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{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 101Maha: And it’s very discouraging when you keep thinking Maha: For me, all what they said, plus if you have a dream,like this. you have to follow it. You have to keep following it until you really accomplish it, because I never thought I’d beKharisma: Exactly. You stay one place and you never move able to open a restaurant, but I always had this dreamforward. I’m really impressed just hearing that. The mindset, inside me. I want to have my own place, I want to haveit all start with your mindset, right? my own restaurant. Especially when we came to Canada, when I found out that people don’t know about EgyptianMaha: Yeah, of course. cuisine. It’s just in the middle of the Middle Eastern food. I put it on my shoulder that I want to teach people aboutMaha: And for me, the best thing out of this is I spend longer Egyptian cuisine.time with them. Because you know, when your kids areolder, you rarely see them. So, I’m just loving them every I thought that opening the restaurant is fulfilling mysingle day. Never mind we fight or not, I just love it. dream, and then also trying to introduce something different to people so they know about the different tasteKharisma: Yes. You talked a lot about having the mindset and flavour.for success. For someone who wants to follow their passionand launch a business based on that. Because to me, I think Kharisma: Awesome. I love it.passion is number one. It’s key to driving a successfulbusiness. You have to be passionate about it. What wouldyou say? What inspiring advice would you give to them?Mark: I would say totally keep a positive mindset towardsthings. Be open to everything, because you never knowwhat... Say you’re into something, like the restaurant. Iwasn’t looking to open a restaurant, but I’m into a business,running a business, and I love food. You discover yourpassions without even knowing it. Just be open to whatevercomes your way, and think about how you can work,incorporate your side of yourself and see what you canbring to whatever table is available.Kharisma: Awesome. What about you, Monika?Monika: I’m adding to what Mark is saying, being opento other options. We all work together and we all havesomething different to bring to the table, and Mark hasdifferent ideas than I do, my mom has different ideas, butwe all grab from each other. So having a solid team. It’s veryhard to do it on your own. I would have never been able todo this on my own. I think the same goes for my mom orMark. We’re very fortunate to have each other and have eachother’s creativity, support and hard work, of course.Kharisma: What about you, Maha?

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{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 103 Stephen Scoggins is a writer, speaker and entrepreneur based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is the owner of Custom Home Exteriors, founded in 1998, as well as the author of THE JOURNEY PRINCIPLES: 10 SIMPLE PRINCIPLES FOR A LIFE JOURNEY THAT MATTERS. STEPHEN KNOWS THE POWER OF ADVERSITY. As a writer, speaker and entrepreneur, he used adversity as a tool and brought himself from virtual homelessness to being the CEO of a multi-million dollar company. This transformation didn’t occur overnight. It was Stephen’s commitment to his journey principles that helped him make the huge change in his life.BE ICONIC

104KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } Kharisma: Share a bit about your journey and what led you off with a brief vision when I was sleeping in a car, and I to where you are today. could not envision a multi-million dollar business in three different states. Stephen: I started my first flagship business, actually sleeping in a car in 1998. That one flagship business, I couldn’t envision being an author. I couldn’t envision Custom Home Exterior, is now in three states in the United being a speaker. I couldn’t envision doing anything other States, employs about 400 team members and is currently than just trying to feed myself and get out and get some a multi-million dollar business. We’ve achieved the goals; shelter, and a lot of times, we get so locked up in those I built solid leadership teams, piece by piece, step by step four walls, we don’t get the proper perspective, which is to and kind of paved the way. I learned a lot along the way. take yourself out of the problem, look down from an angle, It’s obviously where I became passionate about building and gain as much understanding and perspective, as you successful businesses, but also doing it with sanity, because possibly can. Then all of a sudden, you’ve got something the sanity’s — that is the tough part. That’s where it started. there. It was my biggest learning lesson. Being able to let go The Journey Principles book is less about me, and more of pride and arrogance and set my focus on others, rather about the person reading it. I do use personal stories and than myself. This is the reason that my business runs like things of that nature to help out with that journey. it does, is because we focused on building up other people and building up other leaders. The Journey Principal Institute became an offshoot of the Journey Principles’s book. The book started taking off and They run the business day to day, which is fantastic. I go people started really liking it. Next thing, I was getting in two to three times a week for that particular entity, have questions on Facebook about other things. When I was static meetings and we discuss reports and things of that talking to a friend of mine, he said we should probably do nature. We also discuss fellowship: How are you doing? something with this. So, we created the Journey Principles What’s going on with so-and-so? I just like helping people Institute. Today, we’ve got about 12 different tools coming out and it does make a difference. in the next five years. I have to write a book a year according to the publishers, but it’s been great. It’s an organization Kharisma: When we go into business and the focus is not that focuses on someone’s journey and what they already about making money and not about our ego, and is about have at their disposal. I’ve built the scaffolding for my first bringing transformation to the lives of many individuals flagship business out of the trash piles, and I’m convinced that we want to reach, and we want to touch, that set that... that the gifts are actually in the trash piles of our lives. sets us up for success. Like you said, when the focus is on solving an issue, bringing a solution to somebody’s pain and Kharisma: It’s so true. It’s the struggles that you bring out bringing transformation to their life and their own business, the best in us. Describe for us a business or project failure it’s awesome. that you’ve experienced along your own journey and what you learned from it. Stephen: Yes! It’s funny because as we were getting to know each other a little bit, I was reading your story and you have Stephen: The biggest one is probably when I went into your own little journey going on. business for myself. I was very young. I was making decent money, but I was completely self-absorbed and completely Kharisma: Your journey has been incredible, and it is self-focused. I wasn’t focused on others. I wasn’t focused about building healthy mental health while building a on trying to help people. I lost that business largely due successful business, which is so important. It’s all about our to pride and arrogance. Because of that, it created a whole mindset, whether in business or life. Describe for us three different dynamic about what life was really about. It led me ways an entrepreneur can build healthy mental health or to a point in time, where I had to do a self-assessment and consciousness while trying to build a successful business. self-evaluation: Where am I? Where am I going? What is my purpose? What is going on inside of me? Then, I realized Stephen: The first principle is focusing on what it is you’re very quickly, as any successful business, if it’s focused on trying to accomplish. As you’re drilling down, figure out actually creating a legacy and actually helping other people, how that is going to impact someone else’s life for the better, it will actually turn into something. Lo and behold, I started your team’s life, your customers life, your life.

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106KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } If you’re a believer and you go to church, what is it going Kharisma: What about daily rituals, do you practice any to to do to your church? What is your focus? What are you start your day and why? focusing on? What is it you’re trying to get accomplished? You know, the biggest thing - and the other principle that I Stephen: When I want to grow in my own personal walk, I probably lean towards all the time - is growth. I was hanging seek something of faith as a devotional, to feed my spirit, out with John Maxwell down in Orlando one time, and it then I go to the gym. You’re not going to believe, I wrote was a really cool experience. If anybody has actually been almost the entire Journey Principles book on an elliptical! around John Maxwell for longer than 10 minutes, all you Because that’s where my brain was firing. That’s when I want to do is sit and draw and listen to him talk. was communicating, that’s when I was relating, because learning is a matter of relating to an image in your mind; to He said this interesting thing, and I had put the two together a piece of knowledge you’re trying to obtain. because I’ve been focusing on teaching people to focus on goals. John has a whole different approach. He said most For whatever reason, it was the touching, moving and the people focus on goals, and they don’t focus on growth. blood flowing in. You’re not serving yourself very well if He said, they don’t realize that if they’ll just focus on the you’re not getting up each day and doing something active, growth, they’ll knock their goals down by accident. Think because that activity gets the blood flow and literally pumps about everything that you’ve been through yourself and into the heart quicker. It literally gets more endorphins to everything that you’ve kind of walked through. You had to the brain and increases your serotonin level, reduces your grow to that point, and you’ve really knocked down your cortisol level which comes from stress, if you’re stressed goals now by accident. We sold books, because what we out. wanted to do was help people and they turned and shared the book with somebody else. There’s no telling what these The best thing you could do is go fight your way to the gym books are doing to people and it’s just.. it’s awesome. The and at least go for a walk, go for a run, go hang out with third principle for any business owner is who are you someone and go for a walk, get your blood pumping. All of pouring into and to know who’s in your sphere of influence these things are ways to increase your mind, increase your on your team. spirit and increase your soul. If you’re a one-person operation, what customer are you They are scheduled on my calendar: By six o’clock —gym; pouring into? Who are you pouring into? Who are you seven o’clock — daily devotionals and eight o’clock — work allowing yourself to be shared with? Who you are being nights. So, you have to schedule those times with yourself. transparent with? Who you are being vulnerable with? What’s important to them? How can you help them succeed Tony Robbins calls it ”The Hour of Power”. I mean, your and grow? I’m a firm believer that if you’ll do that, then you hour could be three hours, it could be just an hour or 20 will be blessed. Whether it’s karma or a belief system or, in minutes, but it is where you set yourself up at the beginning my case, faith, it doesn’t matter. It’s so easy. We always get of your day, doing something for your mind, your spirit and so stuck on ourselves. your body which has power for me, as opposed to jumping into writing, into your business or logging onto your laptop Also, keep in mind, growth is not just a personal thing, it is checking social media. a business thing, meaning you have to be okay with starting small, you can’t rush it. The second leading cause of business I must admit, I used to be guilty of that, but I’ve learnt the failure to success, is if you’re not planning. Don’t rush it. better way - the right way - that that can wait and putting Let it take time. The first four years when we were building the other important things, which are even more important, my business, it was just me. Year 5, I hired my first team first. Set yourself up for success every day by doing member and by year 10, I had 12 team members. It started something in activities that you know that stimulates your small. It started with the vision casting, it started with the mind, your body and your spirit. daily... the daily grind. Be okay with starting small and be okay with being where you’re at. Kharisma: Wow! Thank you! This has been awesome speaking with you!

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KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } 108 O rr RTOP PILOT I NG AVIAT HOW FEMALE PILOT SHANA JONES ROAMS THE SKIES WITH PURPOSE Meet Shana Jones, an aviatrix whose message DARE TO is empowering not only for women, but for men, for girls, for boys, and animals, too. Images: Kelroy Richards

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110KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } Kharisma: Shana, share a little bit of your journey. Where Kharisma: How did your parents react when you told them did you grow up? that you wanted to be a pilot? Shana: Toronto, Canada, born and raised. I always liked Shana: My parents are my biggest fans. to travel. I like travelling. I like going to other places and checking out different cultures. Actually, it was the Air Cadet Kharisma: Really? program that actually got me interested in flying. I joined at 13, and I basically did everything that the Air Cadet program Shana: My parents are my two biggest fans. From the beginning, their attitude was they came to this country to could offer you, because it’s just an excellent program. One do better for their children, and to give their children the of them was learning to fly...learning to fly a glider, which is opportunities that they never had. From the very beginning, basically a plane without an engine. Then if you wanted, you they said, “We don’t care what you do, just get your education. could go on to get your license to fly a quote/unquote real Everything else is gravy.” They always said, “Whatever you plane. That’s kind of what introduced the option of flying for want to do, you just work at it and you can get it. Just do it.” a living. I went with it. I did my glider rating, and then I went Whatever we wanted to do, they support us in.” straight on to University afterwards, to Embry Riddle in Daytona Beach. I did all my academic subjects and my flight Kharisma: I love that! Parents out there, this is really ratings and everything. That’s where it started to begin. encouraging to hear, that your parents were supportive of you, even though you were pursuing something that was Kharisma: We’re both West Indian, from the Caribbean, really unheard of, especially for a woman. with West Indian parents. We were talking a little bit before that, the expectation is that you’re going to be a doctor, a Shana: It’s actually funny, because I can’t even say that, lawyer, a teacher. not only were they supportive, they pushed me into it. My first night at Air Cadets, I was coming from a sheltered Shana: Or a teacher. background. We just really came from a sheltered background. To go to an environment all of a sudden and see Kharisma: Right. One of those three. people yelling at children, and cursing and everything, that’s Shana: That’s right, that’s right.

{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 111stuff that we hadn’t been accustomed to. My first night, they bushy tailed. As the years have gone on, I’ve noticed thatcame back for me and I was in tears. I said, “Don’t bring me certain things have come up that probably had to do with myback here. Don’t bring me back here, I don’t want to come.” gender, but I have to say, by and large, especially from theThey took me home. They said, “Look, calm down. Just give training aspect, I haven’t had any issues. It’s more, I thinkit another try, and if you don’t like it, you’ll never have to go the public, that’s really shocked, especially the West Indianback.” I went back the next week, and I never looked back. public is really shocked. My gender is not something thatIt was the best six years of my life, and I learned so much they see, and neither is my stature. A lot of people don’t evenfrom it, and came out of my shell because of it. Nobody think I look old enough to be doing this. I think a lot of them it’s, most people are really proud and really like, “Oh my believes me, but I’m very introverted. That goodness. You go, Girl. It’s so good.” A lot of people, there’s a was another thing, but when the flying thing few people that say, “If I saw somebody your size on a plane, came up, they were like, “Yeah, go ahead. I wouldn’t get on the plane.” To be honest, my attitude is, Whatever it’s going to take. Whatever you “Well, just come off, because the plane will still leave you. want to do, we’re going to support you.” They It’ll still go without you, so you have a choice.” pushed me for sure. Kharisma: And she’s spunky too, ladies and gentlemen. Kharisma: What would you say to parents? Shana: I think people don’t mean by it, but sometimes Shana: I would say 100% go for it. I think there’s some comments that just don’t sit well with me. a lot of people are afraid of what they don’t know about. Obviously, as a parent, you’re Kharisma: Right, gets under the skin. coming from another generation, where you may not have seen or had an appreciation Shana: Yes. for what this generation has. The first thing is research it. Research what your child is Kharisma: Right, I can understand. It’s one thing to see a interested in. Then it makes it easier for you female pilot, but another thing to see a black, female pilot. to support and be a part of it. I think support Let’s call it as it is. Let’s address the elephant in the room, definitely, but research it. okay folks? That’s what we’re going to do right now. Kharisma: Awesome, awesome. That’s Shana: Actually, because of where I work, that’s not such some good advice, parents out there. Always an issue. My company is based in St. Vincent, but I live in encourage, research as well, and don’t Barbados. You’re still around a majority black population, discourage them. I believe in purpose. I so that’s not something I really have to worry about. The believe that we all have a sole purpose; we main issue is the gender and my size, because I don’t lookhave a life purpose, and that shows up in different ways. anything close to my age, which apparently is an issue. TheDo you believe that you becoming a pilot was part of your colour issue is not something I really have to deal with.purpose-driven plan? Kharisma: Okay. You’re the only female pilot within yourShana: I think not initially, but I think that it has kind organization.of woven its way and brought me on different paths todifferent learning experiences and life experiences, that Shana: The only one.are necessary to get me to my purpose. I think it’s definitelyintegral in taking on that. Kharisma: The only one, ladies and gentlemen. The only female pilot in her organization.Kharisma: Always be purpose-driven and be in alignment Shana: Yes.to purpose. What has been the reaction to you being a femalepilot? First, within your organization, the airline that you fly Kharisma: I believe I’m a pioneer. I’m a trailblazer. We gois what organization? ahead and we create paths and make waves for others to follow. Do you believe that you are a trailblazer?Shana: The name of the company I fly for is SVG Air, partof an Air Alliance. Generally speaking, it’s been good. I Shana: I think I am, just because I’ve heard that so manycame in a little naïve at the very beginning, bright-eyed and times in my life. It makes sense to me, but I never thought of myself as one. As I said, I came up in a household where

112KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } you just do what you want to do. As far as I was concerned, definitely a possibility. I do writing, I have a travel blog, I I was doing what I was supposed to do, which was what I write for a magazine. I’m into Latin dancing. I just joined wanted to do. This is what I wanted to do. This is why I went a class a couple years ago in St. Vincent and I love that. to University and this is what I did. I never thought of it I’ve also had an affinity for teaching, especially teaching like that. When people, coming into certain environments, English as a second language.[That] is something that I’m and working in certain environments where this is not the also interested in and I would like to do. Definitely, there norm, it then becomes obvious to me that yes, I obviously are some other interest areas I might want to explore. I do am a trailblazer. That’s why I take it, I take that aspect of it enjoy flying, so it’s not something I’m going to walk away a little bit more seriously now. I figure there are some girls from definitively. out there who probably need to have..to see somebody who looks like them doing something that they might want to do. Kharisma: What are some of the bizarre questions, besides It kind of makes it easier to say, “If she can do it, I can do it, the stares and people in shock that you are a female pilot? too.” In that sense, yes, I recognize myself as a trailblazer. Shana: A lot of people ask, am I “A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK, scared in the plane, which I don’t understand. Kharisma: Because you’re a female? AM I SCARED IN THE Shana: I think they probably ask PLANE?, WHICH I me that because I’m a female, and I always tell them, “No, because if I’m scared, you have a problem.” Kharisma: That’s for sure. DON’T UNDERSTAND.” Shana: Then they kind of pause. I can’t be scared at my job, then we have a problem. Kharisma: Yeah, it’s a major problem! Kharisma: Do you do any speaking for women or girls, to Shana: Yes! empower them and stuff like that? Kharisma: What do you do to prepare for each flight? Shana: Not formally, I’ve never done that. I have done speaking, in terms of training, in the training arena and that Shana: First, you get in and you check your weather. sort of thing, but I don’t do speaking engagements currently. Kharisma: I mean you, personally. Kharisma: I think you would make a real positive, inspiring, and empowering figure. Shana: Me, personally? Shana: Thank you. Kharisma: I know there’s procedures that you have to follow. What do you feel? I’m not talking about fear, is there Kharisma: That’s something you should look into. like a routine or a ritual that you get mentally prepared, that you’re undertaking such a great task? I mean firemen Shana: Okay, thank you. do it and stuff like this, but we’re talking about you taking a number of passengers on a flight in a plane, it’s a big Kharisma: I am setting her up for another path in life, to responsibility. be a speaker. Do you see yourself being a pilot for the rest of your life, or you want to transition and do something else Shana: It is. as you move on? Kharisma: Is there something specific that you do every Shana: Yeah, I think there’s definitely room for that. I time you fly? have a lot of other interests that I would like to pursue. It’s Shana: Not so much, just because I’ve come to a certain point of familiarity with the airplane and with the routes

{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 113that I fly. It’s more of just checking the night before, what be to a church, it could be to Red Cross, it could be to a walkroutes you’re going to be flying, and then kind of getting for cancer, or anything like that. Just something per monthyourself in a mindset for that, but not really. You don’t really I like to give back.come weighed down with this responsibility. I can’t speakfor the others, but I don’t come to work weighed down with Kharisma: I know you have a travel blog, you love travelling.responsibility, just because you’re just accustomed to doing Obviously you travel, but I mean you love writing aboutit. It’s just what you’re supposed to do. travelling. Shana: Yes, I do.Kharisma: It’s something that comes naturally. It’s yourjob. You do it every day. Kharisma: Is that more the fun side of travelling, or what aspects of travel do you write about?Shana: I believe, I think that would just add unnecessary Shana: It varies, because I’m still trying to kind of narrowstress to the day. You follow the procedures. You interactwith your co-pilot, the person you’re flying I ALWAYS GTEGLGL THHBEMHwith, and you do what you need to do tomake the flight safe, is really what it is.Kharisma: Awesome. I must fly with you “NO, BECAUSE IF I’Mone day.Shana: Anytime!Kharisma: As you know, the Kharisma SCARED, YOU HAVEMagazine is built on the foundation of causemarketing, which means that every purchaseof the Kharisma Magazine, we’re committinga portion of it to support some organizations A PROBLEM.”that is either helping women, children, oranimals, specifically doggies. I love doggies.Do you believe in giving back? down my niche. I started with just some of the places thatShana: I do, 100%. Just because I’ve always been a believer of I’ve been. I would like to cover different aspects aboutif you’re not going to be a part of the solution, then just stay a destination, as opposed to, “Okay, I went to this site.away. In other words, don’t spend your time complaining This is what I did.” I like to cover things that you wouldn’tabout what if and it’s so bad, unless you’re going to do necessarily associate with the destination. One of the piecessomething. I’m working on right now is an update to a story I did on a dog shelter in Union Island, which is just south of St. Vincent.Kharisma: Exactly. It’s one of the Grenadine Islands that belongs to St. Vincent.Shana: I believe people are anointed for different things. I had written before for this shelter, and they were reallyI’m not a person who can go out in a field and hold a dying excited about what I had done and how I promoted andperson, but if I have a few extra coppers in a month, I can go everything. Some other stuff came up and they said, “Oh,and give to that cause. I believe if I can help somebody else, please write about us.” I said, “Sure.” I’m writing about aI should and I do try to do that. dog who had two sets of litters, two litters, sorry. The owner basically left the island and then just kind of abandoned theKharisma: What type of organizations do you help? two litters.Shana: I have sponsored a child through World Vision, so Kharisma: Oh my gosh.that’s something that I do every month. Then at Christmasand his birthday, you give a little extra. Also, a couple years Shana: Just left them fenced in with minimal food, minimalago, just out of the blue, at the christening of one of my water, and that stuff.godchildren, I just started to say, “Let me put aside a setamount of money every month to give to a cause.” It could Kharisma: Left the island? No one to look after them, nothing?

114KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } Shana: No, she just left them. that kind of positive energy, close to you, and at some point in time you’ll just be able to do what you need to do, to get Kharisma: So cruel. where you want to go. Shana: The two litters were found and rescued by Kharisma: Awesome. That’s some sound advice. Pursue, the shelter, but then it was found that the mother was go for it, and, also, surround yourself with positive people. subsequently poisoned. They found her dead, but they Who you surround yourself with will have an either negative presumed she was poisoned. Now the shelter’s working to effect or a positive effect on you, whether or not you think it feed these dogs. They’re doing a good job because they’re will have an effect. bringing them back to health, they’re nursing them back Shana: That’s very true. to health. It kind of touches my heart, because they have a resident caregiver. She lives in the shelter and her work is Kharisma: Powerful, powerful advice. If you’re thinking caring for these animals. They have some owners that are about really living a purpose-driven life, you know that you Canadians, that live in Union, I think six months a year or have that calling: go for it. We are here for that specific, you something like that. are here for that specific purpose. As we know, we only have a limited amount of time here on Earth. There’s no time like They’ve opened the shelter, but they really just thrive on the present. How would our audience connect with you, if donations. They don’t necessarily get a lot of support from they wanted to learn more about you? Maybe through your law enforcement or from the government. They kind of blog. depend on sympathetic ears. That’s the kind of stuff I write about. When you think about a destination in the Caribbean, Shana: My blog is RoamingAviatrix.com. I’m on Facebook. you’re not thinking about dog shelters and animals that are I have a Facebook page, a Twitter page, and an Instagram being mistreated. All you want to hear about is beaches, and page. @RoamingAviatrix. They’re all @RoamingAviatrix. margaritas, and all that. Kharisma: Awesome. You can reach out to Shana and send Kharisma: Exactly. Right. her some love. If you need encouragement, she can do that too. She’s very powerful, as you can tell. Empowering, yes. Shana: But stuff goes on. Shana: Thank you. Kharisma: You’re a woman after my own heart. I’m telling you. She is writing about how these litter of puppies are Kharisma: Any last words that you want to share? being taken care of, and really bringing awareness of the issue in the Caribbean. It’s widespread all over the world. Shana: No, I’m really thankful to have this opportunity. As I said, I’m really grateful that you would choose me to Shana: It is. interview. I’m happy to be able to encourage other people if I can. If I made a little bit of a difference in somebody’s life Kharisma: What would you say to someone who is sitting who’s reading this, then I’m happy for that. on the fence, that feels that they know that they have a deep calling to do something that’s really unusual, maybe Kharisma: I’m sure you did. I’m sure you did. breaking the glass ceiling as a woman, female; what would you say to her? Shana: Thank you for the opportunity. Shana: First thing I would reiterate is just go for it. If it’s your Kharisma: Thank you so much. The desire to interview you calling, you have to do it. If you don’t, you’ll just end up being has been about a year in the making. miserable and unfulfilled. That’s just a waste of life, as far as I’m concerned. The other thing is to surround yourself with Shana: Wow. good people. I’m so fortunate, I don’t have to do that; I’ve just been blessed all my life to only be around people who Kharisma: I wanted to get you in the flesh, because it’s just support me, from family, friends, colleagues, whatever. always different when you actually can sit and have a Just surround yourself with good people, and if you can’t conversation with a person in person. It really makes a find any good people, go online, because there’s forums. I difference to the audience as well. Ladies and gentlemen, mean there’s forums, and groups, and organizations, and you have Shana Jones, the female pilot in the Caribbean, chat rooms that you can join, that you can get, kind of like, and she is a woman, maybe small in size, but mighty and an online support system. You just hold those kind of people, powerful in spirit. Shana: Thank you.

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KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 }116 SUCCESS ADVOCATE HOW TO TURNS T R U GG L E SS U CINCTOE S S MEET HELEN WOO, AUTHOR OF SELF-AID: INSPIRATION TO TURN STRUGGLES INTO SUCCESS. Helen Woo came from a traditional Chinese family who immigrated to America shortly before her birth. Aside from a very difficult upbringing, Helen faced many physical challenges, in addition to overcoming struggles with depression, abuse, and addiction. As a single mother, life is just beginning for Helen Woo. Today, physically and mentally healthy, she’s here to share her success stories. Through trials and tribulations, Helen Woo is finally in a good place. Helen helped herself overcome all the misfortunes in her life, and she hopes to make a positive difference to help others, as well, get through their own challenges. Both men and women alike can overcome any bad situation. Helen believes positive thoughts in combination with positive action will lead to a positive outcome. Author of the upcoming book Self-Aid: Inspirations to Turn Struggles Into Success, Helen Woo wants the world to know that, just because we find ourselves in difficult situations, doesn’t mean we have to stay there. We can always aid ourselves to a better life. DARE TO

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118KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } Kharisma: Your journey is what sort of inspired your book. my homes because I had some real estate investments, So share a little bit about you and what led you to writing this closing down every account, selling whatever I had to sell, book, Self-Aid: Inspirations to Turning Struggles Into Success. filing for bankruptcy. What I’ve learned first and foremost, the most important thing that I’ve learned, is that I never Helen: Well, one of the things is, even though I’m 45 I feel really followed my passion. With this money that I made, like I’ve had the experiences of an 85 year old. I feel very, I wasn’t passionate about what I was doing. I’ve found my very young, however, I’ve had so many experiences and passion today and I love every moment of what I do now. I challenges that I think have just propelled me to be better think that’s the difference. I think to really make it in this at everything today. Slowly but surely, every challenge has world you’ve got to love what you do and you’ve got to be made me a little better, a little wiser, a little quicker to fix the passionate about it. I’ve found my life’s purpose throughout other challenges that come my way. this crazy process. And I don’t wish this on anyone. I don’t wish for them to hit rock bottom just to find it like I did, but So I think throughout my depression I was hoping, wanting I have to admit, I found it through my rock bottom. something that I’ve put out today, because I think that that would have been a beautiful thing, a quicker way of me Kharisma: Wow. That’s an amazing journey. There’s ups getting over my depression. I had Ellen DeGeneres, thank and downs, there’s successes and failures, and it’s all about God. One hour a day of her was really what pulled me out. the lesson that we learned, and failure is a stepping stone to But my book is about these inspirational people around the success, and the important thing is to get the lesson from world, present and past; their quotes, their thoughts, their the failure and to take it to sort of help shape our next step words that inspired me when I was going through a down into success. That’s really, really powerful. time. From their words, I put my own words, which have now become my Wooisms. And these are the things that I do So being a lifestyle entrepreneur is all about building every day - my affirmations, my actions, and my thoughts - a business around the lifestyle, rather than a lifestyle from their powerful words. around the business. What would be three ways a lifestyle entrepreneur can turn the struggles - any struggle that So you have now the famous quote above, and then you they’re going through - into success? What do they need to have a Wooism following it, and that’s really to empower the turn that around? person to smile, or to remind them that they can get over their challenge when they’re reading this book. And you can Helen: May I give you a few more than three ways? turn to any page and feel some kind of inspiration. I love it. That’s what I’ve been told, so I’m very happy. Kharisma: Sure! Kharisma: Awesome. So describe for us even a business Helen: Yeah, because every single letter to the words or project failure along the way, this journey of taking you Self-Aid is an acronym for my tools of how I overcome from going through those struggles to where you are seeing my challenges. The ‘S’ in Self-Aid stands for the title success now, and what you’ve learned from that experience. itself. It is Self-Aid. It’s helping yourself, helping myself; acknowledging that I am not perfect, acknowledging that I Helen: Well, I’ve been through so many different things. have room for improvement, and I’m always going to help I’ve been through sales, I’ve been through fashion, jewelry, myself in order to be a better person so I can help others. software, real estate, movie business, so many things. I’ll The ‘E’ in Self-Aid is Esteem, because I don’t just have self- tell you the difference. First of all, my best friend took all esteem and confidence for myself, I have esteem for others my money, wiped me clean. I went through serious financial so that the people with these great talents, and the things devastation - as a single, full-time mother of an infant child, that they’re so powerful and good at, I want to learn from I was going through this. Literally, people see this in the them. I don’t want to be jealous or envious of them. I want movies or in the news. I had my best friend, whom I trusted to admire them, view what they’re doing, learn from them, with my entire life; never for one second would think that and be good at these areas myself. So ‘L’ stands for the two she would do such a crime to me, but most of all, I think more important things I take with me everywhere I go. I that she broke my heart. She tore me into a million pieces have two chapters on it, because it’s Love and Laughter. You because I loved her that much. She was like my sister, even can’t walk out of the house without them. Love and laughter though we were not biologically related. She tore me apart. is very important. For years later I had suffered through foreclosing all of ‘F’ stands for one of the hardest things in our lives. I believe

{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 119 and having these thoughts of, “Everything is miserable. I live a miserable life. Why me? Why me?” And today I go in with a different view. For some people, that’s why my book is, I think, very important, for myself. It’s therapeutic for myself, as I hope it is for others. I look in the mirror. I affirm to myself, “I can do it. It’s going to be a good day.” It’s the power within myself that makes me have a good day versus a bad day, and the positive attitude is very important. The ‘I’ in Self-Aid stands for what I believe is the most attractive characteristic in a human being, including myself: it’s Integrity. I take my integrity everywhere I go, whether I was, you know, when I was rich, and when I was down, very, very, very poor financially and emotionally, spiritually, all of the other ways. When you’re up, or down. I take my integrity everywhere I go. I don’t stray. I say what I say. I do what I say. My actions always follow my words, and that’s extremely important to me. I look for integrity in myself, my child, my best friends, my business associates. I look for it with everyone that I associate myself with today, because I want to be a person of integrity. So ‘D’ in Self-Aid stands for Dream. And it’s not just, “I have a dream. I have a dream.” It is me telling the world that you can find your life purpose too. Because when you do find your message for this world; the reason why you were put here on this world, you will love every moment of it. And instead of saying, “I have a dream.” You will say, “I’m living my dream.” And that’s where I am today. And that’s Self-Aid, my book as well. Kharisma: Awesome!everybody goes through this. It’s Freedom. It’s how do we Helen: I always put a bonus chapter, and I talk about it allfind freedom? We have to let go. We have to let go of all the the time: ‘G’ for gratitude, because I always give thanks forbaggage in our lives: the resentment, the anger, the grudges everything that I have. Even when I thought I lost it all, Ithat we hold for people, the blame even, for ourselves, we didn’t lose it all. I still had my life, I still had my son, I stillhave to learn to forgive ourselves and others. That is the had something special, and I had my faith. So I’m gratefulonly way we can move onto the next task and succeed at for everything.it. Because if we keep holding onto these past grudges andthese past negative emotions, we don’t grow, and we stay in Kharisma: And what you said is so key, being grateful,the same place, and we keep repeating the same mistakes. expressing gratitude. Because, at the end of the day, it’sSo freedom is powerful. about what we currently have. Even though we want to have more, we desire more - we should desire more - it’s about‘A’ in Self-Aid stands for Attitude, and that’s keeping a being appreciative for the now, for where we are right now,positive attitude, as you can hear in my voice. That’s so because that is the key to our success. I love these ways thatimportant today. I remember waking up in the morning Self-Aid represents and what it stands for. And I’d like to do a re-cap for our community. So you said the S stands for Self, so finding self, the authentic self. E is for Esteem, and finding esteem in not only yourself, but in others. L is for Love and Laughter. I mean, we can’t get enough laughter. It’s so good for us.

KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } 120 \"....From their words, WHICH HAVE NOW BEC affirmations, my actio Helen: So good. So good for our soul. Helen Woo still keep this attitude when she’s been through so much?” Because I’ve had so many people tell me, because Kharisma: Yes. And F is for Freedom, how to find freedom I’ve gone through abuse, in addition, rebellion, betrayal, from the negative things in our lives to help us move forward grief. I mean, I’ve gone through, like, you name it, I’ve kind into a better space, and move forward in a positive light. of been there. And this one was a big impact, too ... because And A is for Attitude, having that positive attitude, because it took away my lifestyle. it all starts we all have a purpose here. It’s not just for us to be, you My whole entire lifestyle went from having Laker tickets, and know, just being another pretty face or taking up space. We hockey Kings tickets, and the Clipper tickets, to high-style all have a purpose. And living, gourmet eating and dining, to bam! I lost everything. And how do you reinvent yourself? I reinvented myself with with our attitude and our mindset. It’s all about the attitude. the word self-aid. Where did it come from? A light bulb hit me, and it just came in the mastermind group. Everything And I is for integrity, which is so important in our life and made sense to me at that moment. I said, “My goodness.” our business. And D is for dream, and the life purpose, Because people keep coming up to me saying, “How do you because our purpose is to find that purpose, and to live our keep it together? How do you not hate your mom?” There’s dream. Right? a lot of things in my childhood. There’s a lot of things in my life that happened to me. People ask me, “How could you Helen: Yes, definitely. You re-capped it quite wonderfully. I not have resentment?” I just don’t. I send them God’s love it. When you repeat it, when I repeat it, it just ... I feel it. love every day, because I know that the only person I can I feel every moment of every word of every thought in this. change is myself.” So that’s why I live it. Kharisma: Exactly. Kharisma: What would you say is your most memorable experience as a lifestyle entrepreneur to date? Helen: With self-aid. Helen: Wow. My most memorable? In a mastermind group, I Kharisma: Yes, powerful, powerful. Wow. What would you believe, when I discovered the word, how powerful the word say is your favourite success quote? self-aid was to me. It really was a light bulb. It was the ah- ha moment for me, because I had been going through so Helen Woo: Wow. My book’s got so many! I can’t say what’s much at that point, so much downfall. I think my best friend my favourite because all of them are powerful to me. I love had just stolen everything from me, wiped me clean, and I them all. But I can say one to you. Name a chapter under had to reinvent myself. I had to find myself. What is Helen Self-Aid. Just open to any page under that chapter. about? I mean, what is she about? I wasn’t exactly sure, but I know that it had something to do with my challenges. I Kharisma: Chapter 6? knew that it had something to do with, “How on Earth can

{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 121I put my own words,OME MY WOOISMS....myns, and my thoughts.....\"Helen: Chapter 6, which is Integrity. Okay. Woo, discussing Self-Aid and what we are here for.Kharisma: Oh, wow. I believe very strongly that I just want to inspire as many people as I can through this world, because that’s what IHelen: Let’s find something under Integrity. Oh, right. Let’s needed throughout my ‘down’ time, and I want everyonesee. Oh, let’s do something from Michelle Obama. She says, to know who’s going through what I’ve gone through, I’ve“We learned about honesty and integrity, that the truth gone through so much. I want them to know that they can.matters, that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own They can surpass this. They can win this battle with theirset of rules, and success doesn’t count unless you earn it struggle. At any given moment you have a challenge. You’refair and square.” And my Wooism to this is, “True success given this challenge for a reason: to make you stronger. Andis accomplished when you stay honest and act on moral you can fight it. And I believe one step at a time, one personprinciples.” And that’s my Wooism. So that’s what the book at a time makes this world a better place.is about. It’s about these beautiful words that inspired me,and I took their words, and I act on it. And those become my Kharisma: So true. And that’s so eloquently said. It’sthoughts, my words, my actions. And that’s my affirmation powerful.of the day. That’s my Wooism. Helen: Thank you.Kharisma: Awesome. I love it. Oh my gosh. It’s so powerful. Kharisma: Now, I know that you are a very powerful, veryHelen: You’ve got Michelle Obama, you’ve got Gandhi. I’ve positive individual. Are there any daily rituals that yougot Zig Ziglar. I’ve got some old presidents in here. I’ve just practice to start each day, and why?... Ellen DeGeneres, my idol, Oprah Winfrey. There’s somany beautiful people in this book. Helen: You know, each day is a different ritual. Because my son and I - he’s six years old - we do laughter yogaKharisma: Wow. Wonderful, wonderful. And what would occasionally. When I feel out of my mind stressed, I didn’tyou say is your vision for the next two to five years? even know it was called laughter yoga until I discovered, when I did a laughter speech a while back, I discoveredHelen: Wow. I have great vision now. Once upon a time I there’s such a thing called laughter yoga.was so clouded. Today, I see so much. What is my vision? Iknow that because I’ve had this great feedback on what Self- Kharisma: I didn’t know that.Aid is about, on my Self-Aid program, on my Self-Aid book,on just the meaning behind it or actions behind Self-Aid, I Helen: Yeah, my son and I would look at each other and justknow that I will continue to inspire the world, possibly in start laughing for no reason at all. And it makes you laughthe box, through the box, possibly through TV, talk shows, even harder, because just looking at each other, you’reany kind of real, real talking to people. I don’t want a script. I starting with this thing, not even a joke involved, just lookingdon’t want to be another person. I want to just be me, Helen and starting to laugh, and what happens is you want to

122KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } laugh harder because it makes it funny. I laugh when I drive. to a different page every day just to get a little inspiration. I laugh in the shower. People might think it’s nuts. I tell And I’m so grateful for that. Because that’s what I still do. I people in the laughter speech, I made the whole audience still open it. I don’t put it on the bookshelf. I still read this get up and we did laughter yoga for a bit. I said, “It’s okay daily. I read a different page, or a couple pages a day, just to in the beginning if you’re a little nervous about your family get some information on my ... from other authors as well, members or your friends knowing about it. You can do it in because there’s other authors in here, famous people from the closet.” But I tend to do it in the mirror. I tend to do it around the world. in the mirror; laugh in the mirror, smile or laugh. Or I just always say to myself, “I can do it.” Like the Little Engine that Kharisma: Awesome, awesome. Well, it’s been great talking Could in that book, that childhood book, I said, “I can do it.” to you today, Helen. Thank you for being with us. I think he says, “I think I can, I think I can.” I think that’s what he says. Helen: Thank you so much, Kharisma. That was so much fun! Thank you. Kharisma: Yes. Helen: But I just look in the mirror, “I can do it. I can do it.” Instead of a, “I can’t believe this is happening to me.” Or, “Oh, this is so difficult.” Instead of those words, I transfer, “I can do it. I can do it.” That is a daily ritual, to tell myself I can, especially when I wake up knowing that I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. And we all do that sometimes. Kharisma: Yes, yes. I know. That is awesome. Helen: Now I know how to control my brain a little bit more. I know how to say, “Oh, throw away that bad thought and put in a positive one.” Kharisma: Because it’s all about the mindset. And we do have the ability to control our mind, and our mindset, and the thoughts that do come in. We have that ability to manage it. And people sort of think that, “No, we can’t.” But we can. We have that power within us. Helen: We’re so powerful. We are. Kharisma: We are powerful. We are powerful. And how can our community connect with you? Helen: Well, the easiest ... I’ve got a bunch of websites, but the easiest is TheHelenWoo.com. It’s T-H-E-H-E-L-E- N-W-O-O (my last name) .com. And you can find me on TheHelenWoo also on Facebook. Oh, you can also get my book ... Well, on my website you can get my book signed. I can send you a book; signed copy to you. But on Amazon.com, buy it for your friends, your brother, your sister, strangers, because I’ve had such great feedback. I’m so grateful. I’m told that after you finish the group, people have left it on their bedside or in their purse because they want to open it

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126KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } Kharisma: Your purposeful body of work, as I call it, is to my own and sort of had more time to think, and deal with my help men. Share a little bit about your journey and what led own stuff. A few years ago, I hit rock bottom, in December you to this point that you decided I want to work with men 2012. I was really unhappy and I was extremely overweight. That’s when I realized something had to change in my life. A and I want to help them and I want to really guide them to be few months later I got introduced to The Law Of Attraction. the best version of themselves. Anushka: Alright, so I’m just going to give you a quick I used The Law of Attraction principles and mindset to lose snapshot view of my childhood. I grew up in an Indian weight, really, and work on myself and become a better family. So, huge male energy, influence, and dominance. person. Over the course of the years, I realized ... Okay, I I very quickly understood what the role of a man and a am definitely destined to help people because this is really woman is, from the eyes of an Indian household. However, I powerful work. Then I started as a health coach. I started grew up in Spain, in Barcelona. At school, I was taught sort my coaching practice as a health coach for weight loss. of the Western way of the role of the woman and the man, Through that journey and doing the own deep work myself, which is a lot more equal than it is in the Eastern society. in March 2016, I realized after working with a few clients Quote, unquote. here and there and always keeping my coaching practice open to both men and women ... I actually attract a lot of There was a lot of confusion growing up. There was a lot of guys to talk to so I knew that I was going to sign up with a chaos in my mind. To add to that, from the age of 8 I started couple of clients here and there that were male ... I realized to gain a lot of weight. So I was not particularly popular with that I got along with men. the girls in school, whereas, the guys embraced me and I just became a buddy of theirs. A combination of all of the things I understood them. They wanted to learn from me. We have that happened in my life quickly allowed me to understand too many Queens in the world and not enough Kings. And men very well. I thought, why not work with men? It’s almost like it called me, versus I called it. At school, obviously, I understood what guys spoke about. At home, I understood what the role of a man is in the In 2016, I started to attract a lot of male friends in my life. A household, and that he is meant to bring money in. I also lot of male friends asking for support, guidance. I literally, understood that as a woman I ... If I wanted to really achieve like, my close group of friends was all guys. That made me all my dreams and goals, I had to make money for that. Like, realize, okay, I’m helping them, you know, and its working. nothing came free. I had to work for it and make money for They’re actually resonating a lot more than women. I was it. So a combination of all of these things led me to dream having challenges to attract female clients. So, I was like really big. ”Why not go with what’s working?” I wanted to come to London, which is a place I visited to Eventually, I came up with the idea of empowering men. I’m study my degree. My hunger for my desires brought me extremely passionate about it. I think it’s very necessary in back to London to want to make money. Coupled with all the world. When I see an empowered man, I don’t only see the knowledge I had about men and all the sorts of close, an empowered man. I don’t only see a King who is living a male friendships I had developed over my teenage years and luxurious lifestyle in his castle or in his mansion with his over my adulthood made me realize that I felt like a total family. I see beyond that. When I see an empowered man, I man in a woman’s body. Over the course of years when I firstly see an empowered son, an empowered husband, an was in London and spent a lot of time on my own, all the empowered father, an empowered brother, an empowered suppressed emotions came up to surface, because I was a cousin, an empowered boss. So, I see all of the roles that a very emotional child. However, that child, that inner child of man fulfills in his lifestyle from the moment he grows up to mine was suppressed for many years, and all her emotions the moment he effectively leaves this physical world. as well. I see empowerment in all of those roles. A man who is Everything came to surface in London when I was living on empowered to deal with his own instincts, to understand

{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 127 WE HAVE himself better, to understand what is expected TOO MANY of him, to understand his role better - he is going QUEENS IN to be extremely successful in life. He’s going to THE WORLD learn how to live his life to his fullest potential. So, I see a lot beyond just an empowered man AND NOT who is consciously aware of his emotions and his ENOUGH dreams and his setbacks and his goals, and, you know, trying to make money. I see a lot deeperK I N G S.​ than that. Like, my vision for an empowered man is all of that. It’s an encompassing ... It’s encompassing all of the roles he fulfills in life. Kharisma: Wow, that is pretty awesome. I love your journey to, you know, where you are today. Like you said, it is a calling. I am big, as you know, on soul purpose and life purpose and the calling that we all have. It does call us. We don’t call it. The thing is that we have to be open to recognize the calling and know that it is from a soul level. So hats off to you for saying yes to your calling and for taking a stand for men all over the world to becoming empowered to be the best version of themselves in whatever role that they may be in this life. So hats of to you. I really commend you. So, you mentioned that when working with men, you find that they are a little bit more open than women. Why do think that is? Like, why do you feel that they seem to be a little bit more open than women? Anushka: This has been my experience with women and this has been my experience with men. My experience with women is that they come to me very in their feminine energy. They need to work on their masculine energy. I provide solutions for them. However, what I noticed with women is that they like to talk about their problems without wanting to solve them. I’m not used to that because I am somebody that growing up, I only spoke about my problems if I wanted a solution for it. I wouldn’t just talk about my problems for the sake of it. There was a point in my life, which, yes, when I was depressed, I did talk about my problems to a couple of close friends, to share with them what

128KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } was going on. But because I quickly learned how to suppress two people. So when something seems like a coincidence, my emotions, talking about my problems was looked down pay attention to it. Ask yourself why you think you created upon. So, I’ve noticed the difference with men is that they that. will only talk about a problem because they want a solution. Kharisma: Awesome. Awesome. So, let’s segue into the They quickly want to resolve that problem. They don’t want program that you support your clients in. We do have men in to stay with that problem. They don’t want to live with that our community and I do support men as well. I attract men problem. They identify it being a problem, and they’re like, as well. This is why I was so delighted for you to join us. I ”Anushka, provide a solution for me, or help me look inside know that the men within our community will be supported for the answer,” which is what I help them do. I really help even more, even greater with you being on board. Knowing them dig deep. your heart for men ... I really wanted to have that support in place. Thank you for being a part of this. Whether it’s why they haven’t achieved their goals. Whether they don’t, you know, why they don’t have a clear vision for Anushka: Okay, my signature program is a three months what they want in their life. Whether they have a slightly coaching program. I teach my clients how to master their rocky mindset where there is a lot of yo-yo effect in the instincts. I realised that your instinct, your intuition is your mind-set, and they’re not stable and strong in their own biggest guide in life to all of the decisions you wish to make. mindset. Whether it’s an awareness of their own emotions. In this, we cover goal crushing, how to achieve their dreams, Whatever it is with men – and funny enough, I’ve worked conduct meetings with themselves to ensure they plan for with both homosexual and heterosexual men– I say this their goals and dreams, schedule money meetings so that for both: They’re amazing. It’s amazing the potential that they have control over their income and become successful is hidden in them. Why they don’t want to show this to the in all aspects of their life. world is something I’ve always felt curious about. Some of the results my clients are experiencing are things There’s something I say to myself every day and that is, ”I such as having better relationships, finding love, getting see the good in every man.” I think because of that, because clear on their career path, finding their purpose, clearer of me saying that mantra, ”I see the good in every man,” I vision and improving their relationship with money; genuinely see amazing quality men. I see very high quality increasing their income and their general well-being is a lot men who all have the potential to be Kings. I truly believe better. One of my clients hit his financial goal in six weeks every man has the potential to be the King in his life. It’s from working with me and recently told me, he has three whether or not he’s ready for it. That is the real question. women pursuing him. When his whole body says, ”Yes”. When it’s a ”hell yes” Kharisma: That’s awesome! Where can our audience ...when he is like, ”yes, hell yes, I am ready for this.” The vast connect with you? majority of them will be sick and tired of their situation. That’s really when change happens. It’s not something I Anushka: My website is www.anushkalalwani.com. They encourage most of my clients. I tell my clients, ”Don’t wait can also connect with me on Facebook in my private group for life to send you to the bottom of the pit for you to realize #empowermen. it’s time to wake up.” Kharisma: Any last words for our audience? Pay attention to all the opportunities that come to you because every opportunity speaks to you. I don’t believe in Anushka: I create Kings! coincidences. I’m a firm and strong believer of the law of attraction. I don’t believe in any coincidences. I think we all Kharisma: Powerful and beautiful. Thank you for having this come into each other’s life, and we co-create this, you know. conversation with me today. I know it’s going to inspire and Coincidences don’t exist - It’s an incidence co-created by it’s going to empower. Thank you so much for standing in the gap for our kings!

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{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 131 INTERVIEW MEET JV CRUM III, WITH WHO HELPS ENTREPRENEURSJV CRUM III GROW SIX - AND SEVEN - FIGURE CONSCIOUS BUSINESSES THAT COMBINE MAKING HIGH PROFITS WITH MAKING AN IMPACT IN THE WORLD. HE’S A SPEAKER, COACH, HUFFINGTON POST COLUMNIST AND BEST SELLER OF THE BOOK, CONSCIOUS MILLIONAIRE.BE ICONIC JV: Kharisma, thank you for having me. And you know I just have to say: I love your brand. You’re a branding woman who has the best brand out there on the planet. You’re gorgeous. We all know that! Just go to your website. And I’m so impressed. I love watching you because I know you put together a show. Well, I think it’s like I’m watching you in New York. Kharisma: Thank you for that. Thank you so much. It’s such an honor to speak with you. Share a bit about your journey and what you are doing in the world to help make a difference.

132KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } JV: Well, you know, I think like a lot of people who come to it was — Florida is beautifu, but inside, it didn’t feel right. a place where they really want to make a difference in the And I said to myself, there’s some element that’s missing. I world. I find so many of us started in this kind of humble don’t know what it is because I know I don’t like myself very world where we lived in families that barely got by and had much. And I was horrible at relationships. I mean, I was like lots of financial challenges. a lot of people who made money in their 20S. And that’s what I realize, but I didn’t know why my life was so empty. I grew up out in the country of 400 people. It was beautiful. I grew up on a lake, I grew up to appreciate nature very early I was going off to Tony Robbins and Wayne Dyer and Deepak on. I grew up in a very strict and conservative family, where Chopra, all these people, sweat lodges and spiritual retreats. I was taught there were rules and I was going to follow them, and I didn’t even know there was a possibility it wouldn’t fail. That was the world I grew up in. So, when we went to the grocery store, I was taught you don’t ask for a candy bar, because we didn’t have the extra money. And I would honestly... I’d pray to God, like, please, please help me put some candy on the list, because it wasn’t on Mom’s list. We weren’t getting it, so very early on, I said, you know, this is not life for me. So what’s the answer to this? I said I’ve got What I ultimately realized about a decade later was to sell a rough idea here. I guess what I focused my the businesses, because of feeling so unfulfilled. What was mind so strongly on, that within two or three missing? Was I going to give to others? How I was going to years I believed it so deeply. I was drawing make a difference and how I was going to be of service? And plans for mansions that I’d never been in, I literally sold the companies. Then, I went to Canada and imagined I saw on television. But you know spent time in Toronto. what’s so funny about this story is, you know when you were a little kid you didn’t like going through the back bedroom, right? You know there wasn’t anything else you could do in the bedroom, but sleep. I do. I didn’t like that at all. I didn’t have any tantrums in the mansion, but I knew I liked to eat. So, I had a big breakfast room, a big dining room for lunch and a formal dining room. Had this big house with an Olympic sized pool and cabanas What I didn’t realize was that there was something really around it. So, there were just three rooms — to eat, a kitchen missing. And I ultimately went to a Buddhist monastery to and a big party room with a big pool and that was my idea learn how to meditate, because I knew that I needed to come of ”mansion”. I think it changed when I got older. Because I home to myself, and then I went to Asia and I lived there for was so focused on that, by twenty-five, I did have the four- several months. I did a lot of personal work and all that led storey home on the water. I have the Mercedes. You know, I me to going to live in Boulder. made the first million and I had the American dream. It’s interesting when we take journeys like this, because the But what happened for me is very fortunate. I think I had vast majority of people who come to work with me, even if just enough money to go, wow this is cool, but, God, I they have millions of dollars in revenue every year, they are grieved and within three months I looked out. One day I was still wanting to dig deeper. And I loved doing that work with on, say, you know... imagine palm trees, sailboats. I mean, somebody where they’re digging deeper and asking how can

{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 133I be a bigger service, how can I build something that really is So, what started out... and I want to tell this story if I could.significant. It makes a positive impact in the world. Now you When I started Conscious Millionaire, what I believed in mycan change the world, find our deepest joy and fulfillment. heart, most of the people around me didn’t. In fact, I paid fifteen thousand to be in a mastermind with informationKharisma: Wow! That’s a powerful journey and story! Share marketers and most of them, out of good intention, woulda bit about your foundation. tell me, you can get rid of this conscious part, because all anyone wants, is to buy into something that helps themJV: Well you know, I’m in the conscious movie, Rise Up, and make money.one day while in the hot tub, I was reading a brochure and I So, if you’re starting out something, you might be a little ahead of the curve because you’re hearing a calling, you have a heart inside of you. Maybe the world isn’t 100 percent ready for it, but go for it. Just bring it out in a way so that you can attract customers.saw the word ”conscious.” Then I saw the phrase ”conscious I think Conscious Millionaire is my personalmillionaire” and got a tingling in my spine. That’s why I’m gift to the world, you know. And you thinkhere. And then about six months later through a kind of an about all these people who are listening toinspired moment out of nature, I saw this phrase, ”conscious my podcast, my radio show. They didn’t payworld”. And I said, wow, I think there’s more than one part anything. You know the sponsors paid orto this deal. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I created my you know the people who will listen to it andown press - Conscious World Press - so I could bring out come to one of our links and they want to buybooks that are conscious. But, I realized I wanted to start a something. And what I’m doing in my mind isfoundation. planting seeds and some of those seeds are going to grow quickly and they want more. And some of the seeds might take years to grow and that’s OK. Three years ago, I just started with a new client and he had listened to a hundred shows before he ever contacted me. And so, you must remember that they’re getting what they need right now. I’m just going to resonate with people who are ready right now. Those are the people you’re always looking for to bring in.Usually the first time you don’t quite have it right. And we’re You have a deeper purpose and some of the people youstill pivoting. We’ve worked with youth 18 to 25. We kicked out connect with are going to pay for something related to thata $5000 scholarship and there were nine other people who purpose. The truth is, the majority of people you connectgot smaller scholarships, all of whom have done projects to with are not going to pay a penny ever. It doesn’t matter,uplift humanity, projects to make a positive impact. because if you’re on the path, you are doing what you’re here to do. But when you start from your heart, you start byI want to be in 160 countries, however, just like Conscious saying, I want to do something that really matters.Millionaire. Our approach to being an entrepreneur is one:To always bring together profits with making a positive Kharisma: Thank you for your words and support! It wasimpact. So those are the only clients that I have. great speaking to you!

KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } 134 MODERN DAY ALCHEMIST LRLSASTHUTTEOEOASRTVWSREIOOTSSN & DESIGN AN EFFORTLESS LIFE INTERVIEW WITH KARINA STEPHENS DARE TO BE ICONIC DARE TO

BE ICONIC { { PPRREEMMI IEERR I ISSSSUUEE 2 2001 188 } } KKHHA AR RI IS SMMA A MMA AGGA AZ ZI INNE E M 11355 eet Karina Stephens, author of The Stressless Revolution, creator of the Enrich Virtual Retreat, and a modern-day alchemist. Kharisma: I’m so excited to learn all about how you leveraged your years of experience in the health wellness industry, to launching such a powerful, enriched Retreat and Spa. Karina: When I think back to when I first became an entrepreneur, it was probably a year before I had just ended a five-year emotionally abusive relationship, and I did two things differently this time: I stopped blaming him and took responsibility back to me, so I gave power back to myself; and the second thing was, I asked, Is this all there is to life?, as I was at my darkest at this time, and a resounding No came back, Stop looking outside of yourself. So, I went in search of answers internally, rather than trying to find the answers outside of me. It took me on a personal development and spiritual journey. A year later, I started my business and realized I was born to be an entrepreneur. This was my thing, this was my groove. I remember my grade 6 teacher telling my mom at report time, that I was boy-crazy and worked spasmodically. And I said, “Mom, the boys chase me.” And we went and looked up the word spasmodic, and nothing’s changed except, there’s only one guy chasing me now. I still work spasmodically, I still love to do something here, and then I’ll go over here. I might find that’s perfect for an entrepreneur because it gives me diversity and it gives me a great range of interests - and you need to do everything when you’re an entrepreneur. I started a massage and holistic business, and then developed the personal training on top of that, because I had the nursing background, and followed that through the years. Then, 10 years ago or 11 years ago now, I joined forces with my husband. I got married and moved to Sydney, Australia. He was already in a speaking and training business, so I joined forces with him, and I learnt all the backend and the online component of the business. I get to do everything that I love, and to give back to so many people, as well. So, that’s been my journey so far.

KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } 136 WE Kharisma: Awesome! I love the journey and how that you recognized that you were born to be an entrepreneur. How did you start the ‘stressless revolution’ movement? STEP Karina: My husband and I were looking for a property that we could run some personal development programs from. We were looking all over Australia and found a perfect one. It INTO was on the Gold Coast in Queensland. It was sort of on the border and we moved in, and I guess it was the perfect property to have a day spa as well. Being the entrepreneur, I said, let’s buy the day spa as well, and that sort of took over our OUR lives. I knew that when I was designing it, I didn’t want it to be just another run-of-the-mill day spa. We had been in the corporate world where we were dealing with a lot of people that had high levels of stress, and I POWER, wanted it to really make a significant impact on other people’s lives in reducing their stress. AND I wanted it to be something really cool. So, I modeled the business plan on three women that I looked up to in the industry, and I looked at how they ran their business and their work ethic. I looked at what they implemented in their business to make IF IT’S them industry leaders. I incorporated some of their characteristics into my business plan and that’s how we set out. We opened the doors in January 2012 and in FEMININE, September, we won the industry award for Best Esquire in Australasia. So that’s all of Asia and Australia. It was really significant for me because that meant that we were among the best in the world THEN and, more importantly, we were making a difference in people’s lives. and that was the thing that I took from that. Now that we were winning awards and all that, what happened was in THAT’S February 2013, I ended up burnt out, stressed out, and maxed out. I had created this beautiful sanctuary for everyone to come and de-stress but, POWER. I needed itmost. It was like life was saying, you know what, if you want to help people really de-stress and live a stressless life, then you need to ‘go deep’. And you need to really do some soul-searching and experience what this feels like, so that you can really help them from a deeper level. So, I stepped down as managing director of my spa and stepped up as managing director of my wellness. That took me on a journey of healing, but it was more of a revealing. I learned so much about how I did business, and how I did life. When I grew up I had this “screw you” attitude. “I’m going to make it happen”. I was never given anything in life. I always had to fight for what I wanted, and I prided myself on that. I wasn’t ever given a free ride and whatever I got, I worked my butt off for. That was something that I was proud of, because it gave me that sense of independence; but living that way 24/7, just burns you out. It’s great when you need it, but, you can’t live that way forever. There was a lot of belief in me and a push - push attitude - where if I wanted something, I was just going to push through no matter what. That gets your adrenals and puts them on higher alert and they get stuck. Eventually, they get to run out of adrenaline and you’ve got cortisol coursing through your body the whole time which makes you sick and all your hormones go out of balance. That’s what happened to me. What I learned was there’s a different way that you can be an entrepreneur. Life works for you, where it’s effortless and there’s ease and joy. We have so many gifts that life is waiting to present to us, but we blocked them because we’re trying to control everything and we’re trying to make things happen anyway. I believe now, that we can’t see the big picture, because life has a even bigger picture for us. If we just trust and let go and believe in that and be led, rather than lead, then there are so many gifts that that will come into our lives. People come into our life that we

{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 137need, at the right moment. we have to do it from a place where we are well, we need to look after ourselves in order to do that.Opportunities will be given to us because we’ve let go of thecontrol. When that happens, your body can get back to its I took extra time off and I wrote the book, and I just restednatural homeostasis and begin to start to repair itself. It can my body which was really unnatural for me, because, I feltbegin to have that energy that you need to make it through so guilty when I wasn’t working. I realized that I got my self-to the end of the day with reserves left in the tank. When worth from what I did. That’s how I proved to myself that Iyou’re burnt out, there’s not even any energy left to dream was worthy my whole life; and that all had to shift for me,big and you just get to make it through the day, if you can. because our self-worth doesn’t come from what we do, itIt’s not a good place to be. Yes, it was a wonderful journey. I comes from who we are.learned so much and healed myself naturally of that adrenalfatigue. Now, I just operate at a completely different space There are a lot of beliefs that had to change for me. So Ibeing an entrepreneur. I think that’s my message now, it’s went really deep. My thing was I had go slower than I’veto be able to share this with people. I call it the place of ever gone in order to go deeper than I’ve ever been, to shinegrace. There’s a different place to live, and when we tap into brighter than I’ve ever seen. That’s what I had to do. I hadthat place and we raise our vibration, then we’re raising up to spend the time going deep to recognise the beliefs thatour vibration according to the vibration of light, and that’s were not serving me anymore. What habits that I got intowhen we step into our purpose. as far as food and just the way I lived, that were not serving me anymore, I had to let them go. Some things were easy,Kharisma: I get what you’re talking about. We as women but some things just wanted to cling to me and it took aentrepreneurs, always tend to - especially when we are go- lot of going deep in order to heal from them. During thatgetters and we must fight for everything in our lives - that time, a lot of things transitioned for me and what camemasculine energy can sometimes takes over. It can be so up was, I guess, a different way of living for me that wasdraining, but it’s about stepping back like you said, being a kinder way for all human beings, for nature as well, andlead, as opposed to feeling that you must lead and fight. We for our animals.must let our feminine energy come upto have the opportunity to serve us andservice us well.Karina: Well, that’s when we step intopower and authenticity. We step intoour power and if it’s feminine, thenthat’s power, that’s where we should beoperating from, because that’s wherewe’re strong.I guess for me, after we sold the retreatand spa, I was still healing from adrenalfatigue and there was a lot of otherthings that about my health that I reallyneeded to focus on, as I had focusedfor so many years on others and doingeverything for others. So, it was nowtime for me to be able to say, This ismy time, I need to get myself 100 percentwell, so that I can give that from a placeof when I can get from my reserves, andnot empty my tank when I give. I thinkthat’s really important. If we want toreally make an impact with what we do,

KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } 138 It was like my soul was opening up, and it was just showing me the beauty in life and in everything. I was becoming more connected with the land and more connected with all the animals. It was such a beautiful time. I really stepped up to causes that supported animals and abuse against animals. My diet changed. I’m now vegetarian. So, I feel that we have to give and serve, but we can’t do it from a place where we’re not well, fatigued, and tired. By building myself up, I’m now able to start going out and supporting things like your magazine, so I’m excited to see where this leads me, because life’s a journey - you never know what’s around the corner. But, as I focus on me and my wellness, I know that I’m attracting the people that I can now go on and serve to have a greater difference. Kharisma: Share a little bit about your virtual retreat. Karina: It’s like a membership. I took the concept of the retreat - the physical retreat - when we were running retreats for people regarding personal development and spirituality. Now, it’s just an online portal, so it’s available 24/7 and each room is a different room. We have a meditation and guided visualization room; we have a room where you can go and get educational videos, seminars, webinars, and interviews with other guest experts. I’ve found out that when I was dealing with adrenal fatigue, I couldn’t exercise, and being a personal trainer, that was really hard for me. We also have a lot of yoga in there as well, that you can do with the yoga videos. There are also signature retreats which are based solely on transformation. There are beautiful herbs and wonderful foods that replenish our energy so that we can live ‘full-on’ and reach our potential by the foods that we eat. That’s all in the Alchemist Kitchen. And that’s something, I’m really passionate about as well. I would encourage your audience to go on over to Karinastephens.com. This is where they can find out more about the retreat and also join the retreat, if they know they feel led to and resonate with them. Kharisma: Thank you again for being with us today, Karina. I really enjoyed chatting with you and really learning about what you’re up to in the world

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KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } 140 LAW OF ATTRACTION COACH DARE TO Meet Amanda Savona, Law of Attraction Coach, who helps her clients become aware of how they're really creating everything in their life with what they say, how they feel, and how they act. The awareness is supported with a daily action plan based on the Law of Attraction. Kharisma: Share a little bit about what brought you to this point, your journey, what led you to where you are today, and doing the purpose and body of work that you are doing. Amanda: Yes, thank you for having me. It's a plea- sure to be here. Yes, the Law of Attraction came into my life about seven years ago. I was going through a tough time when I was pregnant, and I had just split up with my boyfriend at the time. It was a very tough time for me, because it was scary. I didn't want to be a single mom. I didn't want to get rid of the baby. It was a time where I needed to find new answers. The universe led me to the DVD, The Secret. When I watched it, it was like the biggest “ah-ha” moment of my life. This documentary flashed back at me, and everything I ever believed and sort of knew in my heart suddenly took a front row seat in my life. I was like, \"Oh wow, so this is actually a fact. This is a universal law, and this is how I can learn to cope with things in my life.\"

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KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } 142 “....I believe this is a beautiful thing about life and why there's no good or bad, right, or wrong.”

{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 143I believe this is a beautiful thing about life and why there’s with connecting to them in some way by just asking themno good or bad, right or wrong. Even when we’re going to relate to me what’s going on in their life and then givingthrough those really tough times, that those times really them a practical solution. Just by explaining things in thisgive us the opportunity to seek for new ways to cope, and way, I usually am able to win people around where they’rethen we can really learn to thrive. So that’s what brought more open to maybe hearing about the way the universethis into my life, and then, since then, [it’s] just been an works and how applying universal laws can really shift yourongoing search where I was just so hungry for more. I just energy and change your life. But saying that, it does reallydid all these courses online, and then received my coaching take, as I said, an open-minded person to at least be opencertification. Now my business is mainly focused on helping to learning new things and trying something new. Faith ispeople use the Law of Attraction in really easy, accessible such a big part of it. There’s all these mixed beliefs, becauseways in their day-to-day life, and using that to heal their if someone doesn’t have faith, does the Law of Attractionrelationships. not work? It still works, but I feel like with my coaching, I really take a stand for having faith and trusting. For myKharisma: Awesome. Share a little bit about the work that clients, that’s sort of the best match, when they’re open toyou do. How do you work with your clients to apply the Law learning something new but also have a faith and believingof Attraction in everyday life? Give us an example. in something, doesn’t have to be something specific, but that there’s something out there that supports us.Amanda: My clients who come to me are usually someonewho sort of already knows about the Law of Attraction, but Kharisma: Okay, awesome. Now, you’re going to be alsohas been trying and is feeling a bit stuck. First, I would launching a program that’s going to help facilitate thissort of assess where their energy is at and if we’re the right transformation using the Law of attraction. Share a little bitmatch, that’s if the Law of Attraction is exactly what they about that.need. Because it does take a certain amount of openness forit to really thrive in your life. And then from there I start to Amanda: Yes, of course. I’ll be sharing a group coachingassess sort of the triggers. program - a six month program - which is going to be focused on working with your triggers. Week by week,We go into past traumas and childhood programming, and we will be focusing on different areas of their lives, beingthen once I get clear on which sub-conscious-limiting relationships. So, romantic relationships, and then in-beliefs are holding them back, then we can get right in laws, your work relationships, your relationships with yourthere. I use a meditation to clear subconscious-limiting family. It’s basically always focused on relationships, yourbeliefs and then I’ll give them two of the techniques from relationships with money. Week by week, month by month,the Law of Attraction to continue to heal by themselves and we go deeper into how they’re creating this story. How areto apply to day-to-day life, meaning, bringing them into they triggered? How are they programmed? Really get to thefocus on how they’re reacting to things and what they’re core of where the trauma is coming from, which pain andfocusing on. What we focus on expands, and where energy insecurities keep them stuck and reliving the same story.goes, energy grows. I just really bring them into awareness And then using group meditation to clear this energy, andon how they’re really creating every step with what they say then using the Law of Attraction, two different techniquesand how they feel and how they act. So from then, I give to move forward, like meditation, journaling, affirmations,them sort of an action plan on how to change their actions. and also learn to get more focused and organized andWeek by week, they will go and try this new way of being. implementation. I’m all about results, so I really love to giveStep by step, I sort of talk them through it and keep going my clients actionable homework that’s going to give themfrom there. the opportunity to see change.Kharisma: Amazing. What would you say to someone who Kharisma: Great. This works for any part of say, well, likedoesn’t believe that they have any subconscious-limiting you said, your relationships and different parts of your lifebeliefs or that doesn’t believe in the Law of Attraction? What that you may be having some struggles or some blocks.would you say to them? Where can our audience and readers get more information about your new program?Amanda: Interesting question. Well, I’m usually pretty good

KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } 144 Amanda: At the moment, they can find me on Facebook. My page is www.facebook.com/lifecoachingabundance. My website is AmandaSavona.com. They can find me there with all the information. I’ve also started doing Facebook Lives with some just easy tips, just quick tips for Law of Attraction just to sort of give everyone a little reminder every day of how they can just maybe have a different perspective and then create a different outcome. Kharisma: Awesome. Any last words that you want to share, or a tip with our audience, before we wrap up? Amanda: Yes. I’d definitely like to say that anything’s possible. Don’t let anyone limit you in any way, because the only time there are limitations is when we say, “I’m giving up, I’ve had enough, I can’t do this.” That’s the only time we’re limited. Otherwise, there is really this endless flow of abundance that’s available to all of us once we learn how the universe works and really start to face up to our truths, whether our truth is that we need to be angry or sad or joyful or whatever it may be. To learn to deal with the emotions that are coming up and to really acknowledge and honour what you’re feeling and learn to work with those emotions; once we deal with all that, then there’s less self-doubt, and we’re more likely to believe that... have that inner strength to move forward and to really go for what we want in our life. We do live in an abundant universe. I’ve changed so many things in my life, my relationship, my job. I’m now doing this full time, and I love what I do, how much money I make, where I live. I have a house in nature. My relationship is so much more harmonious. These things have all been possible through really taking the Law of Attraction and doing all I can to work on myself, clear my energy, and master through my day to day life. It just brings endless possibilities. Kharisma: Beautiful. Thank you so much Amanda for being with us today. I know that our audience is really going to glean from this interview. It’s going to spark something in them if they haven’t tried but are open to the Law of Attraction. Thank you for being with me today. Amanda: You’re welcome. My pleasure. Thank you for having me.

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KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } 146 SUPERNOVA Meet Lena Ski, host of YGSHOItROeTnUpEtOWoRA the Supernova Podcast’s INTERVIEW Supernova, Marketing Coach, and author of Start With a Bang, Then Glimmer. A handful of big, bold dreams and an unshakable commitment to meeting her moment and living courageously, Lena Ski is here to support purpose-centered entrepreneurs in their quest for greatness. DARE TO

{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 147TNESSWITH LENA SKI Kharisma: Share a bit of your journey that led you to where you are today.BE ICONIC Lena: Well, let me share a little bit of a background story. The authentic experiences and igniting that and before going into coaching and marketing and all of that, I was working in various aspects of the entertainment industry. So, whether it was television, branding, advertising those kinds of roles, I was always working with entrepreneurs, freelancers and creatives and really helping them step into their essence; position themselves as artists, bands and dealing with various issues that could come up. And I

148KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } didn’t even realize that I was coaching already back then. Town, South Africa, but I’ve never really looked at those But, at some point I got drawn into their story and I realized borders of just being like a brick and mortar kind of space. I’m in the same box as them and now their reality was So very often I was already really connecting with people becoming my reality. from Australia, from the US, from the UK, from across Europe as well, and effortlessly bringing those kinds. And in This is hard, and I’m, like, hold on right? Let me shake this fact, I found it easier to attract overseas and to see it here in off. I need to get outside this box again. And that kind of my own backyard. sparked into that whole coaching process. And in that, I discovered that you’ve got these two kinds of entrepreneurs. And just having those kinds of conversations - getting into Traditionally, you’ve got your normal entrepreneur who is joint venture partners, getting into promotional spaces very much about making money. This bit of fame that they where everybody’s looking to either grow their mailing list want; to be the masters of their own game - they’re looking or those kinds of platforms. to be experts. And that’s great. You know, kudos to them for being the kind of powerhouses that they are. But, not I just started reaching out and connecting and just sharing everyone wants that energy, not everyone wants to mansion my experience with people. And there were people by the sea or the private jet. You know, it’s a very kind of who resonated with that and wanted to have deeper “lifestyle orientated” space on the air. As I said, most people conversations. And from there it just became word of go, Well I’m just going to rebel and become a heart-centred mouth, which is always the most beautiful way to see it, and it’s grown exponentially from there. entrepreneur or a conscious entrepreneur. And, that’s also beautiful. There is so much value and so Kharisma: I love that, and as you know, any business, whether much purpose and so much passion in there. But they forget brick and mortar or an online business, experiences about themselves. So, I started looking at how to bridge those challenges along the way. two worlds. Because we want to get value, we want to have clients and movements and tribes that means something. Entrepreneurship is not an easy road to travel. Describe for But, we also must be able to give back to ourselves, so that we us a business or project failure you’ve experienced and what can propel our story onwards. So, bringing that hodgepodge you’ve learned from that experience. together and just allowing that space to be is what, really, I focus on when I work with clients. Lena: Well, I think one of the biggest things that was my failure is technically, I’ve been in the business of being an How do you step into your authentic self? What is it that you entrepreneur for so much longer than I’ve realised. But my want to be representing? What is the story that you want to mindset wasn’t on the right way and mindset is such a big, have? What is that experience that you want to share with big thing. the world? And then, how do you take that to an exponential level and just be in that space and knowing, you know, what I was working with a company, a coach training company your brand is and then how your business supports that and in terms of the modality that they do. But I kept thinking of how your marketing supports that and how everything then myself as the apprentice in that. ripples out and it becomes natural and authentic you. And when the media came in saying, let’s do an interview Kharisma: Awesome! How do you find those type of with you, you’re doing a phenomenal thing, and it was a entrepreneurs that you can work with? project I was hands on with. But I cried, “You need to speak to this other guy”. And I was coaching clients, but I realised Lena: LinkedIn and Facebook have been amazing tools for I was doing the same thing again. When it got to a point kind of connecting. I’ve been really lucky. I’m based in Cape where I was asked to by an outside person to play that role

{ P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE 149again, they would deflect back to me. You’re not ready to beon your own two feet, and for me to hear those words, I waslike, oh no, you don’t like me.Throughout 2014, I was really holding my own groundand not putting those things off. And it’s amazing to seethe energy of the projects that came out of 2014 and theenergy of the projects that came out previously were so verydifferent and so authentic.\"Kharisma: What are three ways an entrepreneur can step..findinto his or her greatness?Lena: Great,  great question! Well, one of the things that Iaalways say, is it starts with the “bang” hence, the bookStart With a Bang. And to a lot of entrepreneurs, a bang isa very, very, very big thing. It feels like you’ve got to haveall your ducks in a row and you’ve got to have a big budget,production; millennial kind of show to go out with a bang. \"BANG\"And it really doesn’t need to be that. Your bang can be anykind of experience that puts you out of your comfort zoneand puts you out of the shadow of your own greatness andininto the light. It could just be bursting out of the comfortzone. So, do one thing every day that scares you, or have aconversation that scares you or, if you need to be practicingsales more, have those conversations, but you should findyourways to be creative about it, and really just put yourself outthere and don’t put pressure on yourself thinking this is asales conversation. Just have a conversation, for the sake ofwor ld.\".havingtheconversation.So, find a “bang” in your world - right now, in this second -that’s going to make that ripple effect, that’s going to get youto the place that you want to be tomorrow.That’s the most powerful thing. The second thing I thinkthat you could be doing is leverage, and as entrepreneurs Isee this happen so much, especially the solo-preneur thingwhich happens with a lot of us, because a lot of us start;will have budgets to hire which team will grow by impact.But if you’re not leveraging what it is that you’re puttingout there, you’re going to be outside of the “zone genius”,which means you’re going to be putting up stuff that isn’t

KHARISMA MAGAZINE { P R E M I E R I S S U E 2 0 1 8 } 150 great stuff and that’s hurting your brand, and it’s hurting your business and it’s hurting you because you’re going to be sweating over yourself and you’re going to be crying and you’re going to sleep the last night and think, “amazing” is going to happen that way. It’s like, what are the things that people are waiting for from me? What are the things that I’m waiting on for other people? And given all the tasks that I do - that I need to have done that week - what is the biggest thing I can leverage or the top three things? No more than three. If I just focus on those three things, that would speed track my day, my week. What are those going to be? So, it’s still very exponential, it’s still very big, but it is the little things that makes those big differences. And  number three is to find yourself. Find moments to find - just all throughout the day - and connect with you in honour of your Supernova, your highest self, your soul, your passion, your purpose. Just tune into the bigger question of why. Why are you doing this and why this is so important for you, because energetically, it’s so easy to get lost in the doing and the task list. When I’m grounded, and I find that space and I find those rituals that support that, whether it’s meditation or just going outside and finding a patch of grass and just being in nature or yoga - whatever it is for you.  Finding those kinds of practices that allow you to ground yourself and ask, who am I in all of this? Because if you can’t find yourself in all of this, your business will go out the door.  Kharisma: Yes that’s true. There is no separation. You are an extension of your business. Lena: If we don’t do those kinds of things, then we’re just a slave to our own selves. We’re just exactly where we’re working for ourselves, rather than working for a business or having a business that works for us. Kharisma: Awesome! Well, it was great chatting with you today! Lena: Thank you so much for having me!