Episode 252: How The Abundance Academy Changed My Life With Adriana Keefe

By Sarah Walton | October 29, 2024

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When Adriana found out we were talking about The Abundance Academy and why I created it, she asked to share her experience. I knew she got results, but I was blown away by this conversation.

This was not scripted. She brought things I didn’t know she had accomplished since she graduated from The Abundance Academy, and she so generously shares it.

Adriana Keefe is a human design expert and motivational speaker who guides women in defining and embodying who they really are to bring magic back into their life (and she’s been on the podcast before!)

I want you to listen for how coachable she is. As coaches, our job is to alter human behavior and that can dramatically increase the amount of money that's in your life. It can dramatically increase the level of love and connection you feel. But most importantly, it can let you see which actions produce results for you and which ones don't. And if you're not coachable, it's really hard to discover that. But Adrianna's got the key.

Graduating from The Abundance Academy

Adriana graduated from The Abundance Academy in the summer of 2023. She found more confidence through not only the guidance and lessons, but in the reminders that she had a lot of the answers already.

“Most of us don’t go through life truly understanding what our gifts are. […] So I walked away from that with this insane confidence in my ability, not just as a coach, not just as an expert, but in my healing gifts and what I bring to other people in the spaces that I hold. Which, of course was a game changer for my business because I believed more in what I was selling,” Adriana says.

Since graduating, Adriana says her business has blown up, she’s surpassed her income goal and expects to double her income this year. She’s hired another person.

“Although I don't always know the how of where I'm going, I have this really deep connection to my business that I didn't have before, which makes it easier to just talk to people about it, like on the streets and in the gym,” says Adriana. “So I share more. Obviously, that makes my business more profitable. It makes it grow.”

Understanding what abundance truly means

Adriana believes in divine timing. While working with Sarah at the Abundance Academy, her husband lost his job and was unemployed for nine months. This sent Adriana spiraling financially because her business wasn't yet able to sustain a family of five.

“Everyone talks about gratitude. I guess it would be the gratitude for the abundance I had in the moment. Then really leaning back into the playful energy of money out of the desperation,” said Adriana.

Adriana brought everything going on in her life to the Abundance Academy – from one-on-one calls with Sarah, to using Voxer to send message updates and discussions with the group. And a lot was happening: Their nanny was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Adriana made the decision to share her story of childhood abuse.

“If I didn't have any support, it would have been totally different for me last year.”

Signing up for the Abundance Academy

Adriana hadn’t worked with me before the Abundance Academy – and the program is a commitment; it lasts a year. Adriana had worked with other coaches though for three- or six-month programs. She says she felt like she was always just getting close to understanding the work or the connection, but then it would be over.

“[A year is] when you're really warming up to people, and they're seeing all different sides of you. Like you literally saw so much stuff go down in my life, and you had a lot of background and context for how to help me after six months, I think is really when things started to fly,” says Adriana.

Adriana just finished her second round of her program Revive the Sacral. She credits the program and Sarah in helping her to have the confidence she needed to launch it. Her program is very trauma informed and she would ask herself, “Who am I to teach this to these people?”

“And something you said to me, I repeat to people all the time, you said ‘what you went through and healed through can't be read in a book.’ And that changed everything to me.”

Adriana says she’s always struggled with putting people on a pedestal. She says she had to move through the discomfort to receive the attention of a coach like Sarah.

“I think when we put people on a pedestal, especially coaches and mentors and anyone like that, we lose the opportunity to learn so much more for from them and to actually evolve and transform with them.”

There is no work any person does on this planet that lifts them up out of humanity. We all wake up and stub our toes and mess things up and do things wrong, or send an email that wasn't spell checked. And I think that shared humanity is actually what makes the program work so well.