The Dark Side of Coaching - Journeypreneur Podcast Ep. 154

Hey everyone, it’s Sensei Victoria Whitfield here, your journey partner in business, welcoming you back to episode 154 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 the title of this podcast episode is simple yet profound, it is this: The Dark Side of Coaching.

And right now as I hit record on this podcast to you it is 11:11 on the clock. So, this is a very auspicious time for us to talk about this subject. And as I was meditating before recording, my spirit guides kept saying over and over and over again the word "addiction addiction", "entrepreneur addiction", "addiction addiction", over and over, and let's talk about this.

Because, gosh, I was just on the phone with one of my private clients, and we were discussing about the different needs that we have as creatives who have a background in like, the service industry, the holistic industry, the entertainment industries, as opposed to someone who has a background in corporate, right, and those kinds of industries, as far as their main stay before coming to entrepreneurialism.

And I know for me, as someone who is highly creative, visionary, artistic, right; I am a musician and all those types of things - there is something about my addictive personality that fuels my creative genius. I have to understand that; I have to accept and come to terms with it - I'm this is a lifelong journey of understanding that my addictive personality is what fuels my creative genius. So that's another reason why for me personally, you know, my time in corporate was only a couple years. I couldn't stay for like a long period of time because it was too structured; it kind of drove me nuts. Yes, I got out of there! Right?

I was working at a medical billing coding practice, and grew from $75,000 a month to over $750,000 a month in just under two years and I was like, "you know what that's enough corporate, gotta go." And I did right by them, I grew there, grew them to 10X, and then bounced. But as a creative, I have this addictive personality, you know, and I'll - let's just put this all on me, you know how we roll when it's just you and I, on these podcast episodes. But I can't just do something half way, right? I gotta - I don't know if you're listening with kids in the car, but - I can't just do it, half-assed I gotta do it whole-assed!

Like if I'm going to be lazy, I'm going to be a complete waste of time, I'm going to dissolve into the ground, lazy, I am going to, like, fall asleep on the toilet type lazy, but I'm not going to do things, half, I'm going to go big or go home. Right. I have an addictive personality. When I start the bag of popcorn, right, that Trader Joe's at Olive Oil popcorn omg, right - that's a thing of the past for me, thank the goddess, but - like when I start one of those big bags you know I gotta finish it.

I'm a finisher. I tend to to finish what I started. I have high follow through, but I at the same time I'm creative, I have a bunch of ideas rolling around in my head, and we've talked about this in previous podcast episodes, that I do, I have an addictive personality. I have a history of addiction, right, by the grace of personal powerful decisions as well as the grace of spirit I released alcohol. Release drugs. Right. And also released, and now I'm in the process of releasing stress eating, right, and addictions to food.

But that doesn't mean that my addictive personality stops there, it jumps over to workaholism, right, like adding more adding more to my plate, right: our task-a-holism. Right. And I am saying this, and we've discussed this many times in the podcast, but I want us to talk, especially to shine light on that.

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Let's talk about it!

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