207. Let Your Ambition Fly with Monique Allen

Ambition isn’t a dirty word. It’s not about greed or want – it’s about richness. It’s about wanting to understand. Today’s guest, Monique Allen, couples ambition with curiosity. She is not looking for a recipe or a blueprint for how to find success – she’s someone who looks at convention and asks, is there more? Monique is the Founder and Creative Director of The Garden Continuum. She uses her knowledge as a lifelong gardener, business developer, and educator to bridge the gap between landscaping and business building. She launched her coaching career with the Life-Scape Method, a strategy developed to guide people toward improving their land, lives, and professional satisfaction. Monique couples ambition with curiosity. Yes, she wants to grow achieve financial security and success, but she’s also hungry for expansion and knowledge. The benefit of seeking ambition through curiosity is that when you’re able to bring out the best experience, you can shift that satisfaction to the people you serve.  I use abundance and ambition almost interchangeably. When I talk about abundance, it’s knowing there isn’t just one way to do something. We get myopia, and we home in on that one thing because it’s what everyone else is doing. Monique says when we ask, “Is there more?” It's asking if you can access something that's deeper or richer. It’s an abundance of satisfaction, an abundance of health, an abundance of connection, an abundance of resilience. It’s taking all of these “softer terms” that are about being able to have access through awareness and that abundance and ambition through curiosity. It’s also about recognizing we have an abundance of options. We're here to live a life of freedom and joy. But Monique notes that people aren’t really taught how to make choices through abundance; we’re taught through a binary: This is right. This is wrong. She finds in her practice, people will stall out, and abundance seems to be a hurdle rising from people’s pasts.  It’s scarcity that’s built into the binary. If we think there is only one right way to do it, people spin out, trying to find that path. Scarcity is fear that you’re going to get it wrong.  That’s a myth. You can’t get it wrong. Everything you’re attempting is adding to who you are, and it’s adding to your experience. When we face the fear of “too much” it’s really just the flip side of “not enough.”  What we have to do – as entrepreneurs and as people – is right in front of us right now. What we have is what feels the most congruent in that moment – and anything else we'll add on later once we get it down. One of Sarah’s first coaches was a concert pianist. She would sit down and play a two-hour piece. She told Sarah she worked on a measure at a time. One measure is four counts. She would work on that one piece until it became a part of her, and she could add another.  Monique says when we think about entrepreneurship, people think of the get-rich-quick schemes. But we build our skills as an entrepreneur one measure at a time, one sale at a time, one contract at a time. Connect with Monique Allen: https://www.thelifescapecoach.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monique.allen/ Stop Landscaping, Start Life Scaping: https://shop.thelifescapecoach.com/ Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: Permission to Succeed is NOT required! https://sarahwalton.com/permission-to-succeed/  Stop Shiny Ball Syndrome https://sarahwalton.com/shiny-ball/  You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton   Thank you so much for listening. I'm so honored that you're here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking "Write a review."Then, we'll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.)  #Ambition #EntrepreneurialAmbition #PersonalGrowth #Curiosity #BusinessTips #Entrepreneurship #AskExpert #WomenInBusiness #SalesCoach #IntuitiveBusinessCoach