Episode Summary
Ever wondered what it’s really like to have a private coach in your back pocket—giving you personalized guidance, real-time support, and mindset breakthroughs as you build your business?
If you’re curious whether a voice-based coaching model can deliver real-time breakthroughs (or if you’ll just get generic responses), this episode pulls back the curtain on my very own WhatsApp coaching sessions—warts, wins, and all—so you can see for yourself.
In this episode you will get:
A sneak peek into the private coaching experience
To hear an actual audio that I sent to a client recently
Learn the story behind my company’s legal name (EsCap LLC)
Press play now to pull back the curtain and step behind the scenes of my coaching containers and my business.
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This podcast dives into the potential of balancing a business and life without sacrificing revenue or impact. It helps women business owners and mompreneurs overcome overwhelm, decision fatigue, and the guilt of working less and stepping away from hustle culture while increasing leadership, strategic decision making, alignment and delegation / team building. Learn to build powerful habits and mindset, embrace smarter and higher vibration work methods, and master time management by streamlining tasks, implementing business systems, and even prioritizing self-care. We explore efficiency and energetics, productivity and filling your cup, automation and where to personalize your efforts … all to reduce overworking, and finally take time off—without the fear or shame—whether that is with high-ticket offers, scalable offers, or passive income. Say goodbye to imposter syndrome and people pleasing while running a small business: It's time to shift your mindset, reclaim your work-life balance, and thrive!
Full Episode Transcript:
[00:00:00] In today's episode, you'll discover what private coaching over WhatsApp is really like. At least when I do it. Welcome, welcome to The Uncommon Way. Oh, it feels so good to say that I mentioned in an earlier episode that I was going to keep the three-day work week, but no, something kept nudging me back to total brand consistency and here we are. And with a lighter, brighter cover for summer 'cause a girl should be able to switch things up when she wants. Speaking of keeping it light for summer, today's episode is for you. If you've ever wondered what private coaching would be like or what WhatsApp coaching would be like With all of my private coaching at the moment, I offer WhatsApp support and sometimes I offer just WhatsApp with no calls.
And it's becoming more and more common, but not everyone has really experienced it. In fact, some people who have purchased these offers have said, I [00:01:00] wasn't sure what this was going to be like, but I ended up really liking it because it gave me time to really digest what it was that you've said and reflect on it, and then say something back.
And plus, I get to keep all the recordings and just listen to them whenever I want. So in this episode, you will get a sneak peek into the private coaching experience. You'll get to hear an actual audio that I sent to a client recently and also get to hear why my company's legal name is spelled E-S-C-A-P.
I got this ping to download an actual audio message that I sent, and when it came time to listen to a few, in order to select one, I realized just how specific and personal they are. I'm mentioning their services and offers by name. I'm referring to past situations, past ways of thinking that would probably be confusing for someone listening in, which is why we sign up for private coaching, right?
We want a coach who knows [00:02:00] us and our business to. So that the conversations can be really targeted and you don't have to repeat the backstory, and then you can get the coaching you need and then go out and implement that guidance, that guidance that was tailor made for you rather than a training that you've listened to that hundreds of other people are listening to and may or may not apply to this specific moment in your business.
But I realized, you know what? It's okay. It's okay if I didn't find a coaching sample that maintains the privacy of my clients because we talk about other things too. And what my clients have told me over and over is that they love that they can just ask me anything. And I am an open book. They tell me.
It's really helpful to hear how I think about situations how. I react to things past and present and that it's in those moments, those conversations that they sometimes get [00:03:00] the biggest breakthroughs. 'cause it either helps normalize things that they're going through or prepare them for things to come.
And I know for myself when someone shares their story, I also get to see how I'm not thinking right, or not being by seeing that difference between me and them. And that gives me. Not just clarity on me, but an insider pass on how to get there. Myself, just before recording this, in fact, I got a message from a client who said, I'm so grateful that I get to learn from you and that you put yourself in uncomfortable growth situations so that then you can tell me about it, and then I can try it and feel it for myself on the other side too.
But those moments only come through being really candid and really transparent. And that's just how I've decided to be in life. I mean, with everyone really. One of my new friends told me the other day that she was so taken aback when I first arrived here, and I was like. Yes, and my son has a DHD. And yes, I get my face lasered for [00:04:00] youthfulness and vitality and oh my gosh, for the first time, the family's depending on my income because we only maintain our visa if the government decides I'm earning enough.
And that's kind of freaking me out. And I just laid all the cards on the table. But I mean, why hide anything, you know, that would be hiding a piece of me too, which only blocks connection, not invites people into connection, which is what we all want. So without any more preamble, I hope you enjoy this audio.
Which answers the question, why is the legal name of my business Escap, LLC? So Escap, it's actually two words. It's in Catalan, the language Catalan, and so a place in for Terra, the island I used to live, my very favorite part of the island was an eska, means like the head, you know, or the highlands. And so from there you could see both sides of the island like see on both sides.
So magical and it was a big turning point [00:05:00] in my life because, ooh, maybe I should tell this on the podcast. It's a good story now that I think about it. Thank you. I had gotten a scholarship. For University of Chicago Business School, my MBA, and the way it was was they were taking like students from the top liberal arts schools because they were known as a very quantitative school and they wanted to round out their image.
So they wanted to attract these like top liberal arts students. And so I won the scholarship and I got to go for a summer between my junior and senior year, so hadn't even finished college yet. And I was taking MBA classes and. It really left a sour taste in my mouth after the rigors of Swarthmore. I felt like the work was just way too easy.
It was everyone I talked to, it was just all about networking. Like they don't even care about the classes. They're just going there to meet people, which were mostly Chicago. It was still a very regional school. I'm like, I'm never gonna live in Chicago and need to have all these contacts, you know, so why am I gonna pay?
At the time, it was a lot of money. It was a hundred thousand dollars, [00:06:00] or was it, I think it was 50,000 back in the day. But anyway, it felt like a lot of money back then. Exactly the same amount as whatever they cost now. Like that's how it felt. And I was like, is this really what I wanna do? And I was gonna do it just 'cause I thought it was a good thing to do.
But my dad, who had always promised me. That he would pay for my undergraduate and then loan me money for my graduate school because I had gone off to live in Spain. I think he lost faith in me or something because we had this pivotal conversation where he was like, oh, and if you keep doing this, how do you expect to pay for grad school?
And I was like, huh. I just just never been a thing. And so I'm actually really thankful I did that now in hindsight, because it really had me considering, okay, if I'm gonna take on student debt to pay for this, because I think I would get, yeah, I think I would get the first year free and have to pay for the second year.
[00:07:00] Or maybe it was just the first quarter free and then I'd have to pay for the rest. I don't quite remember, but I was like, if I'm gonna take on student debt, is this really worth it to me given what I've just me mentioned to you before? And so. Here I am, of course, with this completely alternate life in Spain.
You know, where no one cares, could care less, which MBA you went, you got your MBA from, or even if you got an MBA, right? It's like just a completely different world about really living in the moment, really living life for the joy and the community and not caring what your job is. And of course that was not my thing either, because as I found out after years of living there, when I did turn down grad school and decided to stay there.
Or go back there after my undergraduate is that I need meaning in my life and just like selling my hours just to work and then without having, meaning wasn't for me either. Like just working in a restaurant and then, you know, smoking joints at night or something. Like, it just, you know, but I didn't know that at the point, right, where [00:08:00] I'm making this consideration about do I wanna pay for grad school or do I want something else in life?
And I'm standing there looking at the, in this favorite place, which is the highlands. I see a for sale sign, and there was this piece of property, like it would've cost a fortune to redo, but it was like a abandoned house. So the stone structure was there. It just was all grumbly, you know? But that meant that if you, you didn't have to get like a permit for a new place, right?
Like there is a house there that you could then just get a renovation permit for. But anyway. So this land was for sale in the place that I've always loved, and it was the exact same price, and it just seemed like a question from the universe, right? I'm gonna give you two, like, I'm gonna put a monetary value on this and I'm gonna give you two choices.
What do you want, Jenna? And the rest is history, right? I turned down the University of [00:09:00] Chicago, said thank you, but no thank you. I went back to Spain after college and I lived a absolutely wonderful, you know, few years that ended up changing the course of my life, and so I'm very, very happy with that decision.
But anyway, these highlands are called Escap, and I loved the fact, like I loved the play on words that when you put it together in English, it looks like escape, right? It looks like freedom, and that obviously is what the uncommon way is all about. It's about. Really creating your uncommon way, daring to be different, doing things differently and escaping from all of these have dos and all of these shoulds and creating the thing that you're here to create and making it meaningful, making life count, and then. Yeah, I've continued with it until this day.
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