Calm Self-assurance In Business with Marlene Cameron

A small business can be a really accurate reflection of that’s business’s owner. So when an entrepreneur is fraught with insecurity that is going to show up in the business. Marlene Cameron helps business owners and entrepreneurs to connect with their innate wisdom and resilience and to see that their moment-to-moment thinking doesn’t need to derail them when they have times of insecurity or doubt.Marlene Cameron has been training, coaching and mentoring business owners, leaders and mental health professionals since 2002. Former successful careers as a commercial interior designer, business owner/manager, management consultant and financial analyst have garnered her extensive experience and expertise in business leadership and strategy, unlocking human potential and enhancing resiliency and well-being. One of Marlene’s clients won the 2006 International Coach Federation (ICF) sanctioned Prism Award for “Business Excellence Achieved Through Coaching” and Marlene was part of a team of coaches working with executives at Chevron Resources Canada, winner of the Large Business Prism Award in 2010.You can find Marlene Cameron at MarleneCameron.com and on Instagram @marlenelcameron.You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below. Show Notes* On our mistaken impression that going into the past helps heal us * When we’re not grounded in our own capabilities, we’re at the mercy of whatever thought is going through us in a given moment * How we continue to seek validation to solve the insecurity * Learning to not get caught up in the insecure thinking that’s coming up in a moment * What our self-doubt may be an indicator of * How state of mind is so often the culprit when a business failsTranscript of Interview with Marlene CameronAlexandra: Marlene Cameron, welcome to Unbroken.Marlene: Thanks, Alexandra.Alexandra: Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got interested in the Three Principles?Marlene: I’ll give you the short version of a long history of career transition. I actually started off as a commercial interior designer, and I think I was 30 years old when I decided that I wanted to work for myself and started a small consulting practice. I did commercial interior design, some mostly office interiors, and some institutional work.And then I moved to the United States and thought I’d go back to school. And thought, initially, I would  do a master’s in architecture, but ended up doing an MBA, and then  found the whole world of finance. So then I became a chartered financial analyst and, and thought I’d work in that world. But I realized that they wanted me to work as hard for their businesses as I had worked in my own business, and I didn’t want to do that anymore.I had the opportunity to take a coaching program. I worked initially with entrepreneurs and executives, and then segued over to the field of energy psychology. I taught a technique for many years to coaches, counselors, mental health professional psychologists, as a way for them to help their clients to regulate their emotional state. I did that for many, many years.But what I started noticing with observing my students working with their clients was that people were imagining things like worst case scenarios, or, what if this happens and becoming very emotionally distraught about that. My question I kept asking my colleagues, in my supervision classes was that, how do you help the client differentiate between something that’s factual, and something that we call fictional? Like,