No Labels, No Limits podcast

This week's guest has been on a nonstop journey of change and transition in her personal and professional life. Alison Gaulden joins us for Episode 12 and shares her story starting out as a painfully-shy student in high school and progressing through to becoming a reproductive rights advocate, a student mentor and a Lecturer at Reynolds School of Journalism. She has overcome many challenges, obstacles and important losses, but she still holds on to her sassy, unapologetic spirit and encourages other women to do the same. She says, "Happiness doesn't come to you when you do all the right things. Every day you have to get up and decide, no matter what crappy things are going to happen, I'm going to be happy...look at what you are putting out there, what energy, what approach you have, and reassess if it's not working for you, what can you do that's different?"

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Ever wish you could be "Location Independent"? You'd have no home base, traveling, balancing, running a company and managing family and responsibilities on the road. Melissa Smith has created that as her reality. Prior to her new career, she hadn't even considered the thought. A few years ago, she experienced the unexpected loss of her husband and was left in a fog for many months after. She decided to make the move back home to California from where she was in Georgia, to be surrounded by family and friends. Later, her daughter wanted to come back to her home in Georgia to graduate high school. Melissa had landed a job she loved and she didn't want to leave it, but needed to make the choice for her daughter. Then the concept of going out on her own and working virtually was born. Something in her gut propelled her forward through the unknown. Starting with an insatiable desire to learn. she built her empire. When looking at things today, she rarely finds herself without a coach or mentor and is involved in mastermind groups, speaking engagements, book groups, work summits, and many other event followings. Her recommendation is to "Let perfectionism go. It's impossible to get it exactly right the first time." www.thepva.com [email protected]

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Is a career change possible over 50? Susan Gomez is living proof that you can successfully change careers at any age! Listen in as she shares her story about personal and professional transition after 22 years working for the same non profit company. As a single mom, she had stayed, despite not feeling truly fulfilled. Just five years ago she began to restart her career path and faced her fears surrounding the big decisions to come, the feeling of overwhelm and loss of control. Her transformation was due, in part, to her taking on a new coach, the host of this podcast, Sarah Boxx.

Today, she says she is never without a coach or mentor of some sort. "Having a coach gives you the ability to make decisions in a different way. You now have the joy of saying what matters in your life. The joy of knowing that whatever, and even if you fail, it is the ability to know that you can take the risk. It opens up opportunities for every part of your life. It touches every part of your life, not just the career choices. It impacts family, self esteem, it impacts all aspects of one's life in such a positive way."

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Our next guest, Bobbi Albano, is a CFO turned Real Estate Broker who shares some of the lessons she's learned along the way. She speaks about taking advice from family and friends when you’re starting a business or undertaking a big change. Encouragingly, she says, remember that "it's not that they don't love you, it's not that they don't want you to succeed, it's that they're fearful for you. So guard yourself, understand that people come from their own point of view, and be very careful.” She also cautions with a word of advice about our time and dreams: "If you trade hours for dollars, you will never get ahead." Bobbi’s takeaway was, “if you're always in a job where you make a certain dollar amount per hour, you are actually selling your time to another person. They have purchased your time to help build their dream.”

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At a time when many women have reached a place in their career where they are comfortable, this week's guest decided to forego that level of comfort for a new challenge. She upped her game, took an enormous risk and went in a completely different direction. Listen in to our conversation with Nancy Brown (community banker and advocate for financial opportunities for all) as she shares how she left an abusive marriage, changed her perspective and gained technology skills to propel her forward in her career. "Sometimes life doesn't take you to your goals, where you want to be and at what time you want to be there, and that's okay. You have to be patient with yourself. Maybe you thought you were going to go right and now you're going left. That's okay."

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In this episode Kim Young shares how she learned what was really important when she lost everything in a flood; how physical health and well-being laid the foundation for emotional resilience as she left a good paying position in the legal field to pursue helping others increase self-confidence and health through physical fitness. From competing in professional body building to a concierge physical training business, Kim’s journey has led to increased happiness and balance in her personal and professional life. Kim’s counsel for improving your mindset is to “just realize that there's a positive. You have a beautiful life. Every day is a different day. Wake up and find something positive about it, whatever it may be. Just find something and then focus on that.”

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As a small business owner, athlete, trainer, wife, mom and health advocate, Michele shares the lessons she’s learned through the years about silence, self-reliance, family, recharging and self-confidence. She leads us along her path, her change in perspective and concludes with what success means for her. “But it was like I had to change that [limiting] mindset, and we had to build a business and fast - because I had no income… I'd worked for him [ex-husband] all this time and you know, I wasn't paid. And so it was scary. But, sometimes fear is good because it's motivating.”

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In this interview, Michelle shares her professional journey from the west coast to the east coast, including international consulting. She’s worked on behalf of exploited children and served as a long-time Director of Human Resources for the US Senate. She is also the Owner of Trifecta Consulting, Tri the World Travel, and founder of the nonprofit Humankind. Michelle is an avid outdoor and sport enthusiast. Whether skiing or boating, running or racing, Michelle is active. And, recently she earned her Master Captains License allowing her to pilot vessels carrying 7 or more passengers offshore or on inland waters. She shares the impact immigrant parents had on her own work ethic. ”I realized that one little act of kindness could mean a lot more to the person that's receiving and it costs nothing.”

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Brandi Anderson is a very proud native Nevadan, with deep ties to the Northern Nevada community. She knew from a young age, even before she knew the name of the profession that she wanted to be in advertising. There was never any doubt.

“That's just what I wanted to do because I'm creative, I'm sassy, I don't take myself very seriously and what fascinates me about marketing and communication is that you can have a profound emotional effect and move somebody and help change their lives and never have met them once. Like many others when she left college she set out for places that could “handle" what she had to offer the world.”

In this interview Brandi shares about what drew her back, how she and her husband navigated the devastating prognosis of her son’s cancer, and the valuable life lessons they learned about asking for and accepting help.

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Amy Patee Colvin, author of Cultivating Compassion: Simple Everyday Practices for Discovering Peace of Mind and Resilience joins Sarah Boxx in a discussion of her path from leaving a corporate job to studying and becoming certified to teach Compassion Cultivation Training. She talks about the three pillars of Daoism which are compassion, humility, and moderation and how they influence her life. And, how she learned during an encounter with a shaman at Machu Pichu that she would return within two, this time leading a group of others.

“It was a very self-compassionate act to all of a sudden have that epiphany: the kindest thing you can do for yourself is to just get in the mud, and go play and learn something new; because that's what needs to be done.

“Stop dancing around the edges of it and just go dive in.”

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