We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Sharon Lee. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Sharon below.

Sharon, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you share a customer success story with us?

Rebecca came to me feeling as though she no longer had a drive, she just felt like life was passing her by with nothing to show for it. She wasn’t really growing in her position as a bank executive and knew that if she really wanted to reach her potential, she needed a long-term plan. She was done feeling stressed, burned out, and overwhelmed, and just couldn’t feel relaxed and peaceful with her family anymore.

Through a series of unraveling her hopes and desires, diving deeper into her biggest, most painful challenges of not feeling “enough” or “doing enough”, together we worked on her mindset and put a plan and various strategies in place.

First, we knew she needed the mindset to go out and get uncomfortable and get a new career, one where she could be challenged and appreciated but mostly where she could grow while we were working behind the scenes of her big dream.

Rebecca had dreamt that she’d have her own business but the babies came and she had to let go of the dreams and just go to work. Over the years she lost herself and felt empty most days. She had lost her joy. Even her relationship with her husband was sort of boring. She knew something HAD to change.

While we knew she needed to continue working and still find a different company she could grow with, we also worked slowly but steadily to launch her very own dream business. Rebecca is now making $60,000 plus in her jewelry business that she had wanted to start 20 years earlier.

She worked with a designer and found a manufacturer and we went to work pulling everything together where she could sell her jewelry on Shopify and have her custom jewelry drop-shipped to each individual customer. This process took us three years only putting in 10 to 20 hours extra hours per week in setting it up.

We wanted to make sure that we planned the mindset work to handle all the doubts and concerns about feeling overwhelmed in the process. After all, Rebecca had two young children and a home to manage. This mindset work was crucial in her desire to deepen her romantic relationship in her marriage too.

This was a process where we brought Rebecca’s husband into the entire process. It’s amazing how he supported Rebecca through this whole process and picked up the slack with the household chores but he even did some of the mindset “homework” so that he could manage his own thoughts and emotions on this journey.

While Rebecca is still working in her full-time career, she is scheduled to put her notice in to quit her job in the next few months. As part of our plan, Rebecca opened a whole life insurance policy where she shelters most of the money she’s been making in her business. She’s able to use that money and reinvest it in her business, tax-free to continue growing it.

We made sure to buy gold and silver and cash some of her money out of the whole life policy so she could buy real estate as an investment property too.

She and her husband feel excited because they’ve taken a massive leap to plan out their future together. They are both doing the inner mindset work and staying the course to make sure their relationship is secure by focusing on communication and feeling the passion they once did when their relationship was fresh. Their both committed to following through on the strategies put into place in the planning process.

Projects like this are huge. They involve every aspect of their life. Rebecca and her husband are high-performers with big dreams. They wanted to set up their finances in a way that would allow them to live a comfortable life not feeling the stress of wondering what their retirement days would look like.

They knew their relationship was important and wanted to feel the love and passion by not allowing the drudgery of everyday life to bring them down. This means they had a lot of inner work to do to manage their thoughts and feelings along the way, they even had to learn a new way of fighting!

They worked in tandem to build a business and put together a strong investment plan because they knew being an employee would only take them so far. Ultimately, Rebecca lit a fire inside her and asked for more. She wanted the moon and the stars and was brave enough to ask for them.

Helping them and being a part of the journey to find clarity then put all the pieces together is a blessing.

All of the fear and doubt get in the way too often for most people who end up just living mediocre lives never going after their dreams. They have concerns and ideas that lead them to stay in procrastination and inaction then they wake up older and often say to themselves, “what happened to my life? I thought my life would be happier. I thought I’d be more successful. ”

When they think these thoughts, they tend to feel defeated and deflated. The feeling of hopelessness transfers into their relationships where stress and anxiety take center stage in their life not realizing what the root of their problem is. They suddenly realize they’re not the person they thought they’d be and don’t know what to do but to continue living their lives just as it is never asking for more.

We’ll exit this planet one day. In an ideal world, we’d focus on the what and the who that matters most. Most people don’t have big dreams like Rebecca and that’s okay but this fact that we only get one life might cause us to pause and wonder that perhaps our goal should be to live this life well.

Asking for the moon and stars is just a metaphor, our dreams, and hopes for our future, however different from one another they may be, should be what we work diligently on every day.

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

People come to me to make more money and live more joyful and fulfilling lives. They want to eliminate stress, anxiety and achieve their goals. I became a life and business coach and specialize in creating success in all areas of life because of my own challenging experiences in life.

I was homeless and lived in poverty for many years which completely transformed my life. I saw a lot of tragedies living on the streets and heard some horrifying stories. One thing I knew was, I was meant for more than that life. I didn’t have a family but wanted to help people understand that life is precious so I became obsessed with helping people live their best lives.

I’ve since educated myself to understand that we need to pursue every aspect of our life as if our life depended on it which is where my brand, Fearless Pursuits came from. This encompasses finances, career, relationships, our health, and our fitness. This means we have to uncover why we don’t have what we want. When we have clarity about this, we can go to work with changing our habits, and the thought patterns that hold us back from taking action and being that version of ourselves we prefer to be.

Because of my previous life, I have strong beliefs about living life full-out with passion and intention. This is what most people want but don’t know how to get.

I’m proud to have worked under Tony Robbins in the Robbins-Madanes Academy and am a certified strategic interventionist, NLP practitioner, certified master life coach, and certified business coach. As a global entrepreneur, coach and consultant, I’m dedicated to helping people all over the world.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

If anyone told me that there would be something more difficult than being homeless, I wouldn’t have believed them. Living on the streets, never knowing where my next meal would come from was difficult but taught me some incredible lessons.

I didn’t know that I would experience yet another challenge that would break me into pieces.

It’s not a unique experience but nonetheless, I dove into depression and despair when my 20-year marriage fell apart. I had three children and one under the age of four when I had to start my life over again. My mental and emotional investment in the relationship was strong and deep.

I lived two realities, one where I kept a strong face for the children, and silently behind the closed door of my bedroom, I’d cry my eyes out. I ruminated over and over about how this could have happened and what I was going to do.

There wasn’t much money and knew that I had to reinvent myself. I went back to school and within one year, I started a skin spa. I was scared and felt so much doubt but because of the years of working on my inner mental strength, I motivated myself to push past my fears.

My business grew by 50% each year and I felt a sense of pride but my kids not only lost a father but they lost a mother and I knew I had to make a change. This was when I took some drastic action in a completely different direction.

I had clients who would come into my spa for their treatments but pick my brain about my business and how I overcame homelessness until one day a client said to me, “you know, you could make money helping people because you have a recipe for success.”

Part of that was true. Oh sure, I was a successful businesswoman making multiple six figures but my family was falling apart. This is when I had an epiphany. I knew that if I started a coaching and consulting business sharing my “recipe for success”, I could work from home, help people from anywhere in the world and be there for my kids.

The lessons from pulling myself out of poverty were still with me. I used the tools I had learned to work through the depression and hopelessness and transition successfully out of divorce and into entrepreneurship, then go deeper to be the mom I wanted to be.

Building two businesses as a single mother wasn’t a cakewalk, in fact, I struggled alone but I kept reaching for more. What I’ve learned through all of this, is to continue working on my mind, my habits and to reach for better, every-single-day.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

“There’s never enough.”

“I’ll never be enough,”

Contact Info:

• Website: www.fearlesspursuits.com
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-lee-fearless-pursuits/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCik4GHxYTG2Ksdj88628aHQ