Season 5 Episode 7: Empowered.Life

All the answers to all your questions about EmpoweredLife!  In this episode of Coaching and a Cup of Tea with Mummabear, Master Certified Life Coach Melissa Wiggins shares how and why she started coaching, first as a client and now how she’s sharing all she learned to Empower You to create a life you love living.  Grab a cuppa and listen in.  

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Melissa Wiggins:

Hello lassies and lads.  Welcome to Coaching and a Cup of Tea with Mummabear.  You are about to hear the recording from a video I made with every single question you can imagine for EmpoweredLife, which is the only way to work with me.  It is my six month coaching program.  I made a video.  It is linked in the show notes so you can watch the video if you want to see me in my adorable yellow sweater and hat.  But if not, feel free to listen to this episode and if you have any more questions you lassies know where to find me.  You can find me on Instagram @coachmummabear_ or you can send me an email at MelissaWiggins.Life@gmail.com.  I would love to hear from you and answer any more questions.  Also in the show notes you will find a beautiful little workbook we made, all about EmpoweredLife.  NOW is the time to apply, you can apply NOW, okay? So, apply NOW or NOW apply.  Why? Because there are only two times a year you can work with me, and this is the last chance for 2022. Enjoy this recording and have Amazeballs day, lassies.

(Music)
Melissa Wiggins:
Welcome to my Q&A about Empowered Life. So you are seeing this video because you are interested in coaching with me. And I am here to tell you all about the only offer I have, Empowered Life. This is it. This is the only thing that coach mama bear offers. This is the only way that you can work with me. And I have made this little presentation for you because I get questions in my Instagram messaging, I believe the young people call them DMs. I get emails and text messages and people asking me lots of different questions. So, because I am of the school of thought that I want to make life easy, I thought I would make a presentation so that I can send it to your inbox and let you know that Empowered Life is open and enrolling. What? It's very exciting. Okay. I opened twice a year, last season, twice. Okay. August is when we start and January. So if you are watching this in real-time, you will be applying for the August 2022 enrollment.

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Melissa Wiggins:

Hello lassies and lads.  Welcome to Coaching and a Cup of Tea with Mummabear.  You are about to hear the recording from a video I made with every single question you can imagine for EmpoweredLife, which is the only way to work with me.  It is my six month coaching program.  I made a video.  It is linked in the show notes so you can watch the video if you want to see me in my adorable yellow sweater and hat.  But if not, feel free to listen to this episode and if you have any more questions you lassies know where to find me.  You can find me on Instagram @coachmummabear_ or you can send me an email at MelissaWiggins.Life@gmail.com.  I would love to hear from you and answer any more questions.  Also in the show notes you will find a beautiful little workbook we made, all about EmpoweredLife.  NOW is the time to apply, you can apply NOW, okay? So, apply NOW or NOW apply.  Why? Because there are only two times a year you can work with me, and this is the last chance for 2022. Enjoy this recording and have Amazeballs day, lassies.

(Music)
Melissa Wiggins:
Welcome to my Q&A about Empowered Life. So you are seeing this video because you are interested in coaching with me. And I am here to tell you all about the only offer I have, Empowered Life. This is it. This is the only thing that coach mama bear offers. This is the only way that you can work with me. And I have made this little presentation for you because I get questions in my Instagram messaging, I believe the young people call them DMs. I get emails and text messages and people asking me lots of different questions. So, because I am of the school of thought that I want to make life easy, I thought I would make a presentation so that I can send it to your inbox and let you know that Empowered Life is open and enrolling. What? It's very exciting. Okay. I opened twice a year, last season, twice. Okay. August is when we start and January. So if you are watching this in real-time, you will be applying for the August 2022 enrollment. All right.

            The next day to work with me will be January, of 2023. So you're probably here because you've either seen me on Instagram, or maybe you know me, or maybe you're a client already. Okay. And some of my clients in Empowered Life are reregistered for the next round, which means that we have limited spaces for August. So if you are keen and you get to the end of this presentation and you're like, sign me up, Melissa. The one thing I would say is just apply right now. Okay. So I have made, and you will probably have with the email that you get this beautiful booklet, all about Empowered Life. What is it? Who is it for? How much does it cost?

            So if you're listening to this, you might want to pull this up. But if you don't have access to it, do not worry, it is on my link on my bio, on my Instagram. There's access to it on my website, but if you don't have it, don't worry because I am about to explain everything that is in this beautiful booklet that my team and I made. I'm going to explain it all now. So do not stress lassies. I am here to make your life easier always, that is my goal. Also, cuteness, look at this, we had so much fun doing this photo shoot. I adopted my daughter, Charlie, and we have not done a photo shoot with her since we adopted her because we adopted her right before COVID hit. And it was so much fun to do the first photo shoot with her. I just loved it so much.

            All right. So let's get started. What is Empowered Life? Empowered Life is a six month coaching program. Now, why did I make it six months long? So in my experience, when I started early on in my coaching days, I essentially did 12 weeks with someone. And what kept happening was people just kept doing another 12 weeks, another 12 weeks, another 12 weeks. And once we were figuring out as a team, what are the core things that are coming up for working mama bears? We just decided that we needed to put it together as a program that would make these lassies feel empowered. And that, I could do it over a year, but I feel like six months of working really hard on your insights so that they match the outsights, it just feels right. So that's why it's six months.

            So what is it? It's a coaching program, but it's so much more, and we'll get into what it's more and what some of the clients have said about it, and the type of people that are in the program. So who is it for? Honestly, it's for anyone that is growth orientated. Okay. The type of women, the type of lassies that are in Empowered Life are women who want to and seek more growth. Not that they're broken, they just always want to enhance different areas of their life. And we'll get into exactly the areas in a little bit, but most of them are A type high achievers, they have big, bold, beautiful lifes, and they just want to keep growing. They don't want to stay stuck. And sometimes they come to Empowered Life because they've perhaps reached a point and they want more. So, that's what we do.

            All right. Work doesn't end with you, but it must begin with you. I mean, one of the things that a lot of people say when they're asking me questions, or some of the comments I hear is, my husband thinks I'm selfish because I want to do this, or I just don't know if I can do this because I have kids, or I have these different obligations. And my response is always, we talk a lot about the ripple effect in Empowered Life. And the ripple effect is essentially this concept of you do the work, but the impact it's like a domino effect. I have clients whose marriages have never been better. Their relationships with their children have never been better. Their teams are performing better than they ever have making more money than the ever have. Why? The work starts with you. You become the example because you are empowered throughout it. And you'll get that feeling, by the way, by the end of month one. You're not going to wait six months for this.

            I have clients whose lives are changed the first 30 days, because something happens in our brain when we decide to invest in ourselves. And I know this because I have invested in myself and my brain heavily over the last five years. And it is the best investment I've ever made. But as soon as you send that deposit, as soon as you send the check, as soon as you assign yourself and say, I'm doing this, something changes in your brain, you're going to show up different. And when you show up different, the people around you notice, your team notices. One of my clients said that her son's school gave her a call and wanted to call and let her know that she's seen a transformation in him in the last couple of months. And she wanted to know if anything had changed at home because he seemed different and they talked about coaching. And when she brought it up to him, he said, "You're different."

            Her being different and showing up different, gave her son permission to do so also, which was the ripple of enhancing their relationship. So yes, we pour in so the quality that we pour out is tenfold. We start with us, but it doesn't end with us. That's the coolest part of this. Yes, you're going to invest in yourself, but just wait. I promise. There is no one that has done Empowered Life that has completed it, shown up who has not had impacts in all areas of their life, period. And I have so many stories to share. So, that is the ripple effect. Okay.

            These lassies are doing things now that they have never done before. That one of the biggest things I see with the lassies is this confidence and courage to do things they've never done before. One of my clients has been in the same building for 15 years with her company, they are about to start building a 20,000 square foot home for her nonprofit. Why? Because she did the work. And when she did the work people all around her started to believe in her in a different way, because she showed up different. I have one client who always wanted to write a book, but came up with all the comparison stuff. And what happens when you're part of a group, when you are accountable, when you show up at the same time and the same day, every single week, when you do that, do you know what happens? You write the book, you decide to start the podcast. You figure out a plan on how to leave the corporate job and start your own company. The company you did start doubles in revenue.

            These are the things that happen. Why? Because you show up every week and you're around this group that are growth mindseted, they're the same as you. You don't feel lonely in the journey of life because you have that connection with other lassies doing the same. And loneliness is a big problem for female entrepreneurs, for female leaders, for working moms. And I know because I've had that, I've had so many stages where I feel lonely in the journey until I showed up different in a coaching program that I joined for my own brain. That's what's happening for these lassies. Do you want that? I want for you to have that.

            All right. So who am I? So, one of the things that I think is funny is a lot of people who I've worked with in the past, as I started as a one on one coach, they came to me because they knew of me, or they had seen me on social media, or they had followed my son's journey with pediatric cancer. But now with the program and with growing on social media, a lot of people don't really know that much about me. So if you are one of those people, I'm going to talk for a couple minutes about why I am qualified to essentially be your guide coach for six months. Okay.

            So I started off my career in Scotland as a lawyer, and I don't really talk too much about that, but the truth is that taught me so much. Law school, the biggest learning it gave me was this superpower of taking massive, massive amounts of information, thousands of pages, and condensing it down into 1500 word assignments. What that has done in my coaching business has allowed me to take bad, complicated subjects, things that are hard for people, boundaries, hard conversations, values, money, decision making, goal setting, and bringing together all the thousands and hundreds of books that I've read, the courses that I've done and condensing it down into simple little videos with tools that I create to help you use the information in your everyday life. I am so big on that.

            I want you at the end of every week when we work together to have something tangible to do, something to take away and get you working in your brain, making sure you're training your brain. One of my pet peeves is when I listen to podcasts for an hour thinking they're going to give me a task or a tangible thing I can take away and I get nothing. And I'm inspired for a moment. And then I forget about it. And so that's one of the things I try to do on my podcast is always give you something at the end to take away. And that all came from law school. So that's why that part of my life is important.

            I also love to tell you that do not ever, lassies, hire a coach who doesn't have a coach. Do not ever hire a coach that is not in a coaching program, that is not doing the work herself, because you want, first of all, the most up to date information, but you also want someone who is constantly working on themself and getting better. And I have that covered, I'm covered in the coaching front. I get my face coached off every week and I need it. And it makes me better for you. So if you don't join Empowered Life and you decide on another program, make sure that, that program is someone who has a coach. Deal? All right, good. I want to make sure that's covered.

            Also, I work with a lot of entrepreneurs and I am a born entrepreneur. I started sailing candy when I was in elementary school, and I would up sale it and sell it to the neighborhood kids. And so that became this entrepreneurial journey for me, which has really never stopped. I had an Airbnb, I became a super host. I've had my own company here consulting and I started a non-profit and now I have this incredible coaching company. I made six figures in my first year. So I know how to run a business. I know the challenges of being a mom and a business. I know how to be a storyteller to make people understand whether you're the right person for them or not. And so I give that and help to coach that. And that is why I think I'm qualified to work mostly with people who are either corporate leaders or entrepreneurs, whether it is brick and mortar, Pilate studio, Bar Method studio, one of my clients has a Bar Method franchise, or whether it's a bookkeeping online business that one of my other clients has.

            So there are some things about me. I shared a little bit there about starting a nonprofit. So my oldest son, Cannon, was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma. He was my only child at the time, and I was pregnant with twins. And it was a crazy time, but I started a nonprofit with my husband after that. And that nonprofit has raised millions of dollars for pediatric cancer research and funded research all across the country. I spent years traveling to literally almost every pediatric cancer hospital in the United States.

            And so I have a lot of experience in research in the nonprofit world, and raising money, and also in challenges, because what happened was I burned out and that is why I actually started Empowered Life, and that is why I started coaching because what I saw was not these smart, beautiful lassies who are you right now watching this, they had ideas. They had big brains and big ideas. And what I saw was us burning ourself to the ground, I saw other women burning out like I did. And I don't want that, because the only way you will not succeed at what you're trying to do is because you burn out. It's not, because you're not smart enough, it's not because you're not driven enough, or not motivated enough, or your ideas are crap. It's none of that. It's burnout.

            And so beginning that nonprofit and working 24/7 and living out of a suitcase while I had three kids, two and under, taught me a lot. And it taught me a lot of ways of things not to do. And so from that knowledge I have now created lots of tools for the lassies in Empowered Life to use so that they don't have to have that happen to them. Okay. So I feel like I have what it takes to do this work and I love it. I literally love it. It is the best, most beautiful job I've ever had in my entire life. And I will coach until the day I die, this is it for me, lassies, I'm all in. I love it. Okay. So if you don't know me, now you do.

            All right. So one of the pages in the book is, why now? In fact, I'll tell you what page it is. I think it's page three, no page six. And one of the things I talk a lot about in Empowered Life and on my podcast, Coaching and a Cup of Tea with Mummabear, you haven't listened, you should, maybe it will help you decide whether to do Empowered Life. There's lots of episodes on there of clients in Empowered Life and them talking about their experiences. Start before you are ready, is the theme song of my life. I literally start everything before I'm ready. And what I've realized is, and what I notice and my client says, we are so much more capable of figuring things out than we believe that we are. And that is part of my job and Empowered Life, is to help you see and know how fricking awesome you are.

            And part of that means starting before you're ready, because guess what? Most of the lassies who come onto Empowered Life are scared before they start. And I know this because we've had the conversations, but I also know it because I remember when I first signed up for the first six month coaching program I did, it was $10,000 and it was the most money I'd ever spent on my self on one thing, and I was so petrified. And so if this is you, know that's how we all feel. It doesn't mean we don't do it. Okay. I want you to ask yourself what stories are coming up for you about why you shouldn't do this. Is it, what if I don't show up every week? What if I don't use the tools? That's too much money on me? What things are coming up for you because you have to look at that, you have to look at the thoughts because our most practiced thoughts become our beliefs. So they become our beliefs about ourself and about the world at large.

            And so if I believe I'm not worth it, I can look at what would I say if one of my kids came to me and said, mom, I need $10,000 to do this thing for six months, and it's going to mean I need to show up for an hour every week. And at the end of it, I'm going to have more self-awareness, I'm going to be more confident. I'm going to be a different person. I'm going to do things I've never done before. And I'm going to feel a sense of peace and calm about all of it. What would I say? What would I say if my husband said that? What would I say if my sister or my mom or anyone close to me? I would say, heck yes. And yet when it's us, we create all these stories about why we shouldn't. And so I say start before you're ready, because when you start, the lassies say within the first month, they feel different, 30 days.

            So if we start mid August, by mid-September, what? Imagine what the last quarter of your business will look like. Imagine what the last quarter of the year will be like with your kids, with your people, with your partner, with your relationship if you push in? Think about that. That's worth starting before you're ready. That's not playing small. Okay. I make the entire thing easy and concise. It is not complicated, but it is magic. It is life changing. And I can say that confidently, looking into the camera, looking into your eyes because I've seen it in other people. I don't feel like I'm selling right now. I feel like I'm telling you about a way to change your life right now. That's what I feel like. And I feel like I want every lassie to get that, because we deserve it. We deserve it for us, and we deserve it for all the ripples that will come after. It's easy and concise.

            There's an app. You could literally do it in car lane if you want, every single week, we will show up at the same day and the same time as a group online, if you miss it, the recording will be in a portal. You can go back and watch it. You can rewatch it. Each month we cover topics, topics that are to me, the most important things we need to dig into, how to set goals, how to decision make, how values play out in our life. What is the role of money in our life? What are challenges we can do that we've never done before? Sure, concise videos that I create, I bring on guests sometimes, get some extra knowledge, little extra coaching.

            How does it change your life? Increase self-awareness, levels up intentionality, tools you've never had before. I literally create the tools, me. They're my tools that I've used, that I share so that you lassies can have your big, bold, beautiful, amazing empowered lives, because why the heck not? We get one chance here lassies, one, one. And if pediatric cancer has taught me anything, it is that tomorrow is not promised. And I do not say that to be morbid, I say it because Empowered Life is about no longer living for the weekend. It is about no longer living for vacation. It is about how the heck do I find joy in today? How the heck do I get present today? That's a kind of life I want. And that's what I want you to have.

            That requires an increased level of self-awareness. That requires a new level of intentionality. That requires tools to help us get there, tools to help us get on the beam, tools to goal site, to decision make, tools to self-coach, and literally teach you how to train your brain. Yes, in six months, guaranteed results. There are so many results and so many byproducts, but when I was thinking about what is guaranteed, I literally wrote down every person who's been through Empowered Life, and looked at what are the things that have changed in their life?

            They now believe and know the power they have over it. They are empowered. They are doing things they've never done before. That is the case for everybody. They now know how to be present. This is hard. There is so much out there about how to be present and how to do the work. And it's like, okay, but what are the tools? I created some, because I wanted them for myself and for you. Confidence and courage. Yeah. I want you to figure out who the heck you are. I have clients that start with me. They've turned 40. They don't know what movie they like, what kind of music they like, what food they like. Why? Because we're our A type lassies. We can be perfectionistic. We can be people pleasers. And when you start there at Empowered Life, I promise you, you do not end there. You will learn tools to identify the perfectionism in your life and how to break it down and how to get better from it so that you do not do things unless it's perfect. And you'll create ripples.

            Well, it's talked about ripples. Okay. How much is it? It's an investment. Yes, it is. It is $10,000 for six months. And I am so proud that I get to offer that price. There are six month programs that are $25,000 that do not have as much information, as much tools and as much support as this program has. And I know that because I have alumni that have been in them. In this beautiful booklet, I tell you specifically all of the different things that are included, weekly calls, you will also get one on one with me every single month. You'll get a Facebook page with on-demand coaching. You can literally any day and any time, write a question in there and we will coach you. You'll get workbooks, peer coaching, an app, but one of the most important things that you will get, and you will see pictures of the beautiful lassies that the things that they've said at the back of the book, all the different quotes they've given of the ones they've had.

            $10,000. Imagine where you will be and how much your insights and your outsight lives will match if you invested one hour every week, every week, to your brain, to being empowered, to being self-aware, to seeing your own power, to figuring out who you are, and then creating ripples in your community and the people you serve and your clients and your teams. Everything is in here, quotes from them, alumni that say my life has never been as fulled as is right now. I'm 40, and I finally know who I am. All of it. Read this. The time to apply is now. Okay. I have two openings. If you want to work with me in 2022, apply today. Okay. You lassies are amazeballs. I hope you decide to invest in yourself, in your brain, in your family, in your relationships, and in yourself. You guys are amazeballs.