How To Create A Vision That Transforms Your Life

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MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (00:02)

So we want to be a little unrealistic, we’ll call it. However, there’s a caveat to that. If that feeling of ⁓ feels like there’s no possibility whatsoever, then my recommendation is just to reduce it a little bit, not give up on it, and then learn over time to expand in that believing power.

 

I believe that life is not linear, that a quantum leap is absolutely available for each and every one of us. And when we decide to say yes to it and we take the action steps for it and really think the right way, anything is possible for each and every one of us. I also believe and know that two people can have the same experiences in life, the same conditions or similar, and have

 

two very different outcomes from it. And that is by what we decide to release all of those old stories and limitations about ourselves and our willingness to adopt a new identity, a new belief system. And the two people, similar circumstances can have a wildly different trajectory. And what I know for sure is that for women, particularly in our beautiful ages,

 

have a ready and ripe to step into their fullest potential because they’ve got the wisdom, the experiences, the challenges that they’ve had and the combination of all of those has really primed them ready for all of us to take a quantum leap and have the impact that we would love to have and doing it in a way which feels life-giving and having the freedom of time, money and mind at the same time.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (01:53)

I’m Di Gillett and welcome to the Power Of Women Podcast. And what I love about this platform is the opportunity to showcase and celebrate the strength, resilience and achievements of women from all walks of life. Because this is where the real stories are told and where we remind you to never assume. We talk resilience, reinvention and breakthroughs and the moments that don’t often make the headlines.

 

absolutely should. So join the conversation and please subscribe wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts and help propel the power of women community. Imagine if one simple alignment between your mindset and your vision and your values could create the kind of transformation most people spend decades chasing. Would you take that leap?

 

Michelle Stanton knows what it takes to reinvent at any age. As the former CEO of her family led business, Bevels Jewelers, she led the business through a crisis to a very successful global sale. And now as founder of Complete Success, Michelle teaches leaders and individuals how to align mindset, vision and values to create lasting change.

 

Many of us reach midlife realizing that life or the career that we’ve built isn’t the one that we imagined. With Michelle’s help today, we’re going to unpack an awareness around that and how to turn it into action. A true quantum leap of reinvention. Michelle Stanton, welcome to the Power of Women podcast.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (03:40)

Thank you, Diane. Thank you for having me back.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (03:44)

Michelle, could we start with reflecting on your own journey because you led bevels through crisis and you needed to in reality evolve overnight. How did that experience shape your understanding of transformation in midlife?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (04:01)

I think it’s shaped everything about me now. that experience was incredibly difficult. You know, I leading a highly successful business that was 80 years old. And during that time where we were losing, you know, a lot of money, people’s jobs were at risk. It did require for me to find the courage and the determination to literally shift how I saw myself and to then

 

lead the business in a way that would allow it to grow. So how has it affected me today? mean, my late fifties is in a few ways. One is that I really came to discover that there is a power inside of us, each and every one of us, no matter how challenging the circumstances are, how long they’ve been like that, the stories that we’ve been telling ourselves up until that moment.

 

we can find within us a power that is far greater. And if we tap into that, we can transform and rewrite a whole new story going forward.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (05:10)

brilliant. And I look forward to doing that in our discussion today for the listeners, because I think women often feel torn between the comfort of the familiar versus the discomfort of the unknown. And I think like all of us, change can be disarming. What’s the mental shift that helps somebody make that move from I should to I’m actually ready to take the action?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (05:40)

Yes, well, I actually, you I think it’s a bit of a misnomer, the word comfort zone. Although it’s familiar, it’s actually usually pretty uncomfortable. So firstly, we’re just recognising that any change is uncomfortable because it’s not familiar. And fear is the border guard between the known, the familiar and

 

the new way of being or the new life that we would love to create. So it’s always, it’s not an if, it’s always a part of the journey. And so we can build a different relationship with fear and thinking about it, ⁓ it’s good news. It means that I’m wanting to cross the border of the known life into the unknown. But what actually helps someone to make that decision to go from what I like to teach is moving from interested

 

I would like to have that, but you know, I’m going to wait, use all of our excuses to why we’re going to prolong that to I’m committed and I’m making that decision now. And I think there’s two essential ingredients. One is a burning desire. You must feel like A, that the place that you’re at, the stuckness is uncomfortable enough to propel you to want to move.

 

But you also need to know where you would love to move to and what you would love to create. Because without the pulling power of what you would love to create, there is not enough like engine pull to move you from the familiar because it’s a very heavy place to be in. It’s very sticky. And so we do need the help of a really powerful vision. And the second thing is a really committed decision like

 

I’m doing this. this, I’m no longer waiting. And I want to be the person who’s living this life and creating all that’s inside of me to create.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (07:46)

And sometimes that can be difficult because if you’re stuck in a point and you don’t know how to get out of it, what do you do if you haven’t got that bigger picture desire of where do you want to be and you’re just stuck with I can’t move?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (08:05)

Well, I mean, of course, I would say engage with someone who’s an expert at helping draw that out of you, because it is hard to do it on your own. But in addition to that, I would suggest this. We are all capable of dreaming. It’s actually our innate nature to use our imagination and to its life force, always wanting for us to grow and be a better version of ourselves. And so if we can start to trust that,

 

and do a process where we allow ourselves to imagine ⁓ it’s three years from now. And the reason why I love three years is because it’s not too close where our limiting beliefs are going to say, well, that’s not possible. But it’s not too far out where we think, well, I who knows what I would love in 10 years. And so three years seems to be the sweet spot where we can allow. ⁓

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (09:00)

favorite number.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (09:02)

Excellent. I’m born on the third. mine too. One of mine. And so we allow ourselves to imagine a life in four areas that I really train people and help people with. Firstly, our health and well-being and our mindset, our relationships, our vocation, which is really about our expression in the world, whether we get paid for it or not, and then our time and money freedom. And we tune into the

 

master tool that or one of them that I wrap this codified way of bringing about results with this beautiful question and it’s what would I love? Not what I think I can have, not what I should have, not what other people expect me to have. It’s really what.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (09:51)

I- picture dreaming.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (09:53)

Yes, big picture dreaming. What would I love? And we go to work with starting with what we know for sure and then adding to it. What else would you love? And giving ourselves the most precious gift of allowing ourselves to dream.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (10:09)

That sounds like a good place to operate from. And as I understand it, and we’ve talked about it before, Michelle, when we’ve been together on the podcast, you’ve worked with mentors like Bob Proctor and Mary Morrissey. How much did their teachings shape the programs and the ideas and what you’re bringing to life now? And in fact, shape

 

how you got past your own journey.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (10:41)

Well, yes, and I’ve invested, you know, over 10,000 hours of studying this work under amazing transformational leaders and thought leaders. ⁓ And to go to your first, you your second part of the question, there is no way I know this, no matter how hard I was trying, that without the awareness that they brought to me through their teachings, would have I ever have created

 

such an amazing result with Bevels, so 100 % for sure. It shaped everything that I am and how I believe and what I teach, but it’s the combination of their teachings and a few others that I’ve gone very, very deep with. And then I think the biggest gift has been being able to apply it. ⁓ You know, my time at Bevels was such a great teacher.

 

of actually not just about knowing about it, but actually the system to apply it. And it’s that combination of all of those factors that truly influences everything that I teach my clients, but also apply to my life today. Every single day, I’m still working these principles, codifying how does it actually help people move from where they are because transformation is really just transforming our current

 

way of thinking and being and our results into something way more expansive and beautiful. And there is a system to doing it. It’s not just by chance or random. Unfortunately, we’re not taught it at school or in workplaces or generally. And it’s really my passion to help people ⁓ understand it, but most importantly, apply it to their lives. So they too, and I’m seeing it at such incredible rates of

 

people transforming their lives in ways that they love, of course, and what I call accelerating, accentuating what’s already good in their lives. So they’re feeling more joy for what is fantastic, because most of us are very blessed with lots of good, and then transforming the parts that we would love to change into a life that we would love to have. And yes, it’s rapid, what’s happening for people. It’s amazing.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (13:02)

And I’ve had some interesting conversations of late with executives who’ve made that transition from ⁓ on the tools within a business that they’re either working for or is actually their own to then the world of consulting and teaching others like you are doing. Where’s the satisfaction level on the Richter scale of that, of actually doing that for a business that is ⁓

 

part of your DNA versus now doing that and helping others where you can teach but you can’t necessarily walk them over that final line.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (13:43)

It’s a great question and in fact it bevels our purpose for being, which was from me, was to inspire, build confidence and transform people’s lives through beautiful jewellery. So really actually my belief of why I love my family business and that heritage was for the very transformation that we could help take people on.

 

Really, this for me is just an extension of that, ⁓ and a multiplier of that, of course, because rather than doing it in, I believe beautiful jewelry can help people amazingly, but really these principles and a way of being and living and taking that action not only just transforms their lives on a permanent basis, ⁓ but it has a ripple effect to their family, to the people that they lead.

 

This is, you know, this was my calling. Actually, I knew this a couple of years after the restructure, you know, that Bevels came through about eight years before the sale. I actually even bought, you know, the domain name Complete Success because I knew, knew that I was going

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (14:57)

There you go. With

 

power of women, had a forward vision of where you’d end up. I love that. Yeah. So with that in mind, Michelle, for anyone who is listening and feeling a little bit stuck, they’ve either got a career plateau or the kids have left home or there’s been some significant life change, which is inevitable that things change.

 

What’s the starting point to create a vision that feels both exciting, yet realistic to achieve?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (15:33)

Yeah, well, I think firstly that if any of those things are happening, which, as you say, is inevitable, it’s actually the exact conditions that you need to start this work. Often we can do it when things are good, but mostly it is those moments that it’s actually the right perfect timing to happen. The second that I would say is a goal.

 

Goals are very important and I’m a very passionate goal setting person and really teach my clients how to set them and achieve them. Goals should be realistic. Goals should be stretchy, but they should be achievable so that we can move the energy and keep having completions. However, a vision is a whole different thing. A vision should be expansive and it should not be based on what’s

 

real or realistic or logical. It should be based on a whole new version of yourself in a way that you would absolutely love, keeping the things that are already working but expanding on it. And so as an example, in 2019, know, the wrestle, I’ll call it, or the calling that one day I wanted to be doing this work full time was getting so strong that I knew that

 

needed to answer it. I wanted to answer it and I thought well if I can design a life I love I might as well make the exit of Bevels being one that I truly love and so I designed a vision for that sale and at the time in 2019 the business was only actually worth 10 % of what I wrote down as that vision. So it was completely unrealistic, it was completely, there was no evidence supporting it or facts.

 

And yet I believed in that vision so much. Over the next four years, every day I would be spending time, you know, being in the vision, but of course, thinking from the vision and taking, you know, a lot of action. And four years later, literally down to the T, that vision came to fruition in in 2023. And for the exact number, 10 times the unrealistic number.

 

Now did I tell anyone about that vision? Uh-uh, because I wasn’t going to have their doubt.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (18:00)

Yeah, and what’s interesting about that is if you had set that as a goal, would that have been demotivating versus setting it as a vision being aspirational?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (18:20)

Yes, well, I think that a vision, the magnetic energy, energy that is in a vision that is beyond the familiar or beyond the known is essential because it has this life force that is beyond your, you know, limiting stories and limiting ways of being. And so we are igniting this magnetic energy with it. We actually, if a vision’s not big enough, it actually doesn’t have enough pull often to get us unstuck.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (18:49)

Hmm. Yeah.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (18:50)

The goals along the way, and I had many, you know, were then more what I call concrete. And, you know, what were my 30 day or 90 day steps to take that? You know, when was I going to engage?

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (19:04)

stuff.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (19:08)

So we want to be a little unrealistic, we’ll call it. However, there’s a caveat to that. If that feeling of feels like there’s no possibility whatsoever, not even a corner of your mind open to it. You only need a corner. But if you can’t even have that, then my recommendation is just to reduce it a little bit, not give up on it.

 

or say, well, that’s impossible, I’m not going to actually go for it. But just bring it back a little bit so that your mind and your believing power can say, there is a possibility. And then learn over time to expand in that believing power. And there are ways of which to do that, of course.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (19:54)

Yeah. So what is one question you actually ask your clients to see whether their vision is actually aligned with their deeper values? Is there a ⁓ magic question to crack that open?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (20:11)

Yes, and in fact, as part of our process, when people are creating their vision, I have a five step ⁓ test to ensure that the vision is not, most people actually ask the wrong question. They think, ⁓ you know, am I good enough to bring this vision to life? I actually like to phrase it as a completely different thing. Is this vision big enough and good enough for you to trade your life for? And we have a five step test.

 

Yes, and a five-step test in it. And the first of two, which I’ll just cover, does, when I think about this vision, if it’s all worked out, bring aliveness to me? Like, you know, am I coming to life in my energy force just even by thinking about it?

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (20:58)

I’m playing my own over as you’re going through this.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (21:02)

So that’s the first one. And the second one is a must question. Is it so imperative? Does this vision, as it all comes to life, align with my core values? And even if you don’t know your core values, which I believe is a very important exercise for everyone to do and live by, but even if you’re thinking about, well, you know, my health, my family, my ⁓ expression in the world, how would I rank them?

 

in importance. Now, I’m a big believer, I’m a mother of two children. I’ve been married and, you know, am married to love of my life for 30 years. So they are, you know, my highest priorities as well as my health. But I do believe that if I was, for example, dreaming up complete success, that meant that I was on the road for 10 months of the year and doing this work in the world, but missing out on my, you know, time with my family.

 

that definition of how to bring it to life wouldn’t be in harmony with my values. So it’s not necessarily that bringing this work to the world would be against my values, but if I designed it in such a way that would require me to be away all the time, then it wouldn’t be. So we can get to refine it and then match it back to what’s our priorities.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (22:24)

Yeah, fantastic. Well, I’m here with Michelle Stanton, former retail CEO and now life mastery consultant, and talking about how to design and manifest a life in harmony with purpose. Coming up, we’re going to explore how you can create that too. If you’re loving the Power of Women podcasts, be sure to jump onto our YouTube channel and hit that subscribe button to ensure you never…

 

Miss an episode.

 

So Michelle, before we went to a break, were talking about goals versus visions and ensuring that the goals aren’t a demotivator and the visions are that beautiful blue sky aspirational draw. How can leaders clarify what they truly value rather than what might be being imposed upon them around what they should value?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (23:25)

Well, I could probably talk all day about leaders and values. It’s good and bad. Well, I’m going to say it’s really my passion point for businesses, you know, talking about leaders in business for the moment. ⁓ Because I truly believe this, that the thought that someone else can do your values for you, even your team or Google,

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (23:33)

True.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (23:53)

I do not believe that for a moment. The values that lead a business govern the behaviors, the heart and soul of the business. And it must be inside, you know, aligned completely to the, call it the founder or the leader of the business. And if it’s not something that they are going to be willing to live from,

 

I live from in difficult times because I believe that they help govern the decisions that we’re making. And so when they’re in challenging times, you must lean on the visions to help guide you to take the step that’s most in alignment. And it builds the culture of the organization, the fabric, the decision making, the people that you attract. And if that’s not inside that leader, that they’re speaking to it, living from it, walking the talk of it,

 

Bringing it to life, then they’re just going to be mere words that sit on a piece of paper in a drawer and that company will never reach its potential.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (24:58)

So with that in mind and once you have defined those values, what is the process then to bring those forward to be part of the daily lives?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (25:11)

Yeah, well, I mean, read, you know, every day I read complex successors values, I read my own personal values and I did it every day at Bevels as well. So that they’re inside of me, they’re not something that’s outside. And in bringing it into an organization, it’s literally the same thing. You can never talk enough about them. So as an example,

 

at Bevels the way to bring it back and we had people across the country, not all in the office or anything like that. We had them, I mean our office had them everywhere on the walls.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (25:51)

I’m

 

to ask that because so often you see them plastered but never talked about it, simply decor, but this is much deeper than that.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (26:00)

much deeper. I would do a five minute, a three minute, you know, a five minute post, like a video post, podcast to my team every day. And I would be talking about, you know, a value, how we can bring it to life with our customers, how we can bring it to life within ourselves. We would celebrate each week across the organization, the team members would nominate people who have been living beyond.

 

you know, the values and doing something extraordinary and focusing on one value that they brought to life. And literally it was so much a part of our DNA. And of course, I brought that to complete success and the people that we’re coaching. But I’ll give you just some examples of how we did it. So one of our values was be proud. And that really actually came to existence at the restructure at the time of

 

where I’ll call the business was in shame and same with me for what had happened. And as we were bringing the new version of Bevels to life, I felt that that was a very essential value, that we were always going to be proud of who we are and what we did. And during those difficult times, you know, my business advisors and consultants were saying that I didn’t need to pay the suppliers back in full.

 

I could negotiate a lower rate to pay them back and that would be a good outcome for them. And so when I ran that down my value, you know, the values of Bevels of being proud and saw myself walking at the trade fairs, visiting those suppliers, what would be the answer to that, you know, very important question. It cost me millions of dollars, this particular answer. And I said, no, I said for me to be an integrity of my value of be proud, I want to walk.

 

my head up high, be super proud of what I’ve achieved. I’m paying every single dollar back even if it takes me years to do it and that’s exactly

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (28:02)

Lovely example. Thank you. So what’s the most common blind spot then that you see between external success and internal fulfillment in this stuff that we’ve indicated visually on screen today?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (28:19)

⁓ Well, I mean, external success, which we all want to have. You know, we want to have the things and be able to have the experiences that and create the out of success that we’re wonderful to have. So it’s not an either or, but external success without internal fulfillment is empty. And I truly believe that for people, they will find themselves bumped up to difficult

 

circumstances, whether it be a life of regret or the family’s fallen apart or their health’s deteriorating because they believe that they can only have external success at a sacrifice for all the other parts that are meaningful in life and I do not believe that.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (29:08)

That’s

 

very, but I bet that’s a common thought that it comes with sacrifice.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (29:13)

Yes, absolutely. And it does come with sacrifice, what I call, maybe a different way of considering it. I call it, we must sacrifice the greater, the things that we would love to have and what’s important for us, for letting go of the things that are no longer serving us. can’t bring in the odd. Yes, we can’t bring in all, you know, yucky thinking and expect to have amazing results. It doesn’t work that way.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (29:33)

sacrifice.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (29:42)

And that’s why I called my business Complete Success, because it’s an inner journey of feeling fulfilled because you’re living life fully, you’re loving, you you’re being loving to first to yourself, but also to the people that matter most to you. And you’re leaving a lasting legacy of positive impact. And that’s in the work that you do, but it’s actually every day with way people feel in the supermarket after seeing you.

 

If you do that on the inside and look after those four areas of your life, your health, your mindset, your relationships, do what you love to do and do it in a way that you’re passionate about it and brings good and joy to other people. ⁓ You know, I believe that you are going to live and have that fulfillment on the inside as well as the outside.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (30:31)

So not to play on the negative, but more on the realistic. you’re on a transformational journey, such as what we’re talking about and setting some really ⁓ clear and aspirational ideas to move forward. Doesn’t always move at the pace that we want. Sometimes things, you know, go forward, go back, go forward.

 

How do you stop that feeling of self-doubt or fear creeping back in at the momentums, not quite as you want it to be?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (31:09)

I love this question, Di. And I’ve got a few different ways to talk about it. First is I like to explain the time that the gestation period, let’s call it, of the vision, you know, of the full seeing and feeling and having the vision that you’re looking for is different for everyone and different in every situation. And no different, you know, to birth a child for a human is nine months and for a, you know, a tomato tree to birth.

 

its tomatoes is, you know, whatever months it is. And so nature has its different gestation period and we’re not always in control of that. So we must have patience. And I describe the time that it takes a little bit like this. Some things come like an espresso, really fast. Some things are a little bit like a cup of tea that needs some brewing. So take a little bit longer.

 

Some things are a little bit like having, you know, that you incorporate a fresh juice as the way to start your day and you don’t really see the benefits and the changes but six months later you’re like, wow, things have really started to shift. And some things are like a fine red wine and take years to percolate and to come into form and all of them are beautiful. We wouldn’t want to have life without any of those four. And so we appreciate

 

that everything has its time and to be patient. I call it to be patient with the result, but be relentless with your action.

 

Most people are the opposite, impatient with the result and are delaying and not taking enough.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (32:49)

Yeah, with the action. Yeah, I can imagine that. So when life does throw a curve ball and life does, and it might be a job loss or something far more personal and confronting, how do you turn that catalyst, or how do you turn that experience into a catalyst for change?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (33:13)

So I’ll say two things here. One is that you must have a belief system that, you know, things are happening for us, even when they’re uncomfortable. And so it’s very hard to do, but it is the power shift. So when we think that life’s happening to us, then we’re a victim at it. And we’re not looking for the good and the potential that can come from this adversity.

 

⁓ And I believe, know, like even in the fact, you know, the bevels going into voluntary administration and all of those things, it was the greatest gift that ever happened to me, as painful as it was. And I would never want the repercussions for other people because of it. But what it’s actually given me has been the biggest gift ⁓ of life. And I believe that all challenges are there. They’re available for us to

 

really reveal our greatest potential ⁓ if we’re willing to go looking for it.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (34:15)

Yeah. And that’s absolutely been what’s played out with so many of the incredible women that I’ve had over the course of this year and last on Power of Women. I reflect Hannah Asafiri, who had a very challenging start in life with a forced marriage at age 15 and has turned that into a life of advocacy and supporting others. And latterly, Joe Tonarski, who

 

⁓ had the experience within the biggest workplace or the most prominent workplace on the Hill in Canberra of being a toxic workplace that could have broken her and nearly did, but she has come back out of that after a time of recovery and reflection ⁓ to being an advocate to help others who have experienced that. And she used exactly those words, Michelle. She sees it as a gift.

 

not as anything to the negative.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (35:15)

Yeah, but the other thing I would add to that, Di, and you know, I believe in every story is that difficult moment of when you see someone having powerful transformation. ⁓ But is that to do it alone is difficult. And you really do have that you can have that belief system, but it’s hard to hold without a support structure and a system to help you. ⁓

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (35:31)

Yeah.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (35:44)

navigate the doubts and the fears because they’re going to be there. Those difficult moments are absolutely going to be there. So if you don’t support yourself during that time, then it’s going to be very, very, it’s not impossible, but way more difficult than it needs to

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (35:57)

1. And you’re exactly right, both of those examples that I played out also talk through exactly where that support structure came from, not always from where they expected it come from, ⁓ but they did build a ⁓ considered support structure that assisted them to get beyond the issue that they were both facing at the time.

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (36:21)

I think it’s imperative, know, it’s just part of that hero’s journey that you do need the mentors and the structures to support you.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (36:30)

Michelle, finally today, if I could ask you for every woman standing on the cusp of her next chapter, what’s the message that you’d have for her around taking that lady?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (36:44)

⁓ Well, be courageous. Don’t wait. We never know, ⁓ A, how long we have here or the difference that it could make in the people’s lives, not just because of the work in the world, but even the people we love most. ⁓ know, so we never know when we’re really going to require it. And we think we have all this abundance of time, but really, you now is the moment. be in my words was be courageous. It’s so good when you are living a life that you love and expressing yourselves in the way that you know is yours to do. It truly is the best place to be.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (37:29)

Michelle, thank you for reminding us that midlife isn’t a plateau. In fact, it’s a launch plan pattern and absolutely now is exactly that right time. Tell us, how does somebody find you and complete success?

 

MICHELLE STANTON [Guest] (37:46)

Yes, they can just go to complete success.com and very simple. And on there they can read a bit more about me. But I also have a gift for your listeners, which is. Fantastic. Yeah, if that’s OK. It’s a system that I codified and made for helping my clients, help them.

 

be courageous and to take the actions that they want to take and have the mindset so that when those doubts and fears are coming, are running wild, there is a practice, a proven system that really helps people move forward at a quantum leap. And so they can just download these planner and journal, it’s digital, on the website or pop up, it’s easy to do. And literally, it gives you the complete system to help you navigate life’s challenges and continue to

 

you know, advance confidently.

 

DI GILLETT [Host] (38:41)

brilliant, hence complete success. So we’ll add that into the show notes and also if you’re watching this with us on YouTube, you’ll see that run across the screen with the website. Michelle, again, thank you so much. It’s wonderful to have you back and join for a second time. know you joined. We said before we started recording today that it’s about 12 months since we last caught up and

 

and both of us have progressed our businesses ⁓ even more so in that time by having this big picture and self-belief of what we want to do and where we want to be. So if anybody is interested in following Michelle’s guide around that, it is a fantastic template for success.

 

Please be sure to follow what I’m doing on LinkedIn. I do have the newsletter Power of Reinvention where I share a little bit more about me than I do on these podcasts, because this is more about amplifying the stories of the guests that join me. You can follow the podcast on all of the Audible platforms, Apple podcasts, on Spotify. And we put a lot of time in curating it also for you who prefer to watch.

 

And we’ve got our own YouTube channel, the Power of Women podcast channel. So until next time, thanks for joining us.