Longing for more?
Somewhere along the way, we high achievers have been told a lie.
We were told that if we worked hard and landed the big job, with the impressive title and fat paycheck we’d be happy.
Our significant others would be happy too because even though we worked a ton of hours, the trips and well-decorated home would compensate.
And then life happens.
And it all goes to hell in a handbasket.
Crisis comes to us in shouts and whispers.
The shouts of a death of a parent, end of a marriage or a lay off.
And the whispers of discontent that this really can’t be all there is. There HAS TO be more.
There has to be more than short-term corporate earnings and 70-hour workweeks. There has to be more to than giving up attending your kids’ school events or finding hobbies you enjoy for the sake of increasing shareholder wealth or political bullshit.
You’re right – there is more.
And this is the real reason why you want to grow a consulting or coaching business. And why it's SO hard.
One part of you is like, “Oh yeah! Let’s do this!”
And another part of you is like, “Who do you think you are? Seriously? You’ll never make THAT work?"
And other parts of you are hidden in the corner just wishing that it could all go back to when your job and life just made sense.
Let me tell you – it’s not the lack of marketing strategies and skills that hold most of us back from creating a business and life that we love. It’s the disintegration we feel inside that got us to want to ditch corporate for consulting and coaching AND that still is holding us back from our potential.
The Solution - Turn Your Brain into a Boardroom
I got great news for you. You already have everything you need to align your strengths, passions and confidence to your highest business potential.
It’s simply to redirect all the skills you gained as a corporate leader on how to manage and lead the external boardroom to your Internal Boardroom™.
I’ll never forget the moment back in 2013 when I discovered this truth.
I was dealing with what felt like one major challenge with another. Work challenges, kid challenges, relationship challenges, fire in my house challenges, health scare crisis challenges…nonstop. Before becoming a single mom, I thought two parents working with kids was stressful. At this point, I started longing for the good ole days of ease!
To handle the stress – I was encouraged to try meditation. Which made no sense to me…at all. I was encouraged to look at my racing and overabundant thoughts and consider them like waves on the ocean or scenes of a movie. And as I sat in my mediation chair, set my timer, and tried to put myself at the beach to watch my ocean wave thoughts – I would start picking out my clothes in my head for my next business trip before getting so annoyed that I gave up.
And then I went on a business trip to San Francisco to facilitate customer focus groups for one of my clients. I brought all of my meditation audios and books along because gosh darn it – I was going to figure this out! After another frustrating attempt at meditation, I found myself in a boardroom, leading my focus groups of customers.
When you lead a focus group, you have questions that you ask but your real goal is to simply deeply listen to what each person has to say and find the themes. You don’t let one person’s ideas dominate the group. You look for the through-line between what everyone has to say. But if one person gets animated – the last thing you do is ignore them. You leverage your trusted flip chart that is set up for this very situation and you listen more deeply to them. You use what I call the “write it on the flip chart” technique which is if someone is extremely disruptive – you write down what they say and mirror back to them what you heard so that they know you got them and usually they will settle down.
So, as I did this listening process with my client over and over again and the light bulb went off! THIS was what everyone was talking about when it comes to meditation! It wasn’t about ignoring my thoughts. It was the opposite. I was connecting to the different parts of me and whatever they had to say without judgment or even a solution.
The seed was planted in me that there was something to my organization development and my work with organizations that could help me better master my internal world and thus my Internal Boardroom™ coaching process was born.
The Internal Boardroom™ Coaching Framework
Since 2017, I have helped my clients use my Internal Boardroom™ framework to rapidly and compassionately transcend and imposter syndrome so that they can create the business that they really wanted (vs. the one that they thought they “should” create) and become the Internal CEO™ of their own lives.
What we do in our work together:
- Help you apply what you know about the organizational system to your internal world, which is key to normalizing and separating fear from identity
- Work on finding and strengthening your Internal CEO™, the part of you who is responsible for and capable of leading the sub-parts of the internal system
- Actively connect with and deeply listen to the parts and what they need so that they have buy-in and will support your business vision and goals
The profound results you'll experience:
- Forward movement towards goals that feel like flow – with far less angst and resistance
- A business model that feels like you and gets your excited
- Strategies for anticipating and handling internal challenges that will consistently arise at each stage of business growth
- A way of healing oneself without having to invest thousands of dollars and hours in therapy and "hit or miss" personal growth experiences
What is exceptionally powerful about the Internal Boardroom™ framework is that the lessons you learn about managing your internal boardroom are directly applicable to how you coach and advise your clients. You’ll discover new ways of helping YOUR clients through their transformational fears and facilitating project and leadership teams.
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Helena G
I always felt that I had a mission, but I also always felt like I was painfully inadequate to carry that mission through. When I started to learn what I needed as an entrepreneur, it always seemed like I was one step behind, no matter how I struggled. For every new thing I learned, there were three new things standing and grinning at me. I was ready to throw the towel in, and go into technical sales somewhere when I encountered Betsy and this coaching process.
For me, this was a turning point. Now I can go into a meeting with a CEO and steer the conversation around his needs and situation, instead of just trying to prove that I’m good enough. Now I can position myself to make real impact. Now I see where my expertise fits in, and go for the projects where I’m truly happy to contribute, instead of just taking what’s available to get by.
In the work with Betsy, I was able to decoding of my entire life. One of the most liberating effects has been that now I can be more of who I am and use more of what I know. I don’t have to feel flawed, weird or insufficient. Now everything falls into place, and I can use the knowledge I have gathered the over past 25 years.
Ready to become the CEO of your life and build your INTERNAL team?
We work with our clients through this approach in a highly personalized way. To get started, book a free intro call so we can custom craft your Internal Boardroom™ coaching approach.
