We met Madi in January of 2023 when she was 17. Her dad reached out to us about coaching her younger sister originally, but at the time she wasn’t quite ready to work with us. However, Madi overheard her dad and sister discussing our program and told her dad that she wanted to start coaching with us right away! I just love when the Universe does her thing!

During our first meeting with Madi she was a bit shy and teary with us. She shared that she was struggling with her mental health, just feeling really down, sad, and so uncertain about her future. She was really unhappy in high school, she just didn’t feel connected to friends there or the environment, so she was failing several classes and could hardly get out of bed to make it there most mornings. She was also dealing with some challenging family dynamics in her home life, which made everything feel daunting.

Our first step was to work on getting Madi through her last six months of high school, that’s all she had left! We were her cheerleaders every week, reminding her that there was light at the end of the tunnel. Young adults often feel a sense of doom and gloom when that bubble of school, homework, an uncertain future, and family dynamics becomes stifling, and they don’t have the development yet to see beyond that and envision what their future could look like, or to know that they have the power to create a future they truly want! We helped Madi learn how to notice and manage her thoughts and feelings, to catch negative inner dialog and turn it around, before it took control of her ability to take positive action. This gave her a sense of power and she was able to distance herself from debilitating thoughts long enough to see her situation more objectively, and make more supportive and positive choices.

Madi was also working at a tanning/beauty salon and really enjoyed her work there, connecting with the clients, and spending time in that kind of space. We helped her discover and connect her core values, interests & passions, and curiosities to the work she enjoyed, so she could begin seeing beyond high school and creating a vision of what she’d like to see for her future based on these unique and special aspects of herself. Madi soon began to understand that what she loved about her job at the time was deeper than she thought. She loved the independence her boss gave her in her role, she deeply enjoyed making her clients feel special and getting to know them, she loves anything related to the beauty space , and she noticed how happy it made her when her clients felt more confident and beautiful, inside and out, when they left the salon. This was much more than just liking a job she had, though without the tools to dig deeper, she couldn’t have seen the depth of it all!

Madi ended up graduating on time and even went to her prom! We worked on cultivating her vision for her future and stepping into her empowered identity to help bring that vision to life. Madi implemented our Signature Rituals, such as mindfulness meditation, creating morning and evening routines, getting outside in nature, and journaling. These actions and behaviors empowered her to show up in her life with confidence and certainty about who she is, and eventually, what her purpose is.

Madi started with the idea to get certified as a Lash Technician, her dad is in construction and was buying a new space to rebuild for his business and she asked him if he could build her a small studio space to start her business. Her ultimate dream was to open her own Spa & Salon eventually. Because Madi got so clear on her vision, worked hard on stepping into this more confident and empowered version of herself, her dad saw her vision too and together they decided to go for it and build out the Spa & Salon right away! We coached Madi through the early stages of becoming a young business owner, and she worked on her mindset and got resourceful learning everything she could to educate herself. Those months leading up to her opening were the most challenging of her life, she had massive anxiety, had to separate from just being her dad’s daughter to showing up and behaving as a business partner (not easy!) and had to rely on other’s belief in her until she found her own belief in herself. We helped Madi build a solid team of friends and family around her for support, and she eventually hired some incredible women to join her team who supported her and the business.

Madison is now the CEO and Owner at MM Beauty Bar and her business is thriving. She recently joined our new Extraordinary Purpose Group to go through the coaching process again now that she’s in a new phase of her life, and to act as a mentor to our new clients in the group. It has been beyond inspiring to watch Madi grow and blossom this past year. She is an extraordinary example of what’s possible, no matter what! We are so proud to be her coaches and of all her success, and it’s truly just begun.

Here’s to Madi!

Love,

Erin and Chris