What does your full Queendom or Kingdom look like when you determine the laws of the land? How does that get to express itself in your business and your physical space?
I want your physical location to reflect how awesome it is to be around you, so people who don’t know you yet can tell from a mile away🤩. Make them pause long enough to be curious—hm do I need that thing or service, cuz it sure looks yummy 😋
TLDR:
Your space is talking for you, so make sure it’s saying what you want it to say.
I see many people making this mistake, not maximizing the return on one of their biggest expenses, rent.
👀Focus on the outside: When people walk by, do they already understand what type of experience they’ll receive working with you?
👀Inside: Do they leave with the feeling that there’s more to be experienced if they come back?
I’m a business alignment coach with a background in architecture and community building. I want every aspect of your business to reflect your truly amazing self, including your physical space.
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Is it really safe to be me?
What has it cost me to have cultivated a life of belonging at my own expense? Is it worth gaining conditional entry into a club where membership is easily revoked? What if the revoking is implicit not explicit, delivered in subtle signals with smiling faces? It’s been a heavy load to navigate. No wonder I’m often uncertain or confused trying to read the room.
My hope is to be so committed to my own Queendom that the sneak attacks no longer land and stick. This is the real work.
Navigating my own sense of safety from the skin I’m in has informed my brand of business coaching.
Aligning your business with authentic self means you get to do you in your business just like you get to do you in life. If you are from a historically marginalized class of people, I bet what’s holding you back in your business has roots in this exact question.
Why was Mae in Vegas? What did she do there that I would care about as an entrepreneur? What is Mae offering that will help me love my work life again? All this and more in this week’s podcast episode. The opportunity for YOU is to listen and see what you think about my vibe: the Triple Win, the Queen of your Queendom, and IRL Impact.
Happy Lunar New Year to all my Asian cousins celebrating this month.🏮🧧
Sending love to my Chinese American community grieving the mass shooting in Monterey Park. I see you. ❤️🩹
Kicking off Season 2 / Episode 41 by talking all things VISION BOARD!
This exercise is super helpful for those of us who overthink or have been trained to preference logic over intuition. I use it to expand my imagination when connecting with my dream life, especially when I feel like I’m at an uncertain intersection.
Telling my story both past and present from fearless honesty and self-love is my business challenge at this last chapter of 2022.
The further back in my story the easier to tell it. Not only because I’ve told them more often but I’ve had more years since to make meaning from it.
I LOVE how my work has evolved with me and in hindsight was all just right for bringing me where I am today. So my work is to keep trusting that Future Mae will understand how 2022 Mae was Just Right and to just keep swimming in the best way I know how.
PS DM if you want my support for looking at your 2022 and how we can take those learns with love into your 2023. Link in bio.
My conversation with Greg took me from my anxious 3am thoughts to developing my capacity to tolerate panic feelings while also knowing my separateness from them. Greg’s ongoing journey of healing from trauma stored in his body informs his current work as a healer. Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, or chronic pain, Greg’s expertise is in connecting with your own capacity to heal.
Watch out conversation here to connect with the healing available for your own journey. Message @greg_wieting with questions about working together.
Johanna helps her clients address the systems of their lives--both their outward functions and the inward thinking that supports them.
has created a business that is difficult to describe at this one year point in her business. Yet this is the challenge for anyone in business: we are always becoming our future selves so at any moment we are only knowing what we know! May we all practice self-love and trust that where we are and all we’ve experienced is the exact fuel needed to cultivate the superpowers we serve with. What a privilege that Today You gets to keep becoming the fullest expression of yourself, in life and in business.
Susan’s story is yet another example of how we follow the clues of our natural interests to find our life’s work. As a dancer and academic she found her way to developing curriculum for teens to discover who they are in their bodies, which led to her book The Embodied Teen.
I enjoyed witnessing her name out loud that she wants to get her curriculum out to @michelleobama @drbiden @tonythurmondspi so more school systems can offer it to more youth. Can you imagine the difference it would make in our world if more teens were at home in their bodies, in their identities? I know it would’ve had a big impact on me. Who do you know who can connect Susan one degree closer with these changemakers?
Just listening to Malachi’s vision for survivors of sexual trauma led me to connect with recovering my own sense of safety in my body. I hope you find similar unlocks for yourself when you listen for yourself.
We speak about the homecoming of realizing 1) we are not broken 2)it’s not our fault we don’t feel safe and 3) we don’t have to journey alone.
Do you know someone who needs to hear about healing from trauma and recovering a sense of safety in their body? Share this podcast with them.
To learn more about the Octave Center’s next training for survivors of sexual trauma, follow @octavetraumahealing on Instagram and reach out to Malachi with any questions.
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Mae Chan is a Business Alignment Coach and Community Builder who loves to support small business owners in creating more ease, peace and wealth by being more YOU. Work with me in private coaching, online workshops, and in-person events in and around Oakland, California. Get business alignment inspiration delivered to your inbox. Follow and message Mae on Instagram.
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Stephanie let us peek behind the curtain of all the ways to become your version of a “successful author,” so if you have Best-Seller dreams, tune in here to learn for free some of the expertise her clients pay her for.
I love knowing another Asian American woman solopreneur talking sales and marketing when our cultures, both Asian and American, tell us to stay invisible. Our own journeys have equipped us to teach what we’ve fought to learn for ourselves.
Join her for her workshop series happening this month—DM @stephmoonco on Instagram for the link to register.
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Mae Chan is a Business Alignment Coach and Community Builder who loves to support small business owners in creating more ease, peace and wealth by being more YOU. Work with me in private coaching, online workshops, and in-person events in and around Oakland, California. Get business alignment inspiration delivered to your inbox. Follow and message Mae on Instagram.
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In my conversation with Mary Grace, I was most struck by the huge impact she's having by working in many worlds at once, including huge health care and corporate spaces as well as her business helping youth become the people chosen by their goal colleges. Listen and you'll catch a glimpse of what it looks like to pursue limitless dreams without sacrificing ease or peace.
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Mae Chan is a Business Alignment Coach and Community Builder who loves to support small business owners in creating more ease, peace and wealth by being more YOU. Work with me in private coaching, online workshops, and in-person events in and around Oakland, California. Get business alignment inspiration delivered to your inbox. Follow and message Mae on Instagram.
If you've received value from this podcast, please SUBSCRIBE, leave a REVIEW, and SHARE it with at least one person who could use the kind of encouragement my guests and I are offering here. Catch full video episodes on YouTube.
Still thinking about Carol’s powerful declaration about her latest project Born to be Seen. As a teacher all these years she has been in service to students, and now is the time to center herself: her own journey of growth and evolution from where she is to where she’s going, wherever that may be! That’s what she’ll be sharing and that’s what we will be privileged to witness by walking alongside.
Many on the podcast talk about clients when they describe their greatest joy in their work. Carol’s greatest joy is a celebration of her own triumphs, like the Queen of Wands photo shoot she envisioned, enacted and now embodies. ✨👸
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Rie Langdon would like all of us to move our bodies with our full freedom all the way to our last decades. She has the superpower of seeing where our muscles and joints want support just by watching us walk.
Although her clients can experience relief in just one session of Pilates work with her, her prescription to all of us is to find time to move our bodies every day. Rie and talked about how we achieve our big picture dreams by showing up to ourselves in the day-to-day, moment by moment. What is your body asking of you today?
If you're in the Bay Area, book a session with Rie at her studio in San Francisco. https://www.riepilates.com/
Confidence Embodiment Coach Natalie Simpson's experience wrestled with confidence since childhood. You'll want to hear her story of coming home to herself and her latest pivot for herself and her business. This one is full of gems that are unique and universal.
TJ's vision for us all to live outside the boxes others put us in and define our own version of success informs her coaching business on money habits as well as her podcast The Asian Detox Podcast. Next zhi's got zir sights set on transforming corporate workspaces to welcome more Asian females into leadership roles. I'm excited to see the speaking roles that will come TJ's way!
You may feel in our conversation the cultural shorthand available due to our shared background as children of immigrants from Taiwan. It's difficult to convey the ease this connection allows; something unprecedented for me in my work life but most easily take for granted.
May our conversation open up new ideas for how you can make the spaces you're part of more "all of you is welcome."
Kathy and I spoke about her journey to starting her business, how connecting with our bodies connects us with our intuitions, and finding “the courage to breathe again.” Take a deep breath and tune in. To work with Kathy check out her website https://www.kathybell.uk/
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Annette Corbett and I spoke about the power of listening to your inner knowing, and how crucial it is to support the supporters. She is a powerhouse, visit her instagram page or her website annettecorbett.com to learn more!
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Rachel Pereyra demonstrates in this conversation a rare glimpse of true CEO power: Rachel spent the past year creating the very successful business she had dreamed of and hated it. She's right now in the middle of a big pivot moment reimagining a revised delivery model and her ideal client.
I applaud business leaders who have the courage to make big changes as soon as they discover that misalignment, trusting that the people who are for them will applaud it too. So often as leaders we are too afraid to acknowledge the friction we're experiencing that becomes burnout. By the time we face it, we've already created a lot of pain for our clients, our team, and most of all for ourselves.
Even without knowing the entire new plan, Rachel was able to renegotiate previous relationships with her integrity intact, and create space for new client relationships that allowed the return of creativity and working in flow.
If you are a female, LGBTQ, or non-binary business owner who wants operations support, Rachel is uniquely gifted to hear the result you're wanting to achieve and knows how to get you there. Contact her @mastermindbusinesssolutions.
