Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Missy Bunch. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Hi Missy, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
Unfortunately my resilience came from necessity. Early in my life I realized we didn’t have very much money so if there was anything I wanted to do, I had to earn it. I did absolutely everything I wanted, but I had to get there the hard way. If I wanted to compete in dance in high school, I had to knock door to door selling candy for the money to buy my costumes. If I wanted shampoo and conditioner, I had to work for the money to get it. My mom cut me off from a lot of things when I was about 14 if I remember correctly. She was an orphan and wanted me to be independent and never rely on anyone else for anything. For the most part, it was a good thing, in some areas it is hard to work through that you actually DO need other people in life. When I was 19 years old my dad died on Christmas morning. I was very lost for about 2 years after that. When I was in my 20’s my mom got cancer, my sister got a brain tumor and the boyfriend I was living with was cheating on me, all at the same time. It was an extremely challenging time. My resilience wasn’t by choice but surely had made me the woman I am today. This is why I do what I do. I don’t want anyone to feel the way I did, alone, afraid and hopeless. If I can survive all that, then so can you.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
Right now my main focus is giving back. I have spent the last 12 years learning and implementing and I have spent a LOT of time and money doing so. It is my turn to take that education and teach it to others. I have taken all of my knowledge and finally turned it into a mentorship program that I LOVE. It teach what I have learned but in my way, with a “missy twist.” One of my gifts is making the complicated, simple. I am really big on that because I get very intimidated in a crowd and wanted to remove that aspect for my students. Everyone in my mentorship is meant to be there. I will be launching one self-paced version and one live version this year and that is it! I urge practitioners to jump on those 2 opportunities when they come up because I won’t offer anything else in 2023.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
1. Moving forward WITH fear, rather than staying stuck in it. It is truly all scary, so you have to move forward and take action anyway. 2. My skillset is making intimidating information more digestible for the masses and being able to articulate it in a friendly way, yet still provide profound results.
3. Pay people. Pay whoever you need to pay to get you closer to your goal. If you don’t like doing something, pay someone to do it, or you end up paying the price with your resentment and suffering, just pull the trigger. NOW. Don’t negotiate, don’t ruminate if someone is “worth” their skillset, they are. I paid someone $600 to make one sales page for me that was from a pre-made template. It was 2 hours of that person’s time but the confidence I got from an amazing sales page allowed me to make $35K. So for $600 I got freedom and confidence to do what I am best at, and that is teach. It sounds pricey in the moment but you need to think big picture. Sure, I could have done my own sales page, it would have taken me days to complete AND I wouldn’t have liked it in the end. No thanks. PAY PEOPLE.
Okay, so before we go, is there anyone you’d like to shoutout for the role they’ve played in helping you develop the essential skills or overcome challenges along the way?
In the last couple years one of my best friends and highly intelligent peers, Anna Hartman has influenced me and helped me immensely. She executes like a mofo and when I see her do something, it gives me the confidence that I can too. She not only is further along in her career but she wants me to win (and she wants others to win too). She doesn’t have confidence issues like I do so it helps me see someone create and push in a way that I admire. I deal with a lot of confidence issues internally although it appears differently on social media. Thank you Anna for being such a great friend and role model!
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