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Take Back Your Life: Christie Mann

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Leadership coach, consultant, facilitator and designer, Christie Mann inspires individuals and organizations to develop people, drive business and ultimately improve lives. Christie spends her days working with organizations coaching senior and executive leaders, designing and delivering coaching and leadership programs and developing leaders who coach. She holds the designation of Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation, is a graduate of the Co-Active Leadership Program and is a Certiﬁed Professional Co-Active Coach (CTI) – in her quest to infuse more Co-Activity into the corporate world Christie provides business development services to CTI in Canada and South-western US acting as Director of Corporate Client Services.

In addition to corporate clients and in a desire to give back, Christie has custom-designed and delivers a series of experiential developmental workshops to heighten self-awareness, build self-compassion and leadership skills among the vulnerable youth of the Catholic Children’s Aid Society in Ontario and juvenile detention centers in Los Angeles.

Christie is an impactful coach, dynamic speaker and facilitator, and is a trailblazer in the ﬁeld of leadership coaching. Her passion for what she does paves the way for those seeking new personal and professional heights. www.christiemann.com

What events led up to you deciding to take back your life?

I was doing the kind of work that was meaningful but I wasn’t doing it in the environment or with the audience where I knew I could have the greatest impact and show up as my most authentic self. I kinda felt stuck and the quiet voice inside of me was whispering saying; “slow down, there’s something else for you…” So, I choose to not take on any new contracts for a period of time, do some deep self-healing work and reflection and listen to the quiet voice…
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Take Back Your Life: Lauren Bacon

Lauren Bacon is on a mission to help business leaders become more joyful and generous. A seasoned entrepreneur, published author, and business and leadership coach, Lauren coaches startups, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all stripes – asking lots of questions, and employing her unending curiosity to help people and organizations get clear on their purpose and realize their visions. Her writing on business, technology, and leadership has been featured on The Atlantic, Women 2.0, Quartz, The Huffington Post, and Fast Company – and her bestselling first book, The Boss of You, got props from both Bust Magazine and The Financial Post. Lauren’s e-book, Curious for a Living: How Asking Better Questions Makes You Indispensable, is available on her website. www.laurenbacon.com

What events led up to you deciding to take back your life?

I was in a relationship that was pretty good – good enough to have lasted ten years. We loved each other. We rarely argued. We had a comfortable life and we’d bought a home together.

But.

(You knew there was going to be a “but,” right?)

But… if we rarely argued, I suspected it was because we so rarely touched the depths of what we were feeling. I spent months trying to forge a deeper connection.
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Take Back Your Life: Theresa “Tree” Walsh

Theresa “Tree” Walsh is a Community Engaged Arts Facilitator and Teacher who uses dance, education and other arts based practices, to help create a space for people to explore themselves through questions and issues that are meaningful for them. Her big picture plan is to build an arts based personal growth and development centre called myTREEHOUSEvision which would help youth learn lead and mentor each other, create collaborative compositions together, and learn a variety of other arts based practice skills.

She has worked in many contexts such as summer camps, schools, community centres, community events, etc across North America in order to try to make the world a better place in whatever way she can.

The world isn’t flat, the sun doesn’t revolve around the Earth and there are many things we believe now that are like those beliefs were to people who believed them in the past – Tree is out to help the world, herself included, to discover and evolve these limiting beliefs so we can save ourselves from self-destruction!

What events led up to you deciding to take back your life?

I was living in my home city of Toronto, and only living my dream in the summers at a camp in New Hampshire US as the Dance and Fitness Program Director. Life was great in the summers, where I felt like for the first time ever I got to be my true self, and finally felt ok to be me. I got to dance with kids, work with my staff to help them learn and grow as teachers and leaders, and be the kind of person I really wanted to be… then I would go out into the rest of the year, struggling to enjoy life and to really feel fulfilled or living my passion.

Take Back Your Life: Michelle Evans

Michelle L Evans left her 16-year corporate career in business + marketing strategy in 2012 to start her business helping business owners to develop simple, effective marketing strategies and bottom-line results. Combining her proven business-building skill set with a serious desire to help other professionals, Michelle focuses on helping entrepreneurs cut through the cookie-cutter marketing tactics and design results-based strategies that actually work.

When she’s not working on her business, you can usually find her in the car taking one of her three kids to some sort of activity or at home cooking with her handsome and talented photographer/systems engineer/baker husband (his chocolate truffles + lava cakes are a-mazing). Check out her best tips on adventures in online business building and balancing life outside the corporate world while juggling a business and family at MichelleLEvans.com, or tune in to her Breaking Free podcast to learn more about developing an entrepreneurial mindset and busting through the fears most business owners face. www.michellelevans.com

What events led up to you deciding to take back your life?

My dad passed away very suddenly (and unexpectedly) 7 weeks after getting the ‘all clear’ sign from his doctor that his cancer was gone…

Was there a significant event or moment that made you realize you needed to make a change? What was it?

Yes. I realized how important it was to take care of myself and my body. I had been putting myself on the back burner for years putting the kids, my husband, my extended family, friends, the house, to dos, work, etc… as so much more important than ME taking care of MYSELF.

When my dad passed away, I realized that if I didn’t take care of myself I may not get the full life I truly desired AND that by NOT taking care of myself I was actually more selfish than taking an hour here or there.

(I miss my dad terribly and I want to have as much healthy and fully alive time as possible.)
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Take Back Your Life: Signý Wilson

Signý is a fiery, electrifying, and enthusiastic change-maker, coach and speaker. Her passion for people coupled with her survival of cancer, sparks her fiercely held perspective that every life is precious. An advocate for personal responsibility, Signý owns the message that your greatest signýficance comes from being fully you.
Based on her perspective that participation is mandatory, she demands that you choose to live fully alive, starting now. Signý fearlessly calls you forth to your best self and life, waking you up to what your contribution is and keeping you focused on making the difference you want to make. www.signywilson.com

What events led up to you deciding to take back your life?

Before I was diagnosed with cancer (not that I would have known this was the case at that time) my life was feeling empty, meaningless and purposeless. I wanted something different, but I didn’t know what that was, so I couldn’t pursue it. I was just waiting. Waiting to find out, waiting for life to happen, waiting for something, anything to make it more meaningful and put it on the “right” track. I was abdicating my power to CHOOSE my own life. I wasn’t bringing all of me to life and I wasn’t expressing the truth of who I was.
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Take Back Your Life Month

Last year, I declared May 16th ‘Take Back Your Life’ Day, because that’s the day that I took back my life from that evil beast, Cancer. It’s so important to me that this year I’m declaring the whole month of May ‘Take Back Your Life’. (Or in the more hip and with-it format: #TakeBackYourLife.)

Along with April’s theme of Fully Alive we’ve talked a lot about life’s wake up calls coming our way and being forced to choose to make a change in your life. The reality is that these little wake up calls are not only forcing us to choose Fully Alive, they are waking us up to what is important. Like, really, really important.

We don’t have forever, but we do have NOW. And there are two things that that makes me think of. One is making NOW count, not frittering it away doing things that are important only to other people, doing things that aren’t true to us or our hearts – that aren’t how we would live if we only had one more day, one more week, one more month or one more year left.
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3 Steps to Unlock a Fully Alive Life Immediately

Some of life’s wake up calls have come your way and you’re now standing at a crossroads. Choose Fully Alive and embrace a life of risks? Or continue on the route you’re on?

The choice is yours, but of course I’m biased and really think that you should choose Fully Alive, starting NOW.

Good. Glad you made the right choice. But what to do to really unlock and start living that Fully Alive life?
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How to Have an Awesome Life by CHOOSING Fully Alive

Yes, you can have an awesome Fully Alive life. You may have doubted it up to this point, but trust me, you can have it! In fact, anyone can!

There’s just one teensy-weeny little catch… you have to choose it.

It gets back to my whole Signýficant Living framework: Be, Choose, Live.

At a Crossroads

You know on a Monday morning when that alarm clock goes off and you’re forced to be awake when that is the absolute last thing that you want to do? So you roll over, hit the snooze once, twice… You squeeze all that you can from those last moments of sleep, getting in as many extra zzz’s as you possibly can.

Well, sometimes life is a bit like that too. Things happen that push us to the awake stage right when we least want it. Health concerns, a relationship ending, difficulties at work, a friend pointing out your flaws or maybe a death of someone in your circle. These are all life’s little wake up calls. But then once we’re awake, we have a choice to make: just press snooze again or jump out of bed? Read More >>>

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What Will Make You Actually BE Fully Alive?

Fully Alive, it’s like the entirety of my message got bundled up into two punchy little words. Fully. Alive. Such powerful words, singularly and then together…and an even better life choice. So what is it and what will makes you actually be a Fully Alive person?

Just hold tight while I overload you with metaphors.

So many of us are just living a half-life. It’s like we’re on auto-pilot. We’re calling it in. We’re not really paying attention, just being carried along in the current. We’re coasting. (Did you get them all? I count 5! Metaphor speech is now over. Thank you for rolling with me.)

While this is all well and good and anyone can get through life like this, where the hell is the fun?! There isn’t any spark; there isn’t any deep engagement. What a waste!
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3 Strategies to LIVE Everyday with Resilience

Live everyday with resilience, it’s such an important skill for us to have! While I’ve already addressed how to recuperate with resilience and I’ve featured women who demonstrated resilience in fighting for a greater good, today I’m talking about how to LIVE with resilience, everyday.

There’s this light on my car’s dashboard that comes on every once in a while. Once I figured out what on earth that light meant I realized my car was telling me it needed some TLC. It needed an oil change.

Wouldn’t it be great if people came with little lights that lit up anytime we needed maintenance?! Little light bulbs to alert us of the mundane and the serious: “Hey, you need sleep!”; “Hey, you need to eat!”; “Hey, go hang out with your friends. You really need it!”

…Because we don’t have little dashboard lights, we need to proactively ensure that our resiliency tanks don’t get too low. It’s all about being proactive in order to create a life where we’ve got that ability to bounce back.

We know setbacks are going to happen, so we’ve got to be ready for them.