November 28, 2013 by Sharla Jacobs

23k in 30 days as an energy healer (Jacqui’s story)

Jacqui was a struggling Energy Healer, wanting to help more people and make more money but not knowing how...

She studied and practiced healing techniques for 10 years, had a ton of certifications, and the clients who hired her experienced deep, life-changing transformation.

With all of Jacqui’s expertise, she could only get on average 2 clients a month at $88 per session.

Jacqui’s problem?

She didn’t understand how to talk about what she did in a way that inspired clients to say YES. She would talk for 15 minutes about her certifications, books she read, ideas she had… and watch that dreaded “eye glaze” while she was talking.

She also lacked practical experience with marketing or business strategies that felt good to her.

Like most talented Coaches and Holistic Practitioners who find their way to our Client Attraction Summit, Jacqui was frustrated and in her words…

“I’m a great student! If someone would just give me a template I would follow it! So when Jesse started talking about Thrive’s 200+ templates, I lit up!

"I saw that you two put A LOT of science into it. The questions and processes on the templates were there for a reason. And so I left that Summit and got to work.”

Jacqui put what she learned at Summit into action. She used the Water Element (Curiosity) the “What Do You Do?” Process, and customized our Heartselling Templates for her business.

Her results?

Well, most people don’t think this is possible for an Energy Healer…

Jacqui made $23,000 in 30 days after putting our templates with the 5 Elements of Heartselling into action...

She stopped spending so much time talking about her work and giving away free healing and advice, and instead she used the Water Element to “Be Curious” and got clients instead of giving it all away!

Jacqui also discovered that by raising her rates by 4x to $387 a session she attracted MORE CLIENTS!

We want you to have all the resources Jacqui had. We know they work for those who consistently take action. And for that reason, we are inviting you to take action today, even if you don’t think you are ready.

To get just a little bit out of your comfort zone…
Just like Jacqui did.

Because we know that if we gift you with some of our best strategies for free in a live event format (where people learn best, hands down)... And you actually show up for yourself by showing up for the event...

You’ll also take action with it when you leave! And of the 8,000+ Coaches and Holistic Practitioners who attended the Client Attraction Summit, there is a direct correlation between taking action… and getting extraordinary results.

Want what Jacqui’s got?

>>> Learn More about the Summit and Claim Your Full Scholarship Now <<<

We imagine you’ve got gifts to share with the world and you’re aching to serve more people. We know you can attract better quality clients (and even raise your rates) after learning the heart-based strategies to attract your ideal clients...

How do we know?

Because we’ve seen it over and over again for 13 years. We have so many stories just like Jacqui’s of happy Coaches and Holistic Practitioners who changed the way they attract clients and created massive success in their business.

Life Coaches. Business Coaches. Holistic Practitioners. Energy Healers. Nutrition Consultants. Spiritual Healers. Naturopaths. Wellness Coaches. Acupuncturists. Holistic MDs. Relationship Coaches. Lawyers Turned Shamans. Authors. Speakers. Workshop Leaders. Massage Therapists. Reiki Practitioners… And More!

We want your story to be next.

Check out the details here...and we hope to meet you in person soon!

Love & Prosperity,

Jesse & Sharla

PS. I almost forgot, Jacqui wanted to tell you this…

“I felt like I was wasting my gifts, dipping into family funds to keep my practice going.
And then I heard Sharla speak on a teleseminar. I tapped into her energy and found her to be filled with sincere integrity. I immediately signed up for the Client Attraction Summit, knowing I had found a mentor.

"During the Summit, I drank in the marketing information and carefully studied the templates. I totally resonate with 'Heartselling,' because it is based on caring about your clients…caring enough to give them your absolute best...

This is such great fun! My clients are reaching new heights of health and JOY, as they layer the healings' momentum, by having sessions weekly, instead of 'whenever'."

Get access to the same templates and opportunities that catalyzed Jacqui’s career here.

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November 14, 2013 by Sharla Jacobs

Successful Attorney “Loses Everything” Only To Gain It All! How Mellissa Embraced Her True Calling Bringing Spirituality To Top Executives

Mellissa was a Stanford educated attorney living in Southern California with her husband and baby whom she loved very much.

On the outside everything looked good. She had a great law practice and enjoyed the life that millions of people aspire towards.

But in 2000, when Mellissa gave birth to her second child, she experienced a radical spiritual awakening that left her “accidentally psychic.”

Suddenly, she was called in a new direction - as a healer and intuitive. People around her called her “shaman.” So she dove into her new life as a professional intuitive, moving to Northern California where she lived at a retreat center.

But there was still something missing. She was comfortable living simply, but living close to the poverty line, and feeling like she was “hiding from the real world.” Mellissa was resisting her true calling to bridge the worlds of woo and business.

She began to feel the itch to take her teachings to a wider audience, and to bring spirituality to the world of corporate business. But she resisted. Because life was pretty easy living on a smaller budget, trading sessions with other healers, and basically “preaching to the choir.”

And as often happens when we resist our true calling, things collapsed on Mellissa to move her from a life of hippie comfort to a life of greater impact and service.

“It was 2012,” she says. “I lost half a million dollars in a business and land foreclosure that had been instigated by the economic collapse... I lost my land, the land I was raising my kids on. I lost my home and then I lost my marriage. Everything came crashing down and I was left with nothing. In fact, I had less than nothing.”

“I laugh about it now,” she admits, “because clearly it needed to happen to wake me up. But it certainly wasn’t funny to me at the time.”

With nowhere else to look but up, Mellissa realized it was probably time to step into the calling that had been pulling on her that she’d been ignoring. It was time to bridge the worlds of spirituality and business.

But she still faced many layers of resistance. She needed help learning how to market such a unique business in this new and confusing world of the internet.

As she set out to grow her practice, she was getting sporadic results.

“I think I kind of expected the universe to just send me clients, since I had these spiritual gifts!

I thought talent was enough and it would all just work out for me.

While I was getting clients here and there, it wasn’t enough to support me or my kids.

Mellissa remembered a friend of hers, Jesse Koren, who she’d met up at Harbin a few years back. Jesse and his wife Sharla had helped tens of thousands of coaches and holistic practitioners get really clear on who they are here to help with their gifts and then go on to create lucrative businesses doing so.

At the time Jesse had shared with Mellissa “I think you could really do this you know, I think you could make it as a spiritual mentor but you have to get really focused! You have to have a niche.”

Mellissa resisted niching and continued to struggle.

She felt frustrated because the business lawyer in her was fantastic at building businesses, but this one felt a little out of reach even though it was congruent with her soul’s calling.

“Well, I called Jesse and I said, you know what, I need to get my business together. Can you help?”

“Are you ready to niche?”

“I want to work with inspired entrepreneurs but also top level executives who are devoted to bridging the worlds of business and inspiration so they can channel their true genius in the world.. “

“Okay,” Jesse said. “Let’s get you started.”

Mellissa felt judgment and resistance to learning business anew. She thought that since she was so educated, she should not have to start over and learn marketing. But she took the plunge, and signed up for Thrive Academy. The results were amazing.

“I doubled my income in the first month. Then I doubled it again. Then I created an e-course and created sustainable income. It continued to sustain while my Mother passed away and I had to step away from my business for a while.”

I started helping creative professionals and executives open to channel their Genius.

My new brand is Genius Incarnate. I help my clients receive downloads of great ideas on demand instead of having to wait for some big aha. And then I help them walk their talk to such an extent that they become these magnetic, charismatic authorities - literally incarnating into their Genius.

Last year I started charging $2,500 per session, sometimes per hour, for my services and some of my clients pay me $8,000 a month. And these are professionals who impact so many lives- it really lights me up.

I lead a very comfortable life today. I don’t have to price shop when I’m at the grocery store, my son and my daughter can get the education they really want. My son is going to his dream school, a private college in Silicon Valley which we weren’t sure would be possible.

There is so much relief in building my aligned business and finding the success.
I’m enjoying giving back and having impact.

I can’t even tell you how satisfying that is to know that my soul’s work is being done in this world, that my family is being taken care of. Last year, I spent a month in Bali in the Winter, and then took the kids to Europe for a month in the Summer. My income remains steady and growing.”

Jesse Koren and Sharla Jacobs started Thrive Academy almost 13 years ago when they discovered a way to build authentic, aligned business with the 5 Elements of Heartselling. They have helped Mellissa and thousands of other coaches and holistic practitioners step into their true calling and thrive.

Jesse and Sharla are giving away a limited number of scholarships to their signature event Client Attraction Summit in January 2018. The Client Attraction Summit is where many of the successful coaches and transformational leaders you see today got their start. Summit attendees have continued on to master client attraction, fill their businesses with clients they love, raise their rates so they can finally thrive, become well known speakers, workshop leaders, and some have even gotten Hay House contracts.

If you are interested in applying for a Full Scholarship to attend the Client Attraction Summit, click here to read more about who Jesse and Sharla are looking to help and if it’s a mutual great fit!

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November 9, 2013 by Sharla Jacobs

Our World, Our Industry, and Your Future Clients...

...Are All Starving For This One Thing.

As I sit here after placing the finishing touches on an outline for an upcoming Facebook Live, encouraging our son (who is practicing his newest gymnastic move on the floor near my desk), thanking our team for rocking it this week, and considering what’s ahead for the New Year… two other important things are also on my mind and heart.

The state of our world.

And the state of our industry.

When my husband, Jesse, and I started this company, it wasn’t much of a company at all, LOL! We were just two passionate people determined to transform the world through increasing the quality of life for each client we had the honor to serve. Touching hearts and allowing healing to unfold, one person at a time through our coaching and acupuncture practices.

Through a series of spiritual experiences that aligned our way of selling with the way we did our transformational work… HeartsellingTM was accidentally born.

Attracting a new client became about empowering another human being to make a choice that was best for them, whether that choice meant they worked with us or not. Having conversations in this way magnetized so many new clients we loved working with quickly and our friends started asking us how we were doing it.

We started sharing our methods with them, organically, one person to one person. Then we started doing small workshops that also happened organically, through connection.

And then one step led to another, and now we’re here...

We’ve employed hundreds of people, spoken in front of 50,000 Coaches and Holistic Practitioners, had over 8,000 people attend our live events and watched our clients collectively generate over $100 Million, all using heart centered client attraction strategies…

We’ve seen so much in this industry.

Our company, Thrive Academy, has not only survived but thrived and grown each year in the transformational space.

And that’s not an easy thing.

Our clients have grown to be some of the most successful leaders in their space… ranging from Shamans now coaching CEOs…

To Acupuncturists launching leveraged group programs...

To former teacher turned Spiritual Healer making 6 figures and writing an Amazon Bestseller...

To speaking on global stages, landing Hay House contracts, and becoming philanthropists with global impact.

They didn’t do it with a magic pill. They didn’t do it through 3 steps to rocking it out without putting in the hours. The creativity. The imagination. The love.

They did it because connection to a deeper purpose and vision compelled them to move through the pain and joy of growth.

They did it because we gave them the templates and the systems that worked for us, and they took those proven systems and made it THEIRS. They did it because they were willing to look deep within and develop their authentic voices and offered authentic value.

They connected the strategy with the hearts of those they are meant to help. They did it through 1-on-1 connection until they were so confident in getting new clients, they could scale while still maintaining the integrity of the intimacy that earned them the trust of their community in the first place.

They did it by keeping love and connection front and center, just like we always have and always will.

There is a lot of pain in our industry, the “Transformation Industry” right now. There is a lot of pain in the world right now. I can’t help but think it’s all connected.

We’ve been reaching out to coaches and holistic practitioners within the greater community at large to learn more about their pain and how they are moving through to continue bringing their vision into the world.

We love our industry and are looking to answer the question... “How can we move forward together, and better?”

While so many people talk about automation and scale and “crushing it,” I can’t help but feel that the internet and our industry in general has to make a move back toward connection, intimacy and love.

Where people feel seen, heard, understood… and something most people don’t want to talk about, but HAND HELD. Our clients rock it because we are there for them. Because we consistently meet in person. Because our programs have never become so automated that any member of our community gets left behind.

It’s the same in the world. The pain is visceral. People are hurting each other at unprecedented rates and in increasingly violent ways because they themselves are hurting. Because they are starving to be seen, known, and loved. I believe together, doing our work, touching lives, we can be that for them, organically and one person at at time.

Every time one of you reaches out and touches another life, helps a client breakthrough a limiting belief or pattern, you create a space for another human being to experience the authentic connection that both our industry, and our world, are starving for right now.

I believe that increasing connection in an increasingly disconnected industry and world is the heart and spirit of what we do at Thrive. It’s what our clients do. It’s what their clients do. And it’s how we are slowly transforming this world while also raising our two sons based on the same principles.

When people feel held, they do their best work and reach the greatest heights of success. When people feel seen and loved, it becomes harder for them to hurt others.

There’s so much going on right now sometimes it makes my head spin, and often makes my heart hurt. But I know from 13 years of leading a global movement that together we move through it.

Thanks for listening. For taking a few minutes of your busy day to hear what’s in my heart, and hopefully respond in the comments below so I can hear yours.

Love & Prosperity,

Sharla Jacobs
Co-Founder, Thrive Academy

P.S. If you feel inspired by our vision for our community, our world, or our industry…

If you know that the way for you to move forward bringing your great work into the world is going to have to be based in connection, love and intimacy…

And you believe in the power of gathering together in person with like minded and like souled individuals to propel your dreams forward…

Then I’d love to invite you to claim a full scholarship to come to our next live Thrive Academy event, the Client Attraction Summit in January 2018.

We’ll share with you many of the strategies we mentioned above, connection and love based ways to communicate the value of your beautiful gift you are truly here to offer so that people get it and say yes to working with you…

Without ever compromising your integrity for even one second.

We have 35 scholarships available for January and the application process should take less than 5 minutes for you to complete.

You can learn more here and just so you know there is a $100 fully refundable seat deposit involved. If we do not accept your application we will immediately refund it, otherwise you will get it back the second you show up at the Summit.

If you know that 2018 is the year for you to step out more with your gifts, to make the money you need to contribute at the highest level possible while living your values, then you are more than likely the right person to be in the room… alongside a few hundred people who are also answering the call.

To see what others are saying about the Summit, visit this page.

Jesse and I, and our entire global Thrive community, can’t wait to connect more with you and support your vision!