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True Wealth Mentor for Rebel Entrepreneurs, Denver

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Confused? Uncertain? Ask these FIVE questions and set yourself FREE

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This weekend I invested my time in a workshop that I ultimately didn’t get that much out of. As I was driving home from the workshop, I asked myself, how can I improve my alignment so that my time and energy is spent on activities and people who light me up.

 

I thought through some questions I can ask when I’m making decisions to help guide me.

 

My new favorite decision-making tool:

 

Does this choice or decision:

1 – Lead to or contribute to more joy?

2 – Come from faith and love?

3 – Lead to or contribute to my ascension and the elevation of my vibration?

4 – Align with my truth?

5 – Feed my soul and my business positively?

 

At the workshop, the speaker said that people should take whatever job and I felt an immediate misalignment in what she was saying. I wrote in my notebook what my truth is – that it doesn’t matter what you choose, it is the energy with which you choose it that matters.

Are you choosing the job out of fear? Fear that it is your only option? Fear that you won’t make it without this job?

Or

Are you choosing the job out of faith and love? Faith that it is the job that will help you get in a good place for the next job. Faith that it will lead you to something greater – whether that be personally, financially, or spiritually.

 

Any choice made out of fear will simply lead to more fear. With more fear comes stress, anxiety, despair, discouragement, resignation. It is a low energy vibration.

 

This part of the workshop is what inspired me to write the five questions to make more aligned decisions. I want to ensure  I am choosing from a place of love and faith, truth, and joy.

 

What decisions are you making right now? How are you making those decisions? I encourage you to put these five questions to use for you!

 

And, now for a special announcement!

I am putting together a beta group program – Eight Weeks to Ease; Owning your Soul Genius to Light your Business on Fire!

Special introductory rate of $1800

 

Unbounded Soul: Owning your Soul Sovereignty

(for $10k months with ease, living a life of great significance, and having the freedom and impact you desire as the pure expression of your whole-souled work in this world)

 

It’s time Unprogram You to Unleash Your Soul and Empower your Inner Genius

 

Un-doctrination opens on the SOUL-STICE, June 21, 2018, and begins on June 25, 2018

8 weeks

8 FB live Q&A

6 core modules

6 FB live group coaching

Email and IM access (Monday – Friday)

FB private community

$1800 or $1200 deposit and $1200 due at end of first month

Add 1 on 1 support – Six 50 minute calls with me – $2800 paid in full or two payments of $1800

 

UnBounded Soul Un-Program

The Empowerment of the Darkness

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Here I am. No friends. No family. A job I don’t love. Alone in a country that is not my own, speaking a language that is not my native tongue.

Here, I tell myself, here is where I am meant to learn that if I can be ok, here, without all the things I am accustomed to, all the things that make me feel at ease, without a sense of belonging or place, without doing work that fills my soul, here, here is the place I am meant to begin my deep healing. Here is where I need to learn to cling to me. Here is where I need to learn that it is not anything outside of me that will create peace and wholeness within me. Everything is within me and here, here, I am seeing that for the truth that it is.

 

Yet that was just the beginning of the stripping away of my false self – the self I had created to accommodate friends, family, society’s customs, work – while those elements were no longer who I was while I was living in another country, there was more work that had to be done.

 

While there, my sole companion, my love, my best furry friend passed away. I was shattered. I thought I had already lost all of who I was. I was wrong. This was one of the most challenging losses of my life. Alone in a foreign country, no friends or family, with only my dog, and now he had been taken from me. I was devastated. I had made him my world to make up for all that was missing. Now all that remained was a huge hole in my heart.  I was broken.


Yet, there was further down to go.

 

Upon my return to the US, I fell into a deep depression. I had been away for three years. I had changed. I wasn’t the same person I was three years ago. I once again felt like I didn’t belong. I did have my best friend, Emily, who had stayed in touch with me throughout my time abroad. She had been my rock through the trials and tribulations. Within eight months of returning to the US, Emily died six weeks after being diagnosed with acute leukemia. This must be some sort of sick joke, I thought. This time, however, I resisted the destruction that actually needed to happen. I threw myself into work, into dance class, into international travel. Little did I know that this neglect, this unwillingness to fully surrender to the tempest brewing in my soul would end up preventing me from fully healing.

 

I thought I was fine. I pulled myself together. I got support. But that isn’t what was needed. All of this had happened in order to rip apart the old me, the small me, the me that clung to some false sense of security. When I didn’t surrender to the destruction, I wasn’t able to be recreated. So I continued to play out old patterns and feed my limiting beliefs, all to prove my deep-seated sense of unworthiness.

 

So the death wish taunted me, beckoning me to come to the dark side. Instead of entering the darkness to learn from it, heed its gifts, and call it back into the light, I fed it and of course, it grew.

 

Now I can finally see that surrendering to the darkness is not the same as succumbing to it as I had been doing. It is laying down the sword in order to take up the reins so that I could reign as the true sovereign. The soul who is empowered by the dark not consumed by it. I am the darkness and the light. I am hell and heaven. I am the dragon and the warrior.

 

As I honor my path instead of criticize or disparage it, I am able to transform it and myself along with it. A true metamorphosis.

 

The gift in all of this is to come to know yourself, your true self, for the first time and to declare to yourself that, no matter what may befall you, you will never, ever, abandon yourself again. Because at the end of it all, you are truly all you have. And you must love, honor, and cherish you with all of your heart. That is the biggest transformation of all. And, that, that is precisely when everything changes. When you live as the truest, fullest expression of you, your life changes to reflect exactly that.  As you ascend, you draw in circumstances, situations, people, and opportunities that match your elevated state. Everything around you aligns to match your heightened energetic vibration. You are free to be the you you were always called to be but had denied for so long. You are the divine expressing itself through you. No more dimming your light. No more playing small. No more hiding. You are here to rise, to reign, to alter your so-called ‘reality.’ You are here to shatter false perceptions. You are here to disrupt old systems. You are here to be a catalyst for change.

 

You are a sorcerer of light, a speaker of truth, a purveyor of freedom. You, my love, are a force to be reckoned with.

Want more money? Value YOU first.

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Money is so tied to self-worth.

You don’t feel “good enough”so you strive to earn money. You might succeed in making a ton of money, yet if you haven’t dealt with that core wound, it doesn’t matter how much you have, it’s never enough. Or the flip side, which is you never make enough and you’re always struggling, which then proves you’re not good enough.

 

Whether you’re rolling in the dough but dying on the inside or have been living in scarcity most of your life, the shadow of not good enough is driving this bus.

 

In the US (and much of the world), worth is tied to occupation – your DOING – which translates into your earning. But, if you don’t address your BEING, no amount of doing is ever enough.

 

When you are willing to excavate the soul, uncover the gold in your shadow, realize it is not true, you will discover the truth that you are inherently worthy. Your worth does not come from outside of you nor is it contingent on what you produce, how much you earn, or what your body looks like.

 

Your worth is your being, your SOUL. When you have exchanged your soul for money by doing work that does not align with your soul genius, you are slowly killing your spirit, living a life of quiet desperation.

 

Your soul, on the other hand, will never sacrifice you. It will sacrifice anything for what it values. And what is values is you at your fullest, highest expression, your pure, unfiltered truth, your unconditional love of yourself, and giving your soul genius a voice and a place in this world to share its gifts.

 

Once you do the work of bringing the shadow of not good enough into the light, you invite in a new kind of love. Unconditional love. Loving you no matter what happens in your life – whether you’re abandoned, alone, destitute, ostracized or adored, acknowledge, accepted, and loved. When you hold onto you and the value you hold for yourself is constant – not dependent on any person, situation, or circumstance – everything changes. Every Thing.

 

Freedom like never before. Love at new levels. Fulfillment deep in your bones. Abundance in every area of your life. It all begins within.

 

If your business is not bringing in the money you desire, it’s not your strategy, it’s your shadow. Heal you. Heal your business.

 

You have to reprogram your old wiring that tells you to seek out the next system or strategy. It won’t work. You need to come into alignment with your soul genius first.

 

Are you ready to rise?

I have a few openings in my R.I.S.E. U.P.  (Rebel Intuitive Spiritual Entrepreneur Un- Program) Mentorship –

Come into alignment with your true self – the entrepreneur who is contributing massive value and impact to her community, living a life of great significance, earning $10k+/month with joy, and having the freedom and fun to do it all her way.

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Stop all the DOING. Focus on how you are BEING and everything changes.

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There is no way to change your being by your doing.

 

You’ve done all the things. Marked off all the boxes. Followed all the suggestions of the uber-successful coaches. Webinars? Done. FB ads? Yes. Livestreams? Of course. Email marketing? Yep. And the list goes on. Marketing. Networking. Strategy. Systems. Programs. Courses. You’ve done it all. And, now, you’ve lost the light. You’ve lost sight of why you started your business because the business you’ve created is not feeding your soul. But isn’t this what it takes, you ask yourself? I’m doing all the things. But, inside you know this isn’t working. It’s not fun. It’s not you. Your business is no longer a reflection of you and your unique genius. It is now this thing you feed, this thing on your to-do list. And, it sucks. And, that energy  – the energy of striving, proving, doing – it is not only robbing you of your joy, it is also affecting your business. That energy is not attractive and actually serves to repel your ideal clients. This only serves to lower your energy even more as you get frustrated and scared.

 

If you want to turn your business around, it is an inside-out job. You have to start within. You have to begin with your being, not your doing. You can change your doing all you want (and you have!) and it may work for a brief spell but it’s not sustainable. Your soul longs for more – for the whole picture – financial success, significance, impact, incredible health, awesome relationships, the whole package not just the bow.

 

How you are being affects everything. Every. Thing. You can’t hide energy but you can transform it. You can elevate it. You have to BE in the energy of the person who is already living the life you desire, running the business of your dreams, traveling to all the places on your list, engaging in the most incredible relationships, and enjoying awesome health, prosperity and abundance in all areas of your life. NOW. Not when you get a client or complete your marketing or lose weight or whatever it is you place in between you and everything you desire. YOU must BE the person you desire to be NOW. Right now.

 

Once you do that, all the doing flows. You have the exact right words your ideal client needs to hear in your marketing post. You are at the right place at the right time to get asked for a collaboration. Your energy flows from your intuition and your intuition guides you to exactly where you need to be, one step at a time. It is your job to listen, honor, and act on it. Immediately. Without question or hesitation. This is how you invoke the magician – that being inside you who can make something out of nothing, without regard to time or space. Throw off the restraints and start walking. Eyes forward. Trusting the path. Go where it leads you. Be the highest expression of you and you’ll never go astray.

 

If you’re ready for a high-level guide to lead you back to you, to guide you to trust yourself, your authentic self, and your truth, always, no matter what, I invite you to contact me to find out more about working together.

P.S. Coaching requires 100% responsibility. It will not save you if you don’t OWN it and do the work. It will save you by equipping you to save yourself. No, it isn’t a magic pill or bullet. It isn’t a secret formula. It requires work. It requires grit and determination. But the reward is a freedom unlike any other. Freedom from everything that has ever held you back – limiting beliefs, dysfunctional default thought patterns, playing small, and all the reasons (excuses) you’ve ever made about why you can’t have what you truly desire. Because the truth is you can.  

 

You’re so stupid! Turning lies into gold.

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You’re so stupid.

 

My mom said this to me in a fit of frustration when I accidentally locked the car keys in the trunk. Instead of criticizing my action, my being, who I was, was being criticized. This hurt. The reason that it hurt was because it was of utmost importance to me to be smart. I believed that being smart was the key to freedom. Being smart meant I didn’t have to struggle. Being stupid was unacceptable. So I suppressed this trait – the characteristic of making careless mistakes, not thinking things through, being scatterbrained.

 

In my mid-twenties, I went through a period of an intense desire to prove I was smart. I had never wanted to take the traditional route of getting the office job after college. I had worked as a hiking guide, high school running coach, barista, nanny, and bartender. While these jobs afforded me a decent lifestyle and allowed me to live in one of the most gorgeous ski towns in Colorado, I didn’t feel like they gave me worth. My worth was tied up in how I was choosing to make money, which felt off. So I applied and got accepted into an MBA program and an MA program. While my heart wanted to choose the MA, my head was shouting at me to go into the MBA program because that would better prove I was smart and worthy. Luckily, my heart won. I did the ‘stupid’ thing and chose the MA, which put me on the path I was meant to be on. If I had let the shadow run the show, I would have chosen what looked like the smart thing to do, which would have slowly killed my soul. 

 

It was also pretty “stupid” to quit my well-paid, highly respected position to move to Mexico and then to Costa Rica to live and work. It might even be considered “stupid” to have started my own coaching business. I’m sure grateful I was so stupid! : )

 

When you uncover the shadow, you expose the truth AND the gift within it.

 

What I discovered as the gold in this shadow is that it led me to pursue a graduate degree, to follow my dream of living and working abroad, and to running my own business doing work I find incredibly meaningful. It has also led me to continue to grow, learn, and advance my consciousness.

 

What is one of your shadows? What have you been trying to prove for much of your life? I encourage you to bring it to the light, see the gift in it, and release it so that you can let your truth start running the show.

 

Because when your truth runs the show, you allow in a whole new level of freedom, satisfaction, and success. This is what I help my clients do – to stop running their business and life from a place of fear and instead run it from a place of love, truth, and soul genius. That’s where the magic is.

 

I invite you to reach out to me if this is speaking to you.

 

To the freedom of truth,

 

Kori

How not investing in your business will keep you stuck

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On Sunday evening, I walked out to my car to see that the front right side tire was flat. I called roadside assistance and someone was there in less than 10 minutes. I started a conversation with the man who was changing the tire. He was a contractor and said he answered calls to help with cars when he was available and close by. His car was a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee that he bought in California. It was probably valued at close to $30,000 or more. We talked about how to could write off his car and miles for his work. He had a small compressor to fill tires. He said it didn’t work very well and that it wasn’t very powerful. He said there was a better one that could fill a tire in a matter of minutes. He said, well, it costs (he paused to think). I thought he was going to say $500 or something. He said, $40 or $50. I started laughing. I said, you can write it off, why haven’t you bought it? He said, I don’t know, it’s another thing. He chuckled with me.  I couldn’t believe it.

 

Here is a man who is running his own business as a contractor, who has invested a lot of money into this car for his business, yet he was letting a $50 purchase that would allow him to be more efficient in his work, which would allow him to earn more money in his work because each job would be finished more quickly, keep him at a set-point in his business.

 

I found it so interesting that this was blocking him. I’ve been there. The settling. The “it’s not that bad”. But the question needs to be changed. Instead of saying, it’s not that bad, why not ask, what would make this even better? What would allow me to work in a way that brings me more satisfaction and income? What can I do to bring myself into alignment with that?

This is just a small example but it shows how limiting beliefs can influence your decisions, which then influences your quality of life.

 

Investing in yourself and your business is always worth it. Whether that’s a $50 piece of equipment, a $500 program, or a $5000 mentorship. The question comes back to – will this lead me to increased satisfaction and income? Will this bring me into better alignment with how I best work and allow me to do the work I am here to do in a way that lights me up? Ultimately, will this bring me more freedom? That’s the most powerful question to ask yourself.

 

I have a few spots open in my 90-day business mentorship program. If you are sick of trying all the things and still feel disappointed with your results and are ready to create the income and lifestyle that allows you to live a life of great significance and freedom, simply contact me and we’ll set up a time to talk.