ACL 022: Natalie Sisson

09/04/13 • 34 min

Natalie Sisson is an entrepreneur and traveler who helps others seek freedom by building a location-independent business. She is the host of a website called The Suitcase Entrepreneur and recently published a book by the same name.

In this episode of A Congruent Life, Natalie reflects on her own journey as a nomadic entrepreneur, including:

recognizing for herself that “you either do this now, or you do this never,”
being willing to experience fear head-on in order to move through it,
doing the inner work to identify and prioritize her core values, and staying aligned to them,
staying connected to people close to her while living a nomadic lifestyle,
learning to celebrate both wins and losses,
how one’s best work happens when you’re being true to yourself.

Natalie is generously offering free copies of her book, The Suitcase Entrepreneur, to two lucky A Congruent Life listeners. For your chance to win:

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In this episode of A Congruent Life, Natalie reflects on her own journey as a nomadic entrepreneur, including:

recognizing for herself that “you either do this now, or you do this never,”
being willing to experience fear head-on in order to move through it,
doing the inner work to identify and prioritize her core values, and staying aligned to them,
staying connected to people close to her while living a nomadic lifestyle,
learning to celebrate both wins and losses,
how one’s best work happens when you’re being true to yourself.

Natalie is generously offering free copies of her book, The Suitcase Entrepreneur, to two lucky A Congruent Life listeners. For your chance to win:

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Links from our conversation

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ACL 021: Tess Vigeland

Tess Vigeland is a familiar voice for fans of National Public Radio; she’s been on public radio for over twenty years, and for the last decade she was part of NPR’s popular national Marketplace program, including serving several years as the host of Marketplace Money.

In this episode of A Congruent Life, Tess reflects on her experience after presenting at the World Domination Summit in Portland last month, including:

leaving her dream job without a safety net (“what the hell are you doing?”)
how the WDS audience gave her a gift she’ll never forget,
lessons learned from not getting the big job that she was “supposed” to get,
discovering that those that she thought were “not my people” actually were,
learning how to move her identity from “Marketplace’s Tess Vigeland” to “just Tess,”
figuring out how to shift from telling others’ stories to telling her own story,
questions about why authentic sharing is so unusual,
why she doesn’t really see her upcoming book as “Act Four,” and
her ongoing challenging journey of “getting back to remarkable.”

Links

Video of Tess’ presentation at WDS on Vimeo
Transcript of Tess’ presentation at WDS
Tess’ website
Tess Vigeland on Facebook
Tess Vigeland on Twitter
Reflection posts on #wds2013

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ACL 023: Julie Dragonfly

In her youth, Julie Dragonfly turned to alcohol, drugs, and sex looking for courage to be herself in the world. Through some significant experiences, she rediscovered the power of music in her own life, and embraced that as another language for self-healing and being of service to others. Leaving her addictions behind and transforming her engineering career into a path as a yoga teacher and healer, Julie travels around the world doing a project she calls, “Sing As I Am,” sharing the healing power of sound.

In this episode of A Congruent Life, Julie shares:

how music replaced her addictions as a source of strength and self-confidence,
spiritual experiences that led her to see music as another language for connection,
what came from her music teacher’s challenge to share her music in train stations,
the unexpected gift of a small note dropped in her bag,
honoring the pull to share her gifts, “regardless of how I think it sounds,”
difficult lessons about intertwining money and self-worth, and
the challenge and reward of embracing self and living authentically.