Episode #061: Guiding People to Courageously Express their Authenticity with Annie Kuensting

Annie Kuensting is the owner and operator of Beacon Empowerment Strategies where she is an alignment and empowerment coach. She spent 10 years teaching cultivating mindsets of possibility and love with youth and transitioned to coaching adults as a natural progression of her calling. She teaches, speaks, and facilitates workshops in various ways around the Twin Cities related to her work.

In this episode, Annie shares about the work she does for Beacon Empowerment Strategies, how to bring back the happiness that momentarily snapped out of us, especially in adults. The idea of embracing one’s humanity, understanding one’s desires and the complexities surrounding our own person is but a part of her process in bringing us back to our core and to our ultimate happiness. Listen and be infected with all the positivity that this coach brings. 

“What does success look like? It looks like happiness.” 

- Annie Kuensting

Timestamps:

04:18 - Annie sharing her career background in education and what  led her to found Beacon Empowerment Strategies

11:33 - The fundamental beliefs she lives by  that guided her positive outlook in life

15:44 - The value  of authenticity and accountability

19:54 - Difference between teaching kids and coaching adults

22:47 - Why to have a child-like mindset should be

25:39 - What success stories look like when you've reached alignment in life

28:40 - Embracing your humanity: how does it help

31:11 - Yes, it's hard but yes, it's worth it

32:34 - How does she balance work and life altogether

37:54 - The positive effects of making a list of positive things for the day

40:31 - What well-being is to her: It means coming from a place of love for myself and towards the world, body, mind, and spirit. If I am really in a state of wellbeing, I'm embodying that true energy that we are and sharing that with the people that I meet. 

Key Takeaways:

“Childlike joy that kids have, we have as adults, it's there, it's within us, and it's possible to reconnect with that and it feels good.” - Annie Kuensting 

“To remember, to be light with life, to choose to adopt the belief that things are working for you and for your highest good, and to show up every day in some kind of a practice that allows you to give special attention to your mind and your body and your soul.” - Annie Kuensting 

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