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Fiona Walsh
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Julie Solomon
Welcome to Woman of Influence. I'm Julie Solomon and this is where high level women come to recalibrate their message, realign their leadership, and rise into the next era of impact. If you're ready to align your visibility with your true authority, if you're called to speak to women at the level you now lead, if you're ready for your business to feel as elevated as the woman running it, this is your space. Because real influence isn't built in the algorithm, it's embodied in your identity. Let's get started.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
Hi, Fiona.
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Julie Solomon
It's so great to have you here with us today.
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Fiona Walsh
Hi, Julie. I'm so excited to be here.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
Okay, before we dive in, I want to know, what does being a woman of influence mean to you?
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Fiona Walsh
Oh, wow. I can really see at the moment a huge shift happening globally where women are really stepping into their power, into their lives, and it's very much led by frequency. And I had a ping when I woke up one morning about four months ago where it was literally like, everything is frequency. And I've been trying to align to that in all elements of my life. Work, family, friends, everything. And, you know, the more you lean into something, the more it seems to spark. And so I believe that women of influence are women of frequency and they lead with frequency. And that frequency and resonance is having these huge ripple effects all over the world right now and it's just going to keep growing and amplifying.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
That's so good. And I think that just kind of lends me into what I want to kind of start with now. I got the joy and the utmost pleasure of getting to know you this year. You came into my world, if I remember correctly, through the brand accelerator, and then decided to join me inside the revenue accelerator, which is a much higher touch, high level four month experience. And so I got to really learn about you and your messaging when you started in the brand accelerator, but then really got to work with you one on one and in a very intimate capacity. And so I know that frequency does mean a lot to you.
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Fiona Walsh
It's.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
It's tied a lot to the work that you do, which was going to lend me to freedom. How do frequency and freedom align? And I would love for you to kind of take us through your, your perspective of this, through the method that you teach and really how you support high achieving individuals with really understanding what is frequency for me, how do I activate that out, how do I use that? And then how can I take that frequency and actually allow that to be a catalyst to my own Regulation to my own freedom so that I can actually not only just get the business that I want, but have that actually affect the life that I am living every day in the most positive way.
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Fiona Walsh
Yeah, I think where I'll begin is where most people are stuck, which is in fear and not freedom. So there, if you think of them on a continuum, they're at opposite ends of a continuum. And I think that most of us are trapped in stories which are our own limiting stories. And unfortunately, we're humans, we all have them. Even the most healed, transformed women and men I know still have limiting stories. And the work that I do with people is to really start with wherever someone's at in their journey, but working on what are the stories that are keeping them stuck, what are the memories, what are the experiences from the past that are stuck as imprints and fears in their body and so they're in their nervous system. And I think what's really interesting is that I spent decades in my head, in an intellectual sense, in strategy and people roles in big global corporates. And I tried to think my way through my own fears, my own blocks, my own past experiences. And I only got so far. I studied neuroscience coaching. I launched a mindset, a neuroscience based coaching business. And my own journey correlating at the same time was like, this work only gets you so far because as many of you listening might be able to tell me that you're a people pleaser and you know your patterns of perfectionism and you can talk about them and you can think about them, but you're still looping. And so my own journey took me on to understand that the only way to break these loops and the only way to break these patterns is to go into the body and let the body lead, which is very uncomfortable if you've led your whole life with your brain and you think you can think your way out of everything. But the body is so wise and so powerful and it holds your wisdom, it holds your alignment, it holds your frequency, it holds your soul, it holds all of the magic that makes you you. And unfortunately, life throws us experiences and all the things that sort of muddles or puts armor around that beautiful frequency that is everybody. And so the work that I do with people and support them in their nervous system is to go into their body in a safe way and go back to some of those imprints and experiences in the past that's causing the fear and the blocks and making them feel stuck. And when we let the body lead, it truly is magical. It very quickly is able to resolve or dissolve these patterns. And when you unlock these blocks in your body, your life force energy, your frequency floods to wherever that block was. So if you can imagine, like a knot in your chest and once you dissolve that memory of when your mum said to you that you weren't pretty, or you weren't smart enough, or you were too loud or too opinionated or too quiet, when you're able to go in safely resolve that memory, your lifeless energy fills that block. And that is when freedom and frequency starts to flow again because you have this remembrance. Like, I don't believe anyone ever forgot who they were. It's just that they got blocked along the way by lots of things that life threw at them. And when you start to resolve these blocks in your nervous system, in your body, your own frequency, which is freedom, people say it feels like peace, it feels liberating, it feels like home. It does feel like purpose. And I truly believe that everyone, when they're born, they're born with a purpose. And that all these imprints that I'm talking about that we pick up along the way make us feel like we don't have a purpose or make us confused. But once we release these imprints and blocks, guess what? Starts pinging in with every single one of my clients. It's their creativity, it's their intuition, it's integrity and it's alignment that is so strong because it's anchored in who they truly are at a cellular level and at a soul level level that anything in the past that they questioned about themselves, which is sort of your ego and your critic, it's, it actually is like moves away because you're just in such strong alignment and structural self belief that you truly start to feel free.
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Julie Solomon
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
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Julie Solomon
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
I want you to kind of walk us through this as much as you can because I know, I mean there's only so, so much, so deep that we can dive in the method, but the work that you do is so important and it's so profound. And I'll just use an example because it's an easy one to use, I think for people. Money. People have lots of blocks and fears and things around money. You know, I, I've worked with clients that they'll make money and then they'll spend it faster than they can keep it because there's some kind of thing there. I've worked with clients who, they'll make money and then they'll hold on to it so tightly because they're afraid it's going to go away and then there's things there. And so if we want to use money just as a random example, because I think that people can attach to that. When I think about a woman who truly wants to be a woman of influence, who wants to take that purpose, that God given purpose, that universe creator purpose that was given to her at the beginning of her life. And she wants to live that out to the highest potential, to the highest frequency. So the intention is there. She has good, good thoughts and intentions with that. But then let's say she's got this money thing.
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Fiona Walsh
Yeah.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
And this money thing is actually keeping her in some kind of survival pattern, whether she's conscious of it or not. It's, it's keeping her stuck at a certain level, in a certain place to where she can't actually become the woman of influence that she's wanting to because she can't tap into all of the amazing things that you just walked us through. So she then comes to you and.
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Julie Solomon
She'S like, this is my problem.
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Fiona Walsh
I'm spending.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
You know, I'm. I've learned how to make money.
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Fiona Walsh
Yay.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
But I'm spending it faster than I can make it. Or I'm so afraid to invest now that I've made it, I'm so afraid it's going to go away. Walk us through. What are the key components to start to unravel that so that she can actually find that connection between what she says she wants, which is this influence, this impact, this living out her potential and her purpose with that frequency that you mentioned earlier.
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Fiona Walsh
Okay, beautiful. So I usually would start with, what are the voices in your head telling you about money? Because they're the most obvious ones that we can tune into. They're our critics. Everyone's got different ego state. And so what is that voice saying? And it's like, well, typically people will say, well, you've earned this much, but the other shoe is about to drop and you're not. This is your last client. Imagine this is your last client. So there's this like panic, vase, fear based voices in our heads. And so the first step is to really tune into those because those voices are trying to protect us. And they play this beautiful role in our nervous system. Really a really valiant role, trying to keep us safe. Because our nervous system is all about safety. And until we tune into these voices and befriend them, create a relationship with them, they are for most people, narrating your inner world all day long. You're not enough. You're this, you're that. All the things, when we can tune into them, we're like, oh, ha. Hi, you're online again. Oh, no, it's fine. This, this was a big client I signed, but I've got another few lined up. I meant we're. Okay, okay, okay. We're gonna hit, we're gonna hit the goal this month. So you can sort of be a little bit playful with the voices in your head because it's sort of like little kids in many way. Most of them are stuck in memories of the past, which is where we go next, which is usually through a somatic exercise. We go into their body and there'll be a sensation that we go to. There's emotion attached to that. Some people will get visuals that come in just depending on what intuitive sort of gifts you have. Everyone feels something load. I've not had one person not be able to go into their body and tap into their wisdom. So don't stress about that. And then when we go in quite often a memory will then come through which is their mom in the kitchen looking through bills when they were six. And do we have enough money to pay for the groceries? And no, you can't do dance classes anymore. I'm sorry darling, but daddy's lost his job. Like there's all the stories come back in from your childhood which have caused these imprints. They stay with us and these protector parts come on and they keep, they're trying to keep that little version of you safe because that was really scary for you when you were six and you thought that maybe there wasn't enough money to buy food and that you had to give up things that were important to you, like a dance class or a holiday got canceled or something like that. And so what we go and do is we re experience in a very safe and trusting space that memory, that emotion that wasn't felt at the time because it wasn't safe to feel. And when we do that, the memory and the grip that we have on it dissolves. And then you come out of it and you in your full empowered woman of influence self is able to recognize that because your 6 year old self that had been jumping in and causing those voices in your head to narrate to you all day long that the shoe was about, other shoe was about to drop and you're not going to hit that target. All of that self doubt and that overthinking actually caused quietly dials down. And so your influence is that you can have influence over the inner voices in your head. The influence is that you can resolve everything that happened in your past that was scary or that your body needed to protect you from. And when we do that work, then as I said, your frequency floods back into your body. And with that I think as your frequency rises, so does your impact, so does your influence, so does your power and your embodiment.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
Thank you for walking us through that. And I think that it's. We would be remiss to not really touch on and how a woman that may be listening to this that maybe identifies with the way that you used to describe yourself as being very intellectual, very strategic, always in the brain. You know, there's got to be a strategy for this for someone like that. And if you have an example just from your own experience or if you want to give us, you know, with. I know there's confidentiality, but just situations with clients because I know that this is really like a sweet spot for you from the work that we've done, like you will take very high achieving, like people that want to just cling to that and you help them dissolve and break down. So how can someone that has felt so safe, more in the mind start to allow themselves to get more curious about this embodiment piece and what it can really do for them?
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Fiona Walsh
Yeah, I think that the main thing is don't do it alone. Because it's one of those things that I think you need to be in a trusting container with someone who can hold you. Because if you're a big thinker and you've been very successful with your intellectual approaches, you may. Most of my clients also have high emotional intelligence, but there's a disconnect that has happened because they've wanted to keep themselves safe. So they might be vulnerable, but it might be quite situational. So they're happy to show their emotions or talk about something that's happened, but after the fact, after they've processed it, after they've made sense of it intellectually and then you might, which is what I used to do, then be very open about something difficult I'd been through. But it'd be very much a curated story. It wouldn't be like speaking from my truth or my heart, which is messy and imperfect. And that's actually sort of how we are. So part of the work with a lot of people I work with is creating space to be like messy and let it come out and be super vulnerable, maybe more vulnerable than you've ever been in your whole life. But that's actually where the unlock starts to happen. Because it's the parts of us that are so tucked away that we don't want anyone to know about. Maybe we don't even want to know about them ourselves. They're the parts that when we go there safely and allow them to speak and to be resolved and to be integrated, that's where you really step into your full power because you've got, you accept all of you, all the messy bits, not just the curated perfect bits, all the parts are welcome. And yeah, I think about a few of the clients that I've worked with recently who have been very stuck in their head. One of the two of them have. One was bullied in a corporate role, a very senior legal professional in a corporate. And then another person was bullied in their. Their founder, but they had a business partner and both very stuck in their head, had been to psychologists, psychiatrists, all the things to try and resolve this trauma around the bullying. And it was fascinating because when we went into their body, yes, we were able to resolve the emotion and that instance. But as I said before, when you open the body up, it's got a lot to say. We haven't tuned into it for 40, 50, 30, how many, how many years you are. They both had instances in their childhood that was actually the root cause which caused such a huge activation and a re. Traumatization as an adult. And so with these people, like once you go and do that work though, that, I mean, and I was exactly the same. You almost can't go back because you, like, I've sat, I've sat with leadership coaches and talk based therapy and gone round and round and round around in circles. I've written affirmations out on sheets. You know, I've listened to all the podcasts. And then you sit with someone who does this kind of somatic body based work and you let it go and you come out and you're like, holy moly. Like that's gone now. And you know it's gone. You can feel it in your body. You can actually feel it at a cellular level that you have let go of that because you, everyone says at the end of the session I feel lighter. So like the weight has gone. I feel at peace. And you can also see it in people's faces. Like I can see it in my clients faces if I took a photo at the start and end of a coaching session. They, their eyes are brighter, their skin looks softer because they're not gripping, they're not holding. Like it's, it's, it. The change is, is embodied in them in real time.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
What is the one thing that you wish? Women. And you know, the women in my world, you are one of them.
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Fiona Walsh
Yeah.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
What, what is the one thing that you wish these women knew about? Because it takes so much courage to do what you are explaining and it's a lot easier just to keep all that bottled up and bottled in and to just keep thinking that one more hack or one more strategy or one more process is going to be the thing that unlocks it. What do you wish that these women who you know so badly want to create so much impact in the world, they so badly have a message and a mission and a purpose that is so much greater than themselves, that is just literally waiting to explode out of them. But yet, and, and that takes so much courage.
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Fiona Walsh
Yes.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
But yet they can't quite see that it's the same amount of courage that they have to have to do that and believe that is the same amount of Courage that they have to really allow themselves to fully shed and fully dissolve so that they can be fully expressed. And you've been able to bear witness not only in your own transformation, but in the transformation of so many high achieving professionals that you work with. What can happen and how quickly it can happen if they give themselves the permission to do this. What do you wish that they knew about this process? Maybe what they're making up and telling themselves that it is. Versus no, no, no, no, no. If you just knew this, your entire world would change.
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Fiona Walsh
I think the inner world insight that I had personally and most of my clients have is that we think we need to control and grip and push harder to get to that next level in our business or to get our relationship back on track, or help our kids do better at school or make new friends. All the things that we worry about. And as a type a control freak tendency, I know, like lots of women listening, probably nodding along. I had done that for like 35 or so years and I thought that if I knuckled down and I tried harder and I put in more hours and I worried about it and I, you know, it was this very pushing energy that it would work. And you know what, in many ways it did work. But then I got emotionally burnt out when life stacked three kids in two years and like the universe literally was going, yeah, take all of this, because everyone's got a ceiling. So that's one thing as well. Like, you can keep gripping and controlling, but the stress and pressure that you're holding does have a max. Like everyone's got a max. So don't be deluded and think that you don't have a ceiling on how much you can hold. The gripping and the controlling and thinking you can hold it all is a story that you're telling yourself. And the most courageous, and I'm going to say the hardest thing to do is to step into trust, is stepping into receivership, like allowing people to help you to if you're in your business, like not doing it all on your own, not lone wolfing it like pull in contractors or start building a team so that you can receive help, support. My word of the year is receive. And my God, have I had it handed to me on a platter. Because it's really hard. You want to do it yourself, you want to control it. And that's been your internal operating system safety mechanism for your whole life. You're probably a hyper independent teenager and young adult. You could do it all and you did. And that's why you're at the top of where you are, the top of your business, the top of your corporate role. But what got you here won't get you there. And the, the next real leap is around self trust, self belief, alignment, and leading from like your frequency, which is a softest, it's not a grip.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
That's so good. And I love what you said about, you know, what got you here won't get you there. And that can mean so many. It's. It's going to mean different things for different people based on what we need and where we've come from. And you yourself have done. I mean, even before I got the privilege to work with you, you already had done so much when it came to identity work and, and really stretching yourself into these next levels of this is who I am, this is who I know I need to become. So what is it going to take to get there? What was the biggest frustration that you kept running into before you came into my world? Like, what did that next level look like for you, even as someone who has a lot of this figured out? Because I think that would be an interesting perspective for those listening to kind of understand that it's like you said, it's, we're all going to have a ceiling and, and there's going to be a time, whether it's a whisper or a knock or a sledgehammer, the universe is going to let you know that. And so what was that for you in. In that phase of recalibration? So I have to admit, I was skeptical about skims and the hype of it at first. When it first came out, I was just thinking, okay, another celebrity that's just slapping their name on a brand. But after years of trying bras that just weren't fitting me, as I got older, I finally gave in. And now I am literally that person who has replaced her entire drawer with skims. And I love their new Fits Everybody collection. It is so good. I love the thong. I love the panties. They're so light, seamless. I literally forget that I'm wearing anything. And the bralettes, I have been an avid, obsessed fan of these bralettes for at least four to five years now. They are flattering, breathable, actually supportive without the underwire. And it's what I wear literally every day at home when I'm working on flights, even under dressier outfits, they just get it. Shop Skims, Fit everybody collection@skims.com and after you place your order, just be sure to let them know that we sent you you can select podcast in the survey and then select our show in the dropdown menu that follows.
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Julie Solomon
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Julie Solomon
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Julie Solomon
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Julie Solomon
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Fiona Walsh
It's a really good question. I think the biggest learning I've had is since we've been working together is around when we're going through an identity recalibration so we know where we want to go. Like we might be clear on what we want our business to look like, how we want our life to feel. I'm big into how we want things to feel. Not the what's in the house, it's the feeling. And that's a big part of manifestation. I think the hardest thing about identity work is you can start to think about what you want. You want to feel into it, you can manifest into it. But when you're in the void between who you were and who you're becoming, it is so uncomfortable and it is so messy and so crunchy. And your old self is going to, from a primal point of view, pull you back. Like, come back here, Julie. It's so much safer. You don't need to go there. I know you've got big dreams and I know you've got desires, but it's much safer here. So it actually, like our internal nervous system actually pulls us back into what keeps us safe and familiar. Even though we know this, like we've written it down and we have, like, we've visualized it every, we do all the things. So it's really about knowing when you're in that void that you need to just keep taking action and moving one step forward towards it at a time. Like, I honestly believe with a lot of manifestation work, it comes down to having a nervous system that is regulated and taking steps forward towards what your vision is. If you don't have a regulated nervous system, you will manifest from Fear vs Freedom, which is links back to your first question. So if you've ever tried to manifest something into your business like you want, oh, I want two more clients this month. And maybe at that time you're struggling a bit yourself and you're not sure about things you might actually manifest in. Clients who are really stuck and really hard to work with. They take up a lot of your time and a lot of emotional capacity, and they're not really ready to do the work that you do. So you called in your manifestation because you called it in from a nervous system that is dysregulated or fearful. It's not really what you wanted. And so therefore, if you can call in your future self, which I know is what a lot of the work you're doing now, like, you'll call in your dream clients because you're actually manifesting into that space. And so I guess the point is, when you're in the void is just to keep moving forward and making steps towards the direction of future you. And if you feel yourself being pulled back, just be super aware that that is going to happen. It happens to everybody. You need to acknowledge it and catch it and be like, no, no, no, I know every. You're just trying to keep me safe. And that is safe back there, but I'm a woman of influence. I'm heading that way.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
Well, that was so powerful, what you just said about, we can all manifest, but we got to be really mindful what we're manifesting, because we can manifest from a place of fear, or we can manifest from a place of abundance and freedom and frequency and what we desire. Either way, though, we're manifesting it. And I think that that's. That's a huge one, is that, you know, a lot of people are like, but I'm doing the affirmations. I'm, you know, I'm doing the five five fives and the one one ones and, you know, whatever the things are. But if it's not coming from that embodied place, if your nervous system isn't regulated, if you don't actually truly believe that you are ready and willing and worthy of what you say that you want in the most abundance of it all. Like, you're not going to receive that. In fact, you're going to keep receiving all the things that you no longer want. So I think that's exactly huge. Huge. Huge.
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Fiona Walsh
Huge.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
Well, I want to just praise you, and I'm so glad that we got to just root into how magnificent you are. And I'm just. I'm just so lucky to work with the women that I work with. They're just so fabulous and amazing and just. They're just brilliant. And I learned so, so, so much from you and from women like you in my world. So thank you for basically giving us, like, this free session here of. Of what your magic is. But you've had so many incredible milestones this year since I have known you from up leveling just the messaging piece, getting so nuanced yet specific with the avatar of who you're calling in, restructuring your home life and your offers and who you really want to work with. I would love to know for. For you, what feels different about how you're showing up, how you're messaging, how you're selling now versus a year ago.
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Fiona Walsh
Yeah, I think there was some really critical things that you helped me get super clear on. Okay. So the first one that was a absolute huge unlock for me was I was stuck in the thought of, like, I need to explain to people how this works and what they're going to go through and all the steps and that sort of stuff. And. And you really flipped it on ahead and said, like, you truly are transforming people's lives, Fiona. And, like, you can read my testimonials. People literally say, in six months, I'm an entirely different person and not just my business, which is why I came to you. I'm like, my relationship is on fire for the first time in years, and, like, my kids are happy at school and, like, so it's not just, you know, is it like, someone might come to me with money stuff, but, like, we transform their entire ecosystem. And so once I embodied that, I was like, yes. Like, it's not about how we go into your body and how we make sense with the mic. It wasn't all those steps and stuff. It was not the how. It was really around the why and then the translation and what people would truly feel after six months with me. So that was massive. And that impacted my pricing as well, because, I mean, can you even put a price on, like, all my clients saying, I'm an entirely different person? You completely changed the course of my life, like, no, like, I mean, I'm definitely not charging enough. Right. Do you know? Yeah, but like, you can't price that. It's actually hard to price it, you know, but to me, when you hear those words, that's when it's just like, I mean, what a gift, what a privilege. I can't. I. I pinch myself that I thought I was so stuck in corporate and so out of alignment and so burnt out that in three years I can be doing this kind of work where you literally charging, changing the trajectory of people's life. And I know this work is also sustainable because we're changing people from the inside out. We're not like moving things around in their external world. We're healing stuff that has been with them since they were a child. Some of it is even ancestral, so it's not even theirs. But this work also clears ancestral stuff. So I think the transformation. Humongous. I think the other piece for me was around your mirror messaging framework was very powerful for me because the blocks or the imprints that we have in our internal world, because they're in the subconscious part of our mind and body, they're tricky because they're blind spots and we don't know about them because if we did, we would have done something about them. And so the mirror messaging, particularly for me, was this huge unlock because I was like, I can paint a mirror or an image for people and when they hear it in a bit real or they see it on LinkedIn, they can be like, oh, something sparks inside them that's like, oh my God, I do that. And that is able to be. Then unlock this curiosity which has shone a light on what was a blind spot, but it's no longer. And that's the magic of subconscious coaching, is that we are able to enlighten the blocks that we didn't even know were in there. And they're the ones as if you go back to how I started, they are the stories that limit us every single day and we don't even realize because if they were conscious, we do something about it. So the mirror messaging was so powerful for me.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
Well, and I love that you mentioned that because that. That's probably one of my favorite frameworks. I mean, there's several. I mean, I've got so many. And I really try to. Depending on who the person is and kind of what we're working on, there's. Whether it's identity elevation or mirror messaging or, you know, what is it, whatever it is, there's going to be some frameworks that they need more in that moment. But mirror messaging, I think, is my favorite because I think that it's the one that it's. It's really so simple once you understand it. And it's not just in messaging, but it's also in how it. It makes coaches a better coach. I think it makes, you know, course creators better at creating their programs. Like, it's. It once you really embody this framework, because even what you were talking about earlier, of you were able to raise your prices, once you really allowed yourself to take stock and to own and to glorify the capacity of the transformation that you were bringing to people. And it wasn't until you made the decision to say, I'm gonna own this and all the power that comes with that, even if it's a little scary, even if it means I'm leveling up, even if it means that I can't play safe over here in this little prime price. Like, it's. It's not about a price point. You know, it's not like, what. How should I price my course?
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Fiona Walsh
It's.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
It's not about that. It is about truly being that match for that level of power and glorification that you are bringing.
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Fiona Walsh
And.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
And even that was a mirror, you know, just like, putting it right in front of you to where you couldn't unsee it. And so I love mirror messaging for that as well. And I think that that is really why, you know, one of. One of my favorite things, when women come into my world, most of them, and I don't know if you were this way, you might have. By you might have been to some degree. But I think most of them come in thinking that they need a new funnel or they need a bigger audience or they just need better ads. And Julie's gonna, like, look at their content and give them some hacks, and then it's gonna, like, fix it. But when we really are able to start to do the work, I think a lot of them realize that they didn't need to really change any of that. I mean, a lot of that does get changed, but that's kind of not the point. The point is they needed to really start to own the power. And that realignment of who they were and who they are and where they're.
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Julie Solomon
Going so that they can call in.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
A client, a buyer, a mentee, that reflects that. So I would love to know if you agree with that and what did that look like for you? And even just what you were saying about how last month you had to really Take a step back and be in your home life. And then you're like, and of course when I stopped trying to control everything, the floodgates open and I had my highest revenue month of the year. So do you agree with that? And what does that look like for you? How does that relate to releasing control and trusting and really what have you seen as possible for you now that wasn't before because of that.
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Fiona Walsh
Okay, so I think one of the things that you igniting people and I actually ignited in my clients, so I hadn't realized this. It disconnected when you were speaking them is yes, you bring all your experience and knowledge which was in the, I will say as well in your program, which I do think is a differentiator from others. Is that on the calls you actually get? Julie, thank you. You get your courses, which are great. And I'm not great with courses. Like I know a lot of people, you know, you buy courses and you do a few modules or you dip in and out. Some people are great. That's not, not my jam. But the calls you actually get, Julie, like I would come with like my okay guys, it's going to sound really silly kind of question. And then everyone's like, oh no, that was a great question. Like, so not only is the community insane, but we get. You got so much access to ask you the stuff that really you can get stuck on. Do you know what I mean? So, but that's, that's. I guess as you're saying that that access to me was very, very valuable and powerful. So I appreciated that. And I know a lot of coaches don't allow that anymore. They're just doing great programs and you don't get that like direct Q and A access and one on one access. But the piece that you igniting people and, and I know that I see this in my clients is that you have the ability and the intuition to see an individual at their highest timeline. And when you have that self belief in the people in your group which you had in me. And I didn't quite see it yet, I was aiming for here and I had other coaches who were telling me to go back here like when I was the burnt out mom and all the things they're like, they're the people you should be coaching. And you were like, no, Fiona, you are like. And I didn't like, you know, and now I understand it because I do the same to people. I'm like, I see you in your next chapter and it doesn't look or feel anything like it is Today. And so. But when someone holds that space and that belief in you, that's a catalyst because then you're like, oh, hang on a second, what do I need to do to get there? Because someone's just set the bar so much higher than I ever possibly dreamt of. And that's what's happened with me. And I've worked with another coach in the somatic area at the same time, so I've sort of been turbocharged because I've had two of you seeing this crazy high timeline for me and that has allowed me to accelerate this year in particular at such a speed. And I think that for people who are looking for coaches and mentors, that you want someone who can do that for you. Because it's this very powerful catalyst that I don't think is spoken about enough. But I've personally experienced it this year and I know everyone in your groups would feel that as well, because you have this very strong ability to see us in our highest timeline and our highest level of influence and impact in terms of. I'm trying to remember what you asked me about burnout last month, that you.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
Were just like, I had to just take a beat.
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Fiona Walsh
I did have to take a beat last month. It was back to school in Canada, which is. Any working parent knows there's a lot of emotions, there's a lot of changes. My other half had two trips away, so I had like two extended periods where I was solo parenting and hats off to single mum's listening because you are amazing. But it meant that I just did not have the time to do all the posts that I'd planned. I had to really prioritize a my energy so that I didn't get sick. And actually, this is the first time I've had a busy month like that where I've been solo parenting and I haven't ended up very sick at the end of it. So that's a credit to the nervous system work that I've done because it's all, all connected to your immune system. But yeah, when I let go and then I, you know, two new clients come in, someone renews, and it's just like the flow. And again, thank you, universe. My word of the year is received. It was just like, okay, I don't need to push so hard. It's okay to soften and it is okay to receive. And yeah, it's so. It's so rewarding to be able to actually sit with that and not just say it, but truly believe it and embody it well.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
And I think what is so incredible about this is that I don't think that that former version of Fiona would have let herself receive that. Yeah. You know that it really took you, like expanding to that next level that I saw for you. That you saw for you. But you, you needed that support that your other coach saw for you and really allowing yourself to just catalyst, like push, transfuse, transform into that next timeline so that you could get the gift of what you just received. The gift of ease, the gift of flow, the gift of abundance. And sometimes it's kind of counterintuitive because it's like we're sitting here and we're asking the universe, creator, God for all of these things that we want, but then we're not acting our our day to day. The way that we show up in our life, the way that we show up in our business and in our families is actually not reflective of that. And so I think that that's a huge thing of the reason why you received such effortless bounty last month is because you finally, over this last year, have allowed yourself to step into the version of the woman who actually does receive that. And I think that kind of goes back to what you were saying earlier. I would love to know your perspective on this, that not every woman is ready for that, even if they say that they are. I know this in my own world, this is just how audaciously and shamelessly passionate I am about my work, is that if a woman comes in and I, I can know and I can tell, like, she's not, she's going to resist this and she's going to fight this because even though I see this in her, she will not let herself see this in her yet. And so it's not going to happen. I will actually very lovingly and gracefully remove her out of the program because I'm like, you're not going to be ready for this. You know, here's a refund or we will, we will, you know, put you in something else that's a better fit.
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Julie Solomon
For you right now.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
Because I don't want to try to, to force something that's not ready to crack open. And so I think that I would love to know your take on that from your experience of to do what you did is more than possible for any single woman who wants it. But they better be ready to walk the walk and really be ready to claim what it is that they're asking for.
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Fiona Walsh
Yeah. And I think that the real the gold in this is that if you do the work in your nervous system, you won't go into self protection mode if you get there. So if you know of people who do really well and they spike and they have a 50k month and then they absolutely, they get sick or they fall apart or they like get imposter syndrome, it's because if you haven't built capacity in your nervous system to hold that impact, hold, hold that level of wealth, hold all of that that you've been calling in, your nervous system will go into protection mode, as some people call it, self sabotage. And so I think that was part of it with me was I understood the, the work I was doing on myself at the same time and expanding my nervous system, releasing the stories. I've done a lot more work this year on boundaries. I have a very strong people pleasing part of me. And so boundaries have been a huge piece. But yeah, but every bit of inner work I've done has created this capacity. That meant that when September happened, actually lots of things fell into place, but it was some of the parts, it wasn't just one thing in particular. And so I think the real learning for me is the more people can go inwards and dissolve, resolve the blocks, the limiting stories in order to create this nervous system capacity, then you can run as fast as you want in your business because you will be able to hold it. And even if you run too fast, you've got the skills if you get bumped to catch it, ground, recalibrate and then go again. But otherwise, if you haven't done the nervous system work, you will constantly, constantly knock yourself down, knock your business down. And I, and it's, it's all on you. So please don't say it was my business partner or my messaging coach or my other half didn't help enough with the kids. It is all you. And that for some of you might sound like I'm holding a mirror to you and it's really triggering. But I'd love you to say the other side, that it's super empowering that you have control over the whole thing and control in a healthy way, not in the gripping way, but you have the accountability. If you embody that, if you do the nervous system work, you can script your future and you can be as big, you can have this huge level of impact and influence and you'll be able to hold it because it's of kind coming from within. It's coming from alignment and self belief and frequency.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
And that's really why I believe every coach needs a coach, every mentor needs a mentor. You know, it's even here you can see how the work that Fiona does in the work that I do complement and couple each other so beautifully. Because you. You can't have one without the other. And you can't expect to go to one modality or one method or one person or one framework and that be the end all, be all based on what it is that you. That you need. I mean, it is the sum of all parts. And it's, it's. It's all of it, mind, body and spirit that have to come together for you to actually not only get the results that you're wanting to get, but to truly live out that impact and.
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Julie Solomon
That influence that you're saying that you want.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
So, Fiona, thank you so much for just your beauty, your grace, your insight, your expertise, your sovereignty. It has been such an honor to walk this path with you, to really see not only how much you have expanded and grown and how incredibly supportive that has been for your clients, but just to walk alongside you and learn so much from you and grow as well. I mean, that is, to me, the biggest gift of being in container and being in community with the women that I get to work with is that we, we learn and grow from one another in all aspects, in retrospects. And so it's just been an incredible time. Thank you for coming and sharing your gifts for those that are listening, that they want to learn more about you, your methods, more about your story. Where can they follow you and where can they find you?
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Fiona Walsh
Yeah, sure. So they can follow me on Instagram at Fiona Walsh Coaching. For those of you who are on LinkedIn, just under Fiona Walsh, and then my website is fionawalsh.co, and we can pop all the details in the show notes as well. But, yeah, reach out. I'd love to connect and I just encourage everyone. As Julie was saying, we are some of our parts. And even if you're doing work with, like, Julie or a messaging coach, it's really interesting. Like, when people struggle to put a message out there, it's quite often because you have a visibility block about something happened in the past. So this is why different coaches work so beautifully. Well, when we collaborate, because it's not just about the words, because if you put it out there and then someone meets you in real life and you actually can't explain what the words mean or you're not actually embodying it because you have a block around it, just be careful of that. Because I actually think there's a big switch happening in the coaching and the service. Based world at the moment that if you don't practice what you preach, it's going to catch up with you. So your inner world does need to match what you're saying in your messaging and in your brand and in your programs. There needs to be true substance and depth. Now there's too many people out there who've been selling courses that cannot back up what their courses are teaching people to do. So you have to have gone through the transformation yourself a million percent.
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Unidentified Host/Interviewer
And I, I can't tell you how many people that I see. Well intended people, smart, sophisticated women. But like you were saying earlier, you know, it's like they're, they're selling and marketing one thing, but then they're completely burnt out on the other end of that coin. And I know it because I talk to them, you know, and so it's, it's always. And that's their path and their journey. Right. But I agree with you. I think that we're in a reckoning of really being able to quickly see through the mask of that. And people are really wanting to work with people who practice what they preach and who not just talk the talk, but truly walk the walk and embody that. And I know that that is you. And so thank you again for being here. And like Fiona said, we're going to leave everything in the show notes. Please let us know what you thought about today's conversation, what the takeaway was, what you're really going to be leaving with some sitting with processing. We want to know what that is as that relates to your ability to step into your woman of influence in whatever way that is for you. And with that, Fiona, thank you again so much for being here.
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Fiona Walsh
Thank you, Julie. It's been such a pleasure.
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Julie Solomon
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