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Chickens, Homeschool, and The Healing Journey: Amy Lenius's Next Level
What if the key to transforming your life isn't pushing harder but understanding your natural rhythms? Amy Lenius, Director of Group Coaching at Next Level University, takes us on her remarkable journey from debilitating chronic illness to vibrant health and success.
After years of surgeries, medications, and being told she'd never have children, Amy made a pivotal decision to approach her health holistically. This shift not only freed her from pain but defied medical predictions when she became a mother of two. Now she channels these profound lessons into her coaching philosophy, helping others achieve lasting transformation through what she calls "holistic self-improvement."
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The conversation reveals three essential pillars for success: self-belief (what you think you're capable of), self-worth (what you believe you deserve internally), and consistency (the "unsexy fundamental" necessary for any achievement). Amy's framework for sustainable consistency includes self-belief, humility, sustainability, adaptability, and grit - explaining why she'd "rather you do it half-assed than not get it done." This refreshing approach challenges perfectionism and embraces the power of showing up consistently, even imperfectly.
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Welcome back to one-on-one with Mr U. Of course, I'm your host, mr U, in studio with us, speaker, coach and director of group coaching at Next Level University, amy Lenison House. Hey, amy.
Speaker 2:Hi, I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 1:Same here. I can't wait to have this chat with you. We had a fantastic pre-interview chat and we talked about all kinds of fun stuff, so I'm going to do my best to try to get all that out of you in 30 minutes or less.
Speaker 2:Oh, we got this.
Speaker 1:It may not happen, but we'll see what we can do. But customarily I always ask my guests to come in and share about their upbringing and their childhood. I don't care if it's clean or messy. We got the capacity to handle it. We administer it before we do anything else, so we're good with it. So tell us how you got from there, wherever there was, to where you are right now. Go.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1:And we only have 30 minutes and we want to get into the goods.
Speaker 2:We got time, all right. So my name is Amy Linnaeus. I actually grew up in British Columbia, canada. We currently now live in Ontario, canada. We moved across the country a few years ago, which was amazing, but I started out, let's see, professionally as a massage therapist. Actually, I did my RMT training out West and so I had to practice for a little while and that was really lovely and fun.
Speaker 2:But on that journey, during the same time, I was also really, really sick and trying to find healing and trying to figure out my health. I had gotten really sick early adolescence and I had dealt with chronic out my health. I had gotten really sick early adolescence and I had dealt with chronic illness ever since, and it was really wonderful to start diving into anatomy and physiology and learning about the human body and I started picking up things not only through my own healing journey but obviously through my school. And with that I started combining the two and had this really beautiful moment, honestly, of clarity during my early 20s where I decided you know what I just need to step away for a little bit. I'm going to step away from all the medications hormone therapies, pain meds was on lots of those. Unfortunately, I had had many surgeries. I had many in my future that I knew were coming. I was told I couldn't have kids. It was just a really sad and troublesome time, honestly.
Speaker 2:And so I had this moment where I was like I'm just going to come off of everything because I'm still having pain. I'm struggling now with side effects from all these medications. What if I just started again and saw what was working and what wasn't? What if I could just clear my mind and get to know my body again and, of course, keep using what was working if it was, but if not, let's try something different? And so I safely came off of everything and I just started getting curious and experimenting with different modalities of healing. I was getting treatments at my own clinic through my school, which was lovely, but I also started tapping into like acupuncture and cranial sacral therapy and just there's so much out there. If you can get curious and just want to have fun with it, like just go see what people have to say, there's so many different wellness professions where you can just go pick their brains and be like well, what do you think about this? Because I've only had this one view my whole life. What would you say about this?
Speaker 2:And I ended up connecting with a naturopath. That was wonderful and just with my knowledge his knowledge we just started working holistically with my body, and that's where I fell in love with the word holistic so holistic meaning that everything affects everything else and I had felt up until that moment, I had been put in a box. Okay, you're a woman with a troublesome uterus who has hormone problems, let's just focus on that. No one, no one ever talked to me about stress and how that was connected, how my sleep was connected, how my liver function, my gut health. No one talked to me like I was introduced to me. Oh, my goodness, how your external environment deeply affects your internal and how your internal shows up externally. So I fell in love with the word holistic and so my practice.
Speaker 2:At this point I was practicing, I had finished school and it was really tailored towards women pre and postnatal care, pelvic balancing for women and I just found myself educating women on wellness and things. They always had so many questions, to the point where I actually started public speaking on women's health. I had a really lovely speech called holistic healing for your hormones, and that turned into a whole nother thing which turned into having a podcast, which turned into me working with the guys at next level university. I was a client first and I fell in love with them because they themselves were talking about holistic self-improvement. Now we rarely use that tagline now because no one knows what the heck that means.
Speaker 2:We talk about personal development and success, but behind the scenes we talk about holistic self-improvement, holistic living, your health, your wealth, your love, your quality of life and how they all affect each other. And I fell in love with that. So I sent a speech over to Alan to have him review. I said, hey, what do you think about this? You're a professional speaker, I'm a speaker. I would love your feedback on this because I value you. And he loved it. And he said, hey, would you like to come and see for us at our live event and just see where it takes us? So I started off as their emcee and then, just through falling in love with what they do, I've integrated myself into just about everywhere of their company.
Speaker 1:I help them run coaching. I have my own coaching program.
Speaker 2:Just slowly coming for them, and it's been just this incredible journey ever since. So I feel like what I've been able to do in this space is bring everything I have done my background in anatomy and physiology, my coaching for women, all of this wonderful things that I've been able to do and bring it into this space, where I have learned so much more from Kevin, from Ellen, from our community, and the combination of the two really has allowed me not only to set up my own life better and more holistically for success, but help others do the same, and so I have planted my flag here, I've tied my ship to these two guys who I just love so much, and I think we're only just getting started with the incredible things that we do.
Speaker 1:It sounds like, and if I understand correctly, you're doing all this stuff and you're still homeschooling your kids too. Did I understand that right? I?
Speaker 2:do I? Do we live out in the country? Yeah, we live out in the country. I have a home home, chickens, homeschool my kids and so, yes, I have a very full life. But it's all intentional, it's all very aligned and I find a nice flow within it. Now are all days peaceful and lovely and no, it's all intentional, it's all very aligned and I find a nice flow within it. Now are all days peaceful and lovely and, no, there's some chaos. I'm not going to lie, but, again, aligned chaos.
Speaker 1:And kids, and kids. Those two by themselves.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Absolutely so. Do you battle? I mean, you're obviously an accomplished person. I got that from you right away. Do you battle with self-worth?
Speaker 2:Heavily.
Speaker 1:Heavily.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Is it because well, do you believe it's because you do so many things, or do you believe it stems from something else?
Speaker 2:I believe it stems from something else. And all the things I've been able to do as I've studied self-worth and have dedicated for sure now the last two years, I feel like my blinders have been on like this for my own self-worth, to just double down on it all the time. Everything I do say, think, believe is filtered through this lens of self-worth. Now that I understand it so deeply and help others do the time. Everything I do say, think, believe is filtered through this lens of self-worth, now that I understand it so deeply and help others do the same. But mine needed to come up.
Speaker 2:So in a lot of the things I do and a lot of the things that we do, kevin Allen and myself, we talk a lot about self-belief, self-worth and consistency, and self-belief is self-efficacy. It's what we believe we're capable of externally and we're going to again just really high beliefs in what we can achieve. And you can see that even hindsight's always 20-20. The way I fought for my health, the way I believed I was worthy or capable, I should say, of feeling better, and how I fought really hard to find a way to do so and become pain-free from a condition I was told would be with me my whole life and have two wonderful children after being told that I couldn't have children. And so again, high self-efficacy but self-worth very low.
Speaker 2:So that internal game, and I feel like I luckily skipped the part where low self-worth can attach a chronic illness into your identity, where you deeply start to believe you're actually not worthy of feeling good, which is very sad. I see that a lot in the chronic illness communities. But my self-worth was low socially. I struggled to be excellent in front of people. I struggled with boundaries, people pleasing. I was the ultimate, yes, man, ultimate, absolutely. What do you need? And so recognizing those patterns as low self-worth and starting to build those, that alone, I think, can be a life changing change framework practice journey for women, for everybody, but I see it in women very much so, but I see it in women very much so.
Speaker 1:They're going to get all the love today on this show and I already knew that going in, that was going to happen. So, guys, sorry, I'll do the best I can, but this is going to be for the ladies watch. But the question I asked you is going to make sense as we move on into episode. It'll make sense later on. You see why I asked that. But tell us about Next Level University.
Speaker 2:It's like on alan's big time long-term dream goal. Um, but we do. We have a lot of really beautiful things and I think, because we believe in free value so much and we believe in personal development to get you to your version of success, we all three of us go on podcasts. This is our version of adding free value to the world Now, selfishly. We also get to practice our skills of speaking and interviewing and asking questions and and things, but we also do like a free book club, so I'm helping you.
Speaker 2:Yes, you are. See, it's a win-win. We love the triple win the win for you, the win for me, the win for others. And that's what podcasting is right you get to learn, I get to learn. It's amazing. That's why we love podcasting so much, and we get to have beautiful conversations with heart-driven people like yourself. It's our favorite. And we do a free book club every Saturday growth-oriented books and we do monthly masterclasses where we get a free call in first Thursday of every month, where Alan comes on and I assist him to teach you something new about success, about personal development, about how to set your life up for success. We have group coaching, which I adore because the three of us get to do that together. We hand select 10 people every quarter. It's wonderful. So we just we deeply believe in individual success and how it's a subjective word and how growing yourself, deepening your awareness and then harnessing your skills and how to be consistent at them will get you there.
Speaker 1:Do you ever feel and this is probably a loaded question, but you know I ask those kinds all the time but do you ever feel like you are challenged with coaching somebody through something that you haven't totally figured out yet? Did that? Oh, absolutely, I'm like how do we? Is there a class for us to deal with that kind of thing? Because we got we help people accomplish great things. They turn mountains into molehills all the time because of the help that we give them, it's like. But we battle with stuff like why? Why can't we coach ourselves? What's what's that? But do you ever get that kind of challenge in your coaching journey?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do sometimes. I think one. We always have to remember that everyone's life is different, so the struggle they're dealing with might be different from the struggles we're dealing with, but yet the principles of how to get through them are similar, and so we can always bring that lens to it. But also, I think, honesty. Honesty is the best policy always. I think having humility and proper communication with your clients is so, so valuable, because if not, you're going to constantly have this imposter syndrome and if you're not being honest and you're coming in inflated, hey, I know how to do this thing, even though I've never tackled it myself. That's an inflated version of yourself, and I don't know if that's always the answer, because people, at the end of the day, love and value when they see that there's a human on the other side, and we have.
Speaker 2:We have challenging days too. We have messy moments too, but what has helped us in these messy moments and in these challenges are the tools that we have, and maybe we're not through the other side yet, or maybe something new has popped up for us in our life and we're going through it. But I think if we can be honest and, again, we don't have to give everyone a full look into our life if we don't want to, but to help them paint a picture of, hey, anyone can do this kind of thing. We just have to find out what your sustainable version of that thing is and how that's going to look versus the problem that you are facing. And so, yeah, I think honesty and just being humble with it and constantly learning yourself. On the other side, I think as a coach and just as a growth-oriented person in general, you always want to be a striver, not an arriver. The second I see someone talking like they have made it.
Speaker 1:Making t-shirts and coffee mugs in the head. Look at you.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 1:That's an Alan. That's an Alan, one I hang out with him too much.
Speaker 2:He's got some good ones. I love it. Alan sounds cool already. I like him. I hope you get a chance to have him on. Genuinely, he's wonderful. Whenever he's ready, but I think just having that trusting that you are always going to be a growth-oriented person also allows that identity to seep in that you're going to keep learning, so therefore you're always going to be ahead of someone who you can pour into with authenticity.
Speaker 1:I love that. So what would you say? I know Alan's down here so I can't ask them, but what would you say is the vision for a next level university? What do you want to see happen within the next five to 10 years? What does it look like?
Speaker 2:Oh my, goodness, yeah, you need Alan. He's our long term visionary.
Speaker 2:The dude has yeah, the dude has decades planned out for myself. I genuinely see the live events becoming a bigger thing every year. We love doing those. So not only do I get to emcee those every year, now I speak at them as well, which has been a lovely evolution of that part, that department that we have of live events. So I see that becoming a bigger, better thing. I see, eventually, the three of us hosting some sort of weekend intensive retreat in person, which I would love to see some of our people come in and have that kind of time with all of us and to see what that transformation could build.
Speaker 2:And again, we have three pillars that we're building out. In Next Level University we have podcast growth university. So Kevin is Mr Podcast. When you see the three of us, kevin is Mr Podcast. He has podcast growth universities. That's his podcast that he does once a week just himself. We have a facebook group for that and eventually our group coaching will be a podcast accelerator, which it is now.
Speaker 2:We went from a personal development one and now we're what's the word? Where you're trying something new again. We've done it a few times now. There you go, a podcast accelerator one. So that'll be there. And then Alan is business. He's our CEO, he's our business major computer engineer, like genius, and he also has started Business Growth University. So that is a podcast that he does once a week and he does high level business coaching growing, scaling, monetizing. He's amazing. And so there'll also be a business growth intensive as well. And then we'll still keep that personal development, holistic self-improvement but we won't call it that because that's confusing for people Personal development and success. And that's where I am going to come in as this again third face and pillar here, where we will have a group coaching there as well that I will run and it'll all be personal development for the sake of your version of success. So there's lots, lots to look forward to.
Speaker 1:So it was just like, eventually, where you begin to start hiring coaches and beginning to start to expand. Is that kind of part of what it would look like, or is it? Three people can do all heavy lifting all by themselves.
Speaker 2:Well, fortunately, we have such a wonderful team. As far as the three of us, we're just the front-facing people. We have such a wonderful team behind us. We have Christina, who's our COO, we have incredible people who do all the podcast productions. So I think Next Level University the podcast section produces over 50 shows right now, and that comes with coaching and things with Kevin. So it's really incredible. So there's lots going on there too. But yeah, we'll need help.
Speaker 1:Hi from India. Hi, how are you? Thanks for joining and watching and listening to the show. If you have any questions for Amy or myself, please drop them in the comment section. I'll bring them on as quick as I can. Thanks for listening and thanks for watching too. All right, so what would you say is your biggest challenge in dealing with your clients? It doesn't have to be anything. You have to talk about a particular person or a personal situation, just generally speaking. A challenge that I guess you're still trying to figure out is the one that, when it comes to you like oh man, here comes that one again. As a coach, do you have a challenge like that?
Speaker 2:I love this, so I work really well with people who we consider under, people who need lifted up and people who don't actually know their worth and their own potential. It's so much easier, in my opinion, to lift someone up than to when you're coaching someone who's what we say over, where they need to actually have some humility and need to be kind of brought down a peg and brought back into reality of, hey, here's your actual value in the market and we need to reflect that accordingly or however that looks. So I'm a big fan of the underdog, where I can bring them up and just, oh my gosh, help them see their worth, their value, build their belief. It's hard for me when someone's over, for example, someone who will not do something for free that's a really good example. It's like, hey, I've just started this thing, I want to build value in the market, I want to put out this coaching program.
Speaker 2:I've been told to just add a zero to my pricing and it's going to make me more money, and it's like okay, how many people do you have paying for your services currently? It's like, well, none, okay. So adding a zero is not going to help you there necessarily, and if it does, it's not going to be sustainable and it's not going to be a long-term thing that's going to gain you that success. So it's that. It's.
Speaker 2:How humble can you be to even do something for free, to put that into your business funnel, to help people get down deeper for the sake of building know you, like, you, trust you, factor for building your expertise in this, for building your value in the market that you are in. In the economy now, everyone intrinsically, as humans, are worthy, of course, but in the market, if you are coming out of nowhere, you need to be seen. Kevin allen and myself we what I would consider run a pretty successful business so far. We still offer things for free all the time and that, I deeply believe, is a reason why the company does so well and the three of us do so well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Generosity is key. A lot of people don't get that, especially us entrepreneurs, but don't tell them. They might not like that. I said that. But this question I'm pretty fearless with most stuff in life, but this question I feel like if I ask this question, it's what I think it is. I could be in a whole lot of trouble here today, but you're talking about honoring your cyclical nature. What's that mean? How do we do that? Do we do it?
Speaker 2:what's that mean how do, how do we? Do that, do we do it, yeah, and you need to understand what that means for you. So I love bringing an anatomy and physiology component to do that.
Speaker 2:So, if we, you and I, are sitting in a room together and we're talking about our cyclic in nature. Now again, we are sitting in a room together, virtually, but you yourself are different than I am. You just are. You're biologically set up, different than I am. You are like the sun. You cycle on a 24-hour cycle. You're the same every day, your highs and lows, your ebbs and flows of all your hormones and things happen on a 24-hour clock. So you're like the sun. Now, women are like the moon. We cycle very differently, are like the moon. We cycle very differently. We are mentally, physically, emotionally, hormonally different slightly every day.
Speaker 2:And when you look at that on a week to week to week, over the average of 26 to 34 days, those weeks look very, very different. And so sometimes women come in and they're like oh my gosh, last week I crushed all my habits, I crushed my workouts, I was able to stick to my diet, my mood was great, I got out, I was social, I wrote this incredible speech, and now this week I feel like a freaking potato. I can't get my stuff done. What's wrong with me? It's like well, it's just, you're just not set up for it anymore.
Speaker 2:A week your brain was physically different than it is right now, and so I love giving women that awareness and that permission to understand that, yes, some weeks they are set up to genuinely crush it.
Speaker 2:They're more social, they're more creative, they're more articulate. There's so much that goes into that, even today. So, with you, I am not as articulate and well set up for this cognitively as I would have been a week and a half ago. So that doesn't mean I'm not going to show up. It just means that if I feel like I did not as good of a job as I did on a podcast a week and a half ago, two weeks ago, I can give myself grace and understanding and be like you know what? I only had about 70%, maybe even 50% capacity today, but I gave you 100% of that 50% capacity that I had. Our 100% just looks so different every day and if we can learn to honor that and work within that instead of constantly not understanding it and fighting against our own nature, that way it gives so much permission and understanding, especially to women.
Speaker 1:But you're questioning it, by the way. Thank you, I'm okay if you are, but I got a few more questions because I know we're getting close to it and I'm just having a lot of fun and I gotta get back to work. But what are the three pillars that you were talking about?
Speaker 2:you believe, create, uh, fulfillment in people's lives well, the three pillars we typically talk about as far as like success and what you will always meet your level of is self-belief, self-worth and consistency. For fulfillment, it's slightly different. Fulfillment, the formula is growth, contribution and quality of life. So, rating yourself on all three of those and how do those feel in your life? What do those look like? How do you show up in those growth, contribution and quality of life? And then how do those lead to your fulfillment?
Speaker 2:But the really important pillars are self-belief we talked about that, that self-efficacy what you believe you're capable of externally. Your self-worth what you believe you're worthy of internally. And then your ability to be consistent. Consistency is just that unsexy fundamental that needs to happen for any kind of goal you're on, any kind of version of success, whether it be health or monetary. It's going to come into play and where we see people really mess up their ability to be consistent isn't because they themselves are terrible, or the goal or the habit isn't for them. It's because they're not setting it up in a sustainable way. Sustainability is one of the key I would say one of five key points to consistency.
Speaker 1:I love that. I think one thing that can get lost in all this is the story you share from the outset, because I haven't got past that part just yet. But tell me how that how entailed you uh being resilient and kind of in a way kind of rebuilding your life, rebuilding your health. Tell me how that affects how you coach and how you talk, how you. Things are not just hills for us to get over. It's supposed to have our purpose. I believe in most every area some kind of pain has purpose to it.
Speaker 2:I agree Can you answer that. Yeah, I agree. I think, dealing with what I dealt with when I was young and going through my chronic illness, I believe it's a driver in everything that I've done, when you really look back at it.
Speaker 1:Whoever you are, I love you. Thank you for doing that. We're not even discussing the Giants, but you know what I love you for doing that. Thank you for watching and listening. You made my day. Amy's making it right now with this interview because she's awesome, but that right there, thank you, because I need some help, so thank you.
Speaker 2:That's amazing. But when I'm able to look back, let's say, even on my health journey, my ability to be consistent is what really saved me, because there were a lot of days where it didn't feel like it was working. There were a lot of days that felt really low, and if I had given up and not pushed through and been consistent with the things anyways, even though I maybe didn't see those instant results, I wouldn't have gotten to where I am. And that took self-belief. So that's self efficacy. But the ability to be consistent is going to serve you in all things, and so we need to have self-belief.
Speaker 2:What is your level of self-belief in this thing? Do you believe it's possible? Do you believe it's possible for you and is it going to be worth it, because there are going to be some hard days on any goal, on any journey. Do you believe it's going to be worth it? Those are three levels of belief that are so important. And then, how can you have humility? How can you have humility to be accurate in where you're starting? If you've never been able to be consistent in something, how can you have humility to set yourself up sustainably? Sustainability is what's going to help you.
Speaker 2:This is one that I've been able to apply to my fitness journey, let's say so. I had the belief that my body, because of it being so sick, was a broken piece of garbage and I genuinely couldn't be consistently fit or move my body consistently, because I would always kick up my inflammation. It would always be a problem, but the problem was me. I was going from zero to 10. I would not work out, not do anything, and then I'd be like, okay, I'm going to do this 30 day intensive and then, after a few days, hate my life and blame my body for the problem.
Speaker 1:No, I was not setting myself up sustainably.
Speaker 2:I was not humble in that. I was over, and so sustainability looks like well. I've never been able to move my body consistently every day. What if I started at 20 minutes? And what if I allowed it to be something that feels good that day? And so that's how I started. I'm going to move my body in an aligned way for 30 minutes every day. That was where my level of belief was, and I didn't say at the gym, doing weights, no, it was whatever felt good to me that day. Sometimes it's yoga, sometimes it's walks. Now I've been able to integrate weights and things because I've done this formula. I've been able to do it for over a thousand days, and the reason I know that is because I also keep track, because breaking a streak is really hard. So keep track of your habits.
Speaker 1:Congratulations, amazing, thank you so much, no worries.
Speaker 2:I got four more questions. Okay, one more Adaptability and grit. So self-belief, humility, sustainability Make sure your thing is adaptable, because some days go off the rails. I'm a homeschooling mom with pets and a household and all sorts of things. Life can get very reactive and chickens.
Speaker 2:Yeah life can get very reactive very quickly. So if I didn't have my ideal moment to get my habit done, let's keep using my workouts as an example. I need to be able to bring it in later and it may be it needs permission to look different. So it's basically grace to adapt, to pivot, to not do it perfectly, but to check the box, because checking the box is more important than not doing it. I would rather you do it half-assed than not get it done. I will genuinely bet on someone who can give me consistent 30% days than someone who gives me spotty 100% days. I will bet on that 30% person every time.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Consistency is everything, and sometimes the last one is grit. Sometimes your day sucked. You have no willpower, it's just you just got to do it. You said you were going to do it. You have to do it, whether you do it half-ass, you just check the box, grid it out.
Speaker 2:It's kind of that F my feelings moment that you have to have to get it done, and permission to do it half-ass, and again, if you don't want to do it, but you get it done anyways, the cycle starts again and you double down on your self-belief points. It's an amazing cycle. So if you can do those five things and really, really embrace it, you can be consistent at anything.
Speaker 1:I love this. I love this. I got four more questions. I got to try to stick to the script here and not go off. I'm prone to do some tasks, all right. So is there and these are all four questions that only you can answer really, is there a myth about Canada that you would love to bust today? I asked you about this in our pre-interview and you gave me a couple of them, but I don't know if you remember at all. But is there a myth about Canada? Everybody thinks it's about Canada, but you know it's not true because you actually lived there.
Speaker 2:I remember as a kid I actually came to visit here where we're living now and a lot of people come up from the states to um holiday at the lake that we have um a space on and they would tell me when we were kids I had other kids in the camp and stuff. They'd be like well, we're from the states and we don't hear anything about canada. So before we came up here we thought everyone lived in igloos. That was what I'm telling you. I've had I think at least two people say that in my lifetime. Oh, I thought you all lived in igloos. We do not. It is not that cold here all the time.
Speaker 1:World. Okay, that's the only one you have. I'm ready to move on to the igloo economy.
Speaker 2:We're known as the politest people, but I think we're more pushovers than polite. I think we have as a country, I think we have low self-worth versus politeness.
Speaker 1:I would say that yeah, I see that that's the one we talked about, but he didn't get into the self-worth part too. But real quickly, why do you think the whole country has low self-worth? Well, how did that happen?
Speaker 2:I don't know. Maybe it's because we've been beside the states our whole life and you guys are seen as excellent.
Speaker 1:You can't blame us for this you know what?
Speaker 2:I don't know what it is. I think we just embody that. We're supposed to be these nice, polite people, but yet we would do it at a detriment. I see so many people apologize for things they shouldn't be apologizing for and it's like oh, because I'm Canadian. It's like no.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure if we have enough time to touch this, because that's a cliffhanger. I can't leave that there. What do you mean? How can a whole country feel like that? I don't understand.
Speaker 2:You know what? I wish I could remember the name. There was this wonderful speech done about just countries in general and politics and things, and it was done just in this very neutral and beautiful way. And someone asked a very similar question about Canada and they described it that way and I was like, oh my gosh, yes, that Everyone knows you're from Canada, apologizing for everything.
Speaker 1:Sorry. You're never going to not have clients. You're going to always have clients. If that's what we're talking about, you're living in a gold mine. You're going to have clients for the rest of your life. You're very soon going to have clients. That's the culture, the whole country you guys talk about, that one offline. We don't have enough time.
Speaker 2:I think it's a stigma maybe, but I see it a lot, especially when we're in other countries. It's a little bit different when we're in our own, but when we're in other countries, we're like well, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Speaker 1:I'm speechless. It's hard to do Favorite food. You're in Canada so I don't know what you're going to say, so I'm just kind of like putting it out there Favorite food my favorite food?
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm addicted to sushi. That's not very Canadian at all, but I could eat sushi every day.
Speaker 1:She said sushi. I can't believe it.
Speaker 2:I was looking for something canadian that you just destroyed, even like western food in general is not my favorite. I find it very heavy. I love asian culture foods. It's so light and fresh and beautiful it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1:all right, two more questions and then we're out here, all right. So as a coach, I had obviously discovered that was. I would laugh that ined, because I didn't know this, but I didn't realize that coaches actually need coaches. It never crossed my mind. So I hesitated to talk to people who were already a coach in some area, like to offer them assistance. They already had a coach, they coached themselves. But who coaches Amy who's Amy's coach? Yeah, coach, they coach themselves, but who coaches Amy who's Amy's?
Speaker 2:coach. Oh I am. I am so grateful to be genuinely surrounded by so many incredible people. This company not only has the greatest team, but I get to be poured into by Kevin and Alan, and that is something that I've never been able to experience. It's that is something that I've never been able to experience.
Speaker 1:It's. This is going to sound so arrogant.
Speaker 2:I know this is going to sound so arrogant, but I say it with the deepest humility that I can. I have been in very few spaces where people can pour into me, and it's not just me doing the pouring. I love this space so much because I feel like it's an equal exchange. If not, I get more benefit out of it than anybody. And so I'm so grateful to have finally found that, because I do believe, as coaches, we need to be poured into so much.
Speaker 2:If we're pouring into others and adding so much value to others, how are we refueling ourselves if not? In fact, I don't even know if I would want to be coached by people who also weren't being poured into from someone ahead of them. That would be like a little red flag for me Because, again, then you, you feel like you're the arriver. I don't need coached because I've arrived, I know everything. What a mistake. No, you don't.
Speaker 2:In fact, the more you learn, I find, the more I learn, the more I realize I don't know, the more I expand my knowledge, even about like the brain, emotional intelligence, neuroscience, like just so many things, but the difference between shame and guilt and personality types and core wounds and core beliefs, and like there's so much and I feel like I know so much, but yet when I look at what I don't know, there's so much and I can't wait to keep learning and keep expanding that so I can keep putting that forward. And if you don't have a coach who has that kind of gift being poured back into them as well, I don't know. I would never want to spend too much time around an arriver rather than a striver around an arriver rather than a striver.
Speaker 1:I would assume that the rest of the three pillars kind of you guys coach each other kind of feed each other. Is that how it normally works?
Speaker 2:Yes, very much so, because the three of us are so different, but with one common goal and same core values and a common vision. And so we bring the three of us bring different things to that and I think it's really wonderful. That's probably the biggest compliment we get, especially in group coaching, because people get to see our dynamic between the three of us and just how between the three of us, we paint a really well-rounded picture and make everyone feel seen, heard and understood.
Speaker 1:This doesn't seem real. It's amazing. Thank you, absolutely amazing. Okay, I love this. It's very unique, very rare from where I'm from. All right, final question of the day, and after you answer this for us, I'd love for you to share a central message to any of the women that may be watching that you may normally serve and the encouragement you want to provide to them. I'll give you two minutes to do that, okay, but the last question is what we call a CMV question. We end all of our shows with this career, mission and vocation. It's not to diminish your work, amy, just to exercise. If you will, I'm going to erase everything you've done up to this point. If it's a vocation, a career, I'm erasing it. And I'm asking you right now where do you think you are most likely right now, outside of the things you've already done? What do you think you're doing in life? What do you think you're doing as a mission? What do you think you're doing as a career?
Speaker 2:I really want to answer that. If you take away everything I have done so far, what would I be doing? Or what am I going to do? Yeah, yeah, Okay. I look at it as if you can do this, even exercise yourself at home. What's the through line of everything you've ever done? And my through line has always been in some sort of service, education and empowering. I love educating. I wanted to be a teacher when I was a kid, but all the teachers in my high school talked me out of it actually.
Speaker 2:Okay, but when I look back at everything I've done, it has always had a certain level of education and empowering others. Now I'm a service-driven person at heart. It's why I love motherhood so much and things. So it would still be in some sort of area of service and education.
Speaker 1:Oh, that makes a lot of sense. I saw that from the beginning, but sometimes I get shocked. I heard answers like burlesque dancer, all kinds of stuff. I'm like I don't want to assume, but I just assumed that's what you would say. So I was spot on with that.
Speaker 2:Or you would just find me off the grid, in a forest, in a tiny little cottage where In the igloo, in the igloo, in the igloo Is that where you guys hang out?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Anyway, you've been a fantastic guest and you've been insightful. I can't wait to hear more about what you guys are doing, because it sounds like it's like some kind of utopia or something. I never heard it. I've been anywhere else except in Ontario, where you guys are. So this is incredible. But take a couple of minutes to share with our audience. If you want to speak to the ladies specifically, by all means, please do. I just plug my ears, go ahead.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you so much. I do believe we have something special and individual. I think that the guys have built something that special and they're actually down in the states, so I partner with a company down in the states.
Speaker 2:I'm the only canadian there yeah yeah, they're in new england and massachusetts. I think, wow, yeah, yeah, so, um, every year I get to go down and we do the live event together. They fly me down, which is, and we get to have that time together. But yeah, I got to travel to the States for things like that.
Speaker 2:But as for the message, I think self-awareness is everything. The more you can understand about yourself and how you interact with the world, I think that is what is going to be your superpower. And if I were to put that lens onto women, that means your physical health as well. Know why you cycle the way you do. Know how you cycle the way you do, because, yeah, some days you are not set up for success, so how can you give yourself grace there? And some days you are going to absolutely crush it. Double down then, but quit fighting against your natural biology there and learn about what that means.
Speaker 2:But everyone, self-awareness the more you understand about your core wounds, core beliefs, core aspirations, how you show up in the world, amazing, like all of these things the more you can learn about you, the better you're going to show up for in what you do, what you're trying to achieve, whether that be in a business, like we talked a lot about coaching today, but even just as a person, in your relationships, in your parenting, in your job, anything the more you know about you, the better you're going to be able to navigate everything you do with an empowered conscious state versus unconsciously.
Speaker 1:I love that. Thank you so much for being here and for sharing all that stuff with us.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1:Speaker, coach, super mom, expert, chicken farmer and a director of group coaching at Next Level University, amy Lenny Sisseth House. Thank you so much for being here. You guys are watching and listening. We almost the platform right now. We're live, but the rest will be in within the next hour or so and, of course, all the missing platforms as well. Within the next hour you can find this episode. You want to listen to it rather than watch it, or vice versa. It'll be available then. But thanks again for watching and listening to One on One with Mr U. That's Amy. I'm Mr U. We're out of here. Have a great day.
