Kimberly Schneider, “The Manifestation Maven”
Photo by Lindsay A. Miller

Maybe you deeply enjoy, as I do, one-on-one coaching. However, if you do ‘too much’ one-on-one coaching, you may discover some interesting things. Perhaps you need to scale back and do less one-on-one coaching so you can explore other directions that fulfill different aspects of your Life Purpose. Perhaps you discovered you actually don’t enjoy one-on-one coaching (that can be a shocker for some business owners to admit!) but are unsure of what to do instead. Perhaps coaching is opening up other opportunities but you don’t want to let your coaching clients go.

What is a dedicated service provider to do?…

Kimberly Schneider, the Manifestation Maven, is a successful example of a how a business woman called to be both a one-on-one coach and a messenger in the spotlight is making a public impact in the healing arts by creating her business, HER WAY.

Today’s article explores 3 strategies you might consider in expanding your business to include not only one-on-one coaching but greater public impact, reach, influence, or spotlight, as your Life Purpose requires (not all purposes require a public forum).

Kim says, “My Life Purpose is ‘Public Impact in the Healing Arts with Heart.’ 

When I met Baeth I was coaching one-on-one and in small groups, helping people overcome unconscious limiting beliefs that sabotaged their wealth and success. 

After my hand analysis session with Baeth, I shifted my business model in order to work with larger groups of people. She accurately pointed out that challenges around my Life Lesson of Emotional Authenticity kept me from stepping out in a bigger way. I was scared about what others would think of me if I expressed my truth. [This is a BIG obstacle for many people!]

Baeth also told me that my head line [your thinking style] indicated I am a gifted problem solver with a global message. With this gift, if I don’t allow my mind to work on large, complex issues, my mind will create big problems for me to solve in my personal life (did that ever explain some things!).

Hearing my Life Purpose affirmed gave me the courage I needed to quit dreaming about what I would do someday and just make it happen. Five months after I hired Baeth as my coach, I promoted my first large-scale event — and over 160 people registered! When my husband saw the registration page for my event, he had tears in his eyes. Hearing him say to me, “You are doing exactly what you are here to do,” was icing on the cake.” 

Since Kimberly sent me that testimony, she launched and now hosts Conscious Manifesting on WebtalkRadio.net with over 6,000 downloads per week and is a regular contributor on the Great Day St. Louis TV show. Kimberly also writes a monthly column for The Healthy Planet and she is the author of Beyond Abundance, a home study course on her Cornucopia Method of Manifestation. She is currently writing her forthcoming book MORE:  Shattering the 5 Illusions that Keep You Stuck as well as a volume of poetry.

Kimberly’s bio provides ample ideas of how to expand your public impact, but I’ll elaborate a bit.

#1 Go Bigger and Wider

Become a TV and radio show guest or start your own show, using the internet and public access television. There are numerous resources online for doing this. The first step is to make the decision to reach more people. You will need a press kit, a target audience and a core message that you wish to share. For example, Kimberly is the Manifestation Maven, Awakening Entrepreneurs and Other Extraordinary Individuals to the Power of Conscious Manifestation and the Joy of Meaningful Work.

For your press kit, you’ll want to have a hard copy and digital copy with a good, high quality head shot, media resume, press samples, a timely press release and a cover letter. Numerous books and web sites can help you craft the specifics of your PR package.

#2 Create Higher-Priced, More Exclusive Offerings For Your Coaching Clients

Perhaps you want to provide some one-on-one coaching but not have your days filled with phone calls. If that’s the case, you might want to consider creating a premium coaching experience where you gather two to three times per year for two or more days with 10 to 12 clients and help them brainstorm solutions for their businesses and/or personal lives. You can include some personal coaching, group calls, an online forum, and other benefits to amplify the quality of the program. The investment for these programs usually runs anywhere from $9000 to $100,000 a year, depending on the level of one-on-one contact with you, the quality of results your clients experience and the experience level of the clients themselves in their respective professions.

Kimberly created a program called “The Alchemy of Business” and brought together 12 of her crème de la crème clients for big business breakthroughs. She reduced her coaching load and was able to provide a richer service that resulted in stunning results for her clients at the truly reasonable investment of $15,000 per year, per person. You can do the math on that one.

#3 Bring Your Creativity Into Your Business

Kimberly is not only a gifted coach, healer, teacher, writer and speaker, she is an artist, too. She is a trained dancer and a wildly talented poet. She is bringing her artistic gifts into her coaching work with great success. What creative talents do you have that perhaps you think ‘don’t fit’ with your business? I bet they do! Floral design? Jewelry design? Painting? Horseback riding? Disco dancing? You get the idea.

Here is one of Kim’s latest poems (I suggest you sit down and savor this one – she’s THAT good!):

 

I Need A Sky that Moves

I need a sky that moves.

Clouds churning over the
wild Atlantic;
soft blue surrendering to the incandescent
salmon of a Missouri sunset;
a new moon slipping behind
the Catalina mountains.

I need a sky that moves.

Whoever imagined Paradise as an unchanging
landscape? My heaven holds
a shooting star;
a double rainbow after the storm;
a crimson leaf spinning in a
blustery October breeze.

I need a sky that moves.

For something tells me
my soul can only be known against
the vast unfolding drama of a living
universe.

Crawl on your belly to the edge
of the world at the cliffs on Dun Aengus and
answer me this:

Don’t the old ones whisper to you
from the misty horizon?

Don’t the waves crashing
against the rocks below
call out
as if to say:

that even you, in all your
insignificance
have something
to give,

that what you declare here
matters,

and that who you are
in any given

moment changes
    everything.

I need a sky that moves.

©2009, Kimberly V. Schneider

 
If Kim inspires you as she continues to inspire me, go ahead and ”BE,” as Gandhi said, “the change you want to see in the world.” It’s not about playing a role, or being perfect, or knowing ‘what to do,’ it’s about BEING present, in the moment, simply you, simply real. There is nobody out there any way – I’m you, you are me, and we are one. But you knew that.

My bonus tip for getting ‘out there in a big way?’ Remember that there is no competition for your Life Purpose and nobody to prove anything to or anyone to disappoint. It’s about being connected to who you are, in this place, at this time, and letting your soul soar in your joy and glory. So be it! Forgive yourself for your missteps, stumbles, shortcomings, slights, slips of the tongue and silliness. That’s part of what your soul wants, too. Your soul wants to EXPERIENCE it all. Your soul doesn’t know ‘good’ and ‘bad’ – your soul only knows ‘experience.’ And this lifetime is merely one sliver of that experience. We want to and we do experience it all – in good time. Infinite time. Just breathe, receive and ENJOY! It’s your purpose – in YOUR hands™. Now go live it, full out, no excuses. You chose it. Claim it – it’s YOURS!

A Little Bit More About Kimberly Schneider

What happens when you take a body with the soul of a poet, the mind of a scholar and the heart of a healer… and turn her into a trial lawyer? Existential Crisis and more graduate school.  Throw in a marriage and two extraordinary children and you wind up with Kimberly Schneider, The Manifestation Maven.  Kimberly is the host of Conscious Manifesting on WebtalkRadio.net and a regular contributor on Great Day St. Louis TV show.  Kimberly writes a monthly column for The Healthy Planet and she is the author of Beyond Abundance, a home study course on her Cornucopia Method of Manifestation, as well as the forthcoming book MORE:  Shattering the 5 Illusions that Keep You Stuck and a volume of poetry. Find out more about how Kimberly’s coaching programs and seminars can help you & your organization create more of what you want (and less of what you don’t). kimberlyschneider.com  Kimberly Schneider Communications, LLC Awakening Entrepreneurs and Other Extraordinary Individuals to the Power of Conscious Manifestation and the Joy of Meaningful Work.

 

Have a listen to Kim’s show, “Conscious Manifesting,” where she interviews me about “Money In Your Hands:” 

http://tinyurl.com/yhjmjd9