My Journey as an Entrepreneur | DFS 296

Welcome to destined for success. I'm your

host Jennifer Takagi and in this week's episode, I want to share

a little bit about my journey as an entrepreneur, my own personal

journey, like what happened to me. Last week, I love talking to

Michelle Ricketts, and she was sharing about the foundational

pieces be authentic to yourself so that you can build your

business, it should be the business of your dreams. If

you're walking away from a nine to five job or you had steady

paycheck steady benefits, you better be doing something you

love. Absolutely doing something you love. I worked for well,

okay, back up just a little bit. I graduated college with a

degree in French, with a minor in Spanish, which later they

upgraded to a double major, and an honours degree who knew that

was a separate thing, like a whole separate set of classes.

So I did it all I graduated, and then I struggled to find a job.

I ended up being an assistant here and there. And I think I

had five jobs my first year out of college, which at the time

was fairly normal to have to do that much. So I ended up

following my father into the housing industry, he worked for

the Department of Housing and Urban Development. I got a job

there as a temporary in as a clerk typist in a division. And

I started learning a little bit about housing and a little bit

about mortgage and the rules not getting a loan, but aphylla.

Like how do you make sure that people live up to their

obligations. And I ended up going to work for a mortgage

company was quickly promoted to a supervisor made a really bad

choice and married my college sweetheart, quit that job,

switch to another job got rid of the college sweetheart, and

thank God. And then I ended up literally following my dad to

the Department of Housing and Urban Development. So he was

working in that division at the time where you got the loan to

build apartment complexes houses. I ended up first in the

division where we made sure homeowners lived up to their

obligations. And if they went into default, I would help them

with that figure out what to do. Then I moved over into

multifamily housing, and that's apartment complexes and nursing

homes at the time. Now those have been moved to another

division. You don't really care I kind of didn't either. But

they came in one day. After my well at that point, I'd been

there 25 years and said, you can retire or relocate or resign you

choose? Well, fortunately for me with 25 years of service, I was

able to go ahead and retire and walk away. Because I didn't want

to move. I didn't want to be born and raised in Oklahoma.

I've lived other places I always come back. This is my home. This

is where I will die. Unless it's on a beach and an amazing

vacation. But I'm gonna live here. So when I retired, I was

really young. So did I really retire? No, I just kind of

walked away. So when I walked away at a very young age, I

started collecting certifications. So the very

first certification I got was in disk behavioral profiles. And

it's disk with a capital I which is a little bit different than

disk with a lowercase i. It's the one I learned first. It's

the one I love. That's where my passion is. And I love going

into organizations having had everybody takes a assessment.

And then I go in and teach about the four different behavioral

styles, and how they all work together. So in an organization,

this makes a huge difference, because now you realize that I

am different than you. And you bring this to the party and I

bring that and then we have an entire buffet. Where as before,

I might just be irritated at all you all the frickin time because

you don't do things the way I want to do things. So that was

awesome. I love that certification. I don't promote

it quite enough. I'm not asking enough to go in and teach that.

But hey, if you're hearing this, and you've got a team, even a

team of three to five, perfect, I can come in, I can teach this

and you will be so much more productive because everybody

will be leaning on each other in what they do well and it's

really great. Also change style indicator. We have a natural

response to change. We either say yes, I'm all in let's throw

out all the rules and start from scratch. That's one extreme. The

other extreme is we can change nothing. We've been doing this

for 20 The years this works, don't touch it. And then in

between, it's like, oh, yeah, I like the idea of throwing

everything out and starting over. But oh, wait, we have

rules to follow. How can we incorporate them both? Every one

of those tiles has pluses. Every one of those styles had minuses.

It doesn't really matter, pluses minuses. The important thing to

know is you have the ability to choose how you're going to show

up. Are you going to show up and push back at everything and be a

complete pain in everybody's ass? Or are you going to say,

throw it all out? Start over without any consideration to the

consequences of that dramatic action? Or are you going to be

on the fence for so incredibly long, that the world just passes

you by, like you just cannot make a decision. I love teaching

that I love lining everybody up by their numeric score. And then

asking them, you've got a project, you've got three weeks

to do it, who do you pick, you really don't want to go to the

far extremes of either side as the whole team, he got to have a

mix in there. But you really need someone who's going to

stick us a little bit more to what we already have. And just

judge it up a bit. Like add a little spice. Or if you've got

six months to a year, maybe you have more people who are like

gonna build a monster, they're gonna make Lego or take Legos

and make something cool. And then throw in a couple of people

saying, hey, wait a minute, what about this? What about that?

What about the law? Because the people who follow the rules are

going to keep people like me out of jail. It's great. You line

everybody up, you figure it out. I love this stuff. I love it.

But I was missing a step. And I was trying to make it work. And

I was trying to get hired to speak at conferences, do

breakout sessions, be a keynote. I've been paid what I consider

quite a bit of money for a keynote. I've counted in

keynotes for free. I've kind of done it all. Pardon me, but I'm

trying to figure out how to put this all together. And I need a

business coach. And then another and then another. I didn't even

know that was a thing. Now it's a really popular thing. But at

the time, it wasn't a thing. I started doing everything that

coaches told me to do. But it didn't work out for me. Like it

didn't work out the way they either promised or implied like,

Well, Jennifer, if you just create a course and create a

webinar, and everybody's gonna buy it, guess what? My one sweet

friend Laura is the only one who listened to that webinar. I'm

sure it was out of guilt. And she said something nice about

it. But it wasn't gonna go viral. It wasn't gonna happen,

right? I wasn't in the right space. What have I learned

through this journey? One thing I've learned is owning this

stage makes me happy. My friend Kimberly Crowe says if someone

hands you the mic, you say yes, I'm kind of that girl. hammy the

mic. Let me own the stage. I had the fabulous opportunity to give

a breakout session, but it was on the main stage called the pit

at the casino in what's it called? Just outside of Tulsa.

You know which one I'm talking about. Anyway, I was on that

stage. And they're like, oh, yeah, Blake Shelton has

performed here. I walked up and down that sage edge to edge

going, do you think he stood here? Do you think he stood

here? I cracked myself up. I had a lot of fun. I think they did,

too. I broke up the monotony a little bit of this conference.

It should be fun. It should be fun. We should enjoy it.

Learning should be a fun thing. And I love it. So being on stage

makes me happy. I have a podcast. Why? Because I can sit

here in my office and I can just chit chat to the wall. And guess

what? I'm like in the top 5% of the world and podcast. Who knew?

How does that happen? I don't know if there's an algorithm or

something. I love on the stage. I love training. I teach for the

great state of Oklahoma. Well I have for a long time but I

haven't heard from him lately. So maybe I got fired, I don't

know. But then I got into energy healing. And you're thinking

what? energy healing? It's amazing. Everything is made of

energy. Everything. Albert Einstein said like in the 40s or

50s. The future of modern medicine is in frequencies. What

is frequency? Frequency is an energy.

We have MRIs. We have CAT scans. We have proton therapy. P, we

have targeted laser things. We have laser hair removal that

made me happy when that came out. Everything is happening on

the frequency of energy. And so I ended up on this path of

learning various modalities of energy work. And you're

thinking, I want to thank you so work for me. Well, if you

believe that it's absolutely not going to work for you. However,

I've helped hundreds of people, I don't know how many exactly,

but hundreds of people, I have helped people quit smoking,

effortlessly and easily. To events, live events, there were

cats there to different people to different locations to

different countries. By the way. These people's eyes were just

running down their faces red Klein, because they were

allergic to cat. One had never even seen the cat. The whole

room had been completely it was at a home had been completely

cleaned out. And all rented furniture brought in for this

event. And about an hour in this girl's face is just bright red.

Her eyes are tearing and she was like, Is there a cat in his

house? It was locked in the basement. There was a cat she

was allergic. I was like, Yeah, I'm gonna fix that. And she was

like, yes. But then she didn't, a little bit of time passed and

she came up so cute. I'm sitting in my chair, we're about to

start back and she pits one hand and the other hand on top of it.

So like open palms, like, I guess Catholic, if you're taking

communion, you put your hands out and the priests puts that

wafer on your hand. And she put her hand out and she said, I'm

ready to receive her blessing. And I went, I don't even know

what you're talking about. And she said, I'm ready for you to

heal me of this cat allergy. And I was like, oh, yeah, let's do

that. 30 minutes later, her eyes are totally dry. They're clear.

They're white, no longer bloodshot. Yes, it happens that

fast. The other guy like had been miserable for two days. 30

minutes later, his beautiful blue eyes were bright and crisp.

And the whites were white. They weren't red. It works. It's

amazing. One friend called and goes, Can you help me with my

shingles pain? I said, Well, let me try. I did a couple of

sessions on her. She said it didn't really help. I don't know

why maybe we needed more sessions. Maybe we did. Because

energy healing work is a little bit like you're driving down the

road and you hit a big mud puddle or the semi next to you

does and covers your whole windshield with mud. As soon as

you hit the windshield wipers and it wipes across, it cleans

part of it, but not all of it. And then it goes back and it

cleans a little bit more, but not all of it. And it goes back

and forth. And then you might have to hit the water a little

bit to clean it a little bit. So with energy healing, you might

need to drink more water. You might need to go to the doctor

on a boat they and kind of girl. Maybe you need to go to the

doctor, maybe you need an antibiotic. Maybe you need the

antiviral medicine, maybe you need a pain medicine and sleep

for three days, both and randomly. The other day, I

messaged a gal and she's worked with me before and I was like,

Hey, how you doing? And she was like, Oh, I'm good. I'm home

right now with severe case of shingles. And I went oh, do you

mean to help you with that? And she said, Yes, please and send

me a link to pay you. I was like, Okay, great. The next day,

she texted me. I woke up pain free today. If you've ever had

shingles or been around somebody with shingles, that's like a

huge deal because they are so painful. Eczema. I had a gal she

had it from the tips of her fingers upper arm across her

chest and moving up her neck to her face. It took five sessions,

five sessions, but I checked up with her the other day. It's

been a year she's excellent free. So energy healing works.

So at this point, I've gotten another certification from the

amazing Brendon Burchard, his certified High Performance

Coaching program. With that, I have a beautiful framework to

put it all together and to heal you along the way as you hit the

blocks of becoming a high performance individual, in your

career, in your relationships in your life. And I love that. And

the point of all of this is to tell you if you're on an

entrepreneurial journey, take a deep breath. Look at what you're

doing, look at who you're helping and decide if that's the

lane you want to stay in. I've come full circle. I still do

leadership, development training. I still help people

with those kinds. kinds of things. But it's not the only

thing I do. It's all packaged together in a neat little bow.

I'm Jennifer Takagi. I look forward to connecting with you

soon. And hey, go get my 12 minute gift.com Three part audio

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