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K H A R I S M A
M A G A Z I N E
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How to Make Your Time in the Corporate
Structure More Tolerable Until YouMake the
Leap to Your Business Full Time
B Y : VA N E S S A
M E N T O R
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.
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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.
Va n e s s a M e n t o r
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.
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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:
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