How To Leave Your Nine to Five with Christine James

My guest today is Christine James who is a bridge-builder for the 9 to 5’ers and the entrepreneurial lifestyle. After working at the Department of Defense for almost 10 years, she left her job and now focuses on helping her clients develop a job exit strategy while building their own successful brand! Today we are talking about her transition from the stability of a good government job to getting weird with her business and how she leads her clients through their own fail-proof exit strategy through her SHIFT program!

Christine’s kind-hearted and straight-to-the-point attitude will have you ready to say goodbye to your 9-5 and hello to your next chapter as a business owner! Listen now!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How being a little weird can take you to places you’ve never been
• When you should take the plunge into entrepreneurship
• How she transitioned from the Department of Defense to become a confidence coach and strategist

Check out a few of the episode highlights: 

[0:08]: I asked them when they're looking and I'm like, is it the freedom that you want? Do you know the difference? Because you may try to copy someone else. And I do feel like success is unique to all of them…

[3:04]: You can have a for-profit business and then go into a nonprofit. There's a difference and just show up in their brilliance and just breaking down how they can help others from their experience…

[10:10]: I still applied to dental school. I didn't get accepted. I applied again, but I didn't get accepted, and I remember looking at my vision board and seeing that I had coaching and speaking on there because now my mindset has changed. My time had freed up when I left my nine to five and I was just going to school…

[14:39]: She had a suck-up a fly in her nose. I don't suggest that for anyone to do, but she had to do those things so she could tap into a different world that she had this skill set in, but it was her skillset. It wasn't anybody else's. So it's the same thing with us…

[20:38]: You know, you be the boss you desired, you know, at one point and then just giving yourself that structure and that freedom. It's not that you're going to get lazy, and I think a lot of times that's a fear for some women…

[29:30]: It's the space you keep falling through. As you're walking your journey, you feel like you're always dipping…

[35:48]: I tell every single client when you say yes to your dream in your life, and you are in the process of transition at your nine to five, there's an acronym for yes, your elevation starts. And every time you're in elevation, there's going to be turbulence…

[39:41]: And I think a lot of times, too, as women, we kind of beat ourselves up for having emotions other than happiness. If that drains you, that drains you. So I would say just embrace it. Look at the thought you're having, because a lot of times it's going to be from synthesis…

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Music Credit:

Summer Daze by PYROSION