Episode 106
Episode #102 - Changing With The Ebbs & Flow Of Your Calling: An Interview With Stacie Shifflet
Finding our intended purpose through life with the reactions, traumas, and other situations that we face can create havoc in the ways in which we learn and grow. Being able to provide a level of care to ourselves (and even others for that matter) requires us to not only take some risks that may make us uncomfortable, but being able to live in the moment when we miss 100% of the shots that we don't take can create a lot of pressure. However...what if they all paid off for the better? Today's guest, Stacie Shifflet, showcases her rich life of being able to work in the federal government, the private sector, and now helping others to achieve the best versions of who they are through her coaching business, Modern Consciousness. Building bridges to these different parts of her life, we are shown an example of how we can weave an unique life into multiple possibilities, providing a self-awareness that helps to enrich others in ways that we oftentimes do not consider. Sharing ourselves to the world is only one step into the process. Being fully open to embrace past trauma and create meaningful connections can be a sure way to achieve great success, no matter which way you define it.
Guest Bio
At first glance Stacie looks like any other 50 plus accomplished woman, but behind those glasses and soft smile is a powerhouse who acquired a $50 Million Software Company with no cash upfront; who singlehandedly implemented the first desktop computers to a massive US government agency, after a year in a field of work completely new to her; with no formal training, became a Subject Matter Expert and sought after consultant in the world of federal government acquisition and procurement; who moved out of the city to Rural America to raise a family and a herd of Llamas for 12 years; and who owned a construction company and also enjoyed a career in the hospitality industry…
Calling Stacie just a businesswoman wouldn't do justice to her. She's the queen of reinvention, continuously adapting and evolving every 10 years. This knack for reinvention saw her embarking on a spiritual journey as well after the demise of her 28-year marriage. Regular meditation became a part of her life, leading to an inner calling that birthed her current company, Modern Consciousness®.
This journey is not just about business for Stacie, but about sharing her insights, experiences, and path to conscious intentional living to elevate the lives of others. It is her passion, and she is now on a mission to share her message globally, empowering individuals to step off life's treadmill. She aims to help people discover their unique happiness formula, enabling them to live lives filled with joy, purpose, and fulfillment.
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ModernConsciousness
@modernconsciousness on Instagram
Website: https://modernconsciousness.com/
- Ignite the Hunger in You: How to Develop Your Greatness and Ignite Humanity (https://a.co/d/6S44IxZ) - To purchase a copy of the book "Ignite The Hunger In You" which its main authors are Les Brown and J.B. Owen and Stacie contributed to, click on this link.
- Ignite Your Wisdom Book (https://a.co/d/3eXpGbG) - If you are interested in purchasing the "Ignite Your Wisdom" book which its main author is JB Owen, but includes a contribution by Stacie, click on this link.
- Wickedly Smart Women: Trusting Intuition, Taking Action, Transforming Worlds - Book (https://modernconsciousness.com/product/wickedly-smart-women/) - If you are interested in purchasing the "Wickedly Smart Women" book referenced by Stacie in today's episode, check out this link.
- Awaken the Peace Within - Modern Consciousness® (https://modernconsciousness.com/awaken-the-peace-within/) - If you wish to obtain the free resource referenced towards the end of today's episode, click on this link here (it was introduced as Two Keys but has undergone a name change).
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Intro/Outro By: Michael Dugan, Podcast Host: Voice4Chefs
Transcript
Welcome to the podcast where relationships, confidence, and
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:determination all converge into
an amazing, heartfelt experience.
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:This is Speaking From The Heart.
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:Joshua: Welcome back to episode
102 of Speaking from the Heart.
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:Today, we have Stacie Shifflet joining
us, and at first glance, Stacie looks like
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:any other 50 plus accomplished woman, but
behind the glasses and the soft smile is
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:a powerhouse who acquired a 50 million
dollar software company with no cash up
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:front, and who single handedly implemented
the first desktop computers to a massive
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:US government agency after a year in
a field of work completely new to her.
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:With no formal training, she became
a subject matter expert and sought
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:after consultant in the world of
federal government acquisition and
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:procurement who moved out of the city
to rural America to raise a family and
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:a herd of llamas for over 12 years.
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:She owned a construction company
and also enjoyed a career
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:in the hospitality industry.
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:Calling Stacie just a business
woman wouldn't do justice to her.
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:She's the queen of reinvention,
continuously adopting and
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:evolving every 10 years.
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:This knack of reinvention saw her
embarking on a spiritual journey as well
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:after the demise of her 28 year marriage.
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:Regular meditation became a part
of her life, leading to an inner
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:calling that birthed her current
company, Modern Consciousness.
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:The journey is not just about her
business for Stacie, but about sharing
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:her insights, experiences, and path
to conscious, intentional living
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:to elevate the lives of others.
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:It is her passion, and her mission, to
share her message globally, empowering
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:individuals to step off life's treadmill.
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:She aims to help people discover
their unique happiness formula,
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:enabling them to live lives filled
with joy, purpose, and fulfillment.
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:I have to say, somebody that is
like Stacie, reminds me so much of
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:what I am going through right now.
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:Sure, I didn't buy a 50 million dollar
software company, but I do work for the
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:state government, and I realize that
investing in yourself, especially with
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:what we talk about today with changing
careers and the education that we learn,
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:whether it's through college or not,
all have similar lessons as a whole.
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:How we decide to move forward with our
commitment and our dedication often
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:means asking a lot of questions, and
we talk about this, and so much more,
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:in this overall awesome interview, not
only about Stacie's past, but how she's
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:been able to accomplish what other
guests I have seen in the past have been
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:wanting to achieve, but haven't quite
gotten to where Stacie's level is at.
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:It doesn't matter how old you are,
though, as I have always mentioned.
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:It's about what you have as your open
curiosity and your ability to be a
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:compassionate listener that makes all the
difference in creating that best value,
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:let alone that best version, of yourself.
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:But with that, let's go to the episode.
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:All right, we're here
with Stacie Shifflet.
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:Stacie, thanks for sharing
your heart with us today.
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:Stacie: Oh, thank you.
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:My pleasure.
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:Joshua: Yes, I think I finally met my
doppelganger because you do coaching
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:and services that align with my
values and what I do, so I've been
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:super excited to talk to you today,
and I'm really glad that you have
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:had some time to share with me as it
relates to this, but Stacie, I want to
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:start off this question, because the
audience has learned so much about you.
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:I ran out of breath just introducing
you because of how much success you've
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:had in your life, and what I really
have found interesting is that you've
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:led so many different types of careers
to get to this point where you're
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:helping others find their mindfulness
and find the conscientiousness as well.
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:Can you tell us about how you got
started with even the first thing that
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:you did, which I noticed was acquiring
a 50 million dollar software company?
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:How do people find 50 million dollars,
first off, to acquire a company,
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:but more importantly, how did you
get into it, so tell us about that.
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:Stacie: Gladly.
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:It took me a while to really step
into that, which is interesting,
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:publicly, right, to really
acknowledge it and say, "Wow.
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:I did this."
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:People that I knew at the time knew, of
course, and the companies that I worked
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:with, so, you know, I had an idea.
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:I had a very strong intuitive feeling.
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:It was a field that I was in at
the time, and I knew the gentleman
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:that owned this one company.
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:They were all octogenarians, and I called
one of them one day and said, "Hey.
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:I'd like to maybe buy your company.",
and he said, "Well, that's great, but
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:we just listed it with the broker."
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:Talk about perhaps divine timing,
which it really turned out to be, so
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:I pulled somebody in with me that had
merger and acquisition experience,
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:because I did not have M&A experience.
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:I don't even have a college
degree by the way, and-
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:Joshua: That's actually really
impressive to not have one.
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:Yeah,
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:Stacie: I don't.
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:He had an MBA, so I pulled
someone that I worked with.
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:I was a subject matter expert doing
some consulting work with Booz Allen
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:Hamilton at the time, and I remember
walking into his office and saying, "Hey.
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:How about we buy this company?", and he
said, "Sure.", and I walked back into
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:his office the next day and said, "I
was serious.", so we set about, trying
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:to figure out how to do this, right?
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:It took nine months, they called us
cashless investors; didn't invest
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:a dime, other than some of our
lawyer fees, and we just pushed the
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:rock uphill, and we put our pitch
deck and all that stuff together.
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:I had such intimate knowledge of the
company, the software, the space.
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:I was a subject matter expert in federal
procurement at the time, and it was a
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:software company that automated all of
the government processes for that, for
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:acquisition and procurement, and they
just kept telling us, "We were crazy", and
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:even he said to me a few times, "There's
no way we're going to do this", and I
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:said, "No, it's meant to be, and we're
going to do it.", and by God, we did.
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:Joshua: That is really a cool tie in for
even me because I've been doing state
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:government work, also procurement, for
over 13 years in a variety of different
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:ways, so having this conversation,
like the inner kid in me is like, "Ooh.
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:I want to talk about procurement with
you.", but I know that this isn't the
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:context to do this in, so maybe another
time, but I want to ask you, with the fact
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:that you've had all this experience with
federal contracting; federal government.
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:What led you into really then
owning a construction company,
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:because what's the tie in with that?
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:Stacie: Yeah.
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:I've been in the hospitality industry,
which is a really nice way of saying
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:I was a bartender or waitress, right?
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:You know, I did that
for 10 years, at least.
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:That was my first career.
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:I popped home one day and said, 16
years old to my parents, "I need
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:you to sign this work permit so
that I can go to work.", and they
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:were like, "What?", but they did.
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:I've just always been that way.
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:I had a llama farm.
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:When I was pregnant with my son, we
decided- I was married at the time, and
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:we decided that we'd like to live in a
rural area and bring up a child in that
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:environment, because we thought it would
just be wonderful, and it was, so I
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:did research and looked into livestock.
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:I didn't really like
slaughtering anything.
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:I landed on llamas, so whatever
I do, I just kind of dive in,
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:and same with construction.
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:It was actually my ex-husband.
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:We were married still at the time.
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:They had flipped the software
company and I cashed out.
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:I said, "Nope.
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:I don't want to stay anymore."
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:I cashed out, and so he said, "Well,
there's this niche in the D.C.
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:area, specifically Washington, D.
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:C., for a program with the D.
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:C.
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:government.", and it was all these
qualifications and all this stuff.
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:I wasn't operating as woman owned.
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:I had to hire D.
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:C.
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:residents, and it was a special
program, so it did not operate the
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:way he told me that it operated.
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:He said, "This is all you have
to do.", and I said, "Yeah, no.
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:That's not all I have to do.", so we
divorced shortly after that; unrelated,
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:but I hired a very intelligent- one of
the nicest, kindest, brightest, most
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:heartfelt people that I have ever had
the pleasure to know, to run that company
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:for me, which he did brilliantly for
the 10, 11 years that I had it, and I
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:don't know how to build a house, but I
know contracts and I know the financial
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:end and I was the investor, right?
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:It was just my company, and the
company did well; it did well, and the
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:interesting thing about that is that was
the time I was going through my divorce
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:and talk about sort of divine timing.
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:That company really bankrolled my in
depth personal development journey.
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:I had the time because he did such
a great job running the company.
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:I didn't work full time, so I was able
to really fully invest myself in my
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:own growth, which I realized, probably
a couple of years, maybe even up to
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:about three years after the separation
and divorce, it's like, "Gosh.
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:You know, I had to take
control of my life, right?
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:It's just not going to organically appear.
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:It's not just going to change."
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:I wasn't living life fully.
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:I was living life fully, but I was
actually adopting some bad habits.
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:I did everything I thought I was
supposed to be doing to adjust to this
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:change in a situation after a 28 year
marriage, so I got tired of being angry.
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:That transition happened when
I got tired of being angry.
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:I was like, "Man, you know."
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:When you get tired of your own BS.
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:That's what I say to some of my
clients, "Are you tired of your own BS?"
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:That's when you really make a change,
because the change is not going to
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:happen unless you make it happen.
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:Joshua: That is a golden nugget in
itself what you just said, because you
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:have to start with that change, and I
even tell my own clients, "You have to
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:be the change that you want to see.",
and sometimes you don't know what that
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:change is, so we work through, "What
does it look like to be future you?"
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:One of the coolest things I actually do,
I don't know if you do this in your own
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:consulting or coaching Stacie, but have
people actually write their own stories
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:of what they would be if they were dead
and lying there in the casket and someone
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:comes up and gives a eulogy, because
what do they want to be remembered by,
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:and I think that is really a powerful
testament to what we look at in terms
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:of not just ourselves, but what we think
other people will look at us as, but
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:it isn't just about what other people
think about ourselves, but what we truly
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:think because that's how we live the
conscientious living of life that we need
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:to have, so I feel like I align with a
little bit of what you just said there.
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:Stacie: I think so.
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:You know, what we think about
ourselves is most important.
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:Joshua: Yeah.
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:Stacie: You know, that really is
the most important thing, and I do
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:some similar things with clients
and every client's different, right?
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:It's the same, but different.
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:Everybody's journey is different.
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:We all have a lot of
similar lessons to learn.
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:We learn those lessons and we acquire
our virtues and our knowledge and our
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:wisdom in different ways, but oftentimes
those virtues and knowledge and wisdom
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:sort of all come back to the same place
but we get there by a different road map.
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:One thing that I like to do is say, "You
really have to be the person to achieve
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:what you want to achieve.", so it's like
who do you need to be to achieve this,
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:so another really fun exercise is to
step into that future and say, "Okay.
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:In three years I would like to be
doing this", and then you start
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:from there and work backwards.
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:"Okay, so what's the last
step that got you there?
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:And the step prior to that?
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:And the step prior to that?", so it
kind of backs in from the end result
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:to the current day of what you have
to do to get to where you want to be.
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:We tend to always think that
it's about financial success or
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:business success, and that's not
what it's necessarily all about.
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:It's a component perhaps, but it's
not the heart of the matter, right?
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:We're speaking from the heart.
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:It's not the heart of the matter.
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:Joshua: I think that is truly important.
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:That's why, even you and I were talking
about this with even the values of my
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:own business, relationships is really
number one, and that's why I actually
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:listed on my website as number one,
because that is really important above
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:all else, and that's what I truly want
people to experience is being able to
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:have that growth with having other people.
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:Having the ability to think on the
topics that might be tough to talk
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:about, and being able to share that
authentically with people, especially
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:of what you said about having those
conversations can be very tough in
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:nature, but are often needed before
even getting into the financial aspects,
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:before even getting to the business
aspects, because to be honest, and I
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:think you would agree with me because
of the multiple companies you've had.
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:It isn't just about the business,
but relationships come as the big
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:topic that we need to work on first
before the business ever starts, so
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:we need to have those relationships.
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:Stacie: Yeah, I find that we tend to-
and I've developed a program all around
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:it, but I find we tend to evaluate and
assess our lives stovepiped, right?
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:We look at our business.
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:We look at business metrics.
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:We look at this.
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:We look at that.
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:We manage our bank account.
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:Our savings account.
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:We take the car in to get
serviced in regular intervals.
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:We do all these things, but we never
stop and look at it all holistically,
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:as a whole, to really look at our entire
lives, and what I find often when I
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:work with people is that if something is
showing up in one area of your life and
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:is causing tension, anxiety, unhappiness,
frustration, resentment, whatever that
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:is, it's often showing up somewhere else.
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:It's just disguised as something
different, so that's why I really like
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:to work with people and look at all of
the life domains and what's working well.
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:What isn't.
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:What do you aspire to be in this area, so
that it's not only to keep it in balance.
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:A lot of people use the wheel of life and
they say it's to make everything balanced.
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:It's not so much to make it balanced,
it's to make it whole, so that it's
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:complementing all the other areas, instead
of detracting from it, and that's how I
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:do that exercise a little bit differently.
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:Joshua: Guilty as charged, especially when
I was working through the Commonwealth.
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:I spent a lot more time, my professional
development, getting those relationships,
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:making those connections to get those
promotions, but the biggest lacking aspect
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:of my life was the personal development,
so being able to have authentic
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:relationships with people, being able to
have the confidence to talk to people,
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:feeling determined to be able to put out
there in the world, "Yeah, I'm here for
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:you.", but now I'm doing that and living
the best life, and I think that is really
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:important, but speaking of disguises, I
feel like you put on all these disguises
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:to then start your company, Modern
Consciousness, and I know that's kind of
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:a weird way to transition, but I think
it's so true because you're living that
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:authentic life, so tell us a little bit
about Modern Consciousness, what got you
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:started into wanting to coach others,
and tell us a little bit about how it's
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:changed you, and maybe has rewarded you,
because I always find fascinating about
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:what you get out of it, especially as you
put something into it, so I was wondering
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:if you could share some of that with us.
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:Stacie: Absolutely, so, I was
telling you, I did an awful lot
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:of personal development work.
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:I mean, I signed up with Tony Robbins
and was a platinum partner for two years,
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:and traveled the world, and I worked with
a lot of other people as well over the
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:years, and the concept for the company,
including the name, came to me after
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:meditation, and I resisted it a lot.
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:I was like, "Yeah, I'm in my sixties now.
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:I don't know that I want to
start another company.", and it
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:just wouldn't leave me alone.
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:The concept of the company, the aspects of
Modern Consciousness that I was given, the
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:big vision of the company, which I'm not
exactly sure how to do that, all came to
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:me through meditation, and it's apparently
mine to birth to the world because it
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:literally just wouldn't leave me alone.
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:I was meditating here and, here
in Florida; I live in Florida.
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:One day and I was like, "Okay, fine.
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:You're not taking no for an answer.
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:You're not leaving me alone.
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:What's the next step?", and I got one word
and it said to write, and I said, "Okay.
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:You've told me that before and I didn't
do it", so I finally just surrendered.
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:I just surrendered and said, I will do it.
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:It's fine.
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:I will step into this.", and within
an hour, or two tops, I had a text
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:message from a friend of mine that
said, "Hey, I've got a friend that's a
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:publisher in Canada that's doing this
collaboration book with Les Brown.
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:She has a chapter left in it.
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:Would you like to be in the
book?", so how could I say no?
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:I couldn't, right?
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:It's those kinds of synchronicities
that happen and I'm sure that probably
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:you find as you've been on your journey
that they tend to happen more often
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:as we listen to our little voice, our
intuition, spirit, the universe, you know,
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:different people call it different things.
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:Joshua: As one guest previous on the show
had said, it's really about the universal
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:team that surrounds us, but also the
fact that we have different clients.
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:Yes.
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:Brianne DiDino, you have to go check
it out, and Brianne, I'm saying hi,
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:in case you are listening to this, I'm
giving you a shout out, but for all
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:intensive purposes, it definitely is
about who we surround ourselves with,
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:but also, as another guest had put it,
it's also what we consume also, so if
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:we're going to consume BS to get BS
out, or are we going to do something
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:much more powerful, and just to give
a shout out to the book that you're
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:referencing, I believe you're talking
about the Ignite the Hunger in You.
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:Is that correct?
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:Stacie: Yes.
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:Yes; with Les Brown and J.
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:B.
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:Owen.
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:It was published by Ignite
Publishing up in Canada.
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:Yeah, it was a fun project.
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:Joshua: If anybody is interested in a
copy of that, I'll leave in the episode
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:notes a direct link to where you could
purchase that book, and there's also
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:on Stacie's website a section where you
can also grab that amongst other books
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:that have you written, which I want to
talk about here for just a few moments.
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:There's other books they've written,
including Ignite Your Wisdom and The
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:Wickedly Smart Woman: Trusting Intuition,
Taking Action, Transforming Worlds, and
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:I know that for authors that I've had on
the show, I've always been fascinated by
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:the motivation, but, I think my question
is a little bit different with you,
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:Stacie, because, like we were talking
about earlier, you've done so much.
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:Why write a book on top of
everything else, because, I think
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:everybody would just stop and
say, "Stacie, you're successful.
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:Just stop.
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:Stop being so successful."
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:Stacie: Well, thanks.
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:Joshua: Yeah.
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:Stacie: I've got a fourth
collaboration book.
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:I'm not sure what the date's going to be
on that, and actually I had a very random
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:synchronicity come in for me over Labor
Day weekend, and it was one of those
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:super, super strong, intuitive hits, and I
wrote a solo book over Labor Day weekend.
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:Joshua: Wait, you wrote a
book over Labor Day weekend?
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:Stacie: Over Labor Day weekend.
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:Joshua: Wow.
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:Stacie: And the working title, just
because it's kind of tongue in cheek,
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:and it may change, but it's Stay
Stupid: How To Live Unconsciously
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:In A World That's Obsessed With
Awareness, right, so it's kind of.
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:180 degrees from really what I would
teach, but I thought of all of these
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:negative traits that we have all had at
some point, some we still have, or deal
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:with people that have them, so it's like
the fast and the furious, the allure
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:of an instant, unthoughtful response,
so if you deal with- this is what that
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:behavior is, that's what that means; this
is what that person's missing out on,
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:where the lack is in their life for, for-
I just can't think of how else to say
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:it right now, and then it's like, okay,
how do you deal with this type of trait?
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:Then it switches to, hmm, what if
that's you, right, so it kind of leads
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:down, but it's simple in that each
chapter is a different personality
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:trait, and I am super excited to
say that I'm going to be working
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:with Jack Canfield in a small group.
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:Joshua: Wow.
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:Jack is pretty well known in the
community too, so that's pretty awesome.
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:Stacie: Yeah, I was like, "Okay.
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:Who do I know that can help me with
this?", because I know a few publishers.
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and I said, "You know.
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:I have access to Jack Canfield through
this program that I'm in", so I'm doing
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:a retreat with him and Steve Harrison,
and Jack's assistant, who I cannot
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:remember her name right now, but I'm
sure I'll know it very well in a few
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:weeks, a small group retreat to figure
out what do I now do with this body
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:of work, right, because I personally
do one on one coaching with people
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:and I love it, but there's this whole
bigger aspect to Modern Consciousness.
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:How do we really get out there to
the common man and woman; to the
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:people that are just beginning to
raise their awareness, or how do
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:we help them raise their awareness,
and help them get to the next level?
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:Joshua: I think that actually
leads into a question that I have
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:as a result of what you just said.
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:Not only how do we do that, but in your
opinion, what do you think is the most
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:successful way to do that, because I
think that, yeah, there's no one size
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:fits all, and we're kind of talking
about that earlier, about the fact that
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:we have to learn a little bit about
what clients go through and we also need
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:to learn a little bit about what those
life experiences are so that we could
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:best identify in line with what they're
looking for, but have you found in
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:your practice something more successful
with working with people over others?
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:Is there something better in terms of
like a technique that you use to kind of
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:get them to talk about maybe something
that they're trying to achieve or maybe
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:something that they're struggling with?
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:Stacie: You know, I
ask a lot of questions.
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:I ask a lot of questions and my program
is a little bit different because
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:I do ask a lot of questions, and we
certainly meet one on one, but there
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:is a lot of journaling and guided
work that's done written in between
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:our sessions, and then we also have a
dialogue back and forth in that document,
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:and it's because it's structured.
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:We go through different phases.
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:We do an assessment of your current
life, where do you really aspire to
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:be, and then we architect the bridge.
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:You've got to recognize the gaps, how
to integrate it, and activate it in
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:your life, but I like doing it that way
because I know for me, and I've worked
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:with coaches before too, so if you're
in a 45 minute or one hour session,
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:the work that's done is only done in
that session, right, so you're limited
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:to what you can think of in terms of
a response in that question if you
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:are the person that's being coached.
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:If you're the coach, you're limited
to what you can think to ask in that,
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:right, in that session and granted they
take turns, but for me, I know that
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:for myself, I like to be able to really
put a lot of thought around my answers,
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:especially something that's so, so
important, so this is the first thing
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:that I take my clients through before we
start perhaps more frequent is it really
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:works the mind in a different way and
when you write it's different and it's
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:a very structured path that draws you
through, and then what I find in this,
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:by the time we get to the architecting
the bridge section- it's the third module
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:in my program, that's really where all
the magic happens, and that's where the
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:people start realizing the themes that
are showing up in their lives, because
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:we don't recognize it until we start
looking at it all as a whole, so I think
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:the thematic work is to guide clients
through an experience that opens their
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:eyes, and awareness to the themes that are
occurring in their life, and then, why?
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:Why is that, and figuring that out,
and then resetting those beliefs.
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:Joshua: Having that thinking process
is really important, so I'm kind
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:of curious about your perspective
of this, because I hear all the
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:time about, "Well, coaching, man.
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:I don't have time for that, and there's
a lot of work that's involved with it.
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:I don't think that I have that
kind of time to work on myself."
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:What do you say to people that are
kind of dismissive of going through
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:that long process, because it is a long
process, and I think it's intentional
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:for many good reasons, but I'm kind of
curious, after probably hearing some of
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:that, even in some of the people that
you've worked with, maybe potential
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:people that you wanted to work with,
and they kind of say that, what's
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:your response to something like that?
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:Stacie: You know, if you aren't dedicated
to creating change in your life,
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:change isn't going to happen, right?
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:It doesn't happen without
you, and it takes effort.
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:I get a little irritated sometimes because
everybody talks, you know, the big word
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:now is manifest; manifest this; manifest-
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:Joshua: Buzzwords.
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:Got to love them.
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:Stacie: And it's funny because you start
to see things in a completely different
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:way, and they manifest in different
ways too, maybe not the expectation.
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:I read something on social today,
somebody was like, "Oh, I manifested
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:all this money.", and you know, what
I think to myself is, "Don't discount
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:the work that you did to get there."
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:Right?
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:So it's work.
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:It's effort.
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:It's not always pleasant because we have
to uncover trauma for lack of a better
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:word that's in us, right, and we all have
trauma of some sort over something or some
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:things that happened in our lives because
trauma is the experience that we had.
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:It doesn't even have to be trauma
as defined by society per se, right?
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:It's our reaction and what it did to
us, so until we get to know that part
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:of ourselves with open curiosity and
compassion and self love instead of
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:judgment, or instead of shoving it back
under the rug to deal with it another
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:day, we have to bring those things to
light in order to deal with them, and
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:quite frankly, even in our- it's Modern
Consciousness for a reason, so even in
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:the concept of modern life and something
like human trafficking, for instance,
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:until we bring light and attention to
that, it doesn't change, and it's the
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:same with our own internal worlds.
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:It's not always pleasant to bring that
up, but that's where you learn to also
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:process emotions in a healthy way, and by
healthy way, I don't mean you don't cry or
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:realize, you know, sometimes you need to
lay on the couch in your pajamas for three
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:days, just really process it at a very
deep level, and breathe through it and let
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:the pain out, otherwise, it stays in us,
right, and we do have tools and tricks and
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:tapping and subconscious shifts, you know,
there's a lot of things to do, but it has
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:to come through you to get out of you.
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:Joshua: It has to come
through you to get out of you.
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:I enjoy and love that statement because
that's what had to happen to me right
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:after I tried to end my life a long
time ago now because I had to let that
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:go through my body and I remember that
being about 6 to 12 months of really
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:working through that, and before I was
even ready to even tackle some of the
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:more serious stuff, which even for me,
working with a therapist, it took a while
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:because it was unearthing some of the
things that I had laid dormant for such
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:a long time, and I think it's really
important to be able to tackle this-
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:Stacie: It's a process of excavation.
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:Now I've been divorced for a while now,
probably, I guess it's:
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:10, 11 years or something, but it
doesn't happen to me much anymore,
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:but there'd be a time there where
I thought, "I've done all that.
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:I've dealt with it.
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:I want it.", and then all of a sudden,
something hits me and I'm like, "Oh.
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:I already dealt with that.
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:I already did that.", and so I think
when you say when you start to see
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:the change in yourself, so the really
cool thing is when you go, "Ah.
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:What is that?"
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:Joshua: Mm-hmm.
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:Stacie: And instead of being
triggered by it- I call triggers our
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:treasure map to peace, so instead of
being triggered by it to go, "Wow.
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:Let's investigate that a little
bit, and what is that all about?",
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:and then I'll have a huge aha
moment where it's like, "Oh."
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:It can be so nuanced and there's
other levels, and I think
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:that those levels surface when
we're ready to deal with them-
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:Joshua: Absolutely.
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:Stacie: As we're doing this work.
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:If we ignore all of it for a very
long time, we generally end up in
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:crisis, and I really don't think
you have to end up in crisis, right?
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:If you know that there's a decision
that you need to make and you're
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:avoiding making it because, it's not
an easy decision, until you make that
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:decision, it's not going to get better.
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:It's going to get worse.
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:I think one of the quotes in
my first book was sometimes the
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:right thing to do is the hardest-
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:Joshua: Yes.
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:Stacie: But it is the right thing, and
when we live out of alignment with our
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:true values, which we really do lose
track of in society, and how we're
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:raised and what we're taught, whatever,
when we really lose track of our true
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:values and when we really lose track
of what our happiness formula is- we
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:all have our own happiness formula.
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:It's not the same as anybody else's.
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:When we lose track, we lose ourselves in
our activities and we lose track of that.
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:That's where the trouble starts,
and that's what leads to full
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:blown crises, in my opinion.
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:Joshua: Well, I'm glad that we have
people like you, Stacie, that are
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:willing to help others, which we're at
the end of our time, but I want to give
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:you the last few minutes to share where
people can access where you are located
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:at in terms of coaching and maybe they
have some interest, especially after
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:all these awesome things that you just
said, especially here at the end, when
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:it comes to being aware and self aware.
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:How can people get in contact with you?
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:If there's anything in particular
about your books that you'd like
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:to reference, it's a good time too.
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:I understand you have a free
resource available too; maybe
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:you want to mention that as well.
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:Stacie: I do, I do.
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:I have a free ebook.
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:Thank you, and I think we just
changed the title of it actually.
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:It was called Two Keys to
Happiness and Peace of Mind.
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:I do believe we just
changed the title of it.
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:It's actually a little bit deeper
than that, but it is a free resource
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:and you can get it off my website,
which is modernconsciousness.com.
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:It has two things that really helped
me when I first started my journey,
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:and they actually come from the
four agreements, but it's not making
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:assumptions and noticing what offends
you, but anyway, it explains some of the
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:science that we're not really taught.
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:Who knew what a stress response was,
so it explains some of the science and
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:there's a little workbook in there,
and my coaching program is Elevate Your
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:Life, and that is also on my website
and I'm on social @modernconsciousness,
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:both Facebook and Instagram, and you
can email me at empower@aware.Life.
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:Joshua: Awesome, and I'll put
all that in the episode notes-
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:Stacie: Thank you.
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:Joshua: If you were interested in
checking that out, my fellow listeners,
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:but Stacie, directing to you, I want
to say, I think that all kinds of
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:people sometimes have to find their
calling and it doesn't take a degree,
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:or a number of degrees, to find it.
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:You have certainly proven that with
what you have done throughout your
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:life; definitely a enriching life for
that matter, and I love the fact that
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:you're still paving it forward to help
others and I'm glad that I met somebody
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:that is unique just like me with this
and helping others because there are
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:some amazingly beautiful people in this
world and I think you're one of them.
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:Stacie: Oh, so many beautiful people.
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:So many beautiful people.
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:It touches my heart.
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:It really does, so thank you so very much.
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:Joshua: Yeah, yeah.
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:Stacie: I hope we keep
in touch and meet again.
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:Joshua: Absolutely.
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:Thank you again for being on
Speaking From The Heart, Stacie.
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:It was really an honor
to talk to you today.
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:I want to thank Stacie so much for being
part of the show and spending some of her
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:valuable time talking about not only the
things that we've been able to accomplish
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:together, whether that is through similar
works or other types of things, but how
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:she's been able to transform so many
different lives just because of the
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:way in which she has made her mindset
not only so impactful, but also helping
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:others to create that opportunity for
development, because it's not easy to
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:do all these different types of careers
that she went through, and I almost felt
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:exhausted just hearing so many of the
different things that she's been able
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:to tackle throughout her illustrious
career, let alone the different
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:things that she's been involved in.
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:I think it's really an important aspect
to not only deal with the things that
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:we have in our lives, and be able
to move with the ebbs and flows that
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:come through, but realizing that it
doesn't take a college education to be
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:involved with the investment of growing.
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:I've had many guests on the show
tout their college experiences, and
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:somebody that has their master's
degrees in business administration
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:and public administration certainly is
just an accreditation only in itself.
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:You have to be able to understand that
involving yourself in your personal
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:development, or your professional
development, takes a lot more than
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:a sheet of paper or two to make
you feel like you're certified
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:to talk about a certain subject.
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:Sure.
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:A universal application of those different
types of things can help you to get to
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:where you need to go, but even nowadays,
I've seen states such as Pennsylvania,
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:where I live, remove the college degree
requirements from their job applications,
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:thus opening a whole new field of
different types of opportunities for
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:people that will otherwise shut out, but
it means also to invest in your own growth
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:and take control of what's important.
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:It's not just about changing that's
really the important lesson here.
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:We have to be able to create a life
that allows us to create different types
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:of opportunities, different types of
materials, different types of options that
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:we have, but it also means delivering on
our promises, which is usually the most
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:important thing that we could ever do.
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:Yes, the spoken word.
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:It has been the universal form of what
really became the world of contracting,
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:which I find interesting because even
as a procurement specialist myself in
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:my full time job, I've learned different
types of things because of the work that
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:I've done, not only about the importance
of writing everything down, especially
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:in a contractual obligation, but also
learning how to specify different types
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:of requirements for companies that
are looking to bid on products and
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:services that we need, but yet it all
started with just the universal bond.
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:The words that we say, and that we
do, so I have to ask you a question.
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:Do you realize how important it
is that the spoken promises that
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:we give to others are really the
contracts that we sign to each other?
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:Have you really thought about how
your words are really entering
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:an agreement, and that every time
that you break that agreement, it's
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:not making you look any better?
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:As a matter of fact, it might be
hurting your credibility, let alone
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:your opportunity, to form a lot of
different types of options in your life.
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:Do you stop to look at what's really
happening as a whole as a result, and
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:I think that Stacie really mentioned a
lot of those different types of aspects
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:in today's episode, not just because
she was trying to form those different
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:opinions about what she wanted to do
in her life, but I think she realized
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:her calling as a result of not just
these experiences to help the federal
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:government improve their processes, but
realizing that she can help to improve
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:other people's processes as a whole.
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:I think it makes such a big difference
to not just see what's important in the
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:grand scheme of things, but how you can
live in a world that allows you to ask
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:a lot of questions, because there's no
such thing as a dumb question, and I love
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:the fact that Stacie talked about asking
those questions and journaling about it
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:when it's needed, because the questions
that we ask that help us to probe into
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:what that universal underpinning is of
our life can make such a big difference,
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:not just in the ways in which we help
others achieve great success, but also
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:allows us to work in different ways that
we normally haven't worked in the past.
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:What it really means is that we build a
bridge of that dedication and commitment
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:to those people, and those aspects,
of our lives that we really should be
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:listening to, and I love the fact that
she uses this reference of a treasure
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:map, and that we need to be able to
find peace through all the different
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:types of things that allow us to expand
that peace offering, whether it's in
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:our personal and professional lives.
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:I can't tell you how many times I've
broken that peace promise, especially when
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:I get super mad at somebody, because they
might not be doing something that I asked
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:them to do, but then realized that maybe
I wasn't asking the right questions, or
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:giving them the right answers to those
questions that those people were asking.
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:As a matter of fact, I think a lot of
the things that I've done as a result
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:of those aspects of my life, have really
shined a light on the shortcomings that
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:I often have and I need to improve upon.
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:It doesn't mean though that I'm going to
be perfect every single time and I think
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:that we all have to understand that when
we are on this mission to help ourselves
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:grow, whether it's through different
things that we accomplish or the different
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:things that we interact with, it is so
important to not just discover what makes
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:us happy, as one of my previous guests,
Piret, has talked about, but it's about
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:understanding how we can use that map
that's allowing us to get to the hidden
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:treasures of who we are, to be able to
create that best version of ourselves.
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:It's not quite clear, for many of us,
how we can develop that opportunity.
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:Sure, maybe you can say, after today's
interview, that Stacie had the unique
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:opportunity to fall, quote unquote, into
these types of aspects that she's been
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:able to develop herself as a consultant,
work with the federal government, be
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:a successful businesswoman, create her
company, Modern Consciousness, whatever
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:excuse you want to make for yourself,
I think that Stacie is not making any
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:excuses for us today to be able to
understand that no matter what holds us
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:back, we have to understand that we need
to keep pushing forward, no matter what is
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:happening, no matter what people say about
us, and no matter what sort of failures
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:happen, but we need to start looking at
things as a whole, in terms of developing
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:not only what we have, but being able
to live in the world unconsciously,
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:definitely one of the books that I will
be picking up from her, because we have
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:to work our mind in a different way.
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:If we're able to build a bridge that is
structurally sound, and is capable of
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:carrying all kinds of different payloads
across that bridge, not only are we going
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:to be safe to get over that river, or
that cliff, or regardless of what obstacle
630
:might face us, whether it's imaginary or
not, we're going to be able to uncover
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:many of the different things on that other
side, just because we spent some time
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:investing in ourselves, so start asking
those questions, start pursuing the truth,
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:and start seeing that maybe some of the
things that we have in our lives don't
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:necessarily have to hold us back anymore.
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:Freedom is when you're able to not
just ask those questions, but to
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:help yourself get to that other side,
especially when it gets really tough
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:to be able to navigate those channels.
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:When you navigate those struggles,
and I've even shared this with other
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:guests that we've had on this show,
even Brock Waluk recently, it's been
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:about not just understanding that when
we go through those difficult periods
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:that we're able to be better, but it's
about what we have been through: that
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:trial, that persecution, that struggle,
will make us so much stronger to get to
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:that other side, and we can have a clear
consciousness with new truth, new reality,
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:and a new perspective about ourselves.
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:I know that it's not easy to always
frame that bridge and be able to walk
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:on the other side because you might
not have the skills that are needed.
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:I encourage you, whether it's
me, whether it's Stacie, whether
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:it's somebody else, find a coach
that will help you to do that.
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:If your business is struggling,
find the coach that will help
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:you to get to that other side.
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:If you are struggling personally with
your relationships, confidence, or
652
:determination, find a coach that will
get you to that other side, but more
653
:importantly, if you need new skills,
new attitudes, and new perspectives
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:of what you're able to achieve, find
that place on the other side that will
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:help you to get to where you need to
be, because it isn't just about what
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:you can identify, and what you can see.
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:It's about living a life of intentionality
that will not just help you get to
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:that other side, not just see that new
perspective, not just taking that divine
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:time to create that opportunity, but it's
about investing in that change that is so
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:important, because change is the universal
constant of all life's lessons, and how we
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:handle it, and how we stop to look at it
as a whole, can not only help us with our
662
:meditation and our focus, but can make us
stay a little less stupid in the bigger
663
:scheme of things, but you're not stupid.
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:You see that clarity now,
and you're listening to this
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:today to take that first step.
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:The map has already been drawn for
you, and whether you see it or not,
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:just know that maybe somebody can help
you to get back on that path, to find
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:the hidden treasures that are not just
inside of you, but inside of others
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:that can share the same, because those
treasures, they're not just what you
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:see as gold and silver and platinum;
all the rich minerals of this earth.
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:It's about what you have as the
relationships, confidence, and
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:determination to create something great,
something better, and from what Stacie had
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:mentioned having that clear consciousness
to be able to move forward no matter what.
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:Thanks for listening to episode
102 of Speaking From the Heart,
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:and I look forward to hearing
from your heart very soon.
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