EP224: Christine Arylo - How To Acquire More Clarity & Freedom In Your Life

Ad Read: Indigenous wisdom is you can either try to hang on and, like, clench on and not let go, and you'll suffer a lot, kind of like being banged against a rock. Or you can let go and find a different way to see and be and live and get real with yourself about what's not sustainable, what's not working in your relationships, what's not working in your life, what's just not working. And then from that place of self-empowerment, be like, all right, I'm going to do this differently. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com. The proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a good one. Our guest is the author of Overwhelmed and Over It, a transformational leadership advisor and host of the Feminine Power Time podcast, Christine Arraillo. Welcome to the show. Thank you, Michael. And hello everyone. It's great to be here today. I can't wait for our conversation. I'm excited to have you. And, uh, I think it's a real good opportunity to talk about what's going on in the world and how that's impacting all of our listeners. And, and so Christine, tell us a little bit about you, your career journey leading up to this point?

So, wow. Okay. So, let's see where to start. Pivot point, pivot point. So, like many of us that are probably here listening, I was traditionally brought up and raised and bred in the Midwest and traditionally went through the corporate world and got my MBA and kind of followed the traditional path to success that was laid out, right? If you work hard, if you do this, if you're smart, you get good grades., and it'll all work out. And that worked to a certain point until about the age of, um, 30, 32, when I realized that no matter how much I worked, no matter how much I gave, no matter how much I did, I never felt like I was doing enough. And I never seemed to have enough time, money, energy, resources, or whatever. And I, um, I left my corporate career in 2006 to start doing this transformational work and then became an entrepreneur. And I have to say, I could manage it and kind of keep my head above the water when I was in corporate and consulting. But as soon as