Listen to Episode 47 of Out to Launch on Spotify or Apple. 

The “How I Left my Job” episodes are stories of people who have made the leap from employee to business owner. Listen to the entire podcast or read the highlights below.

The Potent Power of a Why

Chardee McEwan came to me with one goal in mind. Turning her side hustle into a full-time business because she wanted to leave her 9-5 and move from Australia to Canada to be with the love of her life.

Leslie remembers the first conversation with Chardee during their initial business call. Chardee said something like “I have this great side hustle and I need to completely replace my 9-5. I have 6 months to do it because I'm moving across the world.”

How it Began

Chardee McEwan is a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, shamanic healer, and coach. As she scrolled through social media one day, Leslie Levito miraculously popped up. The following and the rest is history.  

Chardee: I get a lot of clients who come to me and they need psychotherapy, they need some counseling in their lives. From there we can dive in and also really clear some of that energy as well. A lot of people are very open to energy work and there are still a few people who are very logical as well. You need both to heal. 

Leslie: You’re an incredibly rare individual that straddles this very spiritual world that has a lot to do with energy and past lives and a lot of really cool stuff that many people would consider woo woo, but also you're really grounded in more black and white things. Stuff people consider real.

Chardee was looking forward to growing her energy healing business in Melbourne, but the universe had different plans. She was open to someone new coming into her life during quarantine. Chardee happened to reconnect with a man from her past through the wheels of fate, and their union blossomed. 

There was just one catch... he lived on the other side of the world. Suddenly her "WHY" crystallized for her and took on a life of its own. She knew the trajectory of her life was going to shift and it needed to shift quickly.

When Chardee's WHY had been crystallized, she knew she needed to take new actions to leave her 9-5. This was the moment she needed to change her career. Reiki was her passion and she enjoyed helping people. She loved her side hustle. A question arose. Could she replace her current 9-5, and turn her side hustle into a full-time job?

Chardee’s logical side was telling her what was sensible and what was not. Coming from a corporate background she always treated her Reiki business as a side hustle. After all, energy work is not a traditional job. 

To move across the world and be with the man she was in love with, Chardee would need to grow this side hustle into a full-time job. This business would need to replace her full-time income.

Being in a place of OMG, what am I going to do? She stumbled across Jon Hillstead’s IG page one day and found Leslie Levito. They say when the student is ready, the teacher appears. 

Chardee enlisted in Leslie’s business coaching program, Out to Launch Academy (OTLA), and after 6 weeks in the program, Chardee submitted her letter of resignation. Without this program and Leslie, this would have been a pipe dream never fulfilled. She would not have had the courage to do this in a way that’s how it’s been, effortless.

[Goosebumps]

Leslie: Chardee had all the right ingredients. Sometimes people have all the right ingredients and great ideas. Usually, there is something missing that we need to fill in the gaps. When that missing ingredient is no longer missing, then everything just speeds up.

Thanks to all the valuable business coaching from OTLA, on Christmas day, Chardee left Melbourne and is now living in Canada. Living her dream happily in love with her partner. [I love a happy ending]

OTLA Builds the Structure and Bridge

Not only did Chardee replace her income, but she built her income. Chardee was having $5k months, which is not too shabby. Once Chardee did the OTLA spreadsheets and Leslie showed her the breakdown of the numbers and the projections for increasing her business's growth, Chardee could intentionally focus on reaching those numbers.

Chardee shifted from, oh if people come that’s great to: being strategically intentional with the business numbers. Once it clicked in for her using the Out To Launch structure, she doubled her income in just 6 months.

In the OTLA, Cutclass teaches fundamental building blocks that all businesses need. Cutclass is currently developing a new offering for coaches and course creators to help them build their niche business.  These layers are comprehensive and will help you achieve your goals as an entrepreneur, solopreneur, and business owner.

Leslie: Isn’t it amazing, Chardee, someone like you who loves numbers, you can see the data and a whole new world of possibilities open up?

If you are versed in spreadsheets and even find spreadsheets quite enjoyable, you have never seen an OTLA spreadsheet. Welcome to the mother of all spreadsheets.

Leslie: Don’t feel intimidated by your business numbers or by doing spreadsheets if it’s not your thing. I understand it was something never taught and it can seem so intimidating. In the OTL Academy, working with me, you will not only learn spreadsheets but do it with ease and dare I say, love it. 

Cutclass promises that if you are willing to try, you’ll have a breakthrough with math because we make it as easy as A,B, C and teach you in a way that works.

The Rebirth of her Business

Chardee says seeing the financial data was a light bulb moment. Once she could see the possibilities for her Reiki business, she knew it would change everything in her life. Chardee turned her side hustle into a full-time business and moved across the globe to be with the man she loved. OTLA not only helped her replace her 9-5 income but strategically and intentionally grow her income.

Leslie: In OTLA, a portion is pre-recorded so you have access to the academy forever. Chardee is doing OTLA for a second time to build another business with her partner. It’s about puzzle pieces, understanding those puzzle pieces, and making choices intentionally. Success is not an accident. Success is intentional. Business boils down to money and money boils down to numbers.

Coaches Need Coaches

Chardee is now coaching Leslie. Chardee has helped over 1,000 people in her energy spiritual business. Leslie did a session with Chardee that took her back into her childhood. She was able to heal a whole chunk of her trauma from back then and set that little Leslie free with so much love. Leslie talks about the hurt that little girl felt and how it affected her as an adult and healed the ripples that were still affecting her forty years later. 

Chardee: The moment we are born, we pick up on subliminal programming from our environment and soak it into our being. This becomes our foundation in life. These limiting beliefs we adopt come from our parents and environment, and they continue to bound themselves to our generational and ancestral lines. The world has become incredibly brutal through wars, hardships, and recessions. We all have this innate trauma through our generational lines; it’s in our cells, DNA, and environment. It’s in the way our parents treat us whether they want to or not. The programming is subconscious. We all have these limited programs, so if we think something is out of reach or we can’t have it, it will affect us. We will fervently believe in its ability to never be, and it becomes our energetic signature.

Through shamanic healing, hypnosis, and psychotherapy, Chardee can deep dive into the body and the trauma, clearing these limiting beliefs and programs. 

Chardee: Reprogramming takes the emotion and energy away from our memory. Energies, ancestral energies, and the limiting beliefs we gather in this life affect all areas of our lives, whether we are aware of it. Subconscious programming affects your relationships, and career, and results in success or lack thereof. Dissipating the areas around these limiting and subconscious beliefs will shift the energetic side of your identity and positively affect your business and who you are as a business owner. This is quantum physics. Once you realize someone has your back, your DNA changes, and your energetic signature changes. It no longer feels like you are being tossed back and forth by emotions. You are well on your way to happiness and success. When events happen to us in our childhood, we often think of them and process them with the understanding we have now, as adults, at this age now. As opposed to understanding a child who is hurt, scared, and lonely. We think it can’t possibly affect me, but it does. We can choose something else. We can actively choose differently and understand why we didn’t choose those things before. This is part of the beautiful landscape of soul healing. We are soul and spiritual beings. We have forgotten and become so busy being physically human. It’s important to connect back to ourselves. We need to connect and ground into that which allows more opportunities to come to us because we aren’t so busy being human.

Chardee can be found at Chardee Magic Woman, also on Instagram, TikTok, and her podcast, called Meditation Magic, for in-between meditation classes if you need a boost. 

About

If you'd like to hear the story of how Chardee reached her goals as an entrepreneur, moved to be with the love of her life across the world, and came to spiritually coach me, check out Episode 47 of my podcast Out To Launch. Every week (or so!) there is a new episode released to help people learn how to start a business, a new project, or start that new chapter in life. The Out to Launch podcast is brought to you by Cutclass, a company designed by and for those exhausted from the rat race, MBAs, ex-executives, subject matter experts, and creatives. We will help you transition into your dream of achieving full-time freedom and turning your passions into a rewarding, thriving business.

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Article by Leslie Levito with Stefanie Joseph