May 31, 2021
Blog Episode 31
Ellen’s Entrepreneurship – IN MEMORY OF
I have been working since I was 13 years old with my first babysitting job. Actually earlier than that with my lemonade stand with my friend John. My mom would give us Oreo cookies to sell with the lemonade.
I never went Corporate like some of my friends or even my brother who works for a pretty major health carrier. I have not been the VP, Pres, CEO or any of the C – suite like CFO, COO, etc. But I have worked for them.
I have been the fly on the wall documenting what’s next, the hub for all of their information, the coordinator of their activities, the organizer of their events, the one that rounded everyone up, the connector that brought them together and so much more.
Now they work for me. I’m one of Charlie’s Angels. Well, maybe not but I am working for myself now. While I always wanted to be one of the Angels having Charlie’s job may not be so bad.
This spring I have been taking the steps to embark on my own coaching business. There is still a lot more to do, but I have been teaching myself as well as going to webinars by some pretty successful coaches like Tony Robbins, Dean Granziosi, and Eben Pagan.
I was in the audience at the online conventions and learned from people like Natalie Ellis and Danielle Canty from the Boss Babes podcast, Russell Brunson – the founder of Click Funnels, International Coach and speaker Les Brown, Founder of IT Cosmetics – Jamie Kern Lima, Jenna Kutcher, Pete Vargas, Pedro Adao, Prince EA, Glo Atanmo, Jack Canfield of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, Marie Forleo, Gabby Bernstein, Preston Smiles did a breakout room with Ontraport’s CEO Landon Ray, and learned from a massive array of people that my own Coach Susan Hyatt hosted at her Ultimate Coaching Convention like Rachel Rodgers, Moe Carrick, Pamela Slim, LaShell Wooten, Hillary Weiss, and so many more these last two months.
The who’s who of coaching was definitely present in my life with a front row seat to watch their style, to hear their message and to be inspired.
And coaching from of course my own coach teacher guru Martha Beck and all of her coach leaders since October which taught me the skills for doing this job in the first place. It still thrills me every time I think out of 800 people on our first zoom call that I got to talk with her and she liked my hat. If you know my story about hats and/or Martha’s affiliation with Oprah, you know why I felt like a fan girl. Martha is one of the most brilliant individuals I know with her astute understanding of people and how to navigate life. She is stellar and I can only hope to be a small percentage as good as she is. The wisdom she shares with us humbles me every time.
In becoming an entrepreneur, I am navigating steps that are brand new to me like legal, financial and even global. Each are so vital for the foundations of my business. As they say on Shark Tank, it is time to take it from “a hobby” level and turn it into a business.
Even though I ended up with a Bachelor’s degree in Business administration with an emphasis in Marketing and Sales Management, the endeavor of creating a business for yourself on your own is quite an undertaking. Thankfully, my coach Susan’s team taught me many things in putting my systems in place.
Thank you Susan and team.
The phases that comprise entrepreneurship are divided into six: discovery, assessment, planning, launching, expansion, and exit.
I have gone thru Discovery, Assessment and Planning and now in June the time of launching has arrived. Expansion will definitely come as my group coaching will take off this fall. Retirement in the exit phase is way down the line but somehow it is important to create the exit strategy as an incentive for each day I run my business and where I want the finish line to be.
I want to serve people thru my coaching, help people find and meet their future goals, introduce new perspectives in my blogging, achieve the financial goals I set for myself and my developmental goals for where I would like to see myself in 10 – 15 years as a human being that is fully enriched by the process of short term and long term endeavors as an entrepreneur.
Thru consulting, I want to provide opportunities for people to build community and find healing for the feelings that are left from things that happened in their life they forgot about but still are triggered.
After the last seven years of losing both parents, my fiancé, a job I had for ten years, living thru a pandemic in isolation in my home, actually moving my parents twice and myself once, going thru different health issues like diabetes and other things, I have found starting a business and learning to be a coach is one of the most exciting and best things I have ever done. To develop my skills, talents and potential has invigorated me towards a bright future.
I have what you call doubtlets because they are just small doubts. In the overall picture, I know this is my calling to do and BEE (hey, I was a Yellowjacket mascot for my high school– that is just how I will be spelling be from now on). My confidence has actually improved and while I face things that scare me, that same confidence has me running toward my goals, jumping walls and knocking down anything that wants to get inside my head and mess with me.
You know how I got to that point. COACHING. I was coached.
Thank you Susan and Laura from my core.
In 2020, the world has changed and we won’t know for quite some time what will remain and stay the same and what is gone for good. By being an entrepreneur, I now have the flexibility to adapt, work at my own pace and make my own strides in the world. I get to grow into the type of leader I want to see and lend emotional support providing safe space to so many as they now take their turn in moving forward.
It was funny, since January that I got to know probably 60 people who were already life coaches and/or starting their business. When you become friends with that many on social media (even though we met thru actual online events), that the algorithm has their posts appear constantly on your news feed. It seems like I would never be an original. The thought crosses your mind as you are doing this, how will I stack up against the competition.
But you know what, we aren’t competing for clients. I am unique just as they are. We may run into common themes but our perspectives and backgrounds are all different. How we implement is different. And after 2020, there are plenty of people who need a coach to get over the feelings that year created, to get back on track and to go even further than before.
There is an energy that the right clients will find the right coach because we each offer different things, knowledge and we fit where you are right now.
I am what they classify as a creative entrepreneur. The way they describe a creative entrepreneur has six types of traits.
1. Smart and curious
2. Energetic at one point, and quiet at another
3. Imaginative yet practical
4. Rebellious and independent
5. Open and sensitive
6. Passionate about what they do
Now these traits are subjective in how much I actually have but I do they think at some level they all apply to me.
This summer will change my life. I am a life coach. I am an entrepreneur. I am also working on becoming a published author to that line up. That one may take me to the end of 2021, but I am making strides.
I want to dedicate today’s blog on this Memorial Day to all of our fallen heroes who served defending our country. Also to the medical teams who worked during the pandemic and in war, to our first responders who were there on 9/11.
Memorial Day is about our heroes. I also need to include my fiancé who served in the United States Marine Corp for six years and lost his life a couple of years ago and to my parents who passed away in the last three years. I love you and miss you so much.
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