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{ PREMIER ISSUE 2018 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE
51
BY : VANESSA MENTOR
Meet Vanessa Mentor , a customer experience strategist & spiritual seeker . She teaches soul – driven female entrepreneurs how to create powerful connections with their clients and grow their business by tapping into their feminine power and soul purpose . Her business is all about holding a safe space for women entrepreneurs to reconnect with their true self so they can be generous and compassionate enough to share their gifts and truth with the world .
------------------------------------------------------ ------------- I ’ m in my office , staring at the computer . I ’ m lost in thought and wondering what my life would look like if I were living my dreams : I ’ m running a business that I love and I ’ m making a difference in women ’ s lives ; I work 4 days a week ; money is no longer a source of stress and anxiety . I finally can gift my Mom the cruise she ’ s been dreaming of doing . Life feels good .
I got clear . I no longer wanted to be the “ corporate warrior ”, because the way I show up in one area of my life , is the way I show up in every other area . Indeed , I bring the energy of a man in my love life . I ’ m the doer , the go – getter , the one making the decisions without giving her partner the space to embrace his role . I ’ m more the father than the mother for my daughter . I decided that it was time for me to take serious action and find my way out .
BE ICONIC
The more I stayed in that soul – sucking job , the less chance I would have to step into my feminine flow , my nurturing and soft side . It was no longer working for me . But , here ’ s the dilemma : I ’ m not yet ready to make the leap and run my business full time .
So , naturally , I find myself in that transition period and trying to be creative with it . At first it was overwhelming and stressful . I had to find a happy medium between a full time job , taking care of a four year old and the house , launching a new business , getting into a new relationship and taking care of myself . I knew I could not make any changes , if I did not decide to make a mental shift from corporate warrior to soul – driven CEO . Embracing my soul meant I had to slow down , ask for help and support when I was crawling under the struggle , the pain . I had to put myself first and believe that I would arrive at the destination no matter how many times I stopped during the drive . I had to accept that this transformation was not going to happen overnight and agree to navigate through it as best as I could .
Besides the mindset work , here are some other practical ways I ’ m personally making my time within the corporate structure tolerable until I build the platform to leap on to :
1 . Pay attention to the signs
Life is happening whether I ’ m conscious of it or not . Buried under the multitude of obligations , I sometimes ignore or fail to hear the whispers of my inner wisdom telling me that I need to slow down , take a different route : To change direction . The feminine energy is all about honouring the natural flow of life and being attentive to the subtle changes . I ’ m in the habit of asking myself these three questions regularly :