34: Charge What You’re Worth with Sarah White

The Life Story Coach

Change your Money Conversation

Sarah White knows how important it is for us to charge what we're worth; more importantly, she knows how to help us over the obstacles that keep us from doing so.

Life story work is "heart-driven" work, and like other service-oriented professions, it attracts people who may not feel comfortable with the money-making side of their business.

Because of that, Sarah has taken her training in Guided Autobiography and created a workshop aimed at helping us uncover our "story" about money: the attitudes and assumptions that we absorbed in childhood, the very attitudes and assumptions that may be sabotaging our financial success today.

You're not going to bring in caviar if you have a cheese-sandwich attitude toward your value."

Listen as we discuss:

• Upper-limiting and how we get antsy when (financial) success comes knocking
• Questions to get started on revealing your own unconscious attitudes about money, such as: If you had all the money you need, what would you spend it on?
• How we all come from at least two different money stories

Marketing, Workshops, and Getting Visibility

Sarah has been running the First Monday, First Person writing salon for five years. It started as a program hosted by the library, but when participants kept signing up for repeat sessions, Sarah branched out to try a critique-based salon.

Other avenues for raising your visibility as "the life story person" in your community:

Teach a workshop or class at your local library.

Advantages of teaching at the library:

• The library handles the administrative tasks
• The library will publicize the event
• Libraries are natural venues for connecting with people who value words, stories, and writing
• It can be a lead producer for future clients
• HINT: Even if your local library offers workshops for free, they may pay the presenters an honorarium.

Start a club for enthusiasts of local history, like Sarah's East Side History Club. They convene every month or so to reminisce about topics of local interest, subjects that make people reflect back on their childhood in the community. They even published a book of stories by the members that's now in it's second edition (see below for links to the book).

Links & Stuff:

Want to get in touch with Sarah? Find her website here.

Check out Sarah's workshop, "Write Your Way to a Better Relationship with Money."