Overcoming Imposter Syndrome In Business - Interview with Susan Rose - Journeupreneur Podcast Ep. 146

Victoria: Hey everyone, it’s Sensei Victoria Whitfield here, your journey partner in business, welcoming you back to episode 146 of the Journeypreneur Podcast. This is your source for channeled holistic stress management techniques, guidance, inspiration and motivation to stay on your path to rapid financial ascension and massive impact as a conscious entrepreneur.

So, in this podcast episode, I get the honor and the pleasure of getting to introduce you to an incredible goddess in my life, Susan Rose. You can find her at SusanRose.net and she is a copywriter and email marketing mentor.

She also happens to be a member of my Visionary Shaman Circle. So, hello, goddess. Welcome to the podcast!

Susan: Thanks for having me here. I'm so excited.

Victoria: Let's do it. So, I'm curious. Like, we love each other. We know each of each other's freaking awesome in our businesses. Like we. We got it. We got it. And for those who are listening in, this may be their very first time meeting you. So, if you could, in your own words, describe what it is you do, but especially what are the three things that you're known for? Could you tell us?

Susan: I can tell you I help empath entrepreneurs tell their story and make more impact and come by owning who they are and getting visible in the world. I primarily do this to the tactic of email marketing because it is such a powerful tool for nurturing relationships. And so, I'm a big believer in that. And so, it's a great way to tie those two things together. So. Things the people the clients tell me that they kind of my special sauce, right, is that I'm able to explain really complicated technical things and teach people how to take these abstract concepts of learning and in do something with it. So, I did this stuff as I'm really good at that.

I'm wonderful at and known for providing the very safe space for people to explore whatever it is, whether it is not knowing how to do something that they feel like they are supposed to know or telling what parts of their story to share or not to share and working through these things that put people in a very vulnerable position. And I'm proud to say that I'm able to provide the space that makes feel safe. And then the third thing is really laser focusing on what the next thing to do is for people, because that's like we have a lot of options right now as entrepreneurs and. Let's just cut to the chase. Help you figure out what it is and may or may not be what I'm offering, whatever the right thing for you. That's what I'm aiming for.

Victoria: I love it. I love it. What a blessing. You know, one of the hardest things is for us empath entrepreneurs are being able to cut to the chase and get to have that laser focus in a safe container. So that's so fabulous.

Susan: Yeah, I think it's hard because when it doesn't feel safe, I mean, I think that's when people are then floating around and there's a lot of stuff out there that isn't wasn't safe for me floating around out there.

Victoria: So, look, I know there are things out there that have inspired you to go into the work to do the same way for me. There’re things that I've encountered that inspired me to become the world's first Business Reiki Master, to create the Visionary Shaman Circle. So, I'm curious, like, did something happen or did you like that caused you to decide? Like, right, I'm going into this. I'm creating SusanRose.net then becoming a copywriter and email marketing mentor, like, this is the thing - like what happened that inspired you to start your business in the first place. Could you tell us?

Susan: Yeah, well, so I've been in business for 20 years. So, what inspired that is not what inspired me to be where I am in this moment. So that inspiration was just wanting to do really interesting work, good work for good people and be in business with my sister. And that kind of started to be on the entrepreneurial path. But after our partnership years ago, as I was doing freelance writing and working with a variety of people, I ended up in a coaching program to help me with my business as we do right. That's where we are. And it was the wrong step for me. It was not as a as empathic person, which I was not identifying as at the time, which can be a danger.

I started working with somebody and this was a very, very, very high-ticket program, working with somebody that had a very masculine kind of marketing approach. And so, from basically the moment I got into that program, I did not have seen I did not hear. My coach was like nothing I did was right. And I needed to change everything. And it was incredibly painful. And I felt just like I had regressed back into my childhood with stuff that I thought I had dealt with. Now, meanwhile, all the time I'm doing this, I'm giving this person a lot of money and I'm not seeing any results from it. I'm feeling very powerless. And that's not all that coaches.

That was the support that I needed to go on and do, but that was the inspiration. So, when I came out of that a year or so after that, when I was able to have digested and work through it, I'm like, I don't want other people who are like me who are highly sensitive to me. At the time I called myself an introvert. That's how I am. I am part of a now realized basically the same thing all but I wanted a quick result. This person promised a quick result, which I also know isn't true because I've owned multiple businesses over 20 years. So, there's a lot going on there.

And I didn't want other people like me because the other people who are like me in that program, we're also not succeeding. And it was very clear the people who led with power and beautiful people. But if that was how they led, then they did really well. But those of us who were more sensitive and empathic totally floundered and did not get any results.

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