We were lucky to catch up with Yanet Borrego recently and have shared our conversation below.

Yanet, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. 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.

I worked for 9 years in corporate with two wonderful Fortune 500 companies as an Engineer, Supply Chain Expert, and Management & Strategy Consultant. In those 9 years, I also built my coaching practice on the side, got certified as a coach, speaker, and trainer under the John Maxwell Team, got board certified by the Association for Integrative Psychology as a Master Practitioner, Trainer, and Coach of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Hypnosis.

I always knew that at some point in my career, I was going to make the transition from corporate to full-time entrepreneurship. My vision was to align my passion and purpose with my career and to coach others to do the same. In March of 2021, a very close family member passed away from cancer, and that event put everything into perspective. What was I waiting for? What was I afraid of? Life is so short, and the only moment we have is now. In April of 2021, I took the decision to leave my 9 years of corporate career and pursue something that I truly believed in. I turned my side hustle, coaching, into my full-time career.

I fully embraced my identity as a Clarity & Mindset Coach, Speaker, and Trainer after leaving my corporate job. I am very passionate about helping people find clarity & direction, master their mindset, and create a life on their own terms. Coaching is an inside-out journey, and it’s very action-oriented. As a coach, I have the tools and techniques to help my clients access the answers within themselves and master their inner world. Experiencing the transformation in my clients and creating a legacy of impact is what motivates me every day to do what I do.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

I am a mindset and clarity coach, keynote speaker, and podcast host. I coach driven professionals on bridging the gap between where they are and where they want to be in the areas of career, romantic relationships, and personal development. 80-90% of growth, achievement, success, and fulfillment start with mindset, and 10-20% is strategy. When you have the mindset, you can figure out the strategy, and you can learn any skill. If you have the strategy but not the mindset, it’s more challenging to follow through and implement. This is why I am so passionate about coaching my clients, students, and mentees to step into who they’re meant to be and achieve their dreams.

My business includes speaking engagements, 1:1 coaching where I provide customized support to the individual, a digital course, “Discover Your Purpose Program,” with a step-by-step framework on how to gain clarity on your direction and master your mindset, and a weekly podcast “With Clarity and Purpose”.

I’ve been extensively certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and healing arts. My coaching approach is holistic, working with the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical bodies to create harmony and alignment while sustaining change.

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

The lesson I learned: Do not wait until a crisis hits or until you hit rock bottom to make a decision that you already know it’s aligned. Do not wait for the pain to be your motivator to change and grow.

Do not wait for the pain to be your motivator because whenever that pain disappears, what are you going to be motivated by? It is important that you have a clear direction towards where you’re heading, that you have a North Star, and that North Star helps you make short-term decisions. Do not wait until the crisis hits to make a decision that you know is aligned with yourself.

I’ve experienced this several times. These aligned and bold decisions are not easy, but you got to recognize that in the long term, that’s what’s going to be the best for you. Something that I always do with my clients is a technique called future pacing. It is thinking, “If I stay here tolerating my job and not enjoying it, how would I feel ten minutes from now? What would be the consequences 10 months or 10 years from now because?”

Sometimes we are used to making the sessions based on short-term satisfaction and comfort rather than longer-term fulfillment. At the end of the day, we are aiming for a purpose-driven career that is all about doing something that you’re fulfilled with, fires you up, and you’re happy with. The other part of this, which goes related to what I said about not waiting until a crisis hits, is sometimes it is not the job that we have to change.

Sometimes it’s our internal world. Sometimes it’s the perspective of that job that we are experiencing. That’s why in most of my coaching and my digital course, we work with understanding your internal world, how you’re making decisions, and how you can also work with your mindset. Let’s be honest. Sometimes we cannot change our environment right away, but something we can change right away is our perception of what’s going on and what’s happening.

Sometimes it’s not the job or the career. It’s us who we need to change. That’s why the journey of my corporate career is important and meaningful to illustrate this point. My first corporate job, I highly disliked it. I wanted to leave so bad. I waited on the crisis to hit, having a panic attack for the first time in my life, to make a shift that I knew was a long-time due.

It is important that as you continue walking in your path, you start experimenting and capturing data of what you enjoy and don’t enjoy. After that job, I stayed in corporate, but I moved the word supply chain, which was a lot more people-oriented than working as a process engineer. I love that so much more. Sometimes in the context of your situation, you can find some job, role, or career that you’re aligned with. It’s a matter of looking around and connecting those dots so you can realize that those opportunities are in front of you all the time for the most part.

After my supply chain job, I went to consulting, which I loved a lot more. I knew that I probably was not going to stay in corporate. In all these nine years, I transitioned my perspective from hating my first job to loving the last corporate job I got and still making the decision to leave it because I had a bigger goal that I was aspiring. Sometimes it’s a change of perspective, but that change of perspective doesn’t mean that we change our longer-term direction.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I was born in Havana, Cuba. When I was 12 years old my mom and I moved to the United States. After moving to the land of the American Dream, my big aspiration was simple: to get a high-paying job so I could support and give back to my family. A high-paying job and a successful career, what else could I ask for? After getting my chemical engineering degree, I had achieved exactly what I had been targeting: a high-paying job and a successful career. I had made it through perseverance and discipline!

And I still felt empty. I found myself in a career that wasn’t fulfilling or empowering to me. As a result, back in 2013, I started to get obsessed with understanding why, how could this be possible? I had followed the recipe I had been given. Study hard, get good grades, get a high-paying job, and live happily ever after.
I realized that that was exactly the reason… I had been given the recipe, I never actually did the inner work to understand who I wanted to be before making any decisions. I started to realize that I wasn’t the only one, that most of the people that surrounded me felt stuck, they felt the same way, without a sense of clarity, direction, or purpose. And believe me, when you are stuck, it’s hard to see the way out. I am here to tell you that whatever situation you are going through, there is always a way out to a more empowering decision. It’s never too late. I obsessed even more with trying to understand my emotions, my mindset, my overall wellness, and how I could help others do the same.

It’s not too late to reinvent yourself and your past doesn’t define your future.

As I continued to experiment with what my purpose was, I started to gain clarity. While working my full-time corporate job, I started my side coaching business. After 9 years of being in the process of understanding myself and developing my business, I decided to take the leap of faith and transition to full-time entrepreneurship as a coach and speaker.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.ybcoaching.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yanetbcoaching/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yanetbcoaching
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanet-borrego-742498b9/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqxL829o0Vk-QdY12F-GgMw
• Other: With Clarity and Purpose Podcast: https://www.ybcoaching.com/blog