IF WE’RE GOING TO GO THERE, YOU SHOULD KNOW WHO’S LEADING, RIGHT?

I’M VANESSA

The truth is that everything I do is about being yourself down to the soul-level, healing at all levels and loving yourself, the people in your world and God.

It’s not who I’ve always been. I spent the first 30 years of my life chasing success and money. I did pretty well. Ran my own coaching practice coaching high performers, coaches and entrepreneurs for a decade in a referral only business.

I ran leadership trainings for top sales teams at companies including Reddit, Linkedin and Amazon and coached their senior leaders to be more impactful, peaceful and grounded through doing deep inner healing that radically shifted their work performance.

The work was meaningful, the money was good and I had what I’d always dreamed of.

And I was secretly so unhappy.

How could I, the life coach preaching possibility, be so unhappy in my own life?

After getting pregnant unexpectedly, I hired a shaman and my spiritual teacher to support me in working through the deep wounding I hadn’t processed from my childhood.

The work took me into depths of healing I had never experienced before and I saw all of the ways, big and small that my life was not fully my own. The way I was still showing up like a ‘high performance coach’ was supposed to, staying in a relationship that wasn’t satisfying me in critical ways, worshipping money and success as primary and continually promising myself that the next level would be the one that finally felt the way I was longing to feel.

And a few years later, I let the whole thing fall down. I closed the business I’d been running for more than 12 years, I took a job selling for another coach, ended my marriage and spent nearly 6 months just lying on my paddle board in the middle of a lake praying and crying.

The only time it felt like I was moving in the right direction was when I wasn’t doing anything at all and I’d never given myself permission to stop.

I didn’t know it then, but I was being redirected.

At the end of the day, my work is and always was about who we are, not what we do.

And it was time to place that in the center.

To prioritize the human behind the performance (both for myself and in my work) and lead with more shameless devotion to that in the world.

I was directed away from the spiritual entrepreneurs that I had primarily worked with and back out into the world, organizations and people who hadn’t devoted their lives to personal development.

I was guided to bring the spiritual technology I had been teaching to spiritual entrepreneurs and some leaders to the rest of the world, focus on organizations and rehumanize the workplace.

Only this time, I wasn’t afraid of anything and felt deep trust in myself, in God and in life.

There was no more grasping for control, the illusions of safety and grandiose visions that unconsciously saved me from my past.

I had been humbled. Stripped down bare and rebuilt by life.

I kept all of the parts of me that had always been true, correct, and powerful and dropped the ones that were inflated, proving, and powerless.

This depth of humility has grounded me in a level of service and trust that has allowed my clients to go deeper than ever, experience miraculous healing, iconic self expression and the activation of their true genius.

I’m also still human.

I get scared. I snap at my kid and roll my eyes in irritation when she forgets she needs to pee before bed, I’m a single mom and some days feel too goddamned hard. I have moments where I lose faith, feel angry at God, forget to call my friends, show up selfishly, disappoint people and get it wrong.

The difference is I love those parts of me too.

That’s where the true magic happens.

IS IT OUR TIME?

Wanna play? Share what’s real and I’ll reach out with next steps.