About The Goodbye Good Girl Project™
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I am a change agent. A thought leader. A bright now-older woman who tried the traditional modes of employment...and failed. Who tried the untraditional modes of seeking my purpose...and failed.
And realized that I needed to understand authenticity from a much more profound place.
And when I did, I began to succeed. It required powerfully and fearlessly questioning everything - beliefs, assumptions, doubts.
And now I am change agent - in businesses, with leadership teams and with individual women leaders. But I was always been a change agent - just unintentionally so. I was the kind of "big energy" that caused problems when I worked in offices. My bosses who feared for and endlessly protected their position of power automatically created discord; they mistook my commitment to my work as a drive to overtake their place in the company.
With the energy of self-determination, the worldly powerful fear that what you want is what they have.
The truth is that I have never wanted their kind of power, and that is because I don't see it as the true kind of power that transforms, elevates, solves and sustains.
I have never wanted to be a part of a pack and find my place of security and just squat there, never quite satisfied. This has proven to be an adventurous path to walk, but walk it I have. I do make conscious choices to do so, but I still have moments or months where I wonder if I have any say in it at all.
And I do. I have chosen to walk a path that leads to me being all that I am, right out loud. And to having incredible choice. It's just not the kind of choice that we generally understand: it's not the "chocolate or vanilla?" kind of choice, but the choice to be who I want to be - need to be - and the choice to align myself with the experiences, commitments and internal communication and "temperature" I need to make a positive difference during my time on earth.
It all started when I was a kid. My mother used to say, "You are too opinionated," and I would respond, "Too opinionated for what?"
In my 30's, I would become a professional actress, lured and enraptured by the live-wire emotional experience of walking out onto a stage, being emotionally naked, and courting at any moment the complete loss of the script in my head. It is free-falling, and it is one of the more alive places in life you can safely inhabit!
I became a jazz singer. Put me on stage anywhere, hand me a microphone, and I'm happy. I just want to connect with you, with the audience, and share authenticity, warmth, encouragement and joy - and that is what happens when I am on stage.
In my first effort to combine my creativity and my need for security, I became a Marketing Virtual Assistant, teaching myself social media when it first emerged on the scene. Later, I created Womanpreneur Digital Agency, taking on video editing.
Predictably, I became a writer - self-publishing what will soon be three books - and an artist, painting designs on everything from paper to chairs, and offering my artwork online. I have been writing and drawing since I was 5 years old.
I became a public speaker (of course); remember, put me on a stage anywhere, with a mic, and I'm happy...
I became an Acting Coach, a Self-Expression Coach, something else I called being an Emotional Linguist™, and I started coaching Women Leaders in the kind of empowerment that is experiential and personal.
So, what was the core of these experiences? What could I safely "call" myself?
I am a change agent for Leaders, Leadership Teams, and Women Leaders. I see the good and the bad of the systems in which we live, and how we are invisibly held captive - struggling against the bonds that stop our courage, our considered risks, our efforts to try to be something new, someone new!
I see where individuals are bound. I see the possibilities that call to us - those of us in business who want to do better, in a newly defined world. But I don't believe we should define it as we have done up until now. That time is past.
And realized that I needed to understand authenticity from a much more profound place.
And when I did, I began to succeed. It required powerfully and fearlessly questioning everything - beliefs, assumptions, doubts.
And now I am change agent - in businesses, with leadership teams and with individual women leaders. But I was always been a change agent - just unintentionally so. I was the kind of "big energy" that caused problems when I worked in offices. My bosses who feared for and endlessly protected their position of power automatically created discord; they mistook my commitment to my work as a drive to overtake their place in the company.
With the energy of self-determination, the worldly powerful fear that what you want is what they have.
The truth is that I have never wanted their kind of power, and that is because I don't see it as the true kind of power that transforms, elevates, solves and sustains.
I have never wanted to be a part of a pack and find my place of security and just squat there, never quite satisfied. This has proven to be an adventurous path to walk, but walk it I have. I do make conscious choices to do so, but I still have moments or months where I wonder if I have any say in it at all.
And I do. I have chosen to walk a path that leads to me being all that I am, right out loud. And to having incredible choice. It's just not the kind of choice that we generally understand: it's not the "chocolate or vanilla?" kind of choice, but the choice to be who I want to be - need to be - and the choice to align myself with the experiences, commitments and internal communication and "temperature" I need to make a positive difference during my time on earth.
It all started when I was a kid. My mother used to say, "You are too opinionated," and I would respond, "Too opinionated for what?"
In my 30's, I would become a professional actress, lured and enraptured by the live-wire emotional experience of walking out onto a stage, being emotionally naked, and courting at any moment the complete loss of the script in my head. It is free-falling, and it is one of the more alive places in life you can safely inhabit!
I became a jazz singer. Put me on stage anywhere, hand me a microphone, and I'm happy. I just want to connect with you, with the audience, and share authenticity, warmth, encouragement and joy - and that is what happens when I am on stage.
In my first effort to combine my creativity and my need for security, I became a Marketing Virtual Assistant, teaching myself social media when it first emerged on the scene. Later, I created Womanpreneur Digital Agency, taking on video editing.
Predictably, I became a writer - self-publishing what will soon be three books - and an artist, painting designs on everything from paper to chairs, and offering my artwork online. I have been writing and drawing since I was 5 years old.
I became a public speaker (of course); remember, put me on a stage anywhere, with a mic, and I'm happy...
I became an Acting Coach, a Self-Expression Coach, something else I called being an Emotional Linguist™, and I started coaching Women Leaders in the kind of empowerment that is experiential and personal.
So, what was the core of these experiences? What could I safely "call" myself?
I am a change agent for Leaders, Leadership Teams, and Women Leaders. I see the good and the bad of the systems in which we live, and how we are invisibly held captive - struggling against the bonds that stop our courage, our considered risks, our efforts to try to be something new, someone new!
I see where individuals are bound. I see the possibilities that call to us - those of us in business who want to do better, in a newly defined world. But I don't believe we should define it as we have done up until now. That time is past.
“I have coached financial entrepreneurs, performers,
attorneys, and business visionaries in self-expression,
helping them deliver their message with greater
self-confidence, personal style, impact and joy
than they ever thought possible.”
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This video expresses all of the sentiments that make The Goodbye Good Girl Project imperative to undertake.
I only wish I had been the one to write it. |
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Ready to rock and roll? Contact Lori at Support@GoodbyeGoodGirl.com.
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Support@GoodbyeGoodGirl.com
(510) 508-4708 |
Do you like the idea of breaking those social "should's" that have held you back for too long? Do you like the idea of successfully changing your modes of communication, your business structures, your self-image, and to your quality of life?
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Lori Kirstein, Founder
The Goodbye Good Girl™ Project LLC The Feminine Face of Business Cincinnati, OH 45205 Gratitude to https://www.freepik.com/ for their free images in our social media! Gratitude to contributing Photographers! |