Episode 9: 3 Tools for Next-Level Success: How to Expand Your Impact and Income

“Your next level doesn’t happen someday… it happens the moment you decide and move.”

This episode is for you if you’ve been feeling the pull for more — more income, more impact, more expression — and you’re ready to stop circling it and actually step into it.

Inside this episode, I’m taking you inside a powerful live workshop where we didn’t just talk about next level success… we activated it.

Your next level isn’t created by doing more.

It’s created by getting clear on what you want, becoming the woman who can hold it, and moving with the fear that shows up along the way.

If you’ve been feeling like you’re available for more income and impact but you’re not fully going for it yet, this episode will meet you right where you are and move you forward.

In this episode, we jump right into:

• The three tools that will expand your income and impact without burning you out
• Why clarity alone isn’t enough… and what actually creates results
• The identity shift required to hold your next level of success
• The patterns of fear that quietly keep women stuck (and how to move anyway)

If something in you wakes up while you’re listening… trust that.

That’s not random.

That’s your next level calling.

And if you’re ready to answer it…

If you’re a founder, leader, entrepreneur, creative, or a woman who makes a difference and you are ready to break through your upper limits and glass ceilings to create more impact and income, I’m personally inviting you to a complimentary Next Level 1:1 conversation with me.

With high-touch support, you’ll get clear on what your next level actually is, identify what’s in the way, and create aligned, powerful next steps tailored specifically to you and your next level of personal and professional success. You’ll leave with clarity, courage, and momentum designed around your vision and your capacity.

Schedule our conversation here.

You are here on purpose.
Your assignment is your next level.
And you have full permission and limitless possibility to create an extraordinary life that makes a difference for yourself, for others, and for the world.

Hey gorgeous.

I love you.

I'm so proud of you.

And I believe in your ability to create a next level life you love.

Transcript

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Hey, gorgeous. This week's episode is a special edition workshop that I taught last week, and it was by invitation only. I did not promote it very much on social media or send out any emails, and I filled the workshop with 12 incredible women founders, leaders, business owners. Movement makers, and I don't think I've ever been so blown away as I was by the impact, the power and the energy of all of these women coming together to expand their income and impact. And it felt so aligned because that is the work that I get to do every day alongside women individually and the teams and businesses and movements that they lead. And I wanted to give you a little sneak peek into what it's like to be in a workshop with me. It's of course an abbreviated version, and I included the core content, some of the rants that I indulged in some of my most favorite teachings. And I hope you feel invited to use the three tools that I share to expand your own income and your own impact. I am gonna welcome you to the Power of Vision, three tools to expand your impact and your income, because what else is there? We have a really big, full workshop that's designed to do two things for you. One is expand your impact in the world, and two is to expand the amount of money that you are available for. Can I get a nod and a hell yes. If you are available for more money and more impact? Yes. And you're gonna see how those two things are connected because I think oftentimes we as women are designed to do the impact and focus there and then forget the income. And so we're gonna pull both of those things together and be available for it all. And so we're gonna begin with a connecting. I'm gonna invite you to either close your eyes or soften your gaze, whatever feels safest. Put one hand on your heart and one hand on your belly, almost like you're giving yourself a hug. Let's take a breath together. Breathe in through the nose, connecting the belly to the heart, your center of power and love, and then let it go. Dropping in here now together all there is now. Let's do it again. Inhale, belly to heart, connecting your seat of courage to your seat of compassion, and let it go. Um, one more time, in through the belly, solar plexus to heart chakra, and let go. Keeping your eyes closed. Find yourself here and now, and you're in a room with women who've all said yes. Yes to themselves. Yes to expansion, yes to growth, yes to impact, yes to income. And that matters. And as you're breathing, know that you're in a space where you don't have to have it all figured out. There's no need to perform today to be perfect in any way or to get anything, right. And as we move into the time together, take another breath. I'll invite you into a few simple agreements. You might let your heart say these out loud to you. You can take up space. You can tell the whole truth. You can give yourself full permission. You can want more and feel good without explaining or apologizing, and it gets to be more fun and more easy than we think. One more breath, feet on the ground. Feel your butt in the chair or wherever she is. We're gonna take one breath into the heart center. Bring one person, place, moment or experience to that. That place that you feel grateful for the thing that unlocks your heart. That makes your heart go, oh yes. Thank you. And then drop that focus into your belly, your seat of courage and will and conviction, and breathe in there and remind yourself something that you've done recently that you are proud of. You are so proud of this thing that you've done. And with the last breath, I'll invite you to ask your imagination, your heart and your mind all at the same time. What would make this time wildly valuable for me? Because you did not come here to learn. You came to receive what you are available for. And so I invite you as you take a breath to be even more available for ideas, decisions, and a new level of expansion. And with that, wiggle your finger with, wiggle your fingers and your toes and squeeze your butt cheeks and come on back to the room. I'm proud of you too, and it doesn't matter who's proud of you unless you're proud of you, which is why I wanna encourage you every day, beginning or end of your day throughout the day to say, I'm proud of me. Good job. Me. That was amazing. I kicked ass on that. I just joined this women's gym called Girl Crush, and I'm hitting this 5:00 AM exercise class every single weekday. And at the end of it I'm like, whoa, I'm proud of me for doing that. So I encourage you to have something like that you're doing. And it doesn't have to be something insane, like a really early class, but whatever it is, we're acknowledging ourselves. Because remember, and if any of you have kids or have been in education and or lead teams, you know that what we acknowledge gets repeated. What we acknowledge gets repeated, and it's not just with the people we're leading, it's with ourselves. So what we acknowledge in ourselves, our spirit is gonna say, let's do that. I wanna tell you why, who I am and why I'm here today, and then you're gonna get a chance to do the same thing. I'm Dana Hunter Fela. I'm a leadership and life coach for women who make a difference and the businesses and the teams and the movements that they lead. That's what I do in the world. I also am the, a host of a podcast called Her Next Level. It's in the top 5% of all podcasts in the world. What? Why? Because I feature things like we're gonna learn today and women just like you. And that, surprisingly, of course not, has caught on, less impressed with me, more impressed with what my clients do as a result of our work Together. They scale past six figures. They start and expand profitable businesses. They lead teams with big impact. They start serve at the state and federal level. They head schools and districts and companies and teams. They write books and hold PO and host podcasts. That's the outside stuff, but inside they feel amazing in their own body. They have better sex and deeper intimacy. They're more peaceful and calm. They drop weight, and we never have a conversation about. Scale or macros, and they move through the world with a deep sense of peace and purpose. And that is what I'm proud of the most, is what happens as a result of those women saying, I'm ready for my next level. Also, if you're under human design, I'm a projector. Three, five, splenic. If you don't know your human design, look that up today after this, and then send it to me. 'cause I wanna know what it is. You probably know this, but I'm also a mom, three wild girls, Ava, Audrey, and Alyssa, five, eight and 10. And I've been sober for 16 years. I think that's important because the other thing that I'm the most proud of is my ability to fail and do it often and fail again, and fail again, and fail again, and fail again. Because the faster we fail, the faster we expand. And a quick story before. I turn it over to you. The way that I came to this work was a little untraditional. My most of my career has been in education as a teacher and a school leader, and a coach, and a consultant and all things education, but I. A couple of years ago, I found myself in this really high powered education job with making a bunch of money and like doing important work, and I was having a nervous breakdown sobbing on myself, carpet burning on the floor, that kind of like that kind of experience because I had it all. But what I didn't have was I picked up my phone and I got a text from the nanny who was taking care of my girls, and she sent me a picture of my daughters on a horse. And I was supposed to be at that lesson, and I promised them I would be at that lesson. I'd missed so many lessons because of work and because of trying to make money and try to have it all. And so I got that picture. I realized I'd missed the lesson, and I hadn't shown up for them again. And that broke me all the way open. And I ended up on the floor and I said, I can't do this anymore. I can't do this life. I can't do this kind of work. I can't sacrifice the thing that is most important for the thing that I thought I was supposed to be doing. And that was the beginning of my next level, which resulted in the work that I get to do with you today. So thank you for being here. I'm grateful for that. You are literally a part of the dream I designed several years ago. I'm about to write a book called Patriarchy in the Parenthood, so standby on that one. But I wanna tell you just a quick story about this. 'cause I have three daughters and one I'm gonna tell you, we got ready for school today and they go to school in the French Quarter. And today's the beginning of French Quarter Fest. I'm picking 'em up. We're going immediately the festival, like what life am I living? I don't know. But for the small one, Alyssa, I said, Alyssa, I'm gonna pack you extra clothes and then some more extra clothes. 'cause every day I pick her up and she's covered in fun. She looks like somebody rolled her through the middle of the French Quarter. And my second one, I was like, I'm gonna pack you like a top, because she normally keeps her bottom pretty clean. But like her top gets messy with art and things like that. And the third one, I just looked at her and I was like, see you after school. I. You see the difference, right? Like one just goes to school, she's five and lets it all out. One is halfway in, halfway out and one has already been domesticated. Don't get dirty. Don't, don't, don't. You do. Okay. You're with me. Yeah. Yes. I went to a birthday party of a friend of mine. It was her 4-year-old daughter's birthday, and she also has a 6-year-old son. And if you have multiple kids, you know that when one of them has a party, everybody's gotta get a present of some sort. So she got, as you can imagine, princess dresses, bar baby dolls. He got guns, Nerf guns. Mm-hmm. Weapons. Yeah. So that's interesting. And if you can think even bigger, like how could that apply to the impact that we're being. Invited to make or not, and the income that we're available to receive or not. So I'm gonna ask you to take out your notebook and I'm gonna ask, we're gonna do a, just a quick assessment and we're gonna be curious, like scientists here and not judges like Judy. Okay. So put on your lab coat. It doesn't have to be white, it can be pink or blue, whatever you want, but no black robes today. Okay. Curious about this. I'm gonna ask you to assess your current level of satisfaction with your impact that you're making in the world and the income that you are currently receiv. Maybe, perhaps if you're lucky, those two things are combined. So go ahead and write down the word impact, the difference that you're making in your work, in your community, in your family. You reflected on this question. I sent it out a few times in email. If you could ex, if you could have any level of impact, who would be affected? What would you create? So you wrote down the word impact one to five. One is I'm really not making the kind of difference. I know I'm capable of making. That would be a one. A three is like, I'm doing okay. I'm making a difference. I know I'm moving in the right direction. People are affected by what I'm doing, and I know there's more for me. And a five is like, I got impact. I can lead a workshop on it. Okay. So one to five, again, no judgment, just an assessment. Like, cool. Now we get to notice. 'cause even if you're a five, you can always get to a 10. Always. Second is income. Your level, your current level of income that you are receiving for the work that you're doing in the world. Maybe it's directed or connected to your impact. So one is, I'm definitely not making as much as I would like to make. Three is I'm doing pretty good. I don't wanna tell you. So I've been at a one for sure. I've been at a three where I was making a good number, you know, a good number of dollars, but I knew that I was capable of making more. I just couldn't see how that I could, could have created it. And a five is, I've got all the money I need to do everything. I want to give, invest, spend, be generous, contribute. Be a philanthropist. Take my kids wherever they want. Like that's a five. Yeah. The reason that we are just talking about income and just talking about impact is because every one of us has an assignment and it's connected to you expanding both at the same time. Not one first and then the next one, not one first, then the next one both. And so say out loud, you don't have to come off mute both. And we are available for that. So I want you to ask yourself, also go a little deeper. This might be hard, maybe not be open to it. How long has your number been? Where it is right now? You might even write it down. So for me, I was at a level three for income for probably like, um, eight years for impact. My number hung out at the same for about the same number of years. Got your number. Gimme a nod. You're with me. We're moving. Great. Last, last question, and let this be rocket fuel. If you stay right where you are, even if you're a five out of five, if you stay right where you are, what's that gonna cost you and the people that you've been sent here to serve? If you stay right where you are at that number, what is the consequence and the cost to you and the people and movements and teams, and families, and businesses and communities that you have been sent here to serve? What is the cost? If you feel brave, drop one word that describes the cost and consequence of sameness or staying. Staying put. Okay. For you and the people that you're here to serve. Drop that in the chat. What's the cost and the consequence? I see you waiting for somebody else to type it. You can. You can leave. Yeah. Theft. Yes. Of dreams, of possibility, of identity. Yeah. There's only one way. We're up, we're growing, we're not growing regret mediocrity. Ugh. That's that me word. Mediocrity has a certain frequency in my belly. Yeah. Beautiful. So I sit with women and have these really beautiful, open, vulnerable conversations. And what it comes down to, we'll say things like, well, it costs me time and it costs me money and it costs me a little peace. You know, it costing, you know, anxiety and, and I could work out more and it costs me this. And we get underneath. And what it really costs to stay where you are, even if you are a five, is everything. Everything is what it costs. Because if you've got regrets, it's costing you your peace. And if you don't have peace, you have nothing. So it's costing us everything. And so the beautiful segue and turning point for us right now. We could take a breath 'cause we're about to move. Is the benefits of doing this work and making a commitment to you and the women in this room that you are here to expand is everything. Also, everything. When you expand your impact, you create a ripple effect for everyone you meet and everyone they meet, which is everyone, everywhere that's ever been. Wow. Everything. When you expand your capacity to receive, not love, love is good. Not stuff. Stuff is good money, which helps you make a difference in the world. That changes everything for you and the people that you're sent here to serve and the organizations like upturn that you're sent, that you're, you've been assigned to support, it changes everything. So you're on an assignment today. It's real. I. You create the ripple effect. And so you can give yourself a hug, a high five, and a booty shake because that's what we're here to do. And you're gonna walk away with three tools to do just that. Are we ready for the tools? Yes. Okay. Arms in the air. Take a deep breath. Shake a pass. So we're gonna get to the first tool. Bring your arms down and pick up your pen. 'cause I'm gonna ask you to write something down. Tool number one is the vision. Write it down the vision. As we move into the vision, something that if you've ever listened to any of my workshops or the podcast or ever been around me for more than eight seconds, you know that we are all creating all the time. We're creating our experience, we're creating our focus, we're creating our uh, opportunities, we're creating, we're the great co-creators of the universe. Another word that I like to use, manifesting. Not everybody likes that, and that's okay, but we're all creating whether we're awake to it or not. So you can write down, I am always creating, let's make it personal and specific. And there's a formula that I wanna teach. I didn't make slides for this 'cause I knew I would just abandon them and I'm trying to be more efficient with my time. So here's the formula. There's a formula for how do we expand our impact and how do we expand our income. And so you're gonna write down three words. Make sure you get 'em in that order. B, do have most people in the world get this backwards? And I'm gonna show you so most people, when we talk about how do I create something, like how do I take something from an idea to an actual reality? We start. At the end, and Steven Covey says, begin with the end in mind, which we're going to do. But most people say things like, when I have more money, right? When I have more money, then I'm gonna do things differently. Let give to charity and philanthropies, and then I'll be a generous woman. You see how that works, right? When I have more patience, I'm gonna slow down with my team so I can be a good leader. Hmm. When I have a bigger title, then I'll do things with bigger impact and I'll finally be at my capacity. At my possibility, at my potential. You see me, right? I'm gonna, I'm gonna turn this off. I see some nods. Okay, good. We're actually gonna back that up. Back that up. And we're gonna talk about being then doing and then having, because when we do that, we collapse time and create magic where people around you are gonna say, what just happened? And can I have some of what you're having police? I'm sure some people are already saying that to you, right? That's why you're here. So we are gonna do Steven Covey and begin with the end in mind, not because that's where we're gonna start, but so you have a clear picture of what your expansion is, what it looks like, what it feels like. So you got your notebook, and I'm gonna ask you to write down the question, what would I love? What would I love? Not what do I want, not what is my smart goal? Fuck a smart goal. What would I love? What would I love? And we're gonna be specific here for income and impact. What would I love? And I know that that question is formatted in the conditional, like what would I love? But I am gonna invite you into an experience with it happening right now. And so in just a moment, I'm gonna throw on some 4 32 frequency music, which is designed to uplevel your frequency and make everybody feel really good. And you're gonna go after it. You are gonna take your pen and you are gonna take your notebook and you are gonna start writing. Remember, you have a magic wand, it's inside of you. This is just to represent the internal magic. And so what I'm gonna invite you to do is when you write, you're gonna bring this magic right to where we began, your heart space and your solar plexus, where it's not gonna be from point to where you're not gonna write from. Sonida. Got it. Yeah. We're not coming from here. This is designed to keep us safe and same and maybe even small so that we can be safe. Now. She's good. We love her. No shame in a brain, but she's designed to keep us safe. And safe means the same or smaller because when we expand it's gonna feel scary. So I'll invite you to take a deep breath and before you write, let's go within, I'm gonna do a little guided experience for us. And we're gonna breathe into the question into the heart. If I could create anything. For impact. Anything limitlessness for income, hand on your heart, go to that space and ask, what would I love? You might ask it again. What would I love? If we met in a year and you'd created this big, beautiful expansion of impact and income, and you're telling me about it in the present tense, what would you love? And we're gonna let your heart and your stomach give you some ideas. Maybe it's, I'd love to serve more clients. I'd love to lead a movement. I'd love to be present as a parent for income. What would you love? You might give it a number. I had love to receive, to generate, to create this much every month, this much every year and more. On the next few breaths, let's see if you can get even more specific if you were a visualizer, and you can create images in your mind. Create them if you are a feeler, and you can create feelings of what you would love, create them. If your sense is something other than feeling or seeing, maybe it's smelling or touching, or just experiencing it, create it. What would I love? No obstacles, no challenges beyond logic. What would I love? If you were fully expressed in your income and your impact, what would you be creating and making? What would you love the do to be? To have to experience, to give? Who gets to feel your impact? Who gets to feel the expansion of your income? On the next breath, I want you to add some passion to it. You might say, I am so excited now that I. Oh my God, I can't believe that I, yes, I did this. Turn up the dial on your excitement, on your passion. On the next breath, see if you could go even bigger and expand possibility so that you've got some things in your vision that don't even seem possible, that you might feel insane saying out loud. Go there. Now, beyond the possibility of mind into the realm of limitless possibility, what would I love? In our last few breaths together, breathe that all into the present moment. And if you've been using language in your heart, like I would love or I will love, shift it to the present and make sure the language is positive. Use words like I am, I feel I'm welcoming, I'm impacting. It's happening right now. Present tense, all positive. So instead of saying I'm experiencing less stress, you say, I'm experiencing total ease and peace. As we close this experience of what would I love to create the power of your own vision. That does not come from the mind. It comes from the spirit, it comes from the heart. It comes from that place inside of you who was dirty on the playground, who's saying like she was on America's Got talent who believed in her soul that she could do anything. Let your vision come from her space. One more breath, and on the exhale we'll transition to pen and paper. Gently return back to the space, and you're gonna have just a few minutes to take what occurred inside of you and let it flow from you. So on your page, you're beginning with. I'm so happy and grateful that the frequency of gratitude makes everything possible. I'm so happy and grateful. Now that and right the answer to the question, what would I love? See if you can be even more specific, add even more passion. Like you're jumping up and down like you're having a spiritual orgasm. Yes, this is happening. Make sure all that, all the language is positive. Make sure that the verbs are happening right now, that when you describe it, someone can see it or feel it or taste it or smell it. I'm so happy and grateful. Now, last sentence. Big breath. Beautiful. And just know we are just beginning. This is the first draft of something that you will be invited to continue to curate and develop. And for now, in the chat, I listed the five Ps, which are the filters that I use with clients to help them refine and empower their vision. So it's like they're plugging it into the source and the vision goes almost like you're plugging in a neon light that lights up the whole space. Thank you so much for leaning all the way in. Give me a thumbs up if that was powerful for you. Yeah. Okay. One thing I wanna add to, as you build out your vision, which I encourage you to do, please do not let this vision die in this group. I see you nodding, right? You're not, we're not gonna let that happen. We're gonna commit to letting it grow as a result. This is like you planted a seed, in fact. I wanna show you this. Some of my New Orleans girls clubs will be very proud of me. We planted this plant at a visioning and planting workshop. And in order to, for this to grow, I got the one that you only have to water it once a month. So it's guaranteed to live at my house, but I have to water it once a month. Now this dream is gonna require you to water it more than just once a month. In fact, you'll listen to the pod in my podcast. We need to be watering it every day, three times a day. Okay. I, for, I want, I don't wanna leave this out. As you're writing your vision, you're nurturing it. You want to treat your vision like you're walking into an architect's office, and she's a very famous architect because you are a very fancy woman and you take the blueprint of your vision, your home, for your life to this architect, and she wants to know everything about it. What you will not do is walk into her office because she's a very famous architect, and you are a very fancy woman and say, I want a fancy house. I want a good house, a good one. One that's just a. It's great. It's a great house. She's gonna turn her head to the side and say, do you know I'm a very famous architect? I'm gonna need you to be more specific with what kind of house you want. So as you're designing your vision, you wanna be specific, like the wind on your face, on the beach, where you're having your vacation with your family, specific like the microphone in your hand and the sweat on your face as you're delivering a keynote. That level of specificity is the kind of information that your dream, your blueprint, your vision requires. So your life work after this is to ramp it up to that level of feeling in your body, your taste, your smell, your senses, whatever your strengths are. Many of my clients can't see it, so we don't do that. We feel it because some of them are feelers or we smell it because, you might not know this, but in human design, you have a strength of a s sense, and we lean into that human design to make sure that is incorporated into your vision. So long story short, do not show up at the architect's office without a specific blueprint, and she's gonna help you make it even bigger. And that's the work that I get to do. It is such a gift. Are you ready for the second tool? That was just the first one. Okay, back to the bee and the do and the have. Most people start here, but we're not, we're actually gonna back it up and we're gonna start with B. So instead of waiting until we have more money to be generous, we're gonna decide who we're gonna be today. One of our tools is about what we're gonna do after we've decided who we're gonna be. And then all that vision work that you just did, you're never gonna have to work hard for it because it's gonna be so clear. You're gonna embody the frequency of the woman who's available for it and it's gonna fall like rain at your feet. I just had a client text me today 'cause she was supposed to be here, but she had to come, she had to come out of the running because she had two new buyers. She's like, I have two new buyers. They're ready to sign contracts. And that is a part of her vision where she has to work less and the contracts fall at her feet. And that is what happens as a result of the work that we're doing. So let's back up. Tool number two is all about who you are being. So the title of tool number two is my next level. My next level. And it's your embodiment tool. It's your being tool. In order to do the things that are gonna create the results in order to have the results fall at your feet. Like rain, we are showing up as women who are available for exactly what we blueprinted. So tool number two is my next level. So let's take a breath. You just invested your spirit, your mind, your capacity into creating your vision. And this is what happens with a lot of women, right? Like we did this at the plant store. We're like, yay, affirmations. And then we all went home and started to do the same shit we were doing before we went to that experience, okay? That's what happened. Can guarantee nobody was changed except for this plant who's living his best life at my house. And so the second part of your vision is a decision and a way of being in the world. And one thing I wanna get up on the box and say is that your next level does not require anything more of you than you already have. You don't need another degree, you don't need another boyfriend, you don't need another, it's not out there. It requires you to remember who the fuck you are and turn that dial all the way up. Okay, so this isn't a go out and get something so that you can feel a different way. It's a who can I remember that I already am and turn that baby all the way up. The first part of that is you're gonna put your hand on your heart and you're gonna make a decision for that vision. This is not a nice to have. This is not one day I might, this is not. Wave your wand and whoa, fairy godmother. You are the fairy godmother. You're gonna put your hand on your heart, and you're gonna decide inside of you right now, that you are going for this vision, that this vision belongs to you. And you're gonna claim it like you claim your kids and your pet and your sorority and whatever else that you're excited to claim, except you haven't done that for your dream yet. And you are gonna put your hand on your heart. You're gonna say, I'm deciding for my vision. I'm deciding for my vision. Go ahead and say it out loud so your whole body radiates with this. I'm deciding for my vision. Mine often sounds like, fuck it, we're going for it. Let's go. And it doesn't have to be that serious. It can just be like, yes. And when you're done, you can come back to the room because you only have to decide really one time, but you might need a reminder every now and then that you decided today that you are going to create that vision. And it does not require anything else outside of you because you'll never get what you want. You will always get what you were available for, what you were a match for. So you're deciding today, and that's created a shift in your subconscious, a shift in your nervous system. Whoa, hang on. She just decided for something, what's happening? Because a lot of people will say, well, I'm not sure. Maybe I'll do it. Maybe this maybe today I'll call that person. Or Ugh, apply for that thing. Or start the podcast like maybe today. And then your, your nervous system is like, no, wait a minute, sister. We can totally do that tomorrow. We can totally do it next week. You know it's Thursday's French Quarter Fest. We can just do that. Put it next week. But oh, you're on vacation. Just do it in June. You know, June is when things are gonna settle down. You're with me, right? You've said that like when things settle down, then I'll do the thing that will change everything. Okay? So we're gonna be done with that. And the second tool is your next level. Your next level is not something you think about. So again, tell your mind. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's something that you be about. So I'm gonna take you into another experience, and you're gonna be the woman in your next level. And your next level is now. Because when can you be anything? Can you be something in the past? What about in the future? You can only be something right now, and you have everything that you need right now. So go with me. If you feel safe, close your eyes. If you don't feel safe, soften your gaze. I'm gonna take a deep breath in, and on the exhale I want you to step into the vision. You're not looking at it, you're not watching you, you're being you, a woman, and the vision of the expanded impact you're making a bigger difference in the places that matter. Be in the body of the woman who is available for more money. Be in the presence, in the breath, in the heartbeat of the woman with your name, who already has what you wrote down. Who's living it? Who's breathing it? Who's wearing the fun shoes and the fancy car? With the wonderful vacations and the people that she helps and serves, breathe into her being and join with her. You are her. Notice what she's thinking about money. Notice what she's thinking about what's possible for her just today. Notice what she's believing about herself. Walk over to the mirror and look in the mirror through her eyes. What does she say to herself in the mirror? Pull out your planner or your calendar. Look at the calendar. What does she believe about her calendar? Who's in charge of her calendar? How does her body feel? Her spirit feel, her mind feel, feel it. Now it's yours. That woman in the middle of your vision, what is she available for that she wasn't before? What has she done with that she wasn't before? How is she moving through the world? Who is she magnetizing and loving? How is she leading? Breathe into her body and hold yourself in that chair in the way that she holds herself. Maybe it's a straight spine, maybe it's an open shoulders. Maybe her crown is pointing right to the ceiling. Her body is in alignment. She knows who she is. She knows what she's about and what her assignment is. Breathe into her. Become her now. What is she thinking? How are you feeling? What's your energy? What do your clothes look like? What are the emails saying that bled your inbox? What the sound of your app make when you welcome in more money? Who's the first person you tell? What's the dance you do? You listen to Fergie, Missy, Brittany. One more breath. Breathe it into your toes, to your nose, to your heart. You are her. In the middle of that experience, in the middle of that vision that you have blueprinted specifically with feeling and passion and limitless possibility simply because you remembered who you were. And on your last breath in can prepare to come back to the group now into the room, and I want you to pick up your pen and write down for a minute or two the answer to this question. What would it look like to start being her now? What would it look like to start being her now? What would it feel like? You might even write the sentences with I am. I am moving through the world with confidence. I am brave enough to ask for more money. I am at peace with my relationship with money. I am expanding my team and welcoming more clients and creating a ripple effect in my community. What would it look like for you? How are you gonna show up after you sign off today? What's different? Write it down. Alright. You should have at least one thing written down. Who is in your next level and what is she like? The one thing your next level is doing, because remember, we don't have to do a hundred things. We really just need to be one thing, and it's who you already are. That part of you that's just go for it. That part of you. The part of you that says, I'm meant for this. I'm meant for more photography clients and contracts, and I'm meant to lead a real estate team, and I'm meant to show my daughter what is possible when a woman shows up for herself. I'm meant for that. So embodying confidence. Now, one thing I wanna say about confidence, oh, I could do a whole episode on this. Maybe I will. The only time you can embody confidence is when you've messed up enough times that you're like, I got this. I already made every mistake. Okay, so confidence isn't like a potion that you drink. You could act confidently if you're good at acting, but that's not normally a strategy that's effective. Confidence comes from you doing it a bunch of times. Ask any kid who's ever learned to walk or ride a bike. Okay? So confidence. Again, it's not a magic potion that one day you're just gonna wake up. You're gonna have to go get the reps and fall on your face. What we might actually use instead, and I wanna recommend a book to you called Worthy, which is gonna gimme away, is you remember how worthy you are. You remember that there's nothing you can do to increase your worthiness. You have been a million percent worthy since the moment you were even considered. So we walk into a room like we remember that we were created by the divine. Like we remember that we have a purpose. Like we remember, we have an assignment that doesn't require confidence. I hope we don't live in the world of confidence. 'cause that means we're not trying anything new. We wanna live in the world of, I remember who I am. Worthy because we're walking around like we have forgotten. And today's the day that if you only do one thing, you remember you've always been that way. And that's the magic because a woman who remembers who she is is unstoppable. That's you. That's why you're here. That's why your frequency matched with mine. Let's move to the th the third tool, and we're gonna wrap that up because this is what happens when we go out in the world and we say, I'm gonna be confident, worthy in the boundaries. And your whole nervous system is gonna go, huh? You're not. You had so much fun in that workshop, but now you got a shit ton of things to do and a lot of people count on you. We're gonna go back to the way we were before the plant workshop, okay? But we're not gonna do that. So I'm gonna put, I'm not quite ready for that. Write down the third tool. The name of the third tool is the Edge. So we've done the vision, we've jumped into your next level, and now we're going to, we're gonna live at the Edge. Who is old enough to remember the song Living on the Edge? You can Help yourself. You know that one, right? Who's that right in the chat? Anybody saw him at Jazz Fest? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Good. You got me. Ah, so we're living on the edge. It's the only way that we're gonna expand to anything in Income Impact. We're gonna live on the Edge. The other song, do you know the other song that came to mind? I'm on the Edge of Glory. Please put those songs in your pockets on your playlist because this tool is gonna be required for you to expand and then make it look easy. Make it look easy. I dunno how it happened, except I learned it in this workshop and now you do. That's where women who expand income and impact live. We live on the edge. You've decided, and your whole nervous system, which remember, she's designed to protect you and keep you safe. God love her. She's gonna create doubt, overthinking, second guessing, procrastination. We call it a lot of things, but it's all one thing and it starts with an F. Put it in the chat if you know what it is. It's the reason why we have hesitancy and anxiety and people pleasing and imposter syndrome, but it's all one word. What is it? Then I got it and it maybe should start with a capital because it's so powerful. But fear is not a stop sign. It's actually a signal. It's a green light. Even though your whole body says, your spirit says, this is it. This is our edge of glory. Our, our nervous system is saying, please keep us safe. So the moment you ask for more money or go for the contract or do your marketing campaign or build your team or have the hard conversation or lead the movement, your nervous system is gonna say, maybe this isn't right. I'll do it tomorrow. It's really sneaky. And she shows up. I'm gonna make her a sheik 'cause she's Wiley in six different ways. And since my name's Dana, we're gonna make 'em all start with B. Okay? You don't have to write these down, but I want you to close your eyes and feel which one stands out for you and your body. So when we make a decision and we're saying, okay, I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna ask that person to work together and I'm gonna invest more money in myself and I'm gonna clear my calendar. So I have Fridays off, whatever it is, and your nervous system is gonna show up to get in your way. And on my podcast I say she gonna strip naked and send herself on fire and dance in your driveway so you can't get the car out. You have somewhere to go and someone to be, but you can't even get out the driveway because your fear is blocking the entrance. And she sounds like dis persuasion. This isn't gonna work. Don't do that. Who you think you are? Like don't do that to us. You know, that's just not something that we do here. And she also shows up like distraction, like absolutely, it's number one on my priority list, but also gotta check my email, gotta respond to my Facebook comments, gotta change the laundry and feed the dog. Oh my God. It's time to pick up the kids. She also shows up like delay, like I'm absolutely gonna do that when I get back from vacation. I'm absolutely gonna do that. First things first, I'm gonna eat the frog, except for you forget and you decide, you know, it's too late in the afternoon. They're probably not even available. You know, she's busy, she's got lots going on and you decide to do it later. She could also show up like this gnarly voice in your head that talks to you and she's you are so terrible you can't do this. Who do you think you are? Like you're just as, you're just a girl from this, you're gonna make us look bad. Don't you dare do that. That's not even for you. Who do you think you are? That's disdain. She might show up looking sounding like one of your teachers or one of your parents or one of your friends, or it's like, Hey, listen, you're really great, but you just don't have stage presence. You just don't have the ovaries, the kaons to go and have that difficult conversation. You don't have enough money to do that. Like you just don't have it. Just don't, don't, don't do it. Or she could show up like minded. When I launched my business and wanna start my podcast, and Casey helped me through this the week that I was supposed to launch my business and my podcast, different years, but it happened the same way My def con one showed up and con one is an A is an a, a, a military signal for like shit is happening and it is bad. And my whole body was like, don't you know, I didn't know what it was, but I had anxiety, I had panic, I had a stomach ache. I started throwing up and then I said, I'm just not feeling well. I'm gonna have to do this later. And Casey was like, no, no. I'm gonna sit with you till you hit publish. We're gonna publish it today. You can be sick. It's okay. No big deal. Because what happened when I launched my business a few years ago was I thought I had the flu 'cause I was throwing up. But really I had Defcon one, which was my nervous system, saying, Hey sister, you're about to crack open our whole new identity. Don't do that to us. People know you as an educator. Don't leave education. People know you as a principal. Don't start your own business. Don't do that to us. You're gonna have to be somebody totally different. So I literally got sick with a fever and vomit. DEFCON one is real. It shows up as panic, anxiety, all the things which one shows up for you the most? They probably all show up at sometimes. Which one shows up for you the most? Yeah. Distraction is big. Distraction, disdain. Yeah. Give me a nod if you've experienced all these at some point. Okay, beautiful. The edge is what do we do when they're dancing naked in the driveway? What do we do? So most people would say you just face your fear and fight it. Do it anyway. And Nope. That's the patriarchy. It's very aggressive, it's very masculine, and that's not how we make it look easy and make it feel easy. What we do has four steps to it. I'm gonna ask you very quickly to write them down the whole time. The invitation is for you to be gentle. So step number one, you're gonna notice. Notice, remember, you're not Judge Judy, you're Cindy, the scientist, ma'am. You're just gonna notice and you're gonna say, oh honey, you're distracted again. Instead of look at you, you're scrolling. Doom, doom, scrolling again. You're gonna say, oh honey, again. Interesting. That's so interesting. You're just gonna wake up and be present to what is, oh, honey, you have anxiety. You might not say, oh honey, that's just something I say. You might say, oh, Dana, Jenny oh, you're distracted again. Okay. Notice how that doesn't include any judgment. The second thing you wanna do is get curious interesting. Wonder what's going on? What's going on? When I was a classroom teacher, my, my kids were a little off task. I'd just walk over and be like, Hey, what's going on? What are you actually afraid of? Are you, are you, do you know what you're afraid of? Is it being seen right now? Is it what somebody will say? Is it failing? Yeah, but just get curious. The third thing you're gonna do is you're gonna make it safe. I have the benefit of having small kids right now, and they freak out all the time about everything. So I notice what's happening. I'm like, Hey, what's going on? And then often I just sit with them and I'll hold their hand or I'll hold them and I'll say, let's breathe together. So you might even hold yourself just for a second. Breathe in, let's breathe together. I've got a teacher who's like grip harder, hug harder, like whatever feels good for you. You might do one on your arm and one on your ribcage. Hey, we're safe. It's okay. We're good. It's okay to be scared. You're okay to be here. We're gonna make it safe. Because what happens when fear feels safe? She zens out long enough for us to take an action. So that's the fourth thing, is you're gonna act anyway. Now, you're not gonna act fighting your fear 'cause help me out with this. What happens when we resist something? What we resist, resist. So we're gonna make it safe. We're gonna say, what's going on? I see you. It's okay. Let's go. Anyway, let's go Anyway. If we had more time, I would drop you in with another woman, and I would say, what are you afraid of right now? What are you afraid of right now? So feel invited to reach out to anybody that you connected with today and get real with what you're afraid of, because I see you nodding, which means you're human, which means you're got lots of fears. And those fears are the edge between you and your expanded income and impact. It's the difference between you making five or six or seven figures you impacting 10 people or the million that you've been assigned to serve. Some of you in this room are set up to impact millions of people. You've got a six line in your human design. You are a movement leader. But you're playing small because of these five or six Ds that are in your way dancing naked in your driveway, and we're gonna be done with that. You can say that out loud with me, we're gonna be done with that. But it's a requirement that you live on the edge, which is these four steps. We're gonna notice and get curious. We're gonna make it safe. So our nervous system just relaxes enough for us to take one action. Hopefully it's the one that you're terrified to take, and maybe you call one of us before you take it. Say, I'm about to do this big thing, will you put I put you on pause while I do it, or call you after? Because let me tell you one more thing, as we prepare to close, I've never done anything to expand my impact and my income without another woman right next to me in front, behind on the left, on the right, sideways. I went to Salon 21, 22 and I was like, Olivia, we're new. I know we just met, but we're best friends forever. Now. We moved across town together forever. 'cause what I know about expansiveness is that I've never done it by myself. I've always done it with another woman. Because we speak the language of what women know, the language of wisdom, the language of power, the language of connection, the language of limitlessness. So as we close, a reminder of what we've done today, three tools, and the invitation is for you to keep doing them and keep doing them in community with women. Just like you clarify your vision, like you're walking into a very famous architect's office and you are a very fancy woman. Two is be her. Now, remembering that you have everything that you need, it's right here now. And three is living on the edge. You gotta live there every day, a little bit on the edge, every single day. And you never have to do it alone. You do not have to do it alone, but it's gonna require you to be committed and brave and after it, you know what I mean? When I say after it. Right after it. Each day. Each day. So what I wanna hear from you, as you close, I wanna invite you to listen to the podcast if you haven't already. Some of you, we have already worked together and we have created phenomenal results. If this kind of work is something that you'd like to hear more about, the invitation is open for you to reach out, and we'll have a conversation about what it is that you're dreaming about and how you can collapse time and let it fall at your feet like rain. And we'll sing Aerosmith and Lady Gaga together. Okay, so let's do a big deep breath what is the one thing that you are remembering to remember because you invested this time today? What is the one thing that you are remembering to remember as a result of your time here today? It's yours. It's always been yours, and it always will be yours. You can't miss what belongs to you. What you're walking away with is. The invitation to act to be here now are remembering that you are worthy and always have been. Your presence is your power. You have everything that you need. You will always get what you're available for and who you are, and you never have to do it alone. WEB Du Bois. Said, there is no more powerful force than a woman determined to rise. So the invitation today is to remember that you are determined to rise and there is no more powerful force. And now you know what happens when we do it together. I love you. I'm so proud of you, and I'm grateful for your experience and your time and your energy today. I'm gonna send you a follow-up email with all the things and our connections, and I believe deeply in my spirit that you are absolutely capable of creating the next level of your success. Whoa. Did you just feel what I felt? There's a whole lot of that and so much more to help you create your next level of personal and professional success on upcoming episodes of Her Next Level podcast, now ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally. If you're a leader, a founder, an entrepreneur, or a woman who makes a difference in the world, and you're ready to break through your glass ceilings and upper limits. Let's make it happen together. In the show notes, you'll find a link to book a free one-on-one conversation with me. We'll get clear on what next level success looks like. We'll create powerfully aligned goals and a plan just for you. 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