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Why Settle for a Career Change or a Job Change When What You Really Want is a New Life?
Making Money
Doing What You Love
Is a Lot Easier
Than You Think
Maybe you'd love to shop for a living… or
run a youth sports camp... or be a motivational speaker… or get paid to travel…
or write children's books… or do your art… or be a coach... or have an online
business…
You
think you need a career change. But what you really want is meaningful work,
joy, and more control over your time and your life.
The kind of control where you – and not
some employer – get to decide when, where and how you work.
In other words, what you really want is
to make a good living doing what you love but without a j-o-b?
You can, you know.
Since
escaping her corporate job in 1995 to found Changing Course,
"Dreamer in Residence" Dr. Valerie Young's career advice has
appeared around the world...
Imagine Waking Up Every Day
Eager to Do Work You Really Love
 Hello. My name is Valerie Young.
For
seven years, I commuted 90 miles a day to a well-paying corporate job
that paid the bills but did not feed my spirit. The demands of work and
life left me feeling constantly caught between a “clock and a hard
place."
I
thought about changing jobs. But even then I wondered if trading one set
of office politics for another was really the solution... or just the
career change version of trading deck chairs on the Titanic?
Perhaps you've wondered the same thing.
On July 31, 1993
I Got the Worst
News of My Life
That’s the day my mother died unexpectedly of a heart attack. She was
only 61 and just five months shy of her much-awaited retirement from her
job.
Losing my Mom was a sorrowful reminder that life really is too short to
put off our dreams.
That’s
When It Hit Me:
I Didn't Need A New Job...
I Needed A New Life!
What about you?
Maybe you're ready to totally
"change course" to become your own boss...
Or, perhaps you're just looking
to make an extra $500 - $2,000 a month from the side.
Then again, maybe you already have a
business and are looking for additional profit centers.
The bottom line:
It all begins with an idea…
It's about tuning into
the things you love to do and find practical – yet entirely “outside
the job box” – ways to make money doing them.
Or as Aristotle said…
"Where your talents and the needs
of the world meet, lies your calling."
I've spent the past 16 years
gathering together the tools and resources that can help you to find your
calling and live life on your own terms.
People all over the world are
looking for a new direction, for work that pays the bills but is meaningful and
satisfying too.
In fact, so many more people
are looking to get off the fast track and onto the right path that I’ve trained
over 150 people from 12 countries to be
Profiting from Your Passions® Career
Coaches.
And now I’d like to help you.
If
you’ve been
suffering in a job you hate or just feeling like you are meant to do so much
more than your current career path allows...
And
you're ready to explore ways you can "profit from your passion"...
I can help.
Are You Ready to "Follow Your Bliss"?
Those three powerful words come
from the renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell who, in his famous interview with
Bill Moyers said:
"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while, waiting for you,
and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living."
But what is your bliss?
Maybe you've toyed with a few
ideas but don't really know where to begin.
Or then again, maybe you're
lucky enough to know exactly what you'd love to do. In fact, your dream is
crystal clear...
You want to open a bed and
breakfast or a motorcycle repair shop, or become a freelance writer, or sell
your famous cheesecake on-line, or run tours to Costa Rica in the winter and a
work in your cozy shop on the coast of Maine in the summer...
Or perhaps your passions have
been buried for so long that you have absolutely no clue about what you want to
be "when you grow up!"
Whether your dream is still in the inkling stage or you
know exactly what you yearn to be doing, something is holding you back.
Maybe you haven't quite figured
out exactly how to turn your idea into income. Or, maybe you've been told that
your idea is "silly" or "unrealistic."
Or then again, maybe your dream
is just so big and fabulous that you just don't know where to begin!
Let's talk.
You see, I KNOW what *I* love
to do: I love helping people discover creative ways to make a living doing what
they love.
Not only do I love to show
people like you ways you can turn your interests into income -- but, and I don't
mean to brag here, but after 15 years I happen to be excellent at it.
In the wise words of inventor Ken
Hakuta,
"Lack Of Money Is Not A Barrier,
Lack Of An Idea Is A Barrier."
I’ve helped people who want
to make a couple of thousand dollars a month and clients who tell me they have
to earn $500,000 a year – and everything in between.
Frankly, the dollar amount is
not important. What’s important is finding the right idea!
Fortunately seeing unique and
practical income generating ideas just comes naturally to me.
Please don’t take my word for
it…
Having many ideas racing through my head, lack of direction and self doubt
creeping in, I decided to talk with Valerie. While I had doubt that anyone could
help me organize my thoughts, define clear idea patterns that fit my passion,
and give me action oriented suggestions, I was amazed!
Within 90 minutes, we had cut through the fluff, targeted potential career
opportunities that fit my passion, identified my resources and established some
time sensitive goals. What a value for ninety short minutes! Thank you Valerie.
Robert
Pulley
Lawrenceburg, TN
Arranging a consultation
with Valerie was a great investment in myself – money well spent. She not only
gave me ideas, but asked questions which helped me clarify what I realistically
should do next. The best part was she came up with an angle on an idea I had,
that I had never thought of and now I'm most excited about.
Mary D'Andrea
New York, NY
Your great gift, I think, is
the ability to help a person focus. Thanks so much for devoting yourself to this
calling.
Linda Weaver
Tennessee
Thank you for taking the time to
speak to me this morning, I am still trying to catch my breath after our call! I
am very satisfied with the way things went. I found that your services and ideas
are just as advertised: “Affordable, Immediately Usable and Practical Career
Advice…”
I came to the call this morning
with many ideas swirling around in my head and little direction. I had wondered
aloud to myself when I was going to get started on all my ideas. In seeking you
out, I was looking for even more ideas, but more so, clarity on my ideas and
tips for getting off the ground. I am happy to report that I got them all in
abundance. You were giving me ideas, tips and resources until the second our
call ended.
Further, I have found your
website, much like yourself, to be an immense resource. I am setting it as my
homepage. If I may be of reference or assistance to Changing Course, please do
not hesitate to call on me!
Highest Regards,
Bob Nelson
Chicago, IL
I've taken a lot of career
assessment tools and they always end up telling me I'm creative – which I
already knew – but they still leave me stumped as to what to DO with my
creativity to actually make a living.
Valerie gave me a lot of
good ideas that really made me think. She helped me see how many different
possibilities there are in the world for us creative types.
Lynette Turner
Los Angeles, California
I just had the pleasure of
working with Valerie's excellent book and a private telephone session with her
and all I can say is WOW! I've been grappling for years it seems on how take all
of my varied interests and turn them into a viable business/job.
The work I did with Valerie
helped me to clarify what I want to do and offered me FRESH perspective.... I'm
still working all the details out but I feel her valuable assistance got me on
the road to living a life full of travel and creative opportunities. Don't
hesitate if you're tired of trying to figure it all out on your own.
Rodney Washington
Los Angeles, California
I want to
tell you how substantive, focused and intelligent I found you as a
coach/consultant. I appreciated the opportunity to take the measure of all my
various endeavors and understand more precisely how each could be orchestrated
in the context of an ideal life. I felt fully understood and "seen" for who I am
which is deeply gratifying.
I wanted to share one meaningful anecdote: In the process of writing everything
I love, I put in "acting in a play," thinking to myself that I would surely
never get to do that. The very next day I met a woman in yoga class who is
active in community theater. Without my saying anything, she came over to me
after class to ask if I had any interest in auditioning!
Susan
Reimer-Torn
By the way, thanks for
changing my life for the better! Now I'll be studying every other week with a
recording artist and magnificent musician who agreed to take me on as a piano
improvising student.
Edith Adams Allison,
Amherst, MA
My time with you was incredibly valuable, and I am forever thankful for the
ideas and resources.
Lori Santo,
Marina del Ray, California
I Want to Be Clear.
What I Do Is Not for Everyone
1) If
you book a session with me, be prepared for the possibility that
whatever idea we come up with will get "upgraded" to a Big Dream.
Say
we start out talking about how you can make money taking photographs.
Don't be surprised if by the end of our conversation, you walk away with a plan
to make twice what you'd imagined, to live on a tropical island in the winter,
and to generate income pursuing your passion for antiquing to boot!
(To
learn more about the difference between a dream and a Big Dream,
click here.)
2) Next, make
sure you have a pad and pen ready.
After 16 years of studying creative alternatives to having a j-o-b,
my brain is absolutely chock full of resources.
I
know how you can bring a product to market or license your art or start a tour
business or any number of things you want to do.
And
if I don't know of a specific resource off the top of my head -- I know how to
find it for you!
Once
you know where the answers are buried, you can begin happily digging for your
own personal gold mine of happiness.
3)
Discover the liberating power of having “multiple streams of
income.”
Tell me if this sounds
familiar:
You come up with a fabulous
idea for a business. You’re elated because you finally see a way out of job
jail!
Then reality strikes as you
realize, “But I can’t make enough money at it.”
So you give up before you
even try.
First, don’t believe
everything you think.
I’ve seen first hand how
two people can have the same idea and can make next to nothing and the other is
able to replace their entire salary – and then some.
Most importantly, who
says you have to find one thing?
The editors of Success
magazine will tell you that it’s a more doable to create two or three smaller
income streams bringing in $15,000-$30,000 each than to ramp up one idea to earn
$50,000 to $100k.
So in the beginning all you
have to do is come up with an idea that’s capable of making just over $42 a day.
Hey my dog could do that.
4) Walk away with a solid career
launching idea – guaranteed.
Seeing creative ways to parlay
your love of animals or dancing or flea markets or sports into an income
generating small business just comes naturally to me.
 In fact, I’m so confident of this that I offer something that’s
unheard of in the coaching world – a money-back guarantee.
If you don’t walk away from your
laser consulting session with at least one solid income generating idea,
I’ll cheerily issue you get a full refund. It’s that simple.
Frankly I’m not worried.
Because I know there’s an excellent chance that by the end of your Profiting
from Your Passions® Laser session you’ll get to pick and choose from multiple
ways to get paid for your doing what comes naturally.
You
can pick your favorite idea – or you can do them all.
If
you decide to pursue several paths, I’ll help you hone in on which one to focus
on first. That way you avoid the overwhelm of trying to do everything at once.
But ideas
are just that.
5)
Knowing “what” to do is great. Knowing “how” is critical.
There are lots
of motivating speakers out there who are wonderful at inspiring you to go after
your dream.
Inspiration is
essential.
But it’s not
enough to know you’d love to open your own retreat center or run antiquing tours
in France.
Along with
knowing "what" you want to do you need to know "how"
When you
schedule a Profiting from Your Passions® Laser session you’ll also have the
first steps all mapped out for you.
That way you
won’t be left hanging unsure of what to do next.
This is not
theory to me.
You not only
reap the benefit of my seven years in marketing at a Fortune 200 company…but I
built my own multi six-figure business working from home.
And I never
stop learning about new ways to help you go from wishing you could re-create
your life to doing it.
In the last
few years alone I've spent over $115,000 learning about things like...
·
How even a small
home-based business can forge highly profitable partnerships with major
non-profits and corporations
·
How to get free PR
so you don’t need a big – or any – budget for customers to find you
·
How to set up your
business so you have a predictable, recurring stream of income automatically
deposited into your bank account
Like I said,
I’m big on learning from others.
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Valerie with
Sir Richard Branson
Valerie with
Gary Vaynerchuck |
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Over the years
I've had the opportunity to actually sit down and pick the brains of some
amazing people like…
Billionaire
social entrepreneur and Virgin CEO Sir Richard Branson.
Author of the
best-selling book Crush It: Why Now is the Best Time to Cash in on Your
Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk.
And my friends
career change gurus Barbara Sher and Barbara Winter.
My point is:
Ideas don’t work without a plan of action.
And frankly I
feel it’s my moral obligation to show you practical and low-cost ways
you can launch your new life faster.
6) Finally, please understand I’m
NOT a Life Coach or a Career Counselor.
There are a few essential differences between what I do and what a life coach or
a college or any traditional career counselor does.
For
starters you don’t have to commit to some drawn out 3 to 6 month process.
When you work with me you’ll get the answers you need in just one session.
That way you can start making progress right away.
I
call it Laser Coaching
because I have a laser-like focus on one goal:
To take the things you already
know you love to do…
find a few more… and then zero in on practical ways you
can make money doing work that both brings you joy and allows you to have a more
balanced, flexible lifestyle.
The
system I use is so effective that 99% of my clients tell me they got exactly
what they needed in just one session.
Regular career counselors are trained to administer skills assessments. The idea
here is to plug your skills into a particular occupational slot.
Work well with people? Go into HR.
Got
a head for numbers? Be an accountant.
It
doesn’t matter that you’d go out of your mind sitting behind a desk all day.
The
system I use is not based on finding out what you’re “good” at.
You
may be good at typing and mowing the lawn. But do you love it?
But perhaps
the biggest difference is that a Profiting from Your Passions® Laser session
offers you…
Affordable, Immediately Useable
and
Practical Career Advice on
How You Can Get Paid to
Work at What You Love… On Your Own Terms
.jpg) Life
coaching is designed to help you arrive at your own solution… no matter how long
it takes.
No offense,
but you’re not getting any younger.
The way I
figure it – If you already knew what to do, you’d have done it by now!
And why would
you want to spend a lifetime wondering how you could get paid to travel
or to help people or shop for cool stuff… when I can just tell you how?
As part of
your Profiting from Your Passions® Laser session you’ll be learning a system
designed to…
Dig below the surface to help you uncover all of your gifts and talents
Discover
realistic ways to turn your interests into income so you can finally enjoy going
to work
Map
out the actual steps you need to take so you’re not left hanging not knowing
what to do next
There really is no faster or
easier way to get from where you are now to where you want to be.
As Wayne Dyer said, “There is no
scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only
scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”
It really is your decision.
You can squander your precious
time and gifts wishing and hoping for inspiration to strike. Or you can take
charge of your future.
If you agree then, there’s one
more thing you need to know.
Over the years I’ve helped to free
thousands of people just like you from job-jail.
But I’m also a professional
speaker for organizations like IBM, Intel, Boeing, Procter & Gamble, American
Women in Radio and Television, Harvard University…
And right now I’m super busy
working with Random House on the big October 2011 launch of my new book,
The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the
Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It.
Please understand, I'm not telling you this to impress you.
The reason I’m telling you this is
because I want you to understand why I’m able to work with only very limited
number of people.
So, if you’re really serious
about going from dreading your work to looking forward to each day, and if I’m
available, then I’d love to help you get there.
What's the Next Step?
The way I see it you have
three choices.
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You can do nothing and stay
exactly where you are right now
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You can continue to try to
figure it out yourself which probably means spending the next two… five… ten
years of your precious time on this planet hoping to stumble upon the answer
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Or you can pick up the phone
and start creating your new life now
Obviously, working with me
directly requires an investment in you and your dreams.
The good news is that finding
your calling is not going to cost anywhere near the $3,000-plus frequently
charged by executive resume writers and job search firms.
And remember, the whole point
is to find ways you can start making money – money that will pay you back for
the time spent with me many times over.
Plus, if it helps, I’m happy
to spread payments over two months.
The important thing is to
act.
Before he died,
Michael Landon reminded us that,
"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows."
In as little as 90 minutes,
you can find work that brings you joy and begin to enjoy the freedom,
flexibility, and quality of life you so richly deserve.
To learn more about
scheduling a personalized Profiting from Your Passions® Laser Career Session
call me at 413-367-0222 eastern time.
Still not sure?
Flip a coin. If you’re
relieved, you’ll have your answer. If you’re disappointed, you’ll have your
answer.
Then trust your heart. It’s
always worked for me.
To your dreams,
Dr. Valerie Young
Founder and Dreamer in Residence
P.S.
Katherine Graham said, “To love what you do
and feel that it matters, what could be more fun.”
If you dream of doing work
that feeds your soul, there has never been a better time to change course.
When you schedule your
personalized Profiting from Your Passions® Career Laser session I’ll happily
include a copy of Finding Your True Calling (as seen on Amazon) – a $24.95
value.
Learn more at 413-367-0222
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