From Corporate Burnout to Monetizing a Purpose-Led Marketing Agency with Clarity

Stacey Lievens (00:00) It felt like I had a partner next to me, like helping me and guiding me along. It felt like they understood my brand. They understood me, where I was coming from. Hi, I'm Wendy Barba. I live in Napa Valley, California, and I have a marketing agency. It's WB Marketing Agency. So prior to Jessica, I felt like I didn't have that much. clarity. I needed to understand how to go to market with my business, what services I needed to have, in order to know how to present it and also understand what type of clients I wanted to work with. At first I wanted to go to the Claim Your Light retreat and that's where I started learning more about the services that Jessica offers. I was on the fence. I really wanted to do the Claim Your Light retreat just to get out of the house and be on my You know, my own bubble, I'm especially surrounded by powerful women when I learned about feminine fricasse in business school, in my, in my heart, felt like, my God, this is what I needed, but I had taken so many other online courses. I was a little bit. hesitant if this was the right way to when Jessica and I had that one-to-one call, she made it very clear. This was not a course that I was going to go in and like do it yourself type. wanted to learn how to launch my business. wanted to monetize my business and I have that plan. When I spoke to like, if you didn't get this out of my school, then she's not providing that service to the her standards. And when she said that I was like, okay, she's serious. and that's when I decided to join. think one of the biggest things I learned to understand myself, value my time, know my sacred lines, understand where I shine and my holy guesses, my holy nose. I'm still learning. feel like this is a work in progress. I've been managing my practice, my husband's and the doctor practice and the speaker for branding and marketing for like. 10 years now, and I love, love to see the growth that I've had in like personal. I was being noticed more by my family, by my husband, by my friends. I absolutely loved it. There were so many modules and there was so detailed the assignments that we had. and anytime you would put in the community a question, you know, you'd get that support as, you know, as an entrepreneur, you're on your own island. So sometimes you don't have anywhere else that speak in the same language. So it helped me express myself. It kind of allowed me to understand what I was building I left corporate America and I wanted to my own business. I was spreading myself to things. and taking any job, not the value it was worth. I know my value. I know my worth. I know my secret lines. Once you're an FFPS, it's a whole journey transitioning of like how you are internally, what you're meant to do in this world, and what purpose that you're having and what's fulfilling you. And that can go in so many different ways.