Are You Here To Be A Speaker? 117What event or series of events led you to your discovery?
I know that I am passionate about speaking and teaching people how to have
successful businesses. I’ve been doing this for twelve years, seven of those
years full-time. But it only became clear that this was my life’s purpose in
December of 2006. I attended a breakthrough workshop with best-selling
author, Barbara De Angeles for two days, and it just hit me like a lightening
bolt, “This is what I was put on the earth for!” The reason I had been doing
all these other things in my life, such as being successful in business and
building and selling businesses, was to get the expertise and the knowledge
to do what I was really put on this earth to do, which is to teach others. That
teaching is not only about business, there’s a message of personal growth
mixed in. My presentations aren’t just business seminars anymore, they deal
with mental belief systems and inner work. I discovered that teaching in this
way is really my true gift.
I was innately transitioning into that type of work, but I didn’t
realize it until I discovered my own personal breakthrough. Like I said,
before I was a business teacher, and now I’ve realized that there’s much
more to my motivational message. I’m like an evangelist of business
and personal growth. I’m real, passionate and enthusiastic about what I
have to share. I truly care about helping others achieve more in life.
Before I discovered both professional and personal balance in
my own life, I could not teach it to others. We need to first become
students of what we need most in our own lives and experience it full on
before we can share our message from the heart with others. Today, I tie
personal development with business strategies into one lesson and it’s
much more effective. I enjoy sharing this type of information with people
because they get the message from multiple angles, not just “here’s a
business strategy, now go to work.” Rarely do speakers talk about “dream
stealers”, “negative self-talk” or “growing from your failures” ... yet
these are all part of life we all go through. Once you address the issues
we all have we can then take the right steps to move ahead.
If you could give advice to those still searching for their life’s purpose,
what would it be?
Never stop learning. Be a life-long student, not just a student of what
you think you have to learn in your field (whether you’re learning real
estate or the insurance business). Become a life-long student learning
about yourself. When you improve yourself personally along with