Being successful meant getting rich or marrying rich… until Whitney Cox forged her own path! After deciding success was something she could define on her own terms, Whitney made her way from Wall Street to Columbia, from cancer to remission, and from employee to owner of her own business. Join us as we learn more about achieving contentment through 1. Listening to Your Intuition 2. Utilizing Your Experiences and 3. Defining Success for Yourself. More About Whitney Cox: Once a wall street trader, Whitney worked hard to tick the boxes for conventional success. When she was diagnosed with cancer at 39 she underwent a double mastectomy and subsequently uprooted her life to begin again in Colombia! She now hosts incredible, dance-filled retreats to bring you back to life! Highlights -  [03:33] - Whitney's journey and finding fulfillment in unexpected ways. [05:51] - Pivoting even after finding success. [08:09] - Always following your heart. [10:41] - About Warrior Girl and Whitney's methods to nurture intuition. [12:16] - Finding your own version of living authentically. [13:59] - Trusting to your intuition. [17:28] - Whitney's advice for those on the entrepreneurial path. Connect with Whitney -  Instagram: instagram.com/whitneycox1 Website: www.warriorgirlcoaching.com

Clarity In Real-Time

3 Ways to Find Contentment with Whitney Cox

"Thoughts are optional.”  Ever feel like life is happening TO you? Or maybe you struggle with remaining productive while the rollercoaster of life gets a bit too wild? In this episode, Lena Elkins teaches us the process of how we naturally respond to our circumstances...Then, she digs into how we can break the cycle and change the results to suit our goals. As a speaker, teacher and coach, Lena helps passionate people work through the mindset blocks so they can find solutions and achieve success. "Thought Work," in this case, looks like a five-step process that helps us uncover the why behind our emotional responses. Lena explains how adjusting our thoughts will allow us to alter how we experience any given situation. Taking charge of our thought patterns is an empowering practice that saves us from remaining in a state of buffering. Lena reminds us not to let go of thoughts from a place of judgement, but rather to learn the skills required to "accept each thought for what it is, judgment-free." This way, we can more swiftly let it go and move forward. Highlights:  [04:10] - The 5 Components of Thought Work  [07:12] - Maintaining clarity through examining your thoughts [13:27] - Accepting a thought before letting it go [16:37] - Empowerment and stepping out of victim mode [19:25] - Recognizing and analyzing negative thoughts [26:32] - Start at the thought line, not the action line [27:46] - Persistence and The Compound Effect About Lena: Lena Elkins is the CEO & Head Coach at Infinitude Coaching, which has coached thousands of coaches and service providers internationally on mastering their business growth, lead generation and sales success. Lena is a speaker & trainer, thought leader, and member of the Forbes Coaches Council, and has been featured in over 100 media outlets worldwide including Forbes, Entrepreneur, NBC, Entrepreneur On Fire, and many more. Connect with Lena: Website: lenaelkins.com  The Profitable Foundations Mastermind https://click.lenaelkins.com/pfbuy3get3

The Secret to Responding with Intention with Lena Elkins

Building a community. Launching a business. Teaching others. These areas of the leadership journey can bring stress, even (especially) as they bring success.  How can we balance this plus the weight of what we carry in everyday life? In this episode, we learn about Ortho-Bionomy and how a deeper understanding of the human suit we all wear can provide not only the tools to handle the stress of success, but also to gain clarity in our business and personal lives.  Today’s guest Sheri Covey, is the founder and director of the Rocky Mountain Ortho-Bionomy Center (it's the only complete and comprehensive ortho-bionomy training program in the U.S. )! She shares her deep knowledge and understanding of the body (or what I lovingly call your "human suit") and how it’s functioning relates to our access to inner clarity.  We also learn about Sheri's incredible leadership journey in launching a school plus her experience in collective co-creation, and how these have allowed her to step deeper into roles as instructor, daughter, and human.  Key Takeaways and Tools  [1:27] - What is Ortho-Bionomy?  [4:21] - A philosophy for business, life, and creating your authentic voice and place in the world.  [6:20] - Recognizing and listening to our internal reactions and emotions.  [8:30] - Instructing others as equals. [15:06] - Core driving philosophies.  [18:49] - Principles of building a community.  [23:54] - Recognizing failure as important and how it ties into the ladder to success.  * Want to learn how to experience Ortho-Bionomy for yourself?  Check out Rocky Mountain Ortho-Bionomy Center: http://www.rmobcenter.com  * "What is Ortho-Bionomy?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpcRl8l_ehg&feature=youtu.be

Tools for Handling the Stress of Success with Sheri Covey

Are you a multi-passionate person who longs to make an impact? Have you been focused on all the "shoulds" around you? Our latest guest, Sumi Krishnan, is a breath of fresh air who inspires us with her commitment to stepping into her highest self for her own wellbeing, and for the greater good. After having reached massive success in business, Sumi found she still wasn't quite in alignment. Things felt off. She was living in the "should," and things weren't going to change until she asked herself the question, "What if I lived from a place I wanted to be?" Only then did she find a way to engage her three big passions: social change, music and business.  Now, Sumi is living in alignment and feeling "FULLY ALIVE," which she mentions comes with all the feelings. She gets real, sharing, “and just because you’re on your aligned path, that doesn’t mean you won’t face challenges.” It isn't all sunshine and rainbows and we love her candor on living this aligned life. Tune in and find out how following her highest excitement is leading to fulfillment she's never known before!  Highlights:  [8:15] - Focusing on your passion and what you really want.  [11:45] - What it feels like living your aligned path.  [19:15] - Finding alignment for all of your passions.  [23:03] - Dealing with overwhelm.  [24:46] - Sumi's #1 piece of advice.  About Sumi: Sumi Krishnan is an artist, activist and entrepreneur currently living in Nashville, TN. A serial entrepreneur by nature, she spent her twenties building a multi-million dollar consulting firm with hundreds of employees serving healthcare and national security missions. Now, she's making waves in her thirties, too. She's taken a deep dive into wellness, human potential and trying to figure out what it really takes to impact large-scale public problems and create a more equitable world. She is currently building a platform to help leaders leverage their power to affect social change.  Apply for the Co-Create 2020 New Years Eve Impact Accelerator: www.cocreate2020.org

Do you feel fully alive? Step into your highest self with Sumi Krishnan

Entrepreneurs and business leaders are goal-oriented people. Always striving for success, chasing the dream. But, what if you obtain the success, you’re living the dream, and it turns out it isn’t quite what you expected? What happens if you achieve your ultimate goal only to realize your “why” wasn’t as clearly defined as you’d thought? Our guest experienced and overcame just that. She achieved her dream of running a successful business that allowed her to travel the world practicing her craft with the freedom of working for herself. Yet, when it came down to it, she didn’t feel fulfilled. She didn’t feel free. Today’s guest is Brooke Genn, a retreat photographer and creative director. In this episode. Brooke talks about the realizations she made that allowed her to pivot from what she thought was her dream into a more fulfilling business, and life, in line with who she actually is. She tells us how she was able to create a sustainable passion-driven business and how knowing yourself, your habits, and your passions allows you to align your business to match YOU. Highlights: [4:29] - Reaching your ultimate goal and realizing you want something deeper. [6:20] - Finding your deeper why. [8:14] - Aligning your business, passions, and habits. [12:59] - How to have a sustainable passion-driven business. [14:34] - Responsible NOs. Brooke Genn is an entrepreneur who’s not afraid to pivot. She’s run businesses from international wedding photography to copywriting and even a vintage boutique! Prone to spontaneity and likely to set sail on a moment’s notice, she always takes the road less traveled. She and her husband, Wilhelm, both work remote and have loved living the digital nomad dream, though they’re now choosing to create a season of slow travel and stillness. These two even live in a luxury solar-powered tiny home on wheels! Links: Retreat Photography https://brookeandwilhelm.passgallery.com/portfolio Self Love || 30 Day Body Image Project https://www.instagram.com/brookegenn/ Life in a Luxury Tiny Home https://www.instagram.com/luxurytinyhome/ Email brookegenn@gmail.com

How to Sustain a Passion-Driven Business with Brooke Genn

They say building a successful business is more of a marathon than a sprint. Life is an endurance test. It's reasonable to lose focus and have dips in inspiration over the course of our lives and our businesses. So, how can we maintain clarity and drive as entrepreneurs, or even just as humans? Today's guest has incredible tools for doing just that. As a professional endurance athlete and a personal coach, Elizabeth Sampey is intimately familiar with the arts of slowing down, reclaiming and maintaining focus, learning to trust your intuition, and discerning intuition from fear. Want to join Elizabeth and Dainella in-person? Apply for the upcoming D11 retreat in Mexico! Learn more @ www.destination11.com/november2019 Key Takeaways and Tools [8:36] - The art of slowing down. A process to calm the nervous system. [11:38] - The calming process step by step. [13:58] - Learning to discern intuition from fear and anxiety. [23:46] - Finding focus and inspiration within yourself. Elizabeth Sampey holds a doctoral degree in physical therapy and has extensive training in athletic performance, not only as a sponsored expedition extreme sports athlete and enduro mountain biker racer, but also as a coach. Her powerful belief in the vital importance of involving the whole person, body-mind-soul, shines through in all her work. As a coach she blends psychoemotional, trauma-sensitive somatic and energetic healing techniques to maximize integration and facilitate the actualization of clients full potential. Links Connect with Elizabeth Sampey, personal coach and professional endurance athlete, on Instagram! www.instagram.com/elizasampey www.instagram.com/vital_motion

Dancing to your own beat with Elizabeth Sampey

Communication. It is vital in effective team leadership and key to healthy personal relationships. But what to do when communication goes astray as it can so easily do in a pressured environment like a growing business? Today's guests know how to foster the kind of communication that can thrive under pressure, help resolve both the poor performance within your team and the conflict that can appear between co-founders. They speak about how they use their differences to their benefit, EQ (emotional intelligence) in business leadership and partnership, and how they maintain room for humanity within the systems they construct.  Don't miss the take home tips on how to have successful founders meetings, effective team coordination, and how to keep the human factor forefront in business growth for long-term success. Michee Santos and Alla Camacho are the founders of ineedamchiee.com, a Virtual Assistant (VA) Service company that seeks to help startup entrepreneurs grow further by ensuring they are able to work ON their business and not IN it. In addition to years working as business partners, they are also partners in life and love. Both Michee and Alla had years of VA experience before they started ineedamichee.com. While they can do almost any VA related task, they’ve grown to have their own specialties. Alla builds great Customer Support and Marketing foundation for your business, while Michee leans more towards Systems Building and Implementation - those repeatable scalable processes that are vital to growth. This combination of their complimentary zones of genius has grown INAM into the successful business it is today. Links: Free Guide - Your VA Process Made Easier: https://www.ineedamichee.com/freeguide-hiring Website: https://www.ineedamichee.com/ Alla's cooking on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homecookedcravings/ Michee's projects on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/curiousinitiatives/

Taking the confusion out of co-founder communication

As established, successful women we often live reactively, barely able to catch our breath as yet another demand comes our way. Because we are so often being of service to others, we lose track of what WE want even though we know somewhere deep inside that there must be a better way to live, with time and space for US. Learn about skills to a access and sustain a high-frequency life you love full of choice, spaciousness, and connection with today’s guest Isabelle Tierney. We discuss several of the tools and tips that you can use to achieve a high-frequency life and Destination11 all-women's retreats. Learn to let go of stress and overwhelm, discover your vision, achieve inner clarity, rewire old habits, and deepen the trust in your intuition. Achieving and sustaining a high-frequency life… [01:50] - What does it mean to live a high-frequency life? [05:36] - Steps to achieve a high-frequency life.  [09:09] - Steps to sustain a high-frequency life.  Tools and Tips… [13:13] - Connecting through gratitude.  [16:07] - Viewing the world through the lens of love and recognizing when you are viewing it through the lens of fear. [18:04] - The Destination11 jump! Transitioning from low frequencies to high frequencies, fear to love. [19:38] - Isabelle’s short term and foundational shift methodology and steps to making the Destination11 jump. [25:44] - Honesty in partnership and finding differences that create more connection, not less. Isabelle Tierney is the founder of “The Feel Good Life: How to Create Success without Stress” and creator of a methodology that allows you to live at your highest vision of yourself no matter what the world throws at you. A licensed therapist, Isabelle has been in private practice internationally since 1996, helping people learn to live passionate, sacred and awakened lives. She’s on the team of the Unconventional Life, a business accelerator program for entrepreneurs, ranked #1 by Inc. Magazine. She also teaches, consults, trains and presents for various professional groups, businesses, and organizations. To learn more about Destination11 Retreats (next up with only a few spots left is Mexico November 5-9th, 2019!) Destination11.com - https://destination11.com Guest Links Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OurFeelGoodLife/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thefeelgoodlife/

Turn Up Your Frequency & Create More Choice for Yourself with Isabelle Tierney

Utilizing marketing for the betterment of local economies and combining entrepreneurial spirit with personal passions to create a positive global impact. Today's guest is doing just that. Florence Turiaf is the Founder of Global Island Girl, where she helps upgrade world travel by focusing on things that truly matter as an entrepreneur, speaker and explorer. Not only has Florence created a business fueled by her passion for travel but also driven by her desire to make a positive impact on the world. She talks to us about social entrepreneurship, keeping business goals inline with moral responsibilities, the value of external feedback and more. Guest Links: Instagram Globalislandgirl.com Facebook 

Flo Turiaf - Global. Island. Girl. (need I say more?!)

We all have a dream. It may be to find a more fulfilling line of work or taking the entrepreneurial path to launch your own business. How can you accomplish this dream? Interestingly, this may not be the most important question. Today's guest is April Cunningham, a Dream Accelerator and Confidence Coach. Her mission is to help women everywhere come out of hiding and step confidently into their power. As a Dream Accelerator, April helps people identify and achieve their dream faster. In this episode, April gives us the questions to ask yourself and the questions that should drive you when pursuing your dream. She also talks about her mindset when overcoming the fear to follow her dream as well as accessing, sustaining, and regaining flow state. Guest Links: AprilCunningham.com Instagram Facebook

April Cunningham on Accessing Flow State to Accelerate Your Dreams with Confidence

Dual roles, bandwidth demands and forward progress.  Exploring our perceived bandwidth limitations and how there can be enough through the eyes of a new mother, business owner and relentless curator of a community commercial kitchen space in the Colorado mountain town of Gunnison. Rachel Alter is the owner & lead baker at Pedals & Pastries, Founder at the Kitchen Project in Gunnison Colorado, and newly a mother. Join us as Rachel speaks about surprising results in progress to entrepreneurial goals from new motherhood and how she does it. Guest Links: Instagram pedalsandpastries.com Pedals and Pastries on Facebook The Kitchen Project on GoFundMe 

Dual Roles in Entrepreneurship with Rachel Alter

“There comes a time for most entrepreneurs, especially those launching a culture, that you have to come to peace with what rises as you expand. " - Lorena Palazzo What rises in you as you push your comfort zone in expansion? Are there currents of conditioning as a woman in our culture driving some of your actions, fears, decisions or behaviors? What happens when we examine those conditions, those potential tamings? Today’s guest is Lorena Palazzo and her way to inner clarity is untaming, which to her is the undoing of her conditioning as a woman. Join Lorena and I in a look into the world of untaming and how it can be leveraged to unlock greater inner clarity in entrepreneurship. Lorena Palazzo was born and raised in Australia by italian parents, she is a single mom of a gorgeous 13 year old daughter and has been helping young women to retirees since 2008 to stay in tune with their purpose through untaming their conditioning as a woman. What does it mean to be untamed?  Un·Tamed |ƏNˈTĀMD| Adjective -NOT DOMESTICATED OR OTHERWISE CONTROLLED. CAN ALSO MEAN: WILD, UNRULY CHAOTIC, BOLD, FORTHRIGHT, OPPOSITE, UNPALATABLE, UNAPOLOGETIC, FIERCE! Learn more about what untaming could mean for you at lorenapalazzo.com by joining in her free monthly group calls. https://lorenapalazzo.com/ https://www.facebook.com/LorenaPalazzoUntamedWoman/ https://www.instagram.com/untamedwoman_/ 

UN-Taming with Lorena Palazzo

Authentic conversations with entrepreneurs on how they access and sustain inner clarity to stay aligned with their values and goals, and how they leverage that clarity in their leadership to effectively communicate with and inspire others.