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

Alright, Brittany thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. What do you think it takes to be successful?

For the longest time, I would be the biggest cheerleader for others connected to me, yet my own biggest critic. I’d see others living out the dreams they had, but there was something inside of me that seemed to second-guess every idea I housed in my mind. I essentially built up an internal storage room of unbirthed dreams and ideas and masked my procrastination with a pursuit of information. Right when it was time for me to act on the podcast, the book, the coaching program, the speaking engagements…I’d trick myself into believing that I needed to read one more book, take one more course, listen to one more podcast, get one more certification. The truth was, I was struggling to believe in myself with the same unwavering confidence I showered others with. The truth was, I already had enough, already knew enough, I was enough as-is. Being successful has a lot to do with strategy and the self-worth to execute said strategy. If you skip out on developing your mindset, you will skip out on meaningfulness and money too. If you want to be successful, you must sell yourself on self before ever consider selling to anyone else.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

A few years ago around the end of 2018, I found myself in a dark space in life. It felt somewhat like a mid-life crisis except I was presumably too young to have one of those. I was creeping up on my 29th birthday in the coming January and it suddenly hit me that many of this things on the “list” of things I’d promised myself I’d have done in my life before the age of 30 would not come to past by my self-imposed deadline. I would lay awake at night, checking the time on my phone every few hours just to see how many more hours I had to go until it was time for my alarm to go off and I’d be back in the routine of going through the motions. I had the degrees, had a great job, and loving family but something still felt missing. I later termed that “missing piece” the Fulfillment Factor in my book. But I decided that if I found a way to creating a life that felt “full” I would help guide others to the full version of their lives too. I started making intentional decisions to identify my gifts and skills and figure out ways to do meaningful work with them. That led me to launching a 10-minute podcast, writing a book, launching a coaching program and becoming a TEDx speaker. I spend my time helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs and professionals leverage their gifts and skills to create the “FULLEST” version of their lives. I serve clients through mindset coaching and training on how to monetize what you’re good at. Organizations hire me to speak and train their talent on showing up “sure” of their power so that their performance skyrockets. I’m from a small town where we don’t even have a single traffic light. I’m a wife and dog-mom to 3 lively fur babies. In my spare time I’m reading, drinking coffee (or wine) and spending time with family.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

Building a strong brand is essential to the sustainability of any business. I’d have to say two of the driving factors behind how I was able to build my brand within my industry were: integrity and execution. Having integrity in this age of business is not as common as we’d like to think it is, so operating in it will open doors for you that you may not have even knocked on. People are willing to take a chance on you because you aren’t considered a liability. Isn’t it incredibly how close the two words lying and liability are? The second catalyst for building my brand in my industry was simply being an executor. I don’t sit with strategy, I go and implement. The more momentum you have the more results you’ll generate by default. Results garner recognition. People take notice and seek out opportunities to share you, spotlight you, and support you. I didn’t seek out this method of building my brand, I was just naturally a self-starter and eventually started taking notice of the patterns of partnership. Many of them stemmed from simple being someone who executes.

Have any books or other resources had a big impact on you?

4 Books that have significantly impacted my entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy are as follows: The Fulfillment Factor by Brittany Sherell, Speak Your Way to Cash by Ashley Kirkwood, Published and Paid by Jasmine Womack and The Top 10 Distinctions between Millionaires and the Middle Class by Keith Cameron Smith. Each of these books serves a distinct role in my elevation as an entrepreneur. The Fulfillment Factor expanded the beliefs I had about what I was capable of because I wrote it and self-published it in 2 weeks, and although it wasn’t perfect…it was purposeful and began changing lives in a powerful from the start. Speak Your Way to Cash by Ashley Kirkwood is the book that helped me develop a strategic approach to securing 5 and 6 figure speaking contracts by starting at the top of the market instead of working my way up from the bottom. Published and Paid by Jasmine Womack provided such a thorough and methodical approach to writing, self-publishing and launching your book in 90 days or less that it planted a seed that there may be a book number two on the way. The Top 10 Distinctions between Millionaires and the Middle Class by Keith Cameron Smith challenged some of the lingering limiting beliefs and thought patterns of self-sabotage I had about what it takes to make millions and beyond.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://brittanysherell.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittanysherell/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brittany.elam/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanysherell/