The Road to Seven

• How Sasha leveraged her Instagram account to build an international audience hungry for her products
• Mindfulness practices to help you handle swift business growth 
• The major lessons that Sasha learned through opening during a pandemic — and why she would do it again

• 02:25  Introducing Sasha Senior  
• 04:45  Sasha’s lightbulb moment
• 06:32  What is your lifelong passion?
• 08:02  Launching in a pandemic
• 10:55  Timing is everything when it comes to Instagram
• 12:36  The biggest impact on Sasha’s business — and where it came from
• 14:17  Handling growth and change
• 16:07  Sasha’s biggest lessons so far
• 18:17  If you knew then what you know now, would you still open?

• “I am going to lose 15 lbs.”
• “I am going to start meditating twice a day.”
• “I am going to launch my course this year.”
• “I am going to start writing my book.”

• How your thinking shapes the actions that you take (or don’t take) in your business
• How to identify the inner stories you tell yourself that hold you back from completing your goals
• The magic that can happen when you make a new internal commitment to yourself — and how to choose a gentle, achievable commitment

• 02:15  The two sides of commitment
• 03:19  The Unfinished Business process
• 04:24  What projects did you have planned for 2020?
• 08:39  Identifying competing commitments
• 11:52  Commit to a realistic transition
• 14:52  Commitments over tactics, always

https://shelaghcummins.com 

 ‌“You can’t just put it out there and have a vision of it and not take action towards it. A lot of people forget or don’t know or haven’t been taught that the Law of Attraction goes hand-in-hand with the Law of Action.”  —  Kristine Kolzing

What would your life look like if you were swimming in abundance?

My guest for this episode, Kristine Kolzing, has built her business around helping her clients answer that question firsthand. Kristine is a transformational mindset expert, success coach, and the CEO of the Alignment Tribe, and she teaches her clients how to envision the life that would truly make them happy — and then make it HAPPEN. 

“We’re told from a very young age who we’re supposed to be and what we’re supposed to want,” she says, “and, especially for women, we really lose sight of what it is that we want just for ourselves.”

Not only can we not always recognize the goals that would truly fulfill us, but our subconscious can actively work against us when we start to pursue them — if you have spent most of your life feeling anxious or unsure, your subconscious mind falls back onto those patterns automatically!

The solution?

A full mind-body makeover, with the aim of replacing a limiting and maladaptive mindset with one primed to unlock and experience abundance.

“You’ve got to make new mind-body connections,” Kristine explains, “because if you’ve always thought a certain way, then you’ve always felt a certain way.” By retraining your brain, you can create a new normal, one based on feeling confident and at ease.

There’s never been a better time to get started!

In‌ ‌this‌ ‌episode,‌ ‌you’ll discover:‌ ‌

• The 5-Step Alignment Process that helps you identify and achieve incredible outcomes
• The conditioning we undergo from an early age that prevents us from working toward our most fulfilling goals — and how to overcome it
• How to ditch mind-body connections that aren’t working for you and create new ones that will

“It’s really a matter of continuing to choose what you want and being focused on moving forward, moving in the direction of what you want. You don’t have to waste your time figuring out why it hasn’t worked until now or what went wrong … it can be helpful to have those awarenesses, but we don’t have to dwell on it.” —  Kristine Kolzing ‌

About Kristine Kolzing

Kristine is a transformational mindset expert and master success coach who guides her clients into stepping into their most powerful selves, attracting more abundance, and confidently creating a life and business they love. 

Highlights:‌ ‌

• 02:23  Introduction to Kristine Kolzing
• 05:33  The winding road to Master Success Coaching
• 09:20  A powerful new way to think about ‘mindset’ 
• 13:40  The 5-Step Alignment Process
• 15:15  The barriers to taking your first steps
• 17:08  Learn the power of reframing the negatives 
• 18:50  How to revamp your mind-body connections 
• 21:54  Recognizing the resistance
• 22:52  The genetics of emotion
• 24:24  Exploring the superconscious
• 27:05  Taking aligned actions and power moves
• 29:11  Delegate, delete, or automate

 Links:‌ ‌

To work with me and make your next power move, visit: https://shelaghcummins.com 

Connect with Kristine
Instagram: @kristinekolzing

We all have our roles, whether it’s wisdom-sharer, or marcher, or healer. I was waiting for that healer part to be called forward.  - Asha Frost

Are you rooted in the path you’re meant to be walking?

This episode features an interview with a very special and powerful guest, Asha Frost, an Ojibwe healer, spiritual mentor, and businesswoman. 

A sensitive and empathic child growing up, Asha soon realized that she had the ability to engage in visionary practices, receiving messages from ancestors. “The healer path was printed in my soul,” she says. “But it took me my lifetime to awaken it through experience.”

Asha facilitates powerful healing journeys for her clients, helping them to move through past judgment, trauma, ancestral disconnection,  mental disorders, and enables them to discover, explore, and celebrate their true purpose and power.

This is all the more important during our current period of discovery and uprising.

Effective allyship and action requires healing, on multiple levels.

For people with good intentions who aren’t used to activism and uplifting others, it can be a challenge to know how to best support others. “It’s so important to look at all the different ways that you can show up, and honouring those things,” Asha explains. “Because what I find people do is they go into freeze, because they think that they’re not doing enough. Or because if they read that they ‘should be doing it this way,’ then they disconnect from their own truth.”  

Asha’s medicine is rooting in healing, and it’s important to heal not only ourselves, but our relationships with our global sisters and brothers.

This episode is a must-listen if:

• ...you wish to support and uplift others, but aren’t sure of the right way to go about it.
• ...you feel that you are somehow holding yourself back from what you’re meant to be doing.
• ...you’re ready to make powerful positive change.

In‌ ‌this‌ ‌episode,‌ ‌you’ll discover:‌

• The small but powerful ways you can support BIPOC-owned small businesses right now
• How to practice energetic, open-hearted listening 
• Why authenticity and honouring your truth are key aspects of fully travelling your path

‌This interview was undertaken as part of an initiative that I created called Listen, Learn, Take Action: How to Build an Inclusive, Equitable and Antiracist Business.

About Asha Frost

Asha is an Ojibwe healer, spiritual mentor, and entrepreneur. She has worked as a Medicine Woman for almost 2 decades and has facilitated thousands of ceremonies through individual appointments, healing circles, retreats, and workshops.

Highlights:‌

• 00:50  Introduction to guest Asha Frost
• 03:39  Asha’s journey to becoming a healer
• 05:06  Owning her gifts & her own health
• 06:47  How to get your message/medicine out in the world
• 07:45  Is a healing journey right for you?
• 08:40  How to Listen, Learn, Take Action right now
• 12:38  Dealing with racism as an Indigenous business woman
• 15:20  How to make your business more equitable
• 17:46  Become a global citizen and ally
• 19:47  How to embark on your healing process

 ‌Links:‌ ‌

• Asha Frost’s website https://ashafrost.com  
• Listen, Learn, Take Action https://cummins.kartra.com/page/ListenLearnTakeAction
• Sacred Membership 

This episode is a little bit different. You know I like to shake things up and keep things
fresh for you. I did a training inside my Women of Action Group as a response to what I
was seeing was happening with my women. We've just come out of a crazy quarter.
The last quarter of 2020 has just been mind-blowing. I don't think anybody could have predicted that the challenges that you faced and that you've overcome would ever have
been a part of our conversation, for lack of a better word. What I noticed is that lots of
you were in fight with your business. You were fighting with it, trying to make it work,
and trying to make it fit. I can tell that that's draining you so I did a special training within my private Facebook group and gosh, I would love to have you be a part of it. 

This is the kind of conversation that we have within the group and do a deep dive. I wanted to share it with you because I think it's so important for women entrepreneurs right now. If you're in fight with your business it's because something is out of alignment. I walk you through today, a four-step process to help you realign your business with your current reality. If you're in fight, you're struggling to keep up, you're having a hard time getting new clients, getting content out the door, or making any progress, then it's time for you to stop and take a little bit of space and grace to realign with what it is that's most important for you, what it is that your passions are, what it is that your geniuses are, what you're doing, and how you're spending your days so that we can realign your business with the time that you have available. I hope you enjoy this episode.

Hello again and welcome back to the Road To Seven. It is an absolute honour to be sitting with you today. My guest today is an interview that you don't want to miss. Not only is she a powerhouse in business, but we got into the nitty-gritty of the inside work that has to happen in order to grow a successful business. Violette de Ayala is a Cuban American serial and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of FemCity and the international best-selling author of the Self-Guided Guru: Life Lessons for the Everyday Human. 

Welcome back to The Road to Seven with Shelagh Cummins. It's an absolute honor to be spending some time with you today and to be sharing a really powerful story from a woman who I just adore. What I love about my conversation today with Nadine Woods is how real it is. Tune in as we discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of business growth, checking in with your mental health and so much more!

We cannot escape having an unhappy client. Especially when you're growing, the more people you serve, the more people who are buying from you, the more customers and clients that you have, the more of the likelihood that somebody is going to be unhappy, because we're dealing with people, and people are unpredictable. People have their own agendas and some people feel a lot of power behind their computer screens. And they love nothing more than to lash out and belittle the recipient of the email forgetting that there's someone else on the other end of that email or phone call. Let's talk today a little bit about how to handle it when things start to go south with a client.

It has not been an easy week. It has been a highly emotional week as I stop and pause and listen, and empathize and reflect on my history, my unconscious biases, my white privilege, and how I can do better, be better, and role model better for others. I am anti-racist, but I haven't been loud enough about it. And so, today I just want to talk through the process of how I'm coming to terms with my business and where I can be doing better. 

So hopefully it will inspire you to go through your own journey. It's not up to me to tell you what to do to stand in alignment with your core values and your beliefs. I am simply going to share the journey that I'm taking myself through. I hope you tune in as I get vulnerable and share my reflection as well as my commitment to doing and becoming better.

In today's episode of The Road to Seven, I interview Mary Engel who is also known as The Management Coach and is the co-founder and CEO of esuite.com. Mary and I sit down and we talk about how you have to fall in love with marketing in order to grow your business. She shares some amazing pivot points in her journey that has allowed her to create a scaled and highly profitable coaching company. This is an episode you don't want to miss!