She's a Bombshell ft. Susie Mitchell
I am so so excited i'm feeling super blessed today because we have the beautiful Susie Mitchell joining us susie welcome hello so excited i cannot wait for everyone to hear from you susie for those of you that don't know is part of our gorgeous bombshells family her official title is director of training and development but really i just like to think of her as our absolute mama bear she is such a pillar of strength and pillar of inspiration for all of our bombshell babes and all of our bombshells family and i know that everyone is going to be so so excited to hear from you sues and hear about your 30 years plus of experience in personal development in coaching and in the social selling field there's so much for us to dive into i think what people don't get to hear too often from you and i'd love to start there is you have had such a colorful career and i'd love us to go back to the start i'd love us to you know kind of fill everyone in because i know the story but i know a lot of people don't on being a single mama really trying to get your foot in the door with your career really trying to find your path and what kept you so motivated to work so hard can you take us that back to that period and really walk us through that of course i can and first of all i'm delighted and honored to be on here because you say i have a different role within bb but now i'm in the spotlight and it's a little bit and it's good for people to know who are behind the scenes i agree with yourself you know and everybody has a back story everybody has a back story the challenges the good times everything and i think you're absolutely right as a single mom that was probably one of my challenging moments you know before that obviously i was a nurse um i had fun i was a single person and everything and then got married and had a lovely baby boy who a lot of people know and having that single mom becoming a single mum when your marriage breaks down is not an easy time it really felt very alone and my parents lived in italy so i had no help in the uk so i was on my own living in the north of england and it's very hard when you know your marriage is over and you've got this little being that you are responsible for and i had to put him into nursery from a very young age because i had to go back to work and i think one of the biggest things that it taught me was resilience at a very young age as a mother you know because we are responsible being but you have to dig deep with all that challenging time i went through and i didn't have any help until he was about four four and a half so it you really you know i never went out i had to drop him off at nursery i went to work i picked him up for three and a half years i had no social life and that's tough not having friends i lived in the north of england i didn't have anybody because i was from the south and it was a tough tough time so if it really was it really was but it it taught me some life lessons and that's what we have to learn resilience is one of them you know i mean going before that i was luckily i had that strength in me because i was sent away to boarding school at a young age of nine i grew up in malaysia and my parents lived there and before italy like i mentioned earlier and when you're sent away to boarding school at the age of nine again that teaches you something that keeps with you that you it's you've got to do things on your own and i only saw my parents twice a year for the next nine years so that's hard and then when i became a mama and especially a single mom i knew that the bond that you have with your children is amazing but you've got to realize it's your life your path and you've got to dig deep yeah wow i didn't know all of that story and that's just so powerful i think it's so easy when you look at successful people such as yourself and you just kind of see the tip of the iceberg like we all just see the icing on the cake of you of this successful business woman with all this experience and working alongside tony robbins and just just so so successful in your career such an incredible parent as well and and it's really interesting when you dig deep and you kind of go back a little bit and it's like actually you had all the excuses in the world to not give it everything and to really lean into that and allow being a single parent to become an excuse but in instead you really chose to allow it to motivate you and it's an absolute credit to you and to simon as well who of course everyone knows so i love that let's fast forward a little bit and you ended up in the social selling field you actually were an ambassador yourself you were very successful franchisee and then you worked in corporate and there's just so much in there but i'd love to hear from you what are some of your biggest lessons that you feel you learn from that time period that can really add value to those vapes that are listening yeah like you mentioned earlier i do work alongside people like tony robbins which i'm very blessed to be an elite trainer for him and and that goes back almost 30 years as well um i got into that arena before i became a mum and basically what i learned in that arena tony teaches a lot of lessons about financial security and always having savings pot the spending pot a fun pot you know and we learned a lot of financial lessons which as a young girl if you like i didn't really understand money and understand that and a great mentor of mine i met in that arena and she introduced me to the world of network marketing social selling and she um she got me into the business if you like and the reason why i approached it social selling was going back to what i've just said the financial ways that tony robbins had taught us was to have a variety of income streams you know so you can have a traditional job but what happens if you lose your job what happens you know and i was a single mom and i knew that um i had to start having different income streams and i think that was the first thing that hooked me into social selling was and i had started my own coaching consultancy which i don't know a couple of years i've had by that stage and um i knew that i could have no clients so i had to start something and luckily social selling world opened up and i started doing it very part-time and only did it for seven years in the field and loved it but it was it literally i think one of my biggest strengths is work ethic i knew that if i was going to be successful in social selling as well as my own corporate consultancy i had had to work hard i had only literally two hours a day to work on the social selling and it's the same with mamas who've got kids you've got to find time in between that to do it and i just worked my little socks off and you know i had that expression shake your booty and i learned very on one of the expressions if it's to be it's up to me and that is one of my mantras that i have to take self-responsibility for everything that i do and i literally just put one foot in front of the other and built to the top of that company you know in social selling and what i loved about that before i went into the corporate world and i'll give you my take on that in a minute was that the income stream that i created there obviously was good money but when after i left it i was able to buy three houses with the money that i'd made over a 10 11 year period but now i get a rental income from so social selling and the income stream doesn't just give you a second instrument it gives you opportunities for life into the future and i think whatever age we are whether in our early 20s 30s 40s whatever we've got to start thinking about financial longevity and how we can do the savings pot as well as having fun along the way with spending so i did that for seven years and i was asked to go onto the corporate side of social selling and that opened up a whole new world for me where i got the absolute privilege of working with hundreds of teens hundreds of teams so i learned the psychology of people even more even though by trade i'm a psychologist um but it taught me how teams interact it taught me how you've got to build the best team the joyous team the fun team the community and everything to really support people and yet that didn't always happen at the company i was out for lots of different reasons and i left there after three years on the corporate side and jumped back into my corporate consultancy and then obviously along comes the star in the south world that you put a proposition to me which i love um but i'm a bit of a variety junkie i love um you know doing different things and so when you asked me to come and do some of the leadership side of it and i went absolutely if that's you know what better way to work with my son and work with you Soph who i knew by that stage anyway from Bali and our old company et cetera et cetera yeah love it there's so much in there i want to dig a little bit deeper because i think it's really useful and there's so much wisdom in the fact that you were in the field for 11 years and you were able to then go and buy three houses that's incredible and i see leaders all too often and in honesty i've been in that position myself where you're a young leader and this is your first experience making real money and there's definitely a lot of that going on in bombshells you know we've got a lot of base learning big five figure checks very early on what would be your advice to to those girls because you clearly nailed it yourself and you were able to you know go and buy three properties that's absolutely incredible what would you what did you do during that period that just kept you focused does that make sense does that kind of yeah yeah yeah it does i think um some of the qualities first i think you really have to work on not nobody comes into any job be it the world of social selling with 100 skills in all areas nobody does nobody does but one thing that we all believe in this company certainly is getting this mindset right you know growing ourselves to be the best person before we're the best leader first and that means practicing your skills you know you've got to be willing and committed to wanting to make this business a success and that means if you have to listen to podcasts to get more confident if you have to read books to get more inspiration or learning about leadership you've got to do it you've got to be willing to do and grow your skill sets and i think what on the financial to go back to the financial side you know there's only so many clothes so many handbags all that so many things that you've got and you must have treats when you um reach certain promotions and things you should have little treats yourself and so many of the mummers who i work for say well i don't know what to treat myself when they get to the big promotions they just want to do it for their family and i say okay if you've got everything you want start saving it's so important to have you know different buckets is one you spend bucket one your savings one your holiday but really for the future because it sadly and i think i do say sadly most people live in the now lots of people don't think about the future and that's why um visioning your success is so important about you know one of the biggest things and gifts i think i got myself you know and i constantly strive to be a student of life every single day still at my age is to literally do a visualization exercise regularly every month where do i see myself in one year two years five years really get that embodied into your business if i work hard if i'm committed if i'm going to do what it takes i'm going to use this business as the best vehicle because it's definitely fun and you know the community that you guys have built is next to none and you raise people up and they have a voice and everything but you have to really really take self-responsibility for your life it's your life nobody else is going to live it do you know nobody is going to live it you have to say right i want my even if you've got a partner and he or she might be successful you've got to own your own money make your own money save for the future and then you can pay off a mortgage you can buy a house you can literally have savings and this is why i was blessed to find some financial arenas early on i it really helps you to feel secure it gives you that security which most human beings need i love it and i think it's such a beautiful direction for for this podcast to go in because it's such a great lesson that i think young women women of all ages need to hear that you have to have your own financial security you don't know what the future holds and no one ever thinks they're going to get divorced no one ever thinks that their relationship's going to fall apart or financial hardship is going to strike them but if you've got that security then you're just you're just in such a bad spot and it is just there's so much wisdom in there i love it so much but just before you move on you have to know i have been there with no money yeah no money when my marriage broke up i couldn't even get a bottle of milk you know i had no money and when you have no money and so many people who will hear this have been in that situation i'm not unique you have to start getting savvy with it you have to think right even if i earn 500 pounds a month put 100 pounds away build up a little kitty because it actually teaches you the life lessons to save so you're not stressed ever when bill time comes or when you're paying rent or mortgage get those savvy lessons business lessons and life lessons as early as you can yeah and i think as well it's so beautiful to hear you be so honest about that because we always put people on a pedestal and we never think that people have been through difficulties and yet it's so it's so important to understand that everyone has a story and everyone has a journey and actually people have been through things that you can't even imagine but if you put them on a pedestal and you think that their whole life has been perfect it kind of allows you to make excuses as to why you don't go and create success and you've got to move into a space and like you said earlier if it is to be it's up to me you know i i have to do this for myself let's talk a little bit about leadership now within bombshells you work with all our beautiful leaders they are so so blessed to have you and it's something that i absolutely love that as a company we're able to offer because it's something that when i've been in the field previously i've really needed and it's been such a big gap for me and i think it's it's so special that our leaders have access to you and get to have that beautiful relationship with you you have as you said worked with hundreds and hundreds of leaders so you must see patterns you must see characteristics in people that you think makes a good leader what would you say some of those are great questions though great question so firstly i think there's two things you've got to be willing and you've got to be committed to work hard you know whether you've just started the business or been in the business for five months because obviously we're still in pre-launch you know everything goes up and down you don't want a flat line like this in the business because if we have a flat line we could be out of it you know life the heartbeat of ourselves is up and down and the heartbeat of a business is up and down so you need to have the qualities i think that the best so far willingness and a commitment to actually stay focused stay in your lane you know we hear often things like a comparison game how some people just come into this business and explode never play the comparison game but my suggestion is i've got a different take on it my suggestion is it should drive you it should absolutely inspire you to say you know what even though that's their lane and i'm going to stay in my lane i'm going to shake my booty and i'm going to get to work and be even more focused and deep even more action points each and every day so that's one chunk the other one is i think take absolute self responsibility for everything you do own it don't put play the blame game own it you know i listen to leaders i work with the leaders and some of them say oh my team are coming on the phone to me saying oh they're blaming this or they're blaming the company or they're blaming the pro you know never play the play game take self-responsibility fully 150 own it that would be the second thing i would absolutely say and the third thing would be you've just gotta play out play full out play fallout have fun join the team get on team calls get on your podcast get on your tuesday night calls with sign get on mine live it's not about us it's about we help people to have that inspiration to kick start it for that particular day and we all have moods we all have emotions that play ups and downs sometimes so sometimes you need the podcast or the podcast needs you we've heard that expression but i hope those little fine distinctions help massively and i think there's so much that we talk about when we talk about leadership and what makes a good leader and some of it can almost feel a little bit repetitive it's like when we talk in the industry about consistency and things like that and they almost become these buzz phrases that like start to feel a little bit boring but it's because it's the truth and i think everyone wants this secret recipe as to what does it make to be a good leader and actually it is the most simple characteristics in the world as you talk about and i think having that willingness to show up for yourself and having that willingness to commit to your business and lead your team from the front is absolutely crucial i like to think that at bombshells we do things a little bit differently and i know you're probably slightly biased given that it's me and your beautiful son but i would love to hear your take on it you know you have been in the industry as an ambassador you have been incorporated you have been around so many different companies over um you know over a real period of time and i'd love to hear your take on what you think makes bombshells different well first of all i have to say bombshells is different is different i've not just worked at one other company i'm very blessed in the past i've worked with lots of other social selling and direct sales companies they ask me because of the level of coach that i am they asked me to come and inspire and motivate their team and i have as you exactly said i look at patterns and they have got so many things that we have not got you know you guys have created a platform where i think number one is the what i call the pink community i love pink and it is the community it is the community that gives people a place to grow a place to thrive a place to absolutely be their authentic self again another call i've had with a leader this week said you know as soon as i started becoming me on my socials and showing up with my word ology my fun my passion my energy suddenly she recruited loads more people because we must stop being somebody else we must be real and people you'll find your tribe you'll find people who are attracted to that so i think what you set up is that community you allow people to have that voice you know and i think there is an energy about bb that is so different so different and energy means passion fun all the things there's a sub heading but it is definitely i feel and i feel i'm the as you said the mama bear and i'm one of the oldest person in bb but i don't feel it you know no i'm i'm swept away with the energy and the fun and everything and i think as well as the products are absolutely gorgeous i take all the products use all the products and i love them and you know i'm not saying i'm my age but i think my skin shows up and it looks better i could go on and be beautiful i could go on and on yeah and i think that's it isn't it whenever whenever i ask anyone that question it is always i could go on and on but i love hearing your take on it because you are so personally connected to it but i think energy is spot on that's certainly what we strive for we certainly strive to have that energy of giving women a place to belong and a community and every decision we make comes from that space and i think you can't fake that that has to be genuine if you try and fake that it doesn't work let's flip it back to you and i'm just going to ask you a real like here we go question what is your greatest achievement this is an interesting one um i believe my greatest achievement because you have to again look in the mirror i think it's i still choose to be a student of life i still choose to listen to podcasts read books learn grow myself because if i'm working alongside you guys i want to be the best i can be every single working day and personal day of my life you know a lot of mothers would say their son and i i absolutely adore how psy works with you and who he's become but he he takes self-responsibility for that he's become his greatest achievement you know i'm proud to be his mum i'm proud to be his mum but my grade student is i never ever ever ever until i go six foot under gonna say i know it all i'm still learning a different angle a different way how to be a people to help people grow and that i have to be the first one that looks in the mirror and say i need to keep growing and that's probably my greatest achievement and that that has to be the reason that you are still so successful and still striving and still making so many waves within your own career because i think the minute you think you know it all or the minute you think you're done and it doesn't matter if you're 19 or 99 the minute you think that you're above it and you don't need to learn anymore is you know it's it's never a great space to get to so i love that it's so sick i mean it isn't you bring wisdom and experience with age i mean i've got to do a a radio show later would you believe yeah um i was privileged to be asked and i said how do i need to prep and the guy who said you don't need to prep because you have all the skill sets inside of you and he's right you know with age comes wisdom and experience so i know i can turn up on because i've done i'm again i'm blessed to have been on bbc radio lots of other radio giving my ways i will show up so but i still want to prep and i still want to deliver the best information that i can you and i know we never know when one thing might be the pivoting thing that somebody gets in their mind and that they go stratospheric you know so i'm just always be a student always listen and learn respect other people's opinion and just keeping being you always be a student and you're so grateful i just love it so much we are coming towards the end which i'm devastated about because i could honestly just listen to you all day you have so much to give and so much to share and i think when you speak everyone listens and there's a reason for that so thank you so much for all of the value that you've given us so far what would be your final perl of wisdom i know a lot of people listen to the podcast because they are on the edge of kind of jumping in on the edge of giving it their all maybe there's a bit of self-doubt maybe questioning what their future career looks like and just generally not playing full out what would you say to those people who are just kind of dipping their toe into their careers to life what would your advice be to those people that is a really really it's a deep question so if you think about it i think goes back to what i said earlier you have to and if you're listening to this podcast for the first time today do this exercise today close your eyes and i want you to visualize where you believe you will see yourself in two three years time in your mind's eye it's i want you to be there i want you to think about and breathe in all the success the financial success the material success the relationships that you're going to have all those kind of things and i want you to get it that if you don't work now you will live your life with regret because guess what so time goes so quick so quick that you know we're five months in and i remember us talking about it this time last year time is just going fast especially if you get older you know and i think don't live your life with regret absolutely decide today that you are going to step into your greatness to become the best person that you want to be not just for your family but for you so that you can stand there loud and proud in any virtual arena in person event and you can be proud of what you've absolutely worked hard to achieve so that would be it don't live with regret i love it i i literally it makes me emotional listening to you because i just i'm so in awe of the journey that you've been on and everything that you've shared with us i'm so so grateful for your time i'm so grateful for your wisdom and i'm just so grateful that you have such a massive heart and you are such an integral part of our bombshells family and we are just so so blessed to have you so thank you so so much suze not as much as i think that i love being with the younger generation and you guys obviously simon's my son but you are dear you know you're like my adopted daughter and we all play together i like the three s's so from soon and we've got a great bb hq team behind who i work with and you obviously do and they are they are so there to help each and every one of the wonderful bombshell babes you know have the success so you're building an amazing company so if i'm blessed to be part of it and you know here's to an incredible future but it's it's up to everybody to go and grab it i love it thank you so so much seuss there is so much love in the air tonight thank you bye my darling
2021-03-08 18:58
