Words by me based on an interview with Valerie
Valerie finds that outside of her comfort zone is where you feel the wonder of new beginnings.
In early 2020 Valerie was at the pinnacle of her career in marketing and advertising – the chief marketing officer. This was a role achieved as part of 20 years in the industry, and something Valerie was very comfortable doing.
Then the pandemic hit and Valerie lost her job.
Shortly after that a friend contacted her “do you know a speaker or anybody who can help us understand Facebook, understand the digital space, understand this new world because we all were forced to go virtual?”
Valerie initially recommended a few people. But they were outside her friend’s budget.
So she volunteered her own services!
While this sort of training was new to Valerie, she had the mindset, the experience and her NLP training to call on.
Not that she didn’t have second thoughts. With 300 people to train she initially was not sure what she was going to say to them!
Valerie thinks her friend was actually hoping she would offer.
Fast forward a year and Valerie has trained over 3500 people from all over the world!
This was not the first or last time Valerie stepped outside her comfort zone – she was the first of her friends to work overseas, and she chose Cambodia instead of the more popular Singapore to do that. That was a year well out of her comfort zone with no knowledge of the language, and a very different lifestyle that included not even owning a mirror!
She also dated online well before it was commonplace. She married her partner in a private ceremony “we just we just exchanged vows and I gave our family and friends messages and poems to share with us and that was it. Of course I’m biased but it connected us to our family and it connected us to our friends.”
Valerie has advice for others thinking about stepping out of their comfort zone “Mel Robbins has this NLP technique when you count 54321. When you count backwards your brain shifts from being emotional (being afraid, feeling like you can’t do this) to the executive function, your cognitive brain. This makes you more logical.
“So 54321 you count and then you hit the button! You just start with your commit – you share with the world, you share on your facebook so that you’re on the hook and you just do it.”
Wonderful advice Valerie!
Valerie Fischer helps online business owners increase revenue growth with Brain Science Selling. You can find out more about her at her Facebook page or website www.valeriefischer.net.
