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Women disqualify themselves so quickly before they have a chance to show what they are really capable of. By rationalizing our inability to achieve things, we allow fear to undermine our efforts, but we have a greater chance of changing this when we have the right supports in place.

Keri's new class, Somatic Success Academy, is for the 1% woman as well as the women who want to be part of the 1%, but aren't quite there yet and know they are destined for more. Keri is now offering lifetime access to this community for the first time, making it an exciting time to join.

Life events require us to take time off. Each of us learns differently, and some concepts may need to be repeated until they click. Because of these reasons and more, Keri is delighted to offer lifetime access to the class which includes live coaching sessions with Keri and access to the Somatic Success Facebook group.

It takes time to integrate teachings into your life, so making this one-time lifetime investment in yourself gives you the best chance of becoming the successful woman you wish to be.

Don't let fear hold you back from what you want. Do not ignore that voice that tells you you are meant for more, because you are. You deserve to say yes to yourself.

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The common phrase in personal development is Fear is: Fake Evidence Appearing Real, but in this episode, Keri talks about Fear standing for Face Everything And Rise. What this means is: Rather than succumbing to fear, rise to meet it.

It is valid to feel fear, but it can hinder us from doing what we want. Fear can make some persuasive, albeit unsound, arguments for why you are unable to achieve what you want. However, you can overcome your fear of taking the first step by analyzing these thought patterns and identifying logical actions to take.

The stories that fear tells you can sound totally rational and convincing, but when you recognize that there is no immediate threat to your safety in these difficult moments and ask yourself the questions Keri discusses in this episode, you can move through the fear and become the 1% woman you truly are, changing your life in the process.

If you decide to move past your fear, it will be uncomfortable at first, but you will find that it is worth it in the end. Changing your life in this way will cause your reality and thought patterns to shift, which can be a scary prospect, but it will also allow you to achieve greater heights than you ever imagined.

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This special episode of Literally First Class™ is a couple's edition with Jake Kauffman as Keri's guest. Jake is a High-Performance Men's Coach to 7 & 8-figure purpose-driven coaches, entrepreneurs & CEOs. He supports other conscious leaders in expanding themselves personally so that they can exponentially grow professionally. His unique approach to high-performance coaching can best be described as the intersection between personal transformation and business leadership.

Jake shares what is on his heart, and that is how to focus on achievement and success as a separate part from healing and transformation. Oftentimes, when we are trying to shift behaviors and habits to develop new routines and meet new goals, we don't put enough focus on the necessary inner work that is going to support those new habits and behaviors, which will ultimately lead to those habits not sticking long term.

What does that inner work look like? Jake explains that we need to shift our foundation of belief by getting to the root of why we do what we do. We may use addictions to cover up anxiety or pain, but for high achievers, those addictions may look like noble acts such as overworking and constantly being "on", which doesn't allow our nervous system to regulate. Our culture has normalized stress and hustle to the point where we don't even realize that there is something we are avoiding when we bury ourselves in things to do. This is why learning to slow down and get quiet with ourselves is so important and critical for our wellbeing. Tune in for more!

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Quantum leaps can happen very quickly when you do the work to get to know your nervous system, address your limiting beliefs, and understand how you respond to situations. High-performance anxiety might get you really far and help you reach big goals, but it will only get you to a certain point, and you will eventually realize it is no longer sustainable to operate this way. Operating out of achiever or high-performance anxiety will lead you to have difficulty in discerning the messages your body is giving you, which will hold you back from reaching massive magical goals that you are so capable and worthy of achieving.

With so many of Keri's clients reaching truly amazing milestones both personally and professionally, Keri often gets asked how they are able to achieve these windfalls of success. The answer lies in doing the somatic work necessary to break through upper-level limits and limiting beliefs that would otherwise keep us in our perceived safe place and in our window of tolerance.

Getting in touch with our nervous system is crucial because it has one job that it knows how to do very well, and that is to keep us safe. The problem is, it can't tell the difference between real or perceived threats, so they all feel the same in our body. This means our body will react the same way it would to being chased by a tiger as it would to getting on stage in front of hundreds of people. If we haven't shifted our window of tolerance and shifted our identity to a woman that has what it is we want, we will continue to self-sabotage without even realizing it. By doing nervous system work and somatic work, you can have whatever it is success looks like to you, and Keri wants that for you.

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When you have lost sight of your vision and are caught up in the daily grind, the best way to get out of that rut is to look at your daily patterns and offer a pattern interrupt. When it comes to disrupting a "basic bitch" day, Keri has 5 amazingly simple, yet really powerful ways you can interrupt a pattern and turn a not-so-great or just basic day, into an amazing one. During this time of year, most people are not struggling with inspiration or setting goals, but soon we will start to enter the period when we might lose momentum and disconnect from our end goal. The end of the year comes around and we realize we have come so far from what we intended to meet at the beginning of the year. Keri wants more for you, so she offers 5 ways to redirect your energy when you start to fall into a slump.

The work of undoing patterns is just as much about becoming as it is unbecoming. We have to lose the identity that we have latched onto and isn't aligned with who we are, which allows us to become who we are meant to be. We are stripping away the crap that we have added on or been handed over the years that is not serving us. Helping women overcome their current circumstances or perceived upper-level limit is a passion of Keri's, and everything she teaches, she also lives and embodies.

This episode is packed with simple yet effective pattern interrupts you can incorporate into your daily routine to spice things up and make things light and fun when things start to drag. Tune in to hear 5 ways to disrupt any basic bitch day. You can shake things up in a big and even more powerful way by attending Keri's next UNMADE retreat to get yourself out of your regular environment and into an elevated one. Tune in to hear more and check out the link below to sign up.

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As we are all downregulating from the holidays, Keri is looking to the year ahead and sharing her vision with you. One thing she has come to realize is that money does not change us, it just amplifies who we are. As we are able to acquire more money, it should positively magnify who we are and what is important to us. With this in mind, Keri shares that her goal this year is to re-elevate her relationship with money, and invites you to do the same. As you're anchoring into your 8-figure self, think about she spends money, values money, where she spends money, and what does her life feel like?

With this new year and new cycle just beginning, let's visit the idea of renewing. We don't do the whole "new year new me" BS around here, but the idea of a clean slate and the opportunity to rebuild, rejuvenate, and renew feels wonderful and exciting.

Whether you are looking for guidance, mentorship, a place to find your tribe, or all of the above, Keri has a program for you. She shares about the different and exciting programs you can join to elevate your leadership skills, and your mindset, and join women that will become lifelong friends. Keri wants you to be refreshed and excited for the year ahead and she can't wait to step into the new year with you. Stay connected and let us know what First-Class moves you're making.

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By reflecting on this year and preparing for the next, Keri acknowledges that several things did not go as planned in 2022. For starters, her partner experienced a traumatic brain injury that shook up their world. There was so much that came along with that, and Keri was not prepared, but everything comes with a learning opportunity. Along with that scary and unpredictable experience, Keri went through a painful partnership breakup that came with a lot of learning and growing but eventually was for the best. Add on a child's birthday party gone wrong, and completely shifting her coaching from intuitive eating to leadership, and this year definitely did not go as planned.

Planning and goal setting are essential, but it is also important to know that sometimes things don't work out as we imagined. Being adaptable and taking each experience as a learning experience is part of being a 1% woman. So much in Keri's life has been rearranged this year, and the learning experience has been challenging, yet invited her to higher levels of leadership of herself and taught her what she wants to create in the world. We don't subscribe to the "New Year New Me" BS around here, but the idea of cycles ending and new ones beginning is exciting and an opportunity for reflection and reset. Let's step into 2023 making first-class moves together.

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As we approach 2023, Keri wants you to be able to enter this new year as the 1% woman. This means showing up in the new year as the healed and highest version of yourself. Have you ever felt someone walk into the room and their energy introduces them? Keri wants that for you. To be able to exude energy of confidence, peace, poise, and a sense of being grounded. Sounds amazing, right? But how do you get to that place? It starts with the awareness of how you are operating right now.

So many of us high achievers are operating from an "anxious achiever archetype." Operating from this place has served us in the way that it has gotten us to where we are now and helped us achieve great things and goals that we set out, but do you ever feel like you are stuck in a cycle or hitting the same wall over and over but can't seem to get away from it? Keri explains that this is our nervous system doing its job by keeping us safe and operating as if we are in danger, even if we aren't. By viewing our nervous system with a sense of love and understanding, we can acknowledge that it has done its job, but it's not serving our highest self, so we need to create new ways that help us reach our potential.

Keri's hot girl healing vibes for 2023 stem from her word for the year: Resilience. Choosing a word instead of a bunch of resolutions helps you to be more intentional as you think about what you want to feel and embody this next year. Keri's questions for you are: "What are you tired of pretending you don't want?" "Where are you playing small in your life, and how do you really want to lead?" "What do you want people to say when they feel you and experience you as a woman in the world?" Imagine what is possible when you break through the limiting beliefs you are telling yourself. Imagine what is possible if you go "all in". Join Keri in this episode as we move into 2023 as the 1% woman, the highest expression of ourselves, the "all out" version that doesn't care what others think, and is committed to reaching Somatic Success. Keri wants to know, what is your word for 2023?

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This past year has been challenging for many of us, and it has brought about many emotions. Thankfully, a new year is just around the corner and we can learn from the past year and move forward in a wiser way.

Many of Keri's clients ask: How do I know if my intuition or fear is speaking to me? In other words, how do I know if I am being authentic and doing what is best for me or if I am being driven by fear and self-sabotaging? Keri's take is that it is real and authentic if it feels true to you in that moment.

Even if you don't have all the information you want, you don't need to worry about how your process should look or what anyone else's work should look like. We can take what resonates with us from our experiences or from the teachers in our lives and incorporate it into our lifestyle going forward, while leaving behind what we don't like. After learning from someone else and following the rules at first, you can get to the fun part of breaking them.

Having tried many different approaches through her company, Keri feels like she has walked the path and is now ready to write her own rules after doing things the way she has been taught and observing the examples of others. She wants to do things a bit differently in 2023.

Keri trusts and encourages other leaders to trust that their clients and employees are resilient and know what they need right now. Something brand NEW is coming and Keri will be offering LIFETIME access to this incredible program.

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You don't have to wait until the new year to start creating the life you want. There's always a new moment unfolding right now. On this episode of Literally First Class™, Keri walks you through an exercise that will help you envision what you want to manifest in 2023 and start making a plan for how to get there.

For this exercise, you will need a pen and paper or something to write with so that you can examine your calendar, your results, and your relationships. You only need to understand these three things in order to understand what your current thoughts and conscious beliefs are. Taking inventory and journaling are great for mindset work and addressing your conscious beliefs. However, addressing your subconscious beliefs is equally important.

High achievers often experience high-functioning anxiety, which causes them to always be in fight-or-flight mode. This is due to the fact that we are operating from a subconscious space. Our subconscious beliefs can be revealed quickly and most effectively through somatic work. To feel free and move the needle in our lives, we need to address the body's imprints of trauma.

When you complete the exercise in this episode, you will have taken the temperature of your current reality, and then it will be time to consider how you want to feel and how you want your life to look. You will begin to see the gap between where you are and where you want to be, and of course, we want to close it as soon as possible. There's no faster way to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be than by doing somatic work.

The best way to accomplish this type of meaningful work is to have someone guide you, and joining Keri's Millionaire Mindset program and enrolling in her upcoming 3-day live training, Stressed to Superhuman, geared toward women in leadership and their teams, would be a good place to start. The training will include three live events and a pop-up Facebook community. During the live session, you will be able to ask Keri questions in real time. Find more information and sign up below.

You're a woman in leadership. You lead your team. You lead your vision. You lead your clients. But what happens when you, the one driving it all, hits an Upper Level Limit? Who's leading YOU?

Join Keri's 3-Day Live Virtual Training Event, Stressed to Superhuman, December 12, 13, & 14 from 2:00 - 4:00pm EST where you will discover the way of The 1% Woman, how to transcend stress and have exponential success in less time.

3 Days. 3 powerful live trainings. FREE workbook, and so much more!

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