We were lucky to catch up with Nikol Rogers recently and have shared our conversation below.

Nikol, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about a time you helped a customer really get an amazing result through their work with you.

When MJ came to me she had completely lost her confidence.

“I had a hard time admitting I was really good at something. I didn’t know what the next step was. All I knew is I can’t do this anymore. I had given my heart, soul and body to this industry and I didn’t know the difference between something being hard and something being hard because it wasn’t what I was meant to be doing. I was up against a wall.”

MJ had gone to school for musical theater and had spent five years doing audition after audition with no luck. When she finally booked a show, she got there and hated it. She ended the contract with the stark truth that she didn’t want to do musical theater. She felt like she had wasted so much time in a career that ultimately wasn’t right for her.

While she couldn’t admit she was good, she could share with me what she wanted, which was to be the next Mindy Kahling. She wanted to write, act in, and produce original content, be a published author and take her work to the screen.

She said to me, “well…I have this blog, and I do love to write.”

Within a few months of us working together, MJ had filled her resume with on camera credits and was quickly building her little blog audience into the thousands.

And that blog that held the seed of her dream?

That was picked up by a publisher and became a pilot that is now being shopped to networks.

“Nikol, you changed my life. So much of where I am is because of all the tools you taught me.”

MJ danced in Times Square seeing the huge ad for her book and has achieved best seller status on Amazon. Her inaugural book launch was a beautiful success thanks to the alliances and partnerships she created over the years. This was another core thing we worked on together, was how to leverage her network. Because of the care she spent in building this support system, her book is reaching a wide audience and is helping so many people.

Being at her launch party at the historic Neuehouse Madison Square Center in Manhattan, I was overcome with joy, and as soon as we saw each other, we embraced and from my heart I said, “you did it.”

“Because of the work I’ve done with you, I have a network and community of creators. Because of you, I am truly confident in my voice. It just makes me wanna sob thinking about all the growth I’ve had thanks to your guidance and support. There is simply no stopping me!”

To see her transform from complete self doubt to full confidence and joy in her life is what lights my fire. She found not only her voice, but she found the work that she is meant to do and the audience to cheer her on and delight in her authentic power.

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

My name is Nikól. I’m a Confidence Coach, Best Selling Author, and Spiritual Teacher who helps you double your impact and be seen as your most powerful self.

How I came to this work, is quite a story!

When I was a toddler, I would walk around with two things, a blanket and a bucket. If I wasn’t sitting in the bucket and holding my blanket, I would stand on top of the bucket in front of the TV with my arms up in the air, giving speeches. That bucket turned into a real stage, and I had a thriving career as a musical theater performer and choreographer, performing in National Tours, commercials, and kicking eye high as a New York City Rockette.

But I wasn’t happy.

In my career, I hit a ceiling. After years in the industry, I couldn’t achieve my biggest dream at the time, being in a Broadway show. As I progressed further in my career, I became deeply embarrassed and disappointed because it hadn’t happened yet.

I remember going in for the Broadway National Tour of the award-winning musical South Pacific. I was feeling so confident. I worked really hard, was so excited, and thought I was going to be cast in that tour. When I wasn’t, it crushed me. It was then, I realized that something was wrong. I was beyond devastated, and thought, “I shouldn’t be feeling this hopeless over not booking a show.” Something had to change.

And then everything fell apart.

In one year’s time, I lost my marriage, my home, robbed twice, a dear friend died, and I was in two devastating car accidents. My whole life was burning to the ground.

On Black Friday of 2012, the day after my ex dropped the bomb, I heard an internal voice say, You need meditation.

Considering I was losing everything, I actually listened. I went to yoga class and came out with the sole purpose of buying a book on meditation. Intuitively pulling a book off the store shelf, every word was jumping off the page. The book was actually about Buddhism, and I was so confused. I came here looking for meditation, not Buddhism.

So, I started seeking different types of Buddhist practices, but none felt quite right.

At one point I was desperate to get out of the city, and have a break from all the heartache and change. Rummaging through my bag, I came across the notes I had taken when I was at one of my new Buddhist friend’s apartment, and at the bottom I had written the name of a Zen Monastery she went to. I immediately looked online and saw they had an Intro to Zen Training Weekend coming up in two weeks. I got the last spot.

When I arrived at the Monastery in the vast expanse of the mountains, I knew I had found my practice.

When I sat on the cushion, my whole body said YES. I was learning the practice of embodiment, what it means to trust myself, and listen to my needs. From the voice that arose months earlier, to finding my place of refuge, my life changed at that moment.

When I attended my first ever Buddhist support group and they passed the mic around, I poured my heart out, and something magical happened..

The people there didn’t turn away. In fact, they came closer. It was then I realized I could drop the act of “having it all together” or “being perfect” and instead be myself fully. I realized I could be myself AND still be loved and accepted. I didn’t know it at the time, but this was the start of Powerful Presence, my signature program and life philosophy.

After this discovery, I hired a coach. Through her guidance and suggestions to start writing again, she helped me reconnect to the core of who I was, which opened up unlimited possibilities for my life.

All of a sudden, I had a complete resurgence in my career where I was booking more dance and acting gigs than ever, getting noticed, enjoying the auditioning process, and feeling free. And most importantly, I realized that who I am is my greatest power.

I wanted to teach other people how to find their confidence, and fully show up in their lives. I hadn’t learned this in any of my classes, and it was the single thing that turned my life around and allowed me to tap into my inner power.

Over many years, I have developed the ZenRed Method, which teaches you how re-frame how you think, feel, and act from a place of power, rather than from fear or limiting beliefs.

And now, I’ve helped hundreds of people around the world become whole, and cultivate inner power so that they can connect better to themselves and live in harmony with the world around them.

I coach specifically on what you need to grow into your new life: The Discernment to build healthy relationships, The Skillful Means to create audience impact, and Safe Embodiment of an unstoppable confidence based in your wholeness that no longer seeks or is based on approval or perfection.

My clients have sold out events and concerts, created Solo shows, spoken on large stages, and created award winning businesses that feed and nourish them.

The results of our work together is:

* Start being seen and appreciated by a much larger audience
* Step into your power as a Leader, Artist, or Expert
* Transform past experiences of disappointment into fertile soil for the life and career you truly desire
* Discover an unstoppable and unwavering confidence within you
* Impact and change the world with your unique work
* Be surrounded and supported by relationships that nurture and promote your work

What really sets my work apart is the 20 year career on stage, the spiritual angle, and the highly effective tools I use around nervous system regulation that allow my clients to truly access their greatest power within.

Seeing my clients shine and realize there is nothing wrong with them and they CAN create the life they desire is my greatest joy.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

I actually built my business from scratch with great momentum in 2015 and was in profit within three years, making more than I ever had as a performer. I was able to stop all side gigs, and it was so exciting.

After my devastating divorce, I found my life partner, got remarried, and moved out of my little 300 sq foot apartment in Queens into a house in New Jersey.

And then my headaches started.

Heading towards multiple six figures, my body started to give out. I was in my early 40’s and also trying to create a family. The pressure of getting pregnant, living in a new place, and realizing I needed to make changes in my business created a chronic pain cycle.

I was having headaches every day and my energy was plummeting.

I was given all kinds of diagnoses that led me down rabbit holes. Eat this, don’t eat this. Take this supplement, stop taking this. Everything became so strict and confined and I was getting scared. I now had developed a hypersensitivity to light and sound and was finding my time with clients on screen to be very difficult.

And then the whole world shut down.

I went through a miscarriage, failed IVF, and even a failed adoption. In my healing, it felt like I was getting better, but kept hitting ceilings.

In. my business, I created a course, shrank my client load, and tried to place my attention on more passive ways to make money while I healed. I watched my business shrink year by year, and my income dwindle.

And then I worked with this amazing woman who had actually healed from a very similar condition to mine, and that was the turning point. She helped me see this was all about my nervous system and that I was in a chronic fight/flight/freeze response. When I placed my healing on my nervous system, things really began to change.

One of those modalities was the Eden Method, teaching Energy Medicine, and this was a game changer. I started using these tools with my clients and found them being able to take action much faster., and have amazing success. These tools were way more effective than many I had learned in my ICF coach training.

And then the miracle happened, and we got the call every waiting adoptive parent wants. We drove through the night and when I held my daughter for the first time in my arms, I knew that it was all leading to this. I became a first time mother at 47.

Since then, I have continued to rebuild my business from these nervous system tools and launched my Best Selling Book, “13: One Woman’s Sacred Journey To Discovering Her Greatest Power.”

It has been a deep journey of faith, but much like the voice of my confidence that told me I would find my life partner, there was also a voice that said I would heal, and become a mother.

And that I am a spiritual teacher.

As I teach all my clients to hear and trust this inner guide, this path taught me even more how important my work is, and how we all actually possess this power within.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

So much of my childhood I heard the words, “good girl” or “ladylike.” I was raised with the belief that to be “good”, I had to act a certain way. This served me well academically, as I became valedictorian and excelled in college. There was always this connection between if I did “good” then I would be rewarded.

Then I entered into my first profession as a musical theater performer and found this belief challenged again and again. It didn’t matter how much I prepared for an audition, or how well I sang or danced, I would still be rejected and find myself walking away disappointed. I thought I was doing all the “right” things, all the “good” things to have the career I desired and to be on Broadway. But I had hit a ceiling in my career and couldn’t figure out why all my “good” habits were not working.

Then my whole life fell apart and it really hit home as I went through a devastating divorce.

In my healing, I was drawn to Buddhism and their core teaching said, “you are whole and complete as you are.”

This was like a cold bucket of water waking me up that I didn’t have to “do good” to get what I wanted, I actually already was good. My goodness was innate. I didn’t have to strive, I now needed to learn to just be and to trust myself.

As I entered into a daily Zen practice, for the first time I started to hear my inner guide and develop my intuition.

When I began to follow that, instead of the conditioned voice that told me I had to do this list of “good things”, my life transformed.

I ended up leaving the performing industry to become a coach and create a global audience.

I found my life partner, and created a family.

And I healed myself from chronic pain.

The ability was always within, and I’m so grateful for every rejection that was there to remind me of where my true power lies.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.nikolrogers.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikol_rogers/
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@nikolrogers13

Image Credits

Caitlin Cannon Photography