We recently connected with Therisa Means and have shared our conversation below.
Therisa, thank you so much for joining us. You are such a positive person and it’s something we really admire and so we wanted to start by asking you where you think your optimism comes from?
My optimism truly comes from focusing on being grateful and God. I have had plenty of time to be negative or pessimistic, but the truth of the matter is it does nothing but cause me to focus on everything that could go wrong. When you give your focus and energy on things that could go wrong you will find that those things definitely happen and you become depressed. I learned that focusing on things going well and spending your energy on being grateful for everything can cause more positive things to happen in your life. When I’m in that atmosphere of gratitude, I can’t help but to recognize how God is moving in my life and causes me to continue to remember that no matter what I go through, God will always work it out for my good. Knowing that God continues to move in my favor forces you to be optimistic!
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
As a Keynote Speaker, I speak at events about the paralyzing power of fear and how to overcome it, how to effectively manage your mindset and how to stay motivated in today’s world. I use my stories and experiences to connect with different audiences to provoke their growth towards life changing transformations.
With Behind The Highlight Reels, I co-host a podcast where nothing is off limits as we discuss our journeys with faith, relationships, businesses, lifestyle, failures and everything in between. Our podcast is full of the good, the bad, the ugly and of course all the fun and laughs of our imperfections BEHIND the highlight reels.
With Happy Pup And Play (HPAP), my Co-Founder Coco (my dog) and I help Pup Parents provide the best care for their Pups so that they can enjoy a happy life together. We do this by offering a uniquely phenomenal mix of pet services to take care of the needs of both the Pups and Pup Parents, creating wonderful long lasting experiences! With HPAP, we tackle issues like separation anxiety, nervous chewing, social anxiety, destructive behavior, etc., caused by lack of socialization or exercise with our interactive and unique services.
As a Business Consultant and Leadership Development Coach, I steer struggling creatives and entrepreneurs to clear & sustainable business success using my proven strategic roadmaps & coaching programs. It’s my personal mission to show others how to change their circumstances by shifting their perspectives, thoughts and words to create strategies and processes for business, relationship and life improvements.
Overall, with all of my businesses my goal is to ensure that everything I do reflects Christ’s love through service and life-changing experiences as I inspire others to do the same.
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?
When I look back on my journey thus far, the three qualities that were most impactful in my journey has been resilience, consistency and faith.
One must have resilience to withstand and recover when things go wrong on the path to success and trust me…things will go wrong. You have to take the time to look at those challenging times as opportunities to grow and learn a lesson. Having resilience will allow you to continue even though things are tough.
You must also have consistency to keep trying. Resilience will allow you to continue through the tough times but consistency will keep you moving through multiple tough times. Success involves a lot of wins but also a lot of fails and you have to keep up the same energy and effort, if not more, while on this journey toward success.
Faith is the third quality that covers both consistency and resilience. You have to have the faith that you are actually going to make it to success and your vision, regardless of what comes along on the journey. Faith is the conviction that God has already gone before you to prepare the table of success and you just have to follow His lead as He leads you on the path. Without faith, its hard to stay resilient and consistent. When your resilience is low and you lose consistency, faith is what covers you and keeps you going.
Before we go, any advice you can share with people who are feeling overwhelmed?
It’s going to sound very cliché, but when I am feeling overwhelmed I pray. The truth of the matter is when I am overwhelmed its usually because I have tried to take control of something I cant control or tried to take on more than what I was supposed to handle. When this happens its because I have disconnected from my source of strength, Jesus. I have learned that being overwhelmed is a symptom of the need to reconnect back to my source of strength. At that point, I will set time away from everyone to pray and read my Bible in order to reconnect. If, for some reason, I am too overwhelmed and my mind is too cluttered to even pray or read my Bible I will reach out to my close friends and ask them to pray with me. Usually If I am struggling to reconnect by myself my friends will help me get back on track to reconnect with Jesus. Reconnecting with Jesus allows me to realign my focus on the fact that God can and He will provide all my needs, including helping me get through whatever I am going through that’s overwhelming me.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.bthrshow.com
- Instagram: @Therisa_M
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- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@bthrshow
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