(00:04): Can you tell me about your transition
from a physical therapist to a life coach? Would you say it was more of a gradual transition or a
leap of faith? So my professional transition was definitely not slow and gradual. It was,
it wasn't even a leap of faith. Actually. I wouldn't even use the leap of faith. It was very
quick and it was almost something that was, uh, it was compelled. Like it was, it was very rapid,
very quick shift and it, it, it felt sometimes it felt like I didn't really have a choice and I
don't want to, I don't want to mean mean it to, to kind of be like that, that I didn't have a choice
of, of where I went. I did, but at the same time, there was a pull in me that it was almost like my
soul is going, Nope, you're going this way. (00:59):
Now enough messing around. You've messed around enough in your life. And now you're going this
way. Now I'm in charge. And I could feel that pull of my soul when I had my spiritual awakening,
the shift was really abrupt. It was abrupt and it was very quick, but, but I wouldn't say that, that
I was happy in my previous career as a physical therapist, I work in, worked in pediatrics. And so
I loved working with children. I loved my career, but it was interesting that I could feel already
probably 2, 3, 4 years before I transitioned. I already wasn't feeling like that was going to be
my job for the rest of my life. I was, I was starting to feel really, I was starting to
feel pulled to, to change, but I didn't know how. And so then the spiritual awakening came, it came
through, you know, my life just fell apart. (01:46):
And at the moment that my life fell apart, I just said to myself, what the hell am I doing?
Like, what the hell am I doing? No, since my life has fallen apart, I'm just going to take
this opportunity and I'm starting from scratch. I'm going to, I'm going to cut it all out. And
so that's literally what I did. I remember I, I was living in the U S I was living in Washington,
DC. I walked out of my house with two suitcases. I threw some stuff in a storage unit that I never
went back to get. I just gave it away to friends. And I left Washington DC with two suitcases and I
never came back. And that's when I left the U S and I moved to Portugal. It was very,
very rapid, um, a very, very, very strong shift. I knew that I was not going to go back to my career,
uh, to my old career. (02:31):
Um, but it that's not to say that it was an easy transition. Um, I had pushback. I had, I had,
you know, very concerned family members, uh, kind of saying to me, you know, what the hell are you
doing? You just spent the last 10 years of your life going to school to get all these degrees
to do what you do. And now suddenly, what are you going to do? And so, so it wasn't easy. It wasn't
an easy transition, but it was very abrupt and it, it didn't feel like a leap of faith. To me,
it felt like a felt like my soul was compelling me to do this. It was such a strong, strong pool. Um,
so, so that's, that's how I transitioned. I transitioned. So I kind of quit my career
and I knew I wasn't going to go back to my career pretty quickly when my life fell apart, but I also
didn't know what I was going to do next. (03:13):
So I didn't, I didn't give up being a physical therapist. I didn't give up my clinical career
to be a life coach. That's, that's not how things went. I gave up my clinical career because my life
fell apart. And I started to just say to myself, what am I doing? I, I'm not living a fulfilling,
joyful life, so I'm going to change it. I'm going to change it. Now. I have very fiery energy. I'm a
Sagittarius with an ascendant and Sagittarius. So it's all, I'm all fire. And so when, when I
do things, I do things I do them all at once might as well. I don't like to, I don't like to trickle.
I don't like things to trickle in my life. I'll usually make fast changes, big changes quickly.
Um, so that went really well with my energy, but I didn't know I wanted to be a life coach.
(03:57): I didn't know that this was what I was going to
end up doing. Um, it was literally just me feeling compelled to completely flip my life upside down
during my spiritual awakening. And then what ended up happening is the life coaching sort of,
sort of came to me slowly as I was going through my spiritual awakening, my initiation process.
I went through a very difficult initiation process, which is common with people who have
healing missions. Um, the initiation process is, can be difficult. Um, and so mine was, mine was
very challenging and I just kind of, I left my career behind and then I slowly went, started
to understand what I was meant to do next. Uh, but I don't, you know, today I don't recommend,
I'm not sharing this story to say, Hey, you know, like just throw everything down the drain,
quit your career and just forget about it. (04:46):
Just do the same thing I did. I don't even, I don't even recommend doing what I did because
I've worked with a lot of clients over the years. And, and, you know, a lot of people feel this
overwhelming, just, uh, anxiety and stress at the possibility of doing what I did of just completely
walking out of their house with two suitcases and just leaving their old life behind. That can be
really frightening and it's not necessary to do it that way. It doesn't have to be done that way.
So if you feel like you want, you know, this, this question, I assume that this question is
coming from someone who is looking to change their careers, who is looking to change their
life paths. You don't have to do it the way that I did. I did it in a very jarring way. And I don't
recommend that for people. (05:28):
I really don't recommend that for people. I'll, I'll usually what I'll tell people when they work
with me is, you know, um, make your transition slower. It doesn't have to be like mine,
but if you feel compelled to do what I did, then, Hey, you know, you're a sovereign being.
But, um, the recommendations that I generally give people now is to start feeling things out,
what am I compelled to do? What are my interests? What are my passions? Um, because you know
what happened to me? I didn't just quit my career. I quit my career. And then I
lost everything. I lost everything. Like I went to like, Sub-Zero in my bank account.
I lost everything because I let go of my career before I had something else lined up. I didn't
have anything lined up. And so I completely lost everything. All right. So, so that's one of the
reasons why I don't recommend is that, you know, if you have bills to pay or you have children,
or you have all of these obligations, then maybe you just can just quit and go off on your own.
(06:23): Um, and so now what I, what I generally
recommend for people is that they start to slowly go into the things that they're passionate about.
They slowly start to discover what their, what their new path is, where they want to go, and they
slowly start to make their way in that direction. So, so as an example, if you want to start a
business, um, you know, and you have a current job right now, and that job is paying the bills,
start to figure out what you want your business to be, what kind of ideas you have and all of that,
do that on the side. And then when you're ready to make the jump, then, then quit your old career.
So, so that's generally what I recommend. Now go a little bit smoother, unless you have
energy like mine, and you just like to do things rapidly, then, you know, no judgment there.
(07:06): Um, but you can also do it more smoothly
than I did. I did it a little bit abruptly and it was because, you know, it was just, my life
was falling apart really, um, at that moment. And that's what, that's what happened to me. But, uh,
but if you could do it more smoothly than I did, uh, I recommend that cause it was,
it was, it was painful. I laugh about it now, but it wasn't funny at the moment. It was,
it was, those were very difficult years for me. Um, and I wouldn't take it back. They were
difficult years, but, uh, but if you can do it in a smoother way than I did, it will probably, uh,
it'll probably spare you some, some suffering, but, uh, but yeah, that was my transition, uh,
from clinician to life coach, uh, abruptly very fast, almost like I was being compelled my, my,
by my soul to do it now with the kind of a sense of urgency. It was like, my soul said,
you're done, you're done with your old life. All of it. You're done with all of your old life,
career relationship, everything everything's done. Um, so it was kind of a death moment for me
at that moment. Um, and so that, that's, that's kind of how that's what happened to me.