Your Graduation Story
What a ride this has been! I've been struggling for about 5 years with identifying my niche and more narrow focus because as a Licensed Therapist and Coach, I've had a difficult time honing in on that one ""get started"" area to pick! I've truly loved ALL of my clients over the last 23 years and couldn't really decide how to reign it in when my area of expertise is helping people through the intangibles - the limiting beliefs, the inner gremlins, the mindset stuff from our past that gets in the way of our present and future. I knew I loved working with those ""spiritually"" minded (or ""heart-centered"" as is the buzz word of late) or conscious people who KNOW there are infinite possibilities within them, but not sure how to access the ""what's wrong"" pieces to really move their life, business, and relationships forward! And so I struggled. How do I measure this? How do I essentially ""film"" them crossing the finish line?
And so my work with a private coach (Steve Olsher) led me to Marisa and the Experience Product Masterclass. I trust Steve and have invested heavily, so I figured, why not. Well, let me tell you all...
This has been THE MOST INCREDIBLE INVESTMENT I've EVER made!! And why?
I've gained more clarity with EPM, Marisa, the team of dedicated coaches, the community, and OF COURSE the program (and my private coach :) ) than I have in the last 5 years! I have my niche. I know my product. I have the foundations for how to put it all together in the MOST comprehensive, full, AND COMPLETE program I've EVER seen! WOWW!!! Thank you!
I may not have yet made Mission Accomplished, but I have quite a few in the works because of this program and at a larger investment than the ""norm,"" so I didn't want to rush them as much (just to hit MA) as build the rapport with them and offer value. Instead I chose to build a lifelong relationship with them because I know how our work together can change their life forever...it's like a good wine...sometimes you have to let it sit for just a bit.
But here's the difference in my own mindset with that now versus before I started EPM. It's OK! It's a get started place. It's a TAKE ACTION place and I don't feel like I ""failed"" (don't believe in that word anyway) anything or didn't ""hit"" MA...I feel like I'll hit MA x10, 20, 50 now because I'm doing in the most aligned and heart-centered way myself.
Now I'm not going to say it was easy...not at all! I had to fight many of my own inner gremlins and changing of my MA statement a gazillion times...even doubting if I'd picked the right ""get started"" niche/lane. But I'm continuing to move forward and finally feel like I have the full plan in place to make it happen and really take my career in the new direction I've been wanting to go for well over 10 years...and not just the 5 I've been actively doing.
I have a deeper level of confidence, skill set, and commitment now than I've ever had before and I actually feel 100% at peace if I find that I change multiple more times. That's truly a different feeling in knowing I'm truly iterating my way to my awesome and what's so exciting is that the people who will benefit most are my own clients and students and THEIR own clients and students! We just keep rippling out that awesomeness to the world to really all become the change we all wish to see.
So my graduation story isn't really one of ""graduating"" anything as much as ""finishing"" and ""completing"" a program that is now opening the door for me to ""graduate"" INTO my life and step into my own infinite possibilties the way I have but with more of a plan and direction now. I usually don't complete programs because they don't have the value they purport to have...this one 1 MILLION % does...and I'm SO glad Steve turned to me and said ""Susan, I think you NEED to take this program because it's complimentary to what we're doing"" and I listened.
Thank you Marisa for your heart, soul, and willingness to BE who YOU are, so we could become who WE are and step into what we are meant to do! The gratitude is infinite! <3
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
That my core belief that ANYTHING is possible (my brand is Infinite Possibilites so go figure!) truly IS possible within the realm of my own work because it's been so varied for so many years that I truly didn't know how to pick that "get started" place. Now I do and now I have the full plan to implement it and iterate my way to awesome! And that the getting started place isn't truly my "forever" choice and so all the thoughts and fears I had about leaving out certain groups of people or issues, or having to diminish my work in some way, isn't true and that it will find its way in...I'll just adapt and adjust as I go along.
How did EPM help you become successful?
How didn't it??? :) Ok, seriously, it's helped me to complete and finish, to follow through and step up, to step into and out of my comfort zones, my fears, the things that I needed mirroring for me in my work in order to more fully embrace the possibilities. I didn't need tech. I didn't "need" all the things I thought I had to have "first." I just needed to take action and start. And it's really given me the blueprint for how to keep iterating my way through to awesome and keep stepping in.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
Instead of my ideas being like a "pipe dream" so to speak, it's showed me that it really is a part of my reality and will continue to grow as I continue to grow. This has helped me even deepen in not just the work with my clients and future students, but with myself as well. I feel more integral now as I'm truly working to walk that walk all the time and not just the "sometimes" it felt like before.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
That I have the clarity I needed to really hone in on a brand and a direction. I could have continued on as a therapist - was a successful entrepreneur already, but I felt boxed in. Now I don't and know that the infininte possibilities I live by are truly infinite because I see the directions I can go over time in so many ways and not feeling like I had to pick just one forever.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
That my work will help have the impact on millions I always knew I was destined to have and that this ripple effect will continue to spread to others...we really can change the world. And of course, that my income will be consistent in this new direction and I'm truly infinite in my own ability to generate 6, then 7, then 8 figures and that means reaching more people, creating more ripples, and finding more life changing impacts in the conscious global change makers I'll have the honor to work with and serve.