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I have always been fascinated by expansion. Even as a young girl, I would marvel at the stories of those who could, and would, change the world. I don’t think any of that fascination was by accident because later it led me to a hyper curiosity about people like you. People who could bend the world in their favour, create new realities, and use their time, energy, money, and focused on things of the highest importance to them. Whether it is Olympians, entrepreneurs, professional athletes, freedom fighters, writers, or those in sales, I always marvel at the audacity of those who dare to build in their best interest and found that their best interest also aligns with how they can be of highest service in this world.

I read story after story of those on a mission to live a top life and sought clarity and alignment to achieve their version of life, and they almost always felt they had carved that life against the grain. I believe a lot of us have a drive to expand and evolve. Because you have this book in your hands, or playing in your ear, I believe you also have a drive to expand and evolve. You are seeking expansion, as well. It may look like clarity, organization, and help to get you your time back, or it might allow you to leverage and grow your business. No matter what, the path to those goals lies in a clear, aligned, and ever-expanding leader.

You do not get the life you want by waiting for it to come to you, you get it by strengthening your clarity; when you do that, you will see that you now have the tools and systems from this book to achieve your goals. You can have the life of your dreams and an expanding business as long as you allow yourself the strength to act in order to build it. I believe that at our cores, we all live for expansion, evolution, growth, truth, service, and love. Expansion appears in many different ways, goals, faces, challenges, and lessons.

At some point I bet you felt unsettled. I know I did. You just knew something was off. Maybe it was a whisper, a feeling of overwhelming chaos, or an abrupt circumstance that screamed for your attention. We all get the call to expand, but not everyone chooses to listen. The trouble with ceasing to hear the whispers of your life, is that they become drowned out with your avoidance. A headache ongoing for years dulled by the ever-increasing amounts of Advil ceases to be as noticeable or painful, even if it is lovingly trying to get your attention about an issue in your brain. We so often confuse love and service as only soft or comforting, but the truths whispered in highest service to the expansion of our lives can be excruciatingly painful. These events can stop us in our tracks and cause us to question who we are and what we want. At worst, they cause us to question if we are worthy, capable, or meant to build the life we desire.

I have heard these wake-up calls so often, several times over, that now I am at home with the whispers, no longer needing to guard myself when change knocks at my doorstep. You don’t fight as much when you know that change will happen regardless of how much you fight it. The only area of choice and focus is if you will choose to grow now that you have this gift of change, or will you fight to avoid the very calls sent to help you awaken and expand?

There are many ways to avoid your call to expand and evolve. I like to think of this call to expand and evolve as a personal and peaceful call to internally arm yourself. This is your call to fight for your own authentic voice, gifts, and truths. You can ignore this call when you stay too busy, but in the silence in those eye of the storm moments, you choose either to hear, listen, and act or to hear and ignore. Those moments define us all.

When we choose to arm ourselves, we choose the plight of our own personal warriors standing on guard of our true selves. It is a fight to honour, support, protect, and treasure the path of expansion within ourselves. It is in the resistance to the “weak mind”, the one that tells us we can’t, we shouldn’t, we aren’t strong enough, and we aren’t brave enough that we win the battle. In ignoring the very loud roar of a world that wants to know “who the hell do you think you are,” that we guard our paths to move forward. This is where the audacious choose to rebel and change. We are not rebelling against the world, but against a diminished, outdated, muted version of ourselves.

We can rebel against who we were yesterday. We all have the audacity to change if we choose to. First, we have to have the clarity to want to make changes, and the laser focus on where we are going.

When we look to take our time and life back, we demand to hold the reigns of the choices and circumstances that will build what we will call the destiny of our lives. When we pick up our arms, we hold the weapons to honour, protect, and nurture what is best in us from everything that is untrue and would hold us back. The majority of these lies about our lack of capability and resistance to expand life are only within ourselves. These limitations are not true in the real world.

A fearful mind will not trust its guide. To move and change in your business you must first step away from fear, into choice and possibility, and then you will have the ability to harness your business expansion toward a Top 1% Life.

I share this because any great book journey requires a brave, confident heart. You and I are about to go on a journey back in time. We will go back to the place where I started to help entrepreneurs, like you, accept their call to arms, stand strong in the chaos of their lives, and face the storm with a realization of who they were and what they could accomplish and with the clarity to take action. They had to stand in who they were before they could see and act on where they were going.

This book is a bridge back to the beginning of coaching, supporting, and choosing to build a life that focusses on working to power up people and support leaders, like you, opposed to building a life that focuses solely on serving expansion in myself.

I used to lie on the floor of my bathtub with the shower on as a child. I would turn the water to cold to envision children without proper food or shelter. I can’t explain why I did this, aside from wanting to not only envision their pain and struggle but also to feel some small taste immersion. I wanted to sample that state of pain and despair so I could envision overcoming it. I would write endless essays, stories, and poems on the rights of children, and the need to fill this missing voice and void of the child.

Of course, it makes sense that I would write of rights betrayed and focus on limitations because I was fascinated by growth and expansion. I wanted to be free to face challenges, to learn, and grow. I wanted to eliminate the ceilings I perceived in the way of freedom, because I mistakenly thought only when I removed the ceilings could I be free to plant the seeds of my future. I was wrong.

I spent over half of my life educating myself about bias, rights, privilege, and discrimination in order to understand power in the context of voice, control, force, power, and privilege. I spent so much time focused on the things that limited me that I dulled my ability to hear my call to arms, to see myself as the warrior, and to honour my real weapons or my ability to walk away from anyone who I perceived to hold power over me. When I finally realized that the odds may have been against me but I was no statistic, victim, or any other label which may have prevented my growth, I also realized that I was strong and could plant, cultivate, and harvest the seeds of my future. I choose to spend the rest of my life nurturing that expansion into leadership, with not only myself, but with everyone around me who will listen and accept the call in themselves.

It’s why I started working with good people who are very successful, but need time, energy, and health. Frankly, they need a life, and I can say that because everyone who knows me, knows sometimes I need time for a life too!

These people did not start out with mega teams. They were not teams at all. We built step by step together. Some grew to mega team status, and others just wanted enough help to be organized and take their time back. Now I often work with mega teams, but I started by building them. We built with our clientele to bring our community into existence. We are still building.

This book is my bridge back to build with some of you. The stories are not identified by my clients’ names, but they are similar to the stories we all know in the team space today, before admins, agents, or any help to expand with the overflowing opportunities we created. At the end of this book, I will invite you to continue our journey face to face, by attending a complimentary webinar as a gift to you, which is located on my thank you page on the last page of this book.

This journey is for people who are serious about getting strong in any of life’s storms, knowing who you are, what you stand for, and that you are now ready to use this new found clarity and strength to harness methods to expand into a reality where you can thrive in business and live your personal version a Top 1% Life.

I have spent over 18,000 hours personally one on one with leaders at the heights of their industries who needed a change. In addition, my coaching teams have spent tens of thousands of hours supporting leaders with the same Ultimate Expansion Journey we will take together in this book.

Achieving what you truly want is not only quicker, and easier, with the support of a proven path, but it also requires a like-minded community around you. That community is a necessity for fulfilling your ultimate expansion. We are not simply who we are, we are the interpretation of our thoughts echoed back to us by those around us. We become what we surround ourselves with, so I highly encourage you to connect with others for a monthly book club, online community conversation, and to compare valuable takeaways that you have committed to take action on in your life. I have needed a team of like-minded people my whole life, so I built one, and I would like to invite you to join us at the end of this book.

I want you to know that when you accept your call to arms, you will become the warrior you need to be to make the changes you want. You will be able to build a business that is the natural progression of your clarity and choices. Until you choose to arm yourself, you will wait for the world to deliver you an ideal life, you will wait for the promotion, the change, and the acknowledgements that all lie externally outside of yourself. You will be waiting for a while if you choose that path – potentially forever. The world will not even know what you are waiting for because the world responds to who you decide and believe you are. The world cannot promote you. That power only lies in yourself.

Stop waiting for a promotion to your ideal life, and, instead, build it for yourself. You will have to do the work and fight for it. I am writing this book because I am addicted to leverage as a natural by-product of my fascination with expansion. My niche lives in powerhouse sales teams, and I am excited to arm you with the experience and path of thousands before you in building your very own Top 1% Life.