Engaging in Authentic Self-Expression for Alignment in Business, Self-Acceptance, and Personal Branding with Kari Russell

The Visionary Files

Energetic Business Coach, Kari Russell, thrives off of helping women truly dig deep – and then feel safe in that vulnerable space – while getting in touch with the parts of themselves that many public-facing entrepreneurs work for years trying to mask.

An expert in authentic self-expression, Kari’s own journey into goal-setting and leadership coaching has taken a path familiar to most small biz owners (up, down, and all around), along with a few unexpected detours (discovering the value of triggering herself with spicy romances to the extent that she now uses the genre as a medium to provoke her clients in the same way).

Let’s just say, when our convo reached the ‘spicy romance’ point, we – ahem – lingered there until we both felt well satisfied. 😉

Quick overview of what we cover:

• Kari’s time as a goal coach at Lululemon and how that ignited her lifelong passion for goal-setting work
• The importance (especially for women entrepreneurs) of releasing shame, guilt, masks and the masks we wear as we build and market businesses
• How Kari was finally able to step into her truest self-expression and self-acceptance, using Human Design
• How she reconciled the startling personal realization that Human Design better served her as a tool of self-understanding with her professional identity of being a Human Design expert/coach – and what happened to the biz connected to it
• Her beautiful way of speaking about how her business expanded during COVID lockdown – a time when many, many people experienced extreme hardship
• How she manages her extroverted nature working in a (mostly) virtual space and her go-to tools for self-regulation when she starts to idle uncomfortably high
• Why paying attention to our bodies’ reactions (and how our brains judge those reactions!) can teach us a LOT about the truth of ourselves.
• The moments of personal inauthenticity Kari views as huge gifts of awareness of where we need to do more work
• The connection, freedom, and impact Kari hopes to leave as her legacy gift in doing ‘business better’ and why it’s all grounded in S-EX

RESOURCES:

• Click here to join Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to get on the waitlist for the January 2024 cohort of Scalable Foundations Accelerator
• Click here to register for the free training for 6+ figure service-based business owners

CONNECT WITH KARI:

• Click here to connect with Kari on Instagram: @iamkarirussell

Kari Russell is a Leadership and Energetic Business Coach, global leader in Self-Expression and host of the S-EX Talk Podcast. She is married with 2 children and lives in a small country town in Ontario, Canada where you’ll find her tanning on her deck reading spicy romance novels in the summer or submerged in her hot tub in the winter (while also reading spicy romance novels). Kari’s work focuses on fusing the psyche and the somatic to guide her clients in confronting and alchemizing their shadows and leveraging their authenticity to own who the f*ck they are in their branding and content to make a massive impact and build their business their way!
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Chapters

1. Spicy Episode (00:00:00)

2. Evolution of Human Design in Business (00:13:51)

3. Identity and Attachment in Personal Growth (00:23:59)

4. Balance in Human Design and Development (00:28:28)

5. Navigating Business Shifts and Embracing Change (00:32:29)

6. Embracing Inner Growth and Self-Expression (00:40:09)

7. Exploring Spicy Romance and Self-Expression (00:46:32)

8. Exploring Taboo Themes in Art (00:51:08)

9. Selling and Self-Expression in Branding (00:58:59)

10. Connection, Freedom, and Impact in Business (01:11:24)