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Igniting Business Success: Coach Mechelle’s Legacy Strategy

• Griselda Martinez • Season 2 • Episode 25

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Igniting Business Success: Coach Mechelle’s Legacy Strategy

A master life coach and an entrepreneurial force, in this episode of unExpectedly Successful, tailored for aspiring women entrepreneurs. Coach Mechelle, known as "Miss Get You Together," has certified over 100 coaches in three years with her dynamic 21-week program, changing lives through enhanced self-awareness and personal growth. No money, you say? No excuses! Mechelle’s unique approach to funding her coaching certification and her debut book, "Frozen," through her baking passion and debut book. Mechelle shares her insights on overcoming toxic relationships, fostering self-love, and building a lasting legacy in the raw and genuine conversations.

 Are you seeking inspiration and practical wisdom in life coaching, entrepreneurship, and personal empowerment? This episode is a must-listen to! 

 📣 Get in touch with Coach Mechelle: embrace4you.com 💼🌐

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 ❄️ 📚 FROZEN: The 3 A’s My Journey of True Forgiveness: amzn.to/3sZ3sSY 

 ❤️📘 Journey to Self Love: 21 Days of Self Love: amzn.to/3Rk4OB9 

 💔🔍📗 Overcoming TOXIC Relationships: Revealing To Heal: amzn.to/47QDn7B 

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🧠 On Mindset - Soundtracks: the surprising solution to overthinking, https://amzn.to/40W2zHv
💬 On Communication - The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message, https://amzn.to/3N1c56g
📈 On Scaling Your Business through Synergies - Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork, https://amzn.to/4a7USlQ

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I am Dr. Griselda Martinez, your transformational business coach, speaker, and consultant dedicated to empowering seasoned professionals like you to step confidently into entrepreneurship. After reaching the peak of my career, I realized my true calling was not in the corner office but in guiding women to unlock their purpose through business ownership. 
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Speaker 1:

One of my favorite quotes is by Nelson Mandela. He said I'm either winning or alarming, so there is no losing. So why not try?

Speaker 2:

["Winning Alarm"]. Welcome back to another episode of Unexpectedly Successful the Show, and I am totally flora honor and privilege to bring to you this wonderful guest speaker, and I'll tell you a little bit of her background. She is a master life coach who trains the coaches who are gonna coach you and me, so that's her business. She is also a published author of multiple books, she has a blog, she has a talk show, she has a Roku channel, she organizes events and, if that was not enough, she also pastors along her husband. It is my honor to introduce you to you, michelle Kennedy, our master life coach. Michelle, welcome to Unexpectedly Successful. How are you doing today?

Speaker 1:

I am doing well. It is always an honor and a privilege to be a part of anybody's anything, especially when it comes to being able to share a story that's going to be transformational to others who listen.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes, and you know, coach Michelle, this is the podcast for the role and general stories of women business owners, and I am totally excited to share your life story that led to your business. So let's get started. Okay, coach Michelle, what is it to be Coach Michelle for you?

Speaker 1:

It is a joy. And I think it's a joy because I spent many years not really being me, because I've always been bubbly, I always had a big or I always had a big energy, as we say, and for many years I tried not to have that because it seemed to make other people uncomfortable. But at this point, find you somewhere else to go, because I'm going to be.

Speaker 2:

I love it. I love it, you're going to be joy. And if you don't like it, find somewhere else to be. I love it For my audience. If you want to be joy and people around you are uncomfortable, tell them to find a different place and be you. I love it. I mean, we're starting with gems already. So, coach Michelle, what are you most proud about as a business owner?

Speaker 1:

I think one of the things I'm most proud about is when I launched my life coach certification course. My goal was in five years I'm going to certify 100 coaches, but actually I started in 2019, and by 2022, I had already certified 106 coaches, so I far exceeded the expectation.

Speaker 2:

So you train, you establish your coaching business for coaches in 2019 and by 2022. So three years later, you had already coached 100 coaches. Wow, wow. So what does that mean to you, coach Michelle? Like, why does that make you proud as a business owner?

Speaker 1:

Because I was able to impact the people who impact the people. So that means everybody, their hands touch, my hands touch, wow. One of the things I also pride myself on is being an educator. I didn't buy a curriculum, I built a coaching curriculum and it is a 21 week very intense curriculum. Wow, 20-months, very intense, and so being able to certify over 100 coaches. This isn't just them watching videos. This is me teaching class after class after class of. I think one of my classes one time was 20 coaches. I had to split the class. Wow, because of the coach. Wow.

Speaker 2:

Yep. So Coach Michelle, who comes to your certification Like, tell me your best student and what makes them your best student for your coaching business.

Speaker 1:

So I'm called to people who are hungry Awesome, and my mantra is hunger. People come, eat and when they're full they leave. Yes, and be awesome with them leaving. So I think one of the things I'm most proud of like I can't even really name like one particular coach, but I have had coaches to thrive and do so many things and being in the room seeing multiple coaches, it is always such an honor. Sometimes I feel like a mother and those are my babies yes, Maybe it's not grown on one. They don't like to just go on about yourself.

Speaker 1:

And so people who are hungry, like you, got to be ready. You got to be open because we teach you how to coach you first before we teach you how to coach others. So we go through a five week boot camp. Those are assessments that you are taking. That's going to start the journey to your self awareness. One of them is we do a 50 question core belief workbook. That's the one that takes everybody out. They're usually they have an attitude with me the entire class because of their workbook. Wow, it asks questions that cause you to really just sit and be like like. It asks you things like what's in your life that you're avoiding, that you really need to deal with.

Speaker 2:

Like what kind of?

Speaker 1:

legacy, are you going to leave for your children? So it asks you those gut-wrenching questions that make you sit and you're like, oh, wow, and so we do. They do that for five weeks and then I have a course. So in the coaching world they call me miss, get you together.

Speaker 2:

Miss, get you together.

Speaker 1:

So, because of the way I coach and I'm from miss, get you together, like truth without love is brutality. That's one of the things I say. And so you go through a five week course that we named get your life. We do an assessment title when did it come from? Well, we look at your top three struggles, your mom and your dad's top three struggles, to help you identify where it came from. Go through mommy, daddy issues, abandonment and rejection, self sabotage, managing self trauma, managing your trauma while coaching others these are the things we take them through. Oh my.

Speaker 2:

God, I feel sorry for these coaches, but then they go transform after that.

Speaker 1:

And what we call it is the embrace you moment, like that moment that everything starts to line up.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that sounds intense.

Speaker 2:

Very shell, very, but you know, okay. So, thinking through, like, just as as you were going through some of those questions right In my own journey in and growth and self awareness, these are, these have been questions, right, these are hard questions, but the thing is, if we don't ask the question, that doesn't mean that the issue is going to go away, we're just ignoring it. Yeah, so the sooner we embrace me, the sooner we go through that challenge and be on the other side, which is why the name of the company is in breaching In this you.

Speaker 2:

That's right, total full circle. So, coach Michelle, it sounds like an amazing coaching program. What led to that point and the richness of that program? You mentioned that you are an educator, that you're like a mother to these coaches, that then they grow to do their own thing. You, as a person, what pieces of your story have led to that moment?

Speaker 1:

So I went through a coaching certification in 2016. And when I went through the coaching certification, there were components that I felt like I really needed to prepare me properly for the program. So, being an educator, when I started, when I was in my master coaching certification, I literally sat down and I wrote out a curriculum and I included things in that curriculum I felt would have made me better prepared. So my aim in life, malcolm Arosa, we should be able to sum my life up in one sentence, and mine is I was created to be to others what no one was to me.

Speaker 1:

So in my life, I go through, I do things and I document it. I build out the process so that I can then teach others how to do it. And one funny thing is when I was in college, my professor, he said you make good money doing events. I was like, yeah, I do pretty good. And he was like, yeah, but you will make more money teaching people how to do events. And that thing was like I was like what? So from there on, everything that I do, I want to figure out how do I teach others to do this, because that's where the real money is.

Speaker 2:

Wow, wow. That was a moment of insight for the rest of your professional life Wow. So, coach Michelle, you said your one sentence is to be to others what no one was to you.

Speaker 1:

Can you?

Speaker 2:

take deeper into that, please. Yes, what's your life story that led to that sentence?

Speaker 1:

So I've always been a trailblazer, I've always been a birther, I've always been a starter, even going back to being a cheerleader for a pop-wonder team, always being not afraid to be the first. So that has really been the pattern in my life, like I go through things. When I went through my divorce, I went through it alone, no matter how much family I had. I was alone and I said, if I make it out of this, if I meet somebody who's going through it, I'm going to be there for them. That was my moment and that has been the tell of my life.

Speaker 1:

When I went through the coaching certification, I went through and all the things that I felt like I needed I included. So when I started certifying people, I was able to give them components that I did not get when I was starting my show. The network I'm on was a new network so we had no guidelines, we had no information. So I went through and I did a lot of things on trial and error, able to build a successful show. My show is 2 and 1 half years now.

Speaker 2:

Congratulations, Coach.

Speaker 1:

Richelle, my bureau, based on an averages between 11 and 14,000 a week, but no one showed me how to do that. So now, as a China owner of Coachella TV, I now get the opportunity to teach other coaches how to successfully build a show.

Speaker 2:

Wow, wow. Ok, so you've mentioned the coaching, the coaches, then you mentioned the show and the network, and this is an amazing number of I mean 2 and 1 half years for 11 and 12, I mean 14,000 views a week. That's major. I mean that's major on its own. And then you also talked about organizing events. So tell us the sequence of events of you becoming a business owner. What came first and how did you get to it?

Speaker 1:

My dad was a serial entrepreneur. Tell us about that. Then I never knew. I didn't know what that was. My dad was a serial entrepreneur. My dad owned a store. My dad did a pumping well, he did sprinkler systems. We owned a florist at one time because one of my brothers was a florist. We had a game room in the middle of our house because the way my house grew up was my parents' bedroom was here, there was like a living room and then it was the rest of the house, but this middle part had a door. My dad turned that into a neighborhood game room where the kids would come in. They would play games. It was a safe place for the neighborhood. One place we had a colt machine that sat outside our house.

Speaker 1:

I love it, so my dad's a serial entrepreneur and it is his fault. It really is.

Speaker 2:

We can blame dad for all the brightness you have.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely so. 2004,. Me and my ex husband, we did not have a wedding. So at 10 years we decided to renew our vows and I went through the process of doing our wedding. So I've always been an organizer, I've always been a builder, I've always been the one to set things up, but this is the first time I had done a wedding by myself. It was excruciating.

Speaker 2:

Your own wedding. Oh my god, it was painful, it was excruciating.

Speaker 1:

I can imagine so much by going through the process. One of the things my dad used to say and my dad couldn't read or write, but he was very, he was a principal person. So he taught me principles and one of the things he would say if you want to get found, get lost. So I ended up learning a lot of things by being lost and that's what happened with the wedding. After that wedding I said you know what I don't ever want to brag, to have to go through what I went through. So I think I'm a star in an event planning company and do weddings. So literally, even going back then I was trying to be till somebody what no one was.

Speaker 2:

What you did not have. Yeah, oh, my god, so that's almost 20 years ago. Yes, yes, wow, so that was your initial business, mm-hmm.

Speaker 2:

Your own experience, planning your own wedding and going through the struggles and then saying, you know, I want to be for someone that just went, that could go through the same struggle and prevent them from that. Yes, wow. And then what happened? So you launch your I mean, you had your wedding. Then you said that moment, I'm going to be that person to help others. And then what happened? How did the business actually get started?

Speaker 1:

It took off, like literally it took off. I was booked year after year after year and I didn't only do weddings like I did weddings, I did parties, I did events. I would be a concierge to families who were planning funerals. I planned a week. Since teens I've planned church conferences. I've planned corporate events. I used to work for one of the 4,500 banks and in my department I did all the planning in my department. So I planned events for five or six, all the way up to 1,000, church conferences, retreats, like anything, that requires having steps and plans. Yeah, I would do that Wow.

Speaker 2:

So you did. I want to work in my full-time job. That was going to ask. So you had this business going, which sounds like it was a full-time job, while you were doing your corporate job.

Speaker 1:

Yes, always up until two years ago, and, believe it or not, I never had a desire to be a full-time entrepreneur.

Speaker 2:

Oh, what, what Nope, so tell us about it.

Speaker 1:

So I've always been someone who was able to manage time on a supernatural level, because I will get more things done in a 24 hour period than anybody I know. So I've always been able to manage, I've always been able to do multiple things at the same time that generally had nothing to do with each other. I now know that that's called a multi potential light, which is someone who has the ability to pull multiple disciplines and bridge them together to create something new. So I literally have a type potential multi potential light.

Speaker 2:

Light. Okay, all right. So because of this gift, you were able to manage your full time job. Your full time, yes, psy Hosso, which was a full time business.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

And then what happened? What made you decide to switch to full time then? If you did not desire it, it was the Lord. Tell us about it.

Speaker 1:

So my, so my, my coaching organization, um, like it's fully established. I have a staff, I have a governing board and the governing board that was like okay, we really think that it's time for you to come off your job, because I was certifying year round and I was like I'm not coming off my job. I, it's easy, I do what I want to do on that job. Um, I mean, they were trying to promote me, like they were creating positions to promote me and I was denying the position I was like.

Speaker 1:

I'm good with what I do, um and so in 2021, um, during the pandemic, my job offered, um, they allowed me to do a flex schedule, like I literally created my own schedule. I would work with the thirsty with the thirsty. No, first, the Friday and Saturday were the days I chose, I wanted to work, and uh, and so, for like three months, they allowed me to do that. Um, and then, uh, they started offering uh, 12 weeks sabbaticals, and during the 12 weeks sabbatical, they would pay you 25% of your salary. And so, uh, I told my husband, I think I want to try, uh, the sabbatical. So I went to my manager and she was, like we do that. I'm like, yeah, I always got to teach people how to service me, so I'd have printed the document, uh, and submitted it to her and taught her how to go in to approve my sabbatical.

Speaker 1:

So, I because I taught her how to approve my sabbatical, then other people in my department was then able to get a sabbatical.

Speaker 2:

So okay, so just recapping, you worked flex work Thursdays, fridays and Saturdays and during that time you work your 40 hour work. Okay, and then you go back to that multi potential light. Yes, yes, I mean amazing.

Speaker 1:

Yep, and I've worked for. I was a fraud analyst, so I was um, so and that was like it. It was really an intense job, uh, but when I started in that department it was only 12 people. When I left it was like 700. So most of the people in the department I trained to do the work, so, uh, yeah.

Speaker 2:

So then, before you go in, okay, so what made you take the sabbatical, though Were you like considering, at that point where you just wanted a break, what made you think of a sabbatical?

Speaker 1:

So, um, it really fell in my spirit to try the sabbatical, and, to me, this was a safe way for me to try full time entrepreneurship. Oh wow. So I was like, well, I guess I can try this, cause this will be me riding a bicycle with training wheels. Yes, and I did that for 12 weeks, um, and in that 12 weeks I was able to keep all benefits. They still paid me 25% of my salary, um, and the company I worked for offered this during the pandemic, so they didn't have to furlough anyone. So I was doing them a favor by taking this sabbatical.

Speaker 2:

Yes, You're welcome company. So what? What happened?

Speaker 1:

So when I got ready to take my sabbatical um, my supervisor said you ain't coming back here. I say you sound like you scared. I love my job. So, uh, I'm going in and I'm working and I'm I'm enjoying, you know, full time entrepreneur. So I remember I was sitting and I was watching um one of pastor Michael ties um messages and in the message I don't even remember what the message was about, but he said it's time for you to burn up your plan B. Uh-oh.

Speaker 2:

This is talking to you. I was like who?

Speaker 1:

who are you talking to? Oh wow, talk about stalking to you, I was like no, I wonder about it in the house of me. I'm like who is he talking to? So I'll be trying to use my test test to be like let me see if that was really God. I'm going to ask my husband, let me see.

Speaker 2:

I don't know that I heard clearly enough.

Speaker 1:

So, um, I started this text message and, as I'm texting him, he calls. I looked down at the phone. I was like you really got jokes.

Speaker 2:

Oh my God, what did he say?

Speaker 1:

I asked him the phone. I was like hello. He was like you're okay. I was like I'm not.

Speaker 2:

So what? What was going on with you at that moment where you were? What was it? You were fighting it.

Speaker 1:

Like when I say I loved my job, like and I look so Saturdays have always been a part of my work day, because I would work a Tuesday through Saturday so I could have Mondays to reset. So yes, like if I had something to do on a Saturday, I would just tell my boss I'm a log in and I'm a work from 6 am To 9. I'm believe it go teach a workshop, I'll be back at 2. Or Her boss would message me and be like hey, we need some coverage on Sunday night. My husband works Sunday night, so I would be like, okay, so I was logged on and work from 6 pm To 12 midnight to when my husband got off, and then I would just take the time off sometime during the week so I could go and do it. I like I never had to miss anything. Wow, I have been with the company so long. I got five weeks of vacation. I Got an angel days they gave us volunteer days.

Speaker 2:

Oh my god, he was a really nice benefit package right there.

Speaker 1:

Listen, I was, and because my husband is, he works for a Department of Defense, he covers our insurance, so I was able to dump all. I was dumping money into my 401k and they were matching it and I was vested.

Speaker 2:

So oh my god, it was a nice deal. I see why you wouldn't go, yes, so so my husband.

Speaker 1:

I answered the phone and he said oh, he said what's wrong. I said the Lord just told me to burn up my plan B and he said I've been waiting on you.

Speaker 2:

Wow, wow, oh, really, really, is that your answer, husband?

Speaker 1:

I can say God, I can't do it. My husband said no you wanted a reason. He always be in agreement with God. So my boss Near in the end and this wasn't even at the end, this was like in the middle, so I had like six weeks that I knew to go before or so my boss message me and she was, like your, scheduled to come back on the 28th.

Speaker 1:

She said but you got a couple of days because I went in and started just putting in vacation time Even at the end of my sabbatical, because again I had five weeks of vacation and I was a worker, worker like I didn't take time off. You know yes. I would just say, hey, I need to, I was, and then I'm a lot back here.

Speaker 2:

Yes.

Speaker 1:

I Message to and I was like, hey, can we talk? Oh, she over the new. And so when her boss Was talking to her about the number of people who were out on sabbatical, she told her boss she was like Michelle's not coming back. And she was like Michelle isn't coming back, like why would Michelle? What do we do To get Wow, she coming back. She was like she's certifying coaches. She passed her in the church Baking cakes and so how about she's like? And why did I not know she did any of?

Speaker 2:

this. Oh my god, yeah, okay, wow, what what a moment. And and I'm gonna circle back there, but okay, just for my audience, to get the timeline straight. You mentioned baking cakes and offline we talked about you. You seen baking cakes as a strategy. Yes, can you please help us Remember why you got into baking cakes?

Speaker 1:

So I believe that every gift God has given you that you should be walking in. I love it and I started baking 2016 and, even though baking I never want to own a bakery that's just not what I want to do but I use baking cakes to pay for my life coaching certification. It paid for the publishing of my first book. It paid for Me ordering my first batch of books. So, even though baking is never the end, it was a means to end. So I believe we should use everything that the Lord has given us, because we should be using our gifts to make profit.

Speaker 2:

Let me get the day straight. You said in 2004 you started your event planning business. Yes 2016, you started baking to pay for your certification Certification, so you started coaching coaches in 2016 and my book in 2016. Okay, tell us about your book. You're like a like, a like an onion. So many layers to your business journey, wow. So 2016, you brought your own book. Tell us about it.

Speaker 1:

So my first book is titled frozen and I was writing one day and I heard the Lord say you wonder why? You see women who are 40 who are still acting like children. And I'm like, okay, and he said it's because mentally they're frozen at the point of trauma. Oh Yep, oh Wow, mm-hmm. So the book is titled frozen the three a's to my journey to forgiveness. So in there I talked about Four year period when I was living in Val Dosta. My daughter was sexually assaulted and she was pregnant at 13. We were, it's, communicated out of the church.

Speaker 2:

You were your whole family. Yes, because of life circumstances, big.

Speaker 1:

Because the situation it is so hilarious because, oh, now it is hilarious. I am sure it was not at that point it wasn't I wanted to fight, but it was so like they literally Went to the city inside and trust passing papers like we were not able to oh my god church property. So, and I talk about that in there, I talk about my divorce, I talk about finding myself, I talk about how I learned to forgive through the coaching tool, the three a's.

Speaker 1:

Wow and the three a's are itself. I acknowledge and adjust and It'll help you.

Speaker 2:

Okay, just let me repeat accept, acknowledge and adjust.

Speaker 1:

Yes, it'll help you get unfrozen.

Speaker 2:

Wow, wow, wow. So how many books you have now, can I? Get any help Six, so I have six books yes, I have frozen.

Speaker 1:

I co-authored a book titled Overcoming Toxic Relationships. I co-authored a compilation 365 days to positive something. I wrote a 21-day journey to self-love, which is a workbook journey. I did a 20-day 100 affirmation journey, where you do 100 affirmations in 20 days. I've done. I'm missing something. It's bad. When you wrote so many, you forget.

Speaker 2:

Wow, when you forget your books, I mean that's a good place to be, but yes, yeah, frozen was the only one that was published by a publishing company.

Speaker 1:

After I went through the process of publishing that book, the publisher then became my mentor and told me and set me up to publish a book. So everything else that I wrote I published and she gave me the publishing rights back to Frozen. Oh, wow, I'm thinking about doing either a part two or a revised version. I know what the other one is the 21 Days to Self-Love. I did a revision to it this year. I did a revision and I took the, because the way it set up is this 21 different stories about my life that lead you to this journey of self-love. So I took it and I compiled it so that you can do it as a five-week workbook. So you can do it either as a 21-day journey or a five-week workbook to self-love.

Speaker 2:

Oh, how awesome. I mean super practical right.

Speaker 1:

I've sold thousands and the way it set up is like you have a story. There is a journal exercise, then there is a self-love exercise that you do. There are so many different things. Like I created an assessment called a self-management wheel, where it takes you through areas to see how well you manage them, to help you start becoming a better manager of your life. I don't think that there's money management, I don't think that there's time management. It's all self-management, wow.

Speaker 2:

Okay, coach Michel, I'm so amazed by the multitude of things that you have done in your life and the level of depth that each one of those initiatives have. I'm just amazed from your previous statement about you believing that every gift that we have from God is for us to deploy and serve others and make a profit in the doing. What would you tell our listeners who say I'm really good at organizing classes, I'm amazing at organizing birthday parties, like all these things that we do on a daily basis, yet we don't see the value because we cannot recognize it. We see it as normal. What would you give a hack for my audience to recognize their gifts and talents?

Speaker 1:

The first thing I tell people is we don't serve a limited God and we're created in His image, so we are not limited. People will say pick the one thing you're good at, because this was somebody said pick the one thing you're good at and be good at that. I've never been able to do one thing. The person I am I literally have always been, and everything that I'm good at, I believe that. So the Lord, he strategically leads us through a path of what we need to be doing right now. So, even though I have a plethora of gifts right now, I'm utilizing what he's leading me to utilize. So, with our babies, we haven't been promoting, but it's coming up to Thanksgiving, so now we've been promoting. So now we've got to play for Thanksgiving orders. Right after Thanksgiving we promote some more, then we do Christmas orders, after that we do New Year's orders and then we stop. We have our repeat customers who will be like, hey, I want a cake and we'll do those, but that's not something we need to be doing all day, every day. So, whatever it is, take the limits of God. So even in the life coaching arena. So we've certified a lot of life coaches. So now we've created two more certifications. One is a practitioner's course where we certified coaches to practice coaching, because some people get certified and don't know what to do with it, so we take them through a 13 week course that gets them started in business.

Speaker 1:

Pastors Awesome, the Lord said to me. He says time to take coaching to the church, whoa. So I have created a 12 week course that teaches pastors how to incorporate coaching into their ministries. So I move from certifying coaches to now certifying pastors and practitioners. Always be willing to go where the Lord is sending you. Wow, I heard the Lord say some time ago. He said don't sit by dry books. So if it's not flowing because it's what we do should never be done and if the river's not flowing that way, that way it's flowing.

Speaker 2:

Wow, instead of us being like wanting to force something and then maybe avoiding or ignoring where it could be flowing, that we're not spending time there, right?

Speaker 1:

Yes, because Dr Darius recently said in Thrive. He said sometimes finish feels like failure.

Speaker 2:

Wow. So if I'm called to finish an initiative, it may feel like failure.

Speaker 1:

If.

Speaker 2:

I'm close to fold a business. It may feel like failure, yep, yep, but like you said it, the timing, the now, right, yep. And if we don't close a door, a new door may not open.

Speaker 1:

It won't open. So the end of last year the Lord said to me I want you to do less so I can do more. He said give me a year. I have standard events that I do every year like this would have been year seven for at least four events that I do every year three events that I do every no. Four events that I do every year. And I did not do those events. You said no, my speaking calendar is normally so busy and I stopped. I didn't take it. My first speaking engagement was in June of this year.

Speaker 2:

Okay, you hadn't told us that you are a public speaker.

Speaker 1:

I love it.

Speaker 2:

I love it.

Speaker 1:

I love it I love it.

Speaker 2:

Oh my God, for my audience, I want you to soak in this moment because Coach Michelle is evidence that there are no limits if we take off those limits from our own minds and allow God to work through our gifts and talents. And one of those gifts and talents is our self management, our time management right? Oh my God, coach Michelle, I'm amazed, seriously I am amazed, of the layers of initiatives you have and things that you do. So finish the parenthesis of my comment so you took a year of less for God?

Speaker 1:

to do more, so what do?

Speaker 2:

you do during that year.

Speaker 1:

He took me on a inner child healing journey. Wow, it was as crucially. At times I'm very spirit led and I'm one of those persons that the Lord has shown me enough time. I trust his history that if he says do it, I'm going to do it, just like he said do it because it has never not worked. So he said do less so I could do more. He did an inner child healing.

Speaker 1:

I went back to therapy. I got into coaching. I dove very deep into the den. I started connecting to den mates and all of these things. But I was in a season that I have nothing to give. So in that season the Lord started digging up some stuff. I heard Dr Darius say last year just because it hurt doesn't mean it's healed, and that they hit me. So I went through like digging deep into the molestation. I experienced the rejection. I experienced because that was my catalyst was rejection. And eight months in is when the Lord said when I said, do less so I could do more, it wasn't to do more for you, it was to do more in you. And he said I had to kill it on this level because where I'm taking you, it would kill you. Wow, yes.

Speaker 2:

So what's to come for coach Michelle and her multifaceted business?

Speaker 1:

So it is everything. Coachella TV.

Speaker 2:

So tell us about Coachella TV.

Speaker 1:

I went from having a show, one show, to having a channel that offers 24 seven programming, and I offer it in 30 minute intervals. So that means every day I can allow 48 content creators a space on TV.

Speaker 2:

Wow, that's a lot of content.

Speaker 1:

It is so there's so much opportunity and with Coachella it is our tagline is where inspiration meets action. Yes, so we have been inspired a lot. It's time to take action, yes, and we are doing that by bringing coaching to the nations. Wow, bringing it to Allah at the end of coaching means to ascend. We're bringing it to the forefront. We're bringing the experts, we're bringing the podcasters, we're bringing those coaches so that they are able to help people who otherwise would not get it at. Everybody watches TV, so we're going to provide you what you need how you want it.

Speaker 2:

Yes, and the channel, literally, that they wanted.

Speaker 1:

Yep.

Speaker 2:

That's so exciting, coach, michelle. It is very exciting. It's so exciting.

Speaker 1:

October 15th, and we have been building our team. We've been because I'm a process person. Yeah, I've been building SOPs, I've been creating workbooks, I've been creating handbooks and again, I am too. Wow, I think that's what everyone was to me. So when content creators show, run us, become a part of our Coachella family, we get them a Coachella playbook that tells me all the stuff that they need to know. So it is more important for me to not just give you a place to do it, but also teach you how to do it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, I mean, you're an educator, right, you're a teacher by heart, so it's part of your fulfillment.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

I mean it's a fulfillment that translates into a positive impact to those that you serve. Wow, yes, and.

Speaker 1:

Oh wow, y'all will be able to get this exclusive because it is still unfolding. We're going to have Coachella podcast radio.

Speaker 2:

Oh, wow, podcast radio. I mean, why not? You already have the content? Yep, amazing. Yes, oh my God, you know the I love for my audience. I want you to see the level of creativity that this woman of God has, because I mean I have a show but I haven't thought about having a podcast radio from it. I mean, with so many things that we do, that if we just take off those limits, as you said before, coach Michelle, like what else can it be right? Nothing that we're. I mean it doesn't even take new content, is the same content repurposed. Wow, for my audience, think about that.

Speaker 1:

Yes, my show, my show's title comes sit down, let's talk. So it's a TV show, it's on YouTube and it's a podcast. And now, wow, look, in a few months it's going to be on the podcast.

Speaker 2:

A radio. Amazing, amazing. Okay, coach Michelle, you mentioned legacy at some point. You talked about your dad, you talked about your grandson. What does legacy mean to you, coach Michelle, and the future of your business?

Speaker 1:

So my okay, I have three children on my birth and my three children are all entrepreneurs.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, what would you expect?

Speaker 1:

Because, like, it is good for you to have a job and the way I viewed my past job, it was my private investor and my job allowed me to dictate how I wanted to do business. Yes, so I've been able to create it how I wanted to, because I always had that side income. So my oldest son, he's a barber. My little boy, he's a recording artist and he wants to start doing events. And my daughter, she's getting ready, she's a nail tech, she does make up, she is getting ready to do a catering and hospitality company. Like, she wants to be able to assist business owners that when they have events, her company comes in and they are the hospitality, they run the food, they greet the guests, they have everything set up for them. So it is in our blood and this is how we create generational wealth, not just go start a business, but this is how we create wealth. Yes, because God has given us the power to obtain wealth and that power lies in our gifts.

Speaker 2:

Yes, I love it.

Speaker 1:

Every gift we were given, it was given to solve a problem. Yes, identify the problem you were created to solve. You will never be broke again.

Speaker 2:

Amen. Do you hear audience? If you identify the problem you were created to solve, you will not be broke anymore in the future. Amen.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

Wow, because I mean, really, a business is to solve a problem in the market. Yes, if you have the skills, the knowledge, the experience, you can solve that problem and then get a token of appreciation, as our pastured areas would say. Right, yep, wow, okay. So, as you were describing your job as a tool to allow you to grow your business, coach Michel, I remember the book Quitter, which basically talks about the strategy of tandem the business with the full-time job and allow you to reinvest in your business, right, yep, so that's really insightful. So what do you see living for your grandson now and those that who may come later, coach Michel?

Speaker 1:

I want to die empty, like I want to have given everything that I have. I put it in shows, I put it in books. I love it. I love that podcast. My shirt said workpreneur, workpreneur, dr D, like everything, like that's what I sell.

Speaker 2:

I sell words?

Speaker 1:

Yes, so everything that I've been able to leave into earth is my words, and I don't want to have to leave my children anything. I want them to already have it. They ain't going to have to go through the reading of a will, because everything I'm going to give to them, god's willing, I'm going to give it to them before I go Wow, so that they are able to then take it and utilize it. Like I'm teaching them about finances, I'm teaching them about budgeting. They grew up paying time from their allowance. They see me run business, like I used to call my children free labor, because in all of my businesses they, they, they helped to run them Like. So they grew up around business. So I've given to them already my legs.

Speaker 2:

Wow, wow, wow, that's, that's amazing. But yeah, totally, and that's never going to go away from them. Nope, wow, one very important question for my podcast show, coach Michelle, where you expected to be successful.

Speaker 1:

You know, to be honest, I was Tell us about it. So I'm the. I'm the 15th child between my parents. My dad has seven kids. When he met my mom, my mom had seven kids. So I'm either number 15 or number eight, which I'm either number 15, number eight or number one, because I'm the only child that my mom dad has together. So I've always the way I am. I've always operated in a genius level. I've always operated excellence. I've always been able to do so many things. So I really didn't have a choice. But to be successful, I really didn't have a choice because, like the Lord has, I've always known that there was a call on my life. As long as I can remember, the Lord always spoke directly to me. Like I, it was never where I needed someone to give me a word, because I always got my marching orders directly.

Speaker 2:

Wow.

Speaker 1:

I ministered a message for our at our ministry Sunday. I am a friend of God. Like I believe that I'm truly a friend of God, we walk together. We talk together Like he gives me direct instructions. So I I'm a friend of God. We we've real friends, that's awesome. May God tie like that.

Speaker 2:

So wow, wow, that's awesome and coach, michelle, for my audience, for the women who have been thinking about starting a business but haven't taken steps towards that. But they they that that pending item, and I love how you say you, you want to go, you want to die empty. What would you tell this woman to consider in the place they are right now?

Speaker 1:

One of my favorite quotes is by Nelson Mandela. He said I'm either winning or alarming Mm Mm-hmm. So there is no losing, so why not try?

Speaker 2:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1:

Wow, you're not going to lose. If anything, you're going to learn, and sometimes the lesson is, you'll learn how not to do it. So yes, try it.

Speaker 2:

Wow, that is so true. That is so true, coach, michelle. I mean so many things that I would love to ask you will have a a follow up, because I am so excited about what's going to come with the current businesses and with the expansion of the show and the TV and all the content creators that you're going to enable to get to their audiences, right?

Speaker 2:

I mean, that's another byproduct of of this amazing effort. So, for my audience, stay tuned because we will have a follow up. And the last question, coach Michelle, how can you summarize your journey as a business owner in one word?

Speaker 1:

Hmm, Multi-potential light.

Speaker 2:

Multi-potential light. Wow, which is your life? Yep, oh, wow, I I am amazed. I am honored to have heard these stories, coach Michelle, and for my audience, take your next step, because you have gifts that you have not deployed and there are people who are waiting for you to help them. So, coach Michelle, I appreciate you. I appreciate your time, your energy, your insights, until next time, for all my audience, more to come with unexpectedly successful the show.

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