#9: Tina Marie Talks With Bonfire Master Coach Michelle Navarro
Tina Marie chats with Bonfire Lead Certified Coach, Michelle Navarro. She shares her loves of life, stories of clients she worked with, why she become a coach and moments that have become pivotal to her wanting this next level of life.
“I am a woman of great faith. I believe that life doesn't happen to me, but it happens for me."
Michelle Navarro is the founder and CEO of Michelle Navarro Insurance Agency established in 2011. Michelle entered the Insurance industry in 1999 through Farmers Insurance and maintained her tenure with Farmers until 2019. She started her own Agency with Farmers Insurance in 2011, then in 2019 decided to explore greater opportunities when she took her business model and experience and became an Independent Insurance Agent.
Her passion of helping people has led her to become certified as a Life Coach. Her vision of becoming a Life Coach began in 2016 when she attended a Tony Robbins Conference. Unleash the Power Within was the beginning of numerous personal development conferences that have empowered, educated, and equipped Michelle with the right mindset and ability to make a difference in the lives of others. She continues to develop herself by attending courses led by phenomenal inspirational leaders such as Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield, Marissa Peer and many others.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Hello and welcome. I'm your host, Tina Marie St. Sierra. And it's so great to be with you again for another episode of light your life and a conversation with a beautiful soul who has surmounted all the odds and risen to a life that she loves to live. And she's going to here be here to tell her story. I'm going to pull out some things that she's probably not even going to know. I'm going to ask. And of course we flow organically. It's going to be beautiful. So let me introduce Michelle Navarro. I want you to know why this person is very special to me. We have known each other for many years. It's felt and felt like lifetimes, because have you ever had that friend that you meet and you connect with and it's so right and you just go, Oh, I'm so glad this person is in my life.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
That's what Michelle is to me. And she's always a person that I can reach out to, even in my low moments, to help me with perspective and possibility and higher thinking, because we know we have a commitment to each other that the lower mind isn't ever going to rule our day. And she's a friend of mine that I can reach out to. And, and also she is a bonfire coach and she was one of the first people whenever I decided I wanted to have this Academy and the, for our coaching method, I knew in my heart and soul that Michelle was one of us. And we were going to have so many wonderful dances together, helping and serving so many people across the globe. And I could, I'm going to see a couple more things about you throughout the talk that we have today. So they know a fuller picture of everything you bring to the table and who you are, the depths of your soul. So, Michelle, thank you so much for being our guests here today.
Michelle Navarro:
Hi, I am so grateful and happy to be here and thank you for having me. I'm super excited.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
You're awesome. And so I'm going to touch on one of your core values, which is family. So Michelle is a mom. And so I'm going to give you a little chance to boast about your boys.
Michelle Navarro:
Well, I am a mom and I just think it's such, it's the greatest thing that I've ever done in my entire life. It has molded me in ways that I never even saw and it has challenged me in ways that you're thinking any other human being and because I love you so much. So yeah. My, you know, I'm just, so I think the greatest thing that I could do is be a mom. And you know, I, I, I say this you know, mom is the favorite word, my favorite word to hear if I hear mom and when it's comes from my kids, my heart just, it just fills with so much love and appreciation. But even when I hear it, like in the grocery store with other kids, I hear mom. I'm like, yes, they're like the proverbial. I'll be your mom. What I do. So, yeah, that's my favorite thing in the whole wide world is just being a mother. Yeah.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Yeah. And that nurturing spirit is so you, it's your identity through and through. And I love that and I I've watched you and your boys. And even with your beloved husband, Michael, I love, you know, just the relationship that you have. It's so nurturing. And so for other people and through bond for our coaching, that's what we are. We're, we're here to help other people without any judgment, without any criticisms, it's simply allowing people to develop in their own. Right. And holding that container for them to do so.
Michelle Navarro:
Absolutely. Thank you.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
In fact, what had you say yes to coaching? I remember that conversation. I called you, it was an evening and I I'd been seeding in. I'm like, ah, she's one of us. She needs to come and do this training and, and be part of us because I knew that you're going to help so many wonderful souls that we're going to only resonate with working with coach Michelle. And so take us to that place where you said yes to being a coach.
Michelle Navarro:
Yes. Well, thank you for asking. That's a good question. It really started back where you guys had a call to come see Tony Robbins. And I think it was 2015, 16 somewhere. And
Speaker 3:
Wow.
Michelle Navarro:
I thought, okay. I've heard of, Oh, so sorry. Okay. So I wanted to hear what the Tony Robbins buzz was all about. I was like, I'm super excited. I want to go, I want to see what this is. You know what this is about. I heard a little bit about it and I was like, you know, we'll see, you know, and then I got there and I was fully in and it totally changed my life. It changed my life in ways I never could have anticipated. And I thought, Holy cow, if this could happen for me, and to me, everybody needs a piece of this, whether it's Tony Robbins or someone else that can light that fire inside their soul to just bring out the best of who they can be. And I thought, I, I want to be a part of that. I need to be a part of that. So when you had that call to, you know, who wants to be a coach, I felt that fire inside of me and I held on, I held back that fire because I was like, eh, I just let me see what happens, you know? And that fire just kept screaming. Yes, yes. Inside of me. And so I remember that call when you called me that evening and you're like, Hey, we're going to launch this thing. And I know we put this information out and you know, you haven't responded. And I'm like, yeah.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Okay. And you tapped on something that sometimes we wait and we watch, you know, we, we can see, we can feel that soul's calling. We can feel that longing. And in that note, we have the knowing we know yet there's still a part of our humanist that says, you know what, hold on a second. I'm just going to wait and watch how it goes. I'm going to watch and see what happens for other people first. Right.
Michelle Navarro:
So true. I believe. Yeah. And I was gonna add is I believe that that's part of the human being, right? Where human being, where human doing, we just go through life connected to what we know from our past. And what's calling us as in our future. What's calling us is out here, but that's not familiar to us. So it's kind of like, eh, I'll just kind of wait and see. And so I think what coaching does for people, it allows us to help them focus on what's their calling. What's bringing them out. What is, what is over here and not back here for them, you know, what's, you know, the familiarity is what you've been, what's done, right. Let's move into, what's possible. Let's get into this beautiful thing. That's waiting for you. That's calling for you. And that's what happened to me. And that's what I want to do, you know, with coaching is to help people bring them into this thing.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Would you say that it's always going to be shaky knees and it's going to, you know, there's not going to be a time where people leap into that next unknown with a fervor, it's going to, it's going to feel scary.
Michelle Navarro:
Absolutely. I, everything I do is shaky knees and still have this lower mindset back here. That's telling me what, you've never done it before. Or, you know what, I, I have that voice, but because I know the other voice and I can hear that other voice, I do it with shaky knees. I, you know, like, okay, I, I, you know, my, my term is challenge accepted. Cause I figured, you know, the feeling of excitement and the feeling of anxiety kind of feel the same to the nervous system, right? So it's like, okay, challenge accepted. A lot of, most of the times that shaky means I just try it and I do it. And then I realized, wow, I just stepped up in another level. I just grew. And in another way that I didn't know was possible. And so that's what keeps me coming back. And, and even through coaching with clients, you feel like you were helping them. And in many ways, they're also helping you because you're growing. That's true. We
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Do. As coaches, we grow too. You tack on something that I learned in my twenties, early twenties that anxiety or fear and excitement are the same parallel. The only difference is breath. And so the anxiety or the fear state is without breath. And the excitement side is with breath. And the, the, the lady who taught me this, her name's Anne she did an analogy of riding a rollercoaster, which I love riding roller coasters. And you and I need to ride a roller coaster together. So are we going to, let's go to a park when this thing opens up, what am I going to go? So I was a crazy one in my family that would, I was addicted to the, the roller coaster. And I hated it whenever, they'd say you're too young or too short to get on one. I'm like, Oh, you know, higher tinny shoes to toes, get on it. And I was the person that my mother did not like this, that I would ride the rollercoaster with my hands up. Like I would just,
Michelle Navarro:
Yeah.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
And I'd be looking around at other people going, you guys aren't even experiencing this ride. They're like, you know, I could hear the tick tick, tick, tick, tick going up the ramp. Right? Yeah. I could see somebody I'm riding with like my best friend. And she is like white knuckling, that bar and her whole nervous system.
Michelle Navarro:
And I'm like, what a go,
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Come on. And, and I didn't let her influence me because I was like, while the band, and if I die on this, I die on this, but this is going to be great. Yeah. And the, you know, would you say that's the same between life as an analogy of the anxiety, fear state versus the excitement?
Michelle Navarro:
Absolutely. And I love how parallel we are because that's the same analogy that I use is, you know, fear and excitement feel exactly the same in the nervous system. And it's like riding that roller coaster, you know, when you're getting on that roller coaster, you've got all those butterfly feelings and you're like, I'm excited, you know? Yeah. And then same with, you know, walking on stage, just sitting before a bunch of people, you know, you get that, you know, and you, you label it as fear, but it's the same feeling. It's that I'm excited, but it could be, I'm scared. So it's what we tell our mind is what the body's going to behave with. Right. What, what it's going to react to. So if I tell my mind or my body, this is exciting, you know, no matter what the shaky knees and the butterflies and all of that stuff is going on on the inside, the sweaty palms and, you know, the flushed bays, all that stuff. That's part of those, all those emotions and how you choose to interpret it is what's going to get you to either propel or stay, you know, in, in yeah. Stock. Absolutely.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
I love it. You've helped so many of our wonderful clients here at bonfire and, you know, I think of a con a couple of, we won't mention names, however, there's been some have come. And they were in that fear state that anxiety that I don't know what my next steps are and not trusting themselves to take that next step, even though they knew that their soul was, you know, evoking them in some way, they were looking for a partner to help them find clarity. And is this really where I need to go and be so that they didn't feel like they were going to fail? Right. So if we were to think of some of the clients that you've worked with and, and help them realize their, their destiny and their dreams and their goals, and there's so many, like I could just see all the smiles and the high-fives and, Oh my God, I couldn't have done it without you. Who, who comes to mind and what challenges did they present with?
Michelle Navarro:
Yeah. You know, I've had, I feel like I I've been so blessed with such really amazing people. You know, clients come in with wanting to you know, get a job and, you know, they feel like all they've had is this. So they don't think that they can do this go to this level, but they, they want this level. And so we S we coach through the mindset to get them to this level so that they get that job. And they, you know, they, they get the, go through the interview and they get the job and they're like, Oh my God, I can't believe it. This is so exciting. And I got what I asked for, and I got the vacation time and I got all this stuff, and there were lower mindset was saying, you know, you could have never done that.
Michelle Navarro:
But the, the reality of once we get them past that, you know, terror barrier or that feeling of I can't and knowing who we are and what we're made of, and, and being bold enough to show that beautiful lessons of who we are on the inside and anything is possible. Right. And so having that to come into fruition for clients is so amazing. It's so fun to watch. It's so fun to see them evolve and, and step out of what they know to be the norm and do what is calling them to do. It's so fun. It's so exciting. And I love being a part of it.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Yes. And I, and I think I know exactly which client you're talking about,
Michelle Navarro:
Her,
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Another client that came, and it was a very interesting, it was like, I know what I want, very precise. I know what I want. I know why I want it. And I know when I want it, I just keep, she thought she was her own self Salvatore, you know, sh I just keep sabotaging this and I don't know how I'm sabotaging it, but I know what the destiny is. And I know what I want. I just need to get myself out of the way as you've worked with a lot of ladies in that regard. Yes.
Michelle Navarro:
Well, yes, yes. I had another amazing client, had everything lined up in her life. And I, you know, she had career in her finances and everything, and, you know, she was just looking to have the one partner that she can connect with. And so we were able to do some amazing work and she was so, you know, doing the work is the hard part. I can, I can help you realize things, but you have to be willing and open to do the work. And I think that's what the beautiful thing is. When people come to coaching, they're ready. They're ready. They're ready. They're like, I'm, I don't want to do that anymore. I'm and I'm ready and open. And so you know, once they come through that door, they're there ready to do the work and you see the results and they are so awesome.
Michelle Navarro:
And, and they get the results they want. And they're like, Oh my God. So yeah, I know which client you're talking about. And she had an, you did, she met the, she actually just got married through COVID and got the absolute, I mean, everything, she said, every check Mark off her list, he was that and so much more. And it's so beautiful. And, you know, for us, we, it was a zoo. We had to be on zoom, but for us to be a part of that, and to watch that go down, it was like, Ugh, our hearts were filled with so much joy and elation, just seeing our clients Excel in the level of, in life, the way they want, you know, that was awesome.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Yeah. It's interesting. The different things that, that come to the coaching table, you know, be it career a relationship in this case and financial, you know, overcoming financial uncertainty and debts, and then not believing in themselves to carry their worth. I remember, you know, one of your clients, clients, she didn't believe in her words, she was settling for a very less than position and making ends meet, but it was a struggle. And we're like, you are underselling yourself, Chica then w you know, health goals and the spiritual goals, you know, you help people with so many things to overcome and to go through and even, you know, having people understand that their relationships and the agreements that they've had with life don't need to be the new ones. That there's always more for us. Right. Cause that's what you represent. I love that in you, you represent that calling for more. Let's go see what's out there. Let's dance, right?
Michelle Navarro:
Why not? Yes. That's exciting. That's so fun. Just as what's behind door number two, or number three,
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Making a, what? You had a pretty fun life. I love, you know, every time we, we have a gathering, you, you surprise the heck out of me. But you're, you're so challenged. You, you challenged the norm, you challenged the rules. You're like, why not? Let's just go for it and see what happens. I love that wild abandon that you bring to the table. And of course you also have that settling, like, okay, let's make sure that things are, and you're paying into junior, your core values and your needs so that you're not risking. Right. There's a balance here.
Michelle Navarro:
Absolutely. Yes. There is a balance. And, you know, I think if we're not having fun in life, then you're, you're finding that things, you're getting stuck in the areas. Right. And so I, I tell, you know, my husband and my kids, if we're not, if it's so heavy that we're not having fun anymore, it's time to just drop it all and let's go do something, let's have fun, you know? And in COVID we had to be, it was challenging. Right? You can't just do the things that you were, which that you could do. And so, but we found ways to have fun. And that's my, I think that's my way of knowing when, when we're not laughing, we're not laughing every day and things are starting to get heavy. It's time to just shut it down and let's just reconnect and laugh together. And I think it's so important. Yeah.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
I love that. I just had a visual and it was that, you know, you said if we're not laughing every day, so, and this was awareness for myself pushing toward goals, wanting to achieve, wanting to have the check marks. It can feel like driving a car. You know, you love cars. I want to talk to you about the cars, but driving them, driving cars, a car down a freeway and night with your headlights off and just speeding. And you don't know what's ahead of you. And you're, you know, that you're risking, but you don't know how long it's going to take before you crash. Right. But that laughter every single day laughter in our life is like this reset. It's this it's like this touching of the soul that allows the, what we're doing on a day-to-day basis did not feel so arduous or risky or challenging or frustrating, right? Yeah.
Michelle Navarro:
Yes. It's shining that light, you know, it's, refiring that light and, you know, using your analogy of driving a car without the headlights on, you know, you will crash. And so laughing is just putting those headlights on and seeing where you're at, you know, where you're going. It just it's shining a light. And I think that's what we need. And so that's my secret. That's my secret
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Is that you laugh everyday things.
Michelle Navarro:
Well, I, I'm a silly girl. You know, I find my, I find ways to be silly. And of course my dogs, I'm a dog lover and they bring me so much joy. You know, they bring me unconditional love. You know, I usually I'll say it real lock your spouse and your dog up in the trunk for 30 minutes. Who's going to be happy to see you when you open it back up. Right. Your dog is going to be happy to see you. Right. So that's like conditional love. So you know, I find, I find, always find something that's parked joy in my heart, no matter what's going on around me, I try to find something that's part of joy and remind myself that we need to have laughter fun, excitement, joy. And you know, I listen to music, I dance, I will spontaneously do something. Well, if everybody's just chilling, I'll jump up and do something silly. And everybody gets like, Oh, what's going on? You know, even my dogs they'll jump up. Like what, what are we what's happening? So, you know, and that's just, you just never know what's going to happen in my house because I'm going to do something to just shift the energy, you know, change the atmosphere. And so you just never know what you're going to beat out of me.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
I love that. So I know I talked about your love of cars. Sure. You have probably out of all the humans I've ever known, including all the men in my life, you have probably the greatest passion for cars that I've ever met. So where did this develop? Where where'd you get this passion for, for cars and all the different types of cars, right?
Michelle Navarro:
Yes. Yes. So, you know, and I think about that and then, and it goes back to, you know, I was a young mother and connecting with my son, you know, I wanted to be in his world and he could lay on the floor with a truck or a little car and just for hours with, you know, just laying there. And I thought, wow, just to be in that world, just being lost in that is so beautiful. So I think that's where it came from, is to connect with my boys. And then I realized, Oh my God, this is fun. I love it. You know, so now it's funny, but even if they can't go, I'll go to the car show.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
There's one like every week or something like that, you have a, you have a ritual
Michelle Navarro:
Some local shows, you know, where people bring their classics and all that around town, you know, at the local autos, which is a little a burger joint around here. And then there's other stuff. And then there's coffee and cars, which is the first Saturday of every month, which is huge. Sometimes there's 5,000 cars there, either way. It's ridiculous. You just can't see it all. And it's so fun and it's lighting and you know, it's just, you know, passion, I I've flown to Colorado so I can drive a sports car through the mountains. And that was
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Which one did you drive? I
Michelle Navarro:
Drove the Lamborghini. Superleggera amazing. I have an half car NASCAR. Yeah, I you know, they put you in the holes to everything and then you slide in through the window, you know, you don't open the door. Yes. There's no staring well not. And then one, you know, you all scrapped, they said, flip this on and that's the engine you just literally right next to your head pedal to the metal Bay.
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
I love that you have the sense of adventure and this fun to yourself. And, and then the practicality of coaching as well, to help guide people through each step of where they are from where they are to where they'd love to be. And doing that on a pace that they absorb. It's not, it's never the pace that you would see for them. It's the pace that they, their nervous system allows so that they grow with their pace. Right?
Michelle Navarro:
Absolutely. Absolutely. And if you need a cheerleader, I'm your girl, you are, you are, and I know you have other
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
Contribution cause we know contributions is the highest human need. And whenever we are able to align ourselves into that way, it gives us so much fuel and energy for the becoming who we become in this world. You know, self-actualization ends with that greater awareness of contribution and there's a charity that's really close to your heart. Do you mind sharing about that charity?
Michelle Navarro:
Yeah, so there's several, but it's all stems into helping women of human trafficking. And so human trafficking has become a really it's not that it's become bigger. It's just, there's more awareness of it. It has been you know, something that's been happening kind of underground and now there's a lot more awareness, which I'm so grateful for. And so helping women that are trapped in human trafficking and, you know, helping them transition out of the life and into what's normal or basically their new normal, because they're not the life is never ever the same. And so I do volunteer work with that and also child advocates and you know, helping children that are abused and, you know, with COVID a lot of that has spiked because it's people are in doors now closed with their abuser in there.
Michelle Navarro:
There's no way, a lot of ways for them to be able to reach out to people. So that there's been a spike in that as well. So just awareness that that's happening and you know, help people to look for signs and what that looks like and what they can do to help people. You know, a lot of people don't know what to do and they're afraid because it's so scary, right? It's like everything. It's like, Oh, that can't be happening in my neighborhood, but it's happening even in the wealthiest of neighborhoods it's happening everywhere. So just awareness and prayer, you know, I tell people that don't want to be, that just don't want any hands on to it. I said, just pray about it. You know, if you feel something in your spirit about something and you just don't know how, how to get involved, prayer is the best way to you know, help the situation. So yeah, I'm, I'm a woman of great faith and I believe in prayer,
Tina Marie St.Cyr:
I do too. And thank you so much for sharing that, you know, we could talk all day. I love our connections and I'm so grateful that we had this conversation so people can get to know the amazing Michelle Navarro and what she believes in, what she stands for. And she believes in you. And so if you're looking for an amazing coach, just simply go to bonfire coaching, and you'll get to learn everything about Michelle and how you can participate with her in the events and the talks and things coming up that she also hosts. Thank you, Michelle. You are an amazing soul and I wish you all the best.
Michelle Navarro:
Love you. Thank you. All right.
