Dixie Gillaspie - Coach, Consultant, Firestarter

My support team is the BEST!

Mr. Orion's favorite spot is in front of my monitor ...

Probably because that's where I'm usually focused, but maybe because he thinks he's the boss? (because CAT ...)

I'm sure he's taking ALL the credit for The Truth About Winter hitting #1 again, and that's okay with me.

He didn't get to share in the celebration (a glass of Opus One because I love it!) but he did get extra special treats because that's what he loves (and what Orion loves Orion gets ... rule of the household!)

A huge thanks to all my (non-furry) support team - this book had an army of readers behind it and I'm grateful for every one of you!

The sprint is over, now the marathon of getting this story and message out into the world begins. Probably the only kind of marathon I would every really look forward to but I am going to wait until tomorrow to begin.

Today I'm just going to soak up the love!

Delighted to be going live with Dr. Kasthuri Henry to discuss the

⭐ Fire Power of Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energy! ⭐

Here's the description and link to join live or subscribe to catch it on Youtube!

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Life and Leadership have an opportunity to thrive only when social and cultural intelligence are integrated with a sense of centeredness. In that place of being centered, choices are neither back nor white with all the shades of gray being vibrantly visible. Fire Power within each of us, our organizations, and human society are unleashed ONLY when we have the emotional intelligence to take perspective and mindfully act for lasting success. We each embody Masculine and feminine energy, but do we know how to harness what we embody and leverage it to drive our purpose?

It is my honor and personal privilege to introduce Dixie Gillaspie, a consultant, coach, speaker, and best-selling author who works with clients to guide the development of a balanced energy for business success. She works with entrepreneurs, founders, and business leaders to step into their power and accomplish the impossible. After working as a business analyst and consultant for a nationwide management consulting firm, she started her own consulting practice in 1998 and has been helping people achieve their “impossibles” ever since. She is the author of "Just Blow it Up - Firepower for Living an Unlimited Life" and "Doses of Dynamite - Firepower for Capturing the Inspiration in Everyday Things", both published by Sound Wisdom.

We will be exploring various elements of organizational leadership Fire Power, in this episode including:

💎 What is the “Fire Power” and why must both Masculine and Feminine Energy be effectively integrated for Success?

💎 How do we each gain perspective to thrive by layering in our Masculine and feminine energies?

💎 What happens in organizations and societies when only the traditional masculine energy is allowed to be seen and heard?

Please join me on the upcoming episode of Unleash Your Inner Goldilocks on Saturday April 8th, at 9:00 am US CT | 8:00 am Belize | 2:00 pm London | 3:00pm Paris | 7:30 pm Sri Lanka & India Time. Let’s make this count for the good of all of us.

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Transform with Dr. Kas Henry - YouTube We are all butterflies. As we enter the cross-sections of life, we transform! We build resilience. We drive towards our success with purpose.

"Entrepreneurship is both ultimate uncertainty and ultimate opportunity."

This article hit a nerve when it posted and I've continued to get feedback on it. (Loved that it was a 33 - one of my favorite numbers.)

If I thought, back when I wrote this in 2014, I'd seen uncertain times I'm guessing the Universe was having a good chuckle and saying "you ain't seen nothin' yet."

But then when I wrote this I had no idea just how true my words would prove to be. (Sometimes I think I'm a prophet!)

"... people have gone broke in good times, and gotten rich in bad times. It's not about the times!"

The last 2 years have certainly proven that one. For some these have been the worst of times, while some launched successful businesses or had the best years their business had ever seen.

"When you base your idea of "uncertain times" on the national or global economy, it's easy to think we are living in more uncertain times, but your personal economy is only more or less certain because of the choices you make, not the way the world's cookie crumbles."

Yup, cookies crumbled, but we saw some amazing innovations on how to use the crumbs!

"The fully alive, happy, and successful entrepreneur wakes up each morning knowing that nothing is certain, but certain that what happens will always depend on the choices they make. And they go to bed each night owning their choices and determined to make even better choices tomorrow."

And THAT is the #1 trait of a Super Creator who is standing in their power - we don't blame ourselves OR others. We simply take stock of reality, own our power to change it, and get up and CREATE!

If this resonates and you're ready to own YOUR power as a Super Creator give me a shout - I'm here for that.

And if you want to read the rest of the article ... it's here:

https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/why-entrepreneurs-need-to-be-optimistic-about-uncertainty/240459

Got my fix. Now it’s back to Zooming.

A day of being … this isn’t work/life balance. It’s just living. Walked all the way around the lake. Witnessed the life around and within. Remembered who we are. Re-chose who we are here to be.

🎉The Truth About Winter is off to the publisher! This is one of the most monumental decisions I’ve ever made. (Not dinner. That was a no brainer and beyond delicious!) This story confronts all the norms about trauma and pushes all the emotions then ends with a choice for the simple truth. Kindle release early November.

Dixie Gillaspie - Coach, Consultant, Firestarter updated their business hours.

Transformation ...

it happens the way a rose blooms.

In tiny, almost unnoticeable increments in response to natural cycles and conditions.

Transformation is an organic process of continual, cumulative change. It's not a project.

There's no checklist of tasks or achievements. No step by step instructions.

There's only the daily practice of opening just a little more, and a little more, and a little more.

If you're trying to be "more authentic" you're in problem orientation trying to "fix" the way your current identity shows up.

That's admirable. But unworkable.

Connect to what is true, shed everything that isn't, show up in your truth and power.

Will everyone like it? Nope.

But those who do will LOVE it, and those are the people you'll co-create magic with.

That day when the sky and your hair are the same color ...

That day when your hair and the sky were the same color ...

Full joyous day of coaching and recodes, groups and 1:1, writing and teaching.

Lunch break on the deck between clients and before the rain.

We all have a romance story about fighting "the dragon."

Pushing against barriers, overcoming unbeatable odds, defeating the ultimate guardian of our limitations.

We have the same story about success.

Story is code. Code for what we desire, what we believe it takes to have it. It's code for how the world works, and how we create in the world. It's code for how WE work, and how we succeed and how we fail.

And the code in that story - that resistance and adversity is a "dragon" you have to fight every day in order to create a life you love - is that success is a superhuman feat. That only a hero has a chance. Because any Hobbit might win against one dragon one time, but only a true hero can defeat the dragon every day.

And that code creates oscillation - we win against the dragon a few days or even months in a row. Then we lose the fight, lose ground, lose heart, and back we go to the bottom of the mountain to start all over again.

You can give up that story, recode your brain, and create a new reality. One in which the dragon is on your side, the power is within, and you're moving into success with ease.

by

"The gap between knowing and doing is bridged by owning. Owning your truths. Owning your outcomes. Letting the truth you know inform you and direct you."

That one choice, the choice of ownership, not only takes you from knowing to doing, it also takes you from surviving to living.

And living is what it's all about!

When we accept that we had the power to create the life we have today we activate the power to create the life we choose to have tomorrow.

When we DENY that we had the power to create the now we also deny the power to create tomorrow.

You are powerful. Own it. Use it to create the life you choose to live.

If having something "fall into your lap" would make you ecstatic - do you think MAYBE it's worth intentionally pursing?

I love listening to people's dreams. But I notice so many talk about their dreams of the future in terms of "if only ..." or "when maybe ..."

They're wanting, but they aren't CHOOSING.

They're wishing, but they aren't CREATING.

It's like they're standing under the apple tree, gazing longingly at the apple of their desire, and trying to wish or will it into falling in their lap.

Manifestation doesn't work that way. Attraction doesn't work that way. LUCK works that way but why put your energy into something that depends on luck?

When you think about what you desire - things you want to have, or do, or even BE - do you think about them as abstract future possibilities?

Or do you think about them as future realities that you only need to reach out and grab?

(and if you know me you know I'm NOT talking about or )

The truth is that just like picking apples is easier when you're standing on a ladder, going for those apples isn't about YOU, it's about the structure you're in.

It's time to

Comment below if you want to know how to bring all those apples into easy reach.

Photo by Georgia de Lotz on Unsplash

Looks like came early and there will be no more work tonight.

There is such a powerful story behind this image.

A story of desperation turned into inspiration.

A story of giving up turned into one of living full out in truth and joy.

A story of having what I somehow "knew" to be powerful and true turned into system, science, and SUPERCONSCIOUS revolution and delivered like a precious gift I had only to unwrap.

I'm happy to share that story (try and stop me! LOL) But right now I want to invite YOU to be part of it and to uncover a story of your own.

If you've been hungry for change and tired of going a few steps forward only to be pulled just as many steps back, or if you're fed up with feeling overwhelmed and paralyzed, or if you're ready to leave behind resistance, restrictions, old trauma and pain, and step into your fullest expression and truth ...

I invite you to make a choice.

On the page I've linked at the end are two options - one is 3 months, no strings, and free. There are TWO spots left and that option will come down at 10PM regardless.

The other is probably the best (and easiest) investment you could ever make in your life. (Like under $200 a month easy.) Right now it comes with a couple of amazing bonuses but those are limited to the first 20 people and they're filling up.

I won't be sending this to my list or opening it to anyone else until tomorrow morning.

So if you've been feeling the call for radical change, or the craving for something that isn't hype, isn't $5000 or even $10,000 of the same same stuff you've been trying to do for years ... If you KNOW you aren't broken but don't know why you haven't created what you desire (yet) ... Just know that's exactly where I was when I started doing this work and that is so NOT where I am today and never will be again.

When Christopher M Duncan said "This is the LAST personal development program you will ever need to do" I doubted.

I don't doubt any more.

"Real" promotion starts Wednesday. But this story is for you.

https://dixiegillaspie.podia.com/

If you follow Venture Café St. Louis you know they've gone virtual and you know that I do a session on almost every month. So you may already be registered for this session

I hope so! Because this month we're going to talk about WHY humans didn't evolve to deal with this kind of crisis and how we can turn that biology into something that works FOR us instead of against us.

As leaders, we need access to power and flow more than ever, and crisis makes it harder to access. Learn why, and what you can do about it.

You don't have to be in St. Louis to attend. And if you cannot be with us at 4PM CST Thursday (tomorrow) I plan to record and I'd love to make the replay available to you. (You need to register below to get the replay.)

I see a lot of people asking what they can and should do in this time to prepare for the times to come. Here are my thoughts:

-Get clear on who you want to be on the other side. Invest in that.

-Explore gifts and talents you've underutilized or never offered as part of your professional value prop, expand those.

-Observe changing trends in needs and desires in the market, innovate on those.

But the MOST IMPORTANT thing you can do right now ... fall in love with life and with yourself.

Because those are the things you'll have to work with as the world rebuilds itself.

Photo: Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash

The goes much deeper (Yes, deeper than Confucius. LOL)

I believe that I have one life to live - and it is mine, I cannot live for anyone else.

I have one life to live and it is now, I cannot live for the past or the future.

I have only one life to live, and it is up to me how I will spend it, others may influence, but I accept no force or control.

I have only one life to live ... and the second life is when I own that one life.

I've been a fan for 25 years

Especially when I can take work outside.

Changing your environment and visual focus actually helps change your brain's default setting.

If you can't get outside go to another room. If you can't do that at least take your eyes off the screen and look into the distance for a bit.

Small differences matter. Especially right now.

I'm so impressed with how many of the organizations I was scheduled to present for have made the commitment to really BRING IT at a higher level. Not only are they converting to an online format, but they're adding elements that we're possible when the events were geographically confined.

Great example: Venture Café St. Louis has set up a "Virtual Cheers" link so you can join a local conversation OR the global Venture Cafe community.

Tonight at 5:00 PM I'll be taking my "Integrating Leadership" conversation online as well.

Our topic is "Achieving Clarity and Alignment When the World is Upside Down" and we're going to dig into what's really happening for all of us and IN all of us and how you can navigate the "new normal" from a human level.

Virtual Cheers happens immediately after at 6:00 PM.

Hope to "see" you there!

https://vencafstl.org/virtual/

Venture Café Virtual For the time being, we are excited to host our Thursday Gatherings completely online. We’ve created an online experience to simulate our regular weekly gathering, including talks, office hours, and community breakouts (our version of gathering in-person).

I'm not counting days of

I'm counting wonders witnessed.

Today the pups decided we'd been long enough and needed to go to the lake to see what life is really about.

Perfect boost to the immune system.

If there is any light that comes out of a dark time it is when we see people whose first thought is "What can I do to shine a light for others?"

I've seen so many answering that question by posting offers of support and resources at no cost.

I'm saddened to see some people respond with skepticism or even censoring based on the belief that "these people are only using this crisis as an opportunity to self-promote."

Right now all of our gifts are desperately needed.

Yes, many of us use those same gifts to make a living. That means we're going to be sharing freely of things that we usually ask to be compensated for.

That's not self-promotion, that's contribution.

Are some of those people ONLY contributing from a place of strategy rather than compassion? Probably. A small percentage. So what?

MOST of them are doing what they believe it is their purpose to do - use their gifts to benefit the world and by benefiting the world benefit themselves.

We were always in this thing together. But now we only survive if we ACT like we're in it together.

So offer what is yours to offer, accept what you need from others, remember that a smile, a shoulder, an open heart and an open mind are gifts we ALL have to give. And they are priceless.

I have noticed I am capable of great compassion for the cause or source of a behavior - even when having ZERO tolerance with the behavior itself.

Even with my own stuff.

Edit... ESPECIALLY with my own stuff!

The other thing that I've noticed is that when I observe through this lens of compassion I can look at totally unacceptable behavior without losing myself in anger or fear and also without losing my conviction or determination to change that behavior in myself and to refuse to tolerate it when I see it inflicted on others.

Now, when I say "I'm capable" I don't mean I've managed to make it my first go to every time. But I'm working on having compassion for that too.

My gift to myself for

5 day in a secret hideaway with lots of space, a whirlpool bath tub, unlimited coffee, soothing quiet, two resident kitties, and all my favorite inspirations for thinking and writing.

@ St. Louis, Missouri

Apparently this is on my today.

Amazing week wraps up with a night by the fire with my love and a bottle of wine. We couldn't find a deck of regular playing cards so we broke out a Dose of Dynamite deck. So far its 2 to 1 and I'm not ahead. But we're having a blast reading the cards to each other.

For all things there is a season. And a reason. And when the reason is no longer being fulfilled it's best to acknowledge that the season is past.

That's true of , even our own businesses. It's true of , even our own ideas. It's true of relationships, even people we thought we could not live without. It's true of , , standards, emotions, visions ... there is nothing that does not have its season. And seasons change.

But here's another - some things change with the seasons. Some ideas, brands, people, emotions, visions, and especially truths transcend and transform so that they are always with us.

Those are the things we can count on.

And it's okay if you can count them on one hand.

As you review the seasons of your life what are those things that are still with you season after season?

I felt called to pull this manuscript out of its seven years in mothballs and revisit the story through the lens of the inner work I've done in that time.

As usual when I set an intention and start showing up everything happened really fast.

Before I could get through the edits I had a friend introduce me to the perfect publisher, who asked how soon he could get a peek at the manuscript.

I sent it off yesterday and heard back this morning. He's sent it over to his team and I should have a definite answer within two weeks. For those of you familiar with the submission process you know that's FAST!

Getting this message out there opens up so many vistas for the work I'm here to do in the world. And I'm blessed to have so many who believe in the power of my work.

A huge thank you to all of you who have patiently waited for the time to be right and for me to find the courage to share these truths in a bigger way.

I'll let you know when I have a response from the publisher, but know that this book is going to be birthed into the world one way or another.

Because its time has come.

And I.AM.READY!

This is on a

On the deck with my and tools doing my for

Oh and my hummingbirds came to visit but didn't stay for a

I worked outside this morning and a little touch of heaven dropped by for a visit. Isn't that the most beautiful blue?!

"Who is an ?" Yup most of the room. "Who is on a budget?" Yup 100%

Our fearless founder of Covo (and a total of SEVEN successful companies) shares on best ways to market on a budget.

Tonight I watched a dreamer transform his business right in front of my eyes.

Restauranteur Dave Bailey and his staff opened the reveal party as but segued seamlessly into the new concept. As we dined (every course worth going back for) everything changed - the logo, the menu, even the flower arrangements and candles on the tables.

Come to and pop a cork with us!

That time when ALL the coffee cups were in the dishwasher and you had to use a teacup for your morning double shot and found out it's a

If you want someone to love you help them first to love themselves.

This is not only true of romantic loves.

I remember many years ago I was asked to come up to the stage to be interviewed about my success with clients. The speaker who was interviewing me said he always wanted the client to be in love with him and the results, that was his job security.

Without thinking I said I wanted my clients to fall in love with themselves.

Not because I blow smoke or didn't show them the ugly stuff or challenge them to change. But because in every client, in every team, in every business there is beauty. There is power, there is wisdom, there is something worthy of love. And if they cannot believe in that then everything we do will be punishing. But once they believe in that everything we do is polishing.

And yes, my clients do love me. Because I see them. And I love what I see even when I'm there to help them change.

If you cannot see anything in your clients worth loving you are either working with the wrong clients or, more likely, you have not yet learned to truly love yourself.

Oh the joy of having clients in the Sharing my gift from with the staff of and

Another successful hanging with other members cheering another successful week and

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