We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Siera Sambrosky a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Siera, we’re thrilled to have you sharing your thoughts and lessons with our community. So, for folks who are at a stage in their life or career where they are trying to be more resilient, can you share where you get your resilience from?
Despite many tough and challenging times in this life, somewhere inside of me I always had a self-will to keep trying. I think that resilience is not the mindset of “powering through” or “Making yourself” keep going. Real resilience actually comes from properly processing and recovering from the experience. It’s taking in the experience, and truly and deeply growing and learning from it.
For me, even as a child I had a growth and learning mindset. I always wanted to know more and understand deeper, far outside of things we were taught in a regular elementary school curriculum. But I also always had an awareness of myself, from really young, that I could be happier and more myself. I knew deep inside I could feel better than I did. I was a pre-teen in the 80s asking if I could go to therapy, which of course my parents thought I was insane. LOL It was the willingness to look at things and feelings, and then explore them.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
I work with business owners who have experienced a major life transition or loss, typically in the last four years. I have over 20 years of rich experience in business consulting and a certification in grief facilitation. I integrate the experience from those two areas with my deep understanding of self-directed growth and healing into strategies that catalyze profound change. My spiritual gifts further elevate my ability to usher individuals and their businesses through their journeys of reinvention and regeneration by providing unseen information and insights.
I’ve always had a unique ability, and calling in my heart, to hold space for people during their most challenging and difficult times in life. Personally, I have experienced so many different types of loss and transition-many times over-that it lends me to be able to relate in a way that someone who has only studied holistic health, counseling, or grief facilitation can’t grasp.
Life challenges change who we are. And our businesses need to change along with them. So many business owners feel they need to put up a brave front during hard times. They compartmentalize and “push through”, but not facing emotions, grief, and address the beliefs and priorities that need to change will start to have a negative impact in many areas of our lives, and business, when not dealt with. This is what I can very skillfully, and efficiently, help people navigate so that the impact can be reversed, or better yet, head it off before it starts.
I would love to offer to any business owners in your audience the chance to experience a bit of what I do best, and invite them to schedule a complimentary 15 minute, mini-business intuitive reading https://calendly.com/
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?
I think not bottling everything up and asking for help is something that I desperately wish I would have done much earlier in life. I wish I would have known it was ok to not be strong and it didn’t make me weak. I suffered terribly in physical and mental health; and now have come to understand how it impacted relationships and my financial stability and success.
I also believe that the ability to learn to listen to ourselves, and our bodies, for inspiration and guidance is a skill that will prove to be immensely valuable wherever you are in your journey. We can always learn how and sharpen our internal knowing. It can truly be a compass to making decisions and knowing what to do that is in our highest and best interest rather than listening to others and only coming at things logically. Being able to listen to our intuition, or our own internal guidance, will make life easier!
The last would be self awareness. The more we are able to cultivate self-awareness the more empowered we become because we then realize how much CHOICE we have in everything. So much of our suffering comes from feeling like we have no control and no choice being offered to us in many situations in life. Yet the truth is that we always have control and a choice! But being able to enact and engage that empowerment and choice only comes from self-awareness about what our beliefs are, what are motivations are, what are triggers are, and how we are responding, reacting, and the choices we are making because of those things.
Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played an important role in your development?
The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer was really important for me. And I have loved reading it multiple times over. Every time, I glean and deepen my trust in myself and find great renewal in my faith that we are being guided and supported and that all things are working in our highest and best interest if we can get out of the way, get out of our heads, and truly surrender into letting the Universe/God/Divine Source/whatever you want to call it show you the way, and more importantly, the HOW.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.Alkemai.com
- Instagram: @SieraIntuitivelyKnows
- Facebook: @SieraIntuitivelyKnows
- Linkedin: @Siera-Sambrosky
- Other: Podcast Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/realignedjourney
