Creating Success In Challenging Times - Interview with Cornelia Shipley Bearyman - Journeypreneur Podcast Ep. 143

Victoria: Hey everyone, it’s Sensei Victoria Whitfield here, your journey partner in business, welcoming you back to episode 143 of the Journeypreneur Podcast. This is your source for channeled holistic stress management techniques, guidance, inspiration and motivation to stay on your path to rapid financial ascension and massive impact as a conscious entrepreneur.

So, in this podcast episode, I have the honor of getting to share with you someone who has been in my life for years and years, who keeps me smiling, who is a truth teller. She is full of wisdom. She's a published author, executive development strategist, is the CEO, award winning film producer and a wife to author. Well, we love you. Will was your watching and listening. And she is my friend Cornelia Shipley.

Welcome to the podcast.

Cornelia: Thank you for having me, Miss Victoria. It's good to be here. It's good to see you. It's been a couple of years since I've gotten a chance to see you in person when we get uncovid-ed hopefully we can get that fixed. So, it's good to see you.

Victoria: Absolutely. As I miss our hugs and spending time together, all that energy well in person is always off the charts. And everyone you can find Cornelia at 3Cconsulting.com, that's the number three, the letter C as in “cat” consulting dotcom. So, Cornelia, I love you. You love me. We're good. Right? And this may be the very first time that someone is seeing you or hearing about you.

And I was wondering if you could, in your own words, share what it is, exactly what you do, but especially what are the three things that you're known for. Could you tell us?

Cornelia: Sure. So, I'm a firm obviously called 3C Consulting. We specialize in the retention and advancement of mission critical talent. So, we work in large organizations helping them think through their succession planning processes, their development processes, their diversity and inclusion processes, which is you can imagine recording this less than a week since the Wisconsin incident that there's a lot going on and prior Jacobs family, obviously.

And so the three things I think I'm known for, especially in terms of the work I do with entrepreneurs and the work I do with people, one on one is one that I live a life that I've designed to that that if you're looking for someone who is going to help you get unstuck quickly and understand how your thinking is impacting your inability to act, that I'm a person that gets that phone call. And then if you're really ready to move quickly and are ready to have to have that very quick turnaround moment of saying how did I get here and get ready to move beyond that, I'm the person that that entrepreneurs would call.

Victoria: I can vouch for that. My gut is when I talk to you, you're like, oh, no, you need to do this. And then how it's like rocket fuel. I love it and I love you just the way you are. Oh, my goodness. And this gets me curious, though, because you are so powerful at what you do, right? You literally wrote the book Design Your Life, by the way, everyone available on Amazon, go check it out and you live it.

You practice what you preach. And I'm curious, like, what inspired you to start this business, to start your firm in the first place? Like, is there a story or something you realize?

Cornelia: Yeah. So, the story goes the design your life piece of the story goes back to two thousand and three. And the business part of it started in 06. So, in 2003, I was a graduate student living in Australia at the time. And if anyone has traveled to that region of the world, you know that they have that whole kind of no worries attitude. And if you remember, in 03, we were in the middle of one of our Iraq wars. And so, it was interesting living abroad as an American in that time and seeing news abroad, news at that time and seeing really how other people live.

And it was it was really striking to me how I thought I had a good life in America. And then I went to Australia and was like, oh, there's more I didn't realize. I did not know.

And so, because I was studying strategic planning in my MBA program, I really wanted to write a book about how people could strategically. And for their life, instead of planning for their business, I came back, I graduated, started working, and like most people, life happened to me. And so, in 2006, I was in the right job, in the right location. That was the job that was going to set me up for the big job. Right. And for those people who are corporate refugees or retirees or whatever, you remember those days.

And so, for me, in the middle of that job, I had two things happen. Within about six months, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and my father had a stroke and my father had a stroke on June the 5th, two thousand and six, and went to bed.

He didn't he didn't know. He didn't feel well. And then he woke up the next morning, got medical treatment, and by the end of the 6th of June, he was paralyzed on one side of his body. And so, at that point, I was living fifteen hundred miles away from my family and I'm an only child. So that wasn't going to work with a mom with breast cancer and a dad who couldn't move half of his body.

It was time for me to go. So, I quit my job. I had great support from the organization I work for at the time and that happened in June. I left the company on Halloween was my last day of work and it was October thirty first two thousand and six. And I started working with our first corporate client, November 14th of two thousand six.

And so, I was able to really navigate caring for my parents and growing a business at the same time.

Let's talk about it!

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