Diva Spotlight with Bari Tessler Linden Bari is giving away her Introductory Video Course: Tools for Financial Transformation to three lucky Daring Diva USA readers. This course includes four 35 minute videos and is valued at $45.00. Check out details about the video course here. You can enter to win from anywhere in the world.
You can enter to win 2 times (Yep, that’s right ladies, your name can be added to the drawing twice), here’s how:
1. Leave a comment below (in the blue FB comment section) stating that you’d like to win.
2. Head over to the Daring Divas USA Facebook page, ‘like’ the page, and then post that you’re entering to win on the wall (be sure to state that this is your second entry).
The winners will be chosen at random and announced on Monday, July 9th.
Question #1. What does being a Daring Diva Mean to You?
I think being is a Daring Diva is really about going for your dreams and living your life to your fullest potential. That’s the real bottom line. It’s about stretching, more and more. It’s about being fully + authentically YOU, within yourself, your relationships, and your work in the world.
Question #2. What are the three most significant qualities that make YOU a Daring Diva?
#1: Intuition. The inner quality of really listening to myself and my truth feels essential. All of my previous training as a Body Centered Psychotherapist has really set the stage for how I live life, and feel trust, and build my business. It all starts here.
#2: Because of the intuition, I’m able to trust, and feel safe enough to really risk. Risk is a big one. As an entrepreneur, you have to be able and willing to risk – it’s central to the success and the impact you can have. Risk can be internal, like emotional vulnerability, or external, like investing in your dream. Being vulnerable and authentic is a risk. Launching is a risk. I’m risking all the time.
#3 Service. Basically, service is about really honoring who I am and who I’m not. It’s about finding my natural work to do and meeting the world & marketplace with it. Service is about knowing my strengths, seeing a deep need in the world, and filling it.
Question #3. Being a Daring Diva isn’t always easy. What keeps you motivated and inspired to choose the Daring Diva life?
On some level, it’s just innate to me. I’m know that I am actually unemployable. I grew up with an entrepreneurial father and uncles, who worked for themselves and did their own thing. So it just feels like it’s in my blood. And, when I realized this in my late 20’s (after tying to work for organizations), I recognized this was the only path for me.
But what motivates me is really to live fully in this amazing precious life. I’m committed to living a passionate, full life. I love to love my life.
Also, I’m motivated by my family, providing for my son and being a great role model for him. My marriage, too. As a two-entrepreneur family, Forest {techhusband.com} & I motivate each other to keep striving for the highest good, and our fullest potential.
Question #4. What is the most daring thing you’ve ever done and what did you learn from the experience?
Ironically, the thing that’s coming to me is deciding to get married at 35 and have a child at 40. For so long, I was anti-traditional and never thought I’d do these things. I took my time to develop myself, and have lots of experiences in my twenties. It was daring at the time to decide I didn’t want marriage and kids, and stand in that truth, while navigating the societal pressures to “settle down”. And it was equally daring to wake up in my 30s and decide that I then did want these things. I learned the importance of living my path, my truth, and my timing.
Question #5. Tell us about a time when you failed or nearly gave up. What did you learn and how has this experience influenced your current relationship with failure?
In September of 2007 I landed a big contract that I had been wanting for a long time. I was hired by a publishing company that offers spiritual and psycho-spiritual teachings, to create a 12-CD course for them. I got in the studio and I had nothing to say. I could not do it. Within a few days, the contract was canceled. Big failure.I questioned myself. This was heartbreak for me. I questioned my message, my teaching ability, everything. I did think about giving up.
Within 3 weeks, I got pregnant with my son, Noah. What a blessing; what a gift to receive after such a big closing door.
From this failure, I learned who I am and who I’m not, what makes me thrive, and what makes me fail. I need live students to come alive as a teacher and for my teachings to come alive.
Fast forward 2 years, I launched my own homestudy course, recorded with a live group of 60 amazing students (with audios, workbooks, and more). I did it in my way, I’m really proud of it – such a powerful and satisfying experience that all began with failure.
Question #6. What are your top three tips for living an extraordinary life?
#1 – Love yourself. More, and better. ‘nuff said.
#2 – Find your people that you love and love you.
#3 – Hike every day. Or your version of coming into your body and connecting with Self.
Question #7. Daring Divas USA’s theme for July is “Money”. What is your perspective on what it means to relate to money as a Daring Diva?
Well, I’m a Financial Therapist and the Founder of the Conscious Bookkeeping Method so this is right up my alley and quite the can of worms to answer.
I believe that the 3 doorways to our money relationship are Money Healing (Financial Therapy), Money Practices (Values Based Bookkeeping) and Money Maps (Life Vision Planning).
1. Know your “money story”. Your strengths and your challenges. Continually work on this to improve and heal.
2. Create clear + fun + creative money practices. Choose a tracking system like Mint, Quicken or Quickbooks. Live it. Nibble on some chocolate while you do your bookkeeping.
3. Set up goals + intentions. review your numbers and learn from them. Notice when you are in alignment with your values and when you are not. Re-direct. Get back on course.
4. Appreciate what you do have and honor where you are going. Celebrate + enjoy life.
For me, being a Daring Diva comes down to having a conscious and healthy relationship (with money and everything else!) And this is ever evolving, and changes through our life phases and financial phases. The bottom line is about being conscious, empowered, and clear within yourself and in your money relationship.
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1. Leave a comment below (in the blue FB comment section) stating that you’d like to win.
2. Head over to the Daring Divas USA Facebook page, ‘like’ the page, and then post that you’re entering to win on our wall.
The winners will be chosen at random and announced on Monday, July 9th
“Before coaching, I felt like I wasn't an active participant in my own life. Jessie May helped me overcome my negative internal thoughts and challenged me to live a more dynamic life in line with my true passions. I am happy to say that I am no longer living passively and am actively engaged in my daily decisions and interactions! I am well on my way to achieving a challenging goal of 105 social events in 365 days! I feel much more confident in my abilities to take charge of my life and create my destiny. Jessie May is so much fun to work with and is genuinely committed to seeing her clients achieve their full potential!”
“Jessie May helped me go from being an anxious, emotional train wreck to actually driving a life I love. I’ve been able to recognize my core values and make my personal and professional lives reflect these values. Whenever I’m drifting into action based on “shoulds” rather than what I know I want in my heart, Jessie May never fails to call me on it. She supports me in making decisions to achieve what I want by guiding me back to the path I have chosen whenever I start to stray.”
"In a short period of time, Jessie May brought me through feelings of hopelessness, to a place of power, where I was able to find the next step to achieving a life that I can now call my own. She supported me through each small change so that I now find myself in a completely new life, a life of beauty and truth.”
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{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }
I would like to win. I don’t know any women that feel confident charging what they worth!
I would like to enter your contest! It’s time I did some work around my finances!
Love you Bari!
Nicole
Oh and I would like to win!
I want to win!! Thanks
I enjoyed the interview. I would like to win. Thanks!
Inspirational post, thank you! I want to win the video course!!
I create money AND I would like to tell the lady who commented above that I actually am a confident woman that charges what I am worth…I am happy to share with anyone how to as well.
HUGS
Kelly, so glad to hear you are a confident woman who charges what you’re worth! You’d be a great contributor to a panel we’ll have next money month around this discussion. Are you interested? XO
Jessie May