Embracing Change: A Soulful Entrepreneur’s Journey to Pivot with Purpose

Embracing change is something many people struggle with because it can be scary! In this candid episode, I share my personal journey of making course corrections in my entrepreneurial path. As spiritual entrepreneurs, we often face moments of uncertainty, but it's these decisions to pivot with purpose that can lead to renewed passion and clarity. Show Notes | Transcript "Sometimes the journey is worthwhile, even if you don't reach your ultimate destination." - Gloria "Grace" Rand Drawing from my recent experiences with the Soulful Women's Network, I explore the power of listening to your intuition and being open to feedback. This episode is about appreciating the beauty of evolution in business and the courage it takes to change course when something no longer resonates. Discover how to: Recognize signs that it's time for a change in your business Embrace the discomfort of stepping out of your comfort zone Implement course corrections that align with your true purpose Key insights include: The importance of being open to receive wisdom from unexpected sources How making bold changes can reignite your passion for your work The value of serving a specific audience that resonates with your mission Why loving yourself deeply is crucial for business success and personal fulfillment I also share a personal invitation to join my daily inspirational email messages, designed to uplift and motivate you on your entrepreneurial journey. Whether you're feeling stuck in your current business model or sensing it's time for a change, this episode offers encouragement and practical advice for moving forward with confidence. Tune in to learn how embracing change can lead to a more authentic and fulfilling entrepreneurial experience! Resources: Join the Soulful Women's Network Receive daily inspirational email messages: bit.ly/LoveLightNotes Need support? Go to engagewithgloria.com to schedule a call. Connect with Live Love Engage: Send Gloria Grace a message ☕ Support the podcast ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating LinkedIn: Gloria Grace Rand Facebook: Gloria Grace Rand YouTube: Gloria Grace Rand TRANSCRIPT When you get ideas, sometimes they won't work out. That's true. And sometimes they do. And it takes sometimes the courage to step out of your comfort zone and try it and see what happens. I am Gloria Grace Rand, founder of the L.O.V.E. Method and author of the number one amazon best seller Live. Love. Engage. - how to stop doubting yourself and start being yourself. In this podcast, we share practical advice from a spiritual perspective on how to live fully, love deeply, and engage authentically so you can create a life and business with more impact, influence and income. Welcome to Live. Love. Engage. Namaste. When was the last time you got an idea but fear kept you from moving forward? It happens, you know, we're human. But what I want to talk to you today is the willingness to take action, to step out of your comfort zone, to make a course correction and change. Change gears. Okay, I'm mixing, I'm mixing lots of metaphors here, but, you know, hey, what the heck? I can do that because I think it's important. And, and this is something that I've been going through recently. And in fact, today's episode, frankly, is a course career direction because I was going to talk about something completely different and it just wasn't feeling it. I just wasn't feeling it. This week I've been like, struggling to come up with what I wanted to talk about when what's been happening for me or the. Especially yesterday. Well, really this whole week said to me, no, you need to talk about this instead. So we're going to talk about course corrections. We're going to talk about not being afraid to leap in and do something. So let me, let me give you some context here. I have been trying to figure out. I'm trying to figure out the best way to say this. I've been, I've been evolving. Let's. Let's put it that way. Yes. So my, my audience for who I want to reach in my business has evolved over the. Certainly over the time that I've been in business since 2009. But certainly, but especially over the last year or two, I would say I have. I started a women's group called the Soulful Women's Network. And that was a way for me to be able to connect with other women entrepreneurs and other professional women. And so I've enjoyed doing, doing that. And in fact, we have a free Facebook group if you want to join. I've got the, I've got the link right below there. And I will put that in the show notes as well. Actually. You can go to Bit Ly forward slash soulnetwork and you can find it. So that, that's part of it. And, and I've been, I've been enjoying that. And in fact, I was. Well, here, here's an example of this. So here's an example, of course, correcting. So I've been. Have this group going for the last couple of years and it's. I think a lot of, A lot of groups seem to be having this issue lately, especially ones that we would meet virtually twice a quarter and then once in person. Once a quarter. Once in person, in Melbourne, Florida, where I live. And it's been. It's been tough to. We have that. Well, let me say this. We've had the same. Same people show up, which are. Who are amazing women who show up every month. And, you know, once. Once in a while, we'll get a few. And then when we meet in person, we usually have a lot more. And I think it's because still in these years, after, After Covid, we still want to be able to meet in person. And so we had our Zoom meeting last week, and I was asking the group, you know, how we can. How we can grow this. You know, I want to be able to grow it. And, and after I got done, you know, we had some ideas of how to be able to, how to be able to make some improvements. And I was like, cool. I appreciated that. And then after we got done, I stayed on our Zoom with one of my good friends, and she said, gloria, you seem sad. And I said, yeah, I know. All of a sudden, I started feeling sad while we were talking, and that's not the first time that's happened during one of our Zoom calls. She said, well, maybe that's telling you something. And I said, yeah, maybe we need to meet in person. Maybe we need to meet in person every month instead of doing Zoom. And so that started this process for me of taking hard look at what I wanted the group to be. What was the purpose, who did I want to bring into the group, which has culminated now in the fact that yesterday I spent time coming up with a new name for the group and, and a new sort of premise for it. And so now it's still the Soulful women's network, but it's aimed at women over 50 who want to connect and grow and thrive. And now it's like I've suddenly been re-energized to… To do this group. And, and I, I. Yesterday I came up, I did my. I. I did our event, Facebook event description for. And planning of what our topic was going to be for February. So I went ahead and already did that, so it's not even. It's for a whole month away, but I went ahead and did it and I just, like, just, just wrote, you know, in the past, I've kind of used AI sometimes to help me, you know, come up with some messaging a little bit, you know, and then I would always tweak it, but this time it just flowed because I was on a roll, and it just flowed. And that's what I. That's the message. I really wanted to tell you is that when you get ideas, sometimes they won't work out. That's true. And sometimes they do. And it takes sometimes the courage to step out of your comfort zone and try it and see what happens. You know, I've been experimenting over the last two years with this group and, you know, we grew the Facebook group to a certain amount. Well, this morning I had someone from South Africa who requested to be in the group. So, so, you know, it's like, boom. And then actually one of my other, one of the other members, she invited a bunch of people to the group yesterday because she's like, I love the new focus of the group. So it shows that, yes, making this course correction, kind of re. Re examining things is fruitful and, and it is going to result in what I want to do. And, and then yesterday I was also on a phone call with, with one of our members who, who doesn't live in Central Florida anymore. She, she moved out of the area and I had to let her know that, yeah, we're not going to be meeting on Zoom anymore. And she, she understood. And then we got to talking. She's going through some challenges in her life right now. Her husband is unfortunately in hospice care and, and she's looking at the future, you know, when, when she's going to be. She's going to become a widow and, and wondering what she's going to do now with this next chapter of her life. And, and she's someone like me, who has a background in marketing. We've been doing online marketing for a long time. And that's, that's how I started my business, doing SEO copywriting, you know, and, and we're like, yeah, it's just not, it not has that. It doesn't have quite that same pull. I still, don't get me wrong, if you need help copywriting, if you need, please feel free to reach out and, you know, go to my website. You can go to engage with gloria.com and you know, let's chat. It's just a, it's a simple little conversation. You know, if there's anything I can help you with. I still love the clients that I have when I do that work. And I've been pulled to do more to do deeper work. And that's why I launched my Align to Shine Academy a couple months ago. And I'm going to be doing it again at the end of February because I want to really help women to stop doubting themselves and start being themselves. And during this conversation with my friend and listening to her talk about what's going on with her, and we're kind of going back and forth and she's talking about what I'm doing and everything....