3: Nancy Matthews a visionary woman with GUTS on a mission to encourage others

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Nancy Matthews is an International Speaker, Global Leader, Author and Executive Business Consultant with over 25 years of experience. She has shared the stage with some of today’s leading experts on business, motivation and transformation including Jack Canfield, John Maxwell, Bob Burg, Loral Langemeier, Stedman Graham, Sharon Lechter, Rita Davenport and many others. She delivers keynote presentations, seminars and workshops and has been featured regularly in the media.

She is known as the “Visionary with Guts” for her willingness to blaze through challenges and obstacles and to turn adversity into advantage and empowers and equips others to do the same. As the owner and operator of several multi-million dollar businesses, Nancy shares her expertise to support others in achieving their goals.

She is the founder of WomensProsperityNetwork.com (WPN) which provides online and offline resources for women to connect and mastermind, realizing their full potential.

Defining Success:

  • It’s about Freedom of thought: Not letting circumstances determine the joy or direction in your life.
  • Freedom to love the people you want to be with to expand affinity of relationship
  • Freedom of Life style: Doing what you want to do when you want to do it
  • Basically a freedom to enjoy life

Most Influential Person:

  • Mom for the independent, go for what you want example set as a single mother in the 1960’s raising 4 kids
  • Marshall Sylverhttp://www.sylver.com/ Help understand thoughts and previous programing is what creates perceived challenges in life

Biggest Mistakes:

  • Not a Mistake but a learning opportunity from the unplanned event of having a baby at the age of 24 years being single. Nancy recommends Book “Out Witting the Devil” about drifting through life. Her unplanned event put her life on track for success. If you are not trying new things life will stay the same. Life is about growing, change, taking risk and knowing that you can get up after falling down and do something again.

Life’s Lowest Point:

  • Her marriage and soon to be divorce. Not being aware of signs self-confidence and self-esteem was her low.

Epiphany – Decide to Go All-In Moment:

  • Time of 15:30 –In 2001 she ran a law firm for someone else and was not an attorney herself. The firm need to hire an attorney and things went well for a while but then the relationship with co-worker becoming sour and she then realized she had to go into business for herself. During that transitional time she realized she felt comfortable being the 2nd in command.She felt nudged out of the company and when she went into business for herself she realized the buck stops here which means she is completely and totally responsible. She was subconsciouswas afraid and when she stepped out on her own it was the most extraordinary and powering feeling she has experienced.

Advice on how to be All-In:

  • Learning to trust yourself again, you have the power, the vision and the purpose inside of you. Making time to connect with that consistently to listen to the Spirit within you speak to you and guide you in that direction. The more that you do that the more synchronistic moments will show up in your life. The more on point to your purpose you are magic happens. It comes about when you are connecting to the inner Spirit/Source, Spiritual nature to God/Universe there are message contained yourself that are begging to come out.

Favorite Quote:

  • When you are living your vision the universe will conspire in your favor.
  • “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”― Maya Angelou

Defining living in your Purpose:

  • Every day she appreciates (Truly grateful for people she interacts with), educate (Committed to educate herself and share with others) and elevate her spirit and other. Treating other as though they are the one.

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