#8: Talks With Tina Marie #2
Tina Marie Talks With Lead Bonfire Coach Hannah Wilner
Hannah is a manifester extraordinary. You're going to find out how she's done, what she's done, and you're going to want to take notes so that you can do these things too.
Hannah Wilner is a seasoned professional who imparts acceptance and perspective in every conversation. Her unique ability to relate with everyone she encounters by leveraging rapport to make those around her feel appreciated and invincible.
From a young age she’s studied human dynamics, focusing on effective communication and interpersonal relationships. Hannah is one of our top Executive Coaches, having spent years in the corporate world traveling nationally and working in various industries with large and small corporations.
Her experience with negotiation, growth strategies, and Lean business practices makes her the ideal coach for business owners and entrepreneurs.
Hannah’s mission in life is to help others achieve their potential. Using the Bonfire method she will provide tools and teach skills necessary to achieve your greatest desires. You'll find she is uniquely skilled as a coach, business strategist, and productive sounding board for executives, entrepreneurs and anyone ready to get off the hamster wheel of life.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 00:00
Hello, I'm Tina Marie St. Cyr and welcome to light your life the podcast. I believe our dreams have energy calling and purpose and that when we move in their direction, our lives become even more joyful, fulfilled and effortless. This podcast gives you insights to the strategies our guests use to overcome obstacles and manifest their dreams, in business, career, relationships and in life. Listen to find new levels of energy perspective and courage. Your journey to light your life begins now. Hello, and welcome to the light your life podcast. I am so absolutely excited and honored to be with my guest today. I'm Tina Marie Saint Cyr, as you know, and we bring souls to you that have gone through their own life challenges, had tools, strategies, perspectives, ways of being that got them through and you're going to be learning from them. Our guest today is one of my dearest friends and her name is Hannah Willner. Now, let me tell you a little bit about Hannah. She is a manifested extraordinaire, you're going to find out how she's done, what she's done and you're going to want to take notes, so that you can do these things too. Also, out of all the people I know on the planet, she's probably one of the coolest, happiest, most joyful, and let's get it done type people I've ever met. And I'm so grateful to call her a friend of mine. You can find out more information about her at Hannah willner.com. So, let's just jump right into it. Hannah, thank you so much for being our guest today on the podcast,
Hannah Willner 01:59
Tina Marie, you know how much I love Bonfire and everything that you've created. So, it is my honour. Thank you.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 02:05
Thank you, I know people are going to want to know who you are. I want them to know who you are and your story, we came together, you had moved from the San Diego, California area into the Houston area, and you're looking for some guidance and partnership, because you had some big goals for yourself. I love people with big goals, because that means that they're ready for big growth. So, let's take the Hannah that was in San Diego that was moving to Houston. What was true about your life in California, before you got to this area.
Hannah Willner 02:36
What was really true about my life, and why I decided to make the change was because there was a point where I looked around at my like, amazing, beautiful life. Also recognize all of the challenges that I had invited into it by having a set of values that wasn't really in line with where I wanted to be. I looked around, and I just thought, if I'm here in five years, I'm probably not going to be very happy. And I wondered if it was okay to want more out of life and part of that was hiring a coach to help me figure out if that was okay, and what more looked like. So, that was when I moved to Texas and when and the first thing, I did was look for the number one best five-star coach that I could find and you came up.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 03:25
Thank you so much. I'm glad that destiny and the universe led you our way because it's been such an amazing ride and journey to have you part of our team. Whenever California was there you touching a couple points which are really pivotal to the soul of the people that listen to this podcast. I know, you had something in you that were saying two perspectives. One if I stay here for five years, at that juncture, whenever I look at myself in the future, I'm probably not going to be so happy that fulfilment. Second, you're like, I must do something now. Because there was this ache and longing inside of you that wanted more out of life. Now, if you're listening, and this pertains to you, if you know you want more out of life, but we have that mind behind us, and we have that mind that's it's okay. Why do you keep wanting more? What's going on? Did that ever pop up for you and your discussion with your own mind?
Hannah Willner 04:17
Every day, until very recently, and even sometimes I still hear it. Well we call it the saboteur. It's just a natural part where we will always have this angel and devil you know, kind of somewhere inside of ourselves talking and giving encouragement or discouragement and it's interesting because we say this but the only person standing your own way as you it's really hard to come to terms with that. It is so hard to come to terms with that. I think the beginning of my coming to Houston was okay, if I make this change, then maybe if I leave everything I can get out of my own way, right thinking like a physical move, make that happen.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 05:00
Yeah, we call it a geographic. When people do a geographic, I'm going to leave the circumstances in the conditions of the life I'm in to go fine and we take this adventurous leap into something new, so that we can land in a place and discover something and more than that we're discovering ourselves and challenging ourselves to rise up to a new level, which we wouldn't have had Had we stayed where we were. So, it's a definite strategy to do a geographic, and you and you had some really big goals and once in your life, I remember, I was meeting you, I'm like, this is a dynamic woman, she is so full, I could see the potential in you, that isn't fricking amazing. I could see also that struggle inside we all have struggles, even myself, I wake up and face my struggles ago. Why are you here? What are you wanting me to become? Because the struggle isn't ever to hold us back and to have as you know, completely unleash into that next level? Do you remember some of those struggles inside your mind whenever you were doing that geographic or before that limiting beliefs that were in there, that you knew if you stayed in that space for five years, it was not going to be pretty?
Hannah Willner 06:10
Limiting beliefs.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 06:16
The back then version of Hannah.
Hannah Willner 06:19
Yeah, I want to say the limiting beliefs had more to do with my ability. I've said for well over 10 years that my goal, my mission in life is to help others achieve their potential. I worked for a company and I helped them create their mission vision values, and this was back in 2011, I thought, oh, I should create my own. So, at that point, I understood that my mission was to help other people achieve their potential, but I was doing nothing to make that happen. I also had some goals physically, because I had been really broken like, physically, I had back surgery and wrist surgery and a bone graft, and like some pretty gnarly things that took me out of commission physically. So, I had created some physical goals for myself, and then in general, it was to realign and understand how can I be a person that I'm proud of, that I'm inspirational. That was also one of my goals. At that point, I didn't have a lot that was inspirational besides my positivity. I've always been a pretty Polly Hannah person. So, you get that!
Tina Marie St. Cyr 07:27
I love the Polly Hannah. I remember there was one limiting belief that you'd come in with, and we tackled pretty fast. You're wanting to build your circle and you want to have a greater circle of influence of kickass people. Of course, we all want that, because whenever we have that, then it helps us to grow as well and there's this one part of you wondering, well, how do I do it, who am I to go reach that you had the desire, but there was an inconsistency between where you're starting and where you knew you were going to end up. Oftentimes, we have that we have that. It's like the invisible bridge, you know, we know where we are, I'm standing in this space. I can see over there across the bridge, but I don't see any way to get to it and that's what coaching and strategy does to help us take us from where we want to be, and you tackled it full force, it was awesome.
Hannah Willner 08:20
I had some help, coaching from you, but this community that we collected, seeing that my ability to meet people. I easily meet people, I love meeting people, I love talking to people. I can be myself, in my love for people and appreciation and all the good things that I am, and still be strategic in reaching out to the people that I want to surround myself with meaning they have the same energy state, they're positive, they want to live above the line. They want to have contribution and growth in their life and those are two keys that we talk about a lot in bonfire coaching. But for me, the people that are in my circle, we say, what's the saying that we are a sum of the five people that we hold closest to us, right when I moved from San Diego, and trust me, I love my friends. But growth and contribution weren't a part of that life. When I moved to Houston and participating in bonfire and recognizing those as what I desire to have around me made it a lot easier to move forward and seek that in people. So, now I feel like I am appropriately some of the people around me because we're all driven and we're all trying and we're all growing and learning and developing.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 09:38
Sharing that with each other right and supporting each other. So, no competition in this tribe at all. There's some things that you are known for which I love, I want to dive into and if you want to remember who we're talking with here, this is the amazing coach Hannah Willner. You can find out more information about her at her website at Hannah willner.com and you can also find I under a Bonfire coaching because she's one of our just amazing lead coaches here and we love how she also helps the other coaches and she helps so many clients. So, thank you very much. You are known for helping people with perspective and knowing that that is an energy source and a super weapon, that once we understand the power of perspective, it's a total game changer of life. Can you help us understand how you first discovered the power of perspective was going to be a game changer for you?
Hannah Willner 10:34
Yes. I'm going to tell a story. But I also want to give a little bit of a tip. So, one of the truths that is a little hard for people to recognize, but one of our truths that when you get a hold of it is so important is that we are in control of our thoughts, our feelings and our actions. Oftentimes people are comfortable with knowing that we're in control of our actions and sometimes people are okay with being in control of your thoughts. But most of the time, people don't understand that you're in control your feelings. So, perspective for me is directly tied to being able to control your feeling. Here's how it works. This is quite a few years ago, I was working on a project in Atlanta, I was living in San Diego, but working on a project in Atlanta, I was travelling three weeks out of the month, the project was challenging to be, okay, let's just say I had a lot of this. It wasn't it wasn't an easy project for me. I had also back in San Diego started dating a gentleman. So, throughout this long project, the gentleman came to visit me and we had an absolutely amazing time.
So, we're in Atlanta, we're in Georgia, we went to the portrait race track, we went shopping, we went eating like it was just this beautiful time and it was over the weekend. So, then I was going to go back to the project on Monday, when he left, I was sad. I was sad, I was frustrated, I was depressed, I did not want to go back to the project. I was really focusing on missing my person and being frustrated about this project that I was working on and feeling generally upset about my life. My coach at the time said, why would you choose to feel that and before that moment, I had never really understood that how I was choosing to look at the situation directly affected my ability to feel happiness, and joy and abundance. So, that, for me was the big click in how important perspective is in our life. Because here's the other perspective, there's multiple, infinite possibilities for perspective. I was choosing in that moment to look at the perspective of, of lack of missing a frustration, which resulted in feelings of sadness, and anger and mad. So, when I shifted my perspective, here's what it shifted to how awesome that somebody came to visit me, and that we had such a great time, and that I'm going to go see him again, and how awesome that this project is almost done and that I'm doing a good job for the effort that I'm supposed to be doing. Those thoughts, that perspective, changed my feelings to confidence, happiness contribution. So, that's why perspective for me is so important. Because we are all in charge of our thoughts, our feelings, and our actions and perspective is the thing that can change that immediately. So, that's my perspective is very important for my life. It changed my life, and it changes my feelings, which then go out to the world, they go to everybody.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 13:48
That is amazing and thank you for sharing that story. You could totally feel the connection there. For the Hannah that had that aha moment, which is awesome. What would you advise people to do if they don't have that coach necessarily right in front of them going, hey, why would you choose to feel that way? Right. What can they ask that question of themselves? Obviously, they could. However, whenever we're in the moment where we're not conscious that we're choosing our feelings, or we're not conscious, we're choosing our thoughts. We're not conscious, we're choosing and it feels like life's happening at us or to us and we've taken ourselves out of that power state to know that we are a being that honestly has the power to choose. What can you offer as a thread pool so they realize, hey, they wake up a bit and say I do have power. I do have choice.
Hannah Willner 14:40
What I tell my clients and anybody who will listen really, is that when you pay attention to your feelings, because that's easiest to identify right anger frustration, sadness, happiness, joy, elation. When you pay attention to your feelings, that is the trigger that can be the flag where you recognize, I don't like this feeling, I want to feel different. To me, recognizing the feelings can be the thread pole that says, I know I don't want to be here, then it pulls a little bit and you think, okay, how am I looking at the situation? It brings in mindfulness, by recognizing your feelings, we can start to tug on it and then you start to understand mindfully, okay, what story? Am I telling myself? Am I giving to this story and then we can pull it out just a little bit more and say, okay, I hear that story. I feel this feeling. Is there any other way? Is there anything else out there that I could maybe stretch to see the situation different r to have a different feeling? Is there anything else I could focus on shift my focus to something that brings feelings of peace, or joy? So, to me, that's a good thread pool is just recognizing your feelings, because we can feel those.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 15:58
Instead of letting them take over your, what I gathered, is that you're helping somebody look into the feeling and analyses it, assess it, be with it, and take out that golden nugget of what it's really allowing us to see and know, and then follow that course to the question, what you're asking is, what do I really want? Do you want to feel this way? Because we always have the ability to feel angry or frustrated and own that we can co totally own 100%, right? And be in it? Or you can say, do you really want this and instead what do you want, then using your tool of understanding that you have a choice of the feelings and the actions and what you're choosing to think.
Hannah Willner 16:37
Yeah, I want to bring up one other point here, because I know that this is something that everybody is affected by time. So, if you're watching this, I'm sure that you have experienced this before. What happens naturally, is that when we find something that we dislike, our reaction is to get rid of it almost with force I hear both myself and clients say, I have to stop that. I should not do that and it's what I want to encourage everybody to understand is that our feelings or our actions or our thoughts, when we fight them, what we resist persists. So, fighting them or shutting them away, or having to stop it any type of aggression towards something that we dislike is not going to get rid of it, it's actually never going to get rid of it.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 17:29
So, that's going to have roots.
Hannah Willner 17:32
So, we just acknowledge it, like you said. We just have to look at it and say, oh, interesting, okay, I'm here again, or I'm feeling this, again, are my thoughts keep circling on this, you know, fixated point, whatever it is. So, we look at it, and then at the point that we can look at it and be peaceful with it, it literally starts to dissipate, and it's harder than others, right, depending on what you're looking at, or what emotion you're experiencing. Sometimes it's harder than others, but I want to just encourage you that sitting with the emotion, no matter if it's good or bad, or sitting with a thought, no matter if it's judged good or bad, is our way of helping it to release. So, as you're finding perspective, as you're recognizing what you don't like, don't shut yourself out of it, don't have to get rid of it. Okay, just acknowledge it and then we can start to say, what would I love? How would I rather be feeling or experiencing the situation.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 18:27
So, the perfect perspective way to give that strategy and toolset that anybody can use right now and it takes the curiosity of wanting to write whenever we realize that this whole discussion we're having I love is about the power you have the power to choose and knowing that you have the power to choose gives you the freedom and the opportunity to seek that energy to have those perspectives and make those choices in new ways. Now, I was wondering, because this came up in mind is what if someone is saying okay, great, I've got my power, got my power and choose got new perspectives. I see it in front of me. I know that that's it, and they have the energy toward it and then something comes in and has them go, but not right now. I have to make sure that this person is going to be okay with me having my power or that I have to stay here for a while longer. You know that negotiation we do with our dreams and our passion and the energy that brings us that fulfilment and that aliveness? Can we speak toward your perspective on what do you do whenever the stall happens, or it looks like you run into a wall?
Hannah Willner 19:32
Yeah. Walls are so easy to find. It's almost like you go towards them and just stare at them for a while. Have you ever done that?
Tina Marie St. Cyr 19:43
It's comforting sometimes. I don't have to do anything.
Hannah Willner 19:48
Listen, it happens to all of us. It undoubtedly happens to everybody. I want to go back to San Diego because I feel like there was that really challenging moment, I've making a decision to move without the approval of the people that I love the most. I've done it a couple times in life, I've kind of regularly not regularly but picked up my life and then geographically relocated to create a different beginning, and when you have the desire, and to me, it's a little bit of fear that holds you back, right the wall can be as transparent as just wanting people's approval and wanting to keep the sameness of the people around you or the energy that you have with friends or whatever it is right in your house. What I have experienced is that when we don't move with intention, then things happen in our life, that force us to move. So, the analogy of staring at a brick wall is interesting, because sometimes we feel like I can't move forward and then from the side comes this gush of rushing water and just slide you over somewhere else that you weren't meant to go right or that you didn't think you were meant to go.
Okay, I say this, to share. That situation almost happened to me in San Diego where I couldn't quite see where I was going, I just had this brick wall about what the next step was really looking like. I was starting to see the other side and then my grandma died. She was the person that was closest to my heart, this necklace is hers. So, I'm standing there in front of the brick wall and not sure how to move forward and then the person that meant the most in my life took me out, right? And happens with loved ones. I mean, we are all evolutionary we die and all that. But for me, it was sometimes when we're stuck, we get an extra push from the universe to keep moving and my grandma's passing for me, I wasn't even in the same place anymore. I had an easier time stepping out. So, be careful what you wish for if you choose to stare at the wall, that's okay. But don't be surprised if God or the universe comes in and sweeps you away into another space where you can start moving forward again.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 22:31
So, exactly and I've gotten to know you over these many years. I know that you believe that it's always working for us, even if it's painful in the moment that whenever we come up and out of it, and through it, that we look back, and we do have a greater vision, understanding, oh, had that not happened, I'd never be where I am now I wouldn't reach there. So, we find that gratitude for our past, it takes a little time and sometimes new energies to do so for the really painful past. Because we've known people that have had some tremendous loss that looks like it's unexplainable and not fair, and there is a piece the silver lining that will be that glimpse to you're here now and now you can make new choices from where you've been. I lost my parents at a young age, and, you know, growing up and seeing people with their parents, and even, you know, as a young adult, my peers were not happy with their parents, or they're arguing with their mom, or they're arguing with their dad, they're going, you know, like, oh, my God, and I'm thinking if I had my parents, I think I'd be grateful that I had them.
So, I learned gratitude for other people through the passing of my parents, and the longing or the knowing that those love relationships are so paramount, and that we can treasure them even more. So, thank you for sharing about your grandmother, that's awesome and you're also known for mindfulness I love this is that Hannah's mindfulness allows you. This is my belief, because I watch you, I'm like the outside person watching Hannah. It seems to allow you this ability to shift quickly. So, if things look like they're an obstacle, or a challenge, or something that's not going in the way that we planned, you, you have this ability to assess quickly and pivot, you have this way of taking that in and making something new and not having it be an obstacle or a speed bump or something that feels like it's in the way, you literally use it like a chi gong move like okay, I'll take it, here we go. That mindfulness component of your life, has it always been there or did you develop and cultivate that?
Hannah Willner 24:37
I was going to say, practice is the name of the game. Okay, this is why is it that about life in general. Okay, so, for everybody who's watching, especially on the bonfire page, you got to know this is practice. There is no one game that you play and then it's over. This is the game we are practicing in and with mindfulness, it is an everyday practice. And for me it did start with meditation. I really struggled with it my meditation in general, my mind's always, whatever ADHD and, just all over the place. So, again, a coach assigned me meditation to help me whatever. As I began to practice regularly, even five minutes a day, all of a sudden, I started to have a different association with what my thoughts were. Because now instead of believing them and getting caught up in every thought that was spinning out, I was able to catch it and say, interesting, that thought, interesting that thought, interesting that thought. So, by practicing being aware of what those thoughts were, I developed a deeper understanding of how much my thoughts were controlling what I was doing, because the thoughts had feelings, the feelings have actions. With mindfulness, now, I have a really great relationship with it. By no means am I mindful all the time, you can ask my husband. But what I do, what I am proud of, I guess is that the mindfulness that I have practiced and have cultivated allows me to really recognize what is happening. Am I getting caught up? Is the other person getting caught up? Is? Is there constriction in the flow of communication? So, a thing that I do is, when I'm mindful of it, let's say a constriction, two people are talking or there's frustration there. You feel it, I can feel it. I'm mindfully aware that I feel this, I'm sensing this. So, being mindful, I know that I'm just in this moment, I literally energetically expanded. I just choose because if I'm aware, to feel the constriction that I can be aware enough to say, then I expanded I let it go. So, this is this is what a practice that you can do with mindfulness is just catch where you are in the moment and it's the game changer in a lot of ways. Mindfulness and perspective are the three of the major keys to changing anybody's life for sure with mindfulness, though, it helps you to in the moment, be aware and shift whatever it is that you would naturally do and to something that you desire to do. So, this is where we can become better people is through mindfulness and saying, Ah, I feel this constriction, I'm going to expand it, I'm going to expand myself, I'm going to be more open to the conversation, I'm more curious, or whatever it is. So, mindfulness is really important. I do think that meditation is a very critical part of mindfulness, because it's the only time in our waking days where we can take that separation space and recognize thoughts is just thoughts. Other than that, we're usually caught up in our thoughts, and it's whatever.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 27:59
It goes back to your saying, we have power to choose. So, we have power to choose to meditate and take that time, consciously, to watch our thoughts and to get into that skillfulness of understanding our mind is not in control of our life, we can be in control of our mind, but a concept time. It's a powerful concept.
Hannah Willner 28:20
But it's practice. I just want to make sure everybody knows, this is not something that you achieve. It is something you practice every day. You are also a very mindful person. Can you give a little point on how mindfulness works in your life?
Tina Marie St. Cyr 28:39
Yes, I've done a lot of this practice and it is a daily practice daily, and sometimes multiple times daily practice, to remove myself from the circumstances or the conversations or the litany of what's going through the mind. And taking that very decisive discipline. I'm tuning out right now, for a period of 10 to 15 minutes and going into that meditative space. Whenever we start, it's not easy. I remember when I first started, I thought, okay, people must be better at this than me. I literally decided there's other things I'm missing, I convinced myself that I was missing some other aces in my hand that would get make this easier for me. So, I went down the path in my 20s of studying Buddhism. I must become a monk to make this happen, only monks can meditate. I also had the belief that have to take all animals out of my diet. So, I'm going to become a vegetarian and a vegan that that must be the secret weapon for people because monks are vegetarian, so damn, and I have to become vegetarian, too and then I even got to this place where I can't touch money because money must have some evil energy to it for this meditative thing I swear I just made my whole life complicated. I was trying to ace this Meditation thing and by the same token, I was creating so much more chaos in my thinking. So, it's fun to watch and look back on it. That's not who I am today. It has nothing to do with what we're eating, it has nothing to do with whether or not we're in a cave or on top of a mountain. In fact, I was able to train with someone who told me that meditation as he was taught as a young man in a Buddhist monastery, that they would send the young boys down into the town, and have them lay sideways on the sidewalk and go into a meditative state because the chaos was all around them and if they can control their mind and their thoughts in the intensity, of chaos, and, and horses, and motorcycles, and bicycles going by them and things of that nature, and people stepping over them and spitting on them and cursing at them. If when they reach that meditative state, then they are in control of their mind and what I realized is that I must find meditation in the chaos of life in the in the instability of life and the challenge of life, and not as an escape, but as a tool set to then come back to that seemingly chaos, because it's not chaos, unless we think it that way, and then have these greater perspectives exactly what we're talking about today, Hannah, and whenever I can have those greater perspectives, then it's no longer an obstacle, it's no longer a challenge. It's an opportunity. It's a possibility, it's a sense of wonder, its fascination, let's dive into this and have fun. Every moment can become an adventure, which I love, because that's what we help our clients with here at bonfire.
Hannah Willner 31:27
Do you love the adventure life? Tina Marie, I absolutely love it. We love it. This journey that we're on is practicing this continual, growth, that we have the ability to choose, right to choose to surround ourselves by people that lift us up, to hold perspectives that bring us joy. The ability to be intentional about making sure that we're addressing the things that we want to do or be whatever that is, I'm in a place where I really enjoy. I find excitement in the changes and then the new opportunities that come with life. haven't always been that way. Sometimes it's like, no, I want to be here, or I want to achieve that thing, or whatever it is. Now it's like, well, it's a lot more flowy, I would say,
Tina Marie St. Cyr 32:20
Do you ever have they should want to come in? I see them and I'm like, what are you doing? The should don't belong in this mind any longer.
Hannah Willner 32:28
Right, that's what we were talking about with perspective. We don't try and force it, we don't try and fight it, we don't should ourselves or other people. No shoulding on people.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 32:40
Going back to a text that we had, I wanted to put this because this is this sums up where you are in your life and what you contribute. I want people to know, she texted me in all caps. I love being a coach with four exclamation points. It's so awesome and it's the most effortless gift you've ever had and it takes skill to get where you are and congratulations on being that for other people and loving the profession that you found yourself. I know we have just a couple minutes, I wanted to also touch on the corporate training because you have found a new light and love and you have this amazing corporate background of project management and you've worked with so many different groups that you alluded to that living in San Diego and working on the other coast. So, that experience that you bring with so many different dynamics of corporate cultures and the dynamics of the project scope. Help us understand what enlivens you about corporate coaching and corporate training that you're bringing to the world.
Hannah Willner 33:38
This is hard and easy to answer. First off, that text is how I feel after every single session with every single client.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 33:50
99%, it is.
Hannah Willner 33:55
Remember I said earlier that I believed for a long time my mission in life is to help people achieve their potential. I am now in that space. So, working with individuals and having them all we do is we're reflective right we hold a container for them to expand into write this best version of themselves. So, that is like amazingly overflowing of just I love this. With corporate training, it combines my strength, my strength of presence, right and executive presence because I have been in a lot of board meetings, I have presented to a lot of people I have done some pretty hefty projects with some major things. I used to move hospitals. So, it was my job to be in charge of relocating major hospitals. Obviously, that comes with a lot of responsibility.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 34:51
By the way, there was a huge project.
Hannah Willner 34:54
So, in that experience, I gained this ability to connect on a more cerebral, powerful level with people where they have to hear me and respect me and understand what I'm communicating because it affects their lives, especially when you're moving the hospital, it affects lives. So, we're going to plan this, and I'm going to share that. So, now I get to take that connection and presents that I learned and train people how to align themselves inside, how to gain inner peace, how to communicate with each other more effectively, how to create energy and cohesion within teams. So, it's like taking the best parts of me. So, the coaching piece, I get to make people better, whatever that is and then the corporate side, which is I want to impart and help an organization flow into the next stage of their existence easier with being able to create in those corporations literally, from the top down this understanding and language that enriches people's lives, that literally changes from the top of the corporation, all the way down how people relate to each other, and treat each other and, and, and gain collective vision together. It's really powerful to be able to have kind of these three aspects, and especially on the corporate side, yeah. It's really fun, because you've got so many people in the room with so many personalities, dynamic expectations, and perspectives and dynamics. So, that to me, is the sparkle on top, if you could just add some fairy dust right on top. To me, the corporate training is the pinnacle of this gorgeous thing that we're able to help from a large scale down.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 36:49
So many people in a shorter amount of time, get this amazing, these breakthroughs and these advancements for themselves personally, which they take into their own lives, with their relationships and their families and then that imbues all the way through the corporate culture and then out into the corporation's influence into their clients and their community and it's definitely this game changer that we have had the vision toward, which is beautiful to watch.
Hannah Willner 37:17
It's also fun to see companies who desire this change. I would say, at least the United States, the generation that is coming up, and then then the generations a little bit below me have some different values than the generations above me have had and those values really have to do with seeing each other and respecting each other and having collective corporate giveback programmes, things like that. So, knowing that, as this generation, these generations move up into management, you see this shift in corporations about how they want to treat each other, not just as a company, but their internal and then their b2b. So, that's where I really see our corporate training, just, you know, catching the world on fire, because there is a need and a desire to have this incorporated into our work life as well and that's exactly what we do through corporate training. We teach you, as a manager as an executive, to communicate well to dissolve Trump problems, conflict easier to understand the other person's energy state and your own energy state. So, this is pervasive throughout your whole life. It starts at the company level, which touches a ton of people, but then it does filter into all areas of your life and that's a blessing.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 38:37
There you go. Thank you so much I could spend all day speaking with you, you've got so much to bring in, give and thank you so much for being an amazing soul on her own journey, pushing through and becoming that next level of yourself so that you can help your clients, the corporations, the individuals, the executives, and so any parting thoughts, we've covered the perspective, the mindfulness, the power that you have inside of yourself to create these amazing, fulfilling lives and the time is now to make that happen. Any parting thoughts on this beautiful discussion with Hannah Willner?
Hannah Willner 39:10
Yeah, I would love for everybody to recognize and really own your choice in life. We each have the ability to choose how we think, how we feel, and how we act and it is with intention and mindfulness and choosing the right perspective that affects how we think how we feel and how we act. So, you have the power to take control, using choice of those three things. highly encourage you to just keep that in mind every single day.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 39:42
Awesome. Thank you so much, Hannah.
Hannah Willner 39:44
Thank you, Tina Marie, I love being a part of the bonfire tribe. I love being a spark of flame inside this awesome not just Corporation company that we have but in the lives of all the people that we get to touch right it is a beautiful thing and I just want to throw this out there If you haven't experienced coaching through bonfire, we're different than other coaches. We approach everything differently and we approach it lit on fire. So, come to our website, come visit us come to any one of our numerous activities that we have. We are our hearts and arms are always open to receive more people who want to be lit on fire. So, be on fire, bonfire.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 40:23
That is the bonfire brand. So, find out more about Coach Hannah at the bonfire coaching website, you'll find coach Hannah there and she writes for our blog. She also produces amazing videos, and her content is very rich, very educational, very heartwarming and then also find her at Hannah willner.com. Also catch fire of what she's also producing in the world. She's got some amazing programmes with abundant executive and masterclasses that you're probably going to want to go subscribe to and gain for yourself, do not hesitate now simply go do it. Make a mental note and make it happen today. You've been listening to light your life. I'm your host Tina Marie ST's here. It's always a pleasure to be with you. We're always here in your corner and we have three different episodes. You can always listen to the Coach's Corner where we coach you here and help other people through that sparks of wisdom and today you've been listening to a fireside chat. Thank you so much for your time, Hannah. I know you've got beautiful things to do in the world today, as always, and it's just a grace and a delight to be with you. Thank you so much.
Hannah Willner 41:26
Thank you.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 41:29
That was so energizing, I have takeaways that will help my life and I'm sure you do too. To get show notes bonuses, gifts for you from our guests and more, head over to light your life podcast.com and be sure to bookmark this podcast is one of your favorites. I am Tina Marie St. Cyr, founder of Bonfire coaching and creator of the Bonfire method. Thank you so much for being connected. Now my homework for you, summon the courage to let your life a little more and go make progress on your dreams today.