Episode 253: Ready to Reinvent Yourself? A Conversation With Anita Rombough
It can be terrifying to reinvent yourself and then need to tell other people -- whether it be your work or your coworkers, your significant other, or your family members -- that you are trying to do something different or you want to go in a different direction.
If you've ever felt like making a big change in your life, but thought you were crazy for even imagining that you could do something so bananas as switching a career, changing relationships, moving, selling your house. Pick a thing that we as humans sometimes get a nudge towards doing, and then it scares the heck out of us.
Those moments are real and they happen to all of us. And today's guest, Anita Rombough, will help you walk through these one by one. Anita is a soul strategist, success coach, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, spiritual guide, and host of the wildly popular Anita Chat podcast.
As a gentle yet bold change agent, Anita helps fellow big-hearted dreamers discover and align with their soul or “sole” purpose to achieve their version of Soulful Success, the sweet spot where personal fulfillment meets impact and financial prosperity.
If you recognize this ache that so many people are feeling towards wanting more, but not necessarily more stuff, not necessarily more money, but more life, more joy, more connection and more love – this episode is for you.
Journey to reinvention as a soul strategist
Anita says she’s done a lot of things – so this is a reinvention. Her love language is soulful success, which creates a world or a definition of success that resonates both on the inside and on the inside. So many of us have chased that path of "should", have gone through the motions of what we think the definition of success should look like.
“We're putting all this emphasis on the external part, right, like what we call ourselves at work,” says Anita. “We judge each other based on that, you know, our paychecks, what kind of flashy things we have, all those kinds of labels and accolades. … But I also, more importantly, want to feel fulfilled and impactful.”
She says soulful success is when you're really coming home to yourself, you're authentic, you're aligned, and because you're doing all that inside work to really just stay true to yourself and your passions and your dreams and your gifts, that is what brings that abundance in.
Anita says this is what she unlocks for people, but to do that, she needed to go through it herself. She has three psychology degrees because she loves mindset and how it shapes us. She was an occupational therapist, who coached people and helped them to see they were more than a medical diagnosis.
But she wanted more. She went back to school as a mature student, got her MBA, and then worked in the corporate world for 10 years.
“I couldn't help but think, is this it?” says Anita. She realized the one piece she hadn’t integrated yet was her spiritual and intuitive background.
“My background is Indian. So, you know, I come from this rich ancestry of yoga and meditation and, you know, all this, this beautiful goodness that I embodied on a daily basis, but not for the external world to see.”
Anita says it was only in retrospect while she coauthored the bestselling Lighthouse Project, that she connected the dots of her journey’s random pieces.
“I did a smorgasbord worth of stuff and like, what was this all for? And did I waste all this time?” says Anita. “No, you actually didn't like all of those things have gotten you to right where you are today, and you are now living like the most authentic, aligned, abundant life for yourself. And you're doing this for other people. And this is this is where you're supposed to be right now.”
Listening to the softest voice
She says there's also those expectations and pressures from your own heart. Are you listening to that guidance from within?
Especially as women, we get trained at a very young age not to listen to that soft voice, because it usually tends to make other people uncomfortable.
You want to quit your corporate job and start something? What are you talking about?
To take a stand for the softest voice in the room can be really challenging. It's kind of a skill like any other that we kind of have to practice and learn how to lean into.
“And also coming to terms that you're not for everybody,” says Anita. “That was another big lesson that kind of came to me through this journey, because we all want belonging and acceptance and we all go through”
Anita says it’s about overcoming those limiting voices in your in your mind, and figuring out what the next steps are. Also doing that deep inner work to make sure that it's aligned to who you are, who what you want to create out of your life.
Entrepreneurship, reinvention, pivoting, whatever life choices you make, if they're different, it's not for the faint of heart. But it is so liberating when you can march to the beat of your own drum and just and find your own path.
“Don't let anyone tell you what it is that you should or could be doing. It's what do you want to be doing right? What do you feel that you've been gifted with?”
“It is up to you to decide whether you are going to open yourself up to receive it, or if you're going to block it, that's a decision too. It's not for everybody,” says Anita. “Or are you comfortable where you are, there’s no judgment.”
Anita says it’s key to listen to your energy, which is like your gas tank. You always want to keep it on high. It's about elevating your vibration, tuning into your emotions, your energy. That is the clue that you're heading in the right direction.
“It'll support your manifestations, but it also supports kind of clearing out that energy of fear and opening yourself to that expansiveness and the abundance that your inner voice is trying to lead you towards, whatever that version is for yourself,” says Anita.
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Books mentioned in this episode
- The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
- What Happened to You by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry
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