Are you an ambitious woman feeling stuck in your career? Do you find yourself overwhelmed, underappreciated, and yearning for more? You're not alone.
Many women in high-pressure careers are desperately seeking Freedom. They're not getting promoted, feeling undervalued, and struggling with confidence. The constant grind is affecting their health, energy levels, and overall quality of life. If this sounds familiar, you're in the right place.
In this week's episode of Billable Hour Burnout, I dive deep into my coaching program for high-achieving women, Freedom, designed specifically for women like you who are ready to reclaim their lives and careers.
Introducing FREEDOM: My Coaching Program For High-Achieving Women
The FREEDOM program is my signature six-month private coaching program designed to help ambitious women break free from burnout and rediscover their passion for life and work. Below is a quick snapshot of what makes this program so valuable:
A proven 5-step methodology
Personalized assessments
Sequential program structure
Perfect cadence between sessions
Continuous support
Monthly checkpoints
"Intentional Integration Periods"
Post-graduation buffer
Guaranteed growth
Lifelong skills
The reason behind each of these is included in the live recording!
Is Freedom The Right Coaching Program for You?
Freedom is perfect for women who:
Feel stuck and know they deserve more
Are ready to invest in themselves and make real changes
Want to become a better version of themselves
Are tired of trying to figure everything out on their own
This coaching program not for those who:
Expect overnight fixes for long-standing issues
Are waiting for their company to solve their problems
Believe they can't have it all
Take the First Step
Every day that passes is an opportunity to improve your life and career. Don't wait for your "worst-case scenario" to manifest. If you're ready to transform your life, book a 1-hour consultation with me. We'll discuss your current challenges, determine if you're a good fit for the coaching program, and get you started on your journey to Freedom.
Remember, this isn't just about surviving your career – it's about thriving in every aspect of your life. You deserve freedom, and it's within your reach. Let's make it happen together.
Ready to take the leap? Visit acheloawellness.com or click this link to book your consultation. Your future self will thank you.
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What You’ll Learn From This Episode:
The signs that indicate you might be in need of a major life and career shift
An inside look at the Freedom program and its unique features
The top 10 reasons why Freedom has been a game-changer for so many women
How to know if you're ready for coaching and if Freedom is right for you
Watch The Full Episode:
Full Episode Transcript:
Hey, everybody. It's another Billable hour burnout. Hello, hello and welcome. How's everybody doing today? I hope you're doing great. It is September 19. It is a beautiful fall day where I am, and I hope it is for you. But let's get into it today because we've got a good one right here, right now.
Here's what I know to be true. There are women out there who are on the hunt for freedom. They're not getting promoted at work. They're not getting recognized. They're feeling a lack of confidence. Maybe they're feeling, like, unhealthy, not strong in their body. They're feeling low energy. They're not making time to exercise because they don't have time to exercise. They're not using their time efficiently. They're taking counterproductive breaks like scrolling on Facebook or Instagram or maybe just running out to drive for a soda versus going for a walk. Maybe you're overthinking. Oh, this woman even believes that she can't even get out of the situation she's in now. That's for some of you. But maybe the circumstances are true. But you're out there today because you know that you deserve more. You know that you deserve freedom. And today I'm going to tell you all about it.
I'm going to take you behind the scenes of my program, freedom. I'm answering all your frequently asked questions, and I'm giving you a peek of what it's like to work with me. But first, welcome to the show. This is billable hour burnout. If you need some helpful tactical advice that actually helps you have the career of your dreams without the stress of the overwhelm, you're in the right place. If you're looking to experience more work life balance, more confidence, more ease, and you're ready to make it all happen without having to quit your job or burn down your life, this is the show for you.
My name is Lauren Baptiste, your big four auditor and regulatory tax compliant consultant turned life coach. And you're listening to billable hour burnout. On the show, I'm sharing modern, simple tips, tactical strategies specifically catered to women in accounting, consulting and law. You ready? Let's do this.
All right, everybody, I wanna give you a little update. I always give you an update. A lot's going on. I hear that it's September energy. There's just a lot of change. Change in season, change in things at work, right. That September work hustle is in full effect. I start my, what I call my fall tour, my fall speaking tour. Next week I'll be in Nashville and then I'll be making my way to Napa, New York City, some virtual, but I'm starting my speaking tour for the fall and I'm excited to get it going until Thanksgiving. I will be giving you even next week's episode is going to be a behind the scenes of the conference I'm going to be at and to tell you what I learned from being at that conference and how to manage your stress and overwhelm while you're doing all the things. But let's talk about that next week.
Right now, I want to tell you about a client success story from my client, Kristen, who is a vice president wealth management advisor. She said coaching helped me make a mindset shift that I didn't think I could have made on my own. Lauren helped me believe in myself and provided a framework to prioritize my actions. The mindset and belief work, though, were the biggest shifts for me.
Now, I know you. I know that you've been thinking about what you want, what you need for yourself. There are so many women out there who are like, I know that it needs to get better, and I'm here to deliver it to you on a silver platter. My program, freedom, is a six month program and it is something I've been doing with my clients. This program has been going on for years. The success I've seen in clients has been happening for a really long time, and my guess is for you, being in the profession so long, the stressors are showing up. They're getting in the way of you enjoying life. And I want to talk to you about this solution because it works.
I often don't go into all of the details of it, but I was like, you know what? Let me create a space and talk about it with you today. So the program, freedom, is for someone who's feeling like they can't get a minute to breathe. You're dealing with colleagues who are micromanaging or territorial and creating excess work and stress for you. You're feeling like you're not fully fulfilled at work because most of your day is doing administrative tasks that keep piling up, and the things that you actually enjoy doing keep getting pushed on the back burner. Maybe feel like you're not getting the opportunities that you deserve, the title, the promotion, the money that you deserve even after nearly killing yourself for decades of work. You're thinking about when maybe in your spare time, you're thinking about building your resume. You're talking to others about getting a new job, you need freedom. If you're scrolling on social media, if you're feeling like you're wanderlusting about vacations, a better job and a better life, this is why you need freedom. You need to cultivate it within yourself. And that's what the program is meant to do.
This program has been simply made and powerfully effective for burned out women in the profession. I talk to women and to. I know I am always talking about women in accounting, law, consulting. I've worked with women in finance. I've worked with women in real estate. I've worked with women who are really. The commonality is that they're feeling stuck after being so professional earlier in their days, and they feel like they're hitting a plateau. They either want more success and they're not hitting it because of something getting in the way, or they are successful, but they're not enjoying it. So this is who is good for my program. It's this woman who's feeling stuck, who's not feeling herself, who feels like there's better out there and is ready for something better. She's not trying to figure it out on her own. She's ready to have the tools, the techniques, the mind shift set shift, the methodology to get you there.
So let me tell you about freedom and the process. In the program, I focus on developing three core skills within you, burnout, recovery, and prevention. First and foremost. Cause you're coming to me likely burned out. So we need to get you out of burnout, and we need to make sure it doesn't happen again. I focus on mindset and resilience, being able to enter any situation that comes your way and being able to handle it. And the third is rebuilding confidence. When you continue to work your way up the ladder, your confidence naturally dips. You're entering new environments, new roles, new situations that you're nothing prepare for. But what happens is, over time, too, when we feel like maybe I don't deserve to be in the room, maybe I'm not working hard enough, I'm always behind. Our confidence drops. So when we work on these core skills of burnout, recovery, mindset, rebuilding confidence, it all starts to click.
Now, here's what it looks like. The program is succinct. Like I mentioned earlier, it's simple. It's made for the woman who's feeling stressed and burned out. Because I get how one more thing can be one more thing. But this is where it's very easy. We start with assessment tools. This is the only homework you have throughout the program. But then you meet with me and we start and we kick off with a 90 minutes call. We meet twice a month. That's pretty much every other week for 60 minutes. And then you have access to me on an app called signal to ask me anything, anytime. Now, this is the program. It is so simple and so effective. But today I thought it'd be really fun to share ten reasons why I'm in love with this program and why I think you'll be, too.
Number one, I've talked about this before, but I have a five step methodology for ongoing success. The five steps are energy, strategy, clarity, harmony, mastery. These five steps are what get you from where you are today, feeling stuck, not feeling yourself, feeling like you want to open up a Starbucks or. Or a local cafe. And it gets you to actualizing the success in the career that you really want for yourself. We see a shift from I don't feel healthy to I feel like, or I've lost 50 pounds. I feel the strongest I've ever been, and I have a routine and a plan that feels really good. Right. You can see the shift from I am a, for the first time ever, getting a low review. I'm an underperformer. Them becoming an over performer or somebody who knocks it out of the park and gets the bonuses and the accolades that they deserve, right? This is what can happen in six months. So my five step methodology, number one, is not saying it's the top reason, but it's one of my top ten reasons of why I love freedom.
So when you're in the program, you learn the five steps that I talked you through to be successful, to create what I call that ongoing success, mastery. That fifth step is all about learning everything that you've embodied. The tools, the tips, the mindset shifts, right? This is what you're learning. This is what you have. And you use this five step process over and over and over again until you get what you want. And honestly, people get it the first time. But let's say years down the road, you're in a new situation. You can still use this five step method on your own. And that's what I teach. This is not just teaching you something for a period of time. This is a process that you have for life.
Number two, what I love about the program, freedom, is the assessments. The assessments are three worksheets, three handouts. They're virtual, but they're. You can complete them online. But honestly, so many of my clients, they come to the first call and they're like, wow, I already got my values worth just by doing these assessment tools. And then you still have six months of coaching with me. In the coaching tools, you learn about yourself. You learn about how you currently are showing up in the world. You learn about your goals. You go deep into what it is that you want and why it drives you. You have a whole plan and a framework before we even kick off.
Then, number three, we go into the program. And what I love about the program is that it builds sequentially. You have the assessments, we kick start the program, and in that 1st 90 minutes call, we go through everything. I identify any gaps, we bridge those gaps, and we set the plan for the six months ahead. We know exactly what we're aiming for, we know exactly what we're striving to do, and we do it. So after that 90 minutes call, then we get into our bi monthly sessions. The initial sessions are help building the skill sets that you need to be most successful, to recover from burnout, to build that resilient mindset, and to rebuild the confidence. And then the sessions that follow, we move at your pace based on what you're looking for, based on what's happening in your life. That's the best part about this one on one coaching program. We're not waiting for others to have the same experience of you, or we're not waiting for others to catch up while you're trying to move ahead, or the group is moving ahead of you and you need more time. We are moving at your pace, giving you exactly what you need and making sure you hit all the success along the way. And then the program wraps up with graduation. So as this program builds sequentially, it wraps up with what I call graduation. This is where at the end, not only are you hitting that harmony, clarity, strategy, energy, but now you are mastering it. You know exactly what you need to do. You know how you need to move forward, and you execute. You continue to execute. From day one, we execute, and day. Well, month six, you continue to execute. And what I love with the program is that it supports you throughout each step of the way with a framework.
Okay, number four, it's the perfect cadence. Freedom meets twice a month. What this means, right, is that you're getting consistency without overwhelm. Now, I've done a lot of programs like this in the past. I know how weekly can feel. Have you ever even done, let's say, like, I play volleyball weekly? Do you do something weekly that it can feel like too much? When we have a lot going on, I know when we're stressed out, the answer isn't more. The antidote to more complexity at work or life that's unrelenting is less. And so in less, we accomplish more. When we have our sessions, we go deep. We're able to fully commit. We're able to accomplish what you're looking for. It is the perfect cadence to give you consistency and empowerment with enough time to digest and implement, to experiment, to evaluate. It is the perfect cadence, and that's why I love this program so, so, so much.
Okay, number five, ask my coach. I use an app called signal to help you through it all. This is different than other programs I've seen. There are some programs where maybe someone, if you send an email, they'll respond. One. Maybe somebody will check in with you here and there. I'm here through it all, in the container. You have me. You have me on the ready, right? Even when I'm across the world, you have me. I use this app called signal. It keeps things encrypted. So when we're talking about business mergers or hard bosses or challenging situations at home, our app is safe. If I lose my phone, it's safe. If you lose your phone, your info is safe. And what I love about signal is that it helps provide accountability, direction, clarity, and support. You can truly ask me anything, and that's what's so great about the program, because you're not waiting for the next session to say, hey, I'm thinking about this. What do you think? No, no, no. We're moving through all the time. So you keep running for that six months, and you don't stop. And I say this in the best way because think of me as the wind under your sails. I'm the one encouraging you, guiding you. And for you, it's just such an easy run to take off. All right. Signal is there for you anytime, anyway, all the time, 24/7 you could send messages. I sleep, but you get responses very quickly, so I love signal, and my clients do, too.
Number six. What I love about my coaching program, freedom, is the monthly checkpoints. When you're in the program, you get emailed every month, checkpoints of how things are going. This is important because sometimes if we're people pleasing or if we're just kind of like getting lost in the day to day, we forget to check in and evaluate. This is an intentional, short, but sweet way to say, how are things going? How's my stress? How's the program working for me? What else am I looking for? And that way, you make sure that you graduate, getting everything you want. It's a simple way. Like, this is not work. This is like, this is support. And that's why when I create this, everything is quick and easy. Everything is like, this takes a minute. You do this and you hit a win. You try this and you start to feel better. It's all about quick hits, quick wins. And I love that about the monthly check inside because we get to evaluate and keep building and growing. So love that. Number six are the most monthly check ins.
Number seven, six month program. Number six was that. Number seven. Intentional integration periods. This is so important, being able to not just be a good student, but to really see am I learning. I hear from a lot of my type A clients, well, I can be really good at this because I'm a good student. But like, how do I know this is going to work for me on the other side? I create that in the program. You have periods to implement, experiment and check in with yourself. It's an opportunity to check in with what you learned up to that point in the program and have a supportive framework throughout. So you get to gauge where you're at in the process to mastery. You don't have to just wait till the end of the program to be like, oh, no, I. What's happening? Right? You know where you're at throughout the program all of the time. So you never have to feel like you have to figure it out on your own. Because it's like, I have the training wheels and then I momentarily take them off and we're like, all right, were you able to ride your bike or what do we need to work on? And so I love these intentional integration, period. They're such a wonderful time for you to just check in with yourself. And they're an amazing opportunity to have that, like, future self. Where am I? Period. So those I love so much, those happen a couple of times a year. So those are fun challenges that all of my clients go through together. And we get to experience the shift, the shift of what we're learning, how we're growing, and how we're winning throughout the process. Amazing. Number seven, love my intentional integration periods.
Okay. Number eight of why I love my program, freedom. There is a buffer after graduation. So you're like, wait, what? So how it works is we have our bi monthly sessions, but the way it falls on the calendar is that there's always space after our final session for you to have that final integration. It's like thinking about, you know, if you ever were to go skydiving. It's like you have the little extra parachutes, that safety parachute that, like, protects you as well. So you always have that buffer. You always have that extra little parachute to make sure that when you first make that leap that feels really courageous and bold, and you're like, oh, the program. I've graduated. It's over. You still have support. So there's a period of time after you graduate from your final session that you have support on. Signal the at and you can ask anything and make sure that you are fully ready to fly on your own. So I love the buffer after. It's a really fun, sweet place to be. It's like a playground of, okay, now I get to, like, live it. I get to be it. And my clients always soar in this part of the program.
Number nine, speaking of graduation, see, there was a process here as I went from beginning to end. Clients always graduate better than when they started. So much better. They come to me feeling stressed out, burned out, behind. They come to me feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and ready to throw in the towel. Clients graduate significantly better than what they started. So this leads into number ten, how much better? Like, guaranteed better. My clients always make progress in stress management, time management, confidence, health and work life balance. They thrive. My clients come and have a clearer mind. My clients are better decision makers. They are more productive. They're more confident at work. And when they meet with their new clients, with their teams, they're also more confident when they come home asking for what they need. They're able to find balance at work and at life. They're able to reduce the symptoms or the instances of overthinking and rumination. How much time do we get stuck in? Like, I think I talked about last week, like, the idea of needing to buy a new dishwasher. They just make the decision. They get it done.
When you graduate from my program, you realize that you can ten x your fun and not need to ten x your responsibilities and to still have that synergy. Or you can even ten x your fun and ten x your work responsibilities and still have success in life. It's not one or the other. My clients are experiencing more fun. They're feeling more relaxed and restored. They have a much more vibrant social life. They go on date nights with their partner. They have stronger connections with their family and their friends and their spouse. They're so much more present. They're able to, if they want to leave their job, they leave their job. If they want to stay at their job, they start making strides in their job. They find a role where they're so much more grateful. They're more appreciative. They exercise more, they enjoy the fruits of their hard work. They appreciate the small things, they cultivate the belief that I'm amazing, I'm worth it, I'm confident. Anything that comes my way, I can handle it. And y'all, this is just the beginning. This is what happens when my clients graduate. And this is what happens when you join my program, freedom.
Now, what I want to do right now is dive in and mention that every single day that goes by is an opportunity that you can improve on your chances of fulfilling, having a fulfilling career and a life that feels vibrant and exciting and nourishing. But waiting on this skill is waiting on mastering the skill that this creates. It means waiting on that promotion, waiting on having Saturday mornings with a coffee and a blanket and not thinking about email. It means having a girl's night or a date night and not getting held back because of an RFP that's going out. When we wait on developing the skill, it means that we're waiting on the results that this skill creates. So if you're ready, now is the time to embody these strategies for your best chance to support yourself as you go through Q four of this year and really hit it in 2025.
So today I'm inviting you to dive into freedom to join me. I'm inviting you to a 1 hour consultation where you and I discuss the issues you're currently facing, whether you're a good fit for the program and you get to decide if coaching is right for you. Now I'll tell you right now, you can find out without even going on a consult. If you're ready, here's how you know you're committed to making changes in your life. You've been stuck for a while and you feel like living that way isn't serving you anymore. You want to become a better version of yourself, and you're ready to make the investment of time, energy and money to end that hustle and start having everything you want. If those resonate, you're ready. If those resonate, know that working together, you and I can be unstoppable.
Coaching isn't for somebody who thinks that I'm going to have to figure it out on my own, or someone who continues to kick or punt their success. It's not for someone who believes that they can't have it all right? If they're like, this is just too much, I can't do it right. This isn't for someone who is relying on their company to save them. They're not waiting for a company stipend or their company to pay for coaching. They're ready to take action. Now, this coaching is not for someone who believes decades of undoing can be fixed overnight. Now, it could be done quickly, but overnight is unrealistic, because often, when it comes to getting the support we need, we're thinking all of the time about, like, how is this going to work? Will this work for me?
But I'm telling you, when you get started, what we want to be really mindful of is not just, is this going to work for me, or what the cost is, or all of those types of thoughts that might hold us back, but I want you to really be thinking about your worst case scenario right now. You might be living it, or close to living it. For me personally. When I burned out, I was in a hospital, that was my worst case scenario. I don't want that for any of you. I wouldn't want you feeling like you're on the verge of a complete meltdown, or that your heart's going to stop beating or that you're going to drive yourself off the cliff. Cliff. I was literally talking to a client within the last hour, and she was talking about how one of her colleagues who was successful at a big four accounting firm, who had then transitioned to an in house role, had committed suicide. This is why we're doing this work. Do not wait for your worst case scenario to manifest.
The women that work with me know that I'm living it right now. This is my worst case, and I'm ready for something better. This is why I've designed my program, freedom to help the hardest working women, type a women, ambitious women, have the career they love without the hustle, because it's really the only way, the only real way to be successful. So in order to get there, all you have to do is develop the five skills I talked about in my methodology. And these are broken down simply, and they meet you exactly where they at, where you're at. These steps are energy, strategy, clarity, harmony, and mastery. Now, you learn this process using my provit format, but the speed in which we move is 100% catered to you. We go at your pace. And I do this by meeting you exactly where you're at. Through the process, you learn so much about yourself, about your thought patterns, about your understanding of why you've been feeling stuck for these last few months, or maybe even years. And we find a clear path for you. Getting ahead, leveling up, finding your purpose and fulfillment, and starting to love your life. Again, it's possible.
Now, my program, freedom I mentioned, it's six months long, but the information that you get from it, the learnings that you receive, benefit you for the rest of your life. As part of the program, we meet twice every month to give you the space and time to digest and integrate the work in your daily life. So in order to do this, in order to make these big waves in your life, in order to say me now, finally, I'm putting myself first. Let's go. You just have to book a consult. It's so easy. You can sign up by going to any of my profiles and you can pull from the main page. There'll be a featured link to book your consultation. You can get on my calendar as early as next week. You can be starting this program as soon as October. You can be getting in. We are on. I am on enrolling new clients right now and you can be one of them.
Now, I know how you may have taken programs in the past and you've learned a lot, but you feel like you don't have the accountability or support. That's exactly why I have signal. I created the component of ask my coach. So that you have support all the time to know, are you tracking? Are you making progress? You even asking me the questions that you feel like are stupid questions or questions that really you don't want to ask anyone else? That's what I'm here for. My clients make leaps and bounds using this app, and I want to give this to you. This is a bonus. This is something I added in over the past few years, and my clients are loving it. They get so much from it. They make so much more leaps and strides because they have this.
All right. I'm getting so excited. I went through my top ten reasons why I love freedom. And so just to recap for you to take that next step, all you need to do is book your consultation. When you join, we're going to talk about what's going on and how I can help you. And then we just get started in the program. Freedom. It's six months long. We meet twice a month. You get daily coaching via ask my coach. You get the tools to get exactly what you need to grow big in capacity without burning out. But there's only one way for you to get there. You have to book that consult. That's the only way to get into my world, to be one of my graduated clients. But the best news is you can start now. You can watch this and you can go to my profile, and you can click and get on my calendar. It is so, so, so easy. I'm going to even add it to the comments of wherever you're seeing this to make sure that you can just have easy access to my calendar and get this process started. You can be transformed by the end of watching this video because you've given yourself the first step of having the life that you want without the overwhelm, without the guilt, without the burnout.
This is my mission. This is what I've been doing for the past. I think I'm in my 7th year of business now. You start to lose count. But it's been a lot of amazing transformations, incredible clients, and you can be one of them in the month of September. If you're watching this, I am onboarding three new clients. So you can take one of those spots and we will get started in October. All you have to do is either go to my website, go to my profile, www.acheloawellness.com. you can get on my website and the link is there. You can find me on Instagram and go to the link in my bio. You can go to LinkedIn and go to the featured section of my profile, YouTube. It's just floating around in there somewhere. But this is it. If you are ready to break out of that cycle that you've been on, that hamster wheel that's just been kind of like running for years, it's your chance to get off. Take this first stop.
All right, everybody, this is my episode. This is freedom. I love this program. It's given me the freedom. It's given over 100 of my amazing clients freedom. And I wanted to give you a freedom because you deserve it, too. So this is how you do it. All right, everybody, I will catch you next week for my next episode after my Nashville conference. So we'll kick off the tour, but for now, grab my link in my bio, get on my calendar. All right, guys, have the best rest of your day. See ya.
