Meet Sarah Walton

We were lucky to catch up with Sarah Walton recently and have shared our conversation below.

Sarah, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with us today. We’re excited to dive into your story and your work, but first let’s start with a broader topic that might be stopping many of our readers from pursuing their dreams – haters, nay-sayers, etc. How have you managed to persist despite haters and nay-sayers that inevitably follow folks who are doing something unique, special or off the beaten path?
This one is so important because one of the biggest reasons people stop working on their dreams, or don’t even start in the first place, is because of what other people will think.

And part of that is because we all know there’s a “success tax” out there. It’s called criticism. When someone succeeds, the nastiness rears its head. I mean, people even criticize Oprah! Oprah! What on earth?

So because we know that criticism is looming and well have such a deep desire to be liked, one of the most important things we can do is trust ourselves and absolutely fall in love with what we’re doing. That’s easier said than done – but it is possible.

To truly be successful and enjoy what you’re doing – keep your head down and ignore what anyone else is saying. Really. Get up every morning and go deep within yourself. This can be on a walk, reading a book or just deep breathing for a few minutes. Get back in touch with you and why you’re working on this dream of yours.

From that space, from that clarity – get to work. When you create from that space, your love, care and heart gets poured into whatever you’re doing, whether it’s social media posts, emails, drafts, proposals – anything. And when you work like that, your pride in your work becomes so solid that what other people think truly disappears.

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?
With a dream to succeed and $200 in my pocket, I moved to New York City from my little hometown in Utah.

I had visions of Doris Day and Mary Tyler Moore in my head. I wanted to be a woman in the city with an exciting job, a cute apartment and “Sex and the City” shoes.

A temp position at a bank led to my full-time job on the tech support desk, supporting hedge fund analysts with their trading software.

(Looking back, I can’t even imagine!)

Next, I moved to Lifetime Television in their new media department.

I was a web developer who took beautiful designs from the creative team and turned them into web pages.

Fun fact: I worked on the site for “Strong Medicine” starring Rosa Blasi.

Ten years later, her sister Tasha Blasi hired me as her coach, and we worked together to create her business supporting women going through IVF. We loved figuring that out — 6 degrees, small world, and all that!

From there, I left for a start-up you’ve never heard of, creating a huge mindset shift that would slowly change my life.

With a dream to succeed and $200 in my pocket, I moved to New York City with visions of Doris Day and Mary Tyler Moore in my head. I wanted to be a woman in the city with an exciting job, a cute apartment and “Sex and the City” shoes.

A temp position at a bank led to my full-time job on the tech support desk, supporting hedge fund analysts with their trading software.

(Looking back, I can’t even imagine!)

Next, I moved to Lifetime Television in their new media department.

I was a web developer who took beautiful designs from the creative team and turned them into web pages.

Fun fact: I worked on the site for “Strong Medicine” starring Rosa Blasi.

Ten years later, her sister Tasha Blasi hired me as her coach, and we worked together to create her business supporting women going through IVF. We loved figuring that out — 6 degrees, small world, and all!

From there, I left for a start-up you’ve never heard of, creating a huge mindset shift that would slowly change my life.

You know how they say the five people you spend the most time with determine your future? Well, mine got a major upgrade when I worked with Marianne Williamson at that start-up. Being with her in the recording studio while working on her program “The Miracle Matrix” and listening to her teach about love and fear was a lightning rod moment.

She was talking about something way beyond what I normally understood. She tapped into a world of possibility, accountability, and choice. I also hosted her monthly calls with fans and worked on her website. Watching her and working with her planted the seeds for creating a career around teaching and coaching.

Those moments inspired me to think bigger and to learn more about the laws of abundance. I was a natural coach and learning the skill of sales and the power of data in business – I just knew I had to help more women make more money.

So I started my business and it blew up pretty quickly. Not that it was easy, it wasn’t. But I knew immediately that I was on the right track.

Now I work with women who own businesses inside my Abundance Academy as their intimate 1:1 business coach. We cover the skills of influence, confidence, the laws of abundance and while implementing business strategies, we remove serious mindset blocks and beliefs about women and money.

You can learn more about how I work with women on my website: www.sarahwalton.com and you can learn more about my Academy by clicking here: https://bit.ly/TAA-application

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Oh my goodness! There are so many that we build on over time – and they just keep expanding. But I would say the 3 most important skills are:

1. Self-trust (yes, I believe that’s a skill)
2. Know how to regulate your nervous system
3) Hang out with people who are smarter than you

As women especially, we’ve been taught to outsource our wisdom from day 1 (literally). We’ve been shown that what we look like matters more than who we are, and that our feelings and emotions might just be too much for other people.

If you can unlearn that, and understand that your body and your heart have more wisdom than you can imagine, you start to trust YOU when it comes to decisions, ideas, launches, relationships – you name it.

And that success snowballs. And as it does, so do your nerves. That’s where nervous system regulation comes in. Become your own best friend. Know what you NEED to be calm, focused and filled with happiness as you work. That doesn’t mean everything is perfect, but it does put you in the driver’s seat instead of fear. (As humans we make terrible decisions when we’re scared!)

Finally, be around successful people. I can’t emphasize this enough. You learn to think differently, you see the world differently and you learn that everyone is still trying to figure things out. No one has it all “handled”.

And if someone is more successful than you are right now, there are only 2 reasons:

1. They know something you don’t know
2. They’re doing something you’re not doing

If you hang out with them – you’ll learn all about both and start moving things in your direction quite quickly.

What was the most impactful thing your parents did for you?
My parents didn’t understand money at all. And that’s not meant to be a criticism – no one taught them. But watching how they dealt with it taught me a lot about what I DIDN’T want to do with money.

I was raised by a single mom and she was always without money. Like, constantly. I share more about that in what we call my “Strawberry Story” and you can watch that here: https://youtu.be/LkBRrNpFoG8?si=IbfMNk1cn8uTGt73

But as I grew up and realized that other people did know how to handle money, I just knew there had to be a way I could learn, too.

I studied, I took manifesting classes, talked to Marianne Williamson about it and I did my best to figure it all out. Cut to: $40,000 in credit card debt, a $70,000 a year job and a pretty persistent sense of anxiety.

It wasn’t until I started trusting myself and checking in about how I felt about every purchase and every credit card payment that it all turned around.

I paid off that debt in just 9 months, increased my salary and started investing and saving – including having an on-hand emergency fund that I’m SO grateful for. (I actually just used it last week when my washing machine broke! I SO love that fund!)

I say now that my work is where the laws of abundance and the power of data combine. And that’s so accurate. By watching my parents not understand this incredible tool, I became determined to master it and fall in love with it. And I did. That’s one of the best gifts they could’ve given me.

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