Podcast Episode 1 - How I went from a burnt out nurse to living my dream life in Bali

This post is about the first episode of my podcast (How I went from a burnt out nurse to living my dream life in Bali). If you like this, make sure to jump into my free VIBEY Telegram Group, where I share random RIFFS, free tips & advice for women ready to create a freedom based life & business. You can also follow my life & travels on Instagram @thefemme_ceo and DM me to say hey! PS - if you’re looking for intimate sisterhood and high touch support -  I have a 5 month Mastermind called Ascension for coaches & healers looking to scale to 6-figures and beyond. If you’re looking for year-long inspiration and mentorship, I have a year long experience called Becoming where you get access to ALL of my programs, a private Telegram community for sisterhood, AND monthly group biz Q+A sessions. I would love to connect with you now or in the future. To becoming Radiant + Rich, Laura Niese.

LISTEN TO EPISODE 1

Can I just say I am IN LOVE with the intro song + the podcast cover it gets me going. 

You know after I recorded that intro song I immediately sent it to my mom, my boyfriend and a couple friends and I’ve been jamming out to it all week and I knowww the intro to a podcast isn’t a big deal.

But it is for me. I’m super into aesthetics and I’m really into music. I don’t know if it’s the Libra in me?! We are ruled by VENUS and we love beauty. Anyways, I love it and I’m celebrating it! 

SOOO It feels so good to be recording this first episode. My heart is literally beating out of my chest. I spent 4 hours trying to figure out a garage band and here we are - episode 1. 

And I am so excited to be here and I’m so excited to have you along for the ride and the journey and for my random RIFFS and chicken nuggets we’re going to have so much fun. 

So first things first. Some of my listeners, you may know my story but for those of you who are new to my world - hi! I wasn’t always an entrepreneur.

I was actually a pediatric oncology and BMT nurse for 4 years.  

I went to Ohio State University. I was in a sorority and I love to party and have fun and I picked nursing as a major because I really didn’t know what I wanted to do. 

I knew that as a nurse there was always going to be a job for me AND I love to learn so I assumed that I would go back to school and become a nurse practitioner or a nurse anesthetist - I was REALLY excited about that when I learned they make as much money as a doctor I was like sign me up! 

SO I got a job as a pediatric oncology BMT nurse out of college and fast forward 4 years I was MAJORLY STUCK.  

I was working the night shift and saving every last drop of PTO I could get my hands on to travel and go to music festivals. I was obsessed. I was a little festival bunny. 

It was in 2018 when I visited Thailand for the first time and it was the first time that I tasted the freedom (but I couldn’t actually live it) and everything came crumbling down and made me want to scream. I had to be my own boss.  

SO I started a travel blog, thinking that was the secret sauce to freedom. 

It would be 3 AM on the floor and all the nurses would be eating lunch and I would be writing blog posts, pinning an insane amount of pins to Pinterest, learning SEO and how to use key search to rank in Google, and spending hours in engagement pods growing my instagram. 

I grew my IG, at the time it was @traveltothebeat to 30,000 followers. 

I started receiving messages from people (influencers) asking me how I was growing so fast.  

I started a little side hustle - 6 calls for $1,000 to teach Influencers how to grow their instagram faster, get paid collaborations with brands and hotels. 

I didn’t take it seriously really I didn’t know online businesses were a thing I really just wanted the extra 1,000 to be able to buy plane tickets around the US. 

Fall 2018 I got broken up with by my bf that I lived with at the time and I was heartbroken. Cried myself to sleep for 3 weeks and a random girl from IG messaged me and asked if I wanted to come with her to Bali to heal my heart. 

I looked at my PTO  and I didn’t have enough for 3 weeks in Bali.  

I actually dropped my Hours down at the hospital from 3 nights a week down to 2 just so that I could spend 3 weeks in Bali. 

I booked my flight.  

In Bali I saw coworking spaces for the first time. I saw entrepreneurs chasing their dreams. I fell in love with the freedom of it all. I thought why not me?  

After that trip I went back to the US and because I’m a master manifestor I ended up getting fired 2 days later.  

I remember crying and calling my mom from the hospital parking lot telling her with the most certainty I’ve ever felt that I was moving to Bali. 

I didn’t know what I was going to do in Bali - I had an idea for an Instagram course so that was the plan. 

I moved to Bali in February 2019 and I got to work on creating my first $297 course, the influencer lab, which was for influencers to learn how to grow on the gram and get paid collabs. 

I spent 4 months creating this thing and I don’t know how I managed to pull it off but I ended up having a $10,000 launch while lying on a beach in Koh tao Thailand. That was in May of 2019 

I went on to hire my first business coach - I remember lying in a hostel bunk on a sales call at 10PM basically sending all of the money that I had just made from this launch to her. 

That was when I really learned how to put together solid foundations in my business.  

But I struggled SO FREAKING HARD with comparison, not feeling like my work was good enough, I hustled, I was in my masculine, I didn’t know anything about manifestation, energetics, mindset, and eventually I got sick and burned out. 

Since that burn out the things that I have really helped me in my business are. 

Understanding how my energy works through human design - I’m an Ego manifestor. I work in bursts of energy and I also need lots of rest. I don’t have access to consistent energy but when I do it’s really impressive what I can create. The manifestor burst, they call it.  

Really tapping into feminine energy,  my intuition, pleasure, having fun. 

I also got an NLP certification which I don’t think you really need a certification to be a coach but it helped me with my confidence as a coach and I learned a great deal about the subconscious mind and the power of identity work. 

Letting go of feeling like I need to have a “NICHE” and instead creating an offer suite that feels ALIVE for me  based on what I’m currently moving through and what I’m excited to talk about instead waiting until I’m “ready” or a MASTER or PERFECT in the thing I desire to teach about. 

The thing that lights my soul on fire is creation. I am a creator at heart and I love tapping Into my creative energy. 

I think one of the things that holds us back a lot as entrepreneurs is we wait until we’re ready. 

We have this not enough wound.

I don’t know enough to create the offer or to teach the thing. 

I don’t know enough to launch the podcast. 

But I’ve decided that I am a visionary leader who lives at her edge.

I know that the thing that feels scary is just my ego talking. 

My ego wanting to protect my identity (which is already so fragile because our identities are always changing and always evolving). 

I get to build momentum in my life by getting out of my head and out of the mental mind chatter and the what if’s and instead listening to my intuition which really is a portal to the quantum field. 

I run my business based on my intuition and my intuitive downloads and based on my DESIRE and what I desire to create and what I want to do. 

I have done a lot of work around developing more presence + pleasure in my life so that I can get more into my body and connect more with my intuition.

I love running a business from the feminine. It’s so fun.  

And I do have masculine structures set up in my business to support the feminine but I FEEL so good in how I run my business now. 

TRULY It’s our HEART that creates magic.

The more we are anchored in the higher frequency of the heart + our intuition, then the less we need to THINK. 

So much of our time is spent in our head questioning, back and forth. An intuitive hit drops in to create a post then we are like uhhh when should i post it? Am I being too bold? Intuitive hit to launch a new offer and then we get into PLANNING Mode in our heads for weeks. 

Strategy creates that masculine structure for the feminine to flow. The feminine is LOVE. She follows her heart. She creates art. She is intuitive. She is tapped into her pleasure and her senses in the present moment. She FEELS with her senses. She DROPS into her body.  

We need to learn how to trust ourselves and build that trust muscle with our intuition. Our intuition is our greatest gift. When we can trust our intuition, we can declare YES or NO so clearly without getting stuck in our head and the mind chatter. 

Intuition helps with forward momentum. 

Start playing with your intuition - you can start small. I want you to be a YES or a NO kind of Goddess and not a MAYBE. 

It starts with your friends asking you for dinner later in the week >> Put hand on your heart. YES or NO? 

What do you want for dinner? 

What do I want to charge for my offer? 

What workout do I want to do today? Would I rather have a walk or do yoga instead?

Start listening in and work that trust muscle with your intuition and your trust with yourself will build over time. We have access to this magic and the quantum field that is soooo much more powerful than logic.  

WHY DID I start this podcast?  

1.) I DID IT FOR ME FIRST. I believe that our business are for us first. The offers we create. The content we choose to put out. Our brands. It’s so fun to be able to express ourselves online and create offers that are on our hearts to create and go on this beautiful journey of becoming our best selves. This podcast is for me. It's my art, it's my truth and I hope that my truth lands with you and feels so good in you.  

2.) It’s for you! My mission is to help women become radiant and rich. But not just rich in money. Rich in LIFE . In travel, experiences,  in love, in sisterhood, in connection, in freedom, in health. I really desire for you to become the most radiant version of yourself so that you can glow from the inside out.  

You are a freaking GODDESS.

That is my mission.

For you to tap into her and create a life of total freedom by design without burning out or doing something that doesn’t FEEL good in you.  

We are growing a business that lights up our souls and feels nourishing and ALIVE  and so much fun!

And that is the work that I do with my clients. 

I’m a business coach and I help both with the strategy side of business (but in a way that is aligned for you). 

AND I love the energetics side of business as well.  

80/20. Business is 80% mindset/energetics, 20% strategy.  

I’m here to really help you tap into your feminine magic  and really be a leader for other visionary women and leaders who desire to create a life and a business on their terms. I want you to be able to pave your own path to success and do it in a way that feels so good.  

I hope this podcast lights you up and inspires you and kicks your ass from time to time and truly I want it to be raw and vulnerable and real. With lots of laughs and I want it to be so much fun! 

I appreciate you for tuning in. And please please subscribe to the podcast so you can get all the updates on when new episodes drop. 

I would love it if you could leave a review so that more people can tune in and feel the energy and the magic 

Yay me for the first podcast episode! This was so fun and I’m so freaking pumped and I’m celebrating myself for finally freaking doing it. 

I hope you have a beautiful day and again thanks so much for listening  

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