Monday Jan 31, 2022

Loving Yourself Leads To Personal and Professional Success with Elena Armijo of Coaching With Elena

Elena Armijo joins Rosie to discuss acknowledging and facing your fears. Elena offers in-depth and customized executive programs for high performers who are at the top of their respective fields.

She grew up in New Mexico and currently lives in New Jersey. She holds a B.M. of Music Education from New Mexico State University and an M.M. in Vocal Performance from the University of Washington.

She was introduced to opera at the New Mexico State University. Through her twenties she traveled the world singing on stages everywhere and met different people and experienced situations she would not have encountered had she stayed in New Mexico. Her opera career spanned ten years.

Rosie asks Elena how she uses her opera experiences in her coaching and why she is a coach. Feeling burned out is what led her to seek a change. She was signing non-stop for four years straight. She shares she felt incredibly lucky and grateful for the singing career she created but also lonely and miserable. Guilt plagued her and she hid it. Elena shares she hired a coach and through her work with her coach discovered she built this amazing career from a sense of proving - her worth to her parents, community and herself. It's simply not true that working really really hard is the only way to feel safe, loved and respected. When she realized this she knew she had to change her story. She describes participating in a transformational program about transforming yourself from the inside out. Elena shares through this program she basically fell in love with herself!

Rosie affirms that Elena came to her journey facing her fears. Rosie believes that as business owners you get the best out of your life when you face your fears. The courageous part is that the end result is more meaningful than what that fear means right now. Rosie circles back around to what Elena said about falling in love with herself and notes that it is such a powerful tool. Elena shares that for her it was breaking down some of the things she watched her mother, grandmother and great grandmother model. Through self love she’s learned she needs to take care of herself first such as getting 8 hours of sleep, walking her dog or going on a hike. She gives to herself before she takes care of anyone else. As women, we are not taught to do this. Elena notes that not taking care of you is doing a disservice not only to you but those around you. They don’t get the best version of you. Elena believes self love is taking care of yourself at a level that allows you to experience your life deeply instead of just working or being here to get through your life.

Elena shares her path to coaching happened because she fell in love with something as much as she loved music. Having something that you love actually be the thing you step into fully has created everything for her over the past 8 years for her. She attributes her success to consistency and practicing some of the same techniques she used as an entrepreneur in the opera world. What she loves is bringing a creative brain into coaching particularly in areas of business she knows nothing about. She reminds people in these spaces that they are creative human beings and that there are other ways of thinking. Initially, Elena’s biggest challenge was letting go of the imposter syndrome. Her current challenge as a six-figure business woman is to really own what she has created and step into this leveling up in her life. Old stories do resurface around guilt and did she work hard enough. Elensa shares she recognizes the old stories and has made friends with them. Most importantly, she doesn’t let them make decisions for her!

Rosie closes by thanking Elena for sharing her story and a quote from John Ship she included in her book, “Perseverance is stubbornness with a purpose.”

Loving Yourself Leads To Personal and Professional Success with Elena Armijo of Coaching With Elena

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