Getting Really Real

I hope you've come to me because you have a dream.  A dream that lights you up.  A dream that has your soul on fire, that you know that you have to share to the world. 

But maybe you're afraid.

Or maybe your house is a wreck (I know mine is) and it feels frivolous to spend time working on bringing that dream to fruition.

Maybe your laundry is piled up (again, mine is).

Maybe you have an unsupportive spouse who issues ultimatums and thinks your dream is impractical. And they certainly don't want you spending any money getting involved with a coach or a mastermind group or anything.

Here's a little secret, though.

You have this dream because the Source of all that is Infinite in the Universe (however you choose to refer to it) has laid it upon your heart.  It's been lain upon YOUR heart.  And the reason it's been lain upon your heart is because YOU are the one...the ONLY one...who can bring this to life.  The Source of all that is Infinite in the Universe has chosen you to bring your dream to life.  Now maybe you're working as an independent contractor in a direct sales company, and you think, "Yeah, right, I'm one of a thousand (or million or whatever) people working for this company.  What do you mean, the Universe has chosen me to bring this dream to life and I'm the only one who can do it?  What about all the other consultants/beauty guides/presenters/etc?"

The opportunity that you said yes to, the opportunity that was shared with you and lit a fire in you, came to you at the most opportune moment because the world needed your unique vision for how you build and run your business.  When I was an independent beauty consultant with Mary Kay, I once heard a sales director say that she had asked someone if they had had a facial with Mary Kay before and the woman told her yes, she had, and that she had had a negative experience.  The sales director responded, "Well, you've never had one of my facials."  I wasn't ready for the lesson in that at the time.  All I could think about was how arrogant it sounded, but now I realize that while the company may have guidelines for how to run your business so it's somewhat uniform among its sales force, each person brings their own unique personality to the table.  There are people out there who need to are waiting to hear about those products and opportunity FROM YOU.  They are hungry for it.  And you are the one to bring it to them. 

When the Source of all that is Infinite (whom I call God, while respecting all the names He is referred to by others) laid the dream on my heart to mentor creative dreamers who stay at home with their kids or work from home, I looked around at my life and told God that He was crazy!  But I stepped out in faith, because I’m not one to get a calling from the Lord and go hiding my light under a bushel basket (anymore LOL, more on that another day).  I showed up at the page to do my daily journaling.  I looked for journal prompts, and then one day, just before Thanksgiving, BAM!  Ideas for a 12-part Facebook Live series hit me.  And I just started doing them.  Just me, in my kitchen, unscripted, with all my life messiness in the background, because the Lord didn’t tell me how to do what He wanted me to do, he just said, “Do it,” so I did. 

And then I learned how to do better, so I did better.  I wrote scripts.  I made sure I looked pretty.  And the Lives got better.

I started joining groups where I could surround myself with sunny, crazy positive people so that I could raise my energetic vibration, because having depression and anxiety as I do, it’s soooooooo easy for me to go over to the dark place. 

One day, a group showed up in my Suggested Groups, and it was called the Slay Baby Collective.  I had to find out what that was all about, and when I read the description, the overture to Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet played in my head.  It was like the mother ship was calling me home.  In that group, I found these power*full, amazeballs boss babes who speak words that build, bless, and comfort.  I started to make friends with them.  All of a sudden, my Facebook news feed was flooded with all this positivity and belief in possibility and magic and sparkly things.  I started to believe I could uplevel my box-wine life for one filled with champagne, roses, and, as the founder of the Slay Baby Collective, Cara Alwill Leyba, says, "limitless luxe."  And I started to believe that Succulent Diva Coaching could be successful.

You came to me because you have a dream.  This dream is your holy purpose.  It's what gets you out of bed in the morning.  It's what lights a fire in your soul.  Never, ever, ever let anyone pull you away from it, talk you out of it, or stop you from making time for it.