greetings everyone welcome to another episode of energy bringing you and lightning television for your evolving soul when it comes to your career you feel as if you're stuck at a ceiling in your comfort zone or are you rocking euro zone of genius your zone of genius is where your top innate talents meet your greatest passion according to my guest michelle lange branding and marketing specialist when you discover your zone of genius you are uniquely positioned to excel and achieve extraordinary success prepared to be inspired as positive energy starts right michel welcome to positive energy thank you i'm happy to be here today i am excited to have you here to talk about the one of genius and much more so let's start out so what is known of genius and why is it so important to express it in your work so your zone of genius is usually the intersection between what you are naturally good at your innate talent you probably had it since the day you were born your passion like what you really authentically love to do in fact you might love it so much that even if it wasn't your job you'd still be alive and i yup and where your interest and skill set lie but even if it's a skill that you learned it was in the talent there i love that i love that i love the calling terms of a zone you know it's like it puts a a parameter around a bubble around it contains it and i love the idea that we all have that yeah it's pretty cool and you don't even have to like it's about uncovering it because it's already there are you there's always been there since the day you were born so technically she would wouldn't think it would be hard to on cover that but sometimes we all need a little help yeah right yeah i need to reflect that back to us yeah and a lot of it has to do with your upbringing some of us like i was very lucky to grow up in a home where it was naturally brought out i was in a very creative family so the creativity was always encourage if you were born in a home that you did you hear a lot of people who were artists born into a home that's very you know traditional professions and the artistic creative was stamped out of them for whatever reason that's where there's only a genius has been unkind has been covered or stamped out or not allowed to flourish and part of their growth and spiritual journey is about rediscovering it so that's a great example can you say a little bit more about what it looks like when someone is not operating in their zone of genius so people will know so they can recognize it in their life and what it feels like right as well as looks like and how it shows up exactly so what happens is it's sometimes a process of discovery so the first sign is not feeling really impassioned by what you're doing  you've got to distinguish though so let's take an example of a lawyer i had some an attorney friends where they hated their job but they loved law and maybe they were working in the wrong section of law or they were at a big firm and what they wanted was to have their own business for they could do projects their passion about so you first need to distinguish is it my situation isn't my circumstance that stamping out my passion once you've eliminated that it's and you need to uncovers sometimes like my lawyer friend he was in the right field wrong wrong wrong niche and wrong focus within that field so sometimes a lot of times it's really about listening to your heart and your intuition and what keeps coming up and so once he was able to tune into the projects and the the niches within that field that excited him and to have the courage to go out and start as own business that's when he started loving what he was doing i see ok so what if you're nowhere near that you're zone of geez you're far off from that and you're miserable and you have no idea how to how do you help people or what are some of the methods so people can identify start to identify there's an ingenious short so an important  want to make to distinguish or i want to make is that you've got your zone of genius and you've got your zone of excellence so i'll give you an example my zone of genius is in the communication and in the messaging in finding the words that excess really can capture what somebody does in their own unique way hey i could've gone to law school at one point i was going to go to law school and i could have been excellent in that field so you can't you can't confuse what you're really good at with the zone of genius so the what you're really good at can disguise that and there are many people who live a satisfied life as a doctor or a lawyer or an accountant or something of that sort where it wasn't their zone of genius there's others like there are other doctors lawyers accountants where it is their zone of genius so and you know that by how you feel about it and if another sign is if you're doing one thing and it just keeps coming as a recurring thought i wonder what my life had been like had i been this or i'm really wishing i was doing this that's your own inner being giving you a message and it's about listening in tuning in so when people aren't clear the first thing they need to do is to pay attention to what keeps coming up what keeps coming up the second thing to do is to really think back to when you were a child what did you absolutely love to do that you could do for hours and the third thing is a lot of times there's only a genius is something that they're already doing as a hobby so for example somebody might loved working with animals they love it if they could volunteer all weekend for an you know an animal rescue and just be in sheer joy that's the sign right there and the other thing about sound of genius that you need to realize is it's not always  to one specific expression so like from what i know about you michel you're a natural healer so whether you work with grown ups or animals or children or teens you will naturally breed bringing that same gift and that same sense to to your work and sometimes it's just pivoting who you're doing it with that can take you from here like this a lot to i'm feeling the complete joy that's another is like me it's a loving it off the chart just like the lawyer who left the big firm started focusing on small civil cases and now loves it loves helping the little man so it's got a lot of people just  know you find that most people in a don't even realize they're settling because they're not raised again or not conditioned or taught that they deserve more of that more is even possible so they don't even dare to dream that what they're getting paid for and what they're doing as work could be something that they're ecstatic about love and can't wait to get up in the morning exactly and there are people that have a very limiting beliefs that are keeping them from the zona genius of for example to a lot of people early on they get messages from the family of well that's great but that's a hobby or you can't make money at that or everyone in our family is a doctor or a lawyer right that type of thing or at the time my mom was growing up you were either a social worker or a teacher or a stay at home mom so there's messages from your family there's messages from society but even when you're working with a grown up who's you know in their forty's and left their family years ago one the biggest piece that we often have to get through are the limiting belief that it's possible to have a career doing what you love and we're living in this time especially with the internet where people can make careers out of most wildest things i have a friend who just made ninety five thousand dollars online creating a course for those who decorate cakes but another woman i know is a millionaire off of her online dog training so anything you can think of you can probably find an audience for and that that is when you're zone of genius really can lead to huge success is when you can marry to zona genius with what the market needs and wants yeah i love it so there really are no limits but yes starting with some of the self awareness and asking those right questions because that really shifts your energy and then it's like you're exuding love for what you do and then that's a magnet it is a magnet and all sorts of opportunities come because remember the universe says your wish is my command so if all the sudden you're putting it out there oh my god i have to some mazing supplement for pregnant women and it's going to change your life and that's what you're vibrating and it's a beacon and the universe will send to you the people that need it pretty amazing the way it works i love that and certainly we can also equate it to just when we talk about someone having a soul purpose yeah you know dharma you know and a past that we're all like pre birth we laid some of that out it is about uncovering that yeah i was really your deeper overarching purpose why we're here why you're here you know and  it's wired within us to remember that and to know then to follow that and you're right is when something just delights us and turns us on you know when we think about doing it and when we're doing it we're in the moment we're in the zone yes and there's something and to realize about your zone of genius it will likely come so easy to you that you don't even think of it as a unique gift you know because it's so easy it's so effortless and so one way that when people don't know what their zone of genius is one assignment i give our clients is to ask five people you're close to what do you observe that i do extraordinarily well or where i really shine you know and it can help for other people can can see it so much and clearly they why did that work so well i guess people can see things that we that we can't yes yeah not inside of us yet or outside of us but they know us really well yes and when it comes easy to easily to you you're going to tend to way more likely to really stand out because you can usually do this better than most people you know usually be in the top one percent because you can do something you do it so extraordinarily well that it's where you shine do it naturally you do it naturally is that wrong yeah but there are other key elements to success right so usually when somebody is coming into their zone of genius there's a almost like a spiritual journey that happens where you need to have you need certain skills and you need to so for example when i was when i was starting my business that was sort of the first three years there were certain things i needed to get in place there were things i needed to learn there were areas i need to grow so there's this growth point that is going to challenge you but you need to stay with it and that's when you gain mastery and that's when you have your breakthrough so like michael jordan i'm sure he was always great at basketball but it was probably a period of time that he was put through the reactor and told you got to be better and better and better in order to make it to the pro you know you know it's the same with a young pianist you know really getting up to the level where they can perform a concert yeah they're you know a little bit we're all material it's all there it's the potential it's like a flower needs to be watered and then it's it opens up and it's the most beautiful thing he'd seen and that's for all of us for all have everyone has it yeah and for those who believe in the soul it's you know there are many people that believe that it's part of your soul imprint it's part of your blueprint part of your contract in the time  that's why in the soul is so smart when it is and when you are not living it it will keep nudging you until you listen yeah like things will get worse sort of or you sometimes get more out of alignment and we could say that's the spiritual reason people getting depressed or anxious or feeling stock it's that there's neiges they're not listening to from their soul right or they'll start manifesting health problems like getting elements so they don't need to go into work you know yeah yeah so you said a lot about how you help clients but are there any other specific methods so that maybe even someone listening and watching right now can start yap on something a tip whether it's something they write or something they do self reflection on o meditation on or asking themselves those powerful questions what do you recommend so people can discover their zone of genius yeah absolutely for the there's a few questions i would have them just journal and write about and really do it as automatic writing uncensored so the first so i can overthink it don't overthink it so the first question is what did i love to do when i was a child like when i was given play time or free time what or even at school what did i absolutely love and then write down  extraordinarily good at or just very good at and what if people told me i'm good at and then now in the present day what do i love to do if i had unlimited time and unlimited resources what would i be doing with that time yeah and then the fourth thing i would write about is what brings me joy what really brings me joy and can i make a living at that so let's say there was somebody were being around little children brought them joy or being a mom book brought them joy well can i be around more children can i open i have a friend who left her job and opened up a whole performing arts preschool that gives her joy she has now she went from being a lawyer to now owning of a beautiful preschool that flourished so much that they're now opening a second they're opening a second one i'm sure every person has a story everybody who successful and found that  has traced it back and i love the idea of going back to your original joy yeah and if we have to go as far back as childhood often to remember that yes yes and yes and there's different layers to of being able to see yours own of genius so some people are living in their zone of genius but they don't even realize they are there just living their passion and loving what they're doing so there's this other level of sometimes you know when branding one of the things we first do is identify what differentiates that person what makes them unique and so they somebody may be living in their zone a genius but not be able to put language to what makes them extraordinary and what makes them unique and it's often through interviewing them that i can only hover that and then put words to it there's a skill set in that so do you think that people can do it completely on their own or they can at least identify start to identify for themselves but do we need a coach or a mentor or a guide or teacher you know a leader or an author to help us put it into practice so you can actually realize your dreams and your goals yeah i think it depends on the person yeah i think there are people that all they need to do is  once they realize that once they get clear they go over all the running i still think if you're developing a business around your zone of genius then having a mentor or having a business coach really show you that and how to make that profitable is really important and also having somebody really help you coach you through your mindset blocks and fears around going for it because resistance your subconscious wants to keep you where you are because it makes you feel safe and it's trying to keep you safe  and so when you start going for it you will have resistance kick in to have an ok so you need more right having a coach that can point that out to you and help you really work through that is important and then also i would say the piece once you have left what you're doing and if you have started a business having a branding expert really be able to help you put language to it so that you can effectively communicate to other people what differentiates you which is important for all of your marketing very much in the language in the words that will teach people and will engage people the other thing i want to say too is sometimes it's not about leaving a job sometimes it's it can be you may work at a big company where it's about creating a new role at that company and that's the beauty of getting clear because once you can get clear and have the language to communicate what your zone of genius is you can open up a new opportunity sometimes so i have a friend who was  forget what her role was but she's such a p morgan and she really wanted to go into leadership coaching and she was able to create a role at her company doing leadership coaching and development ass so sometimes it's just a matter of tweaking things  box and being willing to get out of your comfort zone so that's that's one of your really great examples because we really want to inspire people because so many people you hear they feel stuck and they don't see a way out so there are any other inspirational examples that you have for that people who felt that way but they're in such a different place now yeah yeah and so it's really interesting because i would say almost all the entrepreneurs i know right now were originally doing something else before they created their business especially the ones that tend to be between ages thirty five and and fifty five and i mean a lot of these the lenny olds are really great about knowing exactly what they wanted to  creating something outside the box going out and getting venture funding and go and starting a company you see that more and more but more people in our generation they go i think a lot of people go through this metamorphosis between thirty five and fifty five of of really discovering that what they're doing is not what they really want and so i and most people i know who now have their own business created created something they really wanted to be doing yeah so yeah that's my story it's your story to do you want to thank about your own story how you discovered and sure about what to do because you're operating in your zone of genius thank you thank you ad for me it was sort of like a pivot so i grew up with the love of acting i almost and directing so i used to direct people you know if the movie grease came out when i was a kid and i would spend my i have the whole movie memorized it means they watched it i swear on hundred two hundred times you  when i was a kid i used to walk around being like i've seen twenty nine times i was like eight years old so so basically and so that was an indicator right i would on recess and after school reenact all the scenes cast it direct all my friends and so i went into theater but i realized that i wanted to be on the other side of the camera so that i wanted to feature film development working with hollywood writers and screenplays and all of that so what and this is where i i mention that sometimes you're close you're like you're on the reservation but you're staying in the wrong cabin and you need to like go down the road so what i realized was that i didn't want to be in a hot i didn't want to be really entrenched in hollywood where my career  livelihood depended on it and that i was really drawn to working with entrepreneurs and coaches and consultants and so what i did was i took those skills and i took those gifts of of storytelling and working on messaging and coaching people on their delivery of their message and ended up bringing that over to work with entrepreneurs and companies and so i still get to use all the acting background in directing people on camera and making videos and creating their at their messaging and their marketing campaigns but it's a it's still using a lot of those gifts but pivoting them into a different message i think is important for people to hear given wherever they are now at nothing is a waste yes wherever they are they're still there for a reason they still have been led there even it's not where they want to end up where they're most in alignment still there's something for them to learn and maybe that's going to add up to accumulate and they're going to use that they're going to draw upon it so they want people to get the most out of where they are now of course while they're going through this kind of exploration yeah change yeah and sometimes people are at companies where they're doing one role and somebody in the leadership recognizes a gift their gift and promotes them to a new role that nice when that happens yeah and so like that in the cards we would say as well and so like even at the preschool the director of the preschool started as a teacher and the owner of the preschool saw the gift of like being able to be you know make executive decisions and oversee people so she promoted her and this woman loves her job now so things like that can happen so that must be so rewarding for you to see that i mean that's why you do what you do because how are warding is it when somebody finally steps into that in that way and it's it's like changing if it frees up people's energy and then that's the ripple effect they want to help other people then to do the same right when you're really happy what you do you want to see everybody come in the pool join in with me the water's warm lets you know absolutely and that's when your purpose that's when we tie in your purpose it's usually yours own of genius will be used in an act of service and that will become because that also the soul on whatever level wants to serve it wants to give it wants to help it's the highest expression of your soul when you can use your gifts in a way that helps others and so that's where you start getting to figure out what your purpose is in the why behind what you do yeah and when you're living that it's incredibly powerful you're pretty much on stoppable so can you say we're getting towards the end but can you boil any of that down to just a few nuggets maybe to repeat again for people to take away sure absolutely so you're zona so just kind of like a summary would that be helpful ok here's own of genius is where your unique gifts what you're innately good at your passion what you love to do and your abilities converge and you know that you're living in your unique genius when there's a choice and a flow to what you do when you wake up and want to do it every day this effortless and if you don't know what that is there's some exploratory questions to ask yourself that i mention this video and you also need to make a determination if you need extra support in order to really either uncover it or to take the courageous inspired action to take the steps to live it out and then once you've made that decision you need to determine how well you're able to articulate it to the people that you actually want to do business with or to win over if you're at a company and see executive team and so then if you need support with that there are people like me and there's other branding marketing strategists who can help you do that well i want to say that i reached out to you and to be transparent we're working together and it's really been a pleasure and it's made a real big difference for me and that i would encourage people and put them in your direction to to help you exactly with this all thank you if it please so i hope that people will reach out to you and i really appreciate all that you've shared it's been my pleasure and i've loved working with you michel we're wrapping up another enlightening show i truly hope you will discover your zone of genius because there are people out there waiting for your unique brilliance and if you need some assistance with that reach out to me