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The Jim Fortin Podcast

Ep 285: INTERVIEW: Overcoming Adversity And Living An Authentic Life

The Jim Fortin Podcast

Jim Fortin

Education, Self-improvement

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Start Your Transformation Now In this eye-opening episode, I sit down with Amy Schutte, a marketing and messaging coach for entrepreneurs, about her transformational experience in Jim’s coaching program. In 2020, as the pandemic hit, she was seeking personal growth and tools to manage the chaos when she found Jim’s program. Though Amy considered herself a responsible person in the past, the program taught her an expanded meaning of responsibility – taking responsibility for her thoughts, stories, interpretations, and her role in co-creating her reality. This shift in mentality was fundamental and empowering. Internally, she learned to release ego, fear, and self-limitations. First, as she evolved internally, the external changes in her business, money, and relationships began to gain traction and stability. Her business grew tenfold as her identity leveled up to match her desired outcomes. She became a peaceful, loving parent, seeing her young kids as souls on their own journey rather than trying to control them. She also transformed a difficult relationship with her father by setting healthy boundaries, releasing guilt, and choosing to “let people go lovingly.” Amy emphasizes that investing in a supportive community and expert guidance, rather than just free content, is what enabled her accelerated transformation. The program’s combination of practical tools, subconscious reprogramming, and “ancient wisdom” creates powerful shifts at a core; identity level. This then radiates out; opening life up to new possibilities. For entrepreneurs especially; Amy highlights the need to grow yourself before you can grow your business. Personal evolution precedes external expansion. Through her findings, Amy advises implementing the principle of reciprocity by openly giving value without expectation. This has brought her abundant opportunities and an expanded capacity for service. When you move from scarcity to genuinely giving and receiving, you increase your ability to love, create, and be of benefit to the world. Transformational Takeaway: Identify your self-limitations, eliminate fear, and ego, and allow yourself to give value without expectation. What are you willing to let go of today? When will it be time to tell yourself that these limitations are what’s holding you back from your wants? Mentioned Resources: hudsonandco.co jimfortin.com/tcp Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Transcript

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you're listening to the transform your life from the inside out podcast. This episode is an

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interview with one of my students named Amy and the theme that I've been talking about a lot,

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which is also the theme of this particular episode is the title of this episode and that's

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overcoming adversity and living and authentic life. Amy and I talk about a lot of things in this

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particular episode and if you're a business owner an entrepreneur you're going to love this episode.

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Anyway we talk about her Amy and how she ever came a lot of her challenges, how she shifted her

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mindset and how she unlocked a great deal of her potential while in coaching with me and the

0:46.7

transformational coaching program. We also talk a lot about how to live authentically and the

0:55.0

power of self-love and being 100% responsible for the outcomes that we create in life.

1:03.5

The main themes in this episode are getting in stuck, healing relationships,

1:09.7

unblocking business success and conscious parenting. You'll hear Amy talk about how she healed a long

1:18.3

term rift with her father and how she has significantly improved her relationship with her husband.

1:26.5

And you're going to hear a lot of you are going to hear yourself in her story because she

1:33.2

discovered and understood that when she focused on herself as opposed to trying to control her

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husband to get him to do what she wanted him to do, the relationship improved dramatically.

1:48.7

I'm saying that because a lot of you actually try to control, I'm laughing, you try to control your

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partner thinking that's going to get you the relationship that you want and many times all that

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gets you is more rebellion and more distance between you and your partner. You'll also hear Amy talk

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about conscious parenting. You know, being a coach for many years, what I noticed with a lot of

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people, and especially in TCP, the transformational coaching program, many parents try to control

2:19.2

their kids. And what I teach people in TCP is that you don't own your kids. You are a steward

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for and of your kids. They're divine little souls on the planet. You don't own them. You don't

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