Hello, beautiful. And welcome back to another episode of the powerhouse Revolution podcast. How are you today? Really, I want you to check in with yourself and just ask yourself that question. It’s so so important that you check in every now and again. How are you feeling? Are you feeling happy? A little overwhelmed? Are you feeling stressed? Excited? What are you feeling right now. And if the feeling is a negative feeling, it’s really important that you acknowledge that and then try to come up with some way that you can get yourself out of this, because life is too short. So please just remember, just try to have those regular check ins with yourself. What I’ve been noticing myself lately, you know, I’ve been working really, really hard. We’re in q4 now. And it’s even though I’m not in the corporate world anymore, I do have my own business. So I’m doing exactly what you’re doing. I’m looking at next year, I’m trying to finish out and hit my goals for this year. And there’s a lot kind of going on. So I find myself getting a little bit overwhelmed recently. And I’ve just been making a conscious decision every day just to check in with myself to see how I’m feeling and what’s going on. So I hope that you will do that too. Because when you’re aware of what’s going on, then you can change it rather than just motoring through the day. And then realizing at the end of the day, actually, you had a pretty crappy day because you didn’t even realize you’re in a bad mood. So yeah, what else is going on with me? So we’re in the middle of doing up our house at the moment. I don’t think I’ve told you that. But we are in our house about six years now. And we have moved our poor kids around a couple of times, because my daughter is their main cage, we’re sharing a bedroom. So for anyone who has kids or nieces or nephews, if you ever baby size or you have kids, you’ll know when kids get together you know it can be a bit electric. So the girls are like 10, and six. So the older one ceremi is at the age now where she’s really, you know, she wants her own space. So we moved her into my son’s room who’s 15 and we moved him into, we have massive, really big playroom. So now he’s got like one of the biggest rooms in the house. So we’re in the middle, we’ve done one room with two more rooms to do. So I’m in the middle of now trying to pick interiors, and I used to absolutely love this stuff. But now it’s like a certain effort. I don’t have time. So that’s where my head is out today. And I’m also thinking about what takeaway will I get tonight because it is Friday right now as I’m recording this podcast. So I’m thinking I might get Thai food. What’s your favorite food? Actually, I’d love to know, let me know do we have that in common? Do you like Chinese? Do you like Thai? You’re more of a pizza girl. Let me know. In LinkedIn or Instagram, I always love having the chats and getting to know you.
So today I wanted to talk quickly about investing in yourself. Now full disclosure when it comes to money talk. It’s a topic that a lot of us get really ‘ugh god’ we don’t want to talk about money. I know certainly in Irish culture, it’s very much like that. So I know I’ve got listeners from all around the world but definitely, in a lot of people in Ireland are funny when it comes to money.
And I suppose I wanted to share a little story with you around investing in yourself because I’m hoping that it will help anyone who is you know who’s afraid or feels guilty about investing in themselves. So sometimes when women come to me about working with me, so firstly, I work with private individuals who hire me. And then I also work with companies who pay for their employees to work with me. So I have a couple of different cohorts. And I have some women who you know will invest in themselves and they have absolutely no problem doing it and they say things to me like oh my god, I can’t believe I found you or I really hope you pick me when you open the doors to the next you know the next clients because I take on kind of cohorts at a time. And then I have other women who I can tell really need my support. They really want my support. They are burnt out they are lacking confidence they have this negative self talk, they’re holding themselves back in their career, they don’t have the skills or the tools that they need to be able to move forward. Yet there’s something that stops them. And as a coach, when I when I, when I speak to somebody who I know that I have this, the tools and strategies to help and when they don’t go ahead and me, I still think about those people because I wonder God, I hope they’re okay. So I wanted to share a little story that I’m I just want to share with you about a client of mine who is with me now. And I had a call with her maybe about a year ago. And she was that exact person. She is quite senior in a very large global organization. And she had been burning the candle at both ends in this new role for about a year. She was getting up at 5am for calls, she was managing a region. So she was on late. And she was really burnt out when she when she kind of came to me. So she had come to one of my master classes. And she knew she wanted support. And she, you know, she wanted help with work life balance, she wanted help to be able to set better boundaries, to be able to prioritize to be able to push back, and at the same time to be a better leader so that she could make a bigger impacts, while also having a life outside of work, which is what I am all about. So at this particular time, I explained my program to her and she said, Oh, it’s an I just don’t think now is the right time. For me. There’s so much going on in work right now. And I’m not sure I’m ready to you know, commit to investing in myself. So of course, when anything comes up with money, I don’t I don’t like to push people because that’s completely your choice. But this lady came back to me six months later, completely burnt out. She had changed nothing, obviously, because she didn’t have the tools that she needed to be able to make the changes. She didn’t have someone in her corner, she didn’t have the accountability. She didn’t have the guidance. She didn’t have the tools. So how could she change anything. So she came to me, she was completely burned out, she was out on stress, leave. And now we’re working together. And she started to make really, really good progress. But because she had gotten to the stage of burnout, it’s taken a little bit longer than it would had she where it started work with me six months ago before she had actually got to that stage, because now she’s dealing with physical symptoms of burnout as well. So I asked her, I said, You know what stopped you from investing in yourself, because now she’s you know, she’s seen massive results, she’s seen huge changes, she’s feeling really positive, she’s pushing back and work, she’s standing up for herself in a way that’s professional, where she’s still getting her job done. She’s still being recognized.
And I asked her like, What stopped you from doing this six months ago. And she said, Honestly, she said, I felt so guilty about investing the money in myself. So we kind of spoke about this, and I just wanted to speak to you, if you’re that person who, you know, this particular lady, and I would have been the same you know, you work so hard. You earn every single cent you earn. Yes, money, women will invest it in everybody and everything else. So they’ll pay for the holidays for themselves and their family. Or they’ll treat their loved ones to something nice. Or they will buy you know, the kids clothes or lovely lavish birthday presents, they’ll invest in new cars, because that’s going to make them happy. But it really, really doesn’t. And I really want you to hear me today when I say to you that if you need support in any area of your life, be it working with a coach like me be at hiring a weight loss coach, being at hiring a relationship coach, be it I don’t know, doing a course that you really, really want to do that’s going to cost like 10,000 euro, but it’s something that like is so so important to you. But this little voice pops up and says no, you can’t do that and yourself, you aren’t you can’t invest that in you, you’re not good enough. That is a load of bull. Because I listened to a lady before on a podcast, I can’t remember her name. And she was a money mindset coach. And you know, we all have these limiting beliefs when it comes to money and everyone has a relationship with money. And I see it all the time. When I speak to people, I see the people who are literally chomping at the bit to work with me and they’re like, give me like give me or they just throw their credit card out me or like sign me up as quick as possible. And then I see other people who could are potentially earning more money by the way than the people who are Academy their credit cards. And they’re just not as willing to invest because of their money story.
So I suppose I want to kind of debunk that for you a little bit today to say that it’s okay for you to invest your hard earned money in yourself. You do not have to feel one bit guilty about taking a half day to go to a spa and just invest in you. It’s not only you know, okay, it’s absolutely necessary. You need to take care of yourself. You work so, so hard on You know, it breaks my heart to see women like you who are working your opposite who bought off for an organization and then you’re burnt out at the end of the day and then you don’t even reap the rewards of the financial renumeration, new renumeration, because you’re too busy working and taking care of everyone else.
I had another lady who was on the fence actually about working with me. And you know, she was talking to me, and she had tons of shares, tons of shares that have vested, but yet they’re there for the future. So they’re for the future, and just in case, but tomorrow is not guaranteed. So my message to you today is, if you are ever thinking about investing in a self development program, that’s just for you be working with me be working with another coach, or like I said, doing something for you that you want, you do not need to feel guilty about us. It is your hard earned dollars. And we place so much emphasis on money as a currency, when money only enables you to do something. So for example, if you invest in yourself, and say, for example, if you worked with me, you’re going to be more confident, you’re going to be able to switch off, you’re going to have better work life balance, you’re going to make a bigger impact at work, you’re going to have better relationships, you’re going to feel more in control, more calm, more content more happy
. Like why would you not do that if there are things that you want, that you don’t currently have, is because you’ve got a little grin in your head telling you, you’re not good enough, it’s not going to work for you, you’re too busy and all these things, yet, it’s something you need. Equally, if you want to lose weight, you have a little voice in your head saying, you’re gonna have to figure this out, you know, all you need to do is, you know, go for a two hour walk and cut down your calories. But the reason we don’t do these things, is because we don’t have somebody in our corner to hold us accountable.
So I want to normalize the fact that I truly believe this with my heart and soul, that every single woman in a senior leadership role needs to have a coach in her corner if she if she is struggling with areas of her career or her life. Because I want to normalize that every pro athlete has a coach, every president, every politician, every single successful person in the world, invests in somebody to be in their corner to give them the time and space to show them possibilities and to show them things that they don’t, that they can’t see for themselves.
So I want you to kind of just shift your mindset around that you aren’t good enough, you should invest in yourself, if you want the things that somebody else is offering you, and do not feel one bit guilty about it. Equally, if you’re completely good in who you are in your confidence, and that you’re feeling really happy. Celebrate this and go and spend your money because life is too too short. Money is there, not just for your family, not just for material things, it is there for you to to be the best person to be the best version of yourself to, you know, step fully into your power on whatever support you need to do that, you do not need to feel guilty.
So if you are feeling burnt out right now, and you’re listening to this message, and you are or you just want to have that better balance, and you’re not at the stage of burnout, I want you to ask yourself this question. If you don’t invest in yourself, what’s the cost of not doing it causes always a cost, you’re either going to put on more weight, if it’s a weight loss thing, or you’re going to lead to burnout. If it’s a work life balance issue, or you’re going to keep losing sleep big if you can’t switch off from work, or you’re going to damage relationships, if work is taking over. There are so many costs to you not investing in yourself. And unlike the stock market, when you invest in yourself, you are in full control of the results. That’s the beauty. Right? You are in full control, but you do have to put in the work. So that’s all I really wanted to say today. I hate talking about money. So I just thought it would come on the podcast because I hate pressurizing or having conversations one to one about money because it’s just a funny subject. And I hate I would never want anyone to think I was trying to sell them anything to work with me. It’s more I want to try and give you a different perspective. I care so much genuinely about you. If you are connecting with what I’m saying. I’m talking to you. I care about you. I want you to be happy, I want you to be successful. So please, please change your money mindset. And if investing in yourself with me is what you want to do. Just send me a DM on LinkedIn on Instagram or send me an email and I will add you to my waitlist. The doors will be opening soon if they’re not open already to my one to one program powerhouse revolution. And in this program, it is a one to one completely safe, confidential space where I help you achieve three things. Number one more success in your career. Number two, balance better balance so that you can do the things you love in life without feeling guilty while still having career success. And yes, it is possible even at your level, even in your industry, I’ve worked with CC suite C suite executives, all the dental frontline across multiple industries, it is possible, you just got limiting beliefs, which is why you need me. And then the other thing I will help you achieve is just true happiness because a lot of the things that are stopping you from having that is your own mindset. And lucky for you, my speciality is mindset. So, if you’re interested in learning more, let me know I’d be able to let you know when I’m going to be opening up the doors again to take on new clients so that you can have first dibs on one of the first spots. So in the meantime, I hope that this episode will inspire something in you go and buy something for yourself today, girl, you totally totally deserve it. And I will talk to you again next time. Have a wonderful, wonderful day.
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