In this episode of the Marketing in Yoga Pants Podcast, Brit interviews Rebecca Undem, National Speaker at RebeccaUndem.com and Author of the book How Mommy Got Her Groove Back. Rebecca is a public speaker, inspiring women and mothers in small communities to live big in a small town. Learn how she is leaning into her superpowers as an ENFJ and how she is helping other women in small towns do the same.
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Topics:
- Working for a talent management company doing leadership training prior to shifting into being a public speaker
- Graduating from college seeking a clear path of success to ‘climb the ladder’
- Working her way up from the back room at a bank in mortgage services to getting all of her mortgage licensing
- Getting married after college and moving to Montana with her husband to work at a big bank
- Finding out working for a large corporation wasn’t what she thought it would be, and crying herself to work every day
- Discovering a way out of her corporate life by helping her mom start and market a pumpkin patch on their farm in her hometown
- Going from her husband working for the government and her working for a large bank to being self-employed farmers within two weeks of starting the pumpkin patch
- Finding out she was pregnant with her first child two days before leaving the bank
- Attending Dale Carnegie sessions for her job at the bank and being inspired by the way one of her facilitators spoke and commanded the room
- Reaching out to have a coffee chat with that facilitator
- Getting accepted to be a Dale Carnegie Training facilitator
- Taking a job that was created for her because she was craving financial stability and benefits at the time as a new mother
- Figuring out that the best way for her to be there for her family, for her clients, and for herself was to allow herself to be fully herself
- Starting a blog and finding that her stories were resonating with her audience
- Meeting her speaking coach who was also an author
- Writing her book and honing her public speaking skill with her coach for a year
- Feeling isolated in her small community
- Launching her group coaching program and being very proud of that, but finding she really needed to plant her stake back into speaking
- Feeling her best when she is hosting and speaking at an event
- Finding inspiration through realizing that being a highly sensitive person is her superpower as an ENFJ and helping other women uncover those realizations about themselves.
Quote:
“Start with the thing you feel most gifted doing.”
