True Balance Life Coaching

“Follow Your Bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

November 9th will always be a special day for me. On this day, five years ago, I left a high-profile career which no longer suited me to become a liberated entrepreneur, transformation Goddess, life coach, yogini and author.  In this short time, I’ve learned how to run a successful business supporting powerful and creative women in career transition.

This post represents a celebration of the milestones achieved during my liberation quest plus some of the lessons learned on my path to entrepreneurial freedom.

Experiences

• Created more spaciousness in my life for my young daughter.
• Deeply profound shadow work and personal development.
• Created True Balance Life Coaching, LLC which morphed into True Balance International, LLC.
• Work(ed) with clients in England, Thailand, Italy, Australia, Canada and the USA
• Co-authored three best selling books for women
• Authored and published, Life on Your Terms. (True Balance Press)
• Created True Balance Press.
• Wrote and recorded the Life on Your Terms Accelerator Series – A self paced coaching program for people ready to reinvent themselves as entrepreneurs.
• Earned my yoga teacher certification.
• Create and teach Luscious Living Yoga Playshops for women.
• Work with several specialized coaches for business, mentorship and public speaking.
• Hired a brilliant support team for accounting, graphic design, Web site creation and behind the scenes support.
• Authored several articles for Women Entrepreneur, Aspire and More.
• Co-created Seize True Success Coaching with Diane Helbig.
• Co-created Anxiety Slayer with Ananga Sivyer.
• Coached hundreds of people to get focused and transition from employee to entrepreneur.
• Created and presented workshops and signature speeches for Zonta, Grand Traverse Woman, Union Yoga, IAAP and the United Franchise Group.
• Partnered with Light of Day Organics to create my signature True Balance Organic Tea blend.
• Partnered with a seamstress to create Transformation Goddess Prototype clothing.
• Created seven coaching videos to grow my business.
• Created three Web sites and a Life Balance Blog.
• Worked with a Public Speaking Coach to shine on stage.
• Created five signature speeches.
• Created a signature coaching system for women in transition.
• Created custom audio for podcasts, commercials, long format videos and audio books.

Lessons

• Trust your intuition.
• It’s okay to say NO thank you.
• Distractions will always get in the way of productivity.
• Create time for spaciousness
• Work away from your office on a regular basis.
• Work with a coach or mentor at all times.
• Know your audience/target market really well.
• Test your ideas in advance for new products and services
• If you are a writer, hire an editor.
• Ask for support  - sooner than later.
• Remain curious.
• Learn how to harness your natural creative energy.
• Surround yourself with a brilliant team of people.
• Incremental steps = GOLD.
• Cash is Queen. Without cash flow your business is dead.
• Trade your specialized services for specialized services for your business.
• Fail fast and move on.
• Partner with like-minded entrepreneurs and grow your sphere of influence.
• Be generous and kind everyone you meet.
• Surround yourself with people who believe in you
• Work your ass off doing what you love  - delegate the rest.
• Read a lot of material.
• Get out in front of REAL people at least once a month.
• Some days suck – Most days ROCK.
• The list goes on and on…

Are you following your bliss?

 

1. What have you accomplished in the last five years?
2. What lessons have you learned?
3. Are you ready to leave the corporate rat race?

 

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.”

- Steve Jobs

If you live in the United States, I hope you are enjoying a Rockin’ 4th of July weekend!

In honor of America’s Liberation celebration, I want to do my part to help you make the rest of 2011 a great year!

You are invited to enter to win a scholarship for the brand spanking new Shann Vander Leek Signature Coaching System valued at $3,750! This contest opens up the door for one-on-one coaching with me for a full year – at 1/2 price.

Are you a powerful woman who is ready to get focused, accelerate life on your terms and enjoy more balance in your life? Nothing fires me up more than supporting someone like you! I am offering a scholarship for my signature coaching system to the woman who writes the most compelling essay about why she is ready to partner with a professional life coach and dramatically change her life over the next 12 months.

If opening the door to reinventing your life on your terms sounds good, you will want to read more about this generous offer below.

Liberation Celebration Essay Contest

I love to support powerful professional women through the process of metamorphic change..

The Shann Vander Leek Coaching System is a program designed for bright and powerful professional  women who do too much. Women who feel that their personal wells are running dry. Women who are ready to make a monumental transition – to orchestrate a lasting change and make a difference in the world.

These women are over-achievers, often Type A superheroes who have become out of touch with their bodies and divine feminine nature after years of kicking ass and taking names. Women who have been fearless in business; who are bold, brilliant, and ready to thrive on their own terms.

Sound like you or someone you know? Please read on…

The Shann Vander Leek Signature Coaching System will:

 
• Help you clarify your life’s purpose and passion.
• Help you understand the stages of a significant transition.
• Create an abundant future aligned with who you really are.
• Remove self induced obstacles including fear and doubt.
• Lead you back to caring for your mind, body and soul.
• Offer tools, resources and practices to help you succeed faster.
• Improve how you manage your time and create more balance in your life.

 

Details of Coaching Scholarship Offer:

All you have to do to enter the contest is write a 300-500 word essay sharing your story and why you are the best candidate to win a full year of world-class transition coaching for 1/2 price. It’s easy! If you’ve been considering working with a coach to dramatically improve your life, this is a great opportunity to do so at 1/2 great price!

How does it work? If you are the winning entry, you will will a $3,750 scholarship which represent 50% of the investment for a full year of one-on-one coaching.

Are you ready to enter the contest? All you need to do is visit the new Shann Vander Leek website, fill out the essay form and submit your essay.  I look forward to reading your entries!

Bonus Jewels for your entry:

YES! I want to enter to win a $3,750 scholarship!

*All Liberation Celebration entrants must be willing and capable to invest $ 312.50 per month for 12 months which represents 50% of the value of the Shann Vander Leek Coaching System. Your scholarship covers the rest of you investment! Your first Installment will be due on August 8th, 2011. Questions? Call me! 231-668-9850 or Skypelein: Shannolann

**Not quite ready to go for it? You are welcome to schedule a 30 minute complimentary coaching session at any time. Click HERE to be transported to my Coaching Page and scroll 1/2 way down the page.

Picture yourself walking down the street in a busy urban area of New York, London or Los Angeles.  Moving along you are mesmerized by magnificent architecture, the innocence of a child’s laughter, the fancified shop windows, the smells and sounds of the city.  You are completely lost in thought when by the grace of a complete stranger,  you are saved from being run over by a rogue vehicle blowing through a red light.  Your heart is racing and you are wicked stunned.  You thank the super hero on the street by offering him your first born and stumble off  grateful to be alive.  Your wake up call has been delivered.

What will do with this message?

It’s time to get out of your own way and begin taking action in the areas of your life you deem most important. There is no more time for ego-teasing lip service or negative self-talk. If you need help getting focused,  schedule a no cost coaching session with me or another coach out in the world and move one step forward on the path of your desires.

One of my coaching clients is a brilliant creative visionary. Her vision of idealistic greatness paralyzed her for years from taking action on the small things which bit by bit, drop by drop,  add up to the full life she is desperately seeking. Couple this paralysis with brutal self-talk and we have a smidge of a vision versus reality challenge.

Like the fantastical dreamer meandering through the city,  this bright woman was preoccupied with rich textured dreams and magical notions.  She almost missed the harbinger of a tragic nightmare threatening to suck the life from her extraordinary vision.  We are working together to travel back to the beginning of her story with the commitment of making plans and celebrating incremental actionable steps over a clear and specific time line.

Big Ideas —> Plans Phases —> Action Steps  = Critical Path Time Line

Creative people overflowing with ideas and wacky scenarios love to play. Dabbling here and experimenting there can be big fun and certainly not as scary as stepping into your power to create your life’s dream.  I enjoy experimentation as much as any creative,  but have learned that too many trials lure me away from the laser focus I am finally learning how to surrender to and flow with.

As a personal coach I share my time inspiring creative entrepreneurs to accelerate their journey toward a full and balanced life on their terms. In my opinion, the best way to foster liberation is to live it, breath it and study it.  I am ecstatic to shine a focused stream of dazzling golden sunshine with the purpose of illuminating each bold and interesting plan of the people I play with.

Getting Out of your own way looks like this:

• Learning how to be happy with incremental victories that lead to your BIG VISION

• Being grateful for your experience and talents – There is nobody in the Universe quite like you.

• Reminding yourself daily of all you have accomplished

• Setting realistic daily, weekly and quarterly goals

• Kicking your own ass,  hiring a coach or tapping into a mentor to accomplish short-term plans

• Creating an environment of daily creative productivity

• Communicating with like-minded people who are happy to be a part of your support system

Open your eyes and look around.  You can get out of your own way and honor your creative vision.

It is never too late to begin again.

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”  -Ralph Waldo Emerson