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- 0:00Welcome to the Realtor Who Wines podcast.
- 0:02I'm Rachelle Newmeyer, your hostess with the mostest a student of life, a connector, a passionate wine enthusiast, and your local favorite guide.
- 0:10Join me as we explore the vibrant Pacific Northwest.
- 0:14Savor the finest wines and champion the spirit of entrepreneurship.
- 0:18Each episode, I'll sit down with inspiring guests, supporting business ownership and uncovering the stories that make this community unique.
- 0:25So grab a glass of wine, settle in, and let's embark on a journey of discovery and connection together. Cheers.
- 0:32Hi everyone.
- 0:33Welcome back to the Realtor Who Wines podcast.
- 0:35I'm Rachelle Neumeyer, your realtor who loves to whine.
- 0:38Today I am joined with Candace and I cannot wait for you to hear all about her journey and her coaching business.
- 0:44But first, I'd like to say cheers to you.
- 0:47Today we are drinking a Pinot Noir, so we are in Pinot Noir country.
- 0:51We both love a Pinot Noir and we are drinking, from the Oregon Wine Company.
- 0:55I am the Pinot noir there at a dandy Oregon.
- 0:58There tasting room is. Anyways.
- 0:58Have you been there before?
- 1:00I haven't. It's a that's they're really cool.
- 1:03They're partnered with Duck Pond Cellars as well as Ransom spirits.
- 1:06So if you're wine tasting or somebody that doesn't like wine, they have spirits and learn to it just pretty cool.
- 1:11So it's a nice little spot.
- 1:12And they do their kid friendly pet friendly.
- 1:15Well I shouldn't say pet.
- 1:15Don't bring any. And all pets are.
- 1:18But dog friendly for sure.
- 1:19So that's a cool little spot.
- 1:21But thank you so much for being here today.
- 1:23I really appreciate it.
- 1:25Will you go ahead and introduce yourself to everybody and tell them a little bit about you?
- 1:28Yeah.
- 1:28Thank you so much for having me, Michel.
- 1:30I'm so excited to be here.
- 1:32My name is Candace.
- 1:33I am the founder of Joyful Consulting, and it is a consulting and coaching business where I work with individuals to help them find joy and bring balance back into their life and help them just overcome some barriers that you might feel stuck in life with.
- 1:55You know, I think about, some of my clients or even myself personally, where you're at a point in your life where you're just you're putting every bit of energy that you have into your business or into your work and your family, and you want to go to that next level, but you don't know how to do that because you're so overwhelmed with all of the tasks and responsibilities that you have.
- 2:19And I work with people and help prioritize time management and be able to figure out what those invisible barriers that we give to ourself are and be able to achieve that next level, growth.
- 2:33What made you want to veer this way?
- 2:36Because I've known you for a long time.
- 2:38I know other roles that you have in your life.
- 2:40But this has been something that was, like stirring within you for a while.
- 2:45And I'm glad that, like you did, go ahead and take the plunge and start your own business with that.
- 2:50But what was like some of the initial thoughts of why you wanted to launch this business?
- 2:55I have for somebody that's very, shy and introverted.
- 3:00I've always found myself in situations that have been much more public facing and in leadership roles.
- 3:07And what I have found is that naturally, I am a problem solver, and folks would come to me with questions or asking for advice, and I always found myself in this natural coaching mindset of just, hey, why don't we try this?
- 3:27And maybe this could work?
- 3:30And I found a lot of joy and fulfillment in seeing people that I knew and cared for reach their goals and hit that next level.
- 3:45And I was meeting with a business coach for myself and having these conversations with her, and just had this thought that maybe I could do this to you.
- 4:00And in a more affordable way.
- 4:04One of the first business coaches that I ever had was a very significant investment, and I'm so glad that I made it.
- 4:10It was incredibly beneficial.
- 4:13But I think about so many folks that I know, women in particular in that don't have the ability to make the financial investment that a lot of crashes come with.
- 4:27And I wanted to come up with a way to make it accessible for anyone to be able to have that support.
- 4:36A so true.
- 4:37Especially like if you're launching a business that's already scary and women are naturally like risk averse.
- 4:43And so then it's hard to like justify, especially if you don't know what will this coach be?
- 4:50The coach that helps take me to the next level, or helps my business launch in a certain way.
- 4:56And I've seen like business coaches before that are like up to ten grand.
- 5:00And if you're just starting out, you don't even have $1,000 to be being a coach.
- 5:04Little on ten grand.
- 5:05And even then, like justify and like, well, what if I spend this money and it doesn't help make any money and it could hurt my family.
- 5:12So I love that you had that mindset of like, how can I be accessible for everyone, no matter where they are in their business if they need a boost?
- 5:21So you're definitely there to help guide them and help them.
- 5:23Yeah, exactly.
- 5:25And my passion for this truly comes from wanting to help people grow and get to that next level, and to be there as a supporter and cheerleader.
- 5:38And I know for myself, it feels so much more achievable when you have somebody in your corner.
- 5:45Oh, for sure.
- 5:46Well, as you know, like being a business owner, like it can feel very siloed sometimes, especially when you're just launched, launching like your own thing.
- 5:55You might not have employees. Yeah.
- 5:56You might not have a storefront.
- 5:58Depending on what kind of business you have, you might not have any clients.
- 6:01So you're just like working alone and your business.
- 6:04And so it's really nice.
- 6:05That's why I advocate a lot for having a business coach, because one, a business coach is going to help you identify, the things that you won't know that you're missing, because they'll have a bigger high in the sky like eye in the sky picture of, like, what you're doing, and you're just like, in the weeds a lot when you're building your business.
- 6:25But to it takes away that like silo feel and gives you community and somebody to like, bounce ideas off of and things like that.
- 6:33Yeah.
- 6:33And the accountability piece you mentioned what it's like to be working only for yourself.
- 6:40Yeah. You don't have employees.
- 6:41And when you're an entrepreneur, you don't have a boss telling you what to do.
- 6:47And you might have tasks and things that you want to do.
- 6:51I want to do this on my Instagram page or my social media, or I want to reach out to this many potential clients.
- 6:59And you don't do that.
- 7:01Really, the only person that you're letting down is yourself.
- 7:04Totally. But there's no accountability.
- 7:06But if you're meeting with somebody and you're meeting with that coach weekly and you're saying, this is what I'm going to do, sometimes just knowing that somebody is going to ask you, hey, did you make those posts that you talked about?
- 7:19Did you reach out to those potential clients?
- 7:22Right?
- 7:23Is that motivation to help keep you in it when things feel really daunting and overwhelming? Right.
- 7:31And it's nice to have that accountability help keep you on track.
- 7:34Yeah, well sometimes too, depending again on like what kind of business you're launching, but like, let's just take an artist for an example.
- 7:40Like if you are a painter, right?
- 7:42And you want to like actually start selling your paintings at like wineries or galleries and stuff, you might not even know how to do that.
- 7:50Like you're really great at painting and you're a beautiful artist, but like, you don't know, how do I get to the level where I have my own gallery?
- 7:57How do I get to the level where I have a person that's taking my paintings to these different galleries or wineries, and so I can just do what I love, which just painting.
- 8:06But you have to, like, build your business in that direction.
- 8:08And that's why having someone like you in their life is so important, because you can help give them the stepping stones to get there.
- 8:15Otherwise, sometimes you're just like, floundering.
- 8:17Like, well, I talked to two people and they said no.
- 8:19So I guess this isn't for me.
- 8:20But then somebody else was in their corner saying like, well, they said no because of this.
- 8:25And when you approached them, how did you approach them?
- 8:28Like, did you have a solid like, I'd like to have my art here for three months.
- 8:31This is how you would bring it up.
- 8:32This is how you let me know how to package it, like all that kind of stuff.
- 8:36Or did you just walk in and say, can I hang my paintings in here?
- 8:39You know, there's like totally different, but somebody like you would help, like have a whole presentation, unlike what you would do when you walk into a gallery or something, you know. Exactly.
- 8:47And there is no harm in not knowing what you don't know.
- 8:53And how would you know?
- 8:55Like, we don't all just like, wake up one day knowing all this stuff right?
- 8:58And truly, I think the there's this idea that for a lot of self-made, successful people that are totally self-made.
- 9:10But the reality is, is that it's rarely by yourself.
- 9:14Oh yeah.
- 9:15And having the right people with you, the right people that you can go to and call on for support and how this feedback is a step that I think gets overlooked a lot.
- 9:31Totally.
- 9:31Because there's this idea that I should have been able to do this by myself.
- 9:37Yeah.
- 9:37Or that you don't need that support or that you're somehow failing because maybe like to your point, you're a great artist, but that doesn't mean that you're an expert in managing the business side of it, or thermal marketing, or QuickBooks or the accounting side.
- 9:54There's so many nuances. Totally who it.
- 9:57And that's where having the right people in your corner is so important.
- 10:02Absolutely.
- 10:03What is like some of the things that you've seen with your clients that has been like common, like a common like limiting belief for a common thing that they didn't know?
- 10:17I work with primarily women, and one of the biggest, I would say, self-limiting beliefs that most women that I work with have is that they have to do it all, and they have to be perfect while they're still doing it.
- 10:40And this belief that I can't achieve this goal until I am X, Y, Z, fill in the blank with whatever it is until I've reached a point that I feel successful enough to say, okay, now I can share what I'm doing.
- 10:59Now I can do this when the reality is, is that you'll never reach that point if you don't take those primary steps first, right?
- 11:10Yeah.
- 11:11How do people normally get in touch with you?
- 11:14Like do they find you on Instagram on your website?
- 11:18Like what's the way that people normally or is it by referral?
- 11:21A lot of times yeah.
- 11:22Right now it's referral based.
- 11:25I do have a website that just went live recently.
- 11:30I have my social media, my Instagram page, but for the most part, it's really just word of mouth from people that have worked with me.
- 11:39And then they share how it was impactful to them.
- 11:43Yeah.
- 11:44And when people reach out to you, do they meet with you more like on a weekly basis as a kind of I'm assuming it's ala carte, like, whatever they need.
- 11:53But I think that's one thing that hesitate sometimes people from getting a coaches or like got it on time.
- 11:59But how do you not have time to build your business?
- 12:01But you know what I mean.
- 12:02But but some people were like, well, I don't have an hour every week or I don't have that.
- 12:06So like, what do you normally do?
- 12:08I'm assuming you cater to the client.
- 12:10So it's a little bit broad question.
- 12:12But on average like what's your normal relationship dynamic look like?
- 12:16I would say that for coaching to truly be impactful, it needs to be at least every other week.
- 12:23Weekly is preferred because that cadence of consistency is the most important aspect of it.
- 12:32And again, it's going to vary with each person.
- 12:37I do have some larger packages.
- 12:41If somebody wanted to get six months and say, let's do this for six months, I have that is an option.
- 12:49But truly, I think that it's going to be different for each person and what their totals are and what they're looking for.
- 12:58I would say a minimum of 6 to 8 weeks to really see and hang full change and see results.
- 13:07And the first step is an initial consultation.
- 13:11I spend about 45 minutes to an hour, just kind of depending on the individual.
- 13:18Sure, I want to know them.
- 13:19What are their goals?
- 13:20Is this going to be helpful for you?
- 13:23What are you trying to reach?
- 13:24Okay, for some people, they don't even know yet.
- 13:28They're just trying to figure out what are my goals.
- 13:31And so we help, peel back those layers so we can find out what their goals are and put them into tangible steps, because it can be one thing to say, in six months, I'm going to have 500 followers on my Instagram, right?
- 13:48It's a completely different thing to say.
- 13:51This is what I'm going to do each day that's going to build this.
- 13:55And so we're going to focus on what do we do every single day, what are the small steps that we can take to include this.
- 14:04And one of the biggest conversations that I have generally within the first or second meeting is time management and prioritizing.
- 14:13Yeah, that's a huge one for any business owner and entrepreneur, because you are wearing all the hat that's really easy to get derailed on your schedule.
- 14:21Yeah. Like completely.
- 14:23I think the nice thing too, about having a business coach guiding you is coaches will ask deeper questions.
- 14:30So like if you said to me or I said to you, like, I want 500 subscribers by this month, I was like, what?
- 14:38But why?
- 14:39Like why 500?
- 14:41What do you think that's going to do for your business?
- 14:43Like because you can buy followers, you can buy subscribers.
- 14:47They're not going to buy from you though, right?
- 14:48That's just a number.
- 14:50So it's like, would you rather have like a hundred quality subscribers that people that actually engage with your content or are interested in your business or interested in your services or your products, or random 500 potential bots just to show like, oh, I got 500 subscribers, but coaches are the ones that will actually give a little bit of that tough love that'll like dig a little deeper and like, and what do you think that would provide for you?
- 15:13Like it's one thing if you're like, well, if I had 500, then I think it would give me notoriety.
- 15:19Okay, well how can we help you get that elsewhere?
- 15:22Right.
- 15:22And also in the meantime, because 500, it's not going to happen overnight, right?
- 15:26Right.
- 15:26Unless you get some random viral dance video or something.
- 15:29What, like those are far and few between.
- 15:31So like, how do we help you get there step by step.
- 15:34And that's like kind of stuff that you help guide everybody with.
- 15:37Exactly.
- 15:37And it's about again quality over quantity.
- 15:42And that comes into play in so many different aspects.
- 15:47And a lot of folks will look at that as a numbers game.
- 15:52When I was in real estate, I used to always try to work backwards.
- 15:56Okay, this is what I want to make.
- 15:58So that means I have to talk to this many clients and I have to do this many.
- 16:01Yeah. Touches.
- 16:02Which means I have to do this and you work backwards.
- 16:05And, when you're thinking again, it's it's what is really the the goal here.
- 16:13Is it really quantity that we're looking at.
- 16:16Is that what's going to be impactful.
- 16:18Is that sustainable.
- 16:20What can we put into place that is going to sustainably help you build a strong foundation that the outcome that you get is a bonus, right.
- 16:34What is it that you're building every day that is going to be sustainable even when it gets hard, even when you're not getting the outcomes?
- 16:43Because yeah, again, it's the consistency in what you do each day, each week that determines how that month and year are going to turn.
- 16:53Yeah, I use the analogy a lot of like going to the gym because everybody understands you like, gosh, I wish I wished you could walk into the gym and then walk out 30 minutes with the body you want what you can after you've done it for months, right?
- 17:08But like if you're just starting out and you walk into the gym, you're not living with like your dream body, you have to go back to the gym and you have to go back to the gym and everybody understands that because we all get what it means to, like, get fit.
- 17:20But it's the same thing with like social media and marketing.
- 17:23Like, you can't just post one time on Facebook and then be like, well, I got no orders.
- 17:28So Facebook doesn't work.
- 17:29And it's like, well, you only showed up one time.
- 17:32Facebook knows that and the people know that, right?
- 17:34And then it's the same with building on your business.
- 17:36You can't just try one thing one time.
- 17:38So to your point, I like that you try to make sure your clients really understand, like they should really give you a 3 to 6 months to truly see results because like that, same like going to the gym, like you're not really going to see results until like three months.
- 17:51Right?
- 17:51And it's still only going to be like 5 pounds or you're a little toner or you're just in the habits now.
- 17:56Right?
- 17:56A lot of it's habit developing, like the time management and stuff like that.
- 18:00So I like to use an analogy because most people can wrap their brain around the gym, they can't always wrap their brain around this other great concept.
- 18:08And this is where consistency again comes into play.
- 18:11He could do a workshop and spend an entire weekends, getting all of the information that I could probably give you, right.
- 18:21A couple of phone calls and you're like, yes, I have this.
- 18:25But the difference is, you don't get the growth without the consistency.
- 18:34So my daughter plays very competitive softball.
- 18:38She thinks up a lot of a lot of her time, which I love watching her thrive and succeed.
- 18:43Her growth comes from practicing every single day.
- 18:51Shorter practices, like, you know, an hour and a half a day of dedicating to her growth.
- 18:58Was much more impactful for her than having a long weekend practice.
- 19:05Oh, for sure.
- 19:06It's that daily consistency or the weekly consistency.
- 19:09Again, it's those things that you do right now, not in the future, that make the biggest impact.
- 19:17And the biggest momentum is also really the small steps that you don't want to take into account, because that, yeah, it gives you the gratification.
- 19:27It doesn't give you the gratification.
- 19:28So, you know, okay, I ate my salad today.
- 19:32That was boring.
- 19:34You know. Yeah.
- 19:35But when you implement that every single day, eventually you'll get to that point where you're like, oh, okay.
- 19:40I do see the progress that I've made.
- 19:43Right. Absolutely. Well.
- 19:44And so the softball example too, like she can also do shorter practices every day because she has the fundamentals and the foundation.
- 19:53So when she's at practice, even though it's shorter, she can really just work on like one thing or like a handful things on a game.
- 20:00It's like natural.
- 20:00And then just like happens.
- 20:02And I think business buildings are saying like, first you're going to spend more time on it longer days, especially when you're starting out, because you got to build the foundation, you got to get systems in place, and then you just fine tune it after a while.
- 20:15So that's why I like working with someone like yourself, especially in the beginning, more often will really just help you get all of that stuff in place.
- 20:24I know we've talked a lot about, businesses just starting out, but do you have clients that have like, oh, I've already been in business three years, but now I'm ready to take myself to the next level.
- 20:33You want to talk about that and how that's a little bit different than fresh starts?
- 20:38Absolutely.
- 20:39I do work with clients that are much more established.
- 20:42And again, that is just to your kind of point that you mentioned the the fine tuning, right?
- 20:48It's the areas of, okay, what can I try that's going to get me to that next level, or how do I bring more joy into my life?
- 20:55How do I find that balance and do work with those clients?
- 20:58I also work with businesses, and I do leadership development with managers and get help.
- 21:04Folks that are in the management position become better leaders, more equipped to handle the challenges that staff can ring.
- 21:16And yeah, it's nice.
- 21:17And being able to work through, particularly challenging situations and being able to handle them with grace and looking at creative ways to engage your staff or engage your clients, or what is it that that I want to do?
- 21:36Am I living a life that feels aligned with where I want to be?
- 21:43And if there's misalignment, let's see if we can find out where that's at and oftentimes for the women that I've worked with that are more established in their careers, it's less about them getting to the next level in their business and more about them finding that joy again in their life because they've become so consumed with work and their careers and where they're at that they feel like they're not able to be present in moments with their family, or enjoy their time off, or feel this guilt that they can't just turn off.
- 22:22Right.
- 22:22And it's helping make those attunement to where they're living a life that feels aligned and balanced and joy.
- 22:33And that doesn't mean that I spend 40 hours at work, so I spend 40 hours at home having fun right?
- 22:39It's finding that alignment to is what I'm doing truly in alignment with who I am?
- 22:47Yeah.
- 22:47Because if what you're doing for work isn't bringing you joy, you might want to consider something else.
- 22:54Oh, for sure.
- 22:55It's a significant, investment of our time.
- 22:58And where do you where does that put you?
- 23:01Where do you get to be?
- 23:02Well, and that's why you see a lot of people make transitions, like, because I really wish that, like, we all went to college in our 30s.
- 23:10Yeah.
- 23:11Because, like, I feel like in your 20s, you should just work a bunch of random jobs and, like, learn some skills. See?
- 23:17Like what you actually want to do.
- 23:18Because what I wanted to do and I was like in my 20s guy or like my late teens or early 20s going to college, I thought I was going to be a movie star right?
- 23:27Not surrealistic, but.
- 23:28And also, like, I wasn't actually wanting to do the steps that would take to truly be a movie star, right?
- 23:36Like, I just enjoy theater and I enjoy entertaining people, but if I would've went to like my undergrad and my 30s, it would have been like, oh, I love business, because having jobs after college is what showed me.
- 23:49Like, I actually have a business mindset and I'm really good at business, and I like sales and I'm good with people.
- 23:55And now I wish, like, although I love my theater degree and I wouldn't say no to it again, probably, but I wish I would have also incorporated way more business stuff and like, not just like what I wanted to do right when I was 19.
- 24:09If we would have went to college in our 30s, we'd be in like a totally different spot.
- 24:13You know, and you probably would like, have a degree that you truly would like use. That's why so many people don't like they have jobs that have nothing to do with their degree.
- 24:22But I was just saying all that to just say, like, you just don't even know what you're not good at until someone like points it out to you.
- 24:30And you also don't know what you're good at until you try.
- 24:32And if you hate your every day, a 9 to 5 job, or maybe you hate being an entrepreneur and you miss having structure and someone telling you like this is what you should be doing today, and I need you to work on this project.
- 24:43That's okay.
- 24:44But like just finding that and identifying that, like, are you an entrepreneur?
- 24:48Are you someone that wants a structured schedule?
- 24:50Are you someone that like, wants to like climb the corporate ladder?
- 24:53All of these things are fine as just deciding what's right for you.
- 24:56Yeah, and you work with people too, that aren't just business owners.
- 24:59They are somebody that like, works at corporate and they just want to learn how to be a better leader, like you said, like in management and stuff too.
- 25:05So like growth is growth.
- 25:07It doesn't matter where you are, just taking growth as powerful.
- 25:11It really is.
- 25:11And you know, there's the the saying that, change is inevitable, but growth isn't. And you see such a I have I have some clients that through an organization that I coach with that, do the coaching because it's part of their job to do.
- 25:40And there are ones that truly want to focus on learning and growing, and you can tell the difference.
- 25:47Okay. Sure.
- 25:48And when you have that growth mindset, I think it just opens up so many more opportunities for you.
- 25:55Yeah.
- 25:56Well, and sometimes it isn't even all about like, how do I make more money or how how do I do this?
- 26:01It's like what you're talking about.
- 26:03We can't spend 40 hours at home equally the way we do at work, but we can be more intentional with our time.
- 26:10So if we have ten hours, that's like one on one kid time.
- 26:13Yeah. Be intentional.
- 26:14Whether it be present, be like doing stuff in the moment with your kiddos.
- 26:18And that kind of changes the balance too.
- 26:20But you sometimes need to learn how to do that, right?
- 26:23Well, and I know for myself that if I were to work 30 hours in a project that I don't like, that 30 hours is draining.
- 26:36So draining, and it is difficult and I don't feel my best.
- 26:41I don't act my best. Yeah.
- 26:43And then I could spend 50 hours doing something that I am passionate about.
- 26:51And at the end of that time, I feel invigorated.
- 26:54I again understand why that's self and am able to be more present in those moments, to be intentional, because I'm not using everything that I have to struggle through something that is not breeding joy and goodness and in alignment with where I want to go.
- 27:14Think that's one of the biggest challenges that I actually see where you get the feeling stuck, you get the like, I don't know what to do.
- 27:23I'm stuck here.
- 27:23I'm in the straw because I have to be and I have to pay my bills and I have to do this.
- 27:28My head's like food, right?
- 27:30Everybody want shelter?
- 27:31Those things are important.
- 27:32Yeah, I'll turns out it turns out well, I'm like, as a mom to you, I want to tell your daughter, like, oh, we can't do softball this year because I didn't want to stay at my job, right? Yeah.
- 27:41So what can we do to find ways to incorporate life giving moments throughout the day that allow you to breathe, that allow you to recenter yourself and fill your cup.
- 27:57So that way you can then pour into the things that you love at the end of the day, or on your days off.
- 28:04Yeah, I think one thing that's been really cool in the last ten years is the idea that it's never too late to do something new.
- 28:13Yeah, I think especially like our parents growing up and our parents parents, it was like, you got a career and you never left it.
- 28:19Like you even worked at the same company.
- 28:22It wasn't even like you're like, oh, I'm going to be a manager.
- 28:25I was like, I'm a manager at Jcpenney's for life or something, you know, like you didn't leave that company.
- 28:30And it was also like a big, like, badge of honor.
- 28:33And I've been like, I've been here 47 years, and now it's much more accepted and almost encouraged to move around.
- 28:41Because when you learn different things at different companies or also it is okay to be like, turns out I'm not a movie star, so I'm going to do a different job.
- 28:52You know, or whatever, but I can I'm just using that as an example.
- 28:55But like it is okay.
- 28:56Like I worked in retail for a long time and I loved it.
- 28:59But it's really long hours.
- 29:00It's really hard hours.
- 29:01And when I was younger, no big deal.
- 29:04But once I was becoming a mom and stuff, and then even my corporate jobs, like I just wanted to pivot how I spent my time.
- 29:11Yeah, I still work a ton of hours to your point, but they're more fluid and dynamic.
- 29:16And what I'm doing does film my cup because I'm also choosing what I'm doing instead of like, my brain doesn't do well with being told what to do.
- 29:26Yeah.
- 29:26But yeah.
- 29:29So like, it's just different.
- 29:31Like working 60 hours at my corporate job is not the same as doing 60 hours.
- 29:35I was like a realtor for me.
- 29:37Now it's just totally different.
- 29:39And it's finding that thing that is yeah, going to be that for you that still meets your needs.
- 29:45And it's never too late.
- 29:48Yes. You do that or too early or too early.
- 29:51Yeah. Right.
- 29:51There's the right time is now. Right.
- 29:55I think as soon as you identify.
- 29:58Oh this isn't for me.
- 29:59It's time to like start thinking about next.
- 30:02And you know your body knows.
- 30:04Yeah.
- 30:04Your gut if you're feeling anxious, if you're dreading every day you're on your alarm goes off and you're like, I have to go to work today.
- 30:14Yeah, yeah, totally different.
- 30:17And it's just like there's people even in their like 60s that are pivoting and like starting businesses or doing something completely different or now, I mean, we're living longer too.
- 30:28So there's people that are retiring from their one job and then starting a whole new company because they're bored and they don't want to sit at home all day. Right.
- 30:35So like, really, you can do whatever you want to do.
- 30:37You just kind of figure it out.
- 30:38Well, I told myself that because when I turned 40, I ran for the first time in my life, and now I'm preparing to run a half marathon.
- 30:46That's amazing. It's terrifying.
- 30:48Yeah. But amazing.
- 30:49You're training for it every day and getting stronger.
- 30:53And I'm.
- 30:54You know, it was something that I never thought that I could do.
- 30:57And even this defiance of doing something that I had told myself my entire life, I'm not a runner.
- 31:04If I'm running check on me, I'm probably being chased.
- 31:08Something's wrong, you know?
- 31:09And now I'm doing it on purpose.
- 31:10Yeah. And it just.
- 31:14I let so many excuses get in my head.
- 31:17Yeah.
- 31:17Turns out it is hard, but it's not impossible.
- 31:21No one.
- 31:22It just starts right with the first.
- 31:24Like, maybe the first time you went running.
- 31:26It was for ten minutes. Yeah, right.
- 31:28My, the first half marathon, I did my I always played sports.
- 31:32You played sports growing up, my mom never was, like, played sports or did anything.
- 31:37And randomly, she was like, I'm training for a half marathon.
- 31:40And I was like, you are.
- 31:42And then so I went and watched her and I cheered her on.
- 31:44And I was just, like, so proud of her.
- 31:45But also, like, I couldn't believe that she had done it.
- 31:48Like she's never been like that athletic person in our family.
- 31:52And then I thought, well, maybe I can do it.
- 31:53And then I made a joke that I would never run unless I was towards wine and food, and she signed me up for a half marathon.
- 31:58That was the wine and dying.
- 32:00And you ended at a wine and food festival.
- 32:02So she was like, joke's on you, lady.
- 32:04So the first so half marathon I train for.
- 32:06I was of course a Disney run too, but it was Epcot and I ended up at the Wine and Food Festival.
- 32:11I love, but I remember my first run because, like, I played even sports in college, so I was like, I'm an athlete.
- 32:17Clearly not today, but I thought, I can do this.
- 32:21No problem.
- 32:21I could not young run a mile.
- 32:23It was one also to like, my brain is like, this is boring.
- 32:26I'm bored.
- 32:27Like I'm not good as like shutting down.
- 32:30And so I remember the first time I completed a mile without stopping to walk or anything I like cried because I was just like so like, oh my God, I freaking did it.
- 32:37And it's a mental finally. Yeah.
- 32:40Mental accomplishment. Yes. Who?
- 32:42Because our bodies are capable of doing it.
- 32:44Totally.
- 32:45How many miles do you walk around Disneyland's like, do you care?
- 32:48Sure you care. I go, right? Yeah.
- 32:50We always joke around like, I'm not going to get 30,000 steps in unless it's at Disneyland.
- 32:55Eating all the snacks, right?
- 32:56Yeah, exactly.
- 32:57I yeah. So we can.
- 32:58It's just so much in our mental state that we give ourselves, barriers.
- 33:06Oh, flavor of excuses.
- 33:08And it that fear of failure.
- 33:11Totally.
- 33:12We think that we're taking over control by saying we're not going to do this, or I can't do this, or there's all these excuses, or we put a lot of weight on it.
- 33:22Like, for me now, I have done so many half marathons now that, like, I could do A5K even untrained mentally, totally fine.
- 33:31My body might hate me the next day, but my mind would be like three miles.
- 33:34No big deal.
- 33:35Because like I've done so many half marathons.
- 33:38But it's that's a whole mindset thing.
- 33:39Like before I ever did a half marathon, if you're like, let's go run three miles.
- 33:43I'm like, you're crazy. Yeah, why would we do that?
- 33:45That sounds terrible.
- 33:47It does sound terrible, and it probably will be terrible, but I will feel very accomplished.
- 33:51Yeah, well, but like now I love five K's.
- 33:53It's like a nice fun.
- 33:55I'll sign up for A5K all day, any day.
- 33:57I'm like, yeah, I'll sign you up.
- 33:59Let's go. Okay, I will go with you.
- 34:01Also on the marathon running thing the first time I did a half and my mind because of like growing up playing sports, being competitive, I thought if you don't run the whole thing, it doesn't count.
- 34:14Yeah.
- 34:14So it's like, back to that perfection.
- 34:17And I did it and I ran the whole thing.
- 34:18I said, like, obviously I got water, the water stops or whatever, but otherwise unless I'm not that coordinated.
- 34:23And so like, I actually do have to stop to drink the water.
- 34:26So like I would stop long enough to get the water.
- 34:28And then I was like back at it, the second half marathon, my I wanted to stay with my mom and she does run walk.
- 34:34Yeah.
- 34:35And so she like run first of all long and then walk for so long and run for so long.
- 34:38And I was just like, oh, that's not like really doing it.
- 34:41Well, then I did that with her.
- 34:42My body loved it because it's a lot easier on your body.
- 34:46But then when I was running, I was actually running faster because I was like recouped.
- 34:49So it's just again, shifting that mindset.
- 34:52So like now I'm like oh run walk.
- 34:54Best you do that all day every day, right?
- 34:56Like, who am I trying to I'm 43.
- 34:56I don't need them.
- 34:59Like I'm not getting a medal at the end of this, okay?
- 35:01I'm running for the hot dogs at the end or whatever.
- 35:04Yeah, well, you know, I'm not trying to, like, be an Olympian here, but I think that is, again, that mindset shift.
- 35:11Like, it doesn't have to be perfect.
- 35:12How you get there, it doesn't matter.
- 35:14It's like, how are you getting there?
- 35:15Like, are you going there and having the finish?
- 35:18Yeah, that's the accomplishment.
- 35:19Right? Right.
- 35:20It's that you set out to accomplish something and you did it.
- 35:23And I think that that can just tie into so many aspects of our life, from modeling how we engage with our clients, how we engage in business, how we engage with our loved ones, and just how we show up in the world.
- 35:39Well, and and you're on like self-talk.
- 35:42Like now again, if we're using the running analogy, like I said, like if someone was like, oh, let's do A5K, my brain is like, you can't do that.
- 35:50That's way too far.
- 35:50You're going to go three miles.
- 35:52My brain's like, oh, is it? We've done been there, done that.
- 35:55And that's the same with business as some of them.
- 35:57I was like, oh, you should open a brick and mortar and you have a.
- 35:59Yeah, you might be like, I can't do that.
- 36:01I can't go there.
- 36:02But if you do keep doing the movement and you do finish certain projects, your brain is going to start also cheering you on even when you're not trying to make it cheer you on.
- 36:11That resilience. Yeah. Yeah.
- 36:13And that confidence level to the of the internal monologue.
- 36:16Because sometimes our internal monologue is like super harsh.
- 36:19Yeah, yeah.
- 36:20I have to drown it out with a lot of Brené Brown.
- 36:22Totally.
- 36:24I this hit me a few years ago that like if someone like you for example, if what I said to myself, I heard someone say to you out loud I would go crazy, I'd be like, what did you just say to her?
- 36:36Don't you dare talk about Candace that way.
- 36:38Like I would get so mad.
- 36:39But we talk about ourselves like that, sure to ourselves, without hesitation, without hesitation and without accountability.
- 36:45Like, a lot of times they're like, oh no, it is normal.
- 36:47Like Larry, are you little Rosie tomato, you know?
- 36:51Yeah, kind of like I, you know.
- 36:54And speaking about that, it reminded me of this quote that I, read the other day where we talk about perfectionism and how it's striving to be perfect, but it's actually just being really good at pointing out faults.
- 37:10Yeah.
- 37:10And that's where all your energy goes.
- 37:13That's all you're focusing on.
- 37:14Yeah.
- 37:14It's not actually about achieving something.
- 37:17It's about finding all of the faults too. Right.
- 37:20Discounted it. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
- 37:23That's such, like just those little tidbits to it.
- 37:27Just like totally changes your mindset.
- 37:29I'm focusing on that.
- 37:30So I do that now and I'm like, in the mirror like, ooh, here's a little bit more intense there than I like.
- 37:36I always just like, stop it, get over it.
- 37:38Like, I'll even say that out loud. Like, don't talk to her like that.
- 37:40Like if I'm looking in the mirror, which might make me sound crazy, but at the same time it does help.
- 37:44Like switch my negative energy into positive energy.
- 37:47Like right away.
- 37:49Have you seen the woman that talked about how she named her brain.
- 37:52No. Yeah.
- 37:53She like named her brain something like Rosie.
- 37:55And so knock it off. Sure.
- 37:57I was like yeah she would get she would get a negative sale freak as well.
- 38:01Like yeah I start thinking something and she's like, Rosie, you're on one today.
- 38:04We're not doing this. Yeah, and you're one to that.
- 38:07I haven't quite made it to that point, but.
- 38:10Yeah, but I do love that anger herself, that thought that you get to redefine that story, that you're ailing yourself or just being honest with yourself to like, sometimes.
- 38:19And I get like, frustrated that like, I don't go to the gym as much as I'd like to, but instead of being like, mad about it, it's like, well, I wait, didn't come on overnight.
- 38:29That's not going to leave overnight.
- 38:30Like, I can't change it.
- 38:31Today I'm headed out to do podcasting.
- 38:34So let's say you get, you know, like it is what it is like.
- 38:38This is who I am.
- 38:38But before, especially in my 20s, I would have just been like, I can't do a podcast.
- 38:44Like, I would like the illusion that no one knows what I look like.
- 38:47It's like, can you guys see me whether I'm on TV or camera or not?
- 38:51You know, like it doesn't matter.
- 38:52Yeah, look at you.
- 38:53You're doing all of the things.
- 38:55And. Yeah, I love this. I'm so proud of you.
- 38:57Thank you. I appreciate that.
- 39:00If for anyone that's listening, that's struggling on getting started or wanting to hire a coach, like what's a piece of advice that you would give them on, like how to look for a coach or how to find somebody to help grow their business?
- 39:12Yeah, there are a lot of options out there total into Google searches.
- 39:19I just feel like sorry to interrupt you, but, like, how do people, like, determine is this somebody that's actually has the experience to guide me or the qualifications versus a self-made coach one day that just said, I'm a coach, right?
- 39:33Yeah.
- 39:33And so really, the key things that you look for when you're doing those searches are being introduced.
- 39:38I would talk to people that you might know that have used a coach, see if they have any recommendations.
- 39:43There is a international coaching federation and they are an accreditation based organization similar to Realtors.
- 39:55They have a lot of ethics, certain things that you have to.
- 39:58Yeah, education, education, continuing education.
- 40:02I have gone through the, I've gone through all of the classes.
- 40:08And to do that, I have, other than things, 100.
- 40:14I forget what the number is.
- 40:16I think it's like 100 hours.
- 40:17I'm almost there to take the test to get the certification so you can look for those types of certifications and qualifications, make sure that there somebody that is going to align with your values and your personality type.
- 40:33Those are so important.
- 40:34I've worked with coaches that I almost immediately stopped working with after the last couple of weeks, and because it was not a personality fit.
- 40:43Yeah. Those things are important.
- 40:45They're what is their philosophy on coaching?
- 40:49Are they an actual coach or are they a consultant?
- 40:52Because there's a difference.
- 40:54Working with a consultant and sometimes I do work in a consulting capacity.
- 40:59I'm going to be an expert.
- 41:01I'm going to provide guidance.
- 41:03I'm going to provide answers.
- 41:05When you're working with a coach, that is a very particular dynamic of conversation where I'm asking questions and allowing you to discover for yourself what those answers are.
- 41:21We're working together, and I'm not guiding you one way or another.
- 41:26I am allowing you to be able to self discover, yeah, in those sessions.
- 41:31And it really depends on what you're looking for.
- 41:36So if there are, if they have the coaching credentials, if they have education, what are the courses that they've taken?
- 41:43Those are important with coaching there.
- 41:46Anybody could put on a hat and say yeah coach.
- 41:50Well that's why I ask that question.
- 41:52Because like you are seeing that more and more where someone is like, we even see it in real estate.
- 41:57Like those are one vacation home.
- 41:59And they're like, I specialize on Airbnb.
- 42:01It sounds like how right when there is to your point, actual like certifications that you can get.
- 42:07Or it's one thing if you're like, well, I've sold 25 Airbnbs and this is what I've learned over 25 transactions, right?
- 42:12Then you probably specialize at it even without the accreditation.
- 42:15But like, yeah, some.
- 42:17And we see that more and more in the coaching sector, like, well I personally lost 30 pounds, I'm a health coach or whatever.
- 42:22And they're like but are you all like, yeah.
- 42:25What else do you coach on? Like, do you know about nutrition?
- 42:27Do you know about this?
- 42:28So I think one thing for me that's a really important and a coach and not everybody loves this, but I don't want a yes person.
- 42:35Like I want someone that's truly going to hold me accountable and call me out.
- 42:39Like if I need help building my business.
- 42:42And I reached out to you, I don't want like if you said, hey, where are you?
- 42:45You wanted to contact ten clients this week or whatever.
- 42:49How are you in that? And I'm like, then do it.
- 42:52And then you're like, oh, that's okay.
- 42:52We just move on.
- 42:55That's not a great coach, because a great coach is going to be like, why didn't you do it? What's stopping you from doing it?
- 42:59Do you think you can achieve it this week?
- 43:01How about we take it to five?
- 43:02Or are you going to do 15 this week because you didn't do ten the week before or you know, whatever.
- 43:06And getting to the core of what that barrier is. Yeah.
- 43:08Why isn't that you didn't.
- 43:10And what do we do to move forward?
- 43:13For myself, I'm always forward moving.
- 43:15It's not about the past.
- 43:17It's not about we are.
- 43:18And it's not about, like, slapping your hand or something, like, shame on you, you and contact your ten people.
- 43:23But yeah.
- 43:23Why didn't you do it?
- 43:24Like, I love that moving forward, right?
- 43:27I like and that forward movement is really, really important.
- 43:32And then I have a lot of certifications that I've done.
- 43:36I mentioned Brené Brown earlier.
- 43:39I'm huge fan girl.
- 43:40I love I did a dare to lead, certification course.
- 43:43So I took a 40 hour course on how to be a dare to lead leader.
- 43:51I have done great coach certifications and the center for coaching for excellence.
- 43:56Yeah, and all of these things that I have, all of these courses, hundreds of hours of total and training to be able to ask the right questions and be able to find that balance of support for what is going to work for my clients.
- 44:11And that also means that I'm choosy about who I work with to total.
- 44:15It's not just whether or not the coach is a good fit for you, right.
- 44:19It is is this somebody that is growth oriented?
- 44:23I want somebody that, to your point, wants that accountability, that wants to grow, that is going to have those hard conversations and look at those barriers and not just be like, well, I didn't do it.
- 44:36It's probably not going to be a good, a good fit because I want to help people move forward.
- 44:42Yeah.
- 44:42It's not about being stuck and making excuses.
- 44:45It's okay. That happened.
- 44:47How do we move forward?
- 44:48Yeah, absolutely.
- 44:50And, anyone that's listening that's curious about Brené Brown, she has lots of books.
- 44:53She talks a lot about communication.
- 44:56How do I identify, like what kind of communicator you are and how to talk to other people, but also just being a good leader and things like that.
- 45:03So I highly recommend her books to and her programing, but I super appreciate having you on today.
- 45:10Thank you so much for coming.
- 45:12You for Hap. Here's she.
- 45:14We both get nervous drinking around these mikes.
- 45:19I'm clumsy.
- 45:20I've had a few wine glasses just go flying, so I think they're also classic as a noise.
- 45:25But anyways, thank you everyone for tuning in.
- 45:28We appreciate it and I will see you next week.
- 45:30Cheers.