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Week 2 Homework
I thought I could get everything out and posted by Nov 1....but that didn't happen. Here I am anyway! It's about a 15 minute video, so long script.
Content: Evergreen, it's about how life coaching and self-help courses brought me abundance in other ways than straight returns and how it doesn't always "add up" but it does matter. Anyone searching up "is life coaching worth it" or "infinite banking reviews" could stumble upon this and I give my true answer.
Titles:
- I spent $30K to improve myself - was it worth it?
- Did I waste $30K on this?!
- I spent $30K and got this in return.
Script:
Hook
I have spent over $30,000 trying to improve myself, and here's what I have to show for it.
1. Life coaching: $1,000
So the first leap that I took was coaching. I spent $1,000 for 10 sessions of life coaching with this woman, and it was amazing. I felt heard, I felt validated. It was separate than therapy. I was actually doing therapy at the same time. In therapy, I could unload and unpack things. But with my life coach, I was able to dream.
I had been laid off from a role, and I knew I didn't want to go back. She had really great ideas about how to structure my plans, my projects. I wanted to completely switch industries. I wanted to be delusional. She was telling me that it was possible. And it's not just because I was paying her. She had a lot of connections. She really saw the value in what I had to say. And as someone who recognizes patterns and industries, she also saw that there was value for me. So it was really helpful to have that professional look at where I wanted to go and be like, yes, this makes total sense. And with her, I was able to just gain enough confidence to look for the next leap.
That was the biggest transition I ever made, and also probably one of the bigger leaps of manifestation that I had. I was leaving the world of advertising. I had spent seven years in it. After coaching, I felt it was really possible for me to go to an entirely different role, a different industry, and that was able to happen.
When I wanted to leave advertising, everyone told me that in order to get into entertainment, I would have to take an advertising role at that entertainment company. So if Disney, if Amazon, if Netflix, take an advertising role and then transition into the content aspect of it. And I just didn't really want to do that.
This coach, and holding this belief in my mind that there is a problem that definitely exists and I seek to fulfill it, became my north star. And because I was so confident that it had to exist, I ended up chatting with my friends, getting really clear on the vision. I believe in advertising, there are so many ways that we can get really targeted and have really good tech. And there are other industries out there, especially in entertainment, where the matching of talent to projects, maybe the matching of talent to agencies. Somewhere within the business world, I believe there's probably a legacy process that could be updated with tech.
I didn't know what that job was, right? Not everyone is that evolved, or as much of an early tech adopter as advertising is. So I just felt like there's some place where I can play.
I ended up mentioning it to a friend. He introduced me to a founder. The founder was just like, that's kind of exactly what we're looking for. Are you interested in this product manager job? Which is a job that I secretly had always wanted to hold, but I didn't think that I was able to do it, because I don't come from an engineering background. I don't come from a management consulting background. I don't come from a strategy, MBA, finance background. And that's usually the path that you take to get there. And I was like, I don't have those. But it didn't matter.
So with that $1,000 of my initial coaching, I was able to flip that into a $120K role in a completely new industry. It's not the $120K that I want to focus on. It's the fact that it was a completely new industry. It was meaningful work that I wanted to do. It ended up being a fashion tech startup that I loved, because I was able to connect brands with influencers or models.
If I didn't have that coaching, maybe I would have been able to get the job, but I wasn't clear on what I wanted. And when you're not clear on what you want, you can't ask your network to help you get what you want. When you're doing informational networking, you have very limited time with people, so you can't just use them to spitball everything that is in your brain. You have to be really strategic with your time. So having the life coaching helped me be strategic, narrow things down, so I was able to be really secure about what I was asking for, and that made it very easy for them to help me out.
2. Mortgage payoff course: $4,000
The second way that I invested in myself was a mortgage repayment program. It was one of those pay-your-mortgage-quickly kind of courses, and it cost $4,000. When I implemented it, I was able to immediately pay off $10,000 of my mortgage. I probably would have been able to pay it off much faster, but bills got in the way, life got in the way. Plus, I can keep using the strategy for future things.
The hardest part is that after I invest in myself, I do take some time to sit with a lot of these learnings. I paid for that $4,000 course and I didn't implement it for three months. It was only six months later that I got everything set up and ready. But we got there in the end. There is a coach that accompanies you, and the process really did work. I don't work for them, but I will say that it did work for me. So that was spending 4K, getting 10K back in benefits. Pretty good.
3. Life coaching with a friend: $10,000
The third investment I made in myself was to... hold on, look at my notes. Okay. The third investment I made in myself was for more life coaching. I did some life coaching with a friend, and I paid about $10,000 for three months. There were meditations, there was workshopping, there was astrology built into it.
This one, I will say, I did not get any immediate monetary return, but I did get a lot of other returns. During that time, I was manifesting a new place for my partner and I, and we were able to get it. We were able to close on the house within 15 days. The mortgage loan officer, the people who were selling the place, they were like, this is one of the fastest closes we have ever seen.
One of the things I wanted to manifest in that life coaching course was that purchasing a home would be easy. It was the first time purchasing with my partner, and there's more paperwork when there's two people, and it ended up being so smooth, so easy. Having a safe home, a place to sleep, a place to host friends and family, that is a benefit that I cannot exactly quantify, and I don't want to. It's been four years, and we love the place and the community that we're in right now. So it didn't translate exactly, but what's the price on a safe home? You tell me.
Side note: one of the things I was manifesting was the ability to drive. In other times of my life, I have had $10,000 and I have not been able to get a driver's license. This time, I gave the $10,000 to someone, and in the end I was able to manifest a safe home and my driver's license, and the confidence to be on the road, which 10 years ago would have never even been a thought in my head. So the fact that I can get in the car, go to SolidCore, and come back, that's a huge win for me.
4. Coaching program: $10,000
The fourth way that I invested in myself was to do more life coaching, because I have a lot of life that I need a coach for, I guess. That one, I spent 10K, with an online course I found on Instagram, with a series of Filipino women who were exploring identity and business and purpose and visioning. And this class netted me a 40K raise. Spend 10K, get a 40K raise. That was the most money that I had ever made, and still to this day is the most money that I have ever made. I'm not ashamed of saying that.
We had moved into the house, and I was dealing with all the things that happen when you upgrade your life. All of a sudden people want more from you. People expect more from you. And I wasn't handling that well. I didn't know how to set up boundaries. I didn't know where and when I wanted to say yes and no. When you jump levels, sometimes your nervous system can get a little bit out of whack, because you're operating out of your comfort zone. I needed ways to have my dream life be my regular life.
So a lot of that 10K spent in that coaching was dealing with family dynamics, and dealing with a lot of unworthiness, and wondering if I deserved to have this kind of life. And at the end of that, I was able to reconcile and say, okay, this is me now. I deserve this. I was also able to get a 40K raise. So that coaching really worked for me on a lot of levels.
5. Yoga teacher training: $4,000
And now this is the last thing, and this is once again not a monetary return. I spent 4K to become a yoga teacher, and I do not have my certificate yet or anything like that. But trying to get my yoga certification encouraged me to keep working out and be really consistent. It spurred in me the love of exercise and wanting to be active again. I sort of dropped the yoga certification portion of it, because I was getting much more into the exercise portion of it, because I was actually enjoying it.
I've been doing three weekly workouts since July, and I've lost about 10 pounds. But it's not just about losing 10 pounds. You can lose 10 pounds without spending $4,000. I've worked out once a week, at least, forever, but I was never consistent with it. Now I say, I'm going to do this three times a week, and I can log it and track it, and I give myself flexibility, but I still hold myself to the decision I made. I have not had that consistency for 18 years. I have the consistency now, and that matters. I am proving to myself that I have discipline, and I feel better about myself having done that. So to me, it was worth it.
Recap
So to recap: we have 1K turning into 120K. We have 4K turning into 10K. We have 10K turning into my dream home. We have 10K turning into a 40K raise. And we have 4K turning into consistency, discipline, and pride. So overall, that makes about $30,000 having been spent on myself, and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
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