A summary of things you should know about Memoirs of Normalcy according to Joleene Moody: Introduction In this episode Joleene Moody shares her book, Memoirs of Normalcy where she takesRead More
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]]>In this episode Joleene Moody shares her book, Memoirs of Normalcy where she takes you on a personal reinvention from sedentary to extraordinary.
In her book Moody shows you how the everyday choices we make and challenges we face affect us all and how you can overcome them with a fresh perspective. The goal of the book is to help you find your true calling while learning to love yourself exactly as you are in order to live your life to the fullest.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who are struggling to figure what it is that makes them happy and are ready to make significant changes to their life in order to define themselves.
It’s my voice. I’m not trying to show up as anybody else. I give the reader permission to follow their passions and if they don’t know what that is this book will give you tools to help you discover it.
I think the best way to read it is from front to back but there is no doubt you can open up a chapter that relates with you and dive right in.
Don’t you dare think that you’re not good enough or it’s too late. The one principle that I want the reader to take from this book is the permission that you can have what you want.
The book is written in two parts. The first part I call The Journey and the second part is called Do Something Different.
In the first part that I call The Journey I am sharing with the reader their own journey. When someone is telling us their story there is always pieces of it that we can relate to. So the very first chapter I call A Short Story and what that chapter entails is I share my journey as a television report. I really believed that this was something I wanted to do but I quickly out grew it because I recognized I wasn’t fully embracing everything about me. I share how I pushed to get that very first job as a reporter and how quickly I realized that it wasn’t for me.
The second chapter is titled There is No Such Thing as Instant Gratification. This follows my stories because I, like so many others, really believed that if I wanted something I could get it and get it fairly quickly. Our culture teaches us that if we don’t get it quickly than maybe we are doing it wrong or maybe it’s not for us. So I talk about how there really is no such thing as instant gratification.
In chapters three, four, and five I talk to the reader about giving yourself permission to trust those voices within and trying to not listen to the voices on the outside.
Chapter six I call Follow the Signs and what I talk about is how to dig deeper to discover what those truths, talents, and desires are.
In the last part of the book I documented a two week stay at a Buddhist temple where I felt the most lost and confused. I did the craziest thing at the time which was to lock myself up in the Kadampa Meditation Center to take in a spiritual quest so that I could clear the cobwebs and understand what it is that I wanted. The bottom line is if we ignore our truth or give us reason as to why we can’t explore what we love than we are choosing to live an excruciating painful life. We are choosing to live in this box that society wants us to live in and not our own.
“ It doesn’t matter who you are, how old you are, where you came from, what your income is like, whether or not you have an education, where you live, what you’ve done in your past, none of it matters. You can still have, do or be anything that you want. The only limitations you face are the ones you put before you.” – Joleene Moody
I’m a passion shift coach, an author, and a speaker. Basically what I do is I guide people to the place that they really need to be, and want to be, and desire to be. I’m also a business coach and I help people take their desires and find a stage so that they can share their message. I’m a voice for other people that have lost their own and live the life that they were meant to live.
I worked as a television reporter and anchor for 10 years and I didn’t love it. I was one of those people that merely existed in life. I wrote this book for other people that are afraid to leave the security of their life to explore what they really want to do.
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Life By The Cup according to Zhena Muzyka Introduction In this episode, Zhena Muzyka shares Life By The Cup, a book sheRead More
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]]>In this episode, Zhena Muzyka shares Life By The Cup, a book she wrote to help other entrepreneurs, as well as other people, find their dream, claim it and go after it. Each chapter is short enough to read in the time it takes you to have your morning cup of tea or coffee and teaches you how to hone, clarify and discern your calling and how to really believe in it.
There aren’t a lot of books about social responsible businesses. There aren’t a lot of books about having $6 the day you start and building multi-millions of dollars in revenue. I created each chapter short enough to read in the time it takes you to have your morning cup of tea or coffee.
Most readers are reading from start to finish and then coming back to it as a reference. But you can also skip around and that would work too.
I think it’s answering the call. I talk a lot about answering a call in business and in life. You have no physical proof or evidence that that call is necessarily real, it just is a feeling. And I actually teach the reader how to hone, clarify and discern their calling and how to really believe in it.
The first chapter starts with how to deal with frustration, pain, heartache and any challenging situation that comes to your life. At the time I was dealing with my son’s birth defect and the fact that health insurance companies wouldn’t cover him because birth defects, at the time, were considered preexisting conditions.
I learned how we can actually reframe pain and allow it to serve us and create more capacity for success and love in our life. It starts with that and goes into learning how to ask for help which I had a really hard time with. After that I go into showing up when you don’t feel like you’re ready to start.
I put in an offer on a location to open up my tea shop and didn’t get financed for it but ended up bringing in all my ideas and working for the man who owned the shop. That worked out amazing because I got to learn the ropes of business in a way that I wouldn’t have otherwise gotten a chance to learn. From there I talk about how to turn burdens into blessings. We had very limited funds when I started building the brand so I learned how to take every single challenge or burden and actually turn it into an opportunity.
I also teach about collaboration skills, how to collaborate to be great and also how to cultivate curiosity. In chapter twelve I teach the reader how to gain perspective when you are so busy and there is so much on your plate. From there I go into how to self-validate. A lot of times when you launch a business, before you launch it you have to be firm in your understand and your belief in the product and your ability to do it. The last chapter is about giving, social responsibility and how generosity can eliminate fear in a business. I really feel that it’s a great, quick and entertaining read for any entrepreneur out there.
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” –Frank A. Clark
“With a mission to serve, you cannot fail.” – Zhena Muzyka
I am a social entrepreneur, I believe that business can heel and change the world. I built a business starting out with $6, no resource training and a baby who needed an operation. I took my gypsy heritage and background in herbal medicine and created gypsy tea parties which grew into a brand seen as Gypsy Tea. Over the course of 13 years I built the business focused primarily on covering healthcare for my son and becoming an advocate for the tea workers who needed healthcare in the tea fields. The products have been in over 20,000 stores and now I am focused on distilling everything I’ve learned and putting it in to content for other entrepreneurs to learn from and grow their business.
I felt strongly that I needed to write this book to help other entrepreneurs, as well as other people, find their dream, claim it and go after it.
Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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