 Hi everyone, so today I'm here with one of my clients Michelle Atlas and I'm excited for her to share with you all What she has been learning in our work together So let me introduce Michelle. Well, hi Michelle. Good to have you here. Thank you So let me read to you her bio. I think she has an interesting background and You'll learn more about her business towards the end of this video as well So Michelle Atlas empowers strong creative women to own their worth so that they can create sustainable businesses and meaningful lives Around who they are with intuition honed through her her years of spiritual practice In fact, Michelle, how do you talk about later how you spend years in the spiritual ashram? And she also has a very substantial transformational toolbox from the different trainings and tools that she's learned over the years She will help you to discover the courage you did not know you have So that you can create the change you never thought it was possible in your relationship to money to love and to yourself Michelle is a coach a teacher a speaker and a writer. She is an ICF professional certified coach ICF is Some of you know this but it's international coaching Federation, which is one of the top coaching certification programs available She is also a new field certified coach a certified Resilience facilitator and I'll have you talk a bit about that later to Michelle and a sacred money archetypes certified coach So Michelle, thank you so much. I'm honored to be working with you and thanks for being here Oh, you're so welcome. You're so I'm honored to be working with you. Yeah, so maybe you can start I'll just kind of let you share. However, you would like what have you what's what's something that you really Appreciate having learned in our work together that might be helpful for those who are watching this as well. Yeah, sure sure So I think one of the most important there are many things I've learned and that I continue to really enjoy and benefit from with our ongoing work, but one of the things that really has stood out for me as super important is This experience I have with you George where I'm building a lucrative sustainable business and honoring the self-care and You know spaciousness that I need to maintain my inspiration and my creativity and my well-being are not at odds with each other at all and I just have this from the moment we started working together from the moment we spoke actually before we started working together. I experienced a sense of spaciousness and Allowance and I felt this sort of you know, just this inherent permission giving to You know move at my own pace and pay attention to what really works for me and stop doing things that don't work for me and And all the while we've been able to create a level of sustainability and profit that has exceeded What my years of attempting to do this in a variety of other ways in the past? Hmm. This is thank you. And so maybe Since you talked about this About the sense of balance What has maybe what what have you seen elsewhere in terms of how people build businesses that? Haven't been this spacious. Maybe you can kind of talk about what help us to recognize what doesn't work Yeah, well, you know, everybody's different and so you know I mean, I know in my work with people we always look for the individual success pattern and kind of you know Want to imitate that so in my case? I Spent, you know, the better part of five years Pushing really hard and You know just trying to master every new marketing strategy and every new business strategy that I saw in the virtual space and You know, I was a voracious learner and I thought that was a good thing until I began to You know feel like I was just like frantically chasing other people's ideas of You know how to create wealth and how to create a sustainable business or how to create a joyful business. I found myself Really out of balance after several several years of operating that way I found ironically something that you know came You know a big light bulb moment for me was when I realized that my pursuit of wealth Actually was inhibiting my capacity to create sustainability Interesting and yeah, and so I realized that I needed to actually instead of step it up even more and stretch even further Push even harder, which is what I kept feeling like I was hearing I needed I realized that my well-being and my ability to remain creative and inspired Involved more of dialing it back actually and of rediscovering the other parts of my life You know that were really meaningful to me that I had completely Disconnected had no time or energy for for years because of the way that I was approaching my business and so I Found that the way that I had been working in the past Did create some serendipitous and You know random significant successes But I never really felt like I found my success You know my way of operating on an ongoing basis to create a more predictable Sustainable flow of revenue without so many surprises without so many highs and lows And that also allowed me to pay attention to who I actually am what my particular strengths are And I had really begun to lose big parts of what I actually have the best of what I actually have to offer people by operating that way And I only realized it when I started to you know find myself shutting down to to the market to the messaging I was receiving and also You know even two parts of my work that I typically love and it was like wow, this is a red flag I better pay attention. What's going on here? Yeah, yeah, thank you. I hope that others watching this will maybe become more sensitized to the misalignment that that It's easy for us to get into because like you said that the marketing messages Keep telling us we should be doing this should be doing that and a lot of times You know should be chasing the seven figure business or whatever and a lot of times The the formula that's prescripted for us Is not a formula that really takes You know self-care into account balance and really even doing Business actions that feel aligned to our values, right? Yes And and so that's kind of what what you've been and so actually one thing I mentioned earlier that I'd love for you to touch on is you know, you talked about kind of Finding connection again with the other aspects of your life one of the important aspects of course has been your spiritual practice and You spent some time in in a in an ashram. You want to say a bit about that? I think that's that it might be interesting for people to learn about. Oh sure well, it's kind of an unusual background I I Began to meditate when I was around 19 and I've been kind of a spiritual seeker by nature you know for whatever reason from the time I was a little girl and I You know always loved looking at pictures of monks and my father's National Geographic and and that sort of thing and so The moment I graduated from undergraduate school much to my parents, you know shock and horror I instead of going and getting the job that they anticipated me getting I moved into an ashram a yoga and meditation community where I lived and worked and my Time there on unplanned turned into a 12-year Commitment a 12-year lifestyle and so I emerged at age 34 and for the first time at age 34 I was you know sort of learning how to be an adult in the world in the way that most people do it maybe 22 or 25 and I But I had had this you know 12 years of really being steeped very deeply in Meditation and yoga before my knees became a problem and and just a lifestyle You know where I was living with a lot of people with shared values and So, you know, it's something that became internalized for me and that You know, it's just always there I Yeah, and and how maybe how is how are you bringing like what's one way you're bringing that? Practice or that sort of Yeah routine maybe into your current life or or maybe the another question to ask is how is that aspect of your life affecting your business? Yeah, sure sure Yeah, well, I think it's affected my my whole life and Sort of returning to myself in the way that I'm doing my business now this you know kind of Really coming back to home in myself and creating the business From you know, really my my core values like George said and really paying a lot of attention close attention to Who I really am and and coming from that place. I Think the way that you know, I meditate every day still it's just sort of in my DNA it's in my muscles I can hardly walk or talk if I haven't meditated yet You know from after all these years of doing it, you know, right right when I wake up I pretty much get up and sit down that's pretty much how it works and and so I Think what's it, you know, the meditation helps immensely to Reconnect with myself at a deep level to kind of process out Disturbing thoughts or you know meant some of the mental chatter that might have been residual from the previous day It also during my meditation As a business owner what I have found is that I Just have this like these tidal waves of creativity that That it emerged very organically while I'm meditating. So I get my very best business ideas and And I solve my business my my most, you know My biggest business conundrums while I'm meditating very effortlessly. I because you're not doing it, you know through thought You're in a you know, you're in a very relaxed state. And so the wisdom that we all have every single one of us has within us just has free reign during that time and So a tremendous amount, you know gets Cleared and created and I've written whole articles just you know sitting there and I get up and just Blurred out a whole article because I got really clear about, you know, it's a download as we say You know something that really comes through When I'm not in the way, you know, my mind isn't in the way and all the doing isn't in the way. Yeah, that's great Is there anything you want to say in terms of our work together that I know we've been working on, you know One of the things is your your marketing and your your Facebook presence and what have you learned or how have you grown in in that arena? Sure So that's been massive for me I did you know, I had a business Facebook page and a personal page and I wasn't doing anything with anything So when I started working with George, you know, I just didn't really know how I didn't know how to do it in a way that you know What made sense what was going to be like productive and any of that and so George is super skilled super super knowledgeable regarding social media and marketing online and so He's taught me how to Create posts and you know boost posts and make sure that The type of people that I work best with that I love to work with and that might resonate with my work Know that I'm there that I have a visible virtual presence in a way that feels very honest and very You know, just very much very authentic, you know place for me to express a lot of what I want to share with the world and What's happened? So I never thought of Facebook as a list-building tool I had, you know been under the impression that only hosting tele summits, which I had done which which, you know was great, but it wasn't a massive amount of work and You know certain other techniques were the way to go None of them were super appealing to me So because they just required massive amounts of energy and preoccupation from some of the other things I love to do But I learned through my work with George that by marketing, you know my writing and my You know the things I offer my workshops and things of that nature in a targeted way That those people who are really connecting with you really aligned with you Choose then to like your page and choose then to you know to go to my website and get more involved with my work and If that's a very wonderful exciting feeling so the numbers my numbers have have increased exponentially on my business Facebook page without Completely independent of me asking anybody to like my my page I do occasionally ask people to like my page that I know or that I've known for some time That might not be where I even you know have a business page but all kinds of people from all over the world have come into my universe through this and and so what I want to say is that You know, it's not necessarily thousands of people at this moment but it's What I have found with my work is the right people You know Will invest in my services over and over again and will love working with each other and they'll grow exponentially and that's more meaningful to me Ultimately then having a massive community with a with a low open rate Let's say on my newsletter a very high open rate and a smallish community, but they're responsive and and and that feels great to me Yeah, that's that's wonderful. I'm so glad you mentioned When it comes to the audience really I've discovered the same thing You know the quality is really much more important than quantity Yeah, and I think it's much more fulfilling for our business and makes our business sustainable and thriving because we're working with the people that we we love working with and we don't have to contend with the Sort of the the maybe even sometimes spam, you know when you grow your audience at your level You start getting a lot of engagement so-called that isn't really Engagement the kind of engagement that you would like so but but let's start to wrap it up wrap up this interview I want to be respectful of your time and Maybe you can share with Those watching about something about your offerings. I think people will be interested to hear you've got a couple of areas But I'll let you share what what you feel is most relevant right now Sure. Oh sure. Thank you so much so One thing and I think George is gonna share a link if you're interested, you know I do a lot of work with the psychology of money and and how money is You know the way we do money is the way we do so many other things and particularly love actually You know in addition to the obvious impact on our bank account in our business So I have a money archetype personality quiz on my home page on my website And George is going to give you the link to where you can opt in to Take that quiz free of charge and it's automated and you'll get you'll get a set of automated results immediately a snapshot of your money personality profile and There'll be an invitation also to connect with me free of charge as well if you are interested I'm also going to do a workshop next week That's just $25 that takes this archetypal work to the next level called on your Own your money types and empower your money story Yeah, so you can find out more about that once you're once you're in the loop with me If you go to if you you know want to check out my Michelle Atlas coaching on Facebook. It's all there So great wonderful ways to connect if you'd like perfect perfect Um, thank you Michelle. Is there anything else you want to mention before we before we head out? Um, I Don't think so, you know, I It feels like yeah, I don't want to you know dilute or confuse any of the great content that we've talked about so Yeah, well, I know that people will be I hope people will follow your your content I think it'll be helpful for them and they'll continue to see your growth on social media and We'll probably loop back around at some point and and update everyone on how you're doing so Thanks so much for being here and everyone. I hope you got some uplifting information and Benefit from watching this and I will see you in the next video. Thanks again, Michelle. You're so welcome. Thanks