Passport to Greatness (parents you’ll understand)

I always love finding the passport baby announcement I designed for Nolan in with our real passports.

The first page inside reads: Our Little Wish Let Loose on the World and three languages, Spanish, English and Dutch announce his birthday (7/18/05).

…that’s exactly what he is in our eyes and likely what all of us adults were/are in our parents eyes, too ~ their wishes let loose on the world.

Cute.

About two or three years ago when Nolan was about nine and started becoming more independent, Josh and I were sitting on the couch watching a show after putting him down. Out of nowhere, I squealed (the kind that comes out unexpectedly when you’ve seen something shocking).

Josh: What…what’s wrong?!

Me: It just hit me. What if Nolan wants to move to Iceland or somewhere really far away when he grows up?!!

Josh: That IS what we’re teaching him…

(Laughter)

Me: I know…I know…

A more full-bodied conversation continued. It’s best described by this — just like Kokology, one of our favorite books to spark family conversation, travel is a game of self-discovery, one that may excite your kids as much as it has excited you and, yes, likely and eventually, take them away and away.

Nolan told us twice over the last year that he’d like to go to Holland, his birth country, for school at some point. It genuinely made me happy to hear him say that. I’ve always spoken to him about my study abroad experiences at 16 and 20 and he’s obviously been aware of our moves to Holland and Mexico.

I’m ECSTATIC that he gets to know the world without us. It just hadn’t occurred to me until a few years ago that he might do it WITHOUT US (the wise one inside always knew that our expat living as a family and other adventures would inspire him, but that was cute when he was three and the reality was far out in the distance).

As I’ve realized over the last few years, little boys don’t stay little for long (he’s 12 in a couple weeks), so I’ll love up on his wings. I will. And I’ll continue to show him mine which are always expanding, too.

I love this little wish, our only child, so much that I miss him already. Parents, I know many of you feel me.

Off to Italy and Israel.

Wings! That’s the wish…always been the wish 🙂

Enjoy your business, enjoy your life!

Life is good,
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Michelle Ghilotti
Couture Brand Creator & Success Coach

Like a Great Movie, These Are COMING SOON! (what do you think?)

Over the last few months we’ve gotten clear that our community would benefit from lower-ticket (lower-priced) programs and services along with our higher ticket and VIP programs which is what the business has revolved around for many, many years because it’s allowed us to more fully support our community.

We’ve better understood this from your comments to our newsletters and blogs, as well as seen the joy in results that our clients have received most recently in a couple of shorter run and lower-priced programs (we are currently doing a small “run” of our Brand to Success program with 17 clients and have been additionally inspired by them to create more just like it and make them more readily available).

Though shorter programs don’t typically take you through to full transformation, we’ve always known the power they DO hold in starting you on a path, motivating you on the journey and in opening a proverbial door or understanding not had prior.

That said, over the next few months or so, we will be launching shorter jumpstart style programs and services to help those of you who have for months or years wanted to receive support on your brand, story, business model, signature programs and the like work together, finally receive that in a way that’s doable and without stress…

We realize how higher investment levels can, at times, keep you from feeling like you can move forward on your dreams and biggest goals. Today, and, as we move forward into the last quarter of 2017 and beyond, I would love to help you actually do the opposite and move forward…helping you on your way to starting to see real results in your business that then bleed into your life (one of my favorite things about creating a purposeful, honest and fun business-turned-movement).

All this said, knowing that we will be in creation mode around some ideas we have that we feel would really support you, please write us back by hitting reply to this email and let us know what in your business and/or brand growth you need the most support with (check out the ideas we’ve heard from others might be of highest good and value).

In short, we will take your wise thoughts into careful consideration and fold what we can into the lower-ticket priced programs we will be putting together.

Here are a few ideas of what we are thinking of. When you write us back, please let us know if any strike your fancy (if you’re short on time, simply reply with the numbers below, in order of importance, that rise to the top for you):

  1. How to create your brand when you’re multi passionate.
  2. How to create your very first (or second) free training or low-ticket program or product, from soup to nuts (you’d follow me behind-the-scenes of me creating my next program).
  3. How to take the story of your life and create beautiful and engaging blogs, newsletter articles and social media posts to grow your business (how to create on-brand and authentic content that monetizes) OR How to create a moving brand story.
  4. Manifesting or mindset strategies 101 OR How to prime your internal environment for greater success in 2018.
  5. Goal setting. How to set a goal and achieve it in 90 days or less.

Thank you so much for letting us know how we can support you.

As always enjoy your business, enjoy your life…ciao from Rome!

Life is good,
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Michelle Ghilotti
Couture Brand Creator & Success Coach

p.s. Feel like mastering that within your brand or business? Hop on the waitlist for our next CEO Changemaker Mastermind program.

I can’t wait to get creating for you, BELLA, Creative Heroine!

“Bright Shiny Object” (Something You’ve Never Heard Before)

Stop focusing on the things you’ve already mastered.

If you’re a caring, loyal and loving girlfriend and on top of creating beautiful client relationships in your business that you’re proud of, but don’t feel healed or dialed in with your parents or your body’s wellness, work on those things while you stop ~ for now ~ focusing on the great things you do with great gumption.

If you’re a devoted father and attentive husband, but letting finances slip through the cracks or feeling less than a great friend by not honoring your commitments, work on those while you stop ~ for now ~ focusing on the great things you do with great gumption.

There is such a thing as celebrating those great things too long, while other things in your life continue getting the short end of the stick.

This is the conversation in the car today on our way to Rachel and John’s wedding weekend…

Get to now own the habits or character traits you don’t call yours yet and resist the urge to be distracted by everything you’re doing so well. This is the very meaning of bright shiny object.

The awesome things you do that gave them that name can BE and ARE a distraction.

Relentlessly, diligently and with all the devotion you can muster (borrow the dedication and successful feelings from all that you have in the bag) and look at the two, three or four areas of your life that you keep getting slapped in the face with reality around and work.on.those.areas.

There’s no other way around it.

Start mastering the things you’re not good at to start living the life you were intended to be great for.

Enjoy your business, enjoy your life!

Life is good,
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Michelle Ghilotti
Couture Brand Creator & Success Coach

Pain Has THIS Purpose

Just as your life has a purpose, pain, emotional or physical, has a purpose.

Though we resist it, it comes to assist us in riding the full wave, in course correcting or helping us to take better care of ourselves.

At the end of the day or at the start of tomorrow’s early morning, you can choose for hard things to grow you or take you.

If you choose life and to be part of the living, you are, by default, choosing growth.

Be taken by it, be taken by growth!

Enjoy your business, enjoy your life!

Life is good,
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Michelle Ghilotti
Couture Brand Creator & Success Coach