Rising Waters, Rising Confidence: Monikka's Entrepreneurial Resilience

Claire Markwick: 00:00:08

Welcome to fierce woman rising. The podcast that ignites your inner fire and introduces you to women whose shattered norms, rewritten rules, and embraced financial independence. I'm Claire, accountant, business mentor, coach and your guide on this transformational journey. Each week, I'll be sharing powerful interviews with women who have embraced a life of purpose and taking control of their destinies. Learn from their stories. Empower yourself. And if you feel called, join us in rewriting your own story. Financial independence, joy and abundance are not just a dream. It is your birthright. Let's rise together with fire and become the next theists woman rising.

Claire Markwick: 00:00:59

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the fierce woman rising podcast. And I am so excited. And I say that at the start of every single episode, but I really am so very excited about this one because my son and I have been trying to have this conversation for how the heck long blade months and it's there's been technology get in the way or kids get in the way or school holiday or something, there's always been something get in the way. So we are finally here sitting in front of the microphones together. And I really cannot wait for her to share her story. And for us to see where this conversation goes. So a little bit of background. Monica is an ex corporate manager in the higher education industry. And she turned to Reiki and life coaching.

Claire Markwick: 00:01:46

As in her sort of entrepreneurial endeavor as as I did, we went from corporate to coaching, but then soon realized that wearing all the hats really does take its toll, especially for a busy mom. And we're still trying to juggle our kids as well. So I would love for you mine to share a little bit about your background a little bit more eloquent eloquently than what I just did there. Let us know a little bit more about you. Your where you came from, where you started from? And what sort of, you know, tell us a little bit about yourself, basically. Yeah,

Monikka Rhae: 00:02:24

absolutely. Thank you, Claire. And it's an absolute pleasure to be here. I know, like you said, we've been trying to nail this podcast of nail this interview down for a while. So it's great to be here. So yeah, I was in I've been in corporate for most of my working life, I worked in law for a while. And then I moved into a small business into the wine industry. And then I moved into higher education in the medical industry, training doctors to be general practitioners. And I did that for about five years. And it was on maternity leave with my third baby that I started to really searching for more. And that's when I went down the path of life coaching and Reiki that real a deep dive into personal development and to learning more about myself. And that was great. And I ended up resigning from my job. And I opened up my coaching business. And that was really great. And then we hit a bit of chaos in my life when we had a bit of a natural disaster where we had a really big downpour of rain and our house flooded and we lost our house, we lost my my family car 85% of our belongings. And we were actually placed into temporary accommodation because we went our house was deemed unsafe to live in. Wow. And yeah, it was full on. And I was actually still working at this time with the GPS. And I had all these balls in the air. And I feel like I was really given a choice at that point where I could battle my way through or I could just drop a plastic ball and keep my glass balls in the air. And the glass balls for me are obviously my family. So I gave the job to flick and and focused on my family for what ended up being a year of being displaced out of our home. Well I got rebuilt because it was not completely written off. But it had to be built all back from the inside out. And so through that, and throughout that year. Whilst I still had my coaching and Reiki business. My focus was on the family and it was during that time that I came across the affiliate

Monikka Rhae: 00:04:40

marketing space and it was the product that really got me to say yes, because I am about health is a big passion of mine and it's a it's a top value of mine. And the business didn't interest me at that point. It wasn't the right time, you know? Yeah. Yeah, I know, right. But there was something that now. Yeah, right, there was something in me that was like, You got to do this, that you've got to invest in this product. And so I did. Yeah, so and that's kind of led me to now. It's,

Claire Markwick: 00:05:17

I just think it's really fascinating. I absolutely love hearing the stories that get people to the point where Enagic in this business like comes into their awareness, because it's always so so different. So like for you is 100%, it was product first, it was, you know, health focus first. And that's been the same. But other people that I've interviewed on this show, for me, the product, I almost couldn't care less about the product, it was like, Okay, I just I am one I want to business in a box solution, show me something that's going to have an exceptionally high return on investment, show me something that's proven, and bang, tighter for both, both worlds can't it both worlds,

Monikka Rhae: 00:06:00

an insane thing. And that's, you know, one of the beauties of what we do is, I couldn't jump into the business straightaway, because I didn't have the mental capacity at that point to give it my all. And what I found so beautiful was I actually found the community as a beautiful safety net, during what was a really tumultuous time for me, they, they were able, and you were a part of that clear, like holding me in a space where there was no judgement, there was no pressure to be anything or to show up a certain way it was just to come as you are and we will be there for you, regardless of where you're at kind of thing, which I think was a beautiful, yeah, like a beautiful place to land in during that time.

Claire Markwick: 00:06:47

It's just, it's something that I don't know about you. But it's something that I've noticed as I've gotten older, as a mom, you know, when we've got I mean, use your I think your kids are younger than than mine. But you know, when they're really little, we have a lot more to do with their friends, parents, because really, their friends are actually our friends, kids kind of thing when they're little. And so you have this really big social network, we moved and you know, now I've always are older, you know, that teen and preteen, like they go off and do their thing with their friends and I don't know, all of their friends, parents, and I found my circle was shrinking. You know, I live on the other side of the world to my family, we moved the other side of the country to you know, our really strong friendship base. And then suddenly, I'm like, Oh, my little pool of people of support is rapidly shrinking. And that's one of the biggest things that I found in this in this community in this online business is sisterhood and support and friends. And I didn't even realize I was missing that to be honest.

Monikka Rhae: 00:07:52

Yeah. And you're so right there. When I left the corporate space, and I started coaching. That's one thing I really missed. And I didn't even I didn't even realize I missed it until I found this space again, until I found this community of people you could have that banter with and catch up with on FaceTime or, you know, on the weekly calls, or, you know, when we get together, I missed that so much. Because you don't have that very often as an entrepreneur, you're kind of the one man show and or the one woman show, and yeah, and that's it, you might employ someone to help you with a project or to do some tech for you. But it's not that you don't get that banter. And yeah, I agree, I really missed it until I found this space.

Claire Markwick: 00:08:36

Really, totally. And there was some of that popped in my head when you spoke then I was like, Oh, that's a great thing to pick up on. But it's totally gone. But that's alright. So I'm really curious, because, you know, I went from corporate to coaching to to now what we're doing. So I want to know what that sort of transition was to you. And you've alluded to it a little bit. And as much as you know, this business kind of fell into your lap, not from the business perspective, you know, it was the product that came to you first and then you realize there was a business element to it. But where did you get to Where has your coaching business got to that you realize that you know what, like, this season, the thing that I thought was gonna give me the freedom that I left corporate for what was what was that story like for you?

Monikka Rhae: 00:09:20

So again, I'm really social, I need to talk, I need to talk. I'm a talker, and I'm so well right. And, and I found that I missed I missed the chatting that I that I had in corporate and it took me like it took me a long time to switch my mindset from an employee into the CEO into that that business owner mindset and I'm gonna say it took like eight months for me to to really switch that around. And then even when I did do that, there were certain elements that coaching wasn't giving me that I needed. And anyone that has gone down the coaching path will probably resonate with this is that there, there are a lot of structures that you need to put in place in the back end of the business, that although you get taught how to do it, the implementation is quite tricky. And as someone who has been in, you know, in the corporate space and had everything done for me, me, you know, marginally, it was really tricky to then have to create everything from scratch and do everything again, myself. And I ended up finding it really difficult to do all of the things because I had big visions. And I had a big plan. And I thought I was doing all the things, but I wasn't getting the results that I wanted. And when I came across this space, yes, the product was what got me through the door. But really, when I didn't really understand the the impact of what I was actually going into, and the systems that were going to be provided to me and how much I could leverage a platform that has done everything for me. So I just, it's just been a total, like mind blowing moment to realize that hang on, I don't have to do all this stuff myself. And while I was scrambling in the coaching space to you know, do all the sales calls and to organize all my funnels, and to keep track of the website and do the email marketing and all of the all of the things, this space is so much more streamlined, and it just really takes the pressure off. And I actually get to stay in

Monikka Rhae: 00:11:48

my zone of genius, which is, you know, I still I still coach, but I get to do that with a full cup because I'm not focused on the backend stuff. So that's been a really important part for me, I

Claire Markwick: 00:11:59

can 110% resonate with that. And I guarantee you there's a lot of coaches in my network, I guarantee and that would be in yours to coach listening to this can resonate with that, like I had this vision, I knew in my heart, I was like I've got I'm here to serve a group of women, I'm here to lead a group of women to empower a group of women. And, you know, I just I could feel that energy and that was sort of what I went into coaching with. And then I got then I got distracted, I got swayed off track and you know, went down different routes and toward the big the beginning of 2022 came back to that I was like, okay, like this, this space, this this empowering women thing. And I had that vision, but like you say, then you've got to write, okay, I'm going to create a course or I'm going to create a membership awesome. And you know, we've got all the coaching tools and all the models and all the exercises and all of this and all of that, then it's like okay, how do I get it out there to the world. Okay, now I need a platform that I can host this on and I need to edit in this and I need to create a website and I need to create funnels and I need to do this and I need to do that and I need opt in forms. And by the time I'd sorted out all that tech, I had nothing left in the tank to actually create content and create the program. I'm like, I can't do it. And that that was kind of the start of my decline at the end of last year. I'm like I've got these grand ideas I just can't bring them to fruition like I don't have the energy like what is wrong with me sort of thing and

Monikka Rhae: 00:13:28

it's nothing is wrong with you, that's for sure. And I also found like throughout my coaching journey I ended up attracting like the people that I was attracting in the coaching arena were wanting to they were really a ad for my crap for like coaches out there they were very ad and so they were very business orientated and and they actually wanted to to live and to be and to come from a more heart heart centered space and to live and work from that space a lot more that's that's who I was attracting in and so, when I came across this business model where you can be who you are and attract who comes to you like attract your tribe, your your people. It was just like it was just like this light bulb moment had gone off and here I am attracting these you know these like minded self responsible driven action takers that I had been attracting in the coaching space but in a different way. And yeah, it's been really powerful and did you

Claire Markwick: 00:14:38

find again like I found it really frustrating exactly the same thing attracting these people who are my my tribe like the out there our tribe, we're attracting them and it's like, now I've got to create something for them. Now I've got a you know, like, and that was the exhausting thing. So to come to find something as a coach to find something that we can use See, that helps us make our impact and see our mission through to fruition. Like, it's so amazing, isn't it? Like how could you to someone to or to a coach listening in going I don't understand the relationship between selling someone else's physical product and my coaching business? Like how would you explain how they have meshed together for you.

Monikka Rhae: 00:15:24

So I, I like you, I have been attracting coaches as well, because you know, we're in the arena, and people are seeing the waves that we're making. And the thing that I love is that it's already done. It's already done, you don't have to spend all the time and all the all the money and all the energy and all of the things for something that's already done, that's going to pay you a lot of, you know, return on investment, it's already done for you. It's like that whole saying of you don't need to recreate the wheel to recreate the wheel. And even more than that, it's going to better your health, and it's going to better the health of your family. And the ripple effect of that has been incredible. So I would say for those coaches, like me, for me, I still coach like I still I'm still in that arena, I still love that space. But for me knowing that I've got this as well. It's a really powerful because it's been able to fund my coaching space, it's been able to fund me, organizing retreats, and it's been out I haven't been having to rely on income from coaching alone, which I think is really powerful. Because when you're in the coaching space, there's this misconception that you're going to make a million bucks. That's not the reality for the majority of coaches out there. So I found having this this additional income stream really effective and really stabilizing my financial position so that I'm not relying on coaching and burning myself out. And

Claire Markwick: 00:16:59

that that's really important isn't it and I shared a post on that just this morning actually like this allows us to have another stream of income come in so that we can focus on our passions with love and we can put the energy that we put into it doesn't have to be so desperate in as much as like I don't have to sell a certain number of coaching packages a month to pay the mortgage or pay you know pay the car payment or put food and my kids Belize sort of thing like the the bread and butter is sort of taken care of and then we can focus our passions with with that sort of very different, more relaxed energy, can't we? And then then the referrals come from that because we're not in this sort of scarcity mindset. We're not in this desperate sort of state, like I've got a I've got to sell, I've got to sell coaching because I've got a bill to pay kind of thing. We're not in that energy. We're in this so much more relaxed energy and then that just makes everything else flow so much better as well.

Monikka Rhae: 00:18:00

Yeah, absolutely. We can we can pull when the cup is filled with over, you know.

Claire Markwick: 00:18:08

I love it. I love it. I love it. I'm really like the other thing that I think is really cool, I think it'd be a really cool thing to touch on from your perspective as well is that although although what we do so what we do is affiliate marketing, we get paid a commission on the sale of another company's product product and say product or service, that's generally what affiliate marketing is. But for us, it's a product. So when a magic product gets sold under our one of our affiliate links, we earn a commission for it. So how does that explain to the coaches and to anyone else listening in it, how that works, because, you know, we don't have to fill our feed with our social feed with products do it. And that was the one thing that I was like, as a coach, I'm like, I don't want to suddenly be promoting a product because it just doesn't doesn't align, it doesn't feel right, it just feels a little bit weird. But like, we can do it in such an organic way in this space currently,

Monikka Rhae: 00:19:06

we really can and that's, that's over time. One of the beautiful things that I have realized about the business model that we have chosen to align ourselves with is there are so many different ways to run this business. And it's definitely not a one size fits all and for me I will occasionally speak about the product because it a lot that aligns with with me the right and, and I know others in this space that have never once mentioned the product ever, and they've been in it for 10 years. And they've never mentioned the product. So it's really up to the person who decides to get involved on how they decide to run the business. And I just think that's so powerful because you can you can just choose an organic strategy you can choose to really lean into the automation I you know you You and I both know other women who purely run ads because they don't really want to fill their social media with anything. Yeah. So they choose to do ads. And, and I love that all of this is taught in the platform that I mentioned before, it's all taught. And so you don't have to have any experience in this space in order to lean on the automation, which I really think it's just amazing. And, for me, I found I already had a presence online. So for me, sort of announcing that I was deciding to affiliate with this product, for me felt really aligned, because I'm, I've got a really holistic approach. So for me, that's, that's okay. And I'm also affiliated with a couple of other products, I'm affiliated with a mushroom extract company, you know, so there's a couple of other things that I like to affiliate with as well, because for me, they're congruent with my values and what I stand for. And that's the beautiful thing about this business. You don't have to be product lead, I've got people coming to me that, like you, they couldn't give a hoot what they're selling. Yeah, they want they want it, they want the business, they want the strategy, they want to be able to

Monikka Rhae: 00:21:16

rake in those commissions and, and set up business. So I think that is a really wonderful thing about what we're doing is you can sort of run it however you choose whatever works for you.

Claire Markwick: 00:21:28

Absolutely. And like you've alluded to a couple of times, like it's all taught, it's all there, whether you want to be product waterbase, or whether you want to be business based, all the all the sales funnels or the marketing resources, or the back end systems or the sales, tech, everything is done for us, isn't it? It's literally in a box.

Claire Markwick: 00:21:53

Plug and Play baby. Yeah.

Claire Markwick: 00:21:56

So let's, let's, let's circle back now to a bit of your a bit more of your story. So you're you're a mom,

Monikka Rhae: 00:22:02

three kids, three kids.

Claire Markwick: 00:22:04

Yep. What does the married? What does the future look like? For you? What are you envisage? How do you envisage this business sort of projecting you forward? And what does that look like for sort of you and your family? Yeah,

Monikka Rhae: 00:22:24

so in the short term, as in the next couple of years, we are going to so I have three kids, an eight year old, a five year old and a two year old. And next year, we will be going on the road for a whole term in our van, so we're just going to pack up and just head away and just enjoy a month away. And so working while I'm on the road is perfect for me. My hubby has his own business as well, but he is a tradie. So he has to be there to do the work. Whereas I don't have to do that. So I will be supporting us while we're away. And then like, if I look at a little bit further, I am in the process of hosting retreats. So I've got a retreat coming up in April. So I will be organizing that. And then going forward, it will be more retreats. And we're looking to buy land with a bit of acreage so that we can have a ecological and sustainable environment there and have people come and do different modalities, because obviously I do a few and and I collaborate with some people in my community. And so that's that's the future in the next sort of five years. And then I mean, going forward, it's just going to expand from there really clear, you know, it's going to be, you know, other states where I'm hosting retreats and and getting people like minded people together to allow them a safe space where they can explore who they are, and return back to who they are at their core. Because I feel like there's really a shift in consciousness at the moment. And that is part of what I am here to do. I'm here to raise the vibration of humanity and getting people together in a group setting is really helping my mission in that cause. So I

Claire Markwick: 00:24:20

absolutely love that. And I love I love that you're so clear in that. And I don't know about you, but I feel so much more able to talk like that to talk long term about what the long term goals are. Because what we're doing is so proven and it's it's, it's like, okay, well I know when I get to here I earn this much and then this happens and I earn this much and this happens and I earn this much and we know it's going to happen. As long as we keep putting that one foot in front of the other and we keep we keep following the steps. It gives us so much confidence in which to plan and dream And and visualize what the future looks like, doesn't it have a so exciting for me? Huh?

Monikka Rhae: 00:25:06

Absolutely. And like, I'll just share a little story with you. So when I started my coaching journey, you know, you write down where you see yourself and your future project and you, you do all of those things. And one of the things that I had written on that piece of paper was that I wanted to facilitate in retreats. And a year, almost a year had gone by, and not nothing had really happened. And I hadn't had any opportunities come my way. And then this space presented. And so I said, Yes, I went in, and I said, Yes. And fast forward another six months. And then I facilitated at the retreat that we went to. And I remember the morning that I drove up to that retreat, I remember thinking to myself, I wrote this down, I wrote this down, and here it is. And I held the vision, and it came to fruition, and I let go of the how, and I just allowed it to come to me. And that's what we're doing now with with our mission is we are, we're stating it where we're declaring it, and we are owning it, and then we're letting it come to us.

Claire Markwick: 00:26:20

I just think I was okay. There's so many things again, I want to pick up on but I think, you know, an elite sports person. So an elite athlete, you know, we watch a lot of motorsport. So you know, those Moto GP riders Formula One drivers, you know, they will, they will practice driving a track in their mind, you know, they know every single corner, they know every single bit that they need to hit, they know when they need to hit the brake because they've, they've just played it out in their minds, basketball players, footy players, soccer players, like athletes, like they will always envisage the event that they're about to go to, they envisage jumping over the high jump thing, or they you know, running their sprint or whatever it will be like, in sport, it happens so much. And they have performance coaches, and coaches and trainers that help them to visualize the end result. And it's such a it's such a more common thing, I think, in sport than in business. And what I've really learned through this business, either through all the coaching, training and things that I've done is that power of visit visual visualization and the power of belief, and you clearly hold such firm belief that everything that you envisage everything that you visualize, will come to fruition. And that's got to feel frickin amazing, hasn't it?

Monikka Rhae: 00:27:45

Yeah, it does. It's, it's empowering. It's also quite challenging, because, again, when you let go of the house, it's going to happen. Crazy Things can happen, you know, the Universe works in crazy mysterious ways, as they say. And, and it's when you're going through those, those challenges and those, those trying times. Sometimes it's hard to see the forest through the trees, but having that holding that vision, and being able to widen your lens can really give you a an objective perspective, which is really important, particularly when you're being challenged.

Claire Markwick: 00:28:34

Absolutely. And I want to I want to come back to I want to come back to talking about challenges because you know, you and I have spoken at length personally about about different challenges and we've both got treaty heavies treaty partners who have a different a different mindset around work and earning money and what all that looks like and I know we've shared similar challenges continue to share similar challenges that we work through absolutely love our partners to bits, no way are we bagging them or their choices or their mindsets or anything. But I think it's something that's really worth talking about. Because I know that I have seen women look at this as a business opportunity, mention it to their partner, and then their partners like hell no. And then they just sort of almost crush those dreams again and go okay. It was kind of exciting for a moment, but yeah, okay, I'll just settle. I'll just get back into my box. Like, I know you have I know you have stories around there. So you will be happy to share like for the purpose of people listening in and going I would love to do this, but my husband would just be like no way or, or vice versa.

Monikka Rhae: 00:29:42

Yeah, absolutely. And you're exactly right. That's that's pretty much the response. I got no way. Yep. And, and I so the story, so when the opportunity came to me, I am Dennard for a few months As I think, you know, some of us do. And I thought to myself, well, I'm feeling really inspired by this opportunity, and I'm feeling really positive about this opportunity. And yes, I know, it's not the right time. You know, we don't win on our own home and all of the things,

Claire Markwick: 00:30:19

we've got a basically ribeye, our life again, like, we

Monikka Rhae: 00:30:23

all we each had a bag of clothes, and that was about it, you know, but there was something in me that was saying, no, go for it, like, do it. And, and I remember reading something at the time that said, the partner that you've chosen has chosen you to, and I kind of really, really sat on that, that statement for a while. And, and I thought, well, we're going to have this conversation, because, you know, call it the law of attraction and call it universe, divine, whatever you want to call it, it's brought you and the partner together, or me and my partner together for a reason. And maybe this is a conversation that we actually need to grow through. And I think it was really important for me to really hold fast on that desire that was calling me forward. And when I said yes, to myself, what I was actually doing was opening up a communication channel, for me and my partner to talk about some uncomfortable stuff around who's bringing what to the table around money around the fact that I was not working at that point. And he was providing financially for our family unit, around a lot of these things. And in that moment, I actually had to remember my worth. And remember that I too, am worthy of all of life's treasures. And one of those treasures is also my happiness. And even though I was asking for his support for this decision, I wasn't actually asking for his permission. And that was a really uncomfortable conversation to have, but, you know, going forward, even if we go forward a little bit, even now, he's not 100% on board still, and that's okay. Because I am, and, and I, I believe in myself, and I believe in my own self worth, and everyone should be able to feel like that and have that financial independence and, and know that they're capable of success and, and to be who they want to be, despite someone saying, I don't think it's a good idea.

Claire Markwick: 00:32:43

Yes, I 100% 110%. Like it, he you and you know, the conversation went very, very similar, similarly for us as well. But it's interesting that I tend to, I tend to go into childish mode, you know, like the little tantrum child stomping, he doesn't get our own way, kind of thing. And, and I did that, you know, I will put my hand up, and I'll say, I did that and, and I got into a real hissy fit. And I was like, this isn't there, and yada, yada. And then then I kind of put my big girl pants on. And I thought about it from his perspective, you know, what he had shared? And I was like, okay, all right. i He, you know, I have, I have proposed a lot of crazy business ideas over the years, and I have invested in a lot of things, and none of them yet have delivered what I promised they would deliver. So you know, if the roles were reversed, I could completely understand where he was coming from, I like you felt something so strong in my heart that I could not logically explain, like I was prepared to do whatever it took to make it happen. I was like, you know, if, like, this has to happen. I can see this being our catalyst as a family forward into the life that we are, that we talk about, that we dream about all the things that we want to do. And I had to find, oh, conjure up enough courage and faith in myself to exactly like what you said, Stand strong, and not be swayed and not be not be put down, put back into my box and find a way to make it happen. And if something is really important enough to us, we will find a way aren't we like?

Monikka Rhae: 00:34:33

An absolutely in a way? Yeah, absolutely. And you know, and I think as a parent, particularly a mother, we can often lose our identity through through the role that we play in, in the household dynamic and one thing that has given me is it's given me back my sense of self because I'm doing this for me, I'm not i Yes, I am doing it. for the community, and I'm doing it for my family and all of those other things as well. But I'm also doing it for me because it gives me a chance to, you know, have conversations like this and surround myself with people who do believe in the vision who do believe in this mission. And for me, those conversations are so like, oh, that just it just gets me those these contact kinds of conversations really light me up and they raise my vibration and it's important to to have people around you that do support you in in your desires and in your dreams and your goals. And yes, my other half and I may not be on quite the same page with this but yet I've been so it yet but being so he does drink the water, by the way, and he does take it to work. And he does take it camping. He flew it he filled up a 10 liter thingy the other day to take anything with us. Thank you. So he is it is slowly trickling in. But I think it's important to know that, you know, when you surround yourself with people who who believe in you and believe in your dream and your mission and your goals, they can support you to get there. Yeah, in spite of in spite of what anyone else might say. Yes,

Claire Markwick: 00:36:18

yes. And I think the biggest the biggest thing that I learned through that process through not just going okay, then and sulking and going back to what I was for persevering and standing strong and pushing through, the biggest thing that I learned was that I'm actually not here to convey I don't my job is not convincing anyone else like I don't have to convince anyone else. My job is convincing me and having enough courage and conviction and trust and faith in me. And I had to go through that uncomfortable time, I had to go through that difficult conversation, to realize that it's not about finding a way to convince our partner or our parents or neighbor's dog or whoever the hell else might have an opinion, what we've got to do is find the conviction in here and find the strength and the trust in ourselves, haven't we, that's the journey.

Monikka Rhae: 00:37:15

That's the journey. That's the journey, because like you said, If you believe in it, you will find a way you will find a way, you know when I mean, it's not the same thing. But you know, when you're having a baby, you find a way, you find a way to support the baby to feed the baby to whatever you find a way. And I often it's said that when you are an entrepreneur, that your business is another extension like it's a baby, it's one of your babies. And that's how I feel about this, like it is one of my babies and I'm nurturing it and I'm loving it and I'm pouring all of my love into it doesn't mean that other people don't get it. Don't get my love. But this also gets a big a big amount of my love because it's worthy of it and it deserves it. Absolutely,

Monikka Rhae: 00:38:03

absolutely. And this is a baby that supports our financial future and trains it

Monikka Rhae: 00:38:08

absolutely yeah. And it allows me to coach and have fun and go and organize retreats and you know, take my kids on holidays for two weeks without having to bat an eyelid about you know, Oh, can we afford it? Or yeah, it's yeah, it's a totally different way of thinking.

Claire Markwick: 00:38:24

That's that's that's the thing isn't it? And that was one of the things I said to Terry I'm like this enables me to do the fun stuff this enables me to do the stuff I'm good at and this enables anyone to do the thing that they're passionate about you don't have to write a book and make the money sell that book for the money you do it for the passion you don't make jewelry you don't draw you know you don't have to do art paint you know you know our passions music travel like those things that are our passions can be our passions and this can be an injection of funds that helps us fuel that those passions and live that life that we want to live and yeah so closing comments I'm so I'm so I've loved absolutely everything we've spoken about. Like if there's someone listening in, maybe a coach listening in who is just completely overwhelmed with doing everything themselves, maybe a mom in corporate who's you know, as we're recording this at school holidays, so in the midst of juggling, school holidays and playdates and work and commitments and all that kind of stuff, what would you say to any woman listening in who is just like, Oh, my God, like, this can't be all life is.

Monikka Rhae: 00:39:38

I would say that what's in the way is the way okay? So, if you need if you're stressed out and you don't have enough time, then you need to invest time to get back your time. You need to invest money to get you into a place where you're financially free so you get that back. Because that's the cap Right, it's a polarity. Like, I know, when I was juggling corporate and school holidays and all the things I was like, Oh, my God, I can't do this, this is so hard, I don't have enough time, I don't have enough money. But then I realized, in order to get those things, I needed to invest in those things I need to invest in something that's going to give me those things back. Yeah. And in order to do that, you need to invest time, and you need to invest money. So that's, that was what I would say, and that there is so many more things available. Once you start to expand your awareness, and let your curiosity lead. It's amazing what happens to fall in your lap.

Claire Markwick: 00:40:41

So good. And it's so is you know, as someone coming from an accounting background, very logical, very head driven. The things that have come into my life and into my awareness, since I have let go of a lot of that logic and followed my heart is just incredible. So 100%, vouch for everything that that you've just shared there. Thank you. So so much. It has been, as I expected, an amazing conversation that we could just keep going on and on and on about people's time. All of your contact details in the show notes to this episode, if you're happy with that. So anybody who has resonated with your story who wants to connect, he wants to find out more about what you do, maybe he wants to come on one of your amazing retreats, head to the shownotes for wherever you're listening to this podcast at and you will find all of one's contact details in there. Thank you so much. Pleasure. Thank you so much. Bye, bye,

Monikka Rhae: 00:41:45

bye.

Claire Markwick: 00:41:47

The thing that's in the way, is the way is there a more powerful way to end that conversation? I think what mangia shared there at the end, is something that every single one of us can apply to any situation. You know, if we're saying we don't have time, then the thing we need to work through is time, you know, where are we wasting our time? Where can we find the time? Where can we make the time, you know, if our kid fell down and broke their arm, we would be able to find the time to take them to the hospital because our kids are important to us. So it's not the fact that we don't have time. It's it's the fact that something is stopping us from making this thing that we say we want important enough for us to find the time. The same goes with money. If we if we saying we don't have enough money, we can't afford it right now, then the very thing we need to face and the very thing we need to lean into is investing money to make money. How can we earn more money? This was me this was this was exactly where I was I was like, Okay, where can I find this money? How can I earn extra money? How can I create the money that I need to invest in this? It wasn't like, oh, well, we don't have the money for that right now. I can't do it. Because that attitude will never have me will never have had me having the money. I had to commit Yes. And make a plan. What extra work could I do? What extra things could I do? Was there something I could sell? Could I take out an Interest Free Credit Card? Could I take out a loan? Could I ask someone for money for a loan? What What could I do to find the money partner saying no partner, not being on board, when that's what we need to lean into everything that is in the way, is the way so whatever obstacle is coming up for you. Lean into that if you choose to, if you if you are not prepared. Or if you don't want to lean into that pain, lean into that discomfort, lean into that unknown, then just be just own the fact that you

Claire Markwick: 00:44:03

are where you are. And that is where you'll stay. But if you want more if you are committed to more if you are feeling in your heart, you're here for more than it is about leaning into that discomfort leaning into that unknown and doing what needs to happen to move through that having the difficult conversation like mindset in this story. Finding something to sell finding some way someone you can ask to borrow some money, creating the time dropping, dropping a responsibility dropping something that you're holding on to maybe as a way of boosting your ego or feeling significant because you're a part of this and you're doing that. But maybe that's the thing that's holding you back. Maybe that's the thing you need to release. Maybe that's the thing that you need to relinquish in order to free up some time to invest into building the future that you say you Want this business I trust yourself learning through listening to the stories is so much more than an online business, it is so much more than an income stream because she is going to come up, stuff is going to come up for you. And we are in that moment faced with a choice we can, we can succumb to our beliefs and our limitations. And we can therefore fit, stay feeling safer, but will also stay exactly where we are. Or we can lean into each one. And we can face it as it comes up. And we can work through it. And we can elevate ourselves and we can come out the other side at a higher plane, like it was described as described in one of the trainings on our platform is like a wormhole. And so we get to, you know, we're in this nice expansive place and then we'll suddenly all of a sudden, something will come up and it'll squish us. It'll, it'll it'll, you know, it'll for us will be it'll be like all consuming for a moment. And we'll have to squeegee ourselves through this wormhole of, of discomfort and, you know, the unknown and, and fear and all the shit that comes up, we'll have to face that. And we'll have to lean

Claire Markwick: 00:46:13

into that. And eventually, once we do that, we're going to pop out the other side. And we're in this expansive abundant place again, but we're in a higher at a higher plane at a higher level at a higher vibration than where we were before. And that is what that is what this is all about. For me it is it is about every single woman listening to this podcast, leaning into the thing that is keeping you where you are right now and going okay, I want more than this, I can feel more inside me I know my life is more than this. I know there is more out there for for for me for my relationship for my family for our future, there is more out there. And I need to be brave enough, I need to be courageous enough, I need to trust myself enough to know that I am capable, and I am worthy of pushing through that wormhole and coming out the other side. And you know what? The other thing that one shared in this story, you don't do that alone. You do not do that alone. If you're on my team, I am there with you holding your hand along with every other single person in my team. And then we have our wider team which miners are part of. And then we have our whole global community which every single soul in that community is here because they share the same heart focused, pigheaded determination that you do that you're here for more, that you're worthy of more that you're capable of more. And so every single person in this community has felt what you're feeling now has gone through the uncomfortableness of what you're feeling now and the uncertainty as to oh, do I do I reach out and find out about this or don't I, every single person has gone through that. So every single person can offer support and can offer guidance and can hold you like one said can hold you in the space where you need to be held until you've got the strength to push through to the other side. So it is so much more than just a business and I am so grateful for mom for being here today and sharing her

Claire Markwick: 00:48:31

story about how this community has helped her rebuild her and her family's life after losing absolutely everything in a flood and then what that now means for for their future and how she's able to how she's able to bring her family's visions to life through this business which I just think is absolutely incredible. So if you are someone listening maybe you're a coach listening in wondering how you can work this into your practice maybe you're a mum in corporate doing the doing the Juggle of the working mum juggle and you want to find out about how you can switch turn your life around then reach out reach out the first woman like the face woman rising masterclass could be the key to unlocking a whole new future for you. So if you would like to watch that is like 80 minutes of pure gold so there is no commitment whatsoever other than 80 minutes of your time, or 40 If you're like me and watch things on double speed and you can just you can find out you can watch that and you can take the first steps and you can find out if this is something that might be what you've been looking for to move you from where you are now to where you want to be so send me a message there is a direct DM link in the show notes to this episode. So you can message me on Facebook or on Instagram message me the words masterclass mon and I will send sent you a copy of that and we can get the ball rolling for you to start moving your life in the direction you want it to go. Alrighty then I trust this episode has been valuable and if there is someone that you know that you think needs to hear this who needs to hear some of the gold that came out of man's mouth or my mouth in this episode, then please share, share the love and let's spread this fierce woman rising message to those who need to hear it because we live in a time of such opportunity. No woman needs to feel that she is settling that she is stuck that she is anywhere that she doesn't want to be. So I really want to spread

Claire Markwick: 00:50:39

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