Start a Business or Stay in Your Job? Find Out What’s Right for You

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Unlock. We're all about those light bulb moments. I'm talking to people who are still trying to figure out what they're meant to do, coaching them life to reach that magical, yes, this is it moment, and we'll also hear from those who've already found their dream careers and figure out exactly how they did it.

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This coaching session is grounded in the sparko type assessment developed by Jonathan Fields. If you've been following me for a while, you've lightly heard me talking about it many times. If you are new to it, the Sparky type assessment is all about uncovering the essential nature of work that filt you with meaning, helps you feel fully expressed.

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Her Shadow Spark type is the nurturer, which is all about giving care and deeply supporting others. You'll hear how much her spark type profile shows up in the way she leads, connects, and dreams about the future. Right now, she's in the middle of a big transition. Moving countries, launching a new career path and tapping into a calling to create a coaching business that empowers women.

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But I'm still working though. But eventually I want to transition into that 'cause I think I love it. Oh, and I can so see that already in you. Um, give me to start off this, give me a little bit of a background on your professional journey. What I, obviously I've read the form and I know, but it's always different to hear it from you.

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So basically what I was doing then was to keep records of fiscal assets, inventory and, and all that. And then after that I got promoted after I think about three years. Um, I went to be an assistant manager in payments, so here I did a lot of accounting work and then my last permission was also to position of a deputy manager, and this time was develop my finance and what we were doing.

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Thanks so much for sharing that. And what do you do currently then? Currently I'm working with a company. I also doing financial. I just got the job not too long ago. Oh, congratulations. Also, just financial role. I, I like the job and I'm very good at it, but it's just this, you know, deep inner craving of something that I want to fulfill, so that's why I'm looking at how to start that so that I can.

Maybe over the years transitioning into it. I love that so much for you. And so I had to take the Sparky type assessment, which is an assessment that does not measure necessarily what we're good or bad at. It measures what fills us with energy and gives us that feeling of meaning and purpose and also what tends to drain us.

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Yes, absolutely. Deeply. Deeply. Yeah. What I saw, I was like, Hmm, okay. So that why I like to give advice. Like someone could walk up to me and say, maybe even not work and say, I have this problem, I have this. And I don't just feel like you're telling me. Something in me thinks, oh, get a solution. So I immediately turn on the bottle like, oh, I think he can do this, and that, and that, that, and I just go off and, you know, of course with maturity, I have to learn.

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Yes, there have been. For instance, 'cause I had to manage him. And so I've had issues where a team member is not really, you know, pulling his weight and then others are just complaining and like mumbling and accusing him for the reason, um, why there are lapses in the team. And it just, I just feel, okay, everyone is complaining, but.

Something must be wrong with him. So when needs to find out Yeah, what's wrong with him and prepare a solution to help him out. So yeah, at such cases I would call the team member and say, Hey, what's up? This is what's happening. Is there anything you would like to share? Is there any way I can help you, anyone, your boss, but just come down, you know, just here I can help you.

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oh, I have this issue, and I [: 00:09:00

I would want to follow up, like, okay, so how did it go? Did you take the advice, okay, did this happen or not to worry, let you know. I'd like to help you get up and practically work with you through the journey. Yeah. So yeah, it really resonated with me and like I said, over the years as I began to get, you know, become more mature, I realized, okay, you have to do this with wisdom.

Not everybody wants you into their space full time. So, yeah. That's a beautiful quality that you have and it, I can just hear how deeply you care about people, maybe too much. There can also be even you do the work that we love and we do it too much. That can also be draining, especially when you are a caretaker and you love helping others.

it depletes you. Yeah. Yeah. [: 00:10:00

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I can see that in the Sparky type assessment. Um, it has the profiles on a spectrum or the profiles exist on a spectrum from very process driven to very service driven. So the process driven ones love the process of learning, like on a very process driven spec type. You can lock me in an office, give me a good problem to solve.

or and nurture, they're very [: 00:11:00

Yes, I feel it is really important because I like to know how people feel not just working with them. So yeah, I'd like to say, okay, how can I help you? Can I, uh, there anything I can do to make your work better? But I would say that there are times, because I consider myself kind of. Somehow introverted at the same time.

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Yeah. And as an introvert, I'm wondering if it is, if you prefer to do this in larger group settings or if you more energized when it's one-on-one or small group settings with others. Um, right now I do boot camp at work. I, I have to attend in large groups. Yeah, but on my own and say, I love the one-on-one because I get to hear your deep concern.

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So knowing when you're envisioning about starting your own business down the road, what do you see yourself doing? Okay. Um, I see myself having a coaching business. Um, it'll be online because I can be in so many places that same time. So I see myself starting instead of coaching business, and I particularly really love helping women get a voice.

me see, you know, I come out [: 00:14:00

So I also see myself helping women in, in that section, maybe women who have been abused, um, women who, you know, don't have, um, confidence, self-esteem, don't believe in themself. Mm-hmm. Uh, I, I know I can help them to come up and be who they really want to be. That's beautiful. Well, and do you see yourself working with women in Africa mainly, or were you globally, um, who do you feel most drawn to helping right now?

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Yeah. Yeah. And there is something, which someone said that to me once, and it resonated for me so much that we often are drawn to helping our younger selves of. Exactly. Helping move her when we grew up or when we were younger or early in life. Yeah, because I, I know the struggles too. Well, I know the culture too well.

I know the, you know the environment. Yeah. So I, I know how to help you. Together. Yeah. Yeah. And just curious, and there's definitely no right or need to or have to here, but I'm curious, you have so much experience in the financial and economic side. Would you want to bring some of that in your coaching too?

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Yeah. So there are a lot of people. Who are working, but their finances I met. So yeah. So I noticed women, 'cause I have friends call me up and Okay. A friend of mine was like, she's a stay at home mom and basically her, her husband was bringing most of the finances and so she, she was like, I know well, but he also had access to that account.

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Yeah, I would think that's beautiful to use your expertise and the knowledge you have in the financial systems and in banking to support and help women have a voice. 'cause knowing your finances or having understanding about how to manage your finances gives you a lot of power or a lot of confidence that you can be on your own.

Yeah. Yeah. And then in cases of, like I said, of cases of abuse, a lot of them are stuck because of finances. Yeah. Because they just depended solely on the man and it's like, okay, I don't think I want to continue this anymore, but I've got no money. What do I do? Right. Yeah. So that financial literacy and knowledge, they begin to know what steps to take and how to find your own feet basically.

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Build on top. I do feel like that would be really something that sets you apart as a coach. That sounds good. Yeah, I knocked that a bit, but I haven't really thought a bit at my special addition and yeah. That's good. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. And what, how do you feel about starting a coaching business?

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Why would someone be drawn to me? Yeah. So those are some of the questions I've been trying to answer, like. What can I do differently to attract my own self ance? And also how can I make it successful, you know, a thriving business that eventually when I'm ready to let go of working for people like the nine to five grand, uh, I won't feel, you know, financially drained.

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Then I give my full attention to it. So I think there's, uh, major concern. Yes. Very importantly, how to make it global. Yeah. Yes. I'm trying to help African women, but yeah, I'm open to help everybody. Yeah. Um, so when you are thinking about. Ideal clients that you want to serve. So women who want to have a voice who might have been abused, lack confidence, lack self-esteem, um, and we are thinking about maybe more North America since that is likely claims.

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I, I kind of find that even older women have these issues. Like a friend was speaking to me recently of another friend who was 50 with such issues, and in my mind I'm like, I can totally help her. I know what to do to help her. But, um, I think I'd be comfortable with the younger ones. Yeah. Yeah. And. So when you think, think about your ideal client.

your head of, maybe it's the [: 00:22:00

Um, they, they have the feeling or idea or knowing deep within that things are not going well. Mm-hmm. And they probably heard people say, do this and do that, but another part of their, their mind or their brain or heart or something, tell them, but if you do this, this will go wrong. Mm-hmm. So they're playing that story over and over their head like.

know what to do, and so they [: 00:23:00

What are their life circumstances?

Like I said, being in an, in an environment, it could be at work, it could be especially relationships where they feel they can't be themselves, where they, they don't trust that they can be themselves really Uhhuh. Where they have to just, you know, pretend to be something else just so that they can survive and, and mm-hmm.

especially back home, is the [: 00:24:00

Emotional abuse is abuse. Psychological abuse is abuse. So usually they're in that sort of setting where they're being, um, abused and they do not know what to do about it because they feel that they can't really do anything about it, that nobody's going to, you know, nothing to them. Yeah. Yeah. So it's women who are.

Who feel really stuck in unhealthy, toxic, abusive environments? Yeah. Either home environments or community environments or work probably more home or work environments, that their environment that's really eroded their sense of self, that lowered their confidence, lowered their self-esteem. They can't be themselves and they don't know how to get out.

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Read so that they can express themselves. Mm-hmm. Uh, however they want to be whatever they are thinking without any, um, without bothering about what people say or think or if they accepted or not. And then they would regain their confidence. Mm-hmm. Gain their self esteem, gain self learn. And they would, they would.

hmm. And, you know, begin to [: 00:26:00

You are just going up and down in your head over and over, around and around. So when those blockages are out mm-hmm. They're able to tell me what they want to do with their life and, um, so forth. Mm-hmm. And excel. And how would their external environment change, or how would, how would their life circumstances change in an ideal case scenario?

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And then too. They would be more productive with whatever it is they decide to do. Some of them may already be doing, um, something working or having a business, but with that clock, it, it doesn't bring the productivity to the level that's supposed to be, so they'll be more productive with whatever they're doing, and they'll be, they'll feel the inner peace.

turing it as when the client [: 00:28:00

Box container, like this environment that they just feel like suffocated in. It's like an unhealthy, toxic, abusive environment. They can't be themselves. And then through working with you, they get to break free out of that and be themselves and find joy and have open, be open, have an open mind, um, to self love confidence.

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That comes to me. I'm a spiritual person. And so, um, for me, mine will be seeing yourself how your maker sees you. Hmm, yes. How you are seen by the divine. You, you are seeing yourself to the wrong lenses. And so you are not seeing yourself how you really are, and you're not seeing who you really are. So when you are able to see through the eyes of your maker through the eyes of the divine, that you are like, that you are supernatural, that you are powerful, that you're not your circumstance, that you are special.

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Situation. So by the time they see that, then they would say, oh. I don't deserve this. Mm-hmm. It's not my fault. Whatever was went wrong went wrong, and I don't deserve it. Right. So that would be the first thing I would do. And then secondly, out getting to the stories that they've been telling themselves for years.

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Mm-hmm. You know, something happened 15 years ago, but here I'm 20 years older now and. That's the path, but I'm still relieving that story. Yeah. So get them to the stories, um, get them to work on their limited beliefs. Mm-hmm. You know? Yeah. So the work on this limiting beliefs so that they make space for the right beliefs to help them, so another thing I would like to do is to, um, find their heart's desire, you know, let them know that it is safe to bring out what you really want mm-hmm.

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I would like to help them with, um, their finances because like I said, you know, people get stuck. Because they're like, okay, I dunno how to make money. I don't have years of experience and being a stay at home mom. Nobody's going to employ me. How do I get, yeah. So I would help them with that, how they can raise finances.

And yeah, so I would hope them would be, spend so much more. Yeah. Sorry. I love that. So what I've taken so far is that you would work with women who, who are really closed in. Via unhealthy, toxic, abusive environment, they can't be themselves. And then when they work with you, they first learn to see themselves through a new lens or through a divine lens.

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So in order, couple of things to, in order what I would suggest to make that happen once, have you thought about taking a coaching certification? Yes, I have. And I'm looking at starting around in the next month. Oh. Next two months. Yeah. But yeah, I love that. I think that's gonna be fantastic. And then I'm also thinking start building a brand for yourself and you can reflect back on our conversation, everything else that comes up to you.

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Where could they find you? And even before you offer coaching, ideally a year before you start offering coaching, build the community. Start puling maybe once or twice a week, and then eventually go to three or four times a week and talk about these. Either yourself, like before and after. Okay. Um, so you can talk about that, the pain point, the pain they're feeling before, and then the after of how different your life is.

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What's one thing you can do to help you slow down and find your hard desires? What's a financial tip that can help someone in that situation seen? Mm-hmm. And through sharing that content and building your audience and your people will start knowing you for that, they'll think, oh, I am like, she really gets me.

to you and be like, what you [: 00:36:00

And then you get them, you start a conversation and the dms be like, identify. Ask them questions, be curious about them, get them on a call and see if you'd be the right person to help them. And that can then naturally transition into coaching. Okay. Well, sounds good. Okay. That's absolutely good. That's a very good, um, I can start with that, but would you suggest that I start before the certification or, oh.

and look at her now, or she [: 00:37:00

Also writing about finance. She knows how to help women with. Being in charge of their finances. So don't overthink it. Don't feel like you have to have all the answers, but just sharing those small pieces, you'll be surprised of how many things are probably so common knowledge for you, especially in finance, that others are like, I haven't thought about that.

Or, yes, I can do that, or, wow. Yeah, that would give me a sense of sales back. Okay. I think that really helps. Don't overthink it. Yeah. Because sometimes, um, I get in my head I'm like, oh, what about this? Or how about that? And yeah. And when you start content creation, just think about do you re, I don't know if you active on social media, but do you remember a post that you saw three days ago?

body? Yeah. For like, I just [: 00:38:00

Scroll past and no one remembers it. And if it's a good post, it starts a conversation. So don't be too afraid about putting yourself out there. That's gonna be an amazing start for your business. What's your takeaway from today's session? Oh wow. This has been amazing. Like I said, I have thought about this thing, but you've helped me to, to sort of organize it.

steps can you take? And very [: 00:39:00

And community and when I'm ready to go, it like work. It takes up. Yeah, that that. Excellent. Thank you so much. You are welcome. I love that so much for you Wow. What a powerful session. I hope you felt as inspired listening as I did coaching. I'm always blown away by the courage it takes to not only reflect deeply on your path, but also to speak your truth and imagine something bigger for yourself.

And if you're in a season of reimagining your career, I want you to remember the following key takeaways from this episode. First, career clarity is essential when you know what kind of work truly lights you up. Not just what you're good at, but what fills you with meaning. You are able to make aligned decisions.

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When you can clearly articulate what you bring to the table and what problems you help to solve, you not only build credibility, but also forge emotional connections with your audience, no matter if those are potential clients or a potential new employer. And third, start before you feel ready, whether you're dreaming of launching a business, changing careers, or stepping into a more aligned life path.

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Let this be your permission slip to begin. If you resonated with this episode, I encourage you to check out the spark type assessment for yourself. It is such a powerful tool to better understand what truly energizes you and why certain work just feels off. And of course, if you're dreaming about a career shift on one clarity and support, I'd love to walk alongside you in that journey.

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