Thank you Fabienne for encouraging so many others to follow your path. By watching you I have faith that I can also build my own business and create a great income for my husband and I. I will see you in Atlanta on July 14th! Happy 4th of July! Here is to being independent!!

Wonderful pretty lady Fabienne! Thank you for sharing!

I love making my own decisions and being able to create a schedule that allows me time with my kids!

Fabienne and Derek, I am proud, immensely proud, to call myself an
entrepreneur too. It is true, investing in you guys has allowed my team
to grow our business at warp speeds over the last few months (we’ve
recouped our investment back since MYM in Atlanta — woo hoo). However,
that is NOT why WE had that “magic moment” in Stamford that you often
refer to when we’re in each others space Fabienne. The reason OUR magic
moment happened was because like you, I needed to let ME love ME at
unearthly levels and I wasn’t able to do it by my lonesome. In TOTAL
transparency, your community (from CABS students, to MYM goers, to
mini-tour attendees) has changed the way I look at life, love, and the
pursuit of happiness — which is what the July 4th is ALL about. So, as
we part ways until I see your team’s smiling faces again in Stamford on
July 11th, I just wanted to publicly praise you and Derek for being TRUE
innovators for change, as well as say “Thank you, thank you, thank you”
for making my life, dreams, and relationships mean more today than they
ever have in my 37 years on planet Earth — thanks for being awesome…. thanks for being you! 🙂

Thank you, Fabienne and Derek, for being champions for entrepreneurs – your unflagging encouragement (not to mention awesome strategies and tools) have changed SO many lives for the better, including mine. Thank you for your courage, your persistence, your authenticity, and your love.

So beautiful and eloquent as are you!!!…I came from a family of entrepreneurs and when I was babysitting at 13, I announced that someday I would have my own company. I never gave up on that dream. I enjoy the freedom of being my own boss, creating the rules and making a difference in my community.

Nothing is more important than freedom. It allows for the fullest expression of the individual and a deeply fulfilling life. Thank you Fabienne for making freedom to work how we want, where we want, and with whom we want a reality for this community by your leadership, example and teachings. Let those who drink the water honor those who dug the well.

Thank you so much for sharing these amazing inspiring words with us. You’ve brought so much to my life in an incredibly short period of time. Because of you, I’ve given myself permission…to enjoy time with my son, love myself to a higher level (as John G said my clients need to do, I do as well), give myself a break but most importantly to not only dream bigger, but to turn those dreams into reality, which is changing and will continue to change the lives of millions of single moms. You’ll allowed me to walk in my purpose, unapologetically, and to keep believing and knowing I’m here for a much, much bigger purpose. Faith not fear! Thank you for being exactly who you are, but it inspires us all to be authentically ourselves, which is the best gift of all!

Fabienne, thank you so much for sharing. I declared my independence 3 years ago and started my own business after having been laid off 3 times in 6 years. I was so tired of being treated as an expendable position instead of a person. Walking away from the corporate world and having my own business was the best decision I ever made for myself and my family.
Happy Independence Day indeed!

xo,
Angela Price
http://www.edencondensed.com

P.S. I am so looking forward to meeting you at the Mindset Retreat in September!

Thank you for inspiring and personal letter.

I’m just looking for their own way, in which you can honestly give something of value. I love to watch and listen as you say. (soon you start to understand;-) It gives me strength to follow this course-because it is worth. Still using the google translator. How good it is! Greetings from Polish.

I love this!! I was thinking about freedom today. It’s interesting to me because I never really belonged to corporate. I have worked a few odd jobs here and there all connected to customer service and sales but I couldn’t stay much longer than 6 months. I got bored, I felt stifled. I have always been an entrepreneur at heart but I didn’t realize it until I was with a guy that was passionately pursuing a dream of being a dancer. He inspired me with his NO MATTER WHAT approach. He didn’t care what people think. He’d live a life that was unstable in pursuit of the ultimate desire. He got me thinking about what else I wanted to do with life because getting married and having children was not happening. He gave me inspiration to find something to live for outside of creating a family. Being an entrepreneur means I am receiving based on what I am giving. I gain freedom to fully be myself and LIVE. I started my business as something to do, I continued to pursue my business for someone I wanted to BE™ (lol- you can quote me on that) I want to change the world and REALLY shift the paradigm of how we look at it. <3 🙂

What an inspiring letter! I was forced to get out on my own after a restructuring of the way my employer did business. At first I wasn’t sure what I would do. The job market in 2010 was challenging — searching for work while recovering from my first breast cancer diagnosis and treatment was even more challenging. Out of necessity I started freelancing and found what I love best to do! I adore the freedom of owning my own business – from the flexibility of choosing my own hours to choosing my clients. Thank you, Fabienne!

Fabienne, thank you for your words of inspiration! I too felt my corporate job was mindless and shallow. We all had to behave and dress a certain way…we couldn’t be our authentic selves! The FREEDOM I felt when I left was exhilarating! I love my freedom, to be who I truly am and to be able help others love themselves and live their dreams! Its all love and happiness! with gratitude and love, Brenda

thanks Fabienne! you’re a true inspiration to us all!

Freedom is the opportunity to change the circumstances of your life through your own effort, to force the hand of history rather than to remain forever enslaved by it. Now is the time for all good men to come to. Men of good will are inclined to take freedom for granted. They believe that freedom, like the sun, will rise every morning. History has proved that it can be blacked out for decades. Tom Paine said: “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” I have been blessed with meeting many people who exemplified their quest for freedom from the man who taught me how to play chess, Bernie Lustig, who fled his native Austria when the Nazis invaded, came to Stamford not speaking a word of English, becoming head of research for Clairol, to Jackie Robinson who lectured us at Murphy Elementary and gave us 2 thing to remember; 1) Don’t complain, Branch Rickey wrote that into all of his Major League contracts and 2) There is no discrimination against excellence. It did not matter what our race, ethnic origin, religion or anything else, To Dr. Edward Rozek, my major professor at the University of Colorado. Dr. Rozek fled his native Poland when the Nazis invaded, joined the Free Polish 1st Armored, captured in the defense of Paris,m thrown into a slave labor camp, escaped to England, fought in the Normandy invasion and joined up with General George Patton. After being blinded by an anti tank mine, he recovered his sight and left for the US to enter Harvard. Working his way through Harvard on a dairy farm and gas station, he earned a BA, MA and PhD. He went on to teach comparative governments at the University of Colorado for 40 years, becoming a world renown expert on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. While under his mentoring, he produced many papers and ideas to bring down the Iron Curtain without firing a shot. After Reagan was elected to the presidency, Rozek was selected to be on Reagan’s transition team. His mission was to develop a plan to bring down the Soviet Union. The free world woke up on November 9, 1989 to see the falling of the Berlin Wall, and the symbolic fall of the Iron Curtain.

Thank you for this post. Grateful it landed in my inbox and that I opened and read it. Words of inspiration to me, still in my corporate job as a pharmacist, creating my pipeline to freedom, falling down on my own dream sometimes. Encouragment like this keeps my dream of having a thriving Health Coaching practise alive.
To freedom to be who we want to be! Namaste.

Fabienne, now I’m wiping the tears off of my cheeks. You write eloquently and truthfully of this journey called entrepreneurship. So glad to have known you on this journey for over a decade now. To MORE love, more joy, more creativity! 🙂

Due to the recession, like so many other countless of people, I was forced to retire approximately 3 years ago. I was employed as a professional legal secretary for 20 years at one of the top corporate law firms in the nation and have been unable to land a job ever since. I don’t collect unemployment since it ended for me and am surviving on child support and God’s grace. Having read your letter is inspiring but I am lost. I am 50 now and although I look quite young, my work experience of over 20 years doesn’t seem to impress the corporate world. I wish I knew how to pick myself back up again. I congratulate you on your success.

Your regular comment app/co. is not working, so I’ll write you here.
Good 4 U!, every eye in America should B tearing today..especially
those of the communistUSA group from the beltway to Wall St. & those
all in between, trying to take this nation down. But to start morning
their own demise. They are on self destruct now & love seeing it. I
think & pray 4 all of us from now to the founding of our country,
that grew this to God & country. I spent a lot of time in the Navy,
became Mental Health Dr. in their. First step to self directing. If I failed a test, U don’t get college make-up exams. U get hurt very bad
or die! I knew it before I went in and wanted practical stuff, not
stolen college material. See collage lets us doers think it up,
test/perfect/etc. then they write the books about what you
did/do/invented & and sell it, the college courses, to those that go
their-and pass it off as their ideas! Small outline here. Today I mourn
the 3 of us Vietnam vets from Stamford that fought in combat there.
[yes I live in Stamford]. We all fought in North Vietnam. A lot more I
cannot say, I had my 1st. security clearance @ 16 yrs. old, my 1st TV
appearance @ 13, 1st. radio show @ 14yrs. I 2 tried corp. work. Had
great boss/mentors who all told me I should be on my own, not confined
by corporate life. I did & and in the same place where the MDs
brought me in 37 yrs. ago [Mike Pavia’s building, where he is, in
Springdale]. [I’m a PsD], Dr.-behavioral medicine. I did very well,
well, known, Who’s Who many years, and top 200 in their world ranking of
important people. My own radio shows, cable show, frequent guest, etc.,
etc., My marketing WAS good. NOT now! Newspapers are dead, so is phone
book, most all print media, radio stations sold/community closed down,
even the cable show, most highly rated show on Cablevision [hope the
Dolan Bros. huge NYC party doesn’t get rained out today], I was a
frequent guest, & their mental health expert, WSTC , WNLK, WICC
radio as well. [this is where you come in]. I got it, or had it. None of
it works now. Low patient count. People want to go on Med. Our area has
an average wait time of approx. a month 2 C a psychiatrist 4 a 10 min.
visit 4 a prescription. I’m not doing as much, not as young, healthy,
got ill and lost lot of weight, limp now from a dropped foot, referrals
are few. Hospital & some MDs still call asking if I’m working or
retired, have people to send, but they never come!. I’m a good closer
too. taught that, boiler room phone talk/close/train 4 a bit-regional
manager 4 Montgomery Ward. Never afraid to ask 4 referrals or speak up.
I’m a terror @ public speaking. Love it,even bring my own wireless mike
& engage the audience, & never made/take/read from notes @ my
lectures. Throw anything you want at me. We never even chose a topic for
the shows. Always phone-in shows. Better be able to produce-on he spot,
the callers demand it, and I never allowed a call-screners..
Nominated/elected lecturing member of New York Academy of Science. Now
I’m slow, daughter grown, divorced many years. She is in Bethel, comes
by on occasion, so I’m here alone, too inactive, think, pray, worry too
much, and really upset that for the 1st time in my life I can’t solve
this slow problem, and understand why so much has changed as to why
clients don’t come in. Should be the opposite, with all the fear,
stress, anxiety, etc. out there. I fix others fine, 4 37 yrs. Most say
out of all the Drs I’ve seen, none ever helped me like Dr. Penachio,
& that includes phone sessions throughout the USA. All my marketing
is down the drain, need today’s stuff I guess. For a long time did not
need more, lived on my bold rep. And you are correct in us 2% ers are a
very rare breed. Only know a few good thinkers. You should here Don
Trump talk about this, he’s one. He came otta digging in trenches with
other labors. See we THINK. We use our brains,not like most. Yes there
is none like us. We are a rare breed. Remember that in now the top 9
companies began with high-school & college dropouts! They are
consulted by the bigtime CEOs, etc. Most are our neighbors as you know,
he commuters to the city each day. Don’t want to go there-too many white
collar criminals, new money here, sorry 3rd generation Stamfordite. so
I’m stuck, but I got the track record and guts Now I just stay local,
hate to travel, long story, corp. work fly all the time, been around the
world about 3 times, older too…we need to talk/ work….tnx, God
bless, Dr. P. hypnosisICT.com, 203-327-3160…later.

Has my post been deleted and it was all good ? !!

Fabienne, thank you so much for sharing, and sending you so much love back. Yours and Derek’s generosity are so inspiring! The community you have created for us brave entrepreneurs is giving me the support and discipline to finally DO what I’ve been saying I want to do, SHARE my gifts with so many more than I have been, and LOVE without inhibition. Sending a huge hug this holiday weekend! Looking forward to seeing you again–soon, in Chicago! xoxo

Your letter inspired me on many levels, as you so eloquently described the entrepreneurial life. I particularly like this line: “It’s for people with a big heart, a big vision and for those who want to make a difference and who are willing to do whatever it takes.”

I have been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years, a choice I made for two reasons: 1) To bring my visionary skills and gifts to the world and honor my authenticity. 2) To “be there” for my children as a single mother, working the flexible hours I needed to be a full presence in their lives.

And now I find myself “risking it all” again to pursue “a calling” that came to me in the middle of the night: http://www.supportmatters.com/the-bravest-thing-ive-ever-done.

This time I would like a team of like-minded, heart-centered others behind me, for this is the biggest leap of my life. Your letter reminded me to celebrate the courage and passion of this dream. Thank you. Blessings, Gail

Thank you for sharing from the depths of your heart Fabienne, balanced within such a professional framework. I honor all your sentiment. Very inspiring & healing to read. I walked away from the so called security of my 2nd job after doing your Client Attraction Challenge earlier this year. Making peace with my being ‘different’ has been a key ingredient in taking my gifts & calling more sincerely which turns out to have a positive effect in serving the good & grace of my clients & and making a positive ‘difference’ in their lives. I am an entrepreneur at heart (even if unpolished as yet) whether I have the consolidation of skills in place or not, which means when I am failing (not responding effectively to inhibited flow) or deluding myself into thinking I need to buy back into the old industrial/corporate employee model, something within & around me does not let me go backwards. It’s grow in the new way or die! It’s feel the fear & break through anyway! It’s evolution! Because of the positive feedback from clients I couldn’t turn away from this service if I tried. It’s always evolving & I am always learning new empowering ways to grow & serve my clients to do the same. What an amazing wonderful journey.