How A Big Life Shift Can Lead to Massive Business Success & True Happiness, with Ex-Silicon Valley Tech Entrepreneur, Krista Mollion
Ex-Silicon-Valley tech entrepreneur, Krista Mollion Books Business Abundance Podcast-Interview excerpt on changing your life to live authentically and find true happiness.
Krista: I had changed, and I could not go backward…
So, I ended up getting a divorce. I ended up giving up most of my material possessions. And that was a big hit for me because I was one of those people living the American dream, like spending oodles of money on material things. And I just had these really high, lifestyle standards and suddenly it lost its importance to me.
And I honestly, maybe I’m going crazy because I’m like, “This is so strange. Like, why am I not excited anymore about these things?” Like before I could buy something and to make me happy, or I could go to a spa day because I could afford all this, right? I could just be like “I’ll just pay for a short retreat. I’ll go away somewhere, and I’ll feel amazing and nothing was working.
So, I realized I couldn’t buy my inner peace anymore. So, once that awakening started, it was like, no more. The old lifestyle wasn’t working.
Ellen: That’s a biggie.
Krista: That’s a big journey that I’m on. So, I ended up writing a book that I haven’t published yet, and we’ll get into that in a minute. But I wrote a book about my life and most importantly about this self-discovery journey that I was on and rediscovering myself, rediscovering self loves, for example, like really, what is it to accept and love yourself? I thought I did, but I didn’t.
On the contrary, I was living for everyone else, and also self- confidence. Like what is true self-confidence. So, how do you really feel good in your skin? And I’m not talking about fake-it-until-you-make- it, outward self-confidence. I’m talking about just being okay with yourself, how you show up, whether it’s a good day or bad day, whether you’re rich or you’re not rich, you’re okay with that.
And that was a huge step for me. So, I documented it all. So, I wrote it all down, and it actually turned into something bigger, which this biography/ self-help book, it morphed into me creating something called The Sassy Method. And that’s something that is kind of a comical name. I know Sassy is a weird name.
Ellen: I love it.
7:42 Krista: It actually is an acronym. So, it stands for seriously authentic, smart, self-confident you because when I was journaling a lot, I realized that that’s what I really wanted in my life. Like when I would say, “How do I want to feel?” Like “How do I really want to feel?” And I thought being successful wasn’t enough anymore. That was an old title that I would have told you in my twenties, in my early thirties. By the end of my thirties, that didn’t matter to me as much anymore. What mattered to me was being seriously authentic with myself. So, to stop lying to myself. So that’s a key component of The Sassy Method is just stop lying to yourself.
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