Cat H. Bradley

I had a boss that made a move that affected the whole team. It was a decision to do a different show because it was best for her personally. That woke me up! It made me see that I too had to be the leading lady of my own life and start making decisions that were true to my own heart.

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Whenever I feel lost, I know I have to get quiet and still, so I can hear the truth coming from inside me. I did that, and it was so funny! What I heard was, “listen to the outside!” And so I did. And three days in a row, three different people in the office joked about how I was their life coach. I had been lending an ear to help others hear themselves for a while. People came to me for advice or just to vent frequently. It was when I matched the third person calling me their life coach to my inner guidance of “listen to the outside” that the ball really got rolling.

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I realized I genuinely enjoyed hearing people’s stories. I got something out of helping them find their own way. I was inspired and excited to see my own perspective change as I offered my experience as a guide or resource to them. I felt like “hey, there might be something to this.” It was then I knew that I wanted training to beef up and expand these skills already growing inside of me.

Noelle Cordeaux! [CEO and leader of Lumia] Alright so you’ve heard everything leading up to my decision--it was all about following hits of intuition. Once I got on the phone with Noelle to chat about the program, those hits multiplied. It was just lights and sounds going off inside me, “Yes, yes, yes, move forward girl, move forward!”

It’s really as simple as that. When I talk to people now about whether to sign on to Lumia or not, they normally want to make pros and cons lists and use their head to hopefully see into a future that tells them with certainty that they are making the right decision. We can only give what we have to give right?

So all I have to give to those people is to tell them to get still, and get quiet. To listen to their heart. To talk to people. Does it feel good to talk to me? Does it feel like I have something that you want? Well then, if yes, perhaps you should listen to that feeling, to your heart speaking through me. Sign up for a program that will allow that voice to get stronger and louder. That voice is your KNOWING. Your knowing will get so strong it will beat that pro/con list into the ground, and you’ll continuously cultivate the courage to hear it and let it guide you to move forward (even blindly, and in uncertainty!) into your beautiful, expansive life.

I have empathy for this and the last question. I feel like they are being asked for the neurotic, squirrely-minded planner that I used to be. We crave certainty so badly don’t we?! Alright, I’ll stop judging the question and just answer the damn thing.

The only thing I considered a risk was the moola. It was no small chunk of change to me then, or now. So if nothing came of it, spending that money would have sucked. It’s obviously not something that ever enters my mind now because I couldn’t even tell you exactly how much I spent on the program. Confirmation of money well spent!

Fear I guess was the same as my risk above--that nothing would come from my effort and investment. I of course also feared/wondered if life coaching was something I could actually make a living doing. I still wonder that sometimes, even as I succeed in doing just that!

It’s absolutely impossible to list and explain all the ways I have changed since coach training. But I’ll give you some nuggets, yes?

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Of course there are inside changes and outside ones. Like I said, the program was really a jumping off point. I have since become a yoga teacher as well as a full time coach and writer, and my interests keep expanding and focusing simultaneously. My dreams have and continue to expand because I have begun to know and own my own power.

You want to know how my business has changed? I rely on attraction, rather than promotion. I am never going to be that coach with a million followers on IG and a shit ton of content. I won’t even try for that because it doesn’t feel authentic to me and because that’s not my work! It took me a LONG time to understand that that wasn’t my work. My work is making myself visible enough, so the people that need me and are ready to do the work can find me. I cannot transmit something that i haven’t got so my work is practicing what I preach! It’s getting still, it’s sitting in discomfort, it’s wading through muddy waters (aka uncertainty!), it’s acknowledging and celebrating joy and accomplishments, and it’s above all else, staying true to myself.

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The biggest change in me, which I cannot give total credit to Lumia for (but the program did contribute), is that I no longer strain myself trying to grow my outer life. I am sure there are people that might call me a hustler. What they believe they are seeing is someone who “makes things happen.” Nah. Nah. That ain’t me. Where I hustle is on the inside. Holy shit I don’t know if you could even fathom the work I’ve got going on on the inside. Always.

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A recent revelation is that I am in fact WHOLE, even despite being a body, mind, and spirit constantly under construction and renovation. That is my work, truly. I do the deep and intuitively inspired mental, physical, and spiritual work that make me happy to live in my own skin, and then I rely on something greater than myself to take care of my outer life. I know that I will always have ENOUGH. I will make enough money, I will have enough to eat, I will have enough of a roof over my head, I will continue to give and ultimately receive enough love and support. It will all be enough, and enough is great. Enough, is a motherfuckin’ feast.