# Opportestiny™ ## Pages - [Glossary](https://ellanylea.com/glossary) - [Privacy Policy](https://ellanylea.com/privacy) - [Shop](https://ellanylea.com/shop): Masterclasses and expert coaching to unleash your masterpiece today! - [My Opportestiny](https://ellanylea.com/myopportestiny): Ellany's stories of Opportunity + Test + Destiny to recollect all 4 types of knowing and put Humpty Dumpty back together again. - [My 16 Career Identity Reinventions](https://ellanylea.com/16careers): Reinventing identity is like burning oneself to ashes so that the Phoenix has something to rise from. It hurts. 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She will cherish and champion you navigate identity, creativity and freedompreneurship, gracefully and joyfully. ## Blog - [Stage 3 • The Reclamation](https://ellanylea.com/reclamation) by Ellany Lea (Aug 11, 2025): An annihilating, but empowering stage to reach a state of: Reclaimeding (v.) Reclaimed enough but ever reclaiming... Fear not the flames, you are the fire. - [Stage 2 • The Healing](https://ellanylea.com/healing) by Ellany Lea (Aug 10, 2025): A searing, but necessary stage to reach a state of: Healeding (v.) Healed enough but ever healing... If you don't let your past die, it won't let you live. - [Stage 1B • The Smashed (Wounded Adults)](https://ellanylea.com/smashed) by Ellany Lea (Aug 9, 2025): An "Examination of Decimation" of Wounded Adult Parts and their loss of: childhood, dignity, humaneness, will to live, genius, identity, radiance, empowerment, wholeness, self-expression, equity, and choice. - [Stage 1A • The Smashing (Wounded Children)](https://ellanylea.com/smashing) by Ellany Lea (Aug 8, 2025): An "Examination of Decimation" of Wounded Child Parts and their loss of: innocence, worth, self-esteem, appetite for life, grace, nurturance, relevance, self-trust, safety, belonging, validity, and deservingness. - [Parts Integration • Know your Whole Self. Wholeness is Freedom.](https://ellanylea.com/parts-integration) by Ellany Lea (Apr 22, 2025): Have you ever felt torn: a part wants this... another part wants that... but this part fears X... and that other part must have Y? Feel a little at war with yourself? What if you could integrate all your parts into one harmonious whole, one voice, one mind-heart-body-soul? - [Grief Autopsy • Name the Losses to Find What You Seek](https://ellanylea.com/grief-autopsy) by Ellany Lea (Apr 8, 2025): You cannot find what you don’t know you lost. Was it even a loss if you never had it in the first place, such as worth, belonging, or childhood? A Grief Autopsy dissects ambiguous grief hands on. If you don't let your past die, it won't let you live. - [Fulfillment Chessboard • Discern Passion, Calling, Mission, Profession and Career](https://ellanylea.com/fulfillment-chessboard) by Ellany Lea (Mar 25, 2025): There is an exquisite Fulfilling Freedom at the intersection of: Skill, Love, Need, Money, and Sustainability. We can be so amnesiac about our progress. This is why tracking, re/seeing, re/touching our own progress is crucial to freedom. - [Reinvention Carousel • Unlearn and Relearn Identity and Creativity](https://ellanylea.com/reinvention-carousel) by Ellany Lea (Feb 21, 2025): There are 16 options for reinventing your identity, whether it be a business, brand, or creative identity. Each carry different levels of: success, suffering, joy and fear. Which merry-go-round will you ride? - [Spiritual Funnies • Comedy is tragedy plus time](https://ellanylea.com/funnies) by Ellany Lea (Feb 18, 2025): For when you are having "one of those days" and need solace or a kick in the mental butt, I give you my Spiritual Funnies Collection. May Sapien's absurdity rip open a hardy laugh as sacred medicine. - [My Opportestiny • Put Humpty Dumpty back together again](https://ellanylea.com/blog/opportestiny-humpty-dumpty) by Ellany Lea (Feb 11, 2025): Have you ever fallen off a great wall and painstakingly put yourself back together again? That has a name, it's called: Opportestiny. "Whatever pain you can’t get rid of, make it your creative offering." – Susan Cain - [Creative Devotion • That's the goal, to survive your gift](https://ellanylea.com/blog/survive-your-gift) by Ellany Lea (Feb 2, 2025): It’s been 8 years and 7 months of space clawing, treading shards, fire palming and tear tagging to birth my story/masterpiece. And I didn’t even want to be a writer in the first place. That's the nature and story of creative devotion. - [S.M.A.R.T.E.R Pacing • Discern Sacred Contracts, Dreams, Habits, Goals and Tasks](https://ellanylea.com/smarter-pacing) by Ellany Lea (Jan 18, 2025): SMARTER pacing reminds us In our zeal / yearning to build utopia that not every dream needs to be actualized and not every idea needs to be monetized. Discern what drives you, light or shadow, nature or DWG conditioning? - [Truth Biscuits for our Most Vulnerable Parts Need to Hear](https://ellanylea.com/truth-biscuits) by Ellany Lea (Dec 20, 2024): A series of 24 truth biscuits to install peace and levity in your heart and work. Use them to conjure your own truth medicine for what your Parts most need to hear. - [4 Types of Knowing • Reclaim a Full Set of Knowing](https://ellanylea.com/knowing) by Ellany Lea (Oct 15, 2024): This is bad for us, yet we keep doing it. This is good for us, yet we don't do it. Why? Because mind-knowing (cognitive) is not enough. We need a full set of: heart-knowing (emotional), body-knowing (experiential) and soul-knowing (universal) to create and sustain change. - [10 Types of Freedom • What Freedoms Would You Add to Cart?](https://ellanylea.com/freedomtypes) by Ellany Lea (Sep 24, 2024): After a talk I gave last year, audience members asked me what fuelled / drove my quest for freedom. "All I've ever wanted... is to be free," those words fell out of my jaw for the first time. - [Labyrinth of Fears • Unmask the 25 Faces of Fear](https://ellanylea.com/fears) by Ellany Lea (Sep 17, 2024): Turns out there aren’t 25 different types of fear. There is one root fear, which wears 25 different masks. If you could unmask each one, could you become fearless, as in less afraid? If you practiced fear dissolution, could you become fear-free? Let’s explore. - [9 Year Growth Cycles • Flow with your Natural Rhythms and Seasons](https://ellanylea.com/growthcycles) by Ellany Lea (Sep 10, 2024): Do you flow with or against the natural season of your Life? You're not a goddamn salmon! You do NOT have to swim upstream against the current. When flowing with your season, there is an ease, a peace. When you force against it, you crawl on porcupines. What will you chose? - [Wounded Child Archetypes • Name the wounds. Shed the lies. Free the soul.](https://ellanylea.com/woundedchild) by Ellany Lea (Oct 31, 2023): Name the wounds. Shed the lies. Free the soul. Want to lead a revolution, unleash a masterpiece, or liberate yourself / this world? Then identify your top Wounded Child Archetypes to make a fuel change and reclaim your energy, peace, time, and freedom. - [Tao of Creativity • Transform Inspiration into Actualization](https://ellanylea.com/tao-creativity) by Ellany Lea (Oct 10, 2023): Creativity follows a tao [Chinese: 道], which means path, from chakra to chakra. Any blockage along the way can abort creativity. What are these blockages? Watch this wisdom video to stop living with foot on the gas pedal, but handbrake on. - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as a Spiritual Guide (Part 16/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-spiritual-guide-part-1616) by Ellany Lea (Sep 12, 2023): All these spiritual flues, energetic ascensions, and mystical experiences, I never asked for any of them. Did I? I feel like I made a heap of choices before coming to Earth, but I can't remember most of them. Would I have lived differently if I remembered those choices? - [Flow States • Sustain Creative Joy and Longevity](https://ellanylea.com/flow-states) by Ellany Lea (Aug 8, 2023): Working in Flow state, with skill and challenge levels optimal to you, is like smoothing the ice then sliding your ideas across the surface. Or would you rather carry the load on your shoulders up a jagged volcano? - [Stress Responses • Return to Safety from Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn](https://ellanylea.com/stress-responses) by Ellany Lea (Jul 8, 2023): As a freedompreneur, your business is a vehicle to free yourself and others, not an ambulance straight to the Emergency Room (or the grave ⚰️😛). If you don't consciously down-regulate your stress, you and your business will not reach the finish line. - [Branding with Sacred Archetypes • Break the rules. Choose your truth. Be your Self.](https://ellanylea.com/brandarchetypes) by Ellany Lea (Jun 8, 2023): Break the rules. Choose your truth. Be your Self. Need guidance on how to articulate a clear Why (purpose), a unique How (approach) and a precise What (offer)? Then identify your top Sacred Brand Archetypes to gracefully weave your soul, genius, products and services under one harmonious brand. - [The Liberator's Journey... for a Freedom Seeker (Part 3)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/liberators-journey-freedom-seeker-part-3) by Ellany Lea (Apr 8, 2023): What happens after we return home, powerful and whole? The hungry freedom seeker is about to transform into a fulfilled liberator on The Liberator's Journey... - [The Heroine's Journey... for a Woman Overachiever (Part 2)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/heroines-journey-woman-overachiever-part-2) by Ellany Lea (Mar 8, 2023): Instead of transforming a hero from lone outcast to victorious warrior, The Heroine's Journey transforms a heroine from abandoned girl to reclaimed goddess.... - [The Hero's Journey... for a Lifestyle Entrepreneur (Part 1)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/heros-journey-lifestyle-entrepreneur-part-1) by Ellany Lea (Feb 8, 2023): Anytime you're about to do something new, different, or daring, whether you know it or not, you are embarking on a quest. Joseph Campbell coined this quest The Hero's Journey... - [Creative Devotion (Part 2) • 14 Lessons on Masterpiece Making](https://ellanylea.com/blog/creative-devotion-masterpiece) by Ellany Lea (Jan 18, 2023): Here are 14 Lessons from my "6-Month Writing Devotional" aka “Dredging my psyche for bodies" aka "Worst 6 months of my life." I do NOT recommend it. But if you are mad enough to proceed, you will be so freeeeeed. Apply these lessons to re/creating an identity, business, book, revolution, or life worth living. You have been warned. 😉 - [Spiritual Quotient (SoulQ) • Shift from Ego Driven to Soul Lead](https://ellanylea.com/soulq) by Ellany Lea (Oct 10, 2022): This is the universal human paradox: how do we live with a "phenomenal cosmic power" soul in an "itty bitty" human body (that has gargantuan incessant needs) on a tiny 3rd rock from the sun, amongst ~ 40 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 stars. - [8 Ways Simplero Eliminated Multiple Systems Chaos](https://ellanylea.com/blog/8-ways-simplero-eliminated-multiple-systems-chaos) by Ellany Lea (Jan 25, 2022): I was spending $240/month!! And even then, I was missing functions that I needed. Now I just use Simplero.com as an all-in-one solution for $169/month. - [Self-Development Junkie • Investing $100k/10/98 to Reclaim Freedom](https://ellanylea.com/blog/100k-10-98-self-development-junkie) by Ellany Lea (Jan 18, 2022): Are you a self-development junkie too? Have you signed up for every retreat that sparked your soul, every workshop that tickled your mind, and every healing modality that soothed your heart? I have... - [Core Values • Consciously Choose your Inner Compass](https://ellanylea.com/values-compass) by Ellany Lea (Jan 4, 2022): Do you ever wonder why you do certain things, and why you don't do certain things? On our path of personal growth, most everything can be traced back to our core values... - [Power of Sequencing • Top 4 Solopreneur "Wrong Order" Case Studies](https://ellanylea.com/blog/power-of-sequencing) by Ellany Lea (Dec 22, 2021): If given one match, a lantern, and a map, would you use the match to light the lantern to see the map... or use the match to burn the map and fumble in the dark? - [The Art and Paradox of Non-Belonging • 20 Strange Ways I Don't Belong](https://ellanylea.com/blog/art-paradox-non-belonging-20-strange-ways-i-dont-belong) by Ellany Lea (Dec 8, 2021): The Universe pumped adventure into my lungs, but clipped my canary wings. The Universe encoded freedom into my soul, but shackled every limb with gender, filial piety, birth order, personality, cultural, and social chains. - [The Overachiever's Hierarchy of Needs](https://ellanylea.com/blog/overachievers-hierarchy-needs) by Ellany Lea (Nov 10, 2021): Today, I'm writing to you from Odessa, Ukraine. Totally did not plan on being here. The only thing I knew about Ukraine is that the Ukrainian figure skater Oksana Baiul who won the gold medal in 1994. And the only thing I knew about Odessa is that it's by the sea. I love the sea <3 - [Filial Piety & Overcompensation • Why Skyholders, Money Trees and Immigrant Children Are Burnt Out](https://ellanylea.com/blog/filial-piety-overcompensation-skyholders-money-trees-immigrant-burnout) by Ellany Lea (Nov 3, 2021): Ever since I was little, I was called a "money tree." You shake it and money is supposed to fall out. It wasn't until I realized the insidious role of "filial piety" that I understood what drives overachievers and children of immigrants to burnout. - [Adopted Family • Five Degrees of Joy Mirroring (Soul-knowing)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/adopted-family-five-degrees-joy) by Ellany Lea (Oct 27, 2021): Mama Bear always looked at me with a sparkle of "You. Are. A. Bringer. Of. Joy." Me, joy? As if. But after 5 degrees of mirroring, I couldn't deny it anymore. They didn't see joy in me. They saw me as joy. I was joy. But how? - [Flying 52-in-52 • Joy Multiplies When Shared (Heart-knowing)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/flying-52-in-52-joy-multiplies-shared) by Ellany Lea (Oct 20, 2021): While handgliding, I felt an invisible force that I couldn't name. Then during a 56-countries-in-52-weeks trip that I did NOT plan or see coming, I felt it again, like a sidekick with a headset that guided me, as I James Bond-ed through that year. - [Fields of Gold • Removing the Barriers to Joy (Body-knowing)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/fields-of-gold-barriers-joy) by Ellany Lea (Oct 13, 2021): During a healing session in Bali, I couldn't perceive or discern my left foot from my right ear. I couldn't feel myself... as if... I had... no self. Through Fields of Gold, my body cried marble tears and felt joy for the very first time. - [Mysterious Stuwvyxz • What's your Capacity for Joy? (Mind-knowing)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/stuwvyxz-capacity-for-joy) by Ellany Lea (Oct 6, 2021): I was once asked, "What's your capacity for Stuwvyxz?" I don't know. What's Stuwvyxz? I tossed that inquiry in the junk drawer of "Things I Never Knew Existed". Thanks to a rom-com, my mind eventually figured out what Stuwvyxz is. - [Private Journals on Somatic Experiencing and Healing Trauma](https://ellanylea.com/blog/private-journals-somatic-experiencing-healing-trauma) by Ellany Lea (Aug 24, 2021): Will I ever be ok? In this cruel, harsh world? Can I even trust my memories? Or lack thereof? What's real and not real anymore? Isn't healing supposed to restore my energy, not drain it? - [Passive Trauma • How Every Human Has Some PTSD](https://ellanylea.com/blog/passive-trauma-ptsd-fight-flight-freeze-fawn) by Ellany Lea (Aug 18, 2021): I spent months uneasy with the diagnosis of PTSD. In my ego-construct, PTSD was exclusively reserved for war veterans, refugees, and car crash and assault victims. It turns out, shame had me believe that I wasn't worthy of the PTSD diagnosis, ie of its healing... - [Life Purpose Petals • Why Am I Here?](https://ellanylea.com/blog/life-purpose-petals-why-am-i-here) by Ellany Lea (Aug 4, 2021): Have you ever caught yourself sobbing "It's not fair!" or ripping your hair out "But that makes no sense!?!" We didn't come here for fairness or sense making. Our souls came here to: grow, love, be loved, enjoy and be of service. - [The Barf Bucket • How I Purged Patriarchy from my Body](https://ellanylea.com/blog/barf-bucket-purged-patriarchy-from-body) by Ellany Lea (Jul 28, 2021): Our wounds from our Family of Origin are often not about the parent or the perpetrator, but a window into larger forces at play: Sacred Contracts and karmic agreements. There is no overnight healing, but you can get your hands on a "Get Out of Jail Free" card from systemic patriarchy. - [Filial Piety • How Asian Parents Sow the Seeds of "Not Enough" and Self-hatred](https://ellanylea.com/blog/filial-piety-asian-parents-not-enough-self-hatred) by Ellany Lea (Jul 21, 2021): Ever come home from school with a 99% and had your Asian parent ask you where the 1% went? How about coming home with 109% and still being asked there the 1% went. When the voice of "You're not enough!" are internalized, it turns to shame. Then under the magnifying glass of filial piety, it turns to self-hatred. - [The Roasted Butterfly • How Overachievers and the Restless Self-destruct from Shiny Object Syndrome](https://ellanylea.com/blog/roasted-butterfly-overachievers-self-destruct-shiny-object) by Ellany Lea (Jul 7, 2021): Do you have Shiny Object Syndrome, aka ADD / ADHD, aka as Squirrel!!! 🐿🐿 🐿 Have you ever been over-zealous, saw something shiny, touched it then got burned? - [Power of Iterations • How I Unleashed my Masterclass Organically](https://ellanylea.com/blog/power-iterations-how-i-built-my-masterclass-organically-gracefully) by Ellany Lea (Jun 23, 2021): I once stumbled upon an e-course called "Create your Damn E-course" and it made me chuckle because without even realizing it, people were damning their own e-courses right from the beginning. No wonder they never finished the e-course, didn't launch it, or launched it but made no money. - [Power of Iterations • How I Unleashed my Boutique Brand Organically](https://ellanylea.com/blog/power-iterations-how-i-created-my-boutique-business-brand-organically-gracefully) by Ellany Lea (Jun 16, 2021): This week, doing the right things in the right order is the focus. You must know your ideal client before you tailor your curriculum to their deepest needs.You must build a dream team (even if it just starts with one, plus you) before you dive into recording/editing or you won't make it to the finish line... - [Power of Iterations • How I Unleashed my Genius Organically](https://ellanylea.com/blog/power-iterations-how-i-unleashed-my-genius-organically-gracefully) by Ellany Lea (Jun 9, 2021): There is faaaaaar too much hype around "Make $90,000 in 90 Days!", "Be Famous in Five Minutes!", "Six weeks to Six-figures!", or "11 Day E-course Challenge". I'm not saying that those claims don't work. I'm saying that it's not the full picture. I'm saying what they're not saying... - [Purging Negative Money Memories Takes Time (Part 4/4)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/purging-negative-money-memories-takes-time-part-4) by Ellany Lea (Jun 2, 2021): When I updated this blog series from 2017 in 2021, I realized that 28 of those original 36 memories had vanished. Even under hypnotherapy, I wouldn't have remembered them. They no longer carried any emotional charge. And that is what I call freedom! - [Purging Negative Money Memories Takes Time (Part 3/4)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/purging-negative-money-memories-takes-time-part-3) by Ellany Lea (May 26, 2021): Asking an overachiever to be patient is is like asking a bowling ball to float. Because we are super-doers, we think we can out-do the Universe. Ha! Purging negative memories is a journey of healing, forgiveness and surrendering to the grand unfolding of our lives. - [Purging Negative Money Memories Takes Time (Part 2/4)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/purging-negative-money-memories-takes-time-part-2) by Ellany Lea (May 19, 2021): An emotionally charged money incident can scar or even traumatize a child. Just because our body has aged chronologically, it doesn't mean that inner child has recovered. How do we unwire and rewire our fear and scarcity circuitries? - [Purging Negative Money Memories Takes Time (Part 1/4)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/purging-negative-money-memories-takes-time-part-1) by Ellany Lea (May 12, 2021): With every client who has money gremlins, we do a "Negative Money Memory Purge." It helps pull whatever guilt, hurt, shame, anxiety, or fear associated with money out of their psyche. Then we burn the paper(s) 🔥 to free the mind, heart and body. - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as a Psychotherapist (Part 15/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-psychotherapist-part-1516) by Ellany Lea (Dec 8, 2020): Midway through my certification, I developed the ability to feel what my clients were feeling, but 2-3 days before they felt it. Hearts were cracked open and mended with grace. But just because you can, doesn't mean you should... - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as an Aerial Yoga Studio (Part 14/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-aerial-yoga-studio-part-1416) by Ellany Lea (Dec 1, 2020): I literally smacked into this career identity, which would lead to a love at first sight partnership 6 years later. The studio was up and running in 3 weeks time! But it's true what they say: if you're gonna fail, fail fast. But first, try everything 3 times. - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as a Wealth Mentor (Part 13/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-wealth-mentor-part-1316) by Ellany Lea (Nov 24, 2020): I could have coasted through this semi-retirement lifestyle for decades, but my soul yearned and cried for deeper meaning and broader contribution. "F*ck you, soul! Why can't you just be content?!?" Ah, but a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor... - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as a Success Coach (Part 12/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-success-coach-part-1216) by Ellany Lea (Nov 17, 2020): For the first time in my life, I felt seen for who I am, not for what I'd achieved. I had no idea that I had walked into the alchemical fire that would forge me from a freedom seeker into a liberator. All triggered by a date who stood me up! - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as a Web Design Agency (Part 11/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-web-design-agency-part-1116) by Ellany Lea (Nov 10, 2020): This career identity took twice as long to let go than to build. I resented the Universe for calling me onto a new path, which I didn't even ask for it, and for making something I adored feel like such a drag. - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as a United Nations Consultant (Part 10/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-united-nations-consultant-part-1016) by Ellany Lea (Nov 3, 2020): This career was dreamier than the previous dream career. If I let it go there will be nothing left. It'd be years before I'd know that when you reach the end of your rope, the Universe intervenes. Not to hand you a new rope (that would be too easy), but to... - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as a Global E-Strategist (Part 9/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-global-e-strategist-part-916) by Ellany Lea (Oct 27, 2020): I lined up 5 interviews in 5 days in New York City, got on a plane, got a job offer and apartment on Day 6, flew home on Day 7 to pack and moved my entire life to NYC on Day 8. That is what "all in" looked like. - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as an International Aid Worker (Part 8/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-international-aid-worker-part-816) by Ellany Lea (Oct 20, 2020): For the first time in my life I followed my heart, not what was demanded of me. I decided I wanted to do good as a career, it was destined for me. I would learn the hard way that destiny is not a destination. - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as a Systems Designer (Part 7/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-systems-designer-part-716) by Ellany Lea (Oct 12, 2020): Go ahead, put on the golden shackles, I am ready to become the work ox and ATM machine I was born to be. It be another 12 years before I'd learn about "spiritual aridity" and how the cost of misery is too high a price to pay. - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as an Energy Researcher (Part 6/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-energy-researcher-part-616) by Ellany Lea (Oct 6, 2020): I felt mad making a career 180 and starting over from scratch at this point. Who walks away from job offers and amazing female mentors?!? It'd be another 9 years before I discerned: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as an Aerospace Engineer (Part 5/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-aerospace-engineer-part-516) by Ellany Lea (Sep 29, 2020): Someone out there is able to study the cosmos thanks to aerospace telescope parts that I made with my two bare hands. But keeping the awe of the cosmos in my heart isn't the same as spending an entire career climbing uphill toward an impenetrable "Boys Club." - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as a Banking Officer (Part 4/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-banking-officer-part-416) by Ellany Lea (Sep 22, 2020): I did a career 180 when I went into banking, thinking I'd finally become the best white man and eldest son I was supposed to be. Ha! In the end, only three things matter: one of them is letting go of things not meant for you. - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as an Industrial Machinist (Part 3/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-industrial-machinist-part-316) by Ellany Lea (Sep 15, 2020): I had never touched any kind of industrial machinery before, but my aluminum coupling turned out better than my mentor's. But that career would have been an over-compensation for the career that my dad loss. - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as a Web Developer (Part 2/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-web-developer-part-216) by Ellany Lea (Sep 8, 2020): I made websites just because, out of pure joy, pure curiosity, pure creativity. Then people started paying me for it. Who knew that would happen?!? But with every gain, there is great loss... - [My 16 Careers • Reinventing Identities as a Computer Teacher (Part 1/16)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/my-16-careers-reinventing-identities-computer-teacher-part-116) by Ellany Lea (Sep 1, 2020): Navigating identity crisis, non-conformity and freedom requires a soul with stamina. "The price is high, the reward is great." May these stories of my 16 career identity re-inventions inspire you to make brave leaps of faith, examine your choices with awe, and surrender to the unfolding of your unique path. - [Post-it Wall of Greatness](https://ellanylea.com/blog/post-it-wall-greatness) by Ellany Lea (Jun 2, 2020): Have you ever faced the uncomfortable "Now what?!?" after you've achieved a milestone? You thought you'd be ecstatic, but instead are fogged in doubt and uncertainty of "Is this all there is?" Then it's time to make a Post-it Wall of Greatness! - [Freedom Masks • Shifting Tides Freedom (Part 4)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/freedom-masks-shifting-tides-freedom-part-4) by Ellany Lea (May 4, 2020): Leena creates product suites and marketing materials for the travel industry. She’s a free spirit and citizen of the world. She moved 11 timezones in pursuit of career opportunities, which came knocking from London to Singapore, from Dubai to Sydney. To her surprise... - [Freedom Masks • Mirage Freedom (Part 3)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/freedom-masks-mirage-freedom-part-3) by Ellany Lea (Apr 27, 2020): I've shared Rose's story of Unfulfilling Freedom (aka creative starvation) and Lily's story of Untethered Freedom (aka "spiritual vegetable).This week, meet Priya and her story of Mirage Freedom. - [Freedom Masks • Untethered Freedom (Part 2)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/freedom-masks-untethered-freedom-part-2) by Ellany Lea (Apr 20, 2020): Lily had a 15 year career in global procurement, a glamorous life, a $250,000/year salary, a practically inexhaustible expense account, a fancy wardrobe, and anything else money could buy. However... - [Freedom Masks • Unfulfilling Freedom (Part 1)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/freedom-masks-unfulfilling-freedom-part-1) by Ellany Lea (Apr 13, 2020): By all external standards, Rose has made it. She has 47 real estate properties, more money than she could ever need, and doesn’t have to work another day in her life. However... - [Rest and Recharge • How to Source from a Wiser Fuel](https://ellanylea.com/blog/rest-recharge-source-wiser-fuel) by Ellany Lea (Apr 7, 2020): It's official: Cuba is the best place to unplug... because there is no plug. Internet is scarcely available at a teeny tiny handful of locations. If you can't make it to Cuba to fully unplug, I've gathered my favourite quotes and wisdom gems here to remind us all to rest and recharge. - [Ellany's 9 Micro-habits for More Peace, Joy and Time Freedom](https://ellanylea.com/blog/9-micro-habits-peace-joy-time-freedom) by Ellany Lea (Mar 31, 2020): All these spiritual flues, energetic ascensions, and mystical experiences, I never asked for any of them. Did I? I feel like I made a heap of choices before coming to Earth, but I can't remember most of them. Would I have lived differently if I remembered those choices? - [You Are Needed • How to Not Catch the Comparison-itis Virus during a Global Pandemic](https://ellanylea.com/blog/not-catch-comparisonitis-virus-global-pandemic) by Ellany Lea (Mar 24, 2020): You are needed. Just not all at the same time. This pandemic is not a sprint, it's a tag team marathon. Wait your turn because the relay baton is coming. - [Power of Iterations • How I Built my Signature Program Organically](https://ellanylea.com/blog/power-iterations-how-i-built-my-signature-program-organically-gracefully) by Ellany Lea (Mar 24, 2020): Whether it's a workshop, a virtual training or something in between, your masterclass, your life's masterpiece, can be created the hard way or the graceful way - [Reverse Bucket List • How to Use Awe to Fuel Motivation and Drive](https://ellanylea.com/blog/reverse-bucket-list-awe-fuel-motivation-drive) by Ellany Lea (Mar 17, 2020): The Reverse Bucket List (RBL) is a celebration and a remembering of truth. Just as awakened humans have turned from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy, awakened entrepreneurs are using the RBL to turn from fear / scarcity / shame toward awe as fuel. - [The Invisible Child • How I Discovered that I Do Matter](https://ellanylea.com/blog/invisible-child-discovered-i-do-matter) by Ellany Lea (Mar 10, 2020): Who knew that "failing" at a ropes course would lead to my hyperachiever saboteur's RIP funeral. And the moment my feet touched the ground, a lightning bolt of truth shot through the back of my head, neck and shoulder blades, “How have I never mattered before? How is this the first time?” - [How Sacred Archetypes Reveal Hidden Keys to Behavioral Change](https://ellanylea.com/blog/sacred-archetypes-hidden-keys-behavioral-change) by Ellany Lea (Feb 24, 2020): Why do we repeat the same behavioral patterns, when we know they are detrimental to our freedom? Sacred Archetypes can reveal hidden keys to unlocking our relationships with identity, money, people, creativity and destiny. - [Vipassana Practice • How the Tortoise Always Wins the Race](https://ellanylea.com/blog/vipassana-practice-tortoise-always-wins-race) by Ellany Lea (Feb 17, 2020): Though I have chosen intense moments of "hare," I am the endurance tortoise, where slow and steady wins the race. Every time. Like Angela Duckworth says, "Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare." - [Vipassana 10-day Silent Meditation Retreat is like Elective Surgery](https://ellanylea.com/blog/vipassana-10-day-silent-meditation-retreat-elective-surgery) by Ellany Lea (Feb 10, 2020): A Vipassana 10-day silent meditation retreat is like elective surgery. You know you don't absolutely need it, but you also know that it could significantly enhance your quality of life. Yes, there will likely be pain, but there will also be freedom. - [Making Peace with Time • 4 Iterations from Busyness Tracker to Time Freedom](https://ellanylea.com/blog/making-peace-with-time-4-iterations-busyness-tracker-time-freedom) by Ellany Lea (Feb 5, 2020): Entrepreneurship can seem overwhelming, where the more you do, the more there is to do. At least with freedompreneurship, the more you do, the less there is to do in the long run. With freedompreneurship, there is freedom at the end of the tunnel... - [Dare to Lead™: From Armored Leadership to Daring Leadership](https://ellanylea.com/blog/dare-lead-armored-leadership-daring-leadership) by Ellany Lea (Jan 11, 2020): Trained and certified on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, we guide phoenixes, overachievers, wisdom keepers, freedompreneurs and wayshowers from armored leadership to daring leadership. - [86 Motivations that Fueled my Becoming a Freedompreneur](https://ellanylea.com/blog/86-motivations-fueled-my-becoming-freedompreneur) by Ellany Lea (Dec 3, 2019): At Guide to Grace, we hold and guide women on their leap from solopreneur to entrepreneur or from entrepreneur to freedompreneur. - [Book Dedication • Define your Why by Focusing on your Who](https://ellanylea.com/blog/book-dedication-define-your-why-focusing-your-who) by Ellany Lea (Nov 27, 2019): Writing for years has helped me see that I can only go as fast as the slowest part of me. My book will take as long as it takes. I cannot rush the alchemy of "pain juice" into gold. - [Dear Fear • Two Love Letters to Clients on How to Approach Fears (Part 2)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/dear-fear-two-love-letters-to-clients-on) by Ellany Lea (Nov 20, 2019): It's natural to feel afraid. What you do about it will determine who you become. - [iPhone in Watery Grave • A Story of Hope and Believing in Miracles](https://ellanylea.com/blog/iphone-watery-grave-story-hope-believing-miracles) by Ellany Lea (Nov 19, 2019): I once went sunset paddle boarding off the pristine beaches of Boracay, in the Philippines. I had my shiny new iPhone sealed in a high grade water proof case, clipped around my neck. As I was mesmerized by the sunset, I felt like a dip so jumped into the ocean for a swim... - [Dear Fear • Two Love Letters to Clients on How to Approach Fears (Part 1)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/dear-fear-two-love-letters-clients-how-approach-fears-part-1) by Ellany Lea (Nov 13, 2019): Before a big change, every human experiences fear, whether it's real or not. - [Ascension Flu • 6 Ways to Survive a Spiritual Flu](https://ellanylea.com/blog/ascension-flu-6-ways-survive-spiritual-flu) by Ellany Lea (Oct 8, 2019): Even though I had a near breaking point when I had to poop in a plastic bag inside my tent, I felt invincible because: no one can offload their shit onto me, no one could steal my joy. No one. And that is the kind of invincibility I wish for you. - [The Knot • How Somatic Symptoms Points to Self-Betrayal](https://ellanylea.com/blog/the-knot-somatic-symptoms-self-betrayal) by Ellany Lea (Oct 2, 2019): Nothing can prepare you for the rupture of betrayal. Nobody can prepare you for the inconvenience of spiritual awakening. One gnarly knot in my spine woke me up to what betrayal truly unveils. - [Hot and Itchy Endurance Test • How I Reclaimed My Invincibility](https://ellanylea.com/blog/hot-itchy-endurance-test-how-i-reclaimed-my-invincibility) by Ellany Lea (Sep 17, 2019): Even though I had a near breaking point when I had to poop in a plastic bag inside my tent, I felt invincible because: no one can offload their shit onto me, no one could steal my joy. No one. And that is the kind of invincibility I wish for you. - [Big Picture Reset • A Grounding Ritual for Momentum and Consistent Success](https://ellanylea.com/blog/big-picture-reset-grounding-success-ritual) by Ellany Lea (Aug 27, 2019): How do you gracefully and joyfully keep up the momentum in your business, especially during summer lulls, back-to-school frenzy, and blink-and-it's-here holiday busyness? I use the Big Picture Reset as my grounding ritual for consistent success. - [The Pillow Fort • How I Gained Time Abundance and Freedom](https://ellanylea.com/blog/pillow-fort-time-abundance-time-freedom) by Ellany Lea (Aug 21, 2019): My knew about herding time block to free up my time. My heart knew the joy and abundance of time. Even my soul knew The Void and no-time. But my body didn't yet know until that night how to halt time to near infinite. - [Dream Team • How to Discern Roles and Hire your Support Team when Everyone and their Cat is a Marketing "Expert"](https://ellanylea.com/blog/dream-team-discern-roles-hire-support) by Ellany Lea (May 14, 2019): Hiring a dream team for your online business can be challenging! There's no one-size-fits-all. Here's a guide to help you discern your needs and save you time, frustration, time, money, and time! - [The Freedom Experiment • How I'm Traveling Every Country in the World (Part 3/3)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/freedom-experiment-how-im-traveling-every-country-world-part-33) by Ellany Lea (Jan 13, 2019): At this point on my globetrotting journeys, I mastered being a digital nomad, traveling 20 countries in 16 weeks. So I figured, why stop? I always wanted to visit Argentina, which didn't make it onto Around-the-World 2005 trip because Star Alliance didn't have an airline partner down there... - [The Freedom Experiment • How I'm Traveling Every Country in the World (Part 2/3)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/freedom-experiment-how-im-traveling-every-country-world-part-23) by Ellany Lea (Dec 25, 2018): At the end of my work term in Rwanda, I didn't have the chance to visit the Virunga Mountain Gorillas, which I had diligently saved up for, because the ministry that issued work permits held my passport until, and I only got it back the Friday before I left the country the next morning. - [The Freedom Experiment • How I'm Traveling Every Country in the World (Part 1/3)](https://ellanylea.com/blog/freedom-experiment-how-im-traveling-every-country-world-part-13) by Ellany Lea (Dec 11, 2018): I was once interviewed by my friend Ric at Counting Countries and asked if I always dreamed of visiting every country in the world. "Not at all!", was my answer... - [Meet Sayo Nickerson](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-sayo-nickerson) by Ellany Lea (Oct 21, 2018): Sayo co-creates experiential travelling that liberates the thirst of solo women travellers. She is a liberator. - [Meet Jo Soley](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-jo-soley) by Ellany Lea (Oct 15, 2018): Jo Soley co-creates authentic business coaching that liberates the direction of passionate female entrepreneurs. She is a liberator. - [Meet Jen Reed](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-jen-reed) by Ellany Lea (Sep 25, 2018): Jen co-creates online programs that liberate the True Selves of soul-seekers. - [Meet Eva Gregory](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-eva-gregory) by Ellany Lea (Aug 19, 2018): Eva co-creates enlightened business success systems that liberate spiritual entrepreneurs from chaos to clarity and cash flow. She is a liberator. - [Meet Tara Stephenson](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-tara-stephenson) by Ellany Lea (Aug 13, 2018): Tara co-creates healthy and loving communities that liberate humanity's dreams and identity. She is a liberator. - [Meet AJung Moon](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-ajung-moon) by Ellany Lea (Aug 6, 2018): AJung co-creates systems that liberates the thoughtfulness in AI systems. She is a liberator. - [Meet Olivia Stefanino](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-olivia-stefanino) by Ellany Lea (Jul 30, 2018): Olivia co-creates powerful coaching tools that liberate people from the prisons of their own thinking. She is a liberator. - [Meet Danielle Rodney-Robinson](https://ellanylea.com/blog/60649-meet-danielle-rodney-robinson) by Ellany Lea (Jul 22, 2018): Danielle co-creates imaginative brands that liberates the authentic purpose and vision of creative solo and entrepreneurs. She is a liberator. - [Meet Danika Zoe](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-danika-zoe) by Ellany Lea (Jul 16, 2018): Danika co-creates the action that liberates the inner brilliance of overachieving superwomen. She is a liberator. - [Meet Neeru Sharma](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-neeru-sharma) by Ellany Lea (Jul 9, 2018): Neeru creates expeditions that liberate the passion and potential of global change makers. She is a liberator. - [Meet Sandra Lax](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-sandra-lax) by Ellany Lea (May 24, 2018): Sandra co-creates, healing, engaging, connecting, and fulfilling life experiences that liberate the human spirit. She is a liberator. - [Meet Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-dr-manjir-samanta-laughton) by Ellany Lea (May 17, 2018): Manjir co-creates information and new ideas with the universe that liberates humanity from their old paradigms of consciousness. She is a liberator. - [Meet Rozana Al-Banawi](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-rozana-al-banawi) by Ellany Lea (Apr 26, 2018): Rozana co-creates transformational learning that liberates the leadership of willing humans. She is a liberator. - [Meet Anna Sabino](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-anna-sabino) by Ellany Lea (Apr 18, 2018): She is a liberator. Anna co-creates author careers that liberate the words and businesses in need to be widely shared. - [Meet Ally Sztrimbely](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-ally-sztrimbely) by Ellany Lea (Apr 12, 2018): Ally co-creates individuals that liberate themselves through strenght, thought and heart. She is a liberator. - [Meet Nathallee Hartwell](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-nathallee-hartwell) by Ellany Lea (Apr 4, 2018): Nathallee co-creates mind-body connection through intuitive massage that liberates the inner peace and joy of the tired & weary. She is a liberator. - [7 Tips to Convert Strangers into Friends, Using Interact Quiz](https://ellanylea.com/blog/7-tips-convert-strangers-friends-interact-quiz) by Ellany Lea (Mar 30, 2018): When you convert strangers into friends, it's always a hit. Friends like friends. Friends get value from friends. They stay friends, tell others about your work, become loyal readers, transform into raving fans, serve as word of mouth marketing. - [Meet Jennifer Lachs](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-jennifer-lachs) by Ellany Lea (Dec 21, 2017): Founder / Community Manager / Blogger / Freelance Writer / Membership Site Host / Retreat Organiser / Girlfriend. She is a liberator. - [Meet Sarena Bahad](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-sarena-bahad) by Ellany Lea (Dec 14, 2017): Entrepreneur / Connector / Community Builder / Business Developer / Saleswoman / Dancing Queen / Singer / Creator / Curious Cat / Lifelong Learner. - [Meet Jenn Granneman](https://ellanylea.com/blog/60661-meet-jenn-granneman) by Ellany Lea (Dec 7, 2017): Author / Founder / Editor / Writer / Cat Mom - [Meet Elisa Bozzolini](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-elisa-bozzolini) by Ellany Lea (Nov 30, 2017): Founder / Creative Genius / Fashion Designer / Brand Marketer / Traveller / Runner / Life Partner / Friend - [Meet Lisette Miranda](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-lisette-miranda) by Ellany Lea (Nov 23, 2017): Mindreader / CEO / Mentor / Sounding Board - [Meet Maria Arredondo](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-maria-arredondo) by Ellany Lea (Nov 16, 2017): Professional Coach / Business Owner / Coach Trainer & Certification Supervisor / Tango Dancer / Seamstress / Fountain Pen Lover. - [Meet Megan Murphy](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-megan-murphy) by Ellany Lea (Nov 9, 2017): Actress / Radio DJ / Documentary Filmmaker / Comedy Improviser / Professional Emcee / Writer / Public Speaker / Firestarter / Ferociously Proud Sister and Aunt / Fierce Friend - [5 Attempts at Sharing Ayahuasca Higher Consciousness Experience](https://ellanylea.com/blog/5-attempts-sharing-ayahuasca-higher-consciousness-experience) by Ellany Lea (Nov 8, 2017): Human language is so limited to describe the mystical experience. Even so, the soul residing in human flesh can't help but try anyway. - [Meet Milena Nguyen](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-milena-nguyen) by Ellany Lea (Nov 2, 2017): Founder / Author / Coach / Speaker / Trainer / Wife / Artist - [Brené Brown's No. 1 Raving Fan](https://ellanylea.com/blog/brene-brown-no-1-raving-fan) by Ellany Lea (Oct 31, 2017): From the day I stumbled upon Brené Brown's TED talk back in 2012, where she was the first person to make me feel like I was enough, I've read every word in every book she's written, watched every video she's ever appeared in, enrolled in every certification she's offered and followed her like her #1 Raving Fan! - [Meet Lisa Imogen Eldridge](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-lisa-imogen-eldridge) by Ellany Lea (Oct 26, 2017): Founder / Writer / Creative / Marketer / Researcher - [Meet Grace Chin](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-grace-chin) by Ellany Lea (Oct 19, 2017): Writer / Performer / Producer / Manager / Leader / Administrator / Motivator / Visualizer / Girlfriend / Cat Mom - [Meet Georgina Cronin](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-georgina-cronin) by Ellany Lea (Oct 12, 2017): Surfer / Entrepreneur / Feminist / Hippy / Lesbian / Traveler - [Meet Ellany Lea](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-ellany-lea) by Ellany Lea (Oct 5, 2017): Ellany is a Success Coach / Freedompreneurships Mentor / 100+ Countries Digital Nomad / Certified The Daring Way™ Facilitator and Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator trained by Brené Brown / Co-Author / Antigravity Yoga Instructor / Digital Wizard. - [Ellany's Favourite Poems and Prayers on Love, Grace and Freedom](https://ellanylea.com/blog/favourite-poems-prayers-love-grace-freedom) by Ellany Lea (Oct 4, 2017): Sometimes, the heart needs balm that only poems and prayers can provide. May these favourites help you remember what the soul already knew. - [19 Life Changing Quotes & Poems by Najwa Zebian](https://ellanylea.com/blog/19-life-changing-quotes-poems-najwa-zebian) by Ellany Lea (May 23, 2017): "These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb." Her words helped my lungs exhale the deepest relief. May Najwa Zebian's poetry be a balm to your lungs as they were for me. - [Stages of Dating • How to Love your Business to Court your Audience](https://ellanylea.com/blog/stages-of-dating-how-to-love-your-business) by Ellany Lea (Apr 25, 2017): Entrepreneurship is like dating. When you're dating your business, are you still flirting with other businesses? Or worse yet, are you getting into bed with your old corporate job? :O - [Red Light Juggler • How I Reclaimed my Clairscentience](https://ellanylea.com/blog/red-light-juggler-reclaimed-clairscentience) by Ellany Lea (Mar 7, 2017): Would you run into the red light on a huge avenue, red light, after red light, after red light? Just to get home. What I learned about courage and showing up from a juggler. - [Meet Lisa Serice](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-lisa-serice) by Ellany Lea (Jul 26, 2016): Lisa Serice is a Singer / Songwriter / Performer / School teacher / Fitness practitioner / Certified AntiGravity Yoga instructor. She has lived and performed all over the US. - [Meet Erin Sullivan](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-erin-sullivan) by Ellany Lea (Jul 12, 2016): Erin Sullivan is an end-of-life care practitioner / hospice volunteer / children's author / advocate / meditation facilitator / yoga instructor / author / expert napper / deep encourager / loving friend. She has lived in beautiful Canada! - [Meet Linda Kash](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-linda-kash) by Ellany Lea (Jun 28, 2016): Linda Kash is a TV director / Movie actress / Stage actress / Comedian / Writer / Radio co-host / Co-founder of the Peterborough Academy of Performing Arts / Improv teacher / Mom / Warrior. - [Meet Jobina Bardai](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-jobina-bardai) by Ellany Lea (Jun 14, 2016): Jobina Bardai is a Dancer / Choreographer / Coach / Teacher / Magic-maker / Wanderer / Explorer / Friend / Sister / Daughter. She's lived in several cities in Canada, UK, USA, Australia, and Germany. - [The Difference between a Coach, Mentor, Teacher and Consultant](https://ellanylea.com/blog/difference-between-coach-mentor-teacher-consultant) by Ellany Lea (Jun 10, 2016): A coach rides along side you. A mentor rides in front of you. A teacher rides in front of you. A consultant rides for you. - [Meet Stephanie Juneau](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-stephanie-juneau) by Ellany Lea (May 31, 2016): Stephanie is a Scientist / Astrophysicist / Researcher / Artist / Painter / Rock climber. She's lived in QC, Canada / BC, Canada / Scotland, UK / Arizona, USA / France. - [How School Kills Creativity • My First Short Story](https://ellanylea.com/blog/old-creativity-scar-my-first-short-story) by Ellany Lea (May 18, 2016): I was watching a TED Talk on Why Schools Kill Creativity. A couple of days later, I met up with a high school friend for brunch. We reminisced and somehow ended up on the topic of floss. She exclaimed, "Oh my god, do you remember your floss story, the one you wrote in high school?" My first reaction was of trembling... - [Meet Karen Olson](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-karen-olson) by Ellany Lea (May 17, 2016): Karen Olson is a Leadership Coach / Retreat Leader / Art-o-mancy Trainer / Energetic Literacy Advocate / Writer. She’s lived in Australia / Austria / Minnesota / California / Arizona / Maine, USA - [Meet Brianna Strumm](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-brianna-strumm) by Ellany Lea (May 3, 2016): Brianna is a Social Worker / Researcher / Educator / Writer / Heart Coach / Dee-jay / Dancer / Spirited World Wanderer / Yogi / Feminist. She's lived in ON, AB, Canada / USA / India / England / South Africa / Jamaica - [Meet Carly Butler Verheyen](https://ellanylea.com/blog/meet-carly-butler-verheyen) by Ellany Lea (Apr 26, 2016): Carly is a Writer / Photographer / Banker / Traveller / Snail Mail Enthusiast / Curator for Handwritten / Old Soul. She is a liberator.​ She's lived in Canada, the UK, and South Korea. - [Masculine vs Feminine Business Hierarchy of Needs](https://ellanylea.com/blog/masculine-vs-feminine-business-hierarchy-needs) by Ellany Lea (Apr 14, 2016): If your business is profitable and you're transitioning it from earning active income (where you're trading your time for money) to passive income (where you're earning money whether you work or not), you'll want to know the difference between masculine and feminine business hierarchy of needs. - [Farewell In the Air • Dad Passed Away at the Start of my Exquisite Freedom Tour](https://ellanylea.com/blog/farewell-air-story-dad-passing-away-start-my-exquisite-freedom-tour) by Ellany Lea (Nov 29, 2015): I had decided to celebrate my semi-retirement at 33 with an Exquisite Freedom Tour: 16 countries in 16 weeks, to visit besties, clients and fans around the world so that I could select my next home base.... - [Fierce and Free • 15 Commitments I Ask of My Coaching Clients for Joyful Liberation](https://ellanylea.com/blog/commitments-coaching-joyful-liberation) by Ellany Lea (Sep 30, 2015): You want to succeed? You want to be free? You'll need to show up, be seen and live brave. And it all starts with commitment from self to self. If you're not ready to make these commitments, you won't get the most out of your coaching relationship.