Your needs are yours alone.
When I decided to leave my career in investment banking in pursuit of entrepreneurship, MANY people doubted my choice.
After all, I had an excellent life by their standards. A good income. Job security. Vacation days. Seniority. Mobility within the company. Impact.
As far as they were concerned, all of my needs were met, so why bother wanting for more? Why would I risk throwing all of that away?
Because I wasn't happy and I couldn't deny that anymore.
Although at the time those external voices were louder than my internal one, I chose to throw caution to the wind and trusted the almost inaudible whisper telling me that I was a "no" to that life, however alluring it appeared from the outside-in.
A very deep part of me knew that I needed to find out what I needed in order to feel satisfied, not what everyone else thought I needed.
That required turning myself inside-out.
The initial choice to live in this way — square on MY path and no one else's, especially when I had no clue where my path even was — DOES feel like a huge risk. It definitely felt that way for me. I had zero idea what I was doing most days for a few years while I reorganized both my life and my mindset to be in tune with myself.
Yeah. A few years. Of a LOT of trial and error.
Since that initial choice to walk away from the life I knew for the life I knew nothing about but which belonged only to me, I've been in an almost constant purging of all that is not me; all that I am an intuitive "no" to, stripping away layer after layer.
Daily habits and mindsets which were draining my energy.
Clients who were not ultimately suited to work with me.
Lifestyle and wealth-markers which I once aspired to in order to feel successful.
Marketing and sales strategies I was told I must do if I wanted to profit.
Ways of eating which didn't resonate with my heart and body.
Relationships and friendships which didn't serve my growth (by far the hardest).
And most recently, the coveted apartment I have lived in for nearly ten years, which everyone else loves, but which I've grown out of.
Today, I do not experience any hesitation around my needs. I know what they are and I don't struggle to pursue them unabashedly and communicate them compassionately to those who need to know what they are in order to adequately support me.
In Unbound we'll go through my signature Reactivity Blueprint process over three months. A core part of that process involves an honest review of one's individual needs. It's often the most challenging part because most people have no idea where to start.
My years navigating and refining my own needs to such a nuanced level from a starting point of total ignorance positions me to be an especially excellent guide for others here.
Unbound starts today. Will you join us?
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