117. Overcoming Limiting Beliefs with Coleen Greco

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Episode Highlights:
✔️ Overcoming limiting beliefs
✔️ Shifting from a scarcity to an abundance mindset
✔️ Understanding the power or perspective

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Right. You must have a lot of people that come in with a scarcity mindset. Investing is really scary. And what if it doesn't work out and I lose all this money? But what if it does? And then you wasted all that energy. And so teaching people that worrying does nothing to affect the outcome is one of the core tenets of what I teach.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

How successful would you be if you had the blueprint for building wealth as a real estate investor or as someone who acquires small businesses? If you want to move the needle financially in your life, then you need to understand one thing: the capital stack. I'm your host, Brandon Jenkins, and this is where your journey to financial freedom begins. Hello everyone, what's up, and welcome back to the Capital Stack. As you know, we talked quite a bit about mindset, about being fulfilled in our business, about the impact that we can make in so many ways, and it can make a positive impact on the community, make a positive impact on yourself, make a positive impact if you have investors. But there's just so many ways to um to uh grow within this real estate space, but it really is a requirement because if you have uh downsets and downturns and setbacks uh in the marketplace, then you need to be resilient and you need to have a strong focus and vision on the reason why you're doing this in the first place. And so I am fortunate, we are fortunate to have someone here today that focuses a lot on that, okay, making sure that your mindset is in the right place to get maximum joy, maximum fulfillment out of life. And so we're going to have a conversation today about these things. And Colleen, I want to welcome you to the show. How are you doing today?

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Thank you. I'm doing great. It's so great to be here. I mindset is my favorite topic. So I'm ready. Let's dive in.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

All right, let's do it. Let's do it. So our guest for today is Colleen Greco. Uh, she is a wellness coach, thought leader, keynote speaker, and a TV host of a show called Joy Unleashed, which inspires and empowers women to reclaim the joy that they might be missing in their lives. Um, she also provides mindset coaching, very important, and uh personal training to people who feel stuck. You know, so if you want to reclaim the joy in your life, some things might be missing or out of place, then um, Colleen has a program for that. She's also a motivate, a motivational speaker, like I mentioned. And she works with individuals and corporations around the world, teaching people to reclaim their joy using the SNAP method. So we'll talk a bit about that. But I'm excited again to have you here, Colleen. Welcome to the show. Why don't you kind of you know just share a little bit about your journey and your background uh with us?

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Yeah, no problem. So, you know, trigger alert. Uh, I like to say that uh because it I can read faces and it can be shocking. So I just want to prepare people that um when my younger son was 10, there was a suicide attempt. And that really rocked our family to our core. But what it did in a way was it it awakened me. I was really not present. Um, in I was in a corporate IT marketing leadership job. Um, I had been doing that type of work for 26 years. I don't want to say effortlessly, but you know, I could do it in my sleep, and it was not fulfilling me, and it wasn't my purpose. And what I learned through this whole experience, um, because at the time there were no doctors or therapists that were willing to help us. Now I live in Boston, so that should really shock every single person out there. That in the greatest, you know, the we have access to the greatest doctors, we couldn't get any help. Um, so we had to rebuild from scratch ourselves. And the way I did that was through joy, centering our day on joy, finding joy in the smallest of moments. And through that came this entire transformation that I would probably spend the next six weeks describing in detail. Um, but what it did was really, you know, open my eyes to the essence of joy and how joy is accessible to you any moment of any day. And really, it's all about our mindset. And when you understand your mindset and how your mind works and how you can reprogram your thoughts, suddenly those things that felt really inaccessible to you are within your reach. And so that's what I'm really here to talk about today. Um, you know, it's it's not the easiest explanation to say how I transitioned from IT marketing over to mindset, but um, you know, God had a plan and perhaps some sort of a sense of humor that I'm still not sure of. Uh here I am.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

All right. Well, it's a pleasure to have you. And I certainly want to thank you for um sharing your your background there. And I know that you know it might may have been some time, but I certainly want to say that I'm glad that um, you know, that things have are okay and that um, you know, you're kind of um on the on this path now. And I think that one of the things that you mentioned, though, that is interesting to me is you you you mentioned the accessibility of joy, because I think what happens for a lot of us is we have things that happen or that take place in our lives, and it actually does feel like joy is out of reach. Um, you know, my uh what you know, I've had several moments like that myself. Uh, one of which, in the grand scheme of things, may not seem like a big uh big challenge, but I got laid off from a job that I really enjoyed. And uh, no matter how I fought and fought and applied and tried to get back into the workforce, um, it seemed to be just out of reach for me. And at that time, I I really associated my success on the job and the trajectory that I was on, I associated that with my joy. And so it very much seemed inaccessible. But I loved it, you know, that that um your focus is on, you know, helping people realize that listen, we we all have challenges, but one thing that you can reach for every day is joy, happiness, fulfillment. And so some how what are some of the ways that you help people through that, you know, especially on the heels of trauma, you know?

SPEAKER_01 5:55

Yeah. And so, you know, in the early days, we were living second to second, right? We thinking about what we were gonna have for lunch was way too far into the future. We were really just trying to get through that moment. And so looking at little things like we would take the dogs out for a walk and they are frolicking around doing something ridiculous. And how can you tap into that energy and try to be playful like them? Or thinking about somebody that, you know, maybe filled you up, you know, you have a great conversation with them and you're like, that made me feel a lot better, right? And certainly you don't want to have to seek joy externally because it is like an inner knowing. But in those, those, you know, the moments after you lose your job or you've just finally called your relationship quits or whatever it may be, I understand that can be tough. But let's remember one thing you still have a roof over your head, you still have people around you that love you, even if you can't let that love in. They love you, like trying to look at it as one component of a very large picture. So, yes, you just lost your job, but there are millions of jobs out there. You don't know the one that's out there for you yet. And you, because you're in the thick of it, you can't see that you losing your job was was actually a really good thing. It always is. You just can't see it when you're in the middle of it. And so during those early days, too, there was a phrase that I really hung on to, and it said, trouble is your transportation. It's like, hang on, just just clench your fists tight. We're gonna take you for this ride, and it'll be a far better journey than you could have ever imagined. And again, it always is. You just can't see it in the moment. And so that's why I I very often work with people in the early days of their um their struggles or their trauma because they can't see it. And it's all about where do you direct your energy? Your energy can go in one direction at a time. So focus on the fact that you don't have a job, or you can focus like yesterday. It was 60 degrees in Boston, which is beautiful for this time of year, and I can go for a really nice walk and get some fresh air, right? Like which which feels better to you? I often say that to clients. I'll say, does it feel better to be like like feeling that lack and that uh that you're missing out, or you know, the the fear that comes around job loss, or does it feel really nice when you get outside and you get to go for a walk? So that's where we're just gonna focus our energy for the next 30 minutes. And then, you know, we connect to another piece and another piece, and it just has this ripple effect until you shift from uh a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset, which is I'm sure something that you face all the time. Right. You must have a lot of people that come in with a scarcity mindset. Investing is really scary, and what if it doesn't work out and I lose all this money? But what if it does? And then you wasted all that energy. And so teaching people that worrying does nothing to affect the outcome is one of the core tenets of what I teach.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

I think that I think that's very, very, very powerful. And there, and you know, you mentioned um a couple of things I wanted to ask you about here. And the the first question that I have though is does this pace, do you see any kind of correlation between like the pace of life and people's inability to really see that joy in the small things? You know, we're we're in this society where you know, go, go, go is kind of the mantra. Um, is there a link there at all?

SPEAKER_01 9:38

Oh, for sure. In fact, I I just commented on somebody's social media post this morning who was like, help, I'm so frustrated. My kids are three and five, they're you know, like complete maniacs, and my husband's no help, and like all the things that I'm sure you've heard from people you know. Um they're like, I just and it, my job is hard and everything's hard. And it's like, yeah, because that's all you see. So when you see hard, you attract hard. Right. And it's all about that law of attraction, which isn't a made-up thing, it's actually really real. So, how can you excuse me, look at your kid and say, I don't know, wow, I wish I had his energy, right? Instead of being a maniac, like, wow, that would be nice to feel that energetic, or like little things like that, you start to just shift your mindset and your thinking about the situations, and you'll start to look at him and say, like, he's hilarious. I have a fun that um, you know, we we used to say was too much. We used to say, if whoever initiates the divorce gets him. Just so we're clear. So that was like the carrot to keep us together, right? And um but he was too much for a while. And I heard somebody present on that saying that she was always called too much, and it was heartbreaking to me. And I thought, ooh, I've said that. So I started looking at him differently and how he's so funny and fun-loving and innocent and all these things, and suddenly these these like the feelings of too much just go away because you're so in love with essence.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Yeah, yeah, I like that. You know, when you couple that with um what you said um earlier about if you stop and realize that what you might be dealing with is a component of kind of the larger picture. When you think about those two things, it really ties back to kind of perspective, right? Um I I think so many uh so much of what we go through would feel differently if we stopped and um if if we gave ourselves a moment to really get perspective. And that can be tough to do, though, especially when you're in the middle of the middle of it, whatever it is. Um, it can be tough to say, well, let me stop and step back a few paces and then and then um take a look at that. And and it sounds like that's what you hope your clients do, though, right? I mean, because some people aren't able to do it themselves, and so they might reach out and say, Well, hey, Colleen, here's what I'm dealing with. Um, you know, uh, what what am I missing? Is is that accurate?

SPEAKER_01 12:11

Yeah, yeah, totally accurate. And like, let me just also say in reality, it's I I'm not trying to get people to live in a bubble. Things happen. It's okay to feel, you know, frustrated or disappointed or you know, fill in the negative word. That's okay, but to stay there is where the crime really is. You know, I had a client that um, or I'm sorry, a guest on my show that uh had, let's see, by the age of 32, she had three different cancer diagnoses and dosises, doses?

SPEAKER_02 12:48

Three different and a stroke, right?

SPEAKER_01 12:54

By the time she was 32. So you sit there and you're like, what am I complaining about? Right? That's an a massive amount of you know, doctors and medications and tests and days where she's really, really down and she's still fighting and smiling. What have I really got to worry about? And I really tell people like, don't get caught up in the comparative suffering thing. Okay, that's her thing. I have my thing, you have your thing. What's wrong, or like the crime, as I like to say it, is staying stuck and like using that to define your identity? Like, I am jobless insert age, you know, man. No, you're more than that. You're this and you're that. And like there's more to you than just having a job. So, like, how can we look at your situation and your identity from like a broader view and get you to see that you actually are filled with abundance, you just don't see that. So, how can we get you to see that? And yeah, that's that's what we do is there's different areas that we work on, and I get people to go really deep and say, like, here's my current situation, here's some of the things I'd like to change. This is what I'd like my future self to look like, and get them to see they're a lot closer than they think they are.

SPEAKER_00 14:18

Yeah, I like that. I think that um that also is a large part of this. It's not really, you know, for when we're dealing with a struggle, um often we don't have a clear picture of where we want to go. And so then it can really look like an insurmountable, you know, obstacle because it's like, well, I don't even know where I want to be on the other side of this, really. So so the only thing I'm thinking about is this brick wall that's in front of me and that's as wide, you know, as wide as I can see to the left and right and as high as I can see, you know, looking up. So it's just there is nowhere to go. But if you have a clear vision of what's on the other side of it, then it's like, well, no, this is not as big as I as I thought it was or as I treated it. And I want to kind of um also clarify something, right? So so you are um a joyologist. And so for the listeners who might not be familiar with the term, what what is a joyologist? I know we've kind of described some of the outcomes that for your clients, but what exactly is that?

SPEAKER_01 15:14

Well, first of all, it it is a term I coined. So um, you know, we can make it mean anything. But to me, joy is this inner knowing, it's this state of mind, it's this like this mindset. Um, and to be a joyologist is to get people to kind of see the joy in their lives through any any type of means. I mean, you could be a joyologist in a financial standpoint if you wanted to be. I just don't really focus there. But but you know, it's more about um helping people to firmly root themselves in joy so that they can see all the greatness around them. And I have traditionally focused on mindset coaching and nutrition coaching because that's where my life came from. You know, you're talking about, you know, the like seeing in the future. So in the initial days after my son's suicide attempt, as you would imagine, I didn't handle it very well. And I ate and drank, um, as I like to say, my face off and gained a lot of weight and over time took off 52 pounds. And now I've kept that off for four and a half years. But I started off doing nutrition coaching because that's you know, I wanted to provide women like me that are going through it all, the help that I never got. And so that's kind of how it started. But starting off saying I want to lose 50 pounds to me sounds like I want to climb Mount Everest. Like that's too big of a goal. But if it was, I want to treat myself better and love myself a little bit more each day by feeding myself quality food instead of like, you know, cookies and cake and ice cream all the time, um, that might be a better choice for me and I'd be a better role model for him as I help him heal. So that's how it started. And as I started to, you know, see my own evolution, I realized it's all about mindset. In fact, everything you do is about mindset, even though there are some things under it that, you know, maybe a little um more tangible. So much of what you do is mindset. And it's it's about like seeing through to the truth. I talked a lot a bit about or a lot about um removing limiting beliefs. So those are those stories that are keeping you stuck. Like, I'm not good enough, I'm not smart enough. Uh I'm uh one of mine was that I was fat, although I sort of was at that point where I was talking about it, I had to wait to lose. But years before that I wasn't, and I believed I was. And so it's all about reprogramming the ego and getting the ego to tell you a different story. So the National Science Foundation actually has a stat that says you are responsible for 50,000 thoughts per day, but over 95% of them are on repeat. So when a stressful situation strikes, like you lose your job or somebody says the wrong thing to you, then that story gets served up on a silver platter and it's like, remember, you're not good enough. Here's the proof, here's the story right here. And it's like an instantaneous thing. And so as we start to remove those limiting beliefs, you you create more space for the truth to settle in and you invite abundance along with it.

SPEAKER_00 18:41

Yeah, yeah. That, you know, um that stat is very interesting to me. And it really, it really says that I like that you've mentioned reprogramming a number of times. Um, you know, I I share with people all the time that I I believe in affirmations. Um, parson, I I was unaware of that of that stat, but it really, I believe, kind of drives the point home that, hey, you need to really, like you said, reprogram your thoughts. You need to really tell yourself in some way, somehow, whether it's, you know, for some people it's standing in the mirror and repeating something, or for some people, it's listening to some audio, or, you know, maybe it's just being in a part of a group where you hear this positive reinforcement. But it has to happen because if if you don't, if you just sort of let life uh uh you know happen to you and then allow your thoughts to be controlled with the many negative things that you know that that can happen, then that's what you are thinking about and what you're focusing on expands, right? And so you're right, mindset plays into um every aspect, you know, of life, but certainly of anything worth doing, because one of the biggest, I can tell you in our space, one of the biggest challenges is imposter syndrome, especially before you get started as an investor. Your first thought is, well, you know, who do I think I am? Look at all these people who have, you know, all these units and they're millions of dollars and all these kinds of things. And it usually can stop people from taking that first step. Um, but if you shift your mind um into saying, well, they everyone started somewhere and I can get around someone who's looking to help me and I'm not an imposter, I can do this. It just requires me to learn this piece and this piece, and then partner with someone, um, then that can make all the difference between someone who decides to throw their hands up and never invest versus someone who has great success in investing in a relatively short amount of time. So yeah, mindset often is kind of that thing that unlocks the door. Um and if you have self-limiting beliefs, it can be the thing that knocks it down, um, you know, or or knocks, you know, whatever is in your way down any barriers. So yeah, I just think that's um that's that's to me is is definitely the way to to go. And you mentioned you mentioned something, or I'm sorry, in your in your bio, I mentioned, right, the snap method. Can you explain what what that is and how that helps your uh your clients?

SPEAKER_01 20:56

Yeah, great segue, actually. So the snap method, I believe, actually found me, right? So I'm I'm in the middle of my journey. I'm actually uh at this point, at this point, I think I'm like 35 pounds down. So I lost 52 in total. So I'm near the end. And I'm out um on my front lawn with my dog and I'm journaling and I'm trying to figure out like how I can develop these strategies to keep this from happening again, like the weight gain, obviously. Um other strategies were in place, you know, to protect my son and the rest of my family. But when it came to my mindset, how do I make sure that I don't slip back into old habits and I change my thinking? And that's literally the day the SNAP method and the joyologist actually was born. And as I started to look at these strategies, um, I realized that there was like a common thread through all of them. So SNAP is an acronym and um S stands for STOP. So as that stressful trigger comes towards you, um, and in the beginning. You may not see it coming. So that happens. But over time, the longer I work with people, they're able to see them coming. And I tell people too, I still have triggers that slide through the side door, right? They kind of like creep in. And you're like, wait a second. So the first thing you do is you stop and you just let the trigger come and wash all over you. It's on its way or it's already here anyway. So you might as well just let it do its thing. But what's important is this is not the time to run towards the pantry or the liquor cabinet or, you know, gambling or whatever your your weapon of choice for self-sabotage is. And it's it's a time to just like sit with it and let it be. And that can be rather uncomfortable, but I always tell people, let's just try to sit with that trigger for maybe 10, 15 minutes. Don't start, you know, texting, you know, your significant other or your best friend feverishly. Can you believe? Um, but just sit with it and then move on to the next step, which is notice. And that's what I tell people get your journal out or notebook or piece of paper, whatever it is. And this is really important that you document, not through a computer, but on a piece of paper, because there's a psychological connection between your brain, your fingertips, the pen and the paper that can't be replicated on a computer. But this is where you capture everything that is going on. So this is where you want to record all the physical symptoms that are going on. So when you're stressed out or triggered, there is a visceral response. Like your hands will start to sweat, or you get a lump in your throat. That's what happens to me. Some people get a shaky voice, their heart races. And so recording all the symptoms that are happening happening physically, but then also record the story as you believe it to be. So this isn't the time to judge the story. This is the time to just, you know, let whatever you think it is be recorded on paper. Um and then the next step is A, which is accept or analyze. So now a little bit more time has passed. You've let kind of the dust settle, your your uh blood pressure is back down, you don't want that urge to run to the pantry anymore. You can think a little clearly. This is the time to review that entry and separate the facts from the emotions. So now you're looking at it sort of like from a you know, a higher point of view, and you're like, is that really what happened? Did that person really say that in that way? Or is that my interpretation of the way that they said it? And separating the facts, the facts from the emotion will really help you identify what that trigger is. And once you know what it is and you can name it, you can decide what you can do with it, right? And I have millions of examples of that. Um, but that's that's how you start to let it go. Last step is P, which is practice gratitude. And that's when you want to thank the trigger for coming. So you which sounds funny when I say it out loud, but you thank the trigger for coming because it it's your body's way of telling you that you are out of alignment, that there's more work that you need to do on that story. Um, and that like something's wrong, right? When you're out of alignment, your head and your heart are not focused on in the same direction. So your body's saying, like, this is wrong, we need to fix this. But what I also love about this step is that it's a really stark reminder of the fact that I'm human. And I think we very often, to your point about being like in this like fast-paced society where we have to have instant gratification and instant answers to everything, we really very often fail to give ourselves grace. And this is where like the grace comes in, and where you start to say, like, I'm doing the best I can. And this time, maybe I fell a little short or maybe I misunderstood something, but I'm human. And if that person loves me the way that I love them, they're gonna forgive me. I always tell people, love is the answer to everything. And that's where I get my clients to a point where they are able to see everything from a lens of love rather than you know that scarcity and lack mentality. And it it literally is life-changing. Um, you know, you can I have so many stories of people, you know, inviting these, you know, what used to be toxic people back into their lives, and they're nothing but like loving, supportive relationships now. Most of that has to do with their own mindset.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Wow. Wow, yeah, I love that. And I and I love the the last point that you made too is is is a great one, right? That um, so I think that when you look at at things through the lens of of love, now you can kind of shift to okay, well, things are happening on my you know, for me as opposed to everything that is happening to me. And you know, so it really helps with that shift, and just to repeat you the snap method, stop, notice, accept, and analyze, and then practice gratitude. So I just I just love that. I mean, uh, you know, I think that and and so I now are you typically um using that method, is that one-on-one or is that group or a little bit of both? Are you both?

SPEAKER_01 27:34

Okay, I have a workbook that's launching in May, uh, which I'm super excited about because some people might feel like, you know what, if you give me the tools, I can just go do it myself, and that's completely fine. There are some people where the subject matter is just so sensitive, they're not comfortable in a group. But I love the group coaching aspect because you have no idea what you can learn from other people. And um, you know, sometimes it can feel really isolating doing this kind of work um on yourself because you feel like you're the only person going through it. And sometimes we'll be in group settings where they're like, you you have no idea what your story did to me this past week to change, like to kind of up level me or push me in in an even bigger and broader direction than I thought I was capable of. And sometimes that just comes from being in the presence of other people.

SPEAKER_00 28:29

Yeah, yeah. And I also think that that's where that additional perspective can come from, right? I mean, I I personally I love doing things in a group environment, in a community, because um, and and I certainly recognize that depending on the sensitivity of the of the challenge, you know, uh for some people that might feel, hey, well, I need to work on something by myself, and I can appreciate that. Uh for for me, I definitely am much more inclined to say, well, let me quickly get around, you know, other people who are dealing with various challenges, because sometimes you can, you know, you could you could uh uh you know say, hey, look, listen, here's what I'm going through, and then hear the the the issue that someone else is dealing with, and it can kind of give you the perspective that you mentioned earlier that, you know, hey, look in the grand scheme of things, you know, for me, I um it really feels like a boulder when I hear someone else kind of talk about their challenges, if maybe it doesn't feel quite as heavy. And some sometimes it's not even like I I think you also touched on not getting stuck on the comparative uh piece of it, but sometimes it can just be um it can help you decompress to just say, hey, here's what I'm going through. That in itself sometimes can be can be a bit of a release. But I I like that with your with the snap method, it's it's you know, too often we hear people say just ignore or forget about the problem, but you're not saying that. You're saying, listen, okay, focus on it for what it is, internalize it, and uh and that way you're better equipped to at the very least manage it. Um, right. And so so I I love that. I just think that's an excellent sort of device and a way to tackle these problems. And what uh the one question I would have though is what what do you think kind of holds people back then from you know achieving true happiness kind of on their own? Because I think we all do need some, you know, again, I'm a big proponent of seeking the resources to do it. Um, but what do you think holds people back from doing it on on their own?

SPEAKER_01 30:21

Um, they don't feel worthy. That would be number one, definitely. It's I want to do this work, but I don't have any self-love. And so therefore, I'm not worthy of investing in myself to correcting the problem. When I get to the end with clients, they then tell me they would have paid 10 times what I charge for that level of freedom. But when you're sitting in the like at the thick of it where you don't feel good enough and you don't have any self-love, and you know, you can always find another thing to spend your money on, that's usually the last thing that they'll consider. Like they're not, they're not um, I guess, stuck enough, maybe. And so that is definitely the the number one issue, but it's also that feeling of isolation. I mean, I am so bullish on talking about my son's story, which is also my story, by the way. I've had lots of people say, Well, that's his story to tell. Um, no, I definitely went through it too. Um, and it led to my own suicidal thoughts at one point. So it is very much a part of my story. But it's because it's such a taboo topic. And we have got to not lessen the effect of it so that more people will try it, of course. That's not what I want, but I want people to feel like there's no shame in that. Um, so I would say number two and three are like shame and guilt. There's guilt for investing in yourself or wanting to feel better, maybe when you're going through something like that. Like, do I have the right to work on myself when he's so clearly suffering? Well, what happened was when I started to get better, he just, I mean, I can't even tell you who he is today. He is thriving in ways, actually, I usually say he annoys me in the ways that a 17-year-old boy should. He's got his prom suit all picked out and looking all down there. We're going on some college tours in a couple of weeks. Like he's living. Yeah, it's such a blessing, yes. But you know, in the beginning, there's that guilt of do I have the right to be doing this? And it was like, I had to do that because one of us had to be strong enough to carry everybody else through. And and once people can see that, they start to, you know, feel like, well, maybe I could do this for myself. But it's it's it's not easy to make that commitment, I think, sometimes when you feel so low.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's that's right. Because it's, I mean, but yeah, it it's some sometimes it kind of feels like you're almost surrounded by by by especially especially if it's a layered, complex issue, then it can more or less feel like it's engulfing you. And so so it is, it is good, certainly, to have um, you know, avenues and and approaches to kind of help do that. And you you mentioned um you uh you have a book coming out of such which you mentioned a moment ago.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

A workbook, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

Yeah, well, can you tell us about that?

SPEAKER_01 33:26

The pathway to self-love. So proud of it. That really helps people to do some of this work on their own, um, either because of time, money, uh excuses, to be quite honest, because there are lots of people that just don't feel worthy enough. And so they'll serve that up as a reason as to why they can't do coaching. But, you know, again, it's also that, you know, that the topics can be pretty sensitive and they don't know me and there isn't that trust. So that's kind of a way to give people a um like a taste of what it's like to work with me. And then, you know, my belief is they will, you know, then probably look into some group coaching or some one-on-one coaching to really get deeper because it is really challenging to do on your own when you're in the thick of it. Um, but yeah, I'm really excited about that. It's gonna come out in May. It's called Pathway, Pathway to Self-Love.

SPEAKER_00 34:22

All right. I love the title. I like that. And and so, and and also wanted to kind of do a plug for your your show. Um, because I know we didn't we didn't speak uh very much about that, but can you can you share us some kind of tidbits about what the show is and who it's for and and and everything?

SPEAKER_01 34:36

Another avenue. That's great. Yeah, thank you. Um so it's called Joy Unleashed, and really I highlight all kinds of different people's stories about how they um either went from trauma to triumph. So I had that that woman who had you know cancer three different times and a stroke, um, and how she became a cancer coach because those resources weren't available to her when she was going through her journey. So I have some stories like that that are trauma to triumph, some are of other experts that maybe are in like um like complementary fields. Um and and you know, then I have some other experts that are that are maybe like behavioral health experts. But I just love having you know different stories of different people on uh that just inspire people to think differently, especially when you know, I my favorite guests, I think, are the ones that you know had this like burning desire to do their own thing and they went for it and like how that brought them to a place of joy. So yeah, all centered in joy, but there are different flavors. And um, you know, I my YouTube channel is at the Colleen Greco, but it's a TV show and a podcast. So you can find the TV show on uh Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and Roku, and then through YouTube and the podcast network too.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

That is amazing, amazing. I'll be sure. So I'm gonna add um all the links and everything uh below. And I wanted to ask like kind of an actionable tip of sorts, right? So if there is someone who's listening to this and you know, they love everything that you're that you're saying here and they they maybe gone through something themselves. What's kind of one thing that they can do to take some some action to help them move forward today?

SPEAKER_01 36:17

Yeah, you know, you mentioned uh affirmations, which made me really happy that you said that. I meant to highlight that earlier. But one of the most effective things you can do in the beginning is simply say those things in the mirror that you know you like about yourself. You may not love yet, right? Like let's just give you some space and some grace, but you might love. I mean, like like mixing my words up. So in the beginning, when I started to do this, it was like, I don't know, I like my smile. Like I didn't really say anything about my physical uh appearance, like my body, but um, and I I don't know, like I had nice earlobes, I think was one, like my hair, right? It was like simple things, but then over time it was like I'm strong and I have a great heart, I'm a really good friend. And and over time, this is how we begin to build self-love. So finding three things to say about yourself, and I don't care if they're the same three things every single day for a while, but just getting in that practice of saying it out loud, looking yourself in the eye, does wonders to reprogram the ego because there are stories in there that will surface from the, you know, the time you were a toddler. And it's really important that they get reprogrammed so that you can get to that place of abundance.

SPEAKER_00 37:40

Amazing, amazing, amazing. Well, um, so Colleen, listen, this has been just um a treasure. It's been really uh wonderful speaking with you. And for the listeners who want to hear more about you or uh kind of find more information on you, how can they do so or reach out to you?

SPEAKER_01 37:54

Yeah, great. Um on Instagram at theCauleen Greco. Um, and then, you know, of course, they can find me through my website or email colleen at ColleenGreco.com. I would love to have a conversation, even just a coffee chat. Maybe you have some ideas or questions you want to bounce off me. I'm not gonna charge you for that. Let's just talk and figure out is there, you know, one tidbit of information I can give you that just sets you on fire. That would give me so much pleasure to be able to help anybody that just needs that little boost.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

All right, all right. And that will be in the show notes. And again, thank you so much. Your story is strong, is it just an outstanding one, very inspirational story. And um, again, I just really appreciate having you on the show and so much value to myself and to the listeners. And again, just thank you so much for your time.

SPEAKER_01 38:42

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_00 38:47

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