When I lost my job in November of 2008 due to a company downsizing, I thought my world had collapsed.
The whole experience was traumatizing and near devastating, but it was also a wakeup call that led to me writing a book about my experience.
In the process of writing this book, I received several jobs offers that I declined until I finish it (at least that was my plan). Then I was tempted and accepted a job since my "Why" is also helping the patients in my area of expertise. I thought I could help this company market and sell their technology to serve the patients better.
You won't believe what happened next. I was only five weeks on the job when I asked for a week vacation to attend Message to Money Live to help my husband with his online business.
My husband and I were going to combine the trip with our anniversary celebration. When I accepted the job, I told them I had this planned vacation, and they agree to hire me and let me go on the trip.
The very Friday Message to Money Live event took place I received a call at 7:30 am where the Human Resource Manager and my manager notified me that my position was eliminated along with 50% of the sales force.
I couldn't believe it would happen to me again!
This time I was not devastated. I told them I understood and that if they needed my help, I would be at their service.
The story doesn't end here. Ironically the reason why I was at Message to Money Live was that I had a dream six months before the event. In my dream, I was speaking to Marisa around a fire pit. When I woke up, I checked her website, since I always follow my intuition, and I saw the sale page promotion for the event. In her promotion page, I saw the fire pit from my dream.
That's when I decided to sign up for Message to Money Live.
That day after the call I headed to the meeting. Marisa asked what brought us to the event. I stood up and told her my dream and started crying.
I said: "The Universe knew this was going to happen to me and prepared me to be here. I will use all the knowledge acquired to launch my book and help others become the CEO of their destiny.
I believe that what helped me go through this second job loss was joining LYM mentorship program.
I learned so much and started setting up my online business. Unfortunately, I couldn't finish the program until the end because my husband was diagnosed with cancer and I had to go back to my corporate job since we needed the health insurance to pay for his surgery.
Marisa was so kind to offer us the opportunity to join EPM the following year. And that's what I did!
Through the ten weeks of the program, I was able to go back where I have left things and got my passion and business back. In the last two weeks, I have accomplished more than I ever thought.
My website and the Facebook business page is up and running. I'm already having chatterbox conversations with my prospects.
My husband also watched all the videos.
We have both gain clarity of what message we want to share with the world and the best way to market and promote it.
That clarity has given us the momentum we both needed in our business.
I can sleep better now that I know what my destination is regarding my business and also my husband's business.
Even if we have to make changes based on the feedback we receive from our tribe, we know we can go back to the EPM course materials and find anything we need to make our business successful!
Thank you, Marisa!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Clarity, Clarity, and Clarity!
How did EPM help you become successful?
Before EPM my husband and I were struggling with what direction should our business take. Yes, I say both since we took the course together. The idea was that I could create a course for my niche and he could do the same. My husband has been working on his niche for five years, but what was holding him back was what should he focus on to make money. Ironically through EPM we learned that the best way to go at this moment was not an online course but adding a donation page to his website and increasing his speaking engagements since his topic is spirituality. He already has four speaking engagements booked for this year! For me, my aha moment was finally deciding what would my niche and topic be. I have been stuck for three years trying to figure it out. Once I saw the video Nice Down Profits Up everything started making sense. I gain the clarity I needed. That gave me the momentum I never had before, and in these last two weeks I updated my website, updated my business Facebook page and started posting. I also am finishing updating book I started a year ago. The purpose is to use it to grow my list and launch a course that’s related to the topic. I'm on fire! We both needed to go back and forth with the ideas we had with you and my coach Paul to figure out this was the way to go.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I can sleep better now that I know what my destination is regarding my business and also my husband's business. Even if we have to make changes based on the feedback we receive from our tribe, we know we can go back to the EPM course materials and find anything we need to make our business successful!
What has been the biggest change in your business?
My husband is revamping his website to add the donation page and change the format based on the EPM course since he is using his website as his product. For me, I started engaging through the chatterbox campaign to get closer to my tribe.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Gaining clarity on our niche and topic. This clarity has led us to take more action in the last weeks that we have in years!