How do you define success? Are you accepting someone else’s definition or are you deciding what success is for yourself?

In this episode, 5 Times Best Selling Author, Christy Rutherford shares her journey to high levels of success, but also highlights what she gave up along the way. In the last few years of her career, she realized she was digging an early grave and courageously discloses her breaking point and how she left a 6-figure career for freedom. Christy shares insights on the common experiences high performing women experience and also the things they give up to achieve success.

Highlights:

[02:53] Christy’s story

[05:21] The decision to make a career change

[08:23] Attempting to meet defined requirements for success

[10:54] Patterns of women in showing up with confidence

[14:55] Lessons learned in speaking up

[17:35] Putting both feet on the ground

[20:44] Making yourself a priority

[24:40] Overcoming limiting beliefs

[26:56] Having the right mindset

[33:58] Heal Your Brokenness

[35:35] Advice on getting unstuck

[37:42] Christy’s success habit

Quotes:

“People tend to think they need the money. But if your mind is not properly structured and healed, you're not going to get the money because it's so much strain. Seek the mindset first, the money will come after.” – Christy Rutherford

“Ask yourself how you will show up and who do you want to be.” – Christy Rutherford

“You have a chance to decide every single day whether you are going to be helpless or are you going to seek the opportunity.” – Christy Rutherford

“You have to believe that you have your fate in your hands. You create it. – Christy Rutherford

About Christy Rutherford

A globally recognized leader, Christy Rutherford assists women in leadership to get unstuck, make more money, have more peace and enjoy more fulfillment in their personal and professional lives. 

She’s also a keynote speaker and author, publishing five #1 best-selling books on Amazon in eight months.

A Harvard Business School Alumna, Christy is also a certified Executive Leadership Coach from Georgetown University and has been featured in Forbes three times.

Christy is the 13th African American woman to achieve the rank of Commander (Lieutenant Colonel equivalent) in the U.S. Coast Guard’s 225+ year history where her demographic was .1%.

Christy responded to the needs of the citizens in New Orleans two days after Hurricane Katrina and had a 3-year Congressional Fellowship with the House of Representatives. Christy’s academic portfolio also includes an MBA, and a pastry chef diploma. Among her many professional accomplishments, her national recognition includes Harvard Business School’s 2018 Launching New Ventures Pitch Contest Grand Master Champion, Cambridge Who’s Who Amongst Executives and Professionals, Career Communications STEM Technology All-Star and the Edward R. Williams Award for Excellence In Diversity.

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christyrutherford/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/c.rutherford7

Twitter: https://twitter.com/visionfinder7

Website: https://www.christyrutherford.com/

When people first come across the Law of Attraction, their hearts and minds often immediately think of one specific thing that they’d love to manifest in their lives. However, the next thought is usually, “But I can’t do that.” You may come up with all kinds of excuses, from the belief that you’re too old to find love to the assumption that you don’t have the skills to reach the top in the career of your choosing.

Luckily, the truth is that it’s never too late to follow your dream. Christy Rutherford shares reasons why you should believe you can.

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There’s a certain burden on women in the workplace to conform to a rather narrow preconception of what women are capable of achieving. Though it’s not necessarily fair, women have to work twice as hard to get to the same level as men on the corporate ladder, but sometimes, they just have to go with it, no matter how exhausting. Christy Rutherford, an advisor to executive leaders and businesses, joins Elizabeth Bachman. Together they discuss how women find opportunities for workplace advancement for themselves, especially in male-dominant environments. For the women out there, it’s time for you to rise above the limitations that have been imposed upon you.

When Christy Rutherford was in college, a friend, who had recently joined the Coast Guard, came home from boot camp driving a Mitsubishi 3000GT. That was the moment Christy decided she too was going to join the Coast Guard.

Christy built a thriving career in the Coast Guard, becoming the 13th African American woman to achieve the rank of Commander in the Coast Guard’s 225 year history. This is especially astonishing, considering that her demographic made up only 0.1%.

She has also published five #1 best selling books on Amazon, graduated from Harvard Business School, and now runs her own successful executive coaching business.

How did she do it? Grit.

On our latest Cannonball Mindset podcast, Christy shared her story, along with several lessons she learned about earning  your seat at the table (and then defending it).

A globally recognized leader, Christy Rutherford is a keynote speaker, leadership coach and author, publishing five #1 best-selling books on Amazon in eight months. 

A Harvard Business School Alumna, she’s also a certified Executive Leadership Coach from Georgetown University. Christy has been featured in Forbes twice.

Christy is the 13th African American woman to achieve the rank of Commander (Lieutenant Colonel equivalent) in the U.S. Coast Guard’s 225+ year history where her demographic was .1%.

Christy responded to the needs of the citizens in New Orleans two days after Hurricane Katrina and had a 3-year Congressional Fellowship with the House of Representatives.

Christy’s academic portfolio also includes an MBA, and a pastry chef diploma. Among her many professional accomplishments, her national recognition includes Harvard Business School’s 2018 Launching New Ventures Pitch Contest Grand Master Champion, Cambridge Who’s Who Amongst Executives and Professionals, Career Communications STEM Technology All-Star and the Edward R. Williams Award for Excellence In Diversity.

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Christy talks about how her high achieving behavior has helped her overcome challenges and how evaluating her weaknesses have helped her to reach a new, more rewarding level of success. She now helps others work past their challenges to find true success.

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In this episode of Unshakable Self-Confidence, Women's Leadership & Success Coach, Christy Rutherford talks about the different types of obstacles that come our way when we did to change our lives, and how to handle them so they don't stop us from living our dreams.