Episode #22: How to Prosper in Life, Love & Work with Special Guest Kelly Francis
In this episode, we interview Kelly Francis, a certified life/motivational coach, keynote speaker, and the founder of KellySUITE, a business created to mentor and motivate career women, Kelly overviews her goal-setting process called the Prosperity Effect that provides a road map to help you achieve your goals faster. From breaking patterns and getting unstuck, to defining balance and prosperity in a whole new way, join us in this lively discussion.
You can find out more about Kelly or purchase her planners HERE.
How to Prosper in Life, Love & Work with Special Guest Kelly Francis Episode Recap
On episode 22, we have a special guest, Kelly Francis, a former recruiting expert turned certified life motivational coach. Kelly is the founder of KellySUITE, a business dedicated to empowering career women to set the stage for their own success.
Kelly starts by sharing her inspiring journey that began in her college years. Faced with a difficult home life, she decided to take control of her destiny and put herself through college. After graduating, she unexpectedly became a retail store manager but found her passion for recruiting and training people. This ignited her career, and she rapidly climbed the corporate ladder, leading and developing recruiting departments for various companies.
In her 30s, Kelly realized that her career success wasn’t enough; she also needed fulfillment in her personal life. As she witnessed friends struggling with their purpose and dreams, she felt a deep desire to mentor and motivate them. Witnessing these women achieving their goals fueled her passion even further.
The Prosperity Effect is a powerful tool that Kelly developed to help women prosper in every aspect of their lives. It’s more than just a goal-setting planner; it’s like having a coach in your pocket. The planner is broken into categories, including career, finances, relationships, wellness, and spirituality, with each section designed to help women focus on their goals effectively.
Kelly introduces her unique approach called the Faster Formula, which helps individuals achieve their goals faster. The formula involves setting specific, feasible, attainable, realistic, and timely (F.A.S.T.E.R.) goals. Breaking down big goals into smaller achievable ones keeps people motivated and excited about their progress. With the changing times and the impact of the pandemic, Kelly observes a shift in focus towards mental health and overall well-being. People now understand the importance of balancing all areas of their lives to achieve true prosperity. The Prosperity Effect comes as a timely resource, promoting the holistic approach to life’s success.
Kelly believes in the power of mentorship and encourages individuals to seek guidance from experienced individuals. While she does not offer one-on-one coaching services, she prefers to reach out to more people through workshops, podcasts, and speaking engagements. By sharing her expertise with larger audiences, she aims to inspire and motivate as many women as possible.
The Prosperity Effect is more than just a planner; it’s a life-changing tool that empowers women to thrive in every area of their lives. Through Kelly Francis’s personal journey and passion for helping others, this remarkable resource offers guidance, support, and motivation to pursue dreams, achieve goals, and find fulfillment in life, love, and work. By embracing the Faster Formula and the holistic approach, individuals can embark on a journey of prosperity and success like never before.
Episode Transcript:
Kelly Callahan
Welcome to the Two Marketing Moms podcast. Today’s episode is called How to Prosper in Life Love and Work with special guest Kelly Francis. Kelly is a former recruiting expert turned certified life motivational coach, a keynote speaker and the founder of KellySUITE, a business created to mentor and motivate career women to set the stage for their own business. Welcome to the podcast.
Kelly Francis
Thank you so much, Kelly and Julia, nice to be here.
Kelly Callahan
Nice to have you. So we’d love to start the podcast talking a little bit about our personal journeys, because we’ve all had different journeys to get where we are today. I know you’ve had a very unique journey as well, you started as a recruiting expert, and then you became an entrepreneur and then you became a certified life and motivational coach with KellySUITE. So can you tell us a little bit about that journey and how that worked for you and how it led to publishing the Prosperity Effect and all the tools that you have for motivating?
Kelly Francis
Sure. So the story really starts when I was 19. It, was in my freshman year of college, and honestly, it was tough because my home life wasn’t the best. I was living at home going to a commuter college on Long Island. And I had this pivotal moment, one night, which I won’t go into what happened, but something happened and I just remember turning to my boyfriend at the time, and I said, I can’t do this, I need to get out whatever it takes, I have to find an apartment and put myself through school and, and break out of this because I don’t want this to be my life. And if I wanted a different life than the one that I’m living, it’s going to be up to me to set the stage for my own success and break these chains. And I did sometimes look back, I have no idea how I did it. I was a full time college student working three jobs and I would arrange so I took night classes that met for longer periods of time so they only met once a week. So each night of the week, I can take a different class. And I did it, I put myself through college, I earned my bachelor’s. And after college, I was like what do I do with an oral communications degree, what now right, and just started working some odd and end jobs and ended up as a retail store manager, which was just not planned, it just kind of happened. What happens when you’re a retail manager, you wear a lot of hats. You’re a salesperson and operations person, a marketing person, a merchandise person, and you’re an HR person. And if you’re not aware when you’re in retail, the need for store associates is a constant revolving door so I did a lot of hiring. And I started to realize, wait, I like this. I like interviewing people and I love training them. It was my favorite part of the job. So I got this crazy idea that I wanted to be a recruiter somewhere in a corporate office with air conditioning and I didn’t have to worry about why someone didn’t buy two pairs of shoes, so that I could make my sales the day before. I have no idea where it came from but I set out on this mission and I said I’m going to start interviewing and looking for jobs and I’m not going to accept any offers unless someone gives me a chance at being a recruiter. And from that day when I made that decision, I think it was maybe somewhere between four and six months and countless interviews later, and Macy’s gave me an opportunity as a talent manager. I was responsible for the hiring and training of all of the store staff for four stores on Long Island which is a big deal. Macy’s stores at the time before online started to take over and take charge of everything in the retail space. Those stores can have anywhere from 130 to over 300 staff in one store and I was responsible for four stores. It was a dream come true for a girl in her 20s and I had staff reporting to me during the holiday season for a good three months out of the year. I would staff up to about 24 recruiting and training staff just so that we could accomplish those goals. So that was just the spark that ignited the rest of my career. That thing in me that started back when I was 19 that said, hey, when I want something, I’m just going to go after it and not stop until I get what I want. It was just a domino effect. So at Macy’s, I just started getting one promotion after another in three years, I think I had three or four promotions. And I was the type of person I would go to my VP of HR and say, hey, can we walk to the food court and grab a coffee, I need to talk to you. And I would tell him all of the accomplishments I had in the previous six to twelve months and let him know what I was ready for and what I wanted to do next, and then I would just get a promotion. And so from there, I said, well, I wanted to ditch the retail badge, like when you’re in retail, even on the corporate side of things, you always have that magnetic name tag that you have to put on your shirt, I wanted to go truly corporate, so that I wouldn’t have to wear the badge anymore. And I did and from there, it was just one job after another until I got to a point where I started leading and developing recruiting departments and teams. And I would get picked up sometimes by small businesses and startups who would just need some help, bringing recruiting in house and redesigning it. Companies that were small, and were spending tons of money on agencies and wanted to move things in house. And I was really fortunate enough, about three years ago, at one of the jobs that I had, I met these two, eventually three young ladies in their 20s, who would always complain about how they didn’t know what their purpose was and they felt stuck. They would have all these big dreams that they didn’t think were possible, and I’m a very, very empathetic, loving, caring person, but I’m also very direct. And so it’s this perfect blend of well take out your Uber history, your spending, wait, how much, let’s start adding this up in the past 30 days, you’ve spent $1200 on Uber and Lyft, no, we’re not doing this, we have a plan, you’re going to start putting money aside and we would come up with goals. And next thing you know, three months later, that same girl who was spending $1200 on Uber and was afraid to drive had her own car. Then she had an apartment and then she had a master’s degree, then she became an econ model, then she ended up meeting someone and that wasn’t even one of the original goals. So this happened with two or three women who had now become my mentees, my friends, and every time they would achieve one of their accomplishments, I would light up as if their success was my success. And I was just almost watching what I wish would have been my life sooner through their eyes, because it took me so long to get to this place where I got the things that I wanted, because while on one hand, my success in my career that I shared with you in the recruiting trajectory was really successful. But I was hiding behind it, I was in some really toxic and hurtful relationships. So on the outside, colleagues and friends were looking at me thinking this girl has at all, my sister would come spend the weekend and tell everyone on Facebook she was rolling on her sister’s bankroll, I would go out with friends and pick up three $400 dinner tabs, and I was traveling and behind the scenes, my relationships were in a mess, so there was a disconnect. And then I finally got to this point in my 30s, my mid 30s, where I said, this is enough, it has to stop. And we’ll probably talk more about that later. But I ended up meeting the most amazing man I’ve ever met in my life. I’ve been married, very happily married for over five years. And that’s sort of where it all came to be, through helping these other women and realizing I can use my own experiences to help these career women go after what they want. And I was watching them achieve goals that they never thought they could put on the table, and faster than any of us, even myself could have imagined, it was quite remarkable. And so I said, you know what, wherever my career takes me, I don’t know that I was striving to be the next VP of HR or CEO somewhere, but I decided within the past, I would say a year to two years that I was going to set out on a personal mission to help as many women as possible prosper in every single area of their lives because we often as women, and I’m not a mom,but I know you’re both moms, right? We as women are the backbones of everything, our families, our jobs, our communities, and when we prosper, everybody wins, everybody benefits, but when we’re struggling, we force ourselves to show up with our best face on in one area. Then maybe we’re in our bedroom crying, and nobody knows it. And then you hear the kids calling mom or your husband needs something, and then you’re picking it back up together and wiping the tears away. Why do we settle for that? Why is that, okay? Why not have fulfillment across the board? Why can’t your career be on track, your relationships be on track, your spirituality, your finances, and so I’m just on a mission, no matter how big or small one woman at a time to help women not wait until they’re in their 40s to realize that you can have it all you can be happy and successful. It’s up to you, you have the power to set the stage for your own life and that’s how KellySUITE was born. That’s how the Prosperity Effects planner was born, and that’s how I got here.
Julia
I feel like your your faster formula now makes so much sense that I’ve heard your story because it’s it really actually embodies you and your whole philosophy which just is born out of your experience, which seems so authentic. In our last podcast episode, we were talking to a woman that wrote a book, and we talked a lot about just like the generations of women before you really pave the way right. And so I think what you’re talking about, and we also talked about this a lot on our podcast about mentorship, is such a powerful tool in helping shape someone’s life. So let’s talk about your Prosperity Effect. What is it and how do you use it as a tool?
Kelly Francis
Sure. So I like to think of it as a roadmap, almost, it’s a proven path to get what you want, in life, love and work. And so it’s, I have to be honest, I call it a goal setting planner. I don’t even know if the word planner does it justice, I just haven’t found another word to use for it, because it’s sort of like having a coach in your pocket. As a certified life coach, I was able to sort of weave in some tools, some assessments and questionnaires, the faster goal worksheet, and I broke it into different sections. So the first thing is, it’s a year’s worth of planning, the second thing is, it’s broken into categories so you have categories for career, finances, relationship, wellness, spirituality, your faith, whether you’re a Christian or not, or you believe in the power of the universe, it doesn’t matter, there’s something in there for everybody. And so what I do is I walk through different worksheets at the beginning of each section and depending on the section you’re in, the layout is different. It’s not a standard planner with a calendar spread for 12 months or a weekly spread. Each section of the planner is different depending on the area that you’re working on, and so what the folks who are on YouTube can see on the screen is the faster formula that is incorporated into the planner. And for those of you who are listening, you can go over to KellySUITE.com and grab this for free you can download it there and so everyone is welcome to go ahead and head over to KellySUITE.com/shop and you’ll find it under there and again, it’s free so you can download it. But this basically was designed to help women focus. I think, whenever I use a planner, it’s a to-do list, right so of course I had to put it to-do list section in there because it wouldn’t be a Kelly tool if you didn’t have one.
Kelly Callahan
Julia and I are to-do lists fanatics and I planner fanatics.
Kelly Francis
I’m a little old school, I’m a pencil and paper, not even pen and paper I have to use a pencil with an eraser. I have a sharpener on my desk and I even carry with me a small sharpener everywhere because I always have a pencil in my bag. But, I noticed I will make a to-do list and then whatever doesn’t get done a few days later or at the beginning of another week, I’m starting fresh and dragging over the things that I didn’t finish and refreshing my list, right? So definitely I work that into the planner just to do it justice. But the other tabs if you’re in the finance section, there’s monthly budgeting tools, if you’re in the spiritual section, there’s a place to write down your meditation, scripture reading or positive affirmations. And so each section is designed to help you sit in focus because I think when we hear the word prosperity, what’s the first thing that comes to mind for most people? Money, right? And it’s not that that doesn’t mean you’re prosperous when you have money. Yes, but I remember when I met my husband, and he would always say, you’re so successful. He’s a blue collar guy, and he’s like, I’m not this rich, wealthy guy. I said, you are richer than any man I have ever met because you have values that make you so wealthy, right? And so I want to get it into people’s mind that yes, if you can, the more money you can make, great, we need money we need to pay our bills to live. But it’s not always about the money, you need to feel fulfilled. What if you took a job that was 20,000 less, but you weren’t so stressed out, you weren’t working 16 hour days trying to please your boss and sacrificing your family time, but you were happy, right? One of those three young ladies I told you about earlier, there was a point where she came to me and she said I have two job offers, one is $25,000 more a year than the other. But it’s doing something I don’t really want to do, I know how to do it, but I would just be doing it for the money. The other is so me and it’s everything I’ve always wanted, but it’s a lot less money. My question to her was, will the one with less money be enough to cover your expenses and start saving towards some of your goals and make sure that you can stay afloat and sustain you? And she said yes. I said you’ve crunched the numbers, she said yes. I said if in a year from now you were to look back, would you have regrets if you took the one that paid more money, and she said yes. I said you just answered your own question. I think that is the true definition of prosperity, right? Because now she’s loving her life, every time I check in with her, she’s so happy in her current role. I see her posting things on LinkedIn and I’m almost asking myself, was this the same person because she used to be so down all the time and now she’s so happy. And so I don’t know, there’s just something to be said about really feeling content fulfilled, so this is what the prosperity effect is aimed to do. Its goal is to help you get what you want, in every area of your life and really feel fulfilled, so that you’re not neglecting one area for the sake of another, you’re not neglecting your health or your relationships for the sake of your career, or vice versa.
Julia
It reminds me of the movie, The Devil Wears Prada at the very end, where she’s got it all. And the guy says to her, well, look out because as soon as your career is on the up and up, your personal life will fall apart. And so I think for me, your Prosperity Effect is like, it’s a holistic thing. Your career is affected by your financial goals, your wellness is affected by your relationship. So, I like that, you are motivating women to think about how all these things fit together and creating all these goals, because one might really help another get to the finish line.
Kelly Francis
Right. And, those women we were talking about, that paved the way for us, they did an amazing job because we all have careers because of them right? One thing that happened that maybe they weren’t thinking about, we didn’t get to give up the other job, the one that we were maybe originally designed for which is the housewife, the mom, right, we still have those responsibilities. So how do you, I hate to use the word balance as Kelly knows we’ve talked about that before, but I don’t know, how do we balance that? Right? How do we still fulfill that role, and now do the other roles because I’m grateful for my career, I’ve had a great run so far and I’m not done yet, but I’m a wife now and that comes with its own job description. Everything is integrated.
Kelly Callahan
Can you explain a little about the Faster Technique and what that means? How to achieve your goals faster?
Kelly Francis
Yes. So I use the losing weight example, because I think it’s a common one that a lot of people can relate to. If you’ve ever heard of smart goals, this is my version of smart goals. The reason that I changed it up a little bit is because I needed to figure out a way to put the execution on repeat because I think it’s so important when you have a goal to break it down, right? So anyone can say I want to lose weight, or even put a number in there, say I want to lose 50 pounds and that’s very specific. But a lot of people, I’ve been guilty of this myself, we want to lose 50 pounds in two months, right? Studies show that ideally, if you really want true sustainable weight loss, it should be at a rate of one to two pounds a week. So if you want to lose 50 pounds, you have to back out of that. How do you lose 50 pounds realistically, what’s the right time frame, and you do the math. So you also have to think about other things you have going on in your life, if you all of a sudden you’ve never exercised and now you’re saying I’m going to exercise two hours a day to make up for some of the calories that I want to eat. But you’re a mom, a wife and a career woman, is it realistic that you’re going to work out two hours a day, you have to set goals that are feasible, meaning they make sense with everything else you have going on in your life. And even if you have to break it down, if that 50 pounds has to become I’ll lose 10 pounds, and when I get there, I’ll celebrate and it’ll motivate me to lose another 10, and you break it down into 5, 10 pound goals instead of one, 50 pound goal. Attainable is the same thing as feasible, but again, that’s where the realistic time frame comes in, setting a date that’s doable, that’s realistic, that is specific, and then execute and repeat the process. I think for me, one of the fun things about going after my goals is when I accomplish one, I feel so good that I have moved the needle. But now I’m motivated to keep going. I’m someone I love exercising and I exercise every single day. I do sometimes anywhere between 60 to 90 minutes. That sounds like a lot to people and it is a lot. But if a day comes where I can’t, I can maybe squeeze in 20 minutes. I’m just so annoyed the rest of the day because I didn’t get my full workout in. It probably was good for my body to take a little break, but mentally I’ve become so addicted to it that I have to do it right. So when you actually do something enough times, and you start to accomplish things it makes you want to keep going.Then when you take action and you have those little wins, that’s why I think my clients and my friends have ended up reaching their goals faster, because they were just focusing on one. I remember that first young lady that I mes she kept saying to me, I need to know my purpose, I don’t know my purpose. She was having a I don’t know if this is new for you, it was new for me, she was having a quarter life crisis.
Julia
Yeah, there’s a book.
Kelly Francis
Oh, okay, so I remember she was having this quarter life crisis, so to speak. She had just become permanent from a temp employee, she was getting her master’s degree and she just didn’t know if she was in the right job. She didn’t know what to focus on and she had all these things she wanted. And then on top of it, she’s getting dropped off and secret spots around the building by her mom because she didn’t drive or she was taking Uber and Lyft. So we came up with this plan every single time you’re in the car with your mom, I don’t care if it’s for five minutes to the local grocery store or half an hour to work, you get behind the wheel. You just start driving to overcome those fears, she had a license, she just had an experience that created some fears, they were real, real fears, but they were overcomeable and she drives now. But she ended up getting a car, we were putting money aside, she would give me money, and I would lock it in and withdraw every paycheck, so she could save up for a deposit. And I think we had set it for six months, the dollar amount that she was giving would add up, and it was a pretty big chunk of money to all of a sudden start pulling from her check. So I met her in August of 2018 and in December of 2018, she took a few days off to go visit her dad for the holidays, came back and said I need to withdraw my money, and I said why, she said I got a car, and I’m going to use it to pay for the insurance and for the deposit. And after that it was just all these other things that she had always wanted, that accomplishment gave her the momentum and the fuel to just keep going. And then she got her master’s in the middle of COVID, she got her first apartment, she was sharing an apartment with her mom, and that was a goal of hers, to move out and live on her own, so she got her first apartment, she always wanted to be a plus size econ model, she’s doing that now she got signed with an agency. And so it was like, while we were focusing on the car, she was not thinking about the econ model piece, it was something she knew she wanted,but we weren’t working on that as a goal as I was mentoring her and coaching her, and that’s another thing. I think everybody needs to find a mentor, I kind of struggle in the coaching space. The people who really want and would benefit from the coaching don’t necessarily have the money that coaches charge. And I feel there’s something to be said about bringing mentorship back. And that’s why I do not offer one-on-one coaching as a service. This is like a coach in a pocket for a very affordable price so that people can feel that they have my support. And I think it’s really crucial that people, as much as possible, try to find that person that can mentor them, and then help them with setting faster goals so that they can execute and repeat.
Julia
So do you make people write down their goals? Did she write all these things down?
Kelly Francis
Well, in this particular case, would come together, we would go to New Jersey, they had a smoothie bowl place. And we would go with our notebooks or laptops, and we would sit and we would do budgeting, I would do little group sessions with two or three of them, and we would sit with our notebooks and actually map it out and write it down.
Kelly Callahan
Well, I love this, the faster formula. And I’m actually going to print it out and tape it to the side of a computer to remind myself because it seems to be easier to remember than SMART goals, but they’re I know, they are very similar.
Julia
I like it better. I agree.
Kelly Callahan
I do like it better. And so the other question that I wanted to explore with you is, you have all these areas that are supposedly supposed to be balanced. And that everyone wants to have her prosperity, and based on your experience, not individually, but as a group with all the women that you’ve worked with, is there one area that people are having more difficulty than others? And has that changed over the years that it changed over COVID? Did relationships become more tough? What sort of trends are you seeing in working with, with individuals and women?
Kelly Francis
So the trends that I’m seeing are, they’re in a shift? I think, for me, a lot of women come to me asking for help with their career, because I’ve been in talent acquisition for just about two decades, right? So that’s a natural thing for people to want advice on. They want resume help interview prep support and that sort of thing, offer negotiations. And so while that might just be a byproduct of my expertise, I do think it is something that always was on the forefront of people’s minds when it comes to their career, but with COVID, there has been a shift to mental health. I think we’re all seeing it. I feel every commercial, every post, I see everything is about mental health. And I think what’s happening is, people are becoming more aware of the need for balance in these areas, because they’re all, and Julia talked about it before, right, these all affect each other, every single bucket affects the other bucket. And so while the focus or the ultimate goal is to improve mental health, and overall well being, right, physical health, spiritual health, mental health, in order to do that, they’re looking deeper at every area, people are starting to say, hey, I need healthier boundaries. In my interpersonal relationships, I don’t even mean your intimate relationships with your partner or spouse, I’m talking about your colleagues, your friends, your family, and that sort of thing. And they’re looking at their finances, they’re looking at their career. And so it’s more of a holistic approach now, because in order to achieve that optimal mental health, there needs to be fulfillment, and prosperity in every area. So I’m finding that the ultimate goal now is that overall, well being I think, that’s almost a little gift that COVID has given us, if you will, I know it’s been a disastrous year and a half, and we thought we were coming out of it, and then we’re not coming out of it. But I made so many people get in touch with what they want, across the board in their lives. And to our benefit, it has forced employers to take a different approach to how they treat their employees, because there’s now this mass exodus happening. And people are saying, you know what, I want to feel valued. And it’s interesting, because, way before COVID ever came, I would always coach people and tell them interviewing and working is a two way street. I have a blog on it, on work life balance, we forget, we’re so worried about performing for the job or nailing that interview so that they like us that we forget. What in it for us, what are they giving you? You are exchanging service for pay, so if they’re giving you PTO use it. There’s nothing that can’t wait till you get back or nothing that someone can’t cover for you while you’re out. Right? And so we’ve lived in this world for so many decades. And we have, where we have just become a product of this. I work for this employer, I do what they want when they want it and my life comes second, all the other things, my relationships, my health. Oh, I don’t have time to exercise because I spent four hours commuting today, and now I have to go take care of my family. Why is that okay? It’s not, but no one was speaking up for themselves. And they were forgetting that part of the formula. I figured that out, I would say 2010 only because I had a really great manager who was like, if you answer emails after six, they’re gonna want you to always answer emails after six. But if you draw a line, they’ll just learn okay, she’ll get back to me the next day, right? And when I took off, I didn’t answer emails, I would address them when I came back. So I figured that out a really long time ago. And I’m not one of those people that my boss would have to chase down to say, hey, you haven’t used your PTO I use every single day that was allotted to me. And I think that’s something that, again, COVID has given us that’s a positive is that employers are starting to realize, if they want to retain, attract and retain talent, they have to start valuing their people it has to be a give and take. So people again, to go back to your question, Kelly is they’re focusing on their overall mental health and well being and lifestyle. And so they’re dissecting and digging deeper into all those things that are going to contribute to the improved mental health and to the optimal state of want they want to be. And so perfect timing for the Prosperity Effect. I didn’t time it that way. It was just a coincidence.
Julia
All for the better.
Kelly Francis
Especially something that I want to do. I want to partner with corporations to use this as an employee appreciation gift, so that they can start to value their employees by saying, hey, we want you to be happy all around so that when you show up, you’re your best self. And so that’s something that I’m kind of working on.
Julia
That’s the good news, let’s celebrate some good news that you know, the pandemic has helped people realize that everything fits together. And mental health is so important. I was gonna ask you, what does a coaching relationship look like with you? Kelly and I have talked to some other coaches and everyone has their own kind of system. And I think it is something that people don’t necessarily know what that looks like. So if someone were like, I dig her, I want to work with her, I want her to be my life coach, how does that work?
Kelly Francis
So I don’t offer one on one services.
Julia
Okay. Yes. You said that, all right.
Kelly Francis
Right, I am able to do workshops, if people wanted to contact me to do workshops, I can do that. And even use, I have some digital versions, condensed versions of the planner that serves sort of as a workbook for those types of things. I try to do stuff like this, where I can come on a podcast, or go do a talk somewhere at a networking event and things like that, where I can reach as many people as possible and inspire them and motivate them. You said this was a positive that came out of COVID, I tend to be one of those people that will always find the positive and things. And so I just use that to try and pour into other people, one to many, so to speak. And when it comes to one-on-one mentoring or coaching, I learned pretty quickly in the process after getting my life coach certification that I did not want to be a paid coach for one on one services. I’m a Christian, and I was struggling with getting paid to do something, to use a gift that God gave me, I just wasn’t feeling right about it. And every single coach I know is like, no, it’s okay to get paid for your gifts. And there’s a lot of gifts that I have that I can get paid for. I can get paid to speak, I can get paid to recruit or you know, work on a talent project for a company. And those are gifts that I have as well. But there’s something about truly making a difference in someone’s life. So if someone happens to meet me, that’s close enough to me that I end up mentoring, it could just be a one time thing, I meet them at an event and we have a little chat where we stay connected and the relationship grows and I evolve as their mentor, then, thank God for allowing me to do that. But to say I would actually offer that service and get paid for it, something about it. I was wrestling with it. And it just didn’t feel right for me. And there there really is, it might just sound so cheesy, but there’s something about other people’s success being my reward. And that’s enough for me.
Julia
Yeah, that makes so much sense. So people can get your planner, they can read your blog, they can follow you on social and absorb all of Kelly, who Kelly is and that’s how you share it with the world.
Kelly Francis
Yeah, I even have a Pinterest. I know people that look for motivation, they turn to Pinterest a lot.
Kelly Callahan
Yeah, I’m a pinner, so how can people get ahold of you Kelly? What’s your website address for people listening?
Kelly Francis
Sure, it’s Kellysuite.com. You can email me kelly@kellysuite. I do read all of my emails and reply to anyone has a question or I love if there’s something that you do want to see me share on social media if there’s certain types of tips that you are looking for or want more of, I can write a blog or you know, put it on social so definitely email me and let me know your thoughts what you would love to see more of I’m open to that. I am on all the social media platforms. I am probably most active on Instagram, social media, I’m not going to lie I get stuck here because it’s not really my thing, but the world’s forcing me to do something I don’t want to do so I the most active on Instagram which is at KellySUITE_LLC, but you can also in my LinkedIn, Facebook and Pinterest as well.
Kelly Callahan
Well thank you for coming on the podcast today. Kelly, we appreciate it and I am so excited to download my copy of the prosperity effect and tape some of the keynotes up on my computer. So we appreciate your time today.
Kelly Francis
Thank you both so much for having me. It’s been lovely. I appreciate it.
