EPISODE 3: How being a rebel & having a little bit of faith can change your life & business

EPISODE 3: How being a rebel & having a little bit of faith can change your life & business
Does marketing your business the traditional way feel meh to you? Do you struggle with building a business or life that lights you up? In this episode, I discuss how creating your own rules, getting clear on what your dream business & life really looks like, and having faith as small as a mustard seed can change your life & business.

[00:00:01.170] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
Hello. Thank you for joining me today. On this episode, I want to talk about how being a rebel and having just the itsy bitsy little bit of faith can transform you, can transform your business. So let’s get started. I have always been a rebel in my own right. So I follow the rules, in general, like so I’m a good person. I do my best to be a good person. But when it came to business, nothing ever sat right with me.

[00:00:39.110] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
You know, I would follow a lot of these marketing experts or yeah, marketing experts and gurus and everyone who tells you like, hey, in order to be successful, you have to do X, Y, Z. You have to start a list. You have to be on social. You have to. All this stuff that you have to do. And that’s the worst thing for me is when you tell me that I have to do something a certain way.

[00:01:03.530] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
I don’t know. It just ignites something inside of me where I’m just like, yeah, I’m not doing that. I want to do things my own way. I want to figure things out for myself. And so I would, I mean, I hate using the phrase dig deep because I say it a lot, but I want to make sure you understand what I mean. So when I say, you know, I dug deeper into myself, basically I put blinders on.

[00:01:30.170] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
I didn’t look at my competitors. You know, I don’t believe in competition anyway. I believe that there is more than enough in this world for everyone to have a piece. But it didn’t look, you know, sometimes you can get caught up in looking at someone else in your field who’s doing something a certain way. And you get this kind of like, man, you know, I wish I can do it like her. Like him. I wish I could be, you know.

[00:01:51.640] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
And it starts this whole path of destruction, really, because you end up becoming paralyzed with fear about moving forward. And it just doesn’t, it just doesn’t feel good. So, I’m all about getting inspiration from other people and seeing them and saying, oh, I aspire to be there. That’s a different feeling place than man, I wish I can be more like her or him. So when I started my business, I didn’t know this right away.

[00:02:21.550] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
So I didn’t. I didn’t take care of taking care of myself that way. I was looking at other people who were doing what I do. Successful agencies, successful firms out there. And I’m just like, man, like, why can’t I get clients like that? Why can’t I? And it was just this big path of oh my gosh. But I was listening to the marketing experts who said I had to do all these things that just didn’t feel right.

[00:02:48.160] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
And so once I put the blinders on and I was like, you know what, Rachel? This is your path. And the cool thing about it being your path in your business, this is your choice. You get to make the rules. How does this business actually look? And I think so many times we don’t take a moment to even think about that. And it doesn’t have to be business. This can be life, too. You know, we’re you just fall into this,

[00:03:19.210] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
I call it a rat race almost, where it’s just like you’re just going, going. It feels like Groundhog Day where every day is the same thing. And I think if more of us took a second to just say, stop. Stop. Wait a second. What do I actually want my life to look like? What do I actually want this business to look like? And if you can get in that place where you can just forget the drama around you, forget everything that’s going on around you and really hone in on what does my dream business actually look like.

[00:03:58.720] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
And I’m gonna tell you this right now, this is something I’m doing more recently. I did this in the past and I got to a certain place where it felt good. But it wasn’t exactly what I wanted. I was spending way too much time inside my business, but I’ll get to that in a second. But I just want to go back to, OK, so you put the blinders on. Forget your competition. Forget all the gurus out there.

[00:04:24.250] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
Just put your blinders on and take out a piece of paper and say to yourself, OK. If I had my dream business right now, this is what it would look like. And you can script it. You can try it out. You can, any way that you feel creative doing it, if you want to visualize it, that’s fine. I think it’s important to put it down on paper, though, so that you have something to consistently look at because times are going to get rough.

[00:04:58.920] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
I mean, it’s just human nature. That’s what happens in this world. You go through the highs and lows because if you don’t have the lows, you don’t know when the highs are. So I would get it on paper so that when times are a little rough, you can do this. For me, when I started this journey, I’m not an artist, I will say that. Digitally, I can put stuff together online. Perfect. But if you ask me to draw you something, it’s not one of my skills.

[00:05:26.010] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
But for this, I drew a brick wall with our sign on it. And I drew God’s hand in the sky and clients falling from His hand to our front door. That’s all I want at the time. That was as big as my vision could get. And there was probably about 30 or 40 clients that were just falling from His hand into, right in front of our door. And for me, that was such a powerful visual to kind of, I wonder if I still have it. If I still have it,

[00:06:01.400] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
I’ll post it up on my site. I don’t know if I do. I mean, we went through a move after that so I might have gotten rid of it.

[00:06:07.590] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
But this visual was everything I needed to take us to the next level because I built our web design company with no mailing list, no email list, barely any social media. I really don’t enjoy being on social media that much with everything that they say you should be doing. We didn’t do Facebook ads or Google ads. We, like I say, we dabble in it like we would try it and be like we wouldn’t want to do this anymore. We didn’t see any progress from it.

[00:06:43.200] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
We did barely any networking.

[00:06:45.030] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
A lot of this was faith-based and that’s what I want to get into now. Once you accepted, OK, I’m going to do it my way. I’m going to create this vision for my company. I’m going to see exactly what it looks like for me. And then working backwards from that vision, you can kind of start laying out a path. And it’s OK if you don’t have it right away. I mean, honestly, you’re holding your main vision.

[00:07:13.890] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
Just stick with that. But if you have faith and you know, got to grab the Bible in here. But you know, faith as little as a mustard seed, just a little little itty bitty little bit of faith is enough to propel you forward.

[00:07:30.270] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
So if you can just believe for a few minutes a day and kind of cancel out any other thoughts or feelings that you have, like this is not going to work. But if your predominant feeling can be I got this, like God, universe, whatever you call Him, like God, I know where I want to be. Thank you for putting this dream inside my heart and I want to thank you again for helping me get there. It’s a simple prayer.

[00:08:08.290] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
You can say it over and over again. Just stepping into that moment of hope, hope, belief, faith will change your life. I can tell you that right now. And, you know, again, the Bible says, you know, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you’ve received it and it’ll be yours. And this is how I live my life in everything, not just business. This is life in general. But when I asked for something, I always come with a heart of gratitude.

[00:08:41.500] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
First off, thank you, God, for this. Thank you for putting this in my heart. Thank you for showing me the way. Thank you for opening up the doors around me that doors that I don’t even know are going to be opened. Thank you for that. Do you feel the difference between coming from a place of desperation where it’s like, God, please? I don’t know. I don’t have any clients. I don’t know why my business isn’t taking off.

[00:09:06.970] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
Just help me. Like versus coming from a place of thanking. Like, thank you for everything you’ve done for me thus far. Thank you. How far I’ve come from because I know where I came from to where I am now. Thank you for that. Thank you for giving me these gifts. Thank you for putting this dream in my heart. Thank you for seeing it through. Thank you for putting the right people in my path.

[00:09:31.150] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
I mean, I can go on and on because this will be another episode I have lined up for you guys on gratitude. But when you come from a place of gratitude, faith, hope, any kind of belief that you know what, this can work, it will work. And write that down. Put it up on your, if you have a vision board, put it up on your vision board. If you have an office, put it up in your office.

[00:10:00.750] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
If you have a house, put it up in your house, like whatever, wherever you are in your room, wherever you can see it every day. This simple statement. This will work. I know it. I believe it. And once you adapt this into your heart, into your life, you will start to see evidence around you that this is working. OK. You will start to see other people around you having success. And again, put those, put the blinders on.

[00:10:36.550] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
You can talk to them. You can you know, I want you. OK. Let me say it this way. Put your blinders on for competition. But when people around you are experiencing something that you want, like a promotion at work or success in their business, or they meet their soulmate or they got pregnant and you want this, don’t let jealousy or envy take hold. I want you to honestly celebrate them with your whole heart in happiness.

[00:11:08.950] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
And I want you to look at them and feel like, oh, my gosh, this is so awesome for them. And then turn it around and say thank you, because I know this is for me, too. Because once you start propelling to a certain path, you’re going to start seeing it all around you. You’re going to see success in all different ways. You’re going to see people getting clients around you. And if you fall into the trap of why isn’t that me?

[00:11:36.660] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
You’re going to stunt your growth. You’re not going to move forward. You’re going to stay in this. It’s almost like a cocoon of crap. Let’s call it this crappy feeling of like, I’m just here and I can’t move forward and you start to feel sorry for yourself, and then you start attracting the wrong stuff around you and then it just becomes this crap fest. And instead, I want you to celebrate the wins around you, because I’m going to tell you right now, it’s going to happen. When you start focusing on this path, this new journey,

[00:12:13.150] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
it’s inevitable. You are going to see the wins around you. You’re going to see the people around you doing well. You’re going to experience it. It could be on TV. It could be wherever. And I want you to say, wow, I’m so happy for them. And thank you, because this just proves this is gonna work. I know this is going to work. This is for me, too. So, again, it starts with the blinders.

[00:12:36.390] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
Put those blinders on. Really dive deep into your gut, your soul and figure out what your business actually looks like. And it doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s business out there. This is the beauty of trendsetters, trailblazers. They embrace this. You know, this is something that when I started my design firm, I didn’t want to be like every other designer out there. Which is why I created it so differently. I wanted to help more people.

[00:13:09.500] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
I wanted to be able to have residual income. I wanted to build it in a way where I wasn’t constantly going through this feast and famine, doing really well, bringing in a lot of income and then going for months without getting a new client. That didn’t feel good to me. So when I put money, that’s what every other firm out there was doing. That’s what they were doing. They may not have had famine times. I don’t know.

[00:13:32.010] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
I wasn’t in their box, but that’s what they were doing. They were living a life of one-and-done projects. And once I put my blinders on and I got really clear on what my business looked like, I said to myself, I crave connection. That’s part of who I am. That’s part of my being. I crave to be connected to people, too. I am introverted in a way, but not in the traditional way.

[00:14:00.830] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
Like I think I kind of fall halfway on that spectrum where if I’m out and about and I know you, things are great. If I’m meeting you for the first time, I am going to be a little shy a little bit. I won’t call it withdrawn. It’s more of observant. So I’d like to take in a lot and I have the gift of reading people right away. I can meet you and see different sides of you instantly.

[00:14:28.270] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
And it’s just something that I’ve naturally done my whole life. It’s one of my gifts. But, that’s basically all I did is I put these blinders on. I stepped into this vision of building an empire. I’m not just building a business. I’m building something for my children, for my family. And I stepped into this world of OK, how can I do this my own way? How can I do this in a way that feels good for me and lights up my soul?

[00:15:02.930] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
And I did it, I got clear on, OK, this is how I can do it, where it’s totally different from everyone else. But it feels amazing to me. And I think that was the secret ingredient to my success, was doing it in a way that didn’t feel sleazy and different and, or not different, but sleazy and against who I am. Not that I’m saying, you know, going after business and getting monthly, getting revenue was sleazy, but just some of the tactics to me just fell off.

[00:15:34.380] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
So.

[00:15:36.520] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
So blinders on get really clear on what this looks like, what your business, what your life looks like. And then from there, you have to believe that it’s going to work. You have to believe it. There is no, I can’t do that for you. I can give you guidance. I can give you as much information as I can give you. But I can’t believe for you. I can believe. And I know for I can tell you right now, I don’t even maybe know you, but I know for a fact that you were meant to do something big.

[00:16:04.750] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
You were meant to make a difference in this world because we all were meant to make a difference. And if you can just step into that part where you just don’t care about what anybody else is doing. You’re so fine tuned on what you’re here to do. You will see massive growth. You will see so much change in your life, in your business. Honestly, that’s what I have today. That’s what came up for me.

[00:16:34.180] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
I believe in you. I believe that anything is possible. I believe that if you have the vision for it, then it’s meant for you. If you don’t have the vision for it, then it’s not, it’s not your vision. But if God gave you a vision, it’s meant for you. So now is the perfect time. And I’m here to tell you that there is never gonna be a perfect time. You don’t have to take another course.

[00:17:01.480] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
You don’t have to get another whatever. You don’t have to do anything else. Now is it. It’s the perfect time. Start taking action. Because once you start taking action, that leads to the clarity that you’re seeking. That leads to the path. But if you sit here and you get in your head and you start over-analyzing, overthinking over everything, you’re going to talk yourself out of your dream. And that is honestly the worst thing you could ever do, because I’ve been there.

[00:17:38.020] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
I’ve been to the point where I didn’t believe so much. I didn’t think, I just. I was miserable. Miserable. Because when your heart wants something and you keep talking yourself out of it, it’s like you’re dying a little bit inside every day. You know your potential. You see where you want to be. But for some reason, you can’t get off your butt and do it. And it’s a struggle.

[00:18:02.350] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
It’s an internal struggle. And I feel that right now, like even talking about it, I can feel how it felt when I was doing that. And I don’t want that for you. So if you can take the littlest bit of action and today the action is just taking a piece of paper, sitting down in a place where you’re not interrupted and getting crystal clear on what the end result for your business looks like. What is that

[00:18:29.970] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
when you can look at this paper or this business and say, this is it, this is what I’m building right here is what I’m. It can be a drawing. It could be anything that comes to mind. Any creative way you want, as long as it hits you in a way where you’re just like, yes, this is it. Do that. Do that now. Honestly, it will change your life. So I can’t stress that enough.

[00:18:58.670] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
So, again, blinders on. Stop looking at your competition. Stop looking at what everyone else is doing and go internal. Ask yourself, what does this look like for me? And then just have faith and start believing. When you see other people experiencing what you want to experience, thank God for it. Thank you. It’s on the way to me. It’s on the way to me. Thank you. All right. So that’s what I have today.

[00:19:25.060] – Rachel W. (The Visualization Freak)
Thank you guys so much for joining me. And I will see you soon.

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