Creating Your Own Path by Standing Up

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Creating Your Own Path – Jennifer Hillman

Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in coaching but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Jennifer Hillman, Founder of Jennifer Hillman Inc., located in Tucson, AZ, USA.

What’s your business, and who are your customers?

My business, Jennifer Hillman Inc, is an umbrella of businesses supporting my clients’ lives and assisting them in building their dreams. In 2001, I started as Angels Intuition, a spiritual, personal life advisor. The business grew into Inner Strength Coaching of intuitive life coaching due to confused clients handing me the responsibility of their lives. My clients now are open to possibilities and looking for guidance forward. As a life coach, I give that responsibility back and their inner power, confidence, and dreams.

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Tell us about yourself.

I got a Graphic Design degree and found my ideal job as a Production Coordinator at a cable station. After four years, I got fired from that job I loved due to the “#MeToo” situation. And for the first time, I stood up for myself and took legal action. Even during the legal case, I was bullied into a settlement by my then-husband and attorney. My case took over two years. I went from depression to meditation leading to spiritual awakening and finding myself again. I took responsibility for my own life, ended my 19-year marriage, and started my intuitive life coaching business and writing. I also started living my bucket lists of dreams I let slip by me. I was traveling road trips solo across the country, meeting interesting people. For marketing, I started a live radio show (or podcast as they are known now) on BBSRadio.com under Abstract Illusion Radio or AIR. I interviewed some fantastic writers and spiritual teachers/ leaders of the time between 2007 and 2010 on BBSRadio and other independent online radio stations from 2010 to 2016. You can still hear the show on BBSRadio archives and my YouTube channel.

I started my business on available advisory phone lines of the time. I worked on several sites and created my website, AngelsIntuition.com. I joined a few local business networking groups to get word-of-mouth advertising going and wrote daily blogs on my site and a few other blogs. I registered for a new online magazine.

What’s your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?

For over 20 years in business, I have been blessed to help and assist thousands of clients. I hear a client has achieved their dream, received that great opportunity, found that true love they were looking for, and is grateful for the call with me. And they refer friends to call me, and those friends refer me too.

What’s one of the hardest things about being a business owner?

The hardest thing for me was not getting distracted by the financial aspects of business and focusing on the core mission of my business. Trusting myself with my business and the direction I was focusing on and losing the passion for the business. My business is a living thing for me and needs to grow and diversify to keep it interesting to continue.

What are the top tips you’d give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?

Follow the dreams of your heart and do a company you love to do. Trust yourself – you got this.
Research and learn about the business idea with the basics, the legal aspects, the accounting, insurance, your niche market, and if you have employees, respect their opinions and know their rights.
Be open and plan the big picture of possibilities with the business by-products. In other words, please focus on the center of business, yet see the company’s diversity and varieties and have a core mission that unites them all. Do your best not to overthink or overwhelm yourself.

Be willing to invest in yourself and your business by taking a business class, like Marie Forleo’s B-School. It builds a good foundation for any business. B-School helped me refocus on myself and my business interaction in balance.

Where can people find you and your business?

Website: https://jenniferhillman.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JenniferHillmanWriter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1smilingjenni
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferhillman/

If you would like to speak with Jennifer for a session, Let’s Talk.

Finding Self Love

Do you practice self-love? With Valentine’s Day coming soon, it is an important question to ask yourself, especially if you are single, looking for love or in a relationship and wondering where your relationship is heading.

Why is it important to practice self-love? What does self-love look like in practice? How would you advise a customer who is hoping to manifest self-love in their life?

What is self-love and why does self-love matter?
Self-love is self-care, self-esteem, confident and most important, knowing your true self. The knowing and holding on to those true aspects of oneself that make you…uniquely YOU. When you care about yourself, you care about what surrounds yourself… your individual world and world will reflect that expression of yourself Back at you.

The practice of self-love is the care of what you feel about yourself more than what others feel or think about you. Your inner trust in what you are doing and if it feels good, right for you…that is all that matters. At times, the best and hardest thing you can say to someone else is NO.

As someone who has allowed herself to be in abusive relationships, had low self-esteem and find truth in her understanding of her self-worth (priceless) I understand what it takes to get up and change. Hold on to that promise to myself that I am looking out for myself as no one will quite the way I do. I learned to love myself and saw my reflection of self-love return in the ways others showed me respect and support I now get from others.

Let me ask you a few questions about yourself.

Do you like where you are in your life?

Do you wake up, saying Yes or just push the snooze buttons on your life?

Do you worry what others like of you and just go along with whatever they tell you to do at your expense?

Do you looking for a love relationship or friends to validate who and what you are?

Do you take care of yourself with exercise, rest, eating well, and have balance in your life?

Are you happy?

If you have doubts or say NO to any of these questions. Let’s talk about the ways to change this quickly and easily by breaking down the reasons, blocks, and situations that got you to these points and create a better life for yourself. A life of loving yourself reflections in the expression back from life…with supportive people, career, and situations that say Yes to you. Though my Clairvoyant, Clairsentience Clairaudience Claircognizance I can assist you in finding those blocks and misperception to find the true you. That wonderful you are waiting to be fully in your life.

For example, I had a client, in his mid-20s, call me on the verge of suicide thoughts. He had just broken up with his fiance, the love of his life and was losing control of his life without her. She had blocked from her social media and told him to find someone else. She needed to focus on her life, school, and work. He had low self-esteem (abusive family situation -alcoholic parents), currently lived in his basement of his father’s house. He was doing many odd jobs without any benefits or true security in his life.

We discussed his ideal dream of life. He would work in the tech/ entertainment industry in a job with benefits and 9 to 5 hours during the week. He would live in a house with a yard, his girlfriend would be his wife, a couple of kids. He could see this so clearly. His family situation would be peaceful.

Each time we talked, I let him clear the air and then we discuss a step toward changing this. We set up some steps such as getting a journal to write out his feelings to his girlfriend in a journal, all his thoughts, and feelings he had towards her…to give it out of his system. Next, he wrote his mother and father a letter… told them all his thoughts and feelings. He wrote them and burned the letter, removing that energy out of his life. The next day, his mother called and wanted to clear the air with him.

At the same time, he was looking for a house…found it and the owner has renovated it at the time. This client got this perfect house made to his liking without the cost. About this time, he got a text from his ex…asking him how he was doing. Communication had opened up. He was through the roof.

Soon, a friend contacted him about an opening at this television/radio station looking for a tech manager. He put his resume in and is now not just the tech manager, but the operation manager with 9 to 5 hours and full benefits for a few stations in his area.

With many calls with me, He opened up his self-love, caring for the important details and steps to get his dream. His girlfriend is still busy with school and work yet she is texting and talking with him. He is patiently going with the flow, knowing it is just a matter of time until she will be back In his life again. Self-love builds your dreams into reality.

So are you ready to give yourself self-love and live your dreams? Need some assistance, contact me for a session today.