Someone Called Me a Motivational Speaker and I Was Offended

It happened after my event, where I spoke about your three potential legacies. I got a message that said, "You're not just a motivational speaker... you're a f*cking gifted hypnotist."

I found myself offended that I was referred to as a motivational speaker, even in a passing remark.

I clearly need to unpack that a little.

Here's what I know: anything conscious-based, including being motivationally spoken to, has a minimal effect on you in the long run (heck, even in the short run), because you're receiving all of this within the confines of your conscious mind.

The majority of the motivation or activation you receive will fall away within a few hours, days, or weeks because if you needed a kick in the pants, you were stagnant to begin with.

And where you were when you heard the talk or podcast, or read the book, was of your own creation.

You manifested the circumstances of where you found yourself when you were motivated into change. "That was so inspiring! I know exactly what I need to do! I have a plan now!"

These insights and ah-has are only going to fuel you for so long, and then you'll find yourself moved forward only so far before you peter out and find yourself plateaued again.

I'm hella motivating. I am an activator down to my core.

But I realized something, and it's the same thing I realized a couple of years ago when I stopped offering single sessions of hypnosis.

I'm not here to hand out partial healing.

I don't ever want to be known as a motivational speaker because that lacks the depth of my gifts and the level of what my work does for you.

It's nearly impossible for me to do surface.

It feels like phoning it in.

And it's harder to try to become what others are comfortable with than it is to show up in the fullness of who I am and what I'm here to offer the world.

I needed to do that talk, and it blew some people out, made some lean in, went in one ear and out the other of some, while it electrified others.

My work is going to land differently for everyone, but it will land, because it is so real and so powerful.

If I were to contort and try to meet a room of 60 women individually based on how they were receiving what I was delivering, it would have been a hot mess, and it probably wouldn't have landed for anyone.

Our authenticity, and owning what we know is ours to own, makes it so easy for our people to find us. And for others to know we are not their people.

It brings energetic efficiency to the forefront, all the way around.

The invitation is this: to see where we're shifting our energy to show up in a way that someone else wants us to. To see where we're holding back because of how we might be perceived, or whose feathers we may ruffle.

Then we put action behind our new awareness, because awareness alone changes nothing. There's got to be an interruption of the pattern.

You are meant to be everything you dream of being. That's not meant to be motivational. It's meant to make you take a look at where your limitations are siphoning the energy from becoming her.

And that's where my work comes in.

Everything I create ultimately leads to Soul Forward Method for a reason.

Your greatest motivation comes from your soul. It's self-resourced. And that's what you gain access to in my world.