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

Stacey, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. 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 was raised to believe that “its better to be safe than being sorry.”

I lived my life, as my parents and those experiencing success around me had been raised to believe….finish with strong grades out of high school, get accepted to university, complete a degree, find a job with a pension, get married, have kids, save for your retirement and if you do all of that, then you will live a happy life!

So that’s exactly what I did – achieving success in my corporate role, earning over six figures, getting married, having two beautiful girls and from the outside my life was good – I mean, who was I to complain as I was also led to believe that to want more would be selfish and that as my life was better than many, should be satisfied with the life I was living.

And although I had supportive parents, great friends and was active in sport for myself as well as my girls, inside my light was dimming and I was afraid to admit it not knowing what to do if I admited that I wanted more, that I wanted to start my own consulting company as well as leave my husband as I was no longer in love with him…..yet I was afraid of what others would think, what a risk it would be for me to leave everything I had worked so hard in achieving, I mean wasnt this my dream?

So to lessen the sound of my inner voice, my soul crying for more, I would have wine with my friends on the weekends, go shopping for things I did not need, participate in meaningless conversations and drama, as well as smoke, whatever I could do to help distract myself from having to sit with myself and acknowledge the fact that inside I was not happy, my spiritual strength was dying. I felt like a house of cards where if I went down as the base, then it was all going down and what would that do to my girls, to my parents, my friends, my employees, everyone who was relying on me. I knew I wanted a change yet inside my paradigm of taking a risk was so strong it held me back for sometime, until one day I was asked, “What is your dream?”

I instantly went into sharing how I dreamed my kids would be happy, go to school and achieve their dreams to which they replied, that’s great for your kids but what about you? And it stopped me as what I realized is that I had achieved the dreams I had and the next one was retiring, well what the hell was I going to do from 40 to 65 when it was that I wanted to retire??

I didn’t know exactly but in that moment, realized it was time that I admitted the truth, that I get outside of my comfort zone to create more for myself, my girls and my life before the light in me died.

So I did exactly that and left my marriage as well as started my self development journey where a few years later my paths would cross with the legendary thought and personal development guru, Bob Proctor.

It was here where I made a choice to reprogram my old belief that being safe was better than being sorry. It is not better to be safe than sorry for when we are safe, we do not allow more to come into our life. We are sitting in the bleachers of our life, not playing in the field and being the start of our own movie and our movie is our life!

When we play it safe, we deny ourselves from expanding and experiencing more pleasure on all levels in our life, emotionally, spiritually and physically. After increasing my awareness and understanding of the power of thought, of the power of our mind, I made a new decision to start to live my life by my rules, to reject anything that wasnt in alignment with my dreams and the dreams I began to set for myself were beyond my comfort level but I knew this is where I wanted to go and after studying both the theology as well as science side of the mind, knew that as long as I can see the image of what I want on the screen on my mind and fuse with that desire, that it is only a matter of time before my thoughts become things, we do become what we think about and its time I took that risk to go into the unknown to create and receive the good I desired.

Today, I am a single mother, thriving and providing for my two girls. After spending over 20 years in the corporate world, leading teams in change management and people development, I’ve embarked on my own entrepreneurship journey, creating Raise your Results.
A leadership and self image coaching and consulting academy where I guide people to breakthrough limiting beliefs, helping them to believe more in themselves and in doing so “unlock and unleash” their potential through the power of thought, ultimately to experience more pleasure in life on a spiritual, emotional and physical level. To experience ageless living!

I know adopt the belief that the only way is to live is by getting outside of our comfort zone, taking that risk as its in this place where we uncover more of the infinite potential that lies within each of us!

Stacey, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I shared in the previous question, how I got into my industry but to expand on this, I have always been a people leader, helping people to achieve higher levels of performance and belief more in themselves. I started teaching swimming lessons when I was 16, by the time I was 18 was teaching aerobics to help people improve their health and the way the feel about themselves. I taught aerobics for over 20 years, eventually teaching pilates as well as yoga which I continue to teach today. In my corporate developed and led change management and customer care teams to perform the best they can in their roles, and valued as I still do today, diversity, inclusiveness and high performance.

Today, I offer businesses leadership and mindset programs, create to meet their needs that ultimately results in increased awareness of how company culture influences employee’s work and that to create a more engaging and high performing teams, we must identify what is the company paradigms, beliefs that may be in conflict with the goals they want, and in doing so create a new strategic vision that encompasses new beliefs so the leaders and front line teams can flourish and achieve higher levels of performance, that improve efficiencies, engagement and overall customer satisfaction.

I value inclusiveness, diversity and high performance and whether working with individuals, groups or companies focus on the power of self image and how that impacts our results. For its the beliefs we hold in our subconscious mind along with our self image that determines our results, the famous saying by Henry Ford is one of my favorites, ‘Whether we believe we can or not, we are right.”

This is so true as we will never outperform our internal self image. I help individuals to increase their belief in them, to reset and reprogram their minds with new beliefs and a self image where they reject the negative and create the results that they truly want, up leveling their confidence and belief in themselves.

I speak to experiencing more pleasure – ultimately, more fulfilment yet realizing that this fulfillment is derived from a number of areas in our lives from relationships, wealth, health, career, etc. yet to achieve true fulfilment, and experience more pleasure on a spiritual, emotional and physical level, we must first improve the relationship we have with ourselves. We can not give to another what we do not have for ourselves. We must become aware that our thinking, the beliefs and self image we hold in our subconscious mind are the primary cause of our results. Its not anything outside of us nor is the answer so in my coaching I support and guide people in their own becoming and in doing so how “think into the results” they truly desire. It’s time we stopped treating the symptoms and went to the root cause for permanent change. I help people achieve permanent change and increase their belief and understanding in themselves to know how they can achieve their goals.

First we get clear with what we want and from this point, set goals for the only pre requisite for goals, is that you must want it. Once this want is in place, fuse with the desire and have this want be so big that it scares and excites you at the same time. I help my clients to understand that to achieve more, we do not need to know the how, the how is not our job. Our job, is to get clear on what we want, to make a decision that we are able and capable of doing whatever is necessary to attain the goal and then start taking action, its progress over perfection.

More information on who I am, and the programs I offer can be found on my website at: www.raiseyourresults.ca

I offer free discovery calls and have a confidence builder worksheet that people can find at: https://linktr.ee/raiseyourresults

As well as on my Instagram page @StaceyVanthuyne

In addition to consulting and coaching, I am also an international speaker, passionate about speaking on how people can “unlock and unleash” their true potential, from bedroom to boardroom for if we can not stand in our truth with the person we love and are intimate with, how can we have that confidence in work and all other areas of our life! It’s time we create the life and person we want to be as in my coaching , clients learn how to rewrite the script of themselves to allow themselves to be authentically them, attaining alignment of mind, body and soul. It is my passion to help people become more. To increase their confidence, their self worth, self belief and awareness of the infinite potential that lies within themselves to create the life they want by relying less on their physical senses and tapping more into the Magic that exists in their mind. For when we use our intuition, our perception, will, reason, memory and most importantly our imagination, anything is possible. As my mentor, Bob Proctor would say to me, I now say to others, “tell me your dreams and I’ll show you how to achieve them!”

The programs and coaching I offer, that includes the mentorship and accountability I provide help people to realize and achieve more as the recognize that we don’t need a breakdown to have a break through. We can choose to change in a state of suffering or pain or change in a state of inspiration and joy, why wait for more? Free yourself of any limiting belief and realize that it’s time we kick mediocracy to the curb. That our past or current circumstances do not need to dictate our future unless we let it, so let’s rise and become more and in the process realize Ageless Living where there are no limits to what we can do – as the truth is, the only limits that exist are the one’s we place. Its time to break through to break free!

I encourage individuals as well as any business owners looking to improve their engagement and leadership abilities to contact me for a free discovery call today as we begin the journey in experiencing and becoming more! Step up and let your light shine!

Do you have any insights you can share related to maintaining high team morale?

Know your people.

Create a vision and communicate regularly. Develop and empower your people. Realize regardless of role, everyone is a leader so provide all levels of employees with leadership training for if they can not lead themselves, how can they work collaboratively and productively with others.

Ensure your company culture and values are aligned with your performance expectations. Values, vision and culture are so much more than words on a wall, – what behaviors do you reward and recognize? Are they aligned with the vision? Ensure performance reviews from top leadership to front lines are aligned with what is important to the company – how do you define success? How do you reward your employees? How do you communicate to the teams? Value feedback, its a gift! Do you have innovation programs and solid change management practices in place?

I ask these questions as these are elements that are critical to creating an engaging, empowering culture that fosters and values high performance and in that, drives efficiency and engagement.

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

Resilience is never giving up. Recognizing that we all go through adversity but every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage. There is good and bad in every situation and what you look for you will find so choose to look for the good, choose to make your mess your message, find the opportunity in the challenge and be a part of the solution, not the problem. This is resilience, being knocked down 7 times and getting up 8 for we don’t fail unless we quit.

We are stronger and more capable than we know, there is no scientist or person in the world that can determine our abilities or what we are capable unless we allow limits to be put on us.

I speak to the importance of adversity with it being such a critical component of being able to be resilient. Here is a quick acronyms to inspire you to becoming more resilient.

A – Action – take action – nothing happens unless we take action – we dont need to know every step, but what is one thing we can do, to start moving in the direction of what we want, of what we are trying to accomplish on an individual as well as team level.

D – Decision – teach our leaders and people to make a decision, to stop looking outside of themselves for the answer – Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich said this about decisions: “People who succeed reach decisions promptly, and change them, if at all, very slowly. People who fail, reach decisions, if at all, very slowly, and change them frequently, and quickly.”

V – Vision and Vibration – realize we are all energy, what you put out is what we get back as our results are a direct reflection of the energy and frequency we give, of the thoughts we think, live from the frequency of what you desire, from the wish fulfilled and have that vision of what that is – for everything we see in our physical world has been created twice, first in the image of someone’s mind and then in reality. Don’t wait for what you want, see it and create it with vision and gaining alignment with the frequency of what you desire.

E – Endurance – stop with the immediate gratification – when changing culture in business or within an individual, we are playing the long game and just as we do not always know the how until we achieve it, we do not get to dictate the when. Continue to believe and have faith that it will occur and it will, its by Universal Law.

R – Responsibility – take radical responsibility, refuse to play the blame game and overcome the victim mentality. Rise above, taking accountability for all actions.

S – Strength – we are all stronger and more capable than we think – we are filled with limitless potential, see, believe, be open to receive and achieve!

I – Intuition and Innovation – be created, trust and listen to that inner knowing. Stop relying on another to tell you what to do and instead gain that alignment within to trust yourself and you will begin to create new, being innovative and resourceful.
It’s been said when we pray, its us talking to God and yet we listen to our Intuition its God talking to use. **Feel free to replace the word “God” with the name of your creator, the Source, Universe, whatever you may choose to call the energy that creates and flows in and through all of us as we are all from one infinite mind. Nothing is created or destroyed, all that every is and every will be is already here, our job is raise our conscious awareness to figure it out!

T – Tenacious- have that tenacity to keep on going. When times get tough, you get dig deeper.

Y – Yearning….its the desire. Fuse with your desire and take action to achieve. It all starts with what we want. Figure that out, fuse your desire with it, make a decision and take action to achieve it, knowing with unwavering faith that we wont want something we cant achieve.

Believe it, feel it , demonstrate resilience as you are open to receive and you will achieve it!

Contact Info:

• Website: www.raiseyourresults.ca
• Instagram: @staceyvanthuyne as well as @raiseyourresults (prefer @staceyvanthuyne
• Facebook: Raise your Results – also have a private fb community at Raise your Results Coaching with Stacey Vanthuyne
• Linkedin: Stacey Vanthuyne
• Other: Tik Tok – Raise your Results and people can find out more using my Linktr.ee link at: https://linktr.ee/raiseyourresults Can also book a call directly using my Calendly link: https://calendly.com/raiseyourresults/experiment1et

Image Credits
photo taken by Lars Photography on IG @larsphotography.yql