah, right?
What is it that I want?
And it just kind of occurred to me thatI've had other times in my life that
felt kind of crazy, um, when I, with noplanning, no preparation, jumped in a
car and moved back across state lines,filed for divorce, didn't have a job,

(02:22):
didn't have a place to live, had no plan.
And out that came, transformation, growth.
And my book, when the World ShutDown from Covid and I was trapped
in my house by myself with my cat.
All my activities and socialization andnetworking and things that I love that
light me up, were just put on pauseand there's all the uncertainty and

(02:46):
unknowns and craziness on social media.
I started this podcast, sohere I am again and kind of a
crazy, chaotic, uncertain thing.
What am I gonna do with this time?
Who do I wanna be?
Well, I wanna use this time to step intothe next level of my leadership, and part

(03:09):
of that level of leadership is bringingyou along with me and helping you also
evolve into your next level of leadership.
Because whether it's now a yearfrom now, like there's always
gonna be crazy crap in the world.
There's always gonna be uncertainty,there's always gonna be chaos.
Um, the world needshealing and transformation.

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What I love about being a coach andworking with coaches is that I truly
do believe that coaches are going tobe, um, the catalyst of the healing
and the change and the transformationthat this world so desperately needs.
I've kind of narrowed down intothat niche and I love that niche.
But then as I'm talking to otherpeople who are creating such a

(03:52):
big impact and have such a bigmission and purpose and are being
transformative lights in this world.
But so I taking a step back and lookingat it as purpose-driven impact leaders.
So those of you out there, whetheryou call yourself a coach or not.
You are a leader, youare creating an impact.

(04:13):
You are living in your purpose, whetherthat's through podcasting, writing books,
um, speaking on stages or podcasts,sharing your story, sharing your message,
sharing your wisdom and knowledge.
You're being a light in the worldthough, all that processing happened
and about a week ago, I made alittle Facebook post and I put it out
there and it got great engagement.
I'm super excited.

(04:34):
And then I did what I alwayshave done in the past.
I dug down, I started planning andmapping out behind closed doors
with the camera off silently,where nobody can benefit from it.
I'm not providing any value.
I'm not helping anybody in any way.

(04:55):
I'm just in this likeplanning rebranding mode.
Right.
And it's super fun 'cause I'm usingall the tools and frameworks that
we've built over an AI biz connectionto relaunch, rebrand myself,
and create a life through love.
And it dawned on me, I could easilyspend three months doing this
and be perfectly happy doing it.
I love just really diggingin deep and really kind of

(05:18):
envisioning what's this next level?
Who does that serve?
And that aligns with aprevious version of myself.
As I'm moving into this next levelof leadership, how can I use this
time to provide value to you andbring you along this journey with me?
So this episode is kicking off thislittle series within the Creative Life

(05:42):
You Love podcast that roughly right nowI'm calling it like a build in public.
So, no, I'm not going to take you on thehours and hours that I am going to spend
on this, but I am going to capture anddocument pieces that would be helpful
for you, walk you through what I'm doing,why I am doing it, the thought process,

(06:03):
um, how I'm leveraging AI and technologyto help me do it better and faster.
Each week I'm going to release a shortpodcast episode like this and, um,
create a blog post around it and sendan email and post on social media.
So wherever you wanna follow along, um,those are the places you can do so at,

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and each week I will share at least oneactionable thing that you could do too to
follow along with this journey and stepinto your own next level of leadership.
This is your invitation, uh, to joinme, uh, to rise alongside me, to be the
light that the world needs you to be.
You're already doing it.
You're already out there making an impact.

(06:48):
Let's be intentional abouthow we do it moving forward.
'cause whatever we did to get us herewas awesome and took resiliency and
grit and hard work and dedicationand sacrifice, and it got us here and
that's a beautiful thing, but it'snot gonna get us to our next phase.
Let's take a step back.
Let's think through some of the thingsthat we've thought through before.

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I know everyone's like, oh gosh,I've done all the work on my
ideal client and my niche and mygoals and my vision and all that.
Yeah, yeah.
We have.
We have done a lot of thatwork, and it got us here.
We have evolved, we have grown.
The people that we are servinghave evolved and grown.
So with intentionality, well,let's take a little step back.

(07:33):
Let's go through the process again.
Level up.
If this is really resonating and you'relike, I don't just wanna see the cliff
notes and the one to two action itemsthat you're gonna share publicly.
I wanna do this deep, deep work too.
I'm opening up just twoone-on-one spots to work with me.

(07:54):
And use the exact AItools that I am using.
Have the accountability, have the guidanceand transform you and your business
and your impact from the inside out.
So if that's resonating and you wannago to the same depth that I'm going with
your business, just reach out to me.
Um, and I would love to chatwith you, find out more about

(08:16):
you, your business, your impact,um, and see if it's a good fit.
There's no pressure.
I have a rough outline ofwhat that would look like.
Because it's gonna look a lot likewhat I'm doing with my business.
Um, but we will adapt andtailor it to your needs as well.
All right, so next week, staytuned because we're gonna
actually start diving in.
This was the intro, and next week we'rereally gonna dig into creating that new

(08:39):
vision and a holistic vision, not justyour vision of what you want your business
to look like, but every area of your life.
And.
So I'm going to personally walk throughthe same activity that I take all my
clients through, but I'm going to uplevelit because that's what I'm doing, right?
Um, and my vision is to create thekind of first beta tester of an AI

(09:05):
tool that would help you do it as well.
And it's gonna be a free AI tool.
And so on the episodeI'm going to explain.
Why we're doing it, how to do it,share the free AI tool with you and
then just kind of ask that you give mefeedback so I can make it better, and
it will eventually become part of myentire big signature coaching program.

(09:26):
Um.
You get a sneak peek at it and a sneakpeek behind the curtains on this journey
and have your own transformation as well.
I'm very excited to kickthis journey off with you.
I'm also a little nervous becauseI know it's not gonna be perfect.
It's gonna be messy, um, and that's okay.
It serves nobody to work quietlyand then roll out the seemingly

(09:53):
perfect thing months later.
It's okay to acknowledge that ittakes work and it takes time and it
takes patience and there's gonna betimes of frustrations and struggles
and transformation isn't easy.
Stepping into the next version ofyourself isn't easy, and it's okay to
share that and to acknowledge that.
So if this has been resonating,I would love to hear from you.

(10:15):
Um, reach out, let me know.
What you're excited for.
Um, if there's certain things thatyou wanna make sure I cover, if you
have certain questions, uh, justanything, just connect with me.
I love hearing from you,connecting with you, and.
That's it for today.
Just kind of like a little overview intro.
So for now, I'm going to signoff and enjoy the journey.

(10:43):
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