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Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
If someone said to you, you have a gift that nobody else has, if you believed that, like, how would you show up to your life? Would you show up being like all meek and mild? Or would you show up and be like, hey, I got something.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Well, thank you. And I honestly cannot take credit for it at all. It was one of those moments where I was like in a meditation and it just landed. I saw the book cover. I saw the title. I had the outline. Truly, it was just like a present that landed in my brain. So I can't take credit. I don't know where it came from, but thank you.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
What people can expect from the universe is hiring is an opportunity to get really clear, number one. And I say that because I think that a lot of times we don't really create the space or people won't create the time and the space to take a beat and to assess like, who am I? And what are my passions? And what really actually lights me up?
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And what were those dreams that I've just been sitting on? Because I kind of believe they're a figment of my imagination at this point. It's never going to happen. But for some reason they won't leave you alone. I actually have an exercise in every single one of the chapters because back to what we were talking about earlier, Ryan, in terms of experience.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Every chapter, there's something for you to anchor this information and for you to do. Because my goal is that you could literally read one chapter and it could be life-changing for you if you just do the exercise and actually go through the process of that experience. But one of the exercises is called an authentic self-resume.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Because I've seen, I'm sure you've seen, I've seen thousands of resumes in my time, right? Thousands of resumes. And we will pour over our resume and write all the things that we've done in our career. But if you ask someone to sit down and now I want you to write a resume about you.
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like about who you are authentically and what your passions are, what your unique strengths are, like what is your unique selling proposition that you bring to the table, a gift that you have that maybe nobody else does. People have a hard time with this. they have a really hard time with it because they don't know.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And it's because they've been so busy being somebody else that they're not even aware they're being somebody else anymore. And so they're so disconnected from who they really are that, of course, they're going to feel unfulfilled and unhappy and lost. And so my goal in the beginning of the book is really to help bring people back to who they are at their core. And then from there,
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
give them a roadmap and a step of like, how can you start today being who you came here to be and fulfilling the role that I believe that we all have uniquely, one that's been created for us that we are meant to fulfill and that we're uniquely being qualified for every single day through our experiences.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
It's a different kind of fear, right? It's a different kind of fear. I think to answer your question, it's both, definitely both. And I think you hit two of the core obstacles that people have. I think one of the things in terms of self-doubt, like if you, Ryan, if you knew for a fact, if someone said to you, you have a gift that nobody else has,
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
and nobody else will ever have for the rest of eternity, right? You have this gift and it's a superpower. And when you start to utilize it and you start to work on it and perfect it and become a master of it, that when you share this gift, it is going to light you up in a way that nothing outside of you can. Like no amount of money, no amount of things, no amount of relationships, but this.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Wouldn't you be curious? Number one, would you not walk a little straighter? Like, huh, I got this gift. You know what I mean? You would believe it. If you believed that, how would you show up to your life? Would you show up being all meek and mild? Or would you show up and be like, hey, I got something.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
If you had that confidence, if you knew. And I think that because so many people don't actually think that they're good at anything, sure, they have no worthiness. Sure, they have self-doubt because they're not connected to this belief that they're here for a reason. And that there is something actually important for them to do.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And in the doing comes the fulfillment and the freedom and the joy and everything that they seek, right? I think when it comes to having goals and just saying, okay, I want to live a big life, so I'm going to have a lot of money and I'm going to do all of these things, that's great, right? I think it's great to stretch and it's great to have goals and
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
But what I see, and I'm around a lot of very successful people, as I know you are as well, what I see is a lot of really miserable people because they've gotten it all and now they're really effed because they're like, what am I to do now? What else can I do? What's that next level? Because it's not working. And instead of asking themselves like, okay, what what when I do it really fills me up?
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Like what is the thing that lights me up? And what if I just started doing that in addition to everything else I have going on in my life? How would that, how would that shift things for me? And what I find is that when you start doing those things and it doesn't necessarily have to be tied to your paycheck, it could be, I have a friend who, um, Her love is for fostering puppies. That's her thing.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
She loves animals. She has a very high paying VP level position at a very large company, but on the side in the mornings when she gets home and this is what she's doing, but it is growing. It's something in her life that's starting to grow and I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't turn into a business one day because that's the nature of our purpose.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
You know what? I think I've had to get really discerning. And I'm sure you can relate to this, Ryan, because you've got a lot going on too. But we all have a plate.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
When you land on it, it will start to expand in ways that you can't even imagine or fathom. A big point of discussion in this book is the idea of stop waiting. Stop waiting to be something or to do something because the magic is when you actually start to do it right where you are.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Right where you are, you find ways, the littlest, littlest bit of a way, and your life will start to shift and change, but you've got to have enough faith to at least start.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And I think when you actually take the time to get really clear about what's on your plate and what do you actually want to be there and what is necessary, that you realize that a lot of the things that you're saying you don't have time for or that you're saying isn't possible is just a story. and that you can reallocate the space around.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
I don't believe that there is ever a final destination, if you will, like during your lifetime here on earth. Like I think if you just look at the nature of the universe, the nature of the universe is expansion. That's the natural, that's the way that the universe is. Everything is always expanding.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Everything is always, not only the universe and the planets and all of the elements, but our bodies as well are constantly changing in that to be stagnant and to stop changing and to stop expanding is actually, is contradictory to nature and that's where I think we become toxic and we become ill and we become sick.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And, and so I believe that the journey is, is just this ever flowing, ever expanding, ever evolving path. And that, you know, scientists will say, and researchers have said that, that true happiness doesn't really come from the achievement. And all you have to do is ask someone who's just made, like had the biggest achievement of their life. And, and,
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
the dopamine hit is never quite as big as you think it's going to be or last as long as you think it will be. But that instead it is actually the process of seeking and just continual progress, like feeling like you are having you there's progress in your life.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
It could be the littlest bit of progress and it could just be in one area of your life, but acknowledging and always looking for where am I progressing? Where am I expanding? And, I believe is a key to continued fulfillment and happiness, to have a life that just never stops. It doesn't mean that you're not satisfied. In fact, it's the opposite.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
I think it's becoming satisfied and having that dopamine hit, but having it daily, being able to look for it daily.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Absolutely. And a really quick way out of that, at least in my experience and from what I've seen with so many different coaching clients, is just if you want a quick way, a detour out of that stagnancy is through service. It's through somehow saying, all right, who can I pour into today? What can I uniquely give to someone today? and make that your focus.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And that's what I feel like I've gone through this process over the last 15 years of really arranging my plate with just the things that really light me up, like spending time with my kids, obviously, and Rudy, and my job, but also the things that really fulfill me, like writing and podcasting and coaching and And the time, you create the time, right?
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And I'm telling you, there's a magic in that. It's like, do you just taking your eye off of what you think is making you upset or, or angry or frustrated or is in your way and putting it instead on serving somebody else. By the time you're done, you come back and things have changed. It's like, you no longer have that same energy about what, where your life was.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And you do that over time enough times. Um, I think the problem goes away. It's like that is, in my experience, has always been the magic. So when I feel stagnant and I'm not sure what to do, like where to go or what direction to take, my question is, all right, how can I serve today? And let me let that be my goal.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
That becomes my goal instead of some other far-reaching goal that I don't even know if I should be reaching for.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
You know, I think it can differ. This is where, like, so I journal in the mornings. Like, that's part of my priming process in the morning is I always make time to journal. And so my process is I just kind of write down the question, and then I see what comes to me. Like, okay, how could I serve today?
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And while I always think, you know, it seems like, oh, that's a really aspirational to want to be this way. Honestly, it is the most selfish thing I do because I know that when I do it, I always feel better. Right. And yes, it helps other people. But selfishly, it feels really good. Right. To do that. So sometimes actually last week, I'll give you this example.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
I woke up and I was just having a day because you do. There's no world, no person on this planet, I can tell you, lives at a 10 every day. It's not possible. And to think that it is, you're setting yourself up for a lot of disappointment. There's the pendulum. The pendulum will always swing.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
So you're going to have days where you are on a high and then you're going to have days that it swings back and you're just like, I don't know what happened, man. I just don't feel right today. I'm not in it. I'm just not feeling it. And so I sat there. I didn't have a lot of time because I was training that day. And so I grabbed my phone and I sent five text messages. I sent one to my dad.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
I sent one to a coworker. I sent one to an acquaintance who I don't know very well. I sent one to a distant family member and then another friend. And I said, I just want to tell you I love you and here's all the things I love about you. And can I just tell you, as I'm writing those text messages, not only did I feel great, right?
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And it shifted my energy, but all day long, I got messages back from them. And one particular of the recipients came back to me and said, like, you have no idea how much I needed to hear this today. Like, this didn't just make my day, it made my month. And it was free. It took me 30 seconds. And so we don't have to complicate it. And some days it's in a big way. I'll get an idea or an inspiration.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Like the time, it's amazing what you can do with time when you start to get really discerning and say no to things that you know are not for you or that are not really necessary.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
One time I did this and it led to us starting an entire virtual group that lasted for three years. It was from this one question, how can I serve today? And I got the idea. And you just got to follow the inspiration. You'll be shown. If you ask the question, I believe this. I believe this is a spiritual law that if you ask the question, you will get the answer.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
You just have to be open to receive it and be willing to take action on it.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Well, a lot of my coaching is within a business setting. And same with Rudy. And what we've learned is people are people wherever they are. And when you coach the individual, right? When you can coach the individual and you start at the foundation and you can help them shift into a better, more empowered mindset and where you can help them connect to
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
their purpose and why they are in the position that they are in, because there always is a reason. You just have to learn to look for it, that things start to shift and change. And I believe that every single individual in a company has the potential to be an A-plus player.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Every single individual, if you're a business owner and you're listening to this, or even if you just work for a company, everyone that you work around, everyone has the potential to be the worst or the best within them. it's about, and I think it, it, it's the employer's responsibility.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
In my opinion, if you really want to maximize your team to support your team and helping them, um, reach their highest potential individually. And that doesn't just mean professionally. I think it means personally as well because there's no, there's really, it's all the same. And, um, and so what I love
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
is that we, we bring all of those concepts, which haven't historically been in a business setting into business settings and into boardrooms.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And, and it's unbelievable what the changes that can happen, not only from a revenue perspective, um, but just tenure and, and just making people just overall and employee satisfaction and happiness and their connection and their willingness to be vulnerable, um, I don't know. That really jazzes me up.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And so we talk a lot about that on the Empowered Life podcast, a lot of topics that we bring into businesses, but also outside of businesses and coaching. Because again, wherever you go, there you are. And you bring all your stuff with you. And so I think it's just a willingness to be a student wherever you are.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
I mean, it's my truth, certainly. And it's been my experience in my almost 44 years on this earth. I think that, you know, it is a different way of looking at the world. And it will create – I believe it's the great turning point for a lot of people when they start to shift out of the, I am a victim, life is happening to me, I am unlucky, I'm not worthy of that.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And then that victimhood behavior like blaming and complaining and excuses, that's all just symptomatic, right? Of that singular core belief of I am a victim. And you cannot be a victim and a victor of your life at the same time. You cannot. You just can't. And so you have to make a decision and start to help build the belief.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And that's where a lot of my studying and learning and all the things that I have been doing has been helping me build this belief and reaffirm the belief that, in fact, I believe our external reality is just a reflection of our own energy. And when you change, you can change your world, but only when you're willing to change.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And the change does not start when someone else's changes to make you feel more comfortable, and then you can change how you feel. No, no, no. You change how you feel about it, and then the things that you look at will change. And that is the magic. And so... I love anything that empowers the individual to learn how to heal themselves, to learn how to radically shift their life experience.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And once you've done it for yourself a couple of times, you'll never go back because you realize you're like, oh my gosh, all along, I have had this power all along. If I can create it, I can uncreate it. That's that's it.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Like if there's something that you don't like, but you believe, like you said, everything that happens to me is also, you know, I'm taking full accountability, 100 percent accountability. Then that also means I can uncreate it. I can change it. I can edit that. I don't like that anymore. So what do I need to do to shift within myself?
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Because I have that power to shift my perspective and how I feel about something so that I'm going to see something different in my world. And that's the that's the effect. And this is the cause.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
We've had it. So Rudy and I oftentimes will share a stage or we'll be speaking in the same place. And we have been called, Rudy's been called the hammer and I've been called the hug. So it's like, you know, because we have different energy, but we'll be saying the same exact things. And like you said, like he kind of just like punches you in the face with it where people are like, holy moly.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And then I come in and like, put them back together. I'm like, let me show you. It's going to be fine. It's going to be okay.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
So the book launches January 7th, so about a week into 2025, which I'm so excited about, a day before my birthday, by the way. That was a gift from the publisher, I guess.
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Yeah, almost. I'm reverse aging.
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Yeah, I know.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Thank you. He's 46.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
He's 10 years older than me.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
So the book is available for pre-order right now on Amazon, on Barnes & Noble, iBooks, pretty much anywhere. You can find your books online, and then it will be anywhere that books are sold as of January 7th. So really excited about it.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Nope. Nope. I think really questioning your relationship with time is an important exercise that I think every single person should do because it becomes a scapegoat. And so, for instance, if there's something that was really, really important to you, you would carve out the time, right? And it might come as a cost of something else. Like when I was writing this book and
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Yeah. So Empowered Life podcast, you can find us obviously. Well, first of all, I just want to thank you, Ryan, and your amazing company because Radcast, I will say we had been at our podcast a couple of years before we met you and the team. And What you guys have assisted us in terms of supporting our growth with this podcast has been extraordinary.
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And what you do is really such a gift to the world. And so anyone who's listening to this who wants to launch a podcast or has a podcast, I really hope that you guys reach out and get supported by Radcast. It's incredible, your service. So thank you for that. And Rudy and I are going to be hosting our first live event later this year. So we'll be launching information there.
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But I would say you can find me on Instagram, Anniston Blair Ricksteins. You can find us on Empowered Life Podcast. And we'll be keeping everyone updated with all the great announcements.
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Thank you so much, Ryan. This has been awesome. And I'm just so honored to be here. So thank you.
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Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
I wrote it between the hours of 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. in the morning because that was the only time I knew I was going to have a quiet house. That's when I'm at my most creative, like in that flow. The cost was I was in bed every night at 830. Like the cost was late night Netflix. It was going out for late nights and late dinners. I just I couldn't have both. But this was more important to me.
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So it was a choice.
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A hundred percent. And I was one of those people for a really long time, to be frank, where I'm a natural born seeker. I love to learn. I love to read. I've read thousands of books. I mean, Rudy is astounded. I took a speed reading course just so I could read more. I mean, I'm that kid. I was the nerd who loves school. Anyways, I mean, her and I, I have to meet her.
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I think we would get along great. But a point came where I was learning so much, I was consuming so much information, but nothing was really changing in my life, right? I would read a really great personal development book and then I'd be like, oh my God, I feel so great. And then ask me two weeks later and I wouldn't be able to tell you anything about that book.
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And it's because I was missing a really important element, which is actually taking something from the book, applying it, experiencing it, and not just once, but repetitively, and then being able to then create a change and a shift in my way of being and showing up and how I think. But I think what happens is just that a lot of people will consume because that's comfortable.
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It doesn't require you to really do anything outside of your comfort zone or anything different than what you normally do. And then they miss out on the gold because the gold is that, I mean, you could take a book, one singular book, and you could apply one singular idea from a book and it will change your life forever. But if you don't apply anything, it's, It's kind of wasted space.
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It's just an idea. But ideas don't create change.
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Oh, I mean, it's a great question. And I think for me personally, I was I started asking questions, I would say, in my early 20s, like big questions, because I felt really lost. And I was looking around and I was I had found myself in and working at this amazing advertising agency right out of college. It was the dream job. And it was what I had worked so long for.
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And then I remember one day I was sitting there and I was looking around and I had that – I saw this guy sitting across from me who had been with the agency for like 20 years, sitting in the same cubicle he'd been in for 20 years. And I just had this sinking feeling of like – so this is it. This is it. This is what I worked so hard for and now this is it.
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It's going to be like every day is kind of the same. And so I started asking questions and I allowed those questions to be like, well, what do I really want to do? And what am I good at? And I started unraveling a lot of things. And thankfully for me, those questions started a lot earlier than I think a lot of people get to.
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I know a lot of people in their mid-30s, kind of that midlife crisis, if you will. That's where those questions really start coming. But for me, it hit me early. And so it started me on this journey of self-discovery. So my path was being created out of necessity for myself. And I became... I became the student.
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I was a student of myself and it was through this process that led me to understanding a desire to coach and to give back because I think that's the natural path, right? You learn and you apply and then you want to turn around and you want to teach it because I think it's just ingrained in all of us, which is why so many people want to be coaches because it's just that natural thing within us. But
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The thing for me was what I couldn't grapple with is I've always been very career minded and I've been successful in business. And yet on the flip side at home behind closed doors, I was miss spirituality, you know, married to a coach. We were hosting coaching sessions in our home for years. I mean, like having strangers come in, nobody at my work knew about this.
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Like it was like I was living a double life is what I felt like. I had all the things that really filled me up. I was writing in the mornings and I was meditating and I was having this whole experience. And then I would like button it up and go into the office and sit in the boardroom and, you know, be a badass executive. And that was kind of my life.
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I am so happy to be here. I've been really excited about this conversation.
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And that worked until such a time as the desire to grow that real authentic part of me was what started really kicking in. And I wanted to, to launch into coaching and I wanted to be a speaker and I wanted to share all of these things I was learning, but that fear of like, what will they say? Oh my God, they're going to fire me. They're going to think I'm a crack, you know, a quack.
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The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
They're going to think I'm, I've gone off the deep end. And all of those fears kept me very, very small. And, and so you kind of hit that, that point where you're like, well, what am I going to do? And I finally had to make the decision and the leap that I was going to have to start showing up and to face that fear. And what's interesting, Ryan, is I had, thankfully, someone came in.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Well, someone, that person being my husband, showed me how to do this. Because at the time, I was working as a director at a company, a very large company. And they headhunted Rudy because they needed someone to come in and lead their sales teams. He was taking a break from his companies and he was like, fine, okay, I'll go do it.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
I sat him down and I said, Rudy, this is not one of those companies that you can just come in and just say everything that you're thinking and bring all of these spiritual ideas into. I And I was like, so you might have to just be thoughtful of what you're saying. And he was like, I have no intention of doing that. He's like, I'm going to show up and be me.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And if they don't like it, like, okay, fine. What do I have to lose? Then I'll go somewhere else or I'll do something different.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
and i was petrified for him and for me because what would that look like for me you know i was his wife anyways to my surprise when he came in in all of his glory and all of his rudiness he he he approached these sales teams as he would as a high high performance coach and as a spiritual teacher and it worked like it worked people loved him the the revenue went like through the roof like the company was having gains like it had never seen
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And I just sat there with a mouthful of teeth. All these years I've been here, I could have been doing all of this. And instead, I've been allowing that fear to stop me. And I know I'll never get where I want to go unless I can start being who I want to be. And that means everywhere, not just at home. It means everywhere. at the office, at the grocery store, as a mom, you know what I mean?
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And that was the big turning point for me. And so when I received the idea for this book, to your point, yes, I didn't, I received it and it was, I was like one of those things and I was like, huh? And I wrote it all down. I was like, that's such an interesting concept. I'll think about that later because I was like, I don't think I have the time to write a book at this point.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
But it wasn't until I started training on these topics a lot and I would get people come up to me and they would say, is there something else? You've really tweaked something within me. I'm thinking about a lot of what you're saying and I want to continue with this work. Do you have a book? Do you have something I can take and work with? And I was like, no. But I could. I could write a book.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
And I already have the whole outline because I got it in a download one day. So long story short, yes, this was the path. And it was certainly a path. And I was a student of the path. And I still am a student of this path.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Oh, yeah.
Right About Now with Ryan Alford
The Universe Is Hiring: Discover the Role You Were Born to Fill
Well, thank you. I'll take it.