Coach Magic

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a mantra is:

• a sound, word, or phrase that is repeated by someone who is praying or meditating
• a word or phrase that is repeated often or that expresses someone's basic beliefs

Do you use mantras?

I first discovered mantras when I got deeper into my yoga practice and starting chanting the simple yet gorgeous sound of “om.”

That mantra still brings me so much pleasure and peace as it vibrates at my throat.

The longer I’ve walked this entrepreneurial road, the more I’ve turned to mantras to keep me focused, fired up and faithful.

“Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.” - Tom Peters

In this episode of Get Gutsy, I share a personal story of the 3-word mantra I turned to when I made my big leap across the 6-figure mark in my business in 2012.

I also share a few mantras you can experiment with as you move to your next level.

“The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.”  - James Nesbitt

Enjoy!

xoxo

Jenny

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Are you doing everything you’re “supposed” to be doing, but you’re still not happy? Do you wish you could quit your job to pursue your very own journey as a full-time entrepreneur?

In today’s episode of Get Gutsy, Thais Guimaraes is going to empower you to take action! Thais shares her journey of leaving the corporate world to become a women’s leadership coach and fired-up entrepreneur.

During the interview, we chat about self-worth, spiritual teachers, putting yourself out there, and saying YES! Thais also teaches you what it takes to show up, be seen, and be a leader no matter what.

About Our Guest

Thais Guimaraes is a speaker, writer and spiritual teacher mentoring women to step into their power. She believes that world will be saved by women who decide they are worthy of it, and it's time to BE the change they wish to see in the world. Her timeless, straightforward wisdom and powerful attitude can shift and transform your perspective in life towards love + grace. She has studied spirituality, psychology, sociology and philosophy for over 10 years and has transformed the lives of hundreds of women worldwide.

Episode highlights:

• Thais shares her journey from Brazil to the U.S. and how she became an entrepreneur
• Understanding that life isn’t meant to be easy
• Why do we seek comfort over adventure and how is it impacting our potential?
• Discover YOUR hero’s journey and embark on an epic adventure
• How to find your self-worth so you can hold space for others
• How to leave the corporate gig and find your path as an entrepreneur
• Thais reveals the natural approach to her spiritual practice
• The importance of spiritual teachers
• Empowering women to surround themselves with supporters
• Getting out of your own way and putting yourself out there
• The power of saying YES!

Enjoy!

xoxo

Jenny

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“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” - Albert Einstein

Do you allow your intuition to guide you … or do you ignore the messages you receive?

I can tell you with certainty, my intuition is one the most powerful tools in my life and business. I used to not believe these clear signals leading me into my highest potential.

But the longer I’ve been around, the more I’ve come to realize that my gut instinct is typically right on.

“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.” - Marilyn Monroe

When I walk in faith, I get to my desired destination with a lot more grace and ease. Plus, it’s a lot more fun!

In this episode of Get Gutsy, I share a personal story of how my intuition led me to move through one of my biggest fears: growing my team and accepting more help so I can help more people with my mission.

My hope is that you too will be inspired to move to your next level by honoring your intuition.

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” - Steve Jobs

Links You’ll Love:

• Get Gutsy Coach Training School (now enrolling!)
• Free webinar for new + aspiring coaches

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.

Do you want to be a better storyteller? Want to be grow your body of work? It starts with truly understanding your AUDIENCE and delivering stories and experiences that matter to THEM.

Today’s guest is Tara Mergener, who has pursued and fulfilled her career dreams in television journalism on a national and local level. She is an amazing woman --- and my cousin!

Tara has endured challenges along her journalism journey, but she has never lost sight of what it takes to achieve her ultimate goals. Tara’s upbeat personality invites you to listen in, take smart risks, and fulfill your destiny.

About Our Guest:

Tara Mergener, a veteran broadcast journalist whose resume includes more than a decade of experience as a network correspondent, recently joined KWTX in Waco, Texas as co-anchor. During her previous tenure as a correspondent for more than 200 local CBS affiliates, Tara has covered the White House, Congress and the U.S. State Department, reporting on presidential campaigns, midterm elections, the crisis in Syria, and the Affordable Care Act.

As a live correspondent for CNN Headline News, CNN International and more than 900 CNN affiliates, she provided extensive political and breaking news coverage.

Highlights of this episode:

• From Washington to Waco!
• Getting “the call”—What does that mean?
• Telling a good story
• How 9/11 changed the world of journalism
• How to stay grounded amid the chaos
• What is the point of your story?
• Take a journalism class
• Visualize the ideal client—Why should they care?
• Religion, prayer, and a life of faith
• Faith enables enormous risks!
• The key is realizing that everything WILL be ok.
• Valuable lessons from grandparents
• Tara’s gutsiest move ever? It was setting out on her own, leaving home at age 17.  Charting her own course and making her own decisions taught her great lessons.

Enjoy!

xoxo

Jenny

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Are you living a life of adventure? Or are you simply going through the motions and missing out on your biggest, boldest dreams?

Today’s guest has regularly made gutsy moves in his life: from joining the Army as an officer and serving in Iraq … to dropping out of law school … to quitting several corporate jobs … to launching the first ever 7-day-a-week podcast for entrepreneurs … to recently moving from California to Puerto Rico.

Master interviewer and EOFire podcast host extraordinaire John Lee Dumas is our amazing guest on Get Gutsy. Get excited!

JLD is the one who inspired me to create this podcast when I met him in 2014 when we were speakers at an event. As soon as I heard him share his story, I told him, “I’m starting a podcast.” And under his guidance, I did. Life will never be the same!

I can think of no better person to be our grand finale guest for Bring the Heat Week! Are you prepared to IGNITE?

About Our Guest:

John Lee Dumas is the founder and host of EOFire, an award winning Podcast where he interviews today's most successful Entrepreneurs 7-days a week. JLD has interviewed over 1200 Entrepreneurs and EOFire generates over 1 million monthly listens. John's latest project is The Freedom Journal; a gorgeous leather bound journal that guides you in accomplishing your #1 goal in 100 days. Launched on Kickstarter, it raised 453k in 33 days and became the #6 most funded publishing project of all time. You can learn more at TheFreedomJournal.com.

Highlights from the episode:

• Why John and his girlfriend, Kate, recently relocated from San Diego to Puerto Rico
• How his lust for travel has led him to have a life of adventure
• John is an Iraq War Veteran, and he says the military gave him a new perspective on life
• Why first world problems shouldn’t really run our lives in the grand scheme of things
• Why the trauma from war caused him to suffer from PTSD
• How John left the corporate world to become a podcaster
• John shares the top 3 things you need to know to start a podcast
• Why it’s okay to be bad when you start and how it doesn’t doom you to failure
• John’s worst entrepreneurial moment - he asks his guests this and now we hear his worst moment
• Coaches and mentors get all the credit for John’s success; learn how he leveraged them
• How John’s morning ritual on contributes to his success, and what his ritual looks like
• How his journaling habit caused him to create The Freedom Journal
• Find out John’s gutsy move - his first one as a civilian that set the course for his career

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.

Do you need inspiration to heal, recover, and move forward from a troubled past? Are you looking to channel your creativity and find a way to tell YOUR STORY?

You don’t want to miss my conversation with Rachel Resnick, a writer with an incredible background and an amazing perspective on the topic of STORY. Rachel loves writing, but maybe even more, she loves teaching others to write and connect.

I met Rachel through Ali Brown’s Elevate business coaching program, and I knew immediately that she was the one to help me create my book, Get Gutsy. What a powerful experience it was to give birth to MY STORY with Rachel’s expert help! She would NOT let me shrink back from bringing my truth to the page. At times I hated her! But it was because of her fierceness and love for my work that Get Gutsy became all it could be.

And that book COMPLETELY gave way to this very podcast of the same name. What a wild, wonderful ride, right?!

I count Rachel as an important mentor in my life, and that’s why she’s featured on Get Gutsy during Bring the Heat Week. Join us to learn more about telling your story, going THERE, and leaving no stone unturned.

About Our Guest:

Rachel Resnick, Literary Alchemist + Book Wrangler, is a working writer and a devoted mentor whose exuberance informs all of our Writers On Fire community of fiery scribes. We believe in the power of the written word, and the strength of community. We believe the more we access our own true voices and share our stories, the more human and connected we will be worldwide.

LA Times Bestselling Author, Rachel Resnick, wrote Love Junkie: A Memoir (Bloomsbury), and Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick: A Novel of Separation (St. Martin’s). Her essays, articles and fiction have appeared in nearly a dozen anthologies, most recently Men Undressed: Women Writers on the Male Sexual Experience, What Was I Thinking? 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories, and many more magazines, newspapers and literary journals including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire, Women’s Health, BlackBook, Tin House and more.

Highlights of this episode:

• Flashback to age 4, on the streets of NYC: “I WILL write about this someday!”
• Growing up in a world filled with story
• Survival and imagination to get through a difficult childhood
• The geography of LOSS
• Adaptability personified: emotional eating, moving from family to family
• The power of micro-moments of connections with strangers
• Writing: the best way of expressing and channeling
• A tombstone for Mother
• Rachel’s path to Yale, motivated by a mentor
• Death and Loss: Great motivators to TAKE ACTION!
• The evolution of her books and failed relationships
• Teaching others how to draw their stories OUT
• Merging creativity with providing value and self-worth
• What it means to “sit in the story”
• The transforming power in telling our stories
• Why story SHOULD have a polarizing effect
• Memoir: made of emotional engagement, entertainment, and experience
• The gutsiest move Rachel has ever made? “I’m always looking to add urgency, so I can be alive and keep growing. I recently had to move from the place I loved and had lived for 18 years. Part of being gutsy is avoiding falling into victim.”

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.

Are you tired of playing small? Tired of hiding your greatness? Ready to create more leverage in your work so you can help more people and make more money? It’s time.

Get ready to learn from one of my original mentors, Fabienne Fredrickson, a true pioneer in the coaching space.

I’m forever grateful to Fabienne for planting the seed for me to write the book that would become “Get Gutsy.” It was in a VIP Day with Fabienne in 2011 that she looked me in the eye and said, “Jenny, you need to write a book.”

That’s what coaches can do for you: lovingly yet firmly call you out to fulfill your greatest potential.

Fabienne, a mindset expert, will expand your thinking in this hot episode. Her passion is to help each client find and fulfill their purpose in life through growth, stepping outside their comfort zone, and being willing to “play a bigger game.”

About our Guest

Fabienne Fredrickson is an inspirational mentor, author, and renowned international speaker. She is the founder of The Client Attraction Business School and ClientAttraction.com, ranked repeatedly by Inc. magazine as one of America’s fastest growing private companies. Fabienne’s influential leadership earned her the 2013 Stevie Award for Entrepreneur of the Year.

Highlights of this episode:

• How Fabienne began her entrepreneurial journey 16 years ago, but found it difficult to leverage herself
• The solution when there is no more time and no more “me” to go around
• “You need to play a much bigger game!”
• Why Fabienne wanted to be “different” in the online marketing world
• How Authenticity, Integrity, and Love became the filter for Fabienne and her company
• How Fabienne specializes in systems and simplifying, and not in re-inventing the wheel
• How Fabienne’s successful model is built around her rating system, from 1-10
• What Fabienne means by “coming out of the closet”
• How Fabienne is preparing to rebrand and reposition her business—to break free from limits and constraints—to help more people
• How support and encouragement from her husband and business partner, Derek, makes the entrepreneurial journey sweeter
• How Fabienne’s childhood experiences led to low self-esteem and some bad choices
• “Everyone is here on purpose, for a purpose, with a purpose.”
• Why Fabienne willingly gave up her posh waterfront office for her comfortable home office
• The gutsiest move Fabienne has ever made? “I’m doing it right now; coming out about who I really am and what I’m meant to do. This is my ‘tipping point’ year because of it.”
• What’s next? Fabienne’s new book will be available in a few weeks, both on Amazon and on her website (for free!) It’s Leverage: How Six-Figure Business Owners Turn Their Yearly Revenues into Monthly Revenues and Gain Their Lives Back.

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.

Do you need to open your mind to new possibilities? Ready to drastically grow your reach and income? Strap on your seatbelt. This episode with Angelique Rewers is going to rock your world.

Angelique’s unique motivation will help you take a fresh look at your place in the world and figure out what you are here to do. She will teach you how to change your mindset by taking ACTION, baby! This gal is the go-to when it comes to landing corporate clients. Take her wisdom to heart. She has much to teach you!

Angelique was my coach when I was in the earlier stages of building my business. She coached me through hosting my first retreat … and she even bought her own ticket to attend! She’s that kick ass. I’ll never forget her sitting outside by the pool mapping out her big vision. To see what she’s created in her business since then is absolutely spectacular!

She has truly helped me be what I am today, which is why she is here for “Bring the Heat Week!” There are no wimpy excuses allowed here, so roll up your sleeves and “get gutsy” with us.

About Our Guest:

Angelique Rewers, CEO of The Corporate Agent, has fast become recognized as the leading expert helping micro business owners and self-employed professionals to land corporate clients. Having successfully navigated both sides of the corporate buying table for more than 18 years, including hiring more than 300 outside vendors, suppliers and service providers, Angelique knows just what corporate decision makers look for in their outside experts. She has harnessed this “insider” knowledge to not only land global brands as her own clients and build her multi 7-figure business, but also to teach business owners in more than 68 countries around the world how to do the same for themselves.

Angelique is also the creator of INSIDE EDGE, the first global conference designed to help small business owners of all kinds to learn how to land big companies as their clients. She lives in Delray Beach, Florida, with her husband and six-year-old twin boys.

Highlights from this episode:

• The fear of investing yourself and why it WILL hold you back!
• The magic of live events, even with the chaos
• Do you want your excuse MORE than you want to go to the next level?
• Changes: Scary but necessary
• How we rob the world with our personal fears
• How Angelique left her corporate job and stepped out to work with corporate clients
• Lessons learned from a real-life “Mean Girls” experience
• What it means to “go to the razor’s edge”
• What a Human Design study can teach you about yourself and your purpose
• Growing personally and growing professionally: two sides of the same coin
• Stop seeking acceptance from others!
• Why growing a “thicker skin” is NOT the answer!
• Angelique’s top tips for working with corporate clients with her proven techniques
• “New Level/New Devil”---what does it mean?
• Why working through challenges is like building a muscle
• Angelique’s amazing love story—it all started at McDonald’s!
• Why Angelique’s background has EVERYTHING to do with where she is today
• The gutsiest move she’s ever made? “Going from being self-employed to being a business owner and being responsible for other people’s livelihoods.”

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.

Just who do you think you are?

Have you ever wondered that about yourself? Have you ever wondered that about me?

In celebration of my 39th birthday and the start of Bring the Heat Week, I am answering this very question for you … in hopes that my transparency will inspire you to get real with the important people in your world.

My powerhouse pal Cate Stillman of Yogahealer.com turns the tables and interviews me as we go super, super deep. Thanks to Cate’s expert interviewing skills, I share a candid look at my life with nothing held back.

Cate asks me about my traumatic childhood, how I got the idea to “get gutsy,” and what you need to do to become the leader you were meant to be.

My story is filled with inspiration and real-life honesty about guilt, loss, toxic relationships, and bouncing back from poor choices.

About Our Guests:

Jenny Fenig is a brand strategy coach to spiritual entrepreneurs ready to boost your message, reach and faith. Through Jenny’s courses, coach certification school, podcast, and bestselling book Get Gutsy, she guides you to cash in on your calling®. Her husband and three children make the journey sweet.

Cate Stillman is here to share her knowledge in helping all people who are into yoga to learn Ayurveda to wake up their body and live. She also helps wellness pros make money. Cate has been on this mission since 2001 actually, when she first created YogaHealer.com. Since then, she's been working on different programs and workshops growing immensely the initial scoop of this project. Cate thrives to be connected to our Nature roots, which might explain her passion for outdoor activities – riding sweet waves on her paddle board in Mexico or riding up mountains in the Tetons, and going down white water rivers with her sweeties.

Highlights of this episode:

• Location, location, location: From Florida to Atlanta to Florida to New York
• A family of four split apart by divorce and remarriages
• Jenny on dating: “Looking for love in all the wrong people”
• Jenny’s younger sister, Julie, faces multiple tumors, surgery, treatment, and ultimately, death, with grace and dignity
• Coping with loss when you don’t know how to grieve
• A very broken Jenny finds therapy in college at the University of Florida
• A background of broken relationships becomes the foundation for the “Get Gutsy” movement.
• Jenny takes initiative to repair relationship with mom via EMDR therapy        
• Yoga: the KEY in Jenny’s leadership journey and finding who she really was
• Determination for Julie’s life and death to NOT be in vain!
• Introduction to the world of coaching from a chance encounter at a workshop hosted by her influential yoga teacher
• How Jenny protects “the gift of childhood” for her three children
• Breaking the cycle of broken marriages: COMMITMENT is the key!
• Jenny’s gutsiest move EVER? “When I was a 21-year-old student at the University of Florida and took a summer internship in New York City”

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.

On May 9, 2015, I made a decision that would change the course of my life.

And that decision was to release alcohol from my life.

It had been a long road to get to that point.

And when I did, it simply felt like the natural next step on my journey.

And yet as I say this, it still blows me away that I could and would walk the road of sobriety.

Now that I’ve marked 1 year sober, I’m reflecting back on what I’ve learned, how I’ve changed, and what life is like when you’re seeing with new eyes.

On this episode of Get Gutsy, we dive deep on this topic. Come on in and receive.

Hit me up in my FB group (join at http://GutsyGalaxy.com) or on Instagram – @jennyfenig – and tell me how this episode lands with you. I love hearing from you!

Enjoy!