Alison Pena is the creator of The Affluence Code® and the Life After Grief Blueprint, speaker, coach and bestselling author of The Bad Widow Guide to Life After Loss.
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The Bad Widow – Check out Alison’s website.
How Mastering Your Affluence Code Makes You More Resilient – EOFire giveaway! Discover your Affluence Code and how to leverage it for greater profits, peace and joy.
3 Value Bombs
1) There are three things that everybody cares about; focusing on work, focusing on connection or focusing on community. These became the three lenses of the Affluence Code.
2) Grief costs money. If you are an entrepreneur and can’t go back to center in who you are when things fall apart, you are losing time and money.
3) You are your greatest asset. Everything else can go away but as long as you are whole and centered on who you are, what you want to deliver and serve with, you have all you need to succeed.
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Show Notes
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Today’s Audio MASTERCLASS: How to Recover Your Resilience After a Loss
[1:20] – Alison shares something that he believes about becoming successful that most people disagree with.
- She believes that the key to being successful is to master resilience not as an occasional thing but as an always thing so that you are able to pivot and reset quickly from any circumstances especially after a grief event.
[1:52] – Alison talks about the Affluence Code and how to unlock it.
- She noticed that some people thrive and some people don’t thrive and she can’t figure out why. And in the course of wandering around the world she discovered that there are three things that everybody cares about; focusing on work, focusing on connection or focusing on community. These became the three lenses of the Affluence Code. When you figure out what is your first one, that is the key to your kingdom.
[4:54] – Alison shares how we can discover what is our Affluence Code.
- How to know your Affluence Code is identifying what do you go to when you want to go back to the center. If you are focused on work then you have to go back to work immediately because from knowing who you are, you will know what will be your next step organically to go back to the center of yourself.
- One devastating thing about grief is we identify ourselves in what we are doing, the relationships we are in and how our communities are going and when a something happens to disrupt that, everything falls apart.
- Grief costs money. According to CDC, unsupported grief in the workplace costs companies up to 225.8 billion dollars per year due to loss of productivity, absenteeism, avoidable mistakes, higher turnover and increased use of health benefits. If you are an entrepreneur and can’t go back to center in who you are when things fall apart, you are losing time and money.
[7:29] – Alison talks about the Life After Grief Blueprint.
- Grief is a loss of someone you love, but there is also a grief to losing a job you love, downsizing or losing a business, foreclosures, medical crisis or financial hardship. Grief is actually cumulative, you could lose someone you love and if your grief is not processed well, something else comes along and knocks you further down.
- The Life After Grief Blueprint has 5 pillars. First is to Reconnect by leaning in to your Affluence Code acting from who you are and not from who you are connected to. Second is to Reengage proactively. Third is to Reinvent because after any loss you are no longer the same person and there is no such thing as bouncing back. Fourth is to Rebuild by looking at the network of people that you still have in your life and seeing who fits where. Fifth is to Reset your path forward and thinking what really matters.
[14:35] – A timeout to thank our sponsors!
- HubSpot: Making your life easier. Getting you results faster. And better connecting you to all your data, all in one place. Start making major moves with HubSpot! Visit HubSpot.com/marketers to learn more!
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- Vanta: Helps SaaS businesses of all sizes manage risk and prove security in real time. Vanta has a special offer waiting for you of $1,000 off at Vanta.com/fire!
[18:05] – Alison believes that grief can open up to clarity of purpose as well as a capacity for joy.
- She find it interesting because she didn’t think that there is an upside to grief. After losing her husband, she was not anymore the same person she was before and she was forced to look at everything about her as new. Who she was , what she likes before she met her husband and she start rediscovering herself and what she loves. She became true to herself, freeing her and opened herself up to more joy.
[20:31] – Alison explains how frameworks and rituals are key to moving forward after a difficult life event and why she believe that growing our ability to navigate grief is essential for creating lasting success.
- There are grief events that happen most of the time especially in business, and our ability to pivot or move forward and learn through them is critical. Its really helpful to develop frameworks by knowing where you are and where you are going. The best way for you to get through that as an entrepreneur will depend on your Affluence Code. Getting back to the center of who you are makes all the difference to thriving business.
[22:32] – Alison gives her one key takeaway.
- You are your greatest asset. Everything else can go away but as long as you are whole and centered on who you are, what you want to deliver and serve with, you have all you need to succeed. Understanding your best mode of operating your Affluence Code and interacting with it is the key to a life of prosperity , more peace and joy.
[23:15] – Call to action.
- The Bad Widow – Check out Alison’s website.
- How Mastering Your Affluence Code Makes You More Resilient – EOFire giveaway! Discover your Affluence Code and how to leverage it for greater profits, peace and joy.
[24:25] – Thank you to our Sponsor!
- HubSpot: Making your life easier. Getting you results faster. And better connecting you to all your data, all in one place. Start making major moves with HubSpot! Visit HubSpot.com/marketers to learn more!
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