When One Career Ends, Another Has Been Growing Under the Soil

I spent the last eleven years happily thriving as a book coach. I built that career through networking near and far, and I did all the stuff - the webinars, and the funnels and the 30 day challenges, lives, you name it, I tried it to find the people who needed me and my style of coaching. What I also was doing in all that time was meeting so many incredible women from all walks of life who were passionate about businesses, or ideas, brands and concepts, but we also talked about their kids and their parents. I spent a lot of small circle conversations chatting about the way we live our lives, and the desire to have more. To lighten the load of responsibility but still be connected to love. What I found with most of the women I met was they didn't know how to find their self-esteem without controlling, managing, knowing and understanding where their life was headed, so they felt safe. To be in the middle of a transition created a lot of fear and self-judgment. "I should've known better." "I should've seen this coming." What about looking at the fact that what has been growing has happened right in the middle of what you were accomplishing and is now being called to attention... especially if you gave yourself the bandwidth and ten minutes to stop and recognize the new calling. We look as women to the problems, and not the potentials. We are built to solve problems for everyone we love, and in our companies and professions. So it is natural to believe when we are calling to pivot that this is a problem. What if it is a calling to be bigger than you even dreamed you could be? I had to share with you my season I am in today. Realizing the career that brought me the stuff was also part of the new beginning. It's a wave of growth and opportunity not cut and dry. Be in the open spaces and look at what you launched and did as part of the bigger picture of your delicious life.