hello and welcome to the place of the war where our motto is step out and redesign you are mrs is to help you store as high as you want to this is my friend ga my name is inigo us oh and we are the co host for the place the store and i'm very glad that you were able to join us for this particular episode we have a really really fantastic woman here with us today as our g and her name is jessica likewise and she is the founder and owner of a successful podcast and women's empowerment company i like the sound of it changing minds online jessica's business for the world is that all women empowered and inspired to create the life of their during by finding and living in their purpose an interesting fact about jessica what what i've read because i was like wow is a jessica is running thirty marathons this year author of turning thirty wow we'll have to talk about that is just because it is also the c e o and owner of tax it too exotic which she provides health and wellness coaching she is passionate about helping people experience life in their ideal bodies so before we jump into that in a moment go back and i'm going to read our sora values on our values have changed a little bit of perhaps as the last time you were them so visit them purpose live transitions managing relationships community and family fun freedom and fulfillment personal economy integrated life coaching and personal development the writers edge travel as value and  have you here so want to begin by telling us a little bit does not in your bio a little bit and maybe even start with that thirty marathon they do yes it's you know it's amazing for me i just believe so much in the power of god that lives in us and the ability that we have to really do anything and you know one of the things i don't often share publicly and if we're going to jump into it i'll just jump right into it is that you know i do have a certain medical issues and they have progressed it's a progressive disorder i was born with  and as i've gotten older they've started to progress a little bit worse and i started to develop tumors on the nerves in my feet so when i went to my doctor and i had m r i s and they showed me the results she said you know it's not really looking good you could be ok but there's also the possibility of my thirty you could not be able to use your foot if you may not be able to walk on your foot and i had told her so well not only am i going to be walking but i'm going to be running out right and i told her i'm not by thirty i'm going to run thirty marathons and i had just finished my very first marathon at that time and you know the twenty nine marathons and eighteen months i actually didn't believe myself when i said it and i couldn't believe that i made that declaration on my pod cast as well so a lot of people have heard it and i just you know i realize that when there's something that's you want and you want to go after it that the greatness inside of us i believe that there's greatness in every one of us and i greatness is god and that everything in this world hast a battle that there's nothing external there's nothing in our bodies that doesn't have to back out you know when when we have the power crisis within us when we're working from that place of source and power where we're not aligned with that with that in who he is you know there's absolute nothing we can do and i've taken on this thirty marathons by thirty next and i'm actually the funny part about it is that halfway through my journey i so this is actually too easy to switch to ultramarathons and so i lot of the marathons and running are fifty kayser forty mile or fifty mile i'm really excited i have my full schedule planned out going to be doing ten marathons in the ten days leading up to my birthday and thank you yeah i'm super super excited about it you know one of the things that i believe is that you know when when jesus died on the cross is very last words were to tell us that it is finished and to me you know what that what i take that my life is that every obstacle managed you know doesn't matter what it is that when he died when he was resurrected that he lives with in a and then we can do anything you know that everything and anything we want we can do so you know in my heart of course there's you know i have doubts about these they're the marathons and everyone i meet tells me that i'm crazy and and i know that that true but it doesn't matter because god is into me that i would do that and that's ok that's ok we all go through different issues and things in the last will people look at to like you're crazy but when you're being directed by god and you get to that point in your life where you know you're being directed by god and you just sit back and let him direct to that's what an incredible things can really be good to happen in your life and so excited for you to be doing these a network marketing company and i absolutely became in there they obsessed with person development yeah i loved it so you know what i was excited most you know i love the company i love the history i love the products but with excited me most was to be around people that had this different mindset a different way of thinking that i had never ever heard about you know i had been doing ok you know i was living in new york and i had a ok job and i was doing well for myself you know but i wasn't really happy i wasn't living at my full potential and in my specific career path i had chosen by the age of twenty four i had maxed out what i could make in my career and i was thinking like how can my life and this way i mean i can't have reached my cynical success in my mid twenty's and i knew there was something more i wanted to do but i had absolutely no idea what that meant or how to go about it so when i first heard of this idea that i could create my life by design the idea of abundance versus scarcity that i actually had a s the outcome it wasn't just fate or chance that i actually got to control and create my life i became obsessed with that and i became obsessed with personal development i actually taught myself to listen to audiobooks on fast forward  more i know some people do speed reading i'm or you know as i was running i was driving in my car so i just listen to audiobooks on fast forward i was averaging one two sometimes three books in a day and i got a bluetooth speaker and i took my personal development everywhere my mobile university and i had it everywhere that i went it went in the shower with me and went everywhere i was getting dressed i was listening to audiobooks and i was absorbing and learning everything and what i found what i found more than anything else was that you know when you your mindset changes when you change your life the first thing that has to change is your mindset and it was interesting and it was so i went to this seminar this sales training seminar and they taught us how to write a social media do a social media campaign for your network marketing business and i learned to write this very generic message and just blasted out to everybody so i wrote this perfect message that i paid all this money to go to the seminar to learn how to write this message and i send it to one person and then i forget what happened i got busy something happened the phone rang and i never got to send it out any body else but that one person responded and she and i started talking and it was i you we learned very quickly in the seminar to move it offline as quickly as possible to we started talking on the phone and we had decided by the time that the conversation was over we decided to do something together to collaborate so this is when google hangout first came out i didn't know how to use it i couldn't figure it out she was very tech oriented i was and so we decided we were going to do a podcast and she said at this platform for us to do it at the top and we did it we had a lot of fun and then we did it again because we enjoyed it so much and we did it again and again and again before we knew it we had put the web site together and said like let's just keep doing this right now i wasn't looking at the numbers and i don't know if she was at the time but it turns out we were getting some really big attraction to our podcast we were on i tunes they had featured our podcast for a little while and you know within our first month we he were pinning numbers a thousand people looking at our site almost every day wow which be really great so we had that going on for us and so i had never met this person on line and i said let's do this officially and we you know within six months we had never met we put together company called changing minds on line we got and yeah number we became an l l c we published two books together before we finally met them near the in time square which was really cool a really fun experience and to this day we have now four published books and we've met once so it just really shows that when you are on the path and you're living within your purpose when you're committed to your vision that you can really create anything and that just god puts which you need whatever's required  create and manifest whatever it is that you're in alignment with that it shows up and it's amazing because you know i fell into this i'm an accidental entrepreneur but it's almost two years now we're going strong and i'm so excited we're touching thousands of lives  every day and it's really phenomenal place to be i'm super excited and grateful that you know for this experience my i don't know and i like how you say it is first speaking with changing your mindset and really transforming your life in molding it the way you want to go and personal development you know it's very important because first you have to understand and realize that you're lacking in something in the before all the you know take a and it was a long journey but it is very important for us to number one understand that we are individuals and we need to change our mindset so that we can get to both feel our purpose you know because of the people are relying on us for us to change our lives and then for them to change their you know we are an example as to how to do things and live a better life especially having a closer relationship with god and th seems to be the center of focus on what you guys are doing in a way yeah yeah and you know i love that you bring that out and it's amazing because you know you talking about why we got started and what our purpose was for our company is what i found was when i learned all these new things i was like i can't keep this to myself everybody have to know this i was like i didn't know this before why did i know this why didn't someone tell me and i said listen like it is gonna be my purpose that everybody knows that they get to create their life i was like there's absolutely no way possible i'm going to let anybody not hear that i'm like so we're going to reach everyone we're going to be on every continent i'm going to make sure and we focus on women as and i want every woman to know that they get to create their life by design rules and i said if it really does focus on your mindset on your and what i lov and i a lot of people will argue this may not be true but taking responsibility for every single thing that's happened to you and for me that's so powerful when you take responsibility for exactly where you are knowing that where you are is a product of every decision you make it's so powerful because it gives you the ability to change it and that's where we kind of come from a changing minds on mine were saying listen you can change your life only where you are work on your mindset and you can create anything and that's really what our mission comes from and you're right you have to share it and you become that example for people exactly and everything that you're saying just listening to you and marveling at how aligned it is with the store step out and redesign and i purposely selected the word really designed well because it fits in with the acronym but also the reason i chose that is because we all come into the world with a blueprint and that blueprint was designed by god and in order for us to build the things that that blueprint is intended for us to build god gave us the resources he gave us the gifts he gives the talent he gave us everything that we needed and order to be able to use that blueprint and build our lives however sometimes we get sidetracked you know like i talk about one of our core values is like transitions you go through a lot of different things in your lives and you oftentimes can go through many many years of your life before you begin to realize this is not what i'm supposed to be doing i'm supposed to be doing something else and you kind of and that's why i like when you use the word design that you can create your life by design because you came into the world with a blueprint for that design and absolutely and you know i truly believe that when you think about like who how god created the world right it was the spoken word and  people look if you have no idea what you want you're not going to create the life of your dream ave the possibly expect to go there if you don't even know what you want he'll know what your purpose says so i always tell people to start off by just making a list of what you and you know god created this world the spoken word let there be light and there was light right well god lives within us now and we have the same power that comes from him and it ultimately is his power but we can speak in great and we get to  lives so we believe it and if we say you know what i'm going to run thirty marathons the entire universe must shift so i can run thirty mark and i'm like that's how it works if you say story is going to be you know and i'm number one t v show it's going to be a number one t v show because everything has to move because you proclaimed it and you said it but we absolutely have the ability to create our life by design and i always love that as a first exercise for teaching people how to get started with that so and then like you said the work for me was purpose when you set your purpose and a lot of people say the understand because the mind set is still stuck on you know the world with there by else the you know which isn't their purpose and then it takes to drive and determination to break gather that mindset and say ok i'm going to sit down here and i'm going to write out what i really want for my life so by you sharing a purpose you know will give of the people that insight well i have a purpose and let me sit down and figure out what our purpose is it may not come just like this but it's going to come once you take the time and  not have that mindset to fulfill purpose and start changing yeah i love that you know i always say there's so many people who say all the time i want to make my life better but they resist change and i ask them how can you possibly expect to make your life better if you're afraid to change and it's really true and you know i love how you talk about knowing what you want and your purpose and i actually do separate those two things you know for me a purpose is bigger than a wish list now i have my list of things that i want right from the places that i want to travel things i want to purchase skills i want to learn and it's great to have those things god wants us to be happy right ask and you shall receive is what he says and there's no blessing he doesn't want to give us so we were born to be abundant and god is abundant so i absolute believe we have the divine right to have all the things that we want but in the same sense of purpose is different for me its purpose is our vision for why we do what we do and why we get up every morning so the difficulty is so many entrepreneur  go about what they're doing but they're not clear on what their vision is and ninety percent of entrepreneurs who started business they quit they fell and i mean i actually argue that the reason being is they don't know what their purpose is so when things get difficult they quit s for me i actually write my purpose out twice a day if anyone asked me to any given point what's your purpose with your mission statement you know i can tell you my vision is all women are empowered and inspired in creating a life of their dreams by finding and living into their purpose that's my purpose i write it out every morning when i wake up and every night before i go to bed so when things are hard when i have a phone call i'm not excited about making or something i don't really feel like doing because there's things we have to do right as business owners that are just not fun there's certain sacrifices we make and we do that because we're clear on what our purpose and i think it's so powerful to really be clear on what your purpose is is a mazing exercise and i would recommend anyone you know who really is serious about taking their business and mike to the next level you have to have a vision statement it's a requirement for success and you should not only have it but you need to know what it is at and for me live it breathe it eat it sleep it write it out every single day of your lives and you will start to create it becomes becomes part of your d n a absolutely and i have something else that you said earlier is you said that you got involved and the network marketing industry and i am also along with gayle are involved in the network marketing industry as well and i would say for me it's the personal development like the company that we are associated with sort of identifies itself as yes we have this business we have this product but what we really are is a personal development company and a lot of people may not be sure exactly what personal development is and so maybe if you could define that a little like all three of us at the table we pretty much know what personal development is and understand that the personal development that you are on that journey is going to be very different from the joining that i'm on which is very different from the journey that gail was wrong but we're still focused on that goal of personally developing ourselves we're doing it for different reasons and the other thing that i want to comment on is when you talk about purpose being your why does a young woman in our network marketing company that made a speech at one time and she it was very powerful and one of the things that she said was if know why doesn't make you cry then you need to kind of sit back and take a different look at that and so maybe if you could comment a little bit more on some things from that perspective like if apple never done personal development before and i'm listening to all of this an hour in shrink by it what are some of the things that i need to be doing to start my own personal development journey and you know i love that you know person development and it gets sometimes as bad eri there you go so you know anything about that person development for me is very simple education yeah really just education is about learning new skills and really mindset it's a skill of some muscle that you develop the same way i train my muscle at the gym i train my mindset every day to be focused on what i'm creating to be focused on abundance to really choose powerfully and be intentional but it's really education so my person the development journey might look very different than your person the  because we all have different set of skills and we have different things we want to do so where's my business partner dr fins she is a phenomenon of social media and she does all these phenomenal persons and like development as far as social media is concerned she went to the scope summit and she went to all these different things that i personally wouldn't be interested in i don't do those things i go to my own i'm tomorrow i'm going to be committed to going to a day and it's a very much a mindset person developments on the arm so you know it doesn't have to be the same and there's no right or wrong person about men but the more that we grow our mind the more that we educate ourselves the really more you know we grow as a person and that weekend so i think that's really important and i want to you're talking about you know your wife your purpose and absalom in your purpose and must be really clear i always say this is that you know if your purpose is doesn't include other people it's not going to be strong enough you know there's things that we want and yes we have you know temporary things so my marathons thirty by thirty part of my my purpose in my business right now my personal goals and my personal reason i'm putting in extra hours and doing extra work is because it's expensive to do that it causes a lot of money to so yeah i'm thinking about that but ultimately right if things get really really challenging and that's not enough and maybe that's going to and this is going to be over so your purpose can't be to get something now that might be a really powerful driving force for a short period of time that's not really your purpose than just a goal and then you're using your business to get to that goal and that's fine but the other part about it is that if you're you know that that's all you're focused on you're going to be creating from desperation and people who see it and they will not be attracted to you they're going to be running away from you especially if your professional network marketer like we are right the last thing you want to do is to you know prospect people from a place of desperation that is going to run away as fast as they can but you know if don't have to worry about myself i get taken care of because i'm incorporated into my vision but it's bigger than me it's bigger than just about me and to me that's what it means to have an abundant mindset just in believing that you're going to be taken care of that when you make the world better that you're going to get to live in a better world that when you're creating abundant you get to live in a more abundant world so that's for me what it comes down to and that's really for me the difference because let me tell you being an entrepreneur and you know this we can all speak to this there were so many challenges there's so many times where you just want to give up and i mean and that's a something i carry with me my my noble gets in my car now but i carry it with me and my vision statement is written out there the only times a day that i i require looking at that notebook and say ok this is what i'm committed to creating because it gets really really challenging it really does and you must you must be clear on your purpose and it must be bigger than just about you were about getting you to a temporary place exactly as i think of so and their purpose is also a passion one of the things that i tell people when i'm coaching them as far as you know they're wanting to start a business like make sure that there's something that you really w at the passion because the one thing you don't want another job you want something that you're passionate about something that's going to get you go in the morning something that you really enjoy and be able to make a difference and like you said including other people you know doing things for other people and that's what your passion is about helping other people and that is something that i've never really talked about because it's always there anyway helping people but i like how you said you want to include people you want to do something for people and that's your purpose you know your light is shining in like this and not only that just to kind of piggyback off of that in the what god created was first the relationship between him and adam and then that relates that relationship carried into the relationship between adam and eve so right from the very beginning relationships was a part of how we were supposed to live and we kind of live sometimes today like in our own little bubble over here or our own little silo over here but that's not really how god intended and one of the things that i you know and this is our first time did exactly what we've been talking about really since the motherhood dreams and success book came out so yeah we have we're just about out of time i want to kind of wrap it up a little bit so what are those that one last nugget of information that you want to share and particularly about how people can listen to changing minds online he would thank you for asking so if you want to find us on social media we're facebook we're really on everywhere changing minds online is our handle for everything but the best way to contact to be in contact with us is is changing minds on line dot com w w w dot changing minds on line dot com we are actually away right now for the next week or to be just put out a book on branding and social media and we have been observing some of the people that we look at on our friends on our profiles and i said you know what so many people don't know how to brand themselves that we decided to his just to let everyone know know you are so powerful and i truly believe that you can create your life by design you know believe in yourself believe in the power of god within you and it will happen and that's really the first choice it's you take that first them and just sharing her journey from jessica likewise and i'm so glad that we were able to connect like this and we must do it again absolutely so to our audience make sure you go check out changing mine online and