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Monday Minute with Kala Simmons: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks [431]

Crissy Conner Season 8 Episode 431

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What if you could reframe failure not as a reflection of your worth, but as a stepping stone towards success? Kala Simmons empowers us with a conversation around resilience and self-belief, taking us on a journey that redefines our understanding of failure. 

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More about Kala:
Kala Simmons is a Certified Master Life Coach and Master’s Level Social Worker. Her professional and academic track record are filled with over a decade of experience in mental health and social services with the largest portion of her expertise being in treatment planning and goal attainment. In addition to her formal education and training, Kala has experienced her own share of wins, losses, goal success, and starting over. After extensive therapy, coaching, and embarking on her own personal growth journey, Kala now guides other women, to identify their highest self, step into that power, and fearlessly pursue the life of their dreams.

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Welcome to today's Monday Minute. And today's Monday Minute is brought to you by Kayla Simmons and I'm going to let her just take it away, because she has a brilliant message for you to start on this Monday morning. Hi, chrissy, and thank you so much for having me back. My best advice for entrepreneurs who are looking to make a comeback would likely be narrowed down to these three things. Okay, first things. First. We get to redefine the way that we are looking at this situation. You are not a failure. You're not a failure. You are a CEO. You are an entrepreneur. You are a boss. You are a rock star.

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Failure is what happened to you. You had a plan, a goal, a launch, an idea that just didn't go the way that you had hoped for it to go, but that doesn't make you a failure. That means that the plan failed. When we learn to separate ourselves from the things that happened to us, we can view it with fresh eyes. We can view it with an opportunity to find, you know, resources and experience and knowledge from it and see how we could do things better in the future, and it takes away that veil or that negative connotation that we might have about ourselves in relation to it. Secondly, we get to remember that no one is immune to failure, like literally no one. I look back at my list of famous failures very often and includes people like Thomas Edison and Michael Jordan and Oprah and the Hoover vacuum cleaner guy, first off. Who does not want to be included on that list of people? And those people, we know them as wild successes today, but they failed and they failed often, often more than once. So learning that we get to use our pain as a launch pad to propel us into our next success, that has been so helpful to me and I hope to pass that on to other people, other entrepreneurs, who are going through those hills and valleys of business ownership.

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Lastly, I want to remind you that even if your crown is crooked, you are still a queen. Even if it's crooked, that does not take away from your value. That does not take away from your worth. It doesn't take away from who you are and how you get to show up in the world. Knowing who you are is half the battle, right.

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The other half of it is remembering why. Why did you get started? Why are you here? What lights your soul on fire? Why did you have this business plan in the first place? And why is it important that you get your message out there? If I don't remember who said it, but the saying goes that if you do not walk in alignment, if you don't show up the way that you are designed and nightly to show up in the world, people who are saying I'm going to show you the world, people who are assigned to you, miss the message that every time I hear that, I get like goosebumps, chills, because I don't want that on my conscience. So remember, it's okay to be sad, it's okay to be down, it's okay to cry, but when you finish there, straighten your crown and get back to work. I believe in you, I believe in your ability to turn things around and I believe in your comeback. Wait to see it.

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