When I was 13 I lived with my tennis coach in Sarasota, Florida and trained to go pro. My dear friend from Chicago was already on the tour and doing really well (#3 in the world) and she wrote me and said, “Get out. I hate it. You won’t like it. Go home and be a ‘normal’ kid.”
I listened.
After a year at Nick’s I flew “home” to Calabasas, California . It wasn’t home to me, yet, as we had moved from Lake Bluff, Illinois the year prior so my dad could “make it” in Hollywood as a screenwriter.
That’s when I began to sell. Not on purpose, it just happened. It was in the flow. People would see me playing tennis on “our” court (we lived in condos and there was a court and a pool and jacuzzi and no one ever used that court but me pretty much) and inquire, “Do you teach lessons?” The answer that came out of my natural entrepreneurial mouth was, of course, “Yes, I do.” Within a short period of time I was booked - had a wait list. Teaching adults and kids, at $50 an hour. This was 1980. That was a lot of money then. Still is!
My mom used to put her hand over her mouth and laugh After 42 Years, I’m Officially Outta Sales
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When I was 13 I lived with my tennis coach in Sarasota, Florida and trained to go pro. My dear friend from Chicago was already on the tour and doing really well (#3 in the world) and she wrote me and said, “Get out. I hate it. You won’t like it. Go home and be a ‘normal’ kid.”
I listened.
After a year at Nick’s I flew “home” to Calabasas, California . It wasn’t home to me, yet, as we had moved from Lake Bluff, Illinois the year prior so my dad could “make it” in Hollywood as a screenwriter.
That’s when I began to sell. Not on purpose, it just happened. It was in the flow. People would see me playing tennis on “our” court (we lived in condos and there was a court and a pool and jacuzzi and no one ever used that court but me pretty much) and inquire, “Do you teach lessons?” The answer that came out of my natural entrepreneurial mouth was, of course, “Yes, I do.” Within a short period of time I was booked - had a wait list. Teaching adults and kids, at $50 an hour. This was 1980. That was a lot of money then. Still is!
My mom used to put her hand over her mouth and laugh🤭 when recounting one dad who approached me about teaching his daughter. He pulled up in his Rolls Royce and asked how much I charged per hour. I answered without hesitation, “$50.” He balked. I looked at his car and then looked back at him and asked, “Do you have a problem with that?”
I taught his daughter Whitney for four years until I left for Brown.
Thus began my selling career. I have always sold from an open heart, only things I believed in. Except for that first job out of Brown selling computers. Oh. My. God. I was so bored. I didn’t care about the computers or the trainings and it was a slog for that reason and so I didn’t last. Six months later I was looking in the Boston Globe want ads for another job. The people were super nice though. Very kind people. But I was bored.
I’ve sold catering, skin care, health and wellness products, wine, my book, my inspiration card deck, our 2 DVD’s and, of course, yoga. The key, though, is that I never actually “sold” yoga. I lived it. I continue to do so. Words don’t teach, or sell. Walking your talk does.✨🙏🏻✨
Now because we sold our Prana Power Yoga ✨🙏🏻✨ studios I get to just enjoy my own practice at 4 am every day with my rescue kitty Frank Sinatra. We practice in our happy kitchen at the happy white pineapple 😊✨🌟💫🍍 because my HH snores a little which distracts us. 😉
The Universe has always been doing the work for me, it’s just that now, after being obsessed with the Law of Attraction ✨🌟💫 since I was 5, I am fully giving up the reigns to the law, the Universe and my inner being. I live each day in the flow, doing only what I love and my coaching clients come to me effortlessly and joyfully. I enjoy every single minute of talking with them.
We are about to launch our Inspiration Academy™ - September 2022 - which I had the inspiration to create 7 years ago.
The timing is now. Divine timing my friends. 🙏🏻💫🌈😊
Oh…🤔did I just pitch you on our Inspiration Academy™? 🤭 Well, momentum is strong and so is the Law of Attraction ✨🌟💫 and 42 years is a lonnnnggggg time. 😉 recounted recount one dad who approached me about teaching his daughter. He pulled up in his Rolls Royce and asked how much I charged per hour. I answered without hesitation, “$50.” He balked. I looked at his car and then looked back at him and asked, “Do you have a problem with that?”
I taught his daughter Whitney for four years until I left for Brown.
Thus began my selling career. I have always sold from an open heart, only things I believed in. Except for that first job out of Brown selling computers. Oh. My. God. I was so bored. I didn’t care about the computers or the trainings and it was a slog for that reason and so I didn’t last. Six months later I was looking in the Boston Globe want ads for another job. The people were super nice though. Very kind people. But I was bored.
I’ve sold catering, skin care, health and wellness products, wine, my book, my inspiration card deck, our 2 DVD’s and, of course, yoga. The key, though, is that I never actually “sold” yoga. I lived it. I continue to do so. Words don’t teach, or sell. Walking your talk does.✨🙏🏻✨
Now because we sold our Prana Power Yoga ✨🙏🏻✨ studios I get to just enjoy my own practice at 4 am every day with my rescue kitty Frank Sinatra. We practice in our happy kitchen at the happy white pineapple 😊✨🌟💫🍍 because my HH snores a little which distracts us. 😉
The Universe has always been doing the work for me, it’s just that now, after being obsessed with the Law of Attraction ✨🌟💫 since I was 5, I am fully giving up the reigns to the law, the Universe and my inner being. I live each day in the flow, doing only what I love and my coaching clients come to me effortlessly and joyfully. I enjoy every single minute of talking with them.
We are about to launch our Inspiration Academy™ - September 2022 - which I had the inspiration to create 7 years ago.
The timing is now. Divine timing my friends. 🙏🏻💫🌈😊
Oh…🤔did I just pitch you on our Inspiration Academy™? 🤭 Well, momentum is strong and so is the Law of Attraction ✨🌟💫 and 42 years is a lonnnnggggg time. 😉