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Melinda Wittstock:

Coming up on Wings of Inspired Business:

Scarlett Stanhope:

So many people have grown up not having a lot of money, having complex relationships with money, having beliefs that I need to work really hard, I need to suffer, money doesn’t come easily. Or in order to make money, I have to do something that I don’t actually enjoy. It’s all of these preconditioned underlying thoughts and beliefs around money, yourself, and the world that create the way in which you live your life and what your actual money situation looks like. And you can shift this mindset to step into abundance and develop a healthy relationship with money, develop abundance-based beliefs and know what it’s like to have enough. I also help my clients to track and manage and be strategic and intentional with their money. Because when you do that, it eliminates a lot of the fear.

Melinda Wittstock:

Money. It makes the world go around, but it can also stop us in our tracks, or keep us playing a small game. What would it be like for money to work for you… rather than you working for money? Scarlett Stanhope helps her clients change their relationship with money, with a focus on balancing flow with structure, manifestation with management, the feminine and the masculine.  She’ll be sharing her transformational journey from high-achieving type A personality to a balanced entrepreneurial life blending strategy with intuition, with lots of aha’s about how to rethink your relationship with money.

Melinda Wittstock:

Hi, I’m Melinda Wittstock and welcome to Wings of Inspired Business, where we share the inspiring entrepreneurial journeys, epiphanies, and practical advice from successful female founders … so you have everything you need at your fingertips to build the business and life of your dreams. I’m all about paying it forward as a five-time serial entrepreneur, so I started this podcast to catalyze an ecosystem where women entrepreneurs mentor, promote, buy from, and invest in each other. Because together we’re stronger, and we all soar higher when we fly together and lift as we climb.

Melinda Wittstock:

Today we meet an inspiring entrepreneur who embodies a unique blend of steely ambition with empathetic mindfulness, cultivated by a transformative personal journey from striving perfectionist to holistic inner peace. Scarlett Stanhope is known as “The Biz Hippie”, balancing structure and achievement with abundance and flow to find what she describes as an equilibrium between these archetypal masculine and feminine energies, teaching coaches how to conquer their finances and own their value so they can breakout of workaholism and be fully supported by the work they love.

Melinda Wittstock:

Scarlett will be here in a moment, and first:

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Ready to transform your relationship with money and step into a more abundant life? It might be time to embrace your “inner hippie” and make the leap from a high-achieving, perfectionist lifestyle to find peace and equilibrium by balancing strategic high-action business acumen with a more mindful approach that keeps you in flow.

Melinda Wittstock:

Scarlett Stanhope, aka the Biz Hippie, is here in just a moment to share her own journey swinging between the extremes to find the transformative middle ground. We talk about the power of self-awareness in overcoming fear and scarcity, and how money mindfulness and practical financial management will empower you to live your best life.  

Melinda Wittstock:

Let’s put on our wings with the inspiring Scarlett Stanhope.

[INTERVIEW]

Melinda Wittstock:

Scarlett, welcome to Wings.

Scarlett Stanhope:

Thank you so much for having me today. I’m really excited for our conversation.

Melinda Wittstock:

Me too. Well, you’re known as the biz hippie. That’s kind of cool. So, what does that mean in practice? How did you arrive at being the biz hippie?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah, that’s such a great question. Back in the day, I used to be a super like type a perfectionist, high achiever. I was pretty much like all business mode all the time. I was, you know, going to college, getting my 3.9 GPA, managing restaurants, very success, hardworking, driven. And then I hit my own rock bottom point as a result of just being in this energy for a long time, like living my life this way. And then I swung into full hippie mode as I went on my own self-discovery journey. I got really into yoga.

Scarlett Stanhope:

I even became a yoga instructor, became a life coach, and just went all in on personal growth, personal development, and became my full hippie self. And so really the biz hippie is a reflection of me finding my way back to the middle in the balance of both of these things, where you can be strategic and grounded and logical and work hard, but also be tapped into who you truly are and a life you really love. And that’s really the blend of the biz and the hippie.

Melinda Wittstock:

You know, this is something that so many women entrepreneurs in particular have in common. There’s something about women entrepreneurs that we are more effective when we find that balance or integration or, or whatever. Because when we go into this hard driving Elon Musk kind of I’m gonna sleep on the floor and work 18 hours, we burn out. I don’t know if we were designed for that. I almost think that we, when we, when we hit this point, when we think, oh, wow, I can achieve the same or even more by doing less, you know, in other words, being more strategic with our time and having that kind of balance in our lives, that’s when we really succeed.

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah, absolutely. I found time and time again in my own business that it’s a delicate balance between the structure and the flow. And I’ve gone full structure mode. And I’m like, I’m gonna be strategic, I’m gonna do everything right. And I’ve made no progress in my business. And I was like, what am I doing wrong? And then I’ve gone full flow mode, where I’m like, I’m just gonna be authentic and do what feels good and trust my instincts and have gotten more momentum there. But I find that it’s really that balance in the middle that leads to rapid growth, rapid expansion, and really makes it easier for me to achieve my goals in my business.

Melinda Wittstock:

You know, I like to think of it as a balance between, I guess, the archetypal masculine and feminine energies. When we bring the best of both of those and are able to integrate them within ourselves, this is the best way that I can kind of describe that. So, on one hand, you know, all the flow and the intuition and the empathy and all these wonderful things that are sort of archetypically feminine. I like air quotes around feminine. But then the structure and the process and the systems and the drive of the masculine energy, if we can find ways to integrate that. Tell me a little bit about your journey because it sounds like, okay, so you were heavy in the masculine, and then you were heavy in the feminine, and how did you integrate those two? 

Scarlett Stanhope:

I totally agree with the way that you’ve described it. That’s also how I describe it as well. Is that, like, masculine structured side with the feminine flow side. And it is all about finding that balance in the middle. And so, for me, part of that journey has been allowing the pendulum swing to happen. I think that it’s really hard to find balance without first going past balance. It’s like, if you’ve ever tuned a guitar string, the guitar string is first out of tune.

Scarlett Stanhope:

And in order to tune it by ear, you actually have to go past it being in tune, get it out of tune in the other direction, and then bring it back down to being into tuned. Because you need to experience both sides in order to find that balance. And so, for me, in my life and in my business, it’s been an unfolding journey of swinging from the drastic masculine side to then swinging to the drastic feminine side and then swinging back over to the masculine, but less dramatically, and then back into the feminine. And then each time that swing from side to side gets a little smaller and Smaller until it just becomes subtle tweaks and you’re like operating in the balanced zone. But now it’s really bringing a lot of awareness to noticing when you’re operating in more of one versus the other and being able to consciously make that switch and test and see what happens when you switch from side to side until it just becomes these subtle shifts where you’re relatively close to the middle and every single time and every day you’re getting closer and closer to it.

Melinda Wittstock:

That’s a beautiful way of describing it. And of course, it predicates that you have self-awareness to even know what you’re doing. A lot of people don’t have that. They jump in and they do all the things they think they should do or they follow somebody else’s path. That’s not authentic to them, you know, when they’re starting out as entrepreneurs or even with a little side hustle or just in an executive career even, right? And, and so when did you first feel that you had this kind of growing awareness of all of this so you could even calibrate where you were on that pendulum?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah, it really started after my huge rock bottom that I had many years ago at this point point. But that was as a result of being too far in this masculine where I was purely driven by success and achievement in making money. And on paper I was doing everything right. Like I was getting my bachelor’s degree in business management, accounting and finance. I thought I was going to be really successful. I had a 3.9 GPA. I had a fancy job title that other people my age didn’t have. I was making more money in my job than other people were my age.

Scarlett Stanhope:

I had $30,000 in savings, I had paid for college out of pocket, had zero student loans, had zero credit card debt. And yet I was unfulfilled. I was unfulfilled. I was depressed, I was suicidal, I was covered in head-to-toe eczema. I was in a toxic relationship, and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. And it wasn’t until I like hit rock bottom so hard and realized, wow, I don’t want to live this way anymore that I actually recognized that I had control over my life. Because before that I was just going with the flow, doing what I thought I should do, being who I thought I should be and didn’t realize that I was actually in control of my life, that I could make different choices, that I could do things differently and that I could actually decide, oh, what do I want? What’s important to Me, what kind of life do I want to live? And I could make that happen. And so, after that rock bottom, that really started to wake up, the self-awareness.

Scarlett Stanhope:

And I could start to peel back these layers of self-discovery and realizing, okay, who am I? What do I want? And it was a slow journey of rediscovering myself, rebuilding self-trust, self-confidence, and then starting to choose consciously a life that I wanted to live.

Melinda Wittstock:

Right. You know, it’s so funny how many, how many women have that hit rock bottom. Like it almost has to happen.

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

So fast forward a bit. As the biz hippie, tell me a little bit about your clients and who you work with, and then we’re going to get into the whole money story and all the things that you do. But who are your ideal folks?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah, so I work with coaches, entrepreneurs, healers, people who are against the grain and want to fully support themselves financially with the work that they love. I love helping these people to like, leave a 9 to 5 job that doesn’t feel fulfilling or aligned and go all in on their passion so that they can create and live their most abundant lives without money being the thing holding them back.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah. And often it is money because there’s so much fear wrapped up in all of that. Right?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

It takes a certain, I don’t know, I’ll just use the masculine phrase. It takes some cojones to launch a business, right? So, say you have your dream and your passion, but you don’t necessarily. Nobody knows exactly what they’re doing. You can have an MBA; you can do a whole bunch of things. You can attend seminars; you can do all of it.

Melinda Wittstock:

But your entrepreneurial journey is going to be different from everybody else’s, and there’s going to be all kinds of things you don’t expect. And it’s constant learning. So, there’s constant failures, you know, some. Some small, you know, and like just little recalibrations along the way and some really huge. So, if you’re going into it in a really fearful way, that’s really going to limit you. So, clients come work with you. What are some of the things that they’re actually trying to overcome? And are they aware of the fear factor?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah, and that really is a huge part of it, is the fear. And so, a lot of what is holding my clients back and what they’re dealing with is there’s a couple different things, but the biggest pieces are scarcity, lack, not-enoughness, and this underlying relationship with money that’s basically holding you back and keeping you stuck. So many people have grown up not having a lot of money, having complex relationships with money, having beliefs that I need to work really hard, I need to suffer, money doesn’t come easily. Or in order to make money, I have to do something that I don’t actually enjoy. That’s why it’s called a job. And so, it’s all of these preconditioned underlying thoughts and beliefs around money, yourself, and the world that are actively creating your current relationship with money and create the way in which you live your life and what your actual money situation looks like. So, one of the things that I do with my clients is help to heal the relationship with money from the inside out. So, rewriting this story, changing the beliefs, changing the patterning and the actual relationship that you have with money, because it’s not really based on reality.

Scarlett Stanhope:

And you can shift this mindset to step into abundance and develop a healthy relationship with money, develop abundance-based beliefs and know what it’s like to have enough. So really the internal work is one huge piece of it. And that’s kind of representative of that feminine energy. That’s the feminine aspect of the work that I do. And then on the masculine side, I also help my clients to track and manage and be strategic and intentional with their money. And that’s the masculine side. It’s getting really tangible and clear and aware of what is actually happening with your personal and business finances. Because when you do that, it eliminates a lot of the fear.

Scarlett Stanhope:

Most of the fear is coming from the unknown. Not knowing what’s happening with your money, not knowing where it’s going, not knowing why you never seem to have enough, no matter how much you make, and bringing so much awareness to the money so that suddenly they’re in control of their money and they can use their money to make choices in alignment with the life they want to live so that they can make that vision their reality with the power of their money.

Melinda Wittstock:

Right?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

So, there’s a lot there to unpack. Like I, you know, first of all, yeah, you’ve got to change your, you know, relationship in the sense that you’ve got to feel like you deserve to have money. That, that it’s, you know, that you’re enough, that, that you know, you can ask for a sale without guilt or apology because you know your own value.

Scarlett Stanhope:

Right, exactly.

Melinda Wittstock:

Because that’s actually a big thing. So how does it manifest the money story? Are people coming to you with like, oh my God, I can’t make a sale or they’re underpricing or they’re… What are all the ways that the money story, the negative of it, that fear of lack or the assumption of lack actually holds people back in business?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah, it shows up in many ways in the personal life and in the business life, especially in the business. The ways in which I show see it showing up is not being able to go all in on your business confidently because of the money. Right? With business, the money is a bit of an unknown, it fluctuates, it’s not always consistent. And so, there’s this inner struggle between should I pursue this dream, should I pursue entrepreneurship, or should I cave in and get that solid 9 to 5 job with consistent income? And even that conflict plays a huge role in your business. Because if you’re unsure of your business and you’re not able to go all in with confidence on the business or even in your belief behind your business, that’s going to change the way you show up the amount of energy, the type of energy that you’re bringing into your business. So that’s one another one similar to what you’re just saying around sales. Your relationship with money has a huge impact on sales. If you’re operating from a place of I don’t have enough, I need more money, I’m actually really desperate for your money.

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Scarlett Stanhope:

And you bring that kind of scarcity and lack onto a sales call, the person on that call can feel that and it literally will repel them and push them away. The other thing is your relationship with money is a reflection of your self-worth. So, if you don’t fully believe in yourself, your value, if you don’t fully believe that you’re worthy or deserving of receiving money, if you’re not confident in your ability to deliver value and offer your services and get paid for it, it’s also very hard to land a sale when you’re operating from that energy. And then the final way that I usually see this show up is people are unsure of when they can go full time in their business, or how much they need to be making in their business, or how many clients they need to have or how price their offers in order to actually be supported by the work that they love. And so, getting really clear on how much do I need to be making, how many clients do I need to have at this rate, finding that time, energy, money balance and going in with a clear strategic plan for the business is what helps my clients to make full time business their reality.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah, a hundred percent. So, what’s your methodology for helping people through this money story. It’s a hornet’s nest because it’s all so much of it is subconscious. It’s like how we grew up, it’s like also how we’re socialized. It’s like the people around us, it’s like so many different influences. You know, this whole tariff thing in and everybody’s fearful of what it means for the economy.

Melinda Wittstock:

In that kind of fearful environment, if you already have some money fears, how do you navigate that?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah. And there’s a lot of different techniques that I utilize in order to really break free and shift this money story. Because I don’t think it’s enough to just think like, okay, I need to change my story around money. I’m going to say a bunch of abundance affirmations and hope that that works. That’s like the slow route that doesn’t lead to a lot of change. And so first I use a combination of different coaching techniques, one of which is story work where we go back to the moment in time when these beliefs around money were established and we actually discharge the energy of these stories. We uncover the beliefs that were instilled as a result of those moments in time, those memories, and we bring a lot of awareness and space and perspective to those moments so that we can actually rewrite the story. And it’s hard to rewrite the story when you haven’t done the inner work of digging up the scarcity seeds that are already planted.

Scarlett Stanhope:

You have to first bring awareness to those, dig them up so that you can replant new abundance-based seeds. So, story work. I’m an enlisted certified coach, so I use enlifted story work. I also use a version of parts work. I teach my clients to look at the different parts of themselves and uncover which are the parts within them that are operating from a place of scarcity and have scarce based beliefs. What are the parts that are protecting them and are therefore also holding them back from living the lives that they want to live, from having the money, from having the freedom that they want. Usually if we are not living the life we want to live, there’s a reason why there’s something within us that’s preventing that from happening because it’s outside of our comfort zone. So, bringing awareness to those parts and speaking to those parts directly, having a conversation with them, and uncovering what does this part need to be safe.

Scarlett Stanhope:

And when you satisfy that safety of that self, that’s when you’re able to expand out of your comfort zone and step into the life you really want. And then the third technique that I use is actually teaching my clients to manage their money. Believe it or not, that actually is a huge part of the internal work, because a lot of the fear around money is based in the unknown. Not knowing what’s happening with your money, not having control of it, it’s just like a monster in the closet. You don’t know what’s happening, and it’s left to the imagination, and the fear is growing, and you think the situation is worse off than it is. So, when you get your money down on paper and you can see it clearly, it’s like, oh, now I can finally do something about it. I’m in control again. I can make choices.

Scarlett Stanhope:

I have the power. And so those are some of the techniques that really do the trick in unwiring and shifting the fear that so many people have around money.

Melinda Wittstock:

Something that you said, Scarlett, that was really interesting was the word protection, that sometimes these money stories we have that aren’t serving us are actually wrapped up around protecting us. So, like, we may, for instance, play a smaller game, like start a smaller business or just be. Or spend a lot of time planning and trying to be perfect, right, there’s a number of different ways that that manifests, but something is telling us to just play it safe or we’re protecting ourselves from disappointment. It’s like fear of failure, right? Break that down a little bit for me. That kind of. Where people’s negative money issues are really, like, somewhere in the back of their minds or deep in their subconscious, they’re actually protecting themselves.

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah, it actually, it. It always comes down to protection and safety. Every time I do this work with clients, it always comes down to safest protection. Because whatever your current situation is, whether you like it or not, whether you’re happy with your current money situation or not, you are the one creating it, and you’re creating it for a reason. This is your comfort zone. Whatever your current reality is. Is your comfort zone. You’re used to it maybe because you grew up this way and so you were used to being stressed about money.

Scarlett Stanhope:

And so, when you try to break free from that comfort zone, for example, have a lot of money and actually feel financially free, that’s new, that’s scary, that’s uncomfortable because you haven’t lived this way before. And so, there are subconscious parts of you whose job is to keep you in your comfort zone. Their job is to keep you safe by pulling you back to the kind of life that you are used to living. Whether or not it’s a good life or a bad life, or you enjoy it or you don’t. Whatever you’re used to is what you are safe in. And so, this is why so many people like try to make more money. They think, oh, I’m so stressed about money. In order to solve this, I’m going to make more money.

Scarlett Stanhope:

And then when I have more money, I won’t feel stressed anymore. But what happens is sure they work hard, they bring in more money, but then these subconscious parts are like, okay, we can’t have this much money. This is scary. We’ve never done this before. I don’t know how to be in this state. And so, it ends up getting spent very quickly. This is why no matter how much money people make; they constantly feel stressed about money. Because these parts are protecting you and bringing you back to the safety of whatever you are used to.

Melinda Wittstock:

Oh my goodness, this is so true. It’s the type of person who can make a lot of money but, but, but spend it just as fast. And if you haven’t changed your relationship with money, you might just be adding more zeros. Like a ten-thousand-dollar problem is a hundred-thousand-dollar problem is a million-dollar problem is a ten-million-dollar problem. You’re still going to have the same, same issue. Right? I think what you’re saying is before people go on this entrepreneurial path, like they’ve got to really change the relationship with money first or it will confront you along the way. Like at some point you’re going to have to change if you’re going to succeed. This is going to confront you.

Scarlett Stanhope:

Oh absolutely. Because it’s really not a like money stress or abundance or financial freedom. It is not about the amount of money. I’ve seen this time and time again. People think it’s about the amount of money and when I have more money then I’ll be happy and I’ll have everything I want. But it’s not because I’ve worked with clients who have very little money, are scraping by. They feel like they’re living paycheck to paycheck. I have clients who have good money coming in consistently, and they still feel like they’re living paycheck to paycheck.

Scarlett Stanhope:

It doesn’t matter the amount. It matters your relationship with money. So, it really doesn’t matter how hard you work or how much you hustle or how much you make. If you haven’t changed the relationship, the patterns, the beliefs around money, it’s just going to keep showing up for you no matter how much you make. And if anything, it’s actually going to get worse and expand, because money’s an expander. So, if you have a challenging, complicated, scary relationship with money and you pour more money onto that, you’re just expanding the current situation.

Melinda Wittstock:

This is a really interesting thing because I marvel at, say, someone like Elon Musk, who has more money than anyone ever in the history of the world. The world’s richest man. But he seems so unhappy and aggrieved and, like, almost in scarcity with all that money. I don’t know. What do you think’s going on there?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah, I think that that’s part of what actually compels people to try to take on more money than is, quote, necessary, is you’re trying to fill an emotional hole and say, like. And it’s the same thing. It’s like, when I have money, then I’ll feel better, but that’s not the case. And so, you can make more and more and more and still feel like you’re chasing something. It’s the same with the success race that I used to be living on. It’s like, okay, once I get the fancy job title, then I’ll be happy. Once I get the promotion, then I’ll be happy. Once I hit this number in my bank account, then I’ll be happy.

Scarlett Stanhope:

But happiness doesn’t exist there. You’re creating these finish lines that just keep going further and further out, and you’re never arriving at the actual happiness or fulfillment that you desire. In fact, the only way to actually get to that fulfillment, or abundance, as I like to call it, is by creating it. Now you have to learn to step into your most fulfilling, thriving and abundant life right now with the money that you already have so that you can be living your most thriving and abundant life. Then you can bring in more money, and it will feel like it’s enough because you’ve already stepped into the energy of enoughness right now. And that’s the only way to actually live an abundant life.

Melinda Wittstock:

You know, it sounds so easy when you say it, but that’s actually really hard because people think, well, like they literally don’t believe that they have enough or maybe they don’t. Like maybe they’re a scrappy entrepreneur and they’re trying to make payroll, and you know what I mean? The circumstances around them aren’t conducive to even allowing yourself to believe that you have enough.

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah, I think that that’s, it’s common. You know, we can look at a lot of circumstances, especially in this day and age. It’s like, oh, the economy, expenses this, that and the other. And I have seen time and time again that you can create the feeling of abundance and enoughness and safety no matter how much money you have. I actually had a client tell me once, she said, you know, right Now I have $10 in my checking account and yet in this moment I feel more abundant than I ever have in my life because I know that I’m in control, I know how to get more, I know that more is coming and I feel safe and confident in this. And she didn’t feel that way in the past when she had much more money in her bank account. So even though there can be external circumstances that tell you otherwise, when you take the time and put in the effort to do this internal work of transforming your relationship with money, it’s so possible for you to feel abundant despite all the external circumstances. That’s why it’s all about you taking back control of your life.

Melinda Wittstock:

Uh huh. 100%. So, what are some of the practical steps to this? Because one of the things a lot of people are just sort of afraid of money. Like they’re afraid to even talk about it or confront it or I know so many entrepreneurs who just don’t even look at their numbers. Do you know what I mean? They don’t really know where they are in their business. It’s like there’s a fear around actually even knowing, right?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Oh yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

How to transform that in a day-to-day practical sense where, where the money is not something to be feared or ignored or whatever, but like you could actually have fun with it.

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah. And there are a lot of like deep practices you can do over an extended period of time which will lead to a really big powerful transformation. That’s, that’s what I help my cl. But even in the day to day how you can start this work is first recognizing that you have a relationship with money. I think so many people see money as this Thing outside of them over there that they have no control over and are afraid to look at. But instead recognize that you are currently in a relationship with money. You’re also currently in control of your money, even if you feel like you are not. And so, starting to recognize what is your relationship with money? What are your thoughts about money? How do you feel about money in your day to day when you spend money, how does it feel? What do you think? What does motivate you to spend money? What does that.

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yes, go ahead, feel like. What does that. No, I can’t afford it. Feel like, what is that based off of? And then when you’re interacting with your money, like when you’re checking your bank account, notice what you feel around it and start to uncover why. And I have found that even starting to bring awareness to the relationship with money will start to uncover some big things that can really start the foundations of shifting your relationship with money and starting to practice finding safety and gratitude around your money. When you do check your bank account, when you do look at your money, being grateful for what is there instead of automatically thinking oh my gosh, I don’t have enough and finding safety, even if it might feel a little scary, how can you regulate yourself? Come back to that slow deep breath and remind yourself that you are safe. And then the next step really is tracking and managing your money and knowing your numbers. Especially as an entrepreneur, especially, especially as a business owner, because your money, your business is a money-making machine.

Scarlett Stanhope:

It’s all about money. And so, in order to be successful in business, you really do have to know what’s happening with your money. So even starting to bring this next level of awareness to what is happening with your money in your day to day.

Melinda Wittstock:

So, give me a couple examples of some of the transformations and the timeline of the transformations with your clients. 

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah, so I run a group program, it’s called Empowered Abundance and it’s a six-month program that totally is going to transform your relationship with money from the inside out. I have so many super fun and amazing client stories. One client. And I’ve also worked with clients all over the world, which is really fun because they are in different economies, have different currencies, have different financial situations, and yet this work works across the board. So, I had a client in London who was in a 9 to 5 job that she had enjoyed at one point, but didn’t really enjoy anymore. And on our consult she told me that she wanted to leave this 9-to-5 job. And I said, yeah, okay, let’s make it happen. So, through our work together and she was somebody that like was making decent money in the 9-to-5 job and she was also somebody that was managing her money.

Scarlett Stanhope:

She did have a method for looking at her finances, but when we worked together, we uncovered so much stuff in her subconscious around her relationship with money, which also tied into her self-worth and self-confidence because money does that. Money is just a reflection of you and your relationship to yourself. And then we upgraded her money management method so that she could get an even bigger, clearer bird’s eye view of what was happening with her money and be more in control of it. And then as a result, what happened was she did leave that 9 to 5 job. Within that six-month period of working together, she also moved out of her apartment that she had been living in for 10 years. She went full time in her business, and she started traveling all over the world. And so, she spends about a month at a time in different countries all over the world and is now running her business. And she was able to make those jumps and those leaps of faith with so much confidence because she could see her money clearly and she could plan strategically and say, okay, I know I need this much money to make this happen, or this is how much I need to be making in my business.

Scarlett Stanhope:

And she was able to take those leaps of faith with confidence and also have so much more confidence in herself self-faith in her ability to manifest and bring in money. And all of that was just a reflection of doing this work. So that was one really fun example that I love to share of the transformation that my clients have gotten. I have other clients. I just finished a group round. Honestly, like right before this podcast, I wrapped up a group round and one of my clients said that it has transformed her whole entire life because your money bleeds into everything. It impacts every single area of your life because it’s money. And so, for her, she was talking about how now she feels more grounded, more safe, more confident in her business.

Scarlett Stanhope:

She is someone that did manifest money and clients rapidly, like in a 24-hour period. She was like, okay, I need to be making this much more money in order to achieve this goal, in order to cover these bills. And then she had people walking up to her and asking to work with her, seemingly out of the blue. And so, one of the biggest things that she said was that instead of constantly be hustling, pushing, stressing, thinking about money, what’s the next move for the business? Instead, she feels grounded and solid and safe and confident. And she’s like, you know, I can just go with the flow now. I know I have enough money. I know more money is coming in. If I need to make different choices or make decisions, I know I can do that.

Scarlett Stanhope:

And I’m the one in control of my life. And so just this overall feeling of abundance and fulfillment is really the biggest results that I see time and time again for my clients. And that bleeds into their business and manifests more opportunities and becomes a magnet for more money, more sales, and more success in their work.

Melinda Wittstock:

Amazing. Well, I want to make sure anyone listening to this podcast knows the best, best way to find you and work with you and join one of your groups. Scarlett. I mean, I think everybody needs help with their money stuff and, and needs to revisit it at different times in their lives too, right?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

What’s the best way?

Scarlett Stanhope:

Yeah. So if you want to learn more about the empowered abundance program, you can do so at my website, thebizhippie.com abundance and I love to offer to people who hear me on guest podcast episodes, a special offer that I don’t offer anywhere else, which is a free 30 minute abundance activation session, which is a deep dive where we’re going to get clear on your current relationship with money. The scarcity seeds that have been impacting you will map out your vision of your most abundant life, and we’ll create a clear roadmap to make that abundant life your reality. And then if you want to explore going deeper and working together, we can have a conversation around that as well. So, if you would like to book an abundance activation session with me, you can do it@thebizhippie.com activate.

Melinda Wittstock:

Fantastic. Well, Scarlett, thank you so much for putting on your wings and flying with us today.

Scarlett Stanhope:

Thank you so much for having me, Melinda. This was a great conversation, and I so appreciate being a guest on your show.

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Melinda Wittstock:

Scarlett Stanhope is known as The Biz Hippie, teaching coaches to conquer their finances and own their worth so they can be fully supported by the work they love.

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