Sarah Greener Testimonial

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Bianca:  Okay, so we're here with Sarah Greener. Tell me, Sarah, I know you're great at all these things, but what actually do you do?

Sarah:  So, a great way to put it, I'm a business coach and I work with female small business owners that generally have a physical component to their business in the service industry and I help them get a day back a week, first and foremost. Most, but fundamentally it's working on systems with their team and making sure that they're using their time on the things that create a future they want.

Bianca:  That's awesome. So how did you find out about the spiral training? What was the stirring in your heart that made you go look for this?

Sarah:  It's really interesting because since COVID hit, I hadn't done any work on me one and two, I hadn't done any upscaling in terms of my coaching skills until so while obviously I was still having a business journey and experiencing that and building out those processes, I wasn't working on my actual skills and tools as a coach. I was looking for what is the next kind of tool that I was going to put on my toolbox? Moving away from? Not moving away from. But what was the next stretch for me in terms of skills and tools that I would apply there? And I had asked a friend if I was going to go and do some more coach training. Who should I do that with only? Well, at the time I thought it was two names. I thought it was Kylie and Ryan. You should talk to Kylie and Ryan. And I now realize it was Kylie Ryan, but it was one name. This person has given me lots of recommendations over the years. He's never put me wrong and so.

Bianca: That's why so you didn't know what.

Sarah:  You didn't know yet? No, I didn't know what I didn't know yet. Just that I was like I felt like I had leveled up in lots of other areas of my business, but I was not concerned is the wrong word. But I'm really conscious of making sure I'm constantly working on that coaching side because it's just as important as the business skills and tools if I'm going to be a really great quality business coach.

Bianca:  Yeah, totally. And how did you find the training experience?

Sarah:  Intense would be a word. So it was compounded over like seven days, over two weeks, which was great because it was all done in a really short frame. Time frame. Really done in a really short time frame for me. And also it meant that I was constantly working on it. There was none of this go away and watch a video and come back to it, which you cough out on watching the video and doing the work like it was all there. It was live. There's a chance to work through the actual process with other people and talk about it and then experience the process yourself. And so there was a lot going on, I must admit. After the first I think we did three days and then four days or four days and then three days, the first three days I was just like, I'm just going to go to bed and sleep for a week. It feels like, having gone through the process, so loved it. It was a really nice mix of what's the learning, the education, the intellectual side of it and the application and the use of the tools.

Bianca:  I remember now our first conversation and realizing that we were kind of throwing you in the deep end of what to expect and how do you feel, I guess, having to make that leap from that strategic mindset into the real, I guess, inner workings of the spiritual nature of expanding your consciousness. Did you struggle at first to make those that leap? Was there a bit of a process of having to lean in and trust?

Sarah:  There was just a process of leaning in entrusting I think that I just sort of didn't know what I didn't know. And so for me it was about, well, I randomly ended up here at this place, must be for a reason. I've been talking about doing this sort of in a work myself. I've been dabbling very peddling in the very shallow waters of this area. Why not give it a go and so just trust and sort of dive in and go along on that process. It was so interesting. As I went on that process, there was all these different things that kind of lined up. So parts of the process is like my grand was doing this 70 years ago in the health space and there was all these alignments that came up where we talked about muscle testing and things like that. And I was like, oh, that was that stuff my grand used to do. We were kids to test if we should be eating something or using washing powder or something, which always works, let's be honest. And so then to have it applied in a slightly different way and look at it in a way that we can use it to tap into our subconscious or unconscious and start to tidy up. Tidy up is the wrong word, but release and clear and come back to neutral on some emotional patterns that are holding you back was really powerful.

Bianca:  Awesome. What have you noticed have been some of the results as you experienced in your life or your business or your capacity as a leader? What have you noticed it's affected?

Sarah:  I think the biggest thing were the emotions that I had learned over the years to just stuff them down. So there were so many negative emotions that I had been taught weren't appropriate to feel or any of those things. And so I'd stuff those down for years and of course, in that got tangled up and all sorts of other things. And so while I was on the program, having an experience of going to the movies with my child and seeing other children behave in a certain way, which clearly breached my boundaries and just feeling anger for the first time ever, like massive adrenaline surge from everybody going, Whoa. Like, totally okay with it, totally calm with it, but angry and, like, going, wow, I haven't felt anger. I couldn't probably since I was my child's age, like, that long. And it was just this really which sounds crazy, but this empowering moment to go, my boundaries have been breached, I'm angry, and it's okay, nobody died, those sorts of things. Like, it was okay for me to have these emotions that for years I hadn't allowed myself to have. So I and I could use them as data and information to kind of redirect what I was doing and what was working and not working for me is gently right. Like, it was just completely different from my experience of emotions before that.

Bianca:  I love how you said you can use it as data in information. Like, once you're able to express it, you are able to then take your strength and channel it in a really resourceful way. Like, it didn't break how you've always operated, actually. It made you more honed and more efficient.

Sarah:  Yeah. And just move through it. That was the other amazing thing is that when you stuff down emotions, they stick around. Just pop that anger down here and I'll deal with it later. It will pop up again and pop up again, whereas now just, like, feel it and move through it and out the other side. I don't know that there's any less or more of those traditional negative and positive emotions. I just think you move through them so much faster. That's probably the way that I would describe that. And so because of that, I'm so much more centered for my clients and I'm so much more centered for my business decisions than I would have been in the past.

Bianca:  Yeah, because you are holding a lot of different things working across industries, and then you've had the natural disasters there in El Torador. What have you noticed that these new skills, abilities, sensitivities have been able to or even that centering? How has that been able to help you?

Sarah:  Yeah, I think those things will still happen. I think that there's this fundamental that you'll do all this inner work and then magically life will be the shining rainbows and happy unicorns, and it's just not so those things will come up and your ability to cope with them. Cope is not even the right word. So just your ability to kind of register that happening, to have feelings about it, because you will always have feelings about it. So there's been frustration and worry about what are the impacts going to be? And then frustration around how that's been navigated by people way outside my control. So governments and rodent people and media and those sorts of things, but also coming back very quickly to what am I in control of and what can I shift and change? And so that allowed us to keep making progress both in our business, but also for our clients, businesses. You're able to come back and keep everyone moving in the same direction, in the right direction, I guess, rather than getting distracted by the noise in the same way that I would have done the past. Yeah.

Bianca:  It feels like amongst everything, you've been able to be more precise, be more targeted, get into, flow faster, figure out what's needed to be done without having to deny your true nature while you're doing it.

Sarah:  Yeah. And I think the other thing is that also allowing yourself to be tired by the emotional shifts and changes that are going on, because when you're in a role like we are, you are holding space for me, sometimes 30 people. And so that takes energy. And so recognizing that and allowing that and having rest from that, especially when there's big things going on for a big part of that group in terms of natural disasters and things like that, really, really important because you're not just regulating. I'm not just regulating for myself and then co regulating with my family. I'm doing that for everyone in the group as well. And so just being far more mindful of myself and managing that, just having a deeper understanding of keeping that alignment.

Bianca:  Amazing. And what would you say to anybody else who is considering upskilling and finding Kylie Ryan?

Sarah:  Kylie Ryan, and Mei as well, they are amazing. Both of them were fantastic to work with. What would I recommend? I think that for me, you just trust. And it was just about trusting that I was in the right place at the right time. And I guess my biggest query, and right back when I first spoke to you, was, how am I going to fit this into my business coaching world that I do? And already I've used it with a couple of clients, just in a small way. Not the complete process, but little pieces of it that have been really powerful for them to shift and move them back to neutral in terms of their emotions. And so they're able to speed through things so much more quickly rather than getting tangled up in all that emotional rope before they can take action. And so trust that you're in the right place if you're here and move forward, knowing that there's always a way to use the process regardless of what you do, it's just a matter of playing with it, having some fun with it and seeing how it looks. I think it was really interesting for me to see how you use it, because you use it in quite a modeled way, which is quite logical for me in my logical brain, quite logical and structured. And I'm like, so there's just a thousand different ways to apply the learnings as well as the spiral process for your clients. And so I think if you keep your mind really open to it, you can apply it in so many different ways.

Bianca:  Yeah, because I think that's really good to point out, too, you're a business coach. It's not like you're going to go down the pathway of doing lots of one on one sessions with people as being a skilled spiritual mindset practitioner, but how you've been able to integrate and I think it's like just unfolding. It like unfolding yourself as a leader and having these skills and applying them and finding those different ways that you can apply them, and then also knowing that there's still so much more for you to explore and using that to integrate what you use as a business coach. I think that's really cool to see.

Sarah:  Yeah, absolutely. And play around with it in different ways. And I think it really allows you to stand out like it's a noisy space to be in. Right, and so if you can shift people faster and easier in a more powerful way rather than just this kind of top level conscious tactical way of doing things, you're going to get really big, powerful shifts. And then never mind that I use it on myself emotionally clear most days now for myself. And that in itself has been really powerful, I think. Yeah.

Bianca:  And knowing how seeing how you're growing in your business from your own personal empowerment too, has been really great. To see how you keep kicking goals and creating opportunities and charging ahead and just the support that you've got to be consistent and keep showing up for yourself. But also seeing how those efforts are stacking on top of each other to really see those different amazing progress or breakout record success months, sales months and then new clients and new caliber of clients. All those things that are really adding to your own magnetism.

Sarah:  Yeah, absolutely. And interesting, actually, that I did this training, if I think about that real, like next level for me in terms of my business, then the progress from that level all sort of started happening in November as I was doing the training. I don't know that you go magically, this is connected to that. But if you look at the progress I've made, I've done that work and been through the spiral and it's definitely you can start to go, oh, look at all these things that are lining up and starting to make good decisions about where you're going and who you're working with and yeah, it's been great.

Bianca:  Awesome. Well, it's really inspiring to see. Thanks so much for sharing your journey, Sarah.

Sarah:  My pleasure. Thanks for your time.