Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Ali Grace

Until March 31, I’m running the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

Ali Grace is the CEO of Guilt Free Goddess and Graceful Living Retreats. Ali’s transformative work as a coach, speaker and retreat facilitator shows women how to transform and realign their lives. Having survived cut-throat Corporate America, a major health crisis before the age of 30, devastating relationships, and financial crisis – a few times, Ali draws on her own exploration of spiritual psychology and her continual commitment to learning to inspire others to live peacefully and gracefully. Her lifestyle today bears little resemblance to her former six-figure, seven days a week sales career for a Fortune 500 company. Ali’s private coaching practice is dedicated to working with women and men in life transformation, co-dependent relationships, early life trauma and moving into life purpose.

As the first person in her family to graduate from college, Ali grew up adopting the belief that working hard equals success in life, and that it was achievable at a price. Her first job was at the age of 14 and she worked her way through college. Early in her career she climbed to a position as a sales manager for a Fortune 500 company responsible for a $1billion sales goal. Travel around the world, high income, and working seven days a week became the norm for her and was simply the cost of success. At age 28, she had a mild stroke and took time off work for the first time in her life. But that was still not enough to make her stop. Listen to the interview to learn:

• How she went from the proverbial corporate fat into the corporate fire (and why a new career only made things worse)
• Why we often think doing things the safe way will guarantee success, love and happiness (and why it often doesn’t)
• How being skeptical and “mainstream” kept her focused as she began the profound spiritual journey that changed her life
• What her Masters advisor told her about her “Triple A” high achiever work ethic and how her thesis experience turned into her new business

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