104 - I Almost Became a Therapist - Here's What It Taught Me About Running a Coaching Business

So my background, um, become, to becoming a therapist or a counselor, I always thought of it as counseling, but people say therapy more now, but anyway.

I did a number of different courses to learn about, like, empathetic listening and how to listen well and really get a sense of what people are looking for.

Um, I learned crisis intervention in different ways.

Um, a lot of it was really around, like, listening, empathy, and helping people through crisis intervention, stuff like that, right? And the first thing I learned about becoming a therapist and then later a teacher, but especially a therapist, that I anchor into with every failure, every setback, every stumble that I know can really support you too is that if you think back to my story at the beginning, it took me three tries to get accepted into a very competitive master's program at the university that I wanted to go to, University of British Columbia.

They only have so many spots, and it was fairly competitive to get into.

To become a counselor, it took me a good few tries.

And I mean, looking back, I'm like, "Oh my gosh, of course, they didn't accept me for a while because I just, I was too young.

I was too-- I just didn't have the right experience to really be able to support people in a counseling capacity." But the thing that that taught me is that if I really want something, I can make it my business to go after it.

And I saw from that experience that I can go after something, and I can eventually get what I want, basically.

And that's kind of, uh, morphed over time in my business.

I know I read it recently from Amy Porterfield and was like, "Yes, this is it." This is a belief that she holds and that I hold that was first planted in me from that experience and I think can really serve you as well, and the belief is I always win.

I always win.

So when I think back to my younger self, before I was afraid that I could fail and all of that kind of thing, which I later developed and had to let go of in entrepreneurship, I was like, "Oh, I didn't get in.

I'm gonna try again.

I'm gonna do this.

I'm gonna try this.

I'm gonna try this.

I'm gonna try this, and eventually I'm gonna get the result that I wanted," which was to be accepted into the master's program.

And so that same quality in entrepreneurship as a coach is so, so valuable because you might not always win right away.

It might take you a while, but I really trust that whatever I want, I can eventually get to, and that's when I got into, you know, the manifesting and changing my thoughts and who I'm being and all of that kind of stuff.

But the first belief that I anchored into that you can anchor into as well is that every failure, every setback does not mean that I'm not cut out for this or this is not gonna work.

It means it's just feedback, and I'm gonna use it to my advantage because I always get what I want.

I always win, and this is just, like, part of the journey to getting to what I want.

So I always win.

You can take that with you in your business as well.