Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Kristie Michelle Lammi. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Alright, Kristie thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. What do you think matters most in terms of achieving success?
Success is multi-faceted and there’s no one-size-fits-all answer. We all have different paths and talents, and success can have many meanings. This is why I don’t believe there’s one “thing” that will help you become successful.
However, I do use a specific framework when working with my clients as a coach and energy healer in my business Soul-Aligned Success. I’ve found there are three main areas of focus that help my clients get results when it comes to achieving their goals and creating success.
Clarity – Getting clear on what success means to you.
The success you’re seeking will look unique to you, and it will need to align with your personal values and the specific desires you have for your life in all areas.
We’re slowly figuring out as a society that hustle culture and sacrificing everything for the sake of material success is not what true success is. Many of my clients know that having a successful career or business and financial wealth means nothing if their health is failing and personal relationships are falling apart.
Getting clear on what success means to you in a holistic way – encompassing all the areas of your life that are important to you – gives you a clear vision of what you want to create for yourself, and it taps into the reasons why you truly desire that version of success, which is a powerful motivating force, and keeps you aligned to your true priorities.
Speaking of alignment…
Alignment – holistically aligning yourself to your success.
Learning how to master your energy, mindset, emotions, and physical state to get out of your own way, gain rock-solid confidence and build resilience – so you can show up everyday and do the work – is essential in your journey to success.
The good news is; these are skills you can learn. Knowing how to keep yourself inspired, motivated, and thinking and feeling positively allow you to overcome any obstacles you might encounter and keep you focused and on track to create success. It also makes life more fun, fulfilling and easy.
Systems – Setting up and implementing the right systems and practices for your success.
If Step 1 – clarity is the vision, and step 2 – alignment is the driving force, step 3 – systems – is the actual vehicle to get there.
This is all about taking what you want to achieve, breaking it down into small incremental steps you can take one-by-one until you reach your goals, and turning them into habits or rituals you schedule in daily.
There’s no such thing as overnight success -in order to achieve success you have to be persistent and committed. It’s easy to become overwhelmed when you have big dreams, but breaking down your big goals into smaller milestones, practices allows you to show up persistently as a habit and also make success sustainable and more easily obtainable.
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’m a Certified Reiki Master & Master Mindset Coach who founded Soul-Aligned Success to help ambitious women learn to be their own best advocates, connect with their confidence, shed their fears, and create easy success that honors who they are at a soul level.
I combine my experience with over 15 years in business, sales, and customer service, with multiple coaching and healing modalities – to help women align on a holistic level to their goals inviting in more joy, fulfillment, and freedom -making success more attainable and sustainable, and challenging stress as the status quo.
Similar to many entrepreneurs, my business was born from my desire to solve problems within my own life, and the results I experienced excited me so much I knew I had to share them with others.
In October of 2016, I hit rock bottom when I realized I couldn’t keep up with my big dreams. I’d climbed the corporate ladder and checked all the boxes on a traditional model of success, but I was miserable and unhealthy in every single way.
On the outside I looked successful, but I was burnt out and clinically depressed, 50lbs overweight and felt like trash all the time, an emotional wreck, and completely unexcited about my life.
I knew there was a better way to achieve success – without sacrificing my health and sanity – and I was determined to create it – on my terms.
Shortly thereafter I found coaches and healers to support me and I dove headfirst into the world of personal development.
It didn’t happen overnight, but I quickly went from stuck, miserable, and stressed to achieving far more than I’d ever imagined for myself…
I healed myself of depression and crippling anxiety, learned to honor and process my emotions to step off the emotional rollercoaster for good, cultivated love for my physical body and released 50 pounds and also healed my chronic neck and back pain, and I set up daily routines that keep me inspired, motivated and lit up about my life and business!
I became the most healthy version of me; physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually while running two businesses, becoming debt free, and achieving so many more goals I can’t even list them all here!!
My results were so profound that they lit a fire in my soul to help others find success in a more holistic, healthy way.
I now know the old model of success just simply wasn’t built with ambitious women in mind.
And I’m tired of watching incredible women be where I used to be – burning the candle at both ends, sacrificing happiness, health, and well-being to create an unsustainable model of success.
Which is exactly why I created Soul-Aligned Success.
The Soul-Aligned Sucess approach allows you to re-write the rules about success and show up in a way that makes success sustainable and soul-aligned for you. It helps you create the custom success path based on your needs, values, priorities, and goals that will fit into your lifestyle – addressing your specific needs, and provides you with the tools, education inspiration and healing to create a success that encompasses all areas of your life and career.
Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?
“Learning your craft: How did you learn to do what you do?”
There are so many ways that I’ve gathered the tools, knowledge and skills I’ve needed to help my clients get results, I truly believe that everything I’ve learned in past jobs and even other businesses have served me well in building Soul-Aligned Success and serving my clients.
To start, my corporate background in consultative sales actually helps me as a coach tremendously because my biggest job is to influence my clients to believe that their success is not only possible, but inevitable. I’m selling my clients on their ability to achieve the results they desire.
And both coaching and consultative sales have a similar goal – asking the client the right questions and guiding them to make decisions that create results that prioritize what is important to them and what they desire for themselves.
When I discovered the self-help and personal development industry I fell in love. I really loved the idea of the fact that we can learn how to become the best version of ourselves and to create success in any area of our lives that we desire and that we’re not stuck in any one circumstance in our lives or careers.
Since then, I’ve read countless books and articles, listened to hundreds of hours of podcasts, and invested thousands in coaching programs, courses, and certifications so I can truly serve my clients in a deeply transformative way.
Right now my current certifications include;
Certified Reiki Master – Teacher, Master Mindset Coach with certifications in Rational Emotive Behavioral Training, Cognitive Behavioral Training, Emotional Intelligence + Confidence Life Coaching, Certified Angelic Healing Practitioner, Natural Alignment Practitioner, and Accunect Practitioner through Future Medicine Today.
I also believe in being a life-long student and continuing to learn so I can help my clients get results faster and easier so I still invest in learning new techniques and tools and always will.
And last but not least, I actually learn a great deal from my clients. It’s really beautiful how the universe sends me people who are all needing similar things but have unique perspectives and this allows me to gain experience with a multitude of different personalities and worldviews and it’s extremely fulfilling to me.
I’ve worked hard to gather knowledge from credible sources in many areas of expertise to build a coaching and healing format that works holistically with my clients to get them results quickly and easily in any area of their life and business/career they desire.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
The biggest lesson I had to learn in life and business is to be my own best advocate.
Now my coaching and healing business (Soul-Aligned Success) is based around helping ambitious women advocate for themselves to create success on their terms.
But it started because I, myself, struggled so much with creating the life I desired. I was ambitious and I desired success – but the way I was taught to achieve success was not working.
And it was because I was listening to what society says is required for success in a traditional way. I was filled with fears, doubts, and limiting beliefs about what I was capable of. I was paralyzed by social anxiety, perfectionism, and a people – pleasing. And I honestly thought that if I just kept working hard and doing good work then someone else would recognize me, hand me the success I desired, and, voila, my life would be complete.
Which is just not true. So I had to learn that no one is going to save you – you have to save yourself, and your success just doesn’t magically appear on a silver platter. Especially the success that you as a unique soul desire to achieve.
And in order to create that success you have to be your own best advocate.
Being your own best advocate is really about making intentional choices every single day that honor your desired success – whether that’s in health, relationships, business, finances, parenting, or any other area of your life.
Advocating for yourself is about loving and respecting yourself enough to know your worth, and being unapologetic about what you want for yourself. You can’t be shy about claiming and asking for what you want, and you can’t be afraid to do it in a way that works for you.
It’s about tapping into your own authority and autonomy and knowing what you desire is meant for you, knowing that you can learn and acquire the skills and knowledge you need to bridge any gap, including the confidence and resilience needed to show up daily committed to taking action.
At the end of the day, it’s your life – it’s up to you to make the most of it. You get to decide to show up and go after what you want, and becoming your own best advocate is the way you do this.
This lesson is what transformed my life and is now helping me transform the lives of my clients.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.kristielammi.com
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