Resistance is one of the BEST indicators of where we need to grow.

With finances and business, it’s completely normal to feel resistance.

It comes in different forms for each of us — whether it be avoidance, being a busy fool overworking on unimportant things, procrastination, exhaustion, or getting caught up on minor tasks that simply don’t move the needle.

Most of us have been taught that when we have these negative-feeling symptoms of resistance, we should doubt ourselves, feel fear about the unknown, or shut down.

But what the actual truth is that resistance is a gift.

Because usually whatever is on the other side of that resistance — whatever outcome there would be if we were able to move through the resistance and go do the damn thing — is a MAJOR opportunity.

The more the resistance, the bigger the opportunity.

This is because our brains are designed to keep us safe.

Our brains cannot distinguish things that push us outside of our comfort zone from actual danger.

This is particularly true for things that will free us from the cage of societal barriers, generational patterns, and personal stories that keep us stuck from the abundance and financial freedom we each deserve.

So the next time you feel massive resistance to something in your finances or business, welcome it with open arms.

It’s telling you where your next big opportunity lays. It's telling you what will actually move the needle!

Few people in the world truly understand this truth. And even fewer take action to move through resistance intentionally so they can get to the gold on the other side.

Learning how to quickly reframe negative thoughts, beliefs, patterns, and stories about money and business is critical so you can cross that bridge to financial empowerment and make the impact you’re meant to make through your purpose.

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Seeing icky used car salesman-like sales my whole life had left a bad taste in my mouth. 🤢
💡 But over the years, I realized: Done with high integrity from the heart, sales is an act of service.
💟 What is heart-centered sales?
Heart-centered sales is the act of offering your gifts, value, and purpose with the people that you’re meant to help, with integrity, in line with your values and ethics.
It’s what allows us to go from dreaming of making a difference in the world to receiving the compensation to be able to go actually do it.
❌ Heart-centered sales is NOT:
…selling to people that you are not confident you can actually help, from a place of desperation lacking integrity 🤮
….selling because you’re focused on needing the money (rather than serving from the heart) 😖
💟 Heart-centered sales is selling because this is what allows you to deliver your offer (whether it is a service or product), that can make your ideal clients’ lives, and the world, better. It’s:
💜 Selling because you give a shit
💜 Selling because you have personally experienced the problem that your ideal client is facing now, and you remember in your body the deep pain, frustration, anxiety, overwhelm, sleepless nights, angry fights, hopelessness, and fear that it caused you and your family in the past.
💜 Selling because you are not here to mess around.
💜 Selling because you have a problem to SOLVE.
💜 Selling because your heart knows that this is what you are meant to share with the world.

💜 Selling because you have a MISSION.
💜 Selling selling is what allows you to deliver it….to finally get to the part that really matters: helping people and improving their lives
Knowing this difference between icky and heart-centered sales can help you get out of your own way, not charging your value or selling at all -- whether it be standing up for how much you deserve to be paid in your current or future business, or showcasing your worth at work.

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Have you been feeling brain fog, overwhelm, confusion, exhaustion, memory issues, lack of creativity, and/or even experiencing physical illnesses as you continue to do work that's simply misaligned?

Taking the time to get clear on your unique values, gifts, talents and purpose and how they can be best aligned in a job can make a 180 degree transformation on these kinds of challenges -- just like it did for our guest speaker Career Coach and Reworkit Founder & CEO Jess Wass.

Join me for this fascinating discussion with Jess to learn exactly how to find that clarity in your career and connect with your "why". And how doing so might even lead you to entrepreneurship!

This episode is for those of you who don't necessarily think being an entrepreneur is for you, but want to connect with your purpose in your work and learn ways to have more alignment in your career so you can be happier on a daily basis.Listen to learn about:

• Jess' story of career burnout when she did not feel aligned with her values and her journey of connecting to her gifts, finding entrepreneurship, and starting her coaching company
• Financial security and charging money in entrepreneurship
• Business models that prioritize social impact and giving back over profit at any cost
• How to design a career aligned with your values and makes you feel happiness, joy, and fulfillment
• Navigating the desire for time, flexible, and freedom in addition to money
• Challenging yourself to figure out what you do love through testing
• How nonprofit experience is actually super relevant for business
• Overcoming fear of business marketing and sales for the purpose of making an impact and aligning with your mission to help others
• How to be an "intrapreneur" so you can lead and make impact as an employee
• How to make money while leading and making decisions from your mission, values, and purpose

Connect with Jess Wass:

• LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesswasserman/⁠
• Instagram: ⁠https://instagram.com/jwass24

Jess Wass is the Founder & CEO of Reworkit, a transformative coaching company dedicated to reimagining the professional landscape. She's been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, US News & World Report, Psychology Today, Bloomberg and Bloomberg Businessweek.

With a passion for facilitating transformative growth, she guides individuals and organizations towards realizing their full potential through Executive & Career Coaching and facilitation of corporate workshops. She focuses on fueling transformations at both ends of the professional spectrum: for mid & senior career individuals seeking their “future-perfect” career fit and for forward-thinking companies & organizations ready to become truly great places to work.

Jess has 15 yrs experience working in high-performing work environments from Finance, Strategy Consulting, Hospitality, and Startups. She’s led teams from 2 to over 100 employees with a commitment to fostering dynamic, inclusive workplace cultures. As a multiracial Black woman who grew up in an interfaith household, she learned to hold multiple perspectives at once, which influences her approach to working with clients.

Jess has a Masters in Social-Organizational Psychology with a concentration in Change Leadership from Teachers College at Columbia University, a BSBA in Finance and Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, and is a certified CPCC Coach.

Everyone has rights in the financial system. The financial, tax, investing, real estate, and business rules are available to everyone. You just need to know how to play the game.

With financial empowerment, you can invest, buy real estate, and start a businesses. You can build generational wealth.
This episode applies to both immigrants and entrepreneurs. Begin your financial empowerment journey

1. Know your rights.

2. Empower yourself with financial information and strategies.

3. Build wealth.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

*Immigrant Legal Rights in the Financial System Training https://immigrantfinance.com/rights

*How to Buy a House as an Immigrant Masterclass
https://immigrantfinance.com/how-to-buy-a-house-as-an-immigrant

*More financial empowerment courses and programs: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/programs-and-courses

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Fear of judgment stops most people from ever sharing their message and becoming visible online.

Whether it's posting on social media to market your online business or sharing your voice to advocate for a cause, fear keeps us small and holds us back.

In this episode, learn 3 key heart-centered strategies to turn the focus back on your purpose and take action to share your perspective, despite the normal fears that come up.

Here are two ways I can support you further in moving past fear so you can become financially empowered and carry out your purpose:

1. HOME - Free community group for heart-centered, mission-driven, and social entrepreneurs:

https://www.internationalempowerment.com/freegroup

2. MISSION - Find your business "thing" + set the world alight with your purpose:

https://www.internationalempowerment.com/mission

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Just like a house, your business needs a foundation and pillars to support it, and allow it to grow.

In this episode, learn about the 3 pillars of setting up a solid, supportive business foundation that allows you to be stable and expand.

How to figure out what to start your business on now:

https://www.internationalempowerment.com/businessclarity

How to Set Up Your Business LLC Legal Structure on Your Own Masterclass - https://www.internationalempowerment.com/product/how-to-set-up-your-business-llc-legal-structure/

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Trump got shot.

Fist bumping in the air as he walked away alive, for his supporters this has left an unforgettable image of him as a survivor and leader.

For me at least, this has made it all the more real the 2024 election is coming and brought up a lot of fear.

While I've been strategically planning for months around preparing for a potential Trump administration, I didn't let myself feel the fear of that possibility myself until I saw the video of Trump walking away with his fist raised after being shot. I immediately felt in my gut what this moment in history will mean for his supporters.

For the people I focus on supporting in my financial empowerment work -- immigrants and heart-centered dreamers, visionaries, and entrepreneurs -- learning how to transform fear into faith couldn’t be more important in these times.

The biggest danger we face is losing hope -- of what better future is possible.

Tapping into faith is one way we can start to prepare for whatever is to come.

So that we can continue to be in a place of expansion and abundance and take steps toward building a better future - for ourselves, our families, our communities, and a more welcoming world.

>> In this episode, learn a step-by-step process I have started to go through personally to begin to transmute that fear into faith, and how you can do the same.

>> We're not meant to do this alone. That's why I've recently started a new free private community group for heart-centered entrepreneurs and immigrants, called HOME, to dig into financial empowerment topics together no matter what’s going on in the world. Join at https://www.internationalempowerment.com/freegroup

Members get to connect with like-minded individuals and receive early access to & behind the scenes episodes of the Finance Business & Purpose podcast + request episodes on whatever topics they need most.

Have you ever woken up feeling negative, even frowning for no obvious reason?

Sometimes divine timing happens and we receive the EXACT lessons and messages we need to hear in those moments.

Listen to this episode to hear the story of a recent experience I had flipping around a negative day into a positive one, thanks to some lessons I received during a much needed haircut removing some dead weight!

HOME free financial empowerment community group for listeners of the show: internationalempowerment.com/freegroup

MEMBERS RECEIVE:

The first chance to access new episodes of ⁠The Finance Business & Purpose Podcast⁠ hot off the press, before they are published on the show publicly

Access to an interactive financial empowerment community space, facilitated by FBP Podcast Host Adina Appelbaum, to digest the episodes together in a group setting with like-minded dreamers and aspiring and current heart-centered, mission-driven, and social entrepreneurs inspired to claim their financial abundance AND build a more welcoming world, together

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WHY JOIN NOW: This space will eventually morph into a paid membership. Folks who join now will enjoy complimentary access to this private community space for free, right up until the official launch when it will become a paid subscription!

Book mentioned in the show: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, available at:

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Leap-Conquer-Hidden-Level/dp/0061735361