We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Alizée Rémond a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alizée , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

For most of my life I thought that taking a life changing risk was too unsafe and risky. I was a stressed, introverted and control freak person so everything too big, challenging or out of the box was terrifying.
I was full of fears and it felt comfort, at least for a while, not to try to change that “safe” life.
But in the back of my mind, I couldn’t stop dreaming bigger. I wanted to be more brave and bold, I wanted so badly to do something on my own in the self-development field but it wasn’t that simple. I thought “it’s impossible to be achieved, it’s too risky, are you crazy?”. I was trying to find excuses, more than this, I was creating my own excuses not to start.
So I took a normal job, convincing myself that it was better than risking everything. I had a stable financial situation, opportunities and maybe for someone else this would have been enough, but it was not for me.
My bold dreams were growing in my head every second and they became too attractive not to risk everything. It meant that I had to take a life changing risk, it meant that I had to quit the job to follow my dreams, it meant that I had to stop creating myself excuses. Of course, I considered it for months, I took the time to think of it and face my fears. It was impressive as a life decision to take because I didn’t know what to do exactly, where to start, how to do, how to find the confidence to assume this new journey. I was scared to fail but at the same time I couldn’t imagine myself pretending to like this “normal” path any longer.
So one day I decided to do it scared, I quit the job, I quit the stable financial situation to pursue my bold and crazy dreams. I didn’t know exactly what to do in the self-development field until I heard more about the profession of self-development coach. I fell in love with this job and I decided to start studying it. Now, 2 years after, I got the certificate, I am a self-development coach, I have my own coaching business and I’m so thankful that I TOOK THE RISK.
I’ll never regret that day when I decided to do it scared!!

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I’m a self-development coach on my own working in Paris. But first, if I decided to work in this field it’s because to me it’s so important to feel good in your own skin and to learn how to improve yourself to get your goals and to become your best self. But sometimes, because of life’s challenges we don’t know how to do or how to act and we need help. That’s where I come in. My goal is to help women embracing their powers so that they can finally start saying “Actually, I am absolutely capable”. What a better job than this?

So for that, I propose solo coachings programs and group coachings. My solo coachings programs are made of different topics around self-development (self-love, confidence, fears/doubts, overthinking, limiting beliefs,…). There is one program for each topic and they are made for women who prefer a 1×1 session and who need a special intense support. My group coachings are focused on one topic per session and are made for women who prefer a group energy/support vibe and who need to work more quickly on a goal.

Both of my services, solo coachings programs and group coachings, include exercices and special unique activities which is quite engaging because the goal is for my clients to feel the change and be the change. I work a lot on the energy inside my coachings so everyone feels safe, respected, supported and understood. I think there is no better gift than seeing a woman finally embracing her confidence and building her inner peace.

To me, it’s not just coachings it’s emotions, support, connections, empathy and seeing a human bloom.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

When I was young, people at school told us that having big dreams was “too crazy”. It was like everything related to hope or building a happy life was not recommended because of the “risks”. I had to unlearn that, I had to release my limiting beliefs about what I can hope for myself and what I can get/achieve. I had to learn how to dream bigger, how to let my dreams set in my mind without thinking that it’s not possible or not for me. I had to unlearn that mindset of being satisfied with the minimum despite my well-being or happiness. I also had to unlearn how to stop listening to my fears/doubts because they were just in my head working with my comfort.
It was a real challenge and it felt like it was a jump out of my comfort zone because I had to reprogram my brain that was scared to be hopeful, optimistic or to think positively. It’s a constant work on myself to keep repeating that it’s possible and to be honest I think that this mindset is something that has to be maintained every single day because if not you let your fears or limiting beliefs convince you that it’s too risky or crazy while it’s not.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

For me to succeed in that field you need to create a certain peace of mind starting with getting out of your head and not comparing yourself with others. Then I would say just to be yourself entirely which means to me showing reality and vulnerability. When you grow a business around self-development for me the best thing to succeed is just to show yourself as you are to feel more connected to your clients. Sharing your own journey, path, experience, life lessons is more important than showing always positivity. We can see this through social media, for example, sharing my past failures or hard moments help my clients to feel connected, related and this helps me to embrace myself entirely and to show that I care and understand them. Of course, as a self-development coach, the goal is to share motivation, hope, optimism but to feel accomplished and to succeed here it’s also good sometimes to say “well I can relate”.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://beacons.ai/selfpilot
• Instagram: selfpilot.p
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SelfPilot
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