How To Activate Your Purpose - Tamra Andress

SPEAKER_02 0:04

This is the Beyond the Story Podcast, a show that goes way beyond the story. And now, Sebastian Frost. Tamra Andris, what's happening, Rockstar?

SPEAKER_00 0:27

Oh, you know, just doing the bang. That's what we're called to do every single day. Just show up for life, and I'm doing so joyfully. Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_02 0:34

I love that attitude. My goodness. I thought I was enthusiastic and uh and optimistic. So you and I connected on Clubhouse initially, didn't we?

SPEAKER_00 0:44

We did, and you have such a good Clubhouse voice. It's like so sound. It's so like round. It's like, oh, that's such a good sound. What do you got that in your belly?

SPEAKER_02 0:53

It's a gift.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

It is, it is.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

It is a gift. So uh it's great to e-meet you in person here and get you on the show. And I like to tell people stories on my podcast. So you've everyone's got an interesting story that led them to where we're at right now. So let's let's just back up a little bit. We were talking for a couple minutes right before we got started here uh about your podcast and we're gonna get into that. But how how did this how did you get to where you're at right now? When when when did all that start to unfold? Maybe you can walk us through the park on on on when you decided that uh or didn't decide that this is where I was going to end up. We just wanted to back up a little bit to the beginning of the story.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

Yeah, I love that. And and it's always funny. I never know where I'm gonna jump into the story because the beginning is like birth, right? And so I'm like, do we want to go that far back? I mean, I've always been somebody who um loves taking the stage. My my mom handed a mic to me pretty early on. Um we even would get up on the on the fireplace and during the summertime and to all those parents listening out there, this is a great activity. You read your book and at the end of the week, book report. It's not just a book report and turn it in. We would have to stand up on the fireplace and present it. And so I got it used to speaking in front of people very soon, very early. Uh, the entrepreneurial bug bit me uh when I was in high school. My mom was an entrepreneur, and so she exampled that for me forever. And it was uh entrepreneurship out of our home. So that was an even cooler connection to see it from all the back end, all the time that's invested, all of those things I knew. Um, and so when I went to business school and uh started creating what would be what I thought my forever dream project, I didn't ever go to a job fair, um, never wrote a resume. I knew I was gonna have my own business. And so uh I did just that. And the the business plan that I had curated when I was in college ended up being exactly what my mom and I brought to fruition in my 20s. Um, so I bartended my way into building a business. And uh I was a personal trainer and nutrition uh coach as well in the process. And I was doing beachside boot camps for women for a while, and we created a brick and mortar store for uh pregnant women and did a lot of cool entrepreneurial side gigs within that. And it was about four years in, and I had uh two men approach me inside of the store, and one was from Australia and one was local, and they were investing in the number one nursing brawl in Australia, and they wanted to bring it to the American market. Two dudes don't know much about that. And so as they sat for coffee right across the way, they saw a maternity store and said, Hey, that's a good place to start. And they ran into me and all of my energy. And so uh I thought, hey, I am a nursing mama. I have got all of the energy that you could possibly need and the vision to be able to bring this to life for you. So doing that, uh, I went hardcore. I was an achiever. I was am still an achiever, uh, number three on the Enneagram scale, if you'd know anything about the Enneagram.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

And so success driven. Um, and I let that take control of my life. Um, I was for the titles, I was for the accolades, I was the CEO of two businesses. And my marriage and my baby, who was a two and one at the time, um, they didn't get the attention that I uh wanted to be, or the person that I integrity and prayed to be, I was not being. Um I was working 60, 70 hours a week, letting the pings of entrepreneurship in the good way and the dollar signs uh dictate where I was going. So I was 29 and I pulled into my driveway after a long day, and my barely waddling nine-month-old who had just weaned from nursing doing the thing that I was right called to do. Um, she turned and walked away the other way. And when that happened, that was kind of a trigger moment for me of is this my tombstone? Is this what I want to be, an entrepreneur on my tombstone, or do I want to be the proud wife and mom that I had always prayed for? And uh that was just the starting point to a lot of breakdown. Um, I came into this conversation with my husband about what's making me happy, what's not making me happy, what choices was I making, what choices was I not making, um, using societal norms such as alcohol to suppress emotion, um, to get out of conversations that were difficult, uh, to not be a mom, to not be a wife, and you know, the happy hour routine, right? Everybody going and doing the things that are deemed normal in society and yet we're putting aside the things that I think we're meant to do. Um, so for about three and a half years, I laid all of that down. Uh, I pursued motherhood. I pursued being a wife. Uh, I pursued my faith for the first time in a way that I had never experienced before. Um, Jesus got a hold of me, I like to say, and shook my life upside down, upside right. And um I felt completely while I lost the identity of the CEO positions, the things that I thought I had worked my whole life for at the time, I gained a new perspective and I gained joy and I gained um those tombstone things that I know that I can proudly own as my own one day, whenever that uh day comes. So that's a bit about story. As I said yes to entrepreneurship again, I did it with uh alignment. And instead of striving, I did it out of joy, and I did it out of a knowing, a deep knowing of what my um priorities looked like. And so I now serve from a place of um just giving and rather than receiving. And I think when I changed that mentality, abundance uh was right there at the corner waiting for me. God's blessings are are new every day and his promises are still true. But when you go after it from a perspective of greed, and I say it being money, um, or success, or even um even the impact, right? So many people just want to make an impact nowadays, and they think that impact parallels with finances, and that's not always the case. You know, there's fruits of this spirit, goodness, kindness, uh, joy. And so I I really pursue from that place of receiving rather than um than the monetary piece. But that that comes too, which is pretty awesome. So that's that's me in a nutshell, starting from the beginning to here we are today. That was a lot of cut talking, but you're the podcast host. What do you got for me?

SPEAKER_02 7:25

80 80-20 rule, right? Let them talk 80% of the time, or you suck at podcasting. So uh so what what brought you to the point that you knew that it was in fact God saying, Hold on a second. If you want to embrace everything that I've that I've that I've that I've brought for, everything that you prayed for all of your life is now here, but you're not who you need to be in order to control. What what was that turning point? When was that where like, hold on a second, I'm doing this wrong and my identity is found in things of this earth, and and and that's that's not what our faith teaches us. Our faith teaches us that our identity is found in God and being able to to to to play out the the the the fruits of our or uh embrace or excuse me, take advantage of the fruits of our labor based on the gifts and the talents that He's been able to give us. So what did that look like when you started to unpack that?

SPEAKER_00 8:17

Yeah, that's a loaded question as well. Uh really, I think therapy is really what helped me in the uncovering of that. Um, I am very strong-willed, and I was taught that by my father. And um, so the deposits from both of my parents and you know, we're we're regardless of how great they are as parents, my parents were amazing. Um, they're they're coming at it, they're parenting from a limited perspective.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

They're parenting with with one lens, they're parenting from generational bondage or generational passes that they haven't yet to even uncover. Um my parents never went to therapy. And so when I was sitting on the couch thinking, I don't need to be there. Yeah, so taboo. Mental health was not a thing. That's that's the couple that goes to therapy.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

Yeah. As if there wasn't enough gossip in the church anyway.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

Yes, you're so right. You're so right. So it was an uncovering process. Um, I even at the beginning of therapy, because I had white lied myself to this point. I had I had given myself and told myself little white lies about who I was, what was expected of me, who expected what of me. I was a people pleaser. Uh, I wore a mask that I didn't know I even had on me. You know, I was I'm Jim Carrey with the part where literally the mask won't come off. It's now my identity. And so I never let anybody in. I never was fully honest with myself. My mirror moments were very exterior. Uh and so God, even though God knows every hair on my head and he knows every intimate thought and and pattern of my life, I wasn't willing to admit those things to myself until I was in therapy. And they were able to help uncover pieces to my life that I didn't even recognize I had suppressed so much. One of which was the fact that I was sexually abused when I was three years old by a child who was mentally handicapped and about 10, but looked like the size of an adult. And um, so that was the start to cycles. That was the start to sex addition addictions, that was the start to cyber sex when AOL dial up internet happened. Thank God I didn't have access to Snapchat and Playboy and all of these things that society told me was what I had to be as a woman. I leaned into them because it was an expectation that the opposite sex had for me. And I allowed it to be okay. And so, identity and conversations like that, I never understood. Um, and I struggled with deeply. And so uncovering that through again, years of therapy, not just my own, but also marriage therapy. Imagine being married to someone who was wearing a mask. Like literally, he said I do, and he didn't know. I was just thinking because I didn't know me.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

Yeah, right. I was just thinking, what your husband must have been in for a wild ride. Holy cow.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

He's a saint, you guys. But at the same time, you know, mind you, we all come from a baggage. He had never been to therapy either. So this is his first time in therapy. Coming into alignment and identity of himself and uncovering emotions that had been suppressed from his childhood. I mean, if one is gonna do it, both of you have to do it because it would be one of those things where I was escalating at a supersonic speed in a good way, escalating to the point of self-awareness, uh, emotional awareness. That identity piece, because it was a Christian therapist, was massive. Um, I was also pursuing about a year and a half in my ordination and minister's licensing, which sounds crazy to do simultaneously. Um, but again, God got a hold of me and he just shook me to the place of like, there is more for you. And what specifically happened was an encounter with him in the midst of my shame, in the midst of my guilt, where he said, I see you, I know you, all of you, and I still love you. And I had never been seen, I had never been fully known, and I never felt fully loved. And so that was the journey that I was set out to um to learn and also f in God's eyes, I don't have to earn, but I wanted to from my spouse so deeply.

unknown 12:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:25

Amazing. That uh why first of all, I think I appreciate your transparency, but that's what it's all about, especially once the mask's off, keep it off. Don't put it back on.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

For real.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

Because nobody cares. No, nobody cares because everyone's concerned on what they've got going on for themselves. So you might as well keep the mask off. I I went through a similar journey. I did I didn't learn my identity, and I didn't learn the path that I should be on from the church. I I'm a recovered Baptist, is like what I refer to as um myself as because I grew up in a Southern Baptist church, and a lot of that was brimstone and fire, and you're going to hell, and and and manipulation of the gospel, which still happens to this day. And it's it's it took a long time for me to realize who my parents really were. I had an outstanding relationship with my mother. My parents split when I was nine, and I'd had a troubled relationship with my dad up until gosh, a year ago, when it just when I thought it was all resolved, but I found it through the path of, well, I say these these these classes and these courses found me, but I found them through means of personal development courses that I didn't ordinarily. I set out to say I'm gonna go see Tony Robbins, and then I ended up at the landmark forum for a weekend. And I don't know if you're familiar with landmark at all, but it's a total, complete mind bang for three days, and you you don't really know what's going on, but you are forced to sit there and better understand your story of what happened, what really happened. Yeah, and that takes a while to unpack because we can our our our layers of of being able to sell ourselves on our own BS is uh is is is is something in and of itself. But when we're able to look at it and and realize, and I'll never forget, in fact, the instructor uh for for the landmark forum uh was a guy by the name of Gary John Bishop. Gary's gone on to write several books and and he's got a great podcast. Um and uh he he's just gone on to do some incredible work, but he was my instructor, oddly enough, and he's a Scottish guy. So not only does he give you that hug with a slap in the back of the head, but he's got that Scottish accent too. Yeah, yeah. And I'll never forget him saying that it's all your fault. And majority of everything you're saying is bullshit. And I thought who is this guy? Yeah, it is. It's all bullshit, all of it. Yeah, in fact, one day you're gonna die, they're gonna put you in a box, they're gonna throw you in the ground, kick some dirt on top of you, and everyone's gonna forget about you in a week.

unknown 14:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:53

And I thought the audacity of this guy. And then at the end of everything, he goes, I'm gonna tell you why you've been here for four days. Okay, I'm gonna tell you the meaning for I'm gonna do the reason behind all of this. Are you ready? And I go, Oh, everyone's on the edge of their seats. So I'm ready, of course, I'm ready. Life is empty and meaningless. Ecclesiastes. Wow. It's all sort of so as this so then that was it. So then I was like, okay, I'm on it. But I still didn't, I started to understand what it looked like to identify, but I still was doing it for the the ego came in. Well, I just got done walking on fire with Tony Robbins. I just got you became a personal development junkie, and then and then I would meet individuals that would invite me to to do things like breath work and like deep energy work. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know what the Bible has to say about all this. And I was completely resistant, but I was resistant from ego, ego, ego. I've got it all figured out, I've got it all figured out. I would never go and do until I realized, you know what, maybe I don't care where these people's walk of life, where they came from, what they think, the belief, it doesn't matter. God will do whatever it takes to act mightily on his behalf, and he'll utilize whatever. So maybe, maybe Jesus sent these people to me. And let me lean into it. And I'm telling you right now, Tamara, I it's it's been about four years now that I've been doing this whole breath work and energy and acupuncture and move. Because I I like to believe that and I just had a conversation with a friend earlier this morning, and he's going through a real tough time right now. And I said, you know, you're not gonna think your way out of this, and you're also not gonna pray your way out of this. Yeah. That was a pretty bold thing to say as a Christian. I'm not gonna pray my way. No, no, no, no. Because we've got a direct line and connection to be able to pray about whatever we'd like, but God also sits back and says, Okay, you're gonna go to work now. Yeah. So uh it's it it's it's it's incredible to see how life continues to unpack and and and and and how our our journey is isn't always furthest from what we actually expect it to be. I'm now a a devout Christian and and and uh and and I and I love Jesus, and that's my story. And and that's okay if other people don't think that that's their story, and that's okay too. I just know that um I'll never forget reading in the in the in a book called Um Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala. It's a story of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. And he said, My greatest fear was going through life without God acting mightily on my behalf. And that shook me to my core. And I thought, holy cow, if I'm not doing that where I'm allowed, uh I'm able to have my faith play out in my business and in my life, because I mean, let's face it, I mean, this is our mission field. Everybody at church is already at church. So I like to think that my podcast, my platform, my why do I want to, why do I speak for a living? Is it all ego? Is it the stage? Is it no, it's not. It's that we've got this unique gift, and and we all have got it, some more than others, to be able to speak into people's lives from such an authentic and raw space. I always say, you know, some of my my best witnessing has been done at three o'clock in the morning at a bar or, you know, I I love Jesus, but I cuss a lot. I mean, these are relatable things where people are like, holy cow, but guess what? That kick it that kick kicks open doors of transparency of people that are in ministry, of people on the street, of people of no faith, of atheists, etc. So uh it's just exciting to see someone equally as enthusiastic to say, hey, listen, here's where the mess was, but here's what the message has become, and he's not done yet. So it's just exciting.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

A thousand percent. And that's the part that is the most exciting is to know that I'm still in this process of becoming and really leaning into that and being okay with the imperfect. Somebody said the other day when I was on stage, she was like, I was so drawn to you, I was so drawn to your messiness. Yeah. And immediately I was like, Oh, how could you say that? That's so rude. And I was like, Oh my gosh, I love that because that's exactly what I strive for. Like, I there is no perfection here. And because I strive for perfection for so long and realize that it does not exist here on earth, right? Is the knowing that I am this way for a reason. And yet I have an amazing ability, just like you do, just like everybody does, to connect through empathy with people if I'm willing to be the brave one and say the thing that is what people are thinking and to do the thing that they want to do, but they're never willing to do because they're not comfortable. And so getting uncomfortable with people, saying the hard thing, those are just examples of ways that you can actually experience God in such an incredible way. Because then it's not for yourself. That ego is definitely put to the side. He gets to be magnified. How could you be so strong to do something like that? How could you be so bold? How could you be so kind to go out of your way and make this bold statement or this bold action? And it's the knowing that it's through him and by him. Um, and so I I totally agree with you. One thing that you did say that really spoke to me, and I think people need to recognize, especially as we talked about mental health before, is this knowing that in the mental health journey, oftentimes there is this rooted experience. You're you're learning about your past, you're putting into play how it's affected who you are. But the one thing you said that I think is so critical is that we also have to raise our hand. That person said that it was your fault. It's the knowing that we make choices. We were gifted free will. And in that free will, sure, the enemy is at play all the time. Sure, there are people who will come into your life to put you down a different path than you were intended, but you do have a choice. And I always think back to that cartoon of like the little white, the little angel on one side, the little devil on one side, like constantly at war. And that's a real thing. Every single day I have a choice to wake up joyfully or wake up as the wrong side of the bed, right? And I can wake up in that as a mom, as a wife, as an entrepreneur, as a coach, as a friend, as a sister, all the roles that we play, we get a choice in every single day. But to recognize at the end of the day, if you're not feeling like you're standing in integrity, if you're not feeling energized by the life that you just led in the last 24 hours, you had a choice in the way that you show up. Are you working a nine to five that's literally depleting you of every sense of joy that you have? Are you living just for the happy hour? Are you living just for the weekend? And there's so many perspectives on that. And I think about that mind, body, soul alignment and how critical it was to my growth. Having that personal training and nutrition background has been inevitable and critical and essential to the knowing of myself today. Um, I have a lot of women who will come to me that I'm a business coach, but I do a lot more mind, body, soul work than I do business coaching. Because if we are thinking that by building a business, we'll have achieved, we'll have the success, we'll have the life we always dreamed of. And yet mentally we're broken, spiritually, we're broken, physically, we're not healthy. Those things, it's like building that business on sand. Rather than the firm foundation of the rock, just like that says biblically.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

Right. And I I tried it.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

It didn't work out. So to take it from somebody who went ahead. Yeah, it's not sustainable at all. It's not sustainable because something's gotta give. And so build yourself, build your life around your being, the being that is your identity through his lens, and everything else falls into place in such a magnificent way. Exceedingly and abundantly more than you could ask, hope, or imagine. And that is inclusive of your dreams.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

It really is. It really is. I'll never forget Tony Robbins telling the story of Jim Rohn telling him one time Tony, become a millionaire for the person that you become while becoming a millionaire. It's not about the money because nothing's sustainable, especially especially money or anything. We're not, there's no, you're not taking any of it with you. I don't care who you are, what you're doing. You're you're leaving a life.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

My pastor says you can't take a hearse to heaven.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

No, you can't. There's no U-Hauls behind Hearse at all, ever, or bank accounts or or anything like that. So the things that uh I was thinking about that this morning, making making some. I'm like, what am I gonna do for my next TikTok video? I've recently got on TikTok in in the midst of some really emotionally vulnerable time over the past couple months, and I'm like, let's just see what happens. And because people are doing these motivational videos with sappy music, and I'm like, I could totally do that. Yeah. So I done that. I I done that. I've done that. And uh TikTok's crazy. That algorithm's nuts. I mean, I've had a couple hundred thousand views on on one video, and all I'm doing is just trying to to encourage some folks. But speaking from a very authentic space of, you know, it's not as, you know, emotionally painful space at times too. I think is a lot when a lot of our best stuff is created. But this morning I'm like, what am I gonna talk about? I thought, hmm, how about the fact that we are a mere vapor? And when we think about that in general, it really starts to put some some perspective in in into life and that we're just passing through here. So what what difference you know are we making? And I'm just I'm grateful for where we're at in this world and this life and how the the the Christian faith has has developed and grown far from perfect by any stretch of the imagination at all. But as far as what I was raised with, and for the people that even that are that are that are our age, say, Oh, I don't go to church, I was raised Catholic, or I was, yeah, because it was you were exposed to an environment that taught a failed attempt at behavior modification and ritualistic, you know, ritualistic, you know, nonsense that that does nothing at all. We have a direct line uh to to heaven, which is extremely powerful, and people don't understand that. And when I really saw this onset of the non-denomination happening within the space, and it's not about religion, it's a it's about relationship. And um, I think that's really when I started to turn the corner. I was a bit of a prodigal son, but when I when I when I lived in Southern California for 10 years, and it was cool to go to church in in Birkin stocks and a t-shirt and board shorts, I was like, I'm in, and they got a smoke machine too.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

Yeah, yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_02 25:06

Um, but I still came back to the fact that I thought for a while, hey, maybe ministries for me, but then I just kept coming back to going, I'm already on stage and I've already got a platform. And is it just because I'm on stage and just ego, ego, ego? Or is it because you've got a message and you've got an opportunity to have conversations with people that wouldn't order that would never step foot into church? I can't tell you countless calls I've gotten from friends that I get I've said, two, three o'clock in the morning at a bar going, so uh uh what's your what's your you know, what's your deal with faith? Like, do you do you have it at all? I usually start just asking questions. And that's not really for me, this, that, and the other. And I remember a buddy hitting me up. He lived in the UK and we were at an event in New York, and he hit me up. He said, you know, this weekend I bought a Bible, and uh, there's this uh Hillsong uh London church I'm gonna wander over to on Sunday morning. I say, brother, there's not a better time to wander into a first-time church than into a Hillsong experience. And uh I'll never forget that. And I'm like, man, we were just running amok in New York City uh at some after parties after an event, and uh I somehow seed.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

It's one little seed that people and it's it's the witnessing. And this is where I am so passionate about our missions being in the marketplace and and you having understanding that you don't have to start a nonprofit to be a ministry leader, you don't need to even look at yourself as a ministry leader or a pastor, any of those things to make impact. Now, is it good to have some ideas, some knowledge, some foundation of what it is that you believe? And sure, but that's just like you said, from a personal growth perspective. There's no different than having that personal growth with biblical understanding. Um, but being able to serve as a business owner, as an entrepreneur, we have more access to people than a lot of pastors will ever have access to. And because they're staying in four walls or they're staying in their community. And here we are on this global platform on a consistent basis, speaking life, right? And so allowing people, we're called to go to the nations. And so if that's our calling, then and we're not doing it, we're actually out of alignment with what God has for us. And I think that's why when we're conversating like this, or you're on a stage somewhere, you're at a conference somewhere, you're at a bar somewhere, it's this knowing that He is everywhere. And so our missions don't stop because we're not at church. Our missions are actually activated because we leave church. And so I think that the people who have experienced that prodigal son, which ultimately is everyone, if they're not raising their hand, they're probably lying to you. Um is the knowing that that is the expression of the testimony that we're meant to share. And we can do so as entrepreneurs, we can do so as business owners. When I think about impact, I don't necessarily think that I'm gonna start and emerge all of these entrepreneurs. That's not my heart. My heart for them is to live their life based on their testimony so that they can serve and unlock other people. Sometimes that's sex trafficking, sometimes that's um financial struggle, sometimes that and that's like wealth building coaches, right? And then I've got people who start ministry leaders and there's pastors that come, there's all these people who have a message, and it doesn't put anyone outside of his will when you're speaking into and saying the truth. And that goes back to us sharing our stories just like we did today.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

I think of um Pete Vargas with uh adventure. I mean, Pete's just loud and proud, and he was already crushing it with with the speaking space and what he did and just did the whole rise up thing last year during 2020 and brought people together. But he's an individual that I that I look at as like, you know, you talk about we don't need no church. We we are the church. We our platform, our platforms are the church on here, and I'm just thinking the amount of impact on here, and you just think, especially the world of marketers too. I mean, we got a mixed bag out there. I mean walking in talking about the gospel is not the top of the list with a bunch of marketers. In fact, it's probably the polar opposite on there. But to know that God has strategically planted people, you know, I don't care if they won American Idol or it's somebody in the in the in the in the marketing space or or Hollywood. We look at what Bieber does. Bieber's loud and proud about his faith too. Yeah. And uh too much given much is expected. And when you've got a platform like that, it is not only your duty, but it is your responsibility uh to be able to communicate your faith effectively. And I just love seeing that continue to happen. And uh your your your energy, your story, everything you got going on is uh is fantastic and so encouraging. It it really, really is. And I there's a lot of speaking of alignment, a lot of alignment with uh with our thought process and what we're doing with it.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_02 29:39

Well, we're almost out of time, but I want to talk about what you're doing with your business and with your podcast because um yeah, that all ties into what we got going on here. And of course, if you're listening to this and you're thinking, this girl is a badass, and I want to connect with her. All of her information and contact info is gonna be in the show notes. That's the description of this podcast episode you're listening to. So don't fret. Continue to listen to the episode. You can grab her contact information and connect with her awesomeness uh after the show. So um, so so what's happening with your business and what's happening with the podcast?

SPEAKER_00 30:06

Yeah, so I actually have an awesome conference coming up, talking exactly what we've been talking about all day today in Norfolk, Virginia in October. And so I've got tons of people from Clubhouse coming who will be speaking on stage. We're gonna actually be with people, not flashing mics, um, to be able to hug next and really connect over this idea of bringing our missions into the marketplace from a place of cured and whole healing, right? We're in the process, so nobody is fully there. Um but healing and becoming as entrepreneurs based on our identity and being able to share our story. So alongside the conference, I coach um people one-on-one. I also coach uh emerging leaders who are still in the ideation phase. I have a membership with women specifically who are looking to just grow that passion. A lot of people sit on their dreams for far too long. Again, we talked about that hand raising. They have to take ownership in the fact that they've been gifted this idea and they already have been equipped with the gifts and talents that they need to activate it. And so I am such an activator. I love to put fire behind their high knees and like do the thing. Stop being so scared. Do so with joy, do so with energy, um, having fun. I love surprises. So I'm always surprising people through any of my coaching programs. I host international retreats because I think a big thing, especially just like we were talking, like staying within the four walls. I love to break people out of their comfort zone and get them like literally knee deep in something they've never been in, both physically and emotionally and spiritually, um, to help them rise because there's so much more when we have an ability to connect with people who are just a little bit, right? Brendan Richard says you only have to be 10% ahead of the person that you're helping. Um so I feel like I've been strategically positioned in that place. Um and yeah, my podcast, the Fit and Faith Podcast, I gotta get you on. That would be so fun to dive deeper into your story. Um but yeah, I've been doing that for three years now, and it is a live show as much as it is a podcast. And so we uh are live on Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn multiple times a week, and I've had the joy of interviewing so many different styles of entrepreneurs, movers, shakers, kingdom impactors, and really learning about their messy comeback story to success. So very similar to this, um, and allowing people the access to see how others do it, because my story doesn't resonate with everyone, but I always show up, even to conversations like this, with an opportunity to be convicted, um, to grow, to be better. Um, so learning from you even today has been really awesome. And I'm trying to walk on fire here soon. So if you can get me in with the Tony Robbins crew, you totally should do.

SPEAKER_02 32:42

I've done it twice. It's definitely a uh a game changer. And you're you don't burn your feet off or your legs off. Like Tony, he like preps you all day long. But it's like, listen, the worst thing that's gonna happen is you're gonna burn your legs off and you're gonna die. That's the worst thing that's gonna happen. So uh yeah, I highly highly recommend uh doing that. I I love I love what you're up to. I love the work that you're doing. I look forward to connecting further. Uh I know a good MC uh if you need one.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

Good to know. Good to know. Your voice.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

And uh yeah, absolutely, and the bow tie. That's not going around today. But um, but I I and all the information uh can people any can anybody sign up for this event too?

SPEAKER_00 33:18

Yeah, yeah, it's open to the public. So there's um both virtual access if you can't come, uh, and then there's in-person experience as well. And if you want to come to the really intimate experience where I take you out on that adventure here locally, we're doing a VIP day the day before with all the speakers, artists, and VIP um seats. So that's a limited um only 15 is available for that in addition to the 20 speakers. Um, so it'll be a fun day, September 30th through October 2nd.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

Good times. All that information is going to be in the show notes too. So if you if you've had a little like nudge and you were like, ooh, that sounds a little uncomfortable, then you definitely need to check it out. And it may be something where you need to be. So it's about leaning into discomfort because let's face it, friends, life is uncomfortable. So the sooner that we get comfortable being uncomfortable and define our own comfort, uh, life becomes a little easier on here. Well, I just wanted to encourage you, you keep doing what you're doing. I believe your best days are in front of you, even though you're just absolutely crushing life right now. And it is my pleasure to be connected with such a rock star like you. And alignment's a beautiful thing, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 34:16

It so is. Thank you so much. It's so good to be aligned with you. This is gonna be awesome. I can't wait to have you on my video.

SPEAKER_02 34:22

Absolutely. I can't wait to get on. You've got to come back to the show again.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

I'd love to.

SPEAKER_02 34:26

Thanks, Tamara. I appreciate you.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

All right, y'all. See you later.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

Until next time, friends. Thanks so much for tuning into this episode of the Beyond the Story Podcast. Be sure to appreciate it. If you haven't done so already, make sure you're subscribed to the show. This way you'll get updates as new episodes become available. If you feel so inclined, please leave us a review. Be sure to appreciate it. Signing off from the podcast, launchlab.com studios. I'll talk to you next time.