We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Elizabeth Pearson. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Elizabeth below.
Elizabeth , thank you so much for making time for us. We’ve always admired your ability to take risks and so maybe we can kick things off with a discussion around how you developed your ability to take and bear risk?
With every year that goes by, I have felt more comfortable with potential failure. I think that’s all risk is–getting comfortable with the potential for future embarrassment, financial hardship, or outward “failure”. As I get older, and hopefully wiser, I see that failure is merely an illusion and that there’s a very low likelihood that the worst case scenarios in my mind will actually manifest. When you believe that there is a blessing in every failure, it makes you much less scared of taking risks.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
My passion to helping women navigate job changes, succeed in male-dominated fields, and launch their own companies.
Before building my coaching career, I was a core member of the original glaceau vitaminwater team and built the national distribution, resulting in Coca-Cola acquiring the company for $4.6B.
I enjoy parlaying my corporate and entrepreneurial success into coaching C-suite leaders at Fortune 500 companies including Meta, Nike, Google, and more.
I often get to be a featured expert guest on national networks including CNN and NBC News. Keynote speaking at women in business talks at Meta, Oracle, Marriott, Northwestern Mutual, and Amazon have been some career highlights. My first book, “Career Confinement: How to Free Yourself, Find Your Guides, and Seize the Fire of Inspired Work,” and podcast “The Working Mom’s Guide to Sanity” give women the tools to take control of their destinies.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
1. Disconnection from what people think about me
2. Belief that I have a Spiritual Board of Advisors who have my back
3. That everything happens for my highest good
These are the 3 things that pulled me out of “the cage” of career confinement. Once I stop caring what my family, friends, or the general public thought of me, I felt like chains that had been tightly wrapped around my body had been cut off. I learned that most people are too busy thinking about themselves to care about me or what I’m doing and there’s freedom on embracing that belief system. I also remind myself frequently that I only have one shot at this life and the true failure would be avoiding doing something I love just because of how other people may judge or perceive it.
Another thing that has pulled me through tough bouts or resistance when growing my business, is the belief that I have non-physical entities/ energies that are carefully orchestrating opportunities for me and clearing a path towards my goals. I loveling refer to them as the “dead grandmas” and they are out “there” gently nudging me towards what’s best for me, my clients, and my family. All I have to do is ask for help, then create a space of stillness to hear their responses and take action.
I also believe that there are no coincidences or mistakes and that, not matter how awful or uncomfortable I may be, everything is happening FOR me rather than TO me. It can be hard in the moment to lean into this theory, but with hindsight we always see it was for the best and it had to happen.
As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?
Abraham Hicks “Ask and It Is Given” has been a catalyst to my breaking free from mediocrity. The book helps us focus on energetically “lining up” to the things we want to allow into our lives. It takes manifestation and flips it on its head by explaining that we don’t need to “will” anything to happen, but mearl find a joyful vibration and hang out there long enough for the thing to be allowed into our lives.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.elizabethpearson.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coach.elizabeth.pearson/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coach-elizabeth-pearson/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@coachelizabethpearson/videos
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