Is It Wrong To Get Paid for Your Gifts? The Truth About Monetizing Your Purpose | The Alignment Method for Doctors Part 7

Have you ever felt more comfortable helping people than charging for it — like serving is noble, but selling is somehow selfish?

You want to make an impact. You have something real to offer. But when it comes to getting paid for that work, you hesitate. You worry that charging somehow compromises the integrity of what you are offering. If you are struggling with actually monetizing your purpose- this episode is for you.

You’ll learn:

– What it actually means to sell out, and why you are likely doing it now without even realizing it

the problem with settling for purpose as a hobby

– What becomes possible when the work you get paid to do- is an expression of your purpose

Press play to learn the final step in reaching your fullest potential and alignment.

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in this episode, you'll learn the most common way that people unintentionally compromise their alignment. And how they really. Prevent themselves from experiencing the levels of freedom and fulfillment that are truly available to them.

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Welcome to Life After Medicine, the podcast helping millennial health professionals leave the system and build a fulfilling career. I'm your host, Chelsea Turin, residency Dropout turned six, figure entrepreneur and World Traveler. I'll help you discover your unique path to making an impact without the burnout, because you were meant for more than 15 minute patient visits under fluorescent lights.

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Hello, my loves and welcome to our final step of the Alignment method. So we have been here living our Aligned Girl summer, getting ourselves prepared for how to live this Aligned girl summer, and I've been walking you through these six steps to. The six steps to create alignment in your life. And so alignment to me is having a joyful life and meaningful work. And the alignment method are, it's the six things to do, to focus on, in order to bring yourself closer to alignment. And so the step six, the final step is monetize your purpose. So what is this step? It's when the thing you do for work, when the thing you are getting paid to do, the thing that supports you financially full time is an expression of your purpose, it's like when your purpose becomes your profession, right? I believe that to truly experience alignment our work. Needs to be an expression of our purpose, and I say expression of our purpose because your purpose is so much bigger than one job title. One business, one company, like your purpose is bigger and more expansive than that. So it's not that your work is your purpose, but it's that your work is one facet of your purpose. It's an expression of your purpose. So it's the thing you do for income is a reflection of your purpose, because I honestly believe you cannot feel truly aligned when the thing that pays your bills is not part of your purpose. So why does this matter? We're gonna go deep here because people get weird about money. And we're gonna work on that here. Why is it important to monetize your purpose? Because it is, I will die on that hill. Um, you went into healthcare because contribution is important to you. Right. You didn't just go to school to like get an MRS degree or because your parents made you, or just to like to get any old job that pays the bills, like no, healthcare is special. You chose this path specifically because there's a part of you that cares about making a contribution into the world. Like you want to help people. You wanted to do work that mattered. And work was an important part of like who you are now. Maybe you are over some of that now. You're like, no way. I don't wanna help people. Maybe you feel jaded about work. Maybe you are like, I just wanna live on a beach and like never work and I just wanna like live a retired lifestyle. Some of those things might have changed, like some things might have shifted for you. And the fact remains. You would not be satisfied. Just like passively letting the time pass you would not be satisfied. Living retired life, drinking my ties on the beach till the end of time. I'm willing to bet that you still wanna contribute to the world in a meaningful way. You just wanna do it without burning yourself out, without sacrificing your health, your happiness, your freedom. Maybe you don't think there's a way to help people and have freedom, right? So you're choosing, no, no, no. I just want freedom. But there is a way to do both because that's important to you because contribution and meaningful work is important to you. Work is always gonna be a big part of your life. Even if right now you're in a no work, no thank you phase, it's always gonna be a big part of your life. And unless your work is an expression of your purpose, it's not gonna feel meaningful. Right? Helping people for free is fine. It can be satisfying, but when you're getting paid to do the work you love, that also helps people. It's like a new level that's unlocked. And I'll say like, the journey to monetizing your purpose is probably the most sacred journey that there is in my experience. It's a journey of self-worth. It's about growing your gifts. It's letting go of fears. It's trusting yourself. It is beautiful. So how do you know when you need this? Well, if you're not. Monetizing your purpose yet, then you probably need this, right? So if you've already connected to your purpose and you're starting to pursue it, you're developing it in some capacity, but you're not getting paid for it, right? So you know the thing that lights you up and you're maybe working on it in some capacity, but it's not really paying the bills. Or maybe you're getting paid little bits here and there, but it's not enough to, sustain you financially in any way. If your work is feeling like something that you have to do and not something that you get to do, your work in your life feels separate, right? If you're like, okay, work is this thing I do that I, that pays the bills, and then this other thing, it's like my hobby purpose. Oh, that's the thing I really enjoy. And especially if you feel like there's some disconnect where it's like, oh, but that would never be the thing that pay my bills, and so I have to keep working in this job. Like if the thing you're doing for work is anything other than the thing that also lights up your soul, like you might have moments where you enjoy the work, but if it's not fueling you and like you with aliveness and adding to your life, my life is more full. Because of my work and not just full from a schedule standpoint, it's like my days are better when I have a client call or an interaction with a client where I'm creating something. Like everything about work enhances my life, like when I'm doing it in the right doses for me. So when I was. Teaching English and like building up my coaching business on the side. I was loving the coaching work. I did a hundred hours of like free coaching and started developing my skills and I hit this point where I was like, whoa, I get how the brain works. I get how to coach people. Like I had this light bulb moment, like maybe hour 75 or something where I was like, whoa, I really know how to coach now. And so I was feeling like I'm so good at this. And I love this and I'm building this skill and there's mastery. But then I kept getting frustrated'cause I would have to wake up at 7:00 AM every day and get on a bus and go into my bridge job. And now for a while it was like, I'm so grateful for this. I still have a lot of time and space to like do my other things. And it, I could always connect back to the gratitude of like, you know, this is a moment in time. This is not forever. I am grateful for being able to pay the bills in this way. And yet the truth was I was feeling frustrated that I had to be like taken away from my purpose, right? So it's like I felt like I had to go on the bus to school and it's like, no. Like I wanna just like stay and like go to a cafe and just work on my business. I wanna master my craft. I wanted to spend all my time doing my purpose stuff and really no time doing the teaching English stuff. And so learning how to monetize my purpose, like I said, it was this very intense journey. There's like self-worth that came up. There's like money stories that need to be reprogrammed. There's learning how to sell, how to communicate, how to put yourself out there, how to deal with the feeling of rejection and just not make it about you. And it's like through this whole process of monetizing my purpose through understanding what my gifts are. Through learning how to communicate my gifts with people and how to like package them up and share them in a way that gives value to other people, like through learning how to use my gifts in a way that adds value to the world, and then to receive money in exchange for that value. This was the most expansive journey through this process. My work has deepened. My work has expanded. It's similar to what I was saying about like building personal power.'cause these are related, like I thought I was good at like hour 75 of free coaching. But the way I help people now, I am so much better at what I do now. I'm so much better at helping people because money is involved, right? Money amplifies your purpose. I also have a totally different relationship with self and worth. There's this thing people say like when they're starting their business or they're like, yeah, I know I need to charge my worth. And now I look at that and I'm like, no, that's not it at all. You're worth like a million dollars, like you're worth in infinity million. It's not charging your worth. It's just putting value into the world and receiving money for it. It's not about your worth. It's about the value you've learned how to put out and how to communicate about the value. So I have a whole different relationship with Self with Worth. I also have a different like ownership of my life and time. This is huge guys, because a lot of people are essentially like selling out in some way. They're doing. Work they don't wanna do because it pays the bills or doing work that they would not love, like they wouldn't choose to do. But it makes money, right? And so there's this process of like selling out that happens there where you're like sacrificing the things you actually wanna do because you gotta pay the bills. And I don't do that anymore. Like, I don't feel the need to do anything specific that I don't wanna do to earn money. Like I know that I create money. I know that I am the source of money, and that has given me so much liberation because there's people who talk about like financial freedom. And, but really I don't feel like they're very free because they're like working really hard in these jobs to like earn a lot of money to like invest in real estate, to like get these dividends to like blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, it doesn't really feel like freedom. It feels like maybe they're working towards numbers of freedom at some point in the future, but like to me, none of that. That feels like you're trapped in a different cage none of that feels like freedom to me. Financial freedom is, I don't do things I don't wanna do just for the sake of earning money. That's financial freedom to me. And so if you are ignoring the money part of the journey, if you're saying, oh, I don't need to monetize my purpose, I can just like do it on the side like you're. Missing out on your own growth. For one, you're, it's not true. Like monetizing. Your purpose is this beautiful, sacred process, and you're not really gonna come into your purpose in the same way. So you are not gonna develop your purpose to the fullest extent. You're not gonna have the impact that you could have. You are not gonna feel free in the same way, because you're gonna be tied to some, however way you earn money that's not really aligned with your purpose. And so if this is where you are right now, if you're in this space of like, okay, I know what I wanna do, I'm starting to work on it, and I need help to monetize purpose because it's deep work, man, this is something I offer in two ways. One is like in a one-to-one capacity doing aligned business mentorship. This is like one-to-one coaching where we go through this whole process together and I also offer. I also have created an upcoming mini mind, which is kind of like a short term mastermind, so it's like a six week mini mind called Paid Not Perfect. This is where I'll be walking you through like the basics, like building the foundation of monetizing your purpose in a way that also. In a way that is like the anti perfectionistic way to do it.'cause I think a lot of us have perfectionism that we don't even realize and it starts to come out in business in an even bigger way. And so we do the paid not perfect method. It's, I call it like the good enough method where. You learn how to make money. The simplest way, like the easiest way possible, the way with the least, like overthinking and overcomplicating, and it's like it's me. Just like simplifying business down to the principles that really move the needle and then helping you apply those principles in the way that works best for you. So aligned business mentorship or paid not perfect.

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And look, here's the thing. This step is advanced level, right? Like most people don't monetize their purpose, and many people have gotten mad or triggered when I say that Your day job needs to be your purpose, but that. Is my honest truth, like you are meant to monetize your purpose. The work you get paid for is meant to be an expression of your purpose and by telling yourself like it doesn't have to be or that's not possible for everyone. It's just settling. It's not true. You can only go so far. If your purpose is something you reserve for after hours, it's meant to support you, to sustain you, and also it stretches you into who you're here to be. So if you're here for like the full alignment package, right? If you're here for meaningful work and joyful life, then monetizing your purpose is a really important step in making that happen, and it's not for the faint of heart. But if you are up for it, it is a journey that will bring you a life that is even better than what you knew to ask for. And honestly, it's not even the life it brings you. It's that through the journey you become someone that you're so proud of. And that's what I want for you.