Coach Magic

Can a book really change your life?

This episode will have you believing YES.

You can imagine my delight when I learned that my book “Get Gutsy” played a big role in Erica Gellerman’s gutsy move to release her “successful” corporate executive life (Procter & Gamble and Amazon to be specific!) to  embrace entrepreneurship.

Erica had a panic attack one day during work and simply knew something had to give. Her life was at stake.

She literally read my book on a plane as she was contemplating what the heck she was doing with her life.

Her question she pondered >> “What do I want?”

With an MBA from Duke and lots of student loans to boot, she had her back against the wall to figure out what move she’d make next.

Her story will floor you.

It’s about worth, women, meaningful careers, making money, and what she learned from playing on the boys’ water polo team in high school (as the only girl).

And you’ll flip when you hear her story about landing her first client in London, the wife of a Royal! It’s hilarious and oh, so bold (a potent combo).

About Our Guest

Erica Gellerman is a consultant and mentor who helps women find their worth in the workplace. Having spent 10 years honing her skills with great companies (PwC, P&G, Amazon), she’s now helping other women transition into careers they love, gain the confidence to speak up and ask for more, and see the value in their work.

She shares information and advice on her website, The Worth Project, through her weekly Forbes Column, The Salary Chronicles, and as the Finance Editor for The Everygirl. She has her MBA from Duke University, is a CPA, and is currently an expat living in London with her husband and her little dog, Hattie.

xoxo

Jenny

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I’ve known Nathalie Lussier for several years. I followed her online for a bit, then eventually got to know her in a group where we were both members.

What I’ve felt about her from the beginning >> she’s SMART. Super smart.

And she’s also very gutsy. She bets on herself and has been doing this from the beginning of her career when she declined a job offer from Wall Street straight out of college to start her own business instead.

It’s been quite an evolution and ride for her in business. And we go DEEP on this episode because ya’ll know that’s how we roll on Get Gutsy.

Some sparkly gems you’re going to love:

• How to know if your path is right for you (and how to pivot quickly if you go off course)
• How she determined what roles new team members could handle to make space for her first baby
• The mindset she had to embrace to be ok with supporting full-time employees
• The magic word that makes for smooth sailing with her husband who is also her business partner
• The power of pop-ups on your website to increase conversions by a HUGE percentage
• Why membership sites matter
• Why you need to use ideas before they expire
• Who you are writing for when you craft your messages (this may surprise you!)

Dive in.

About Our Guest

Nathalie Lussier is an award-winning entrepreneur, international keynote speaker, and author who has been making websites since she was 12 years old. She graduated with a degree in Software Engineering and a job offer from Wall Street, but she turned down this job to start her own business right out of college. Her bootstrapped startup AmbitionAlly has been featured in Entrepreneur and is inspiring a culture of intuitive small business marketing software across the globe.

Nathalie has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Success Magazine, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, Mashable, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, and Under 30 CEO.

She’s the host of the Off The Charts business podcast, and founder of the hit 30 Day List Building Challenge.

Enjoy!

xoxo

Jenny

P.S. Subscribe to the podcast + leave a review + rating to spread the GET GUTSY message far + wide. Means to world to me! We are all in this together.

Why can it be so hard to make positive changes in your life?

What’s the secret to creating LASTING change?

Are our beliefs to blame when we feel stuck?

Shelley Davidescu and I swim around in all things CHANGE during our compelling conversation on today’s show. She reveals a powerful 4-step process to create change in your life, and explains why change is so scary and why it may require a mourning period.

Shelley, who has both an online coaching business and a therapy practice, shares how she moves between the modalities, and what all of her clients have in common. She also explains how our belief systems and identities can create major blocks and how to break free.

Some of my favorite nuggets from this episode >>

• How to deliberately craft your life
• We are always in relationship
• We MUST let go of things to create change
• What feels SAFE doesn’t get you to your desired outcome
• You must commit to your progress + doing the work

About Our Guest

Shelley Davidescu is a Business Mentor for women entrepreneurs who are ready to build a business that helps them spread their powerful message in the world. Shelley combines her knowledge in business, psychology, and wellness to help women entrepreneurs enroll more clients, create more freedom in their lives, and make a bigger impact in the world.

Enjoy!

xoxo

Jenny

P.S. Subscribe to the podcast + leave a review + rating to spread the GET GUTSY message far + wide. Means to world to me! We are all in this together.

I have a few questions for you:

• Have you been the go-to woman that friends, family, colleagues and strangers come to when they need guidance?
• Do you love reminding people of their innate power and gifts?
• Do you have a knack for lasering in on an issue and shifting to a solution with grace and confidence?
• Do you read self-help books, blogs and advice columns and think you could write what you just read?
• Are you ready to step into an exciting, lucrative career and personal growth path called COACHING?

Straight up: I was once in your shoes: thinking about becoming a coach.

If you feel you’re being called to the COACHING industry as your career or a supplement to what you’re doing now, but aren’t sure how to actually BE A COACH, this message is for you.

Don’t you just love when that happens?

In this episode of Get Gutsy, I’m going to take you on a journey back in time when I FIRST discovered the field of coaching and hung up my shingle as a coach and business owner.

Learn the moves I’ve made to still be standing close to a decade later, having coached, mentored + inspired thousands of spirit-led women on the path. 

And plug into the 3 golden keys you need to master to cash in on your calling™ as a coach.

Mother Goddess, hear me rise.

Mother Goddess, hear me rise.

Over and over again, I could hear this powerful message flowing through my body.

I was fully naked.

On a massage table.

In an open-air room at my retreat center in Gokarna Beach, India.

Two massage therapists (angels!) were giving me a synchronized hot oil massage (heaven!).

The oil was a custom blend based on my ayurvedic dosha (I’m vata - pitta).

I had been loved up for an entire week.

Cared for.

Nourished.

Fed.

I napped everyday.

Went to bed early.

Rose early for sunrise yoga.

Sat in sangha with a circle of sisters on the path.

In a land that had been calling me forward for a decade.

India.

And there, on that massage table, I heard a message that was so clear, so solid, so deep, I knew it was meant for me.

And I knew it was meant to be shared by me, with you, right now.

What do you do when what works for you stops working?

Want to break the cycle of setting yourself up for disappointment?

Then you’re going to love today’s conversation with Eleni Andreadis, who is an amazing Get Gutsy Certified Coach!

I met Eleni a year ago when she became a student in my coaching school. She blew me away with her courage and faith from the beginning. I'm pumped to share her inspirational message and story with you today.

A lifelong entrepreneur, Eleni shares:

• How her mother’s passing was the catalyst for her becoming a coach
• Navigating the fear of going from selling products to selling herself and her services
• How she discovered her connection to God through writing and creativity
• What faith means to her
• An epic, life lesson she experienced while (literally) climbing a mountain with me

In this heart-to-heart, I also reveal how I developed my own relationship with God, and the important role my deceased sister Julie played in that.

Warning: This episode goes deep. Don't listen if you only like to scratch the surface in life.

About Our Guest

Eleni Andreadis is a Soulful Empowerment Coach and Life Design Strategist. She works with women who are stuck at crossroads in their lives and can’t figure out what’s next. She helps them reconnect with their truest self, identify their heart’s desires, and breakthrough what’s holding them back; so, they can move forward with clarity and confidence to create their new life.

Eleni meets her clients where they are and together they create a custom roadmap to go from point A to point B in a way that feels good, meaningful, and authentic to them. She provides the support, strategies, and tools needed to shift their thinking and take small daily steps to create big life changes; from the inside out. She is passionate about empowering women to triumphantly rise, thrive and shine unapologetically in life.

Enjoy!

xoxo

Jenny

P.S. Subscribe to the podcast + leave a review + rating to spread the GET GUTSY message far + wide. Means to world to me! We are all in this together.

Wondering if you have what it takes to invest in other entrepreneurs to help make their dreams come true? Or, to create a thriving business in another country?

Well Kelsey Matheson’s instincts have taken her on a powerful journey exploring these realms! I just loved talking to this woman who moves through life with eyes wide open and tremendous courage.

Kelsey reveals how she tapped into her gut feelings to create a yoga retreat center in Costa Rica, -- how dreamy! -- and also financially back other entrepreneurs with a social purpose.

Now, after healing from a personal health crisis, Kelsey has launched the next chapter in her work >> a new online course about conscious living and optimal health.  

And girl, make sure you listen until the end. Kelsey’s super vulnerable gutsy move is a very personal experience she navigated with grace, love, and no shame. She inspired me to open up about my own experience of discovering at 25 years old that I have an older brother that I never knew I had.

About Our Guest

Kelsey Matheson-McCord was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta and, today, she is an international entrepreneur by way of co-owning a number of socially and environmentally responsible companies. Kelsey began dancing and acting at the age of six and went on to train at theatre school in New York City before landing in Toronto to focus on an acting career. During that time she also dabbled in producing and marrying art with business quickly became second nature to her. In 2009 she left the film industry in search of a new challenge that would deliver that combination of creativity and commerce. Kelsey teamed up with two American partners to develop Anamaya Resort – a stunning yoga retreat center in Montezuma, Costa Rica.

After Anamaya opened, Kelsey knew she had found her life’s passion. Her second company, BE Outfitter, produces backpacks and outdoor gear that helps put children through school around the world. While all this good stuff was happening, Kelsey birthed a daughter and subsequently suffered through depression. Instead of letting this condition ruin her life, she sought the help of numerous health and wellness experts.

Much discovery led to recovery and the realization that Kelsey could help others. The call to coach was heard and kelseymatheson.com now serves as a hub for those seeking to benefit from either her business prowess, through private training sessions, or achieve optimal health through her brand new e-course.

Both Kelsey and her various projects have received coveted media attention via Elle, Conde Nast Traveler, Huffington Post, Forbes and In Style, to name a few. Kelsey currently lives in Brooklyn, NYC with her husband and daughter.

Enjoy!

xoxo

Jenny

P.S. Subscribe to the podcast + leave a review + rating to spread the GET GUTSY message far + wide. Means to world to me! We are all in this together.

I’m back from my 2-week journey through India.

I turned 40 last week. (Thanks to everyone who helped me celebrate!)

Everything feels … different.

It’s hard to explain.

I saw things in India I’d never seen before.

Felt things I’d never felt before.

Ate food I’d never tasted before.

Bought a silk caftan I’m so excited to wear (OMG so pretty).

Wore bindis on my face.

Learned.

Connected.

Sweated my ass off.

Laughed.

Moved.

Felt alive.

I planned to write this post and record a podcast episode with this theme for a few months now. I even wrote a good part of it when I was in India and thought I’d finish the piece last week … but I simply didn’t have the space inside myself for it.

Self-care had gone to another level during my time in India … and I didn’t want to revert back to unhealthy habits of pushing myself too hard in a quest to prove myself to the world.

My theme during this cycle is WORTH, TRUTH + LETTING GO.

I’m honoring this even when it feels hard.

What are you ready to honor even though it may feel hard?

What new moves are you ready to make?

Questions to ponder today …

You may wonder why I am so obsessed with India. My answer >> she speaks to my soul.

The book I read by Stanley Wolpert called “India” captures my feelings pretty well …

“Ah, India, who can fathom your depths or reconcile your complexities?”

She’s mysterious, beautiful, heartbreaking and oppressive.

Grand, dilapidated, simple and confusing.

She’s everything and nothing all at once.

And she set the stage for the ushering in of the next decade of my life and the next level of my teachings.

Here’s what flowed through me on the evening of the FULL MOON (May 10, 2017) about India, Sobriety + Turning 40. Soak it up ...

Is your daily routine helping you or holding you back?

Trying to figure out what you’re good at?

Then check out my conversation with Mridu Parikh on today’s episode. She’s a breath of fresh air.

Mridu shares some of her gutsy moves as she's evolved her business and life many times over like ...

>> Moving from New York (and stressful career in direct marketing) to Nashville (and becoming a stay at home mom).

>> Starting and then selling an events business.

>> Becoming a photo and video organizer for clients.

>> Moving into the coaching and training industry.

The foundation that has helped Mridu stay grounded and centered during so much change >> her spiritual practice, mindset work, and a solid daily routine (we dive deep into details!).

Mridu is Indian and I've scheduled this episode to air soon after my return from India to extend the magic of my experience.

Namaste.

About Our Guest

Mridu Parikh helps ambitious women juggling multiple roles and responsibilities, focus their time and energy on what matters most. A Productivity & Organization Coach, she’s passionate about working smarter not harder, without feeling overwhelmed.

Enjoy!

xoxo

Jenny

P.S. Subscribe to the podcast + leave a review + rating to spread the GET GUTSY message far + wide. Means to world to me! We are all in this together.

Every once in a while you talk to someone that gets down deep in your bones. Their voice. Their message. The way they show up, with all of themselves and no apologies. Real. Wild. Free.

Elizabeth DiAlto is this person. And she holds nothing back during our conversation on Get Gutsy.

This no-BS, straight-talking leader shares some gems about breaking the rules, finding inspiration in Beyoncé, and her "can't go wrong" philosophy.

She also explains her unique approach to creating hot programs that sell, leading retreats around the world and doing things her own way, all the way.

Do you wonder if you can really "just do you" and make it?

Listen in as Elizabeth and I jam on the art of untaming your wild soul.

About Our Guest

Known for her raw, honest and grounded approach to self-help and spirituality, Elizabeth DiAlto is the founder of Wild Soul Movement, author of Untame Yourself, and host of the popular Untame The Wild Soul Woman podcast. She’s been a teacher, leader, speaker, coach and trainer to groups and individuals for 13+ years and she also consults organizations ranging from start ups to large corporations such as Dove UK.

Enjoy!

xoxo

Jenny

P.S. Subscribe to the podcast + leave a review + rating to spread the GET GUTSY message far + wide. Means to world to me! We are all in this together.