A Message from Ari Squires
I am a solution-driven Brand Manager, Business Coach, Business Growth Speaker & Filmmaker, and for the past 10 years, I have been running a thriving Business Coaching business.
I have built my business to a place where I now have a booked out coaching schedule (and waitlist), highly engaged online communities of beautiful souls, an author of eleven books, and I have had my work and messages featured across leading magazines and national television stations across the United States and South Africa.
I have spent the past 10 years following my heart, living my passion and doing work I love, and throughout this time I have coached and mentored hundreds of passionate men & women to do the same.
BUT 12YEARS AGO, THINGS WERE VERY DIFFERENT...
I was not living my purpose or following my heart. Instead, I was living my life for others and doing what was expected of me so I could gain the approval of my peers.
I was running a brick-and-mortar dance and performing arts school that drove me crazy and woke up almost every day with stress-filled migraines and feeling bored with my life. I knew deep down that I was destined for more. I had so many dreams, and I deeply yearned to share my messages of possibility and light with the world.
But I was terrified. I struggled with crippling self-doubt, the shame of my past and anxiety. I desperately wanted to create change but I had no idea where to begin, so I hid my true dreams and desires away inside of me. I just didn't feel good enough, smart enough or confident enough to make them a reality.
AND THEN I STARTED WORKING ON ME & EVERYTHING CHANGED...
After years of internal self-sabotage, I finally decided to ask for help. I hired a Life Coach and I began to dig deep and do the real inner work. I began to listen to my heart and what I truly wanted. I transformed my mindset, faced my fears, healed my wounds, learned to love myself more, and stopped playing and took baby steps forward to operate at my highest self, daily.
I then started sharing my inner thoughts on Facebook and began sharing my authentic self with others. I built online communities and began spreading my message further offline. I attended countless events and workshops, read book after book after book to conclude that my DNA was laced with TRAUMA and then I found my tribe of hungry possibility-seekers offline!
I then took a brave and risky (BRISKY) leap and invested a little over $100,000 in my Business Coaching training, and started working with clients. Less than 12 months later, I closed my six-figure income dance school to step full-time into running a service-based business, and I haven't looked back since.
So yes I know the head/heart battle well. I know what it feels like to have a dream but to also feel totally STUCK IN MY GENERATIONAL SHIFT, unworthy and incapable of having it. I know the pain of crippling self-doubt, of comparison and of feeling totally and utterly frustrated.
But I also know how amazing it feels to finally get onto your true path without caring what other people have to say about it, and asking for help! As I learned how to connect with my heart, to value my gifts, to believe in myself, to be my own cheerleader, to take risks, invest in my business and to listen to my intuition, my life has transformed beyond my wildest dreams.
And now (with all my heart) I want to support you to do the same because I know that I can give you all the support you need, but if you aren't right internally, nothing will work. Things won't progress..and this ALSO goes for those of you who have already reached six-figure success as an entrepreneur. What got you where you are now, wherever that is, will not get you to your next level.