i started by doing for free what i now charge for. i got to a point where it felt like i really wanted to share this with more people, and the only way i could see to bring what really transformed my life to others was to start charging.
instead of giving sessions only in my free time, charging allowed me to have more time to help more people, and to reach people my free sessions wouldn't have reached otherwise.
once i was already charging, i decided to give one day away for free because it felt good. but charging is also what gave me that extra day, the one i didn't have when i still had my full time job.
For me it made total sense to give more of my time, energy and attention to something that truly matters to me, instead of making money doing something that doesn't light up my heart or give me that feeling of aliveness, and then using whatever time i had left for the thing i actually loved.
the business I started is very different from what I have now, and it's my pure joy to say that I would still do what i do for free.
but being able to charge for it allowed me experience a life I didn't believe was possible, a sense of purpose and aliveness I had never felt before.
and i'm not sure that if i had kept doing this only for free, only when i felt like it, i would have gotten to where i am now in terms of self expression, satisfaction and clarity about what I want for myself.
in my opinion, charging doesn't make something less sacred. in my case it was just an amplifier of how much more I could help
Love this Carolina. It's so selfish to not share what we have to give that could help stop the pain someone is currently experiencing. Imagine... Having the ability to support someone in changing their life for the better, and not doing it... How very dare we!
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Thank you for this reminder, Carolina. I think the hardest part for me is selling something I would or have given for free in the past.
hey Rebecca!
i started by doing for free what i now charge for. i got to a point where it felt like i really wanted to share this with more people, and the only way i could see to bring what really transformed my life to others was to start charging.
instead of giving sessions only in my free time, charging allowed me to have more time to help more people, and to reach people my free sessions wouldn't have reached otherwise.
once i was already charging, i decided to give one day away for free because it felt good. but charging is also what gave me that extra day, the one i didn't have when i still had my full time job.
For me it made total sense to give more of my time, energy and attention to something that truly matters to me, instead of making money doing something that doesn't light up my heart or give me that feeling of aliveness, and then using whatever time i had left for the thing i actually loved.
the business I started is very different from what I have now, and it's my pure joy to say that I would still do what i do for free.
but being able to charge for it allowed me experience a life I didn't believe was possible, a sense of purpose and aliveness I had never felt before.
and i'm not sure that if i had kept doing this only for free, only when i felt like it, i would have gotten to where i am now in terms of self expression, satisfaction and clarity about what I want for myself.
in my opinion, charging doesn't make something less sacred. in my case it was just an amplifier of how much more I could help
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Love this Carolina. It's so selfish to not share what we have to give that could help stop the pain someone is currently experiencing. Imagine... Having the ability to support someone in changing their life for the better, and not doing it... How very dare we!
lets get out there! lol
“I don’t want to sound like I’m selling… but I want to make the sale and get paid for it.”
Classic double bind. I want to....but I can't. Uuurgh. I am all too familiar with this dynamic.
I did Joe Hudson's masterclass a few years ago, and when he'd do a hotseat. If someone had a limiting belief eg "people will judge me"
He'd get them to look at the rest of us on the zoom. And he'd say "I guarantee you. There is a certain amount of people here, who ARE judging you."
I wrote something in my Claude project yesterday, that I sometimes use to coach myself, or use as a sounding board. Being afraid of being too much.
And next thing. I saw very clearly. That I would never have it any other way.
Than for those around me, who might judge me as being too much, to have that freedom.
And I would literally feel sick at the thought of wanting to take that freedom from them.
It's amazing to bring our limiting beliefs out in the open. That one thing, slowly neutralises them.
"I am becoming unapologetically salesy." Go girl !
"Start showing up like someone who is eager to give, to serve, and to love unapologetically." This sounds lush.
I do enjoy your writing Carolina. I do read all yours and Phil's emails. But don't comment nearly enough.
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