We were lucky to catch up with Meg Ellis recently and have shared our conversation below.
Meg, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. One deeply underappreciated facet of entrepreneurship is the kind of crazy stuff we have to deal with as business owners. Sometimes it’s crazy positive sometimes it’s crazy negative, but crazy experiences unite entrepreneurs regardless of industry. Can you share a crazy story with our readers?
Well, I am a conscious life coach, with a focus on the power of the mind. I could never not practice what I preach, right? I was in a bit of this loop of trying to control outcomes, versus allowing them to happen. When you coach the Law of Attraction, it’s very important to catch yourself trying to work “your plan” versus allowing the universe’s Master Plan — it’s literally the basis of what I do, but hey, I’m still human and get caught up from time to time.
I stopped working so hard and getting nowhere, and decided to let me dreams come to me instead — don’t get me wrong, action is required — but only inspired action, which means you cut out most of the “daily grind” that entrepreneurs seem to glorify these days. (Again, guilty!)
So, I released the outcome for a certain direction for my business, and started this daily deep visualization practice. Every day, for about 30 days, I spent anywhere from 15 minutes to 90 minutes just imagining my dream life, what I viewed as successful, with all of these amazing things happening to me. I allowed myself to feel all of the emotions of what it felt like to actually achieve what I wanted.
I had this one vision in particular, where I am sitting at a table in a kitchen, in a house somewhere tropical, with big glass doors that slide into the wall, so the whole space is open, looking onto a beach. There’s someone sitting on a couch, in the living room, which is next to this table in this big open room. In this vision, I open my laptop at the table, and I receive an email that says my book just became a NY Times Best Seller.
I lived in this vision over and over, and one day, I kid you not, I was on Instagram scrolling, and my house from my vision popped up. It was my house! The exact one from my visualization! The table, the open glass doors, even the couch nearby in the open living room — it was MY house! I took it as a sign, and got super excited and motivated. That same month, I got 4 new clients out of nowhere, closed the easiest sales processes I had ever encountered (especially with new clients who didn’t know me), and simply just believed in myself and my product. I made the same amount of money that month that the version of myself in my vision made.
Visualization works. After this, I had a client do the same practice, along with a few other healing energetic practices — she went from unemployed and leaving a job she didn’t like anyway, to landing her absolute dream job she didn’t even know was on the table! This is now something I use in my daily coaching with all of my clients!
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?
I am a Certified Conscious Life Coach + NLP Practitioner — which is a long way to say that I help you realize that your mind in unconsciously playing tricks on you, so I teach you how to trick it back to live the life that you actually want to live…not just play out the cards you think you’ve been dealt. If you feel like a zombie, coasting in your own life, counting down the days til Friday, wishing, “There’s gotta be something more,” know this — there is.
The beauty on the other side of fear is simply unparalleled. I help you reach the other side. To the life you actually want to live. The life where you feel fulfilled. The life that seems so far away right now but something inside of you knows is there.
It’s there, you just could use a little guidance. Hi, I’m Meg, and I would love to help you.
I went from being unhappily married, stuck in a 9-5 that I knew was not for me, dreaming of another life. For a long time, I never thought it was possible. I didn’t necessarily do things the “right” way when I began to wake up in my own life, and I entered a period of beginning to follow my passions, but I was addicted to hard work, obsessed with controlling everything, exhausted….and broke. I had woken up in my life, but I had no idea what I was doing.
Now I help other people wake up in their own lives and give them guidance for success so they don’t spin in circles. So they can dream whatever they want to dream and actually attract their Best Life Ever.
I have a proven methodology based on The Enneagram (a personality test), Consciousness, and the Law of Attraction that allows you to stop focusing on what you don’t want in order to be open to receive the life that is for you.
I was getting into consulting for small businesses years ago, and I kept running into the same thing with struggling business owners, regardless of the industry — everyone was focused on what they DIDN’T want. What WASN’T working. What they lacked and what they were bad at.
Energy flows where your attention goes. (The Law of Attraction at its purest.)
The more I helped business owners focus on what was working and what they WANTED, the more they started to get these things and find success! It was wild. I then based my coaching platform off of this and have helped entrepreneurs and business owners find success and joy again in their business, people land their dream jobs, people discover themselves again in unfulfilling relationships, college kids adjust and succeed academically, people launch companies, moms start side hustles…you name it!
It’s amazing to see people wake up in their own lives and live who they are truly meant to be. Passionate. Fulfilled. Alive.
I have a free life coaching resource, the Create Your Fate podcast (which is available on all major streaming platforms), that addresses all kinds of daily issues that keep people in a negative mindset — imposter syndrome, comparison, fear and risk taking, toxic relationships, even body image.
All in all — it’s my ultimate goal to help the collective focus on what it is YOU WANT. Not what you don’t. It’s an incredibly powerful mindset shift that is completely life-changing. I’ve lived it!
Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?
Honestly, I think it’s staying authentic to I am — and that’s advice I would give to all small business owners, especially new entrepreneurs. Regardless of the industry, there’s (usually) so much competition, which can be super intimidating! Not only is there competition, but there’s social media that blasts it in your face — someone has what you don’t have, someone has a better idea than you, someone is more successful — it can lead. you to this jealous, bitter space that causes you to focus on things you don’t have and things you don’t want. It broods a cloud of negative energy that leads us to stray away from our initial purpose and passion — to try to be like everyone else, because that’s where we think we’ll find success. It’s a hard lesson to learn, and I think we all go through it to some extent.
I think my openness plays a part in building a strong reputation within the market. Everything I coach, I have done myself. I’m very far from perfect, and I’m very human. I like to be a relatable human, and a relatable coach, and I talk about a lot of my experiences on my podcast, hoping my raw honesty inspires someone to not feel alone and to know it’s okay to be human.
I’m a practitioner, not just a theorist. I think that’s an important factor in building a strong reputation.
Do you have multiple revenue streams – if so, can you talk to us about those streams and how your developed them?
Yes! I am super excited to be launching a few new revenue streams in the near future as well. My main revenue stream is coaching. I do one-on-one coaching, leadership coaching, team coaching, and group coaching. I offer self-led digital coaching courses and I am about to release an e-book! I also recently launched a conscious coaching community platform, which is essentially subscription-based virtual group coaching. My merchandise line will also be dropping in the Spring, I’m diving into more public speaking engagements, and I hope to finish writing my transformational nonfiction book by the end of the year. (Can you tell I have a Nespresso machine?)
Contact Info:
- Website: www.phoenix8consulting.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/letscreateyourfate
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/megan.clark.75033149
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-ellis-602639184/
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/lifecoachmegellis https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/create-your-fate/id1589873893 https://open.spotify.com/show/5yWDF3DEd9czkSLVsBi4F2?si=j6TcwnOtSKS7_DOJ8j41GQ
Image Credits
Logan Miller Photography