EP3: Sharon Crawford-A Midlife Nomad
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English - June 01, 2017 03:11 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSpirituality Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture spirituality adventure exploration personal growth personal development leadership visionaries entrepreneurs entrepreneurship self-help Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
6 years ago, Sharon Crawford was a busy online entrepreneur helping people with a powerful message take it into the world. The primary vehicle was through online multi-speaker events aka telesummits. In addition to producing and hosting 4 of her own telesummits, she provided telesummit training, consulting and conducted private healing sessions.
Fast forward to the end of 2015. Financially, she was just getting by, living in a repressed area and trying to hold on to a house that was in need of major repairs. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't improve her living situation. She had hit rock bottom.
She practiced gratitude and was able to stop herself from diving into darkness, yet she knew there had to be more to life than experiencing a pervasive sense of emptiness and numbness. Overwhelmed by debt and a life that had become much too small, she let go of 80 % of her possessions and dropped her house keys in the mail, leaving her home to the bank. She decided that living a life of joy would be her main priority going forward which would also mean overcoming her fears and taking a big leap of faith into the unknown.
This past year was very different for Sharon. A year of travel, discovery, new friends and a lot of hiking in the Alps. She experienced some personally challenging yet extremely powerful opportunities for growth. After being in spiritual development for 2 decades and in personal development for 3 decades, she always knew she had her own message to share. In the beauty of a garden in the French alps while doing the mundane work of sanding and painting shutters, she began to receive inspiration.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
Reason for hope when there doesn't seem to be any obvious solution
The benefit of feeling what we feel
The power of letting go and of TRUST while making firm decisions about what you want to experience
Another way of 'figuring out' our purpose and how to live joyfully
The reason people get so many great ideas in the shower
Why sitting on a mountain may not be the best place to receive inspiration
The flipside of mundane activity
What is a workaway or work exchange?
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