How Reinvention Can Transform Your Life and Career - Episode 138
In today's episode, I talk with Maya Elious about how to reinvent your life and career so you can grow into the person you’re meant to be. Maya shares how she went from making MySpace pages to building a business that helps experts create clear messages and strong brands. We discuss why it’s important to keep things simple, let go of what no longer works, and have the courage to step out of your comfort zone.
About our guest:
Maya Elious is an award-winning business coach and personal brand strategist who helps entrepreneurs clarify their message and reinvent their brand with alignment, clarity, and authenticity. For over 15 years, she’s guided thought leaders through powerful pivots, profitable positioning, and brand evolution, becoming a trusted expert for navigating major shifts in the online space.
As the Founder of Built To Impact®, Maya has helped thousands of clients turn their expertise into legacy brands, launch high-ticket services, and scale beyond six figures with integrity. Featured in Forbes, Business Insider, and Black Enterprise, her mission is to help women build lives and businesses that feel as good as they look. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, family time, and binge-watching medical dramas.
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Naseema: [00:00:00] Maya S is an award-winning business coach and personal brand strategist who helps experience entrepreneurs clarify their message and reinvent their brand with alignment, clarity, Authenticity. Over 15 years, she's been the go-to expert for thought leaders and experts guiding them through powerful pivots, profitable positioning and brand evolution across every major shift in the online space. As a founder of Built To Impact, Maya has led thousands of clients through her programs, events, and consulting offers, helping them turn their expertise into a legacy brand, launch high ticket services, and scale beyond six figures with integrity and confidence.
Her work has been featured in Forbes, business Insider and Black Enterprise, but her true passion is simpler than the accolades to help women build lives in business. That feel good on the inside as they present online. When she's not [00:01:00] teaching her coaching, you'll find her traveling the world and spending time with her family, or binge watching a medical drama on Hulu.
What's up? What's up? My financially intentional people? I am joined by Maya s Today we're gonna talk about reinvention, and Lord knows I've reinvented myself so many times. My professional life, my personal life. Like all around, but it's something that I really feel like people are hesitant to do, but I think nothing is consistent except for change, and we should embrace it.
So thank you so much for joining me, Maya. I really appreciate you being here.
Maya Elious: Yeah. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited for our conversation.
Naseema: Of course. And just share your background, like how did you get into this entrepreneurial space? Where did it all start?
Maya Elious: Yeah. Yeah. So as we talked a little bit about before I started in the branding space in 2008, when I was creating [00:02:00] customized space pages for models, musicians, reality, TV stars, basically people in the entertainment space. And MySpace was the platform for those people who wanted to build their brand.
And of course, when I was, creating custom MySpace pages. I didn't even know what branding was. I just knew I was helping people look cool on a platform, and that's all I wanted to do. I was 18 years old with the MySpace page, with just all of the quotes and all of the graphics and so that's how I got into that space.
And then after a few years, I started telling people I was a web designer, even though I had. Never designed a website in my life. But listen, somebody gave me $300 and I went on YouTube how to make a website, and I built that website. My client was happy, and I just started to continue evolving into the space and learning and growing, and then transition from web design to coaching and really helping my clients figure out what their message was.
I discovered my gifting. Was [00:03:00] messaging when I was working with web design clients who they didn't know what to put on their website. They didn't know how to communicate the value in what they did and make it clear and exciting for other people to read. And so that's how I got into the coaching space when clients were investing money on websites that they weren't making money from because their messaging was off.
Naseema: How did you learn messaging though, and then through this journey? Weren't you like in college and then dropped outta college?
Maya Elious: Yes, there's so many layers to my story, and so I'm always like, oh, I don't know how much to give. But yes, I was definitely in college and I ended up dropping out to work for myself full time, which was one of the scariest decisions of my life, especially being a first generation American. And, my, my parents came to this country from Liberia.
Through my dad's education, like my dad is so brilliant. So his expectation was for both me and my sister to, go to college, get a degree, which we ended up both dropping out and becoming full-time entrepreneurs. And so my poor [00:04:00] parents probably the level of stress, they're like, Lord, where do we go wrong?
We instilled so much in these children just for them to be disobedient and drop out of college. But the work ethic thing still definitely paid off for both my sister and I. But yeah, I eventually dropped out of college and I discovered my gifting and messaging because I realized for me that.
It could be challenging for me to understand complex concepts. Even when I was in college, I went to community college and then I, after like maybe a year and a half, I went to a bigger university and I was so overwhelmed with the information that I was learning at the bigger university. Classrooms were bigger and I was just struggling at the university.
So then I unenrolled and I went back to the community college where it felt a little bit easier to understand the concepts. And just based on how my brain works, I just like simplicity. I like information to be streamlined. I think very operationally, and I work very operationally. I'm, my gifting is in messaging, but another gifting of mine is systems and operations.[00:05:00]
I just need things to be clear, and so that's how I discovered my gifting. It wasn't like, did you go to school to learn communication and messaging? Did you read a book? It was, when I had conversations with my clients, they would say things in a complex way where I was forced to dumb down, so to speak, what their expertise was in layman terms.
In a way I could understand it. And so when I would do that, I would, carry it through a Maya filter. And they're like, yeah, that's exactly what I mean. You just said that in way less words and it's so clear. And so working with experts, I had to say, let's remove the expert jargon and we need to speak as if we're speaking to consumers and not speak as if we're speaking to peers.
And I think. That's also not only what just makes me a good coach and good marketer, but what makes me a good teacher. I teach and coach my clients in a way where you can take this concept that felt like rocket science and now it feels like, fifth grade chemistry. And it's so simple and it's so easy [00:06:00] now and you can implement more quickly.
That's why my clients get results quickly because now they're not overwhelmed with the concept. They can take the information, it's streamlined and they can implement. And so that's how I discovered my gifting. I'm like. Looking at my client's girl, we gotta simplify what you're saying so it can make sense, enough sense to your consumers that they can take action.
And so a big gap between people not converting is that your buyer is just simply not clear because this is confusing.
Naseema: Yes. I was told, or I think I, I remember that most people who consume information, most people who are your clients probably are understanding things at a fifth grade level. And so I found my niche in like the personal finance space because that's what I had to do in personal finance.
I was like, when I understood things, I was like, wait, it is just this X, Y, and Z. And then I was able to translate those concepts, which I feel like people do overcomplicate to. Make people want to have to [00:07:00] work with them or byproducts for them. So you think that you don't understand these concepts? No.
These are simple concepts. Okay. You buy an index fund, you just buying all the stocks in the country. Like it is not really that hard, but they're gonna, they're gonna make it complicated, right? That's my space, but I often have a problem. Translating that out the other way, right? If I explain what I do, then I'm just, people are like, wait, what?
Maya Elious: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Naseema: understand that. But you have to have it on both sides. So I love that you said that I have to understand things in a simple way, but that's how our brains work, I think. And a lot of people think that to be smart, they have to have all these words and be all elaborate. That's. So great for maybe a essay, but in real life when you're really trying to work with people, I really feel like you have to have that tool in me, as accidental entrepreneur.
I've definitely had to learn that the hard way. No, you don't need to sound all [00:08:00] smart. Just really keep it kiss. Just keep it simple.
Maya Elious: Yeah. Yeah. I do think that's another reason. I think, in certain industries people maybe try to overcomplicate things, so people buy, but I also think people overcomplicate it because they want to appear smarter, and it's I don't need you to look smart. I need you to be clear. So people buy, like people don't give me $20,000 to work with me for a year.
I seem like the smartest it. I seem like the person who can get them the results quickly because they resonate with what I'm saying.
Naseema: Yes. It's all about results. It's all about results. And, and you have, I, I have to constantly remind myself about that too. 'cause I. Also, I think a lot of times we want to throw a lot of information at people too, and like people don't process that much, like just teach like one simple thing, or you wanna feel like you're bringing so much value, so you gotta give these people this and all this, all this and all this and all this.
Just no, people [00:09:00] need something that they can grasp onto. People need to see a result and then they can move on to the next thing.
Maya Elious: Yes. That is so true. That is a, I think that's another difference between like experts and coaches or experts and teachers, which is why I love working with experts because I'm like, you're brilliant and you have so much knowledge, but you have to learn how to translate that knowledge and bite-size pieces so people can take it and create their own results.
And I think that is. Another reason why I think it's it comes naturally for me to help people with this is because I realize I get overwhelmed with a lot of information. If you are just talking too much, I'm checked out by your seventh sentence. While you're on sentence 20 and it's I already forgot what you said.
And so I, I check in with my people, like even when I do webinars, we're engaging, I'm making sure you understand before I move on to a concept, when I create curriculum, like I'm creating 20 minute videos instead of 65 minute videos. [00:10:00] It's like. Why would anybody wanna sit and watch a 65 minute video when it could be broken down and after the 20 minutes they can take their time and implement and process and then move on.
So just thinking about how can this information be well received and how can it be digestible? So the person watching this video, were consuming, this content can take action.
Naseema: Yeah, I love that. I love that. What kind of people do you typically work with? Who is your target audience who comes to you mostly to help them?
Maya Elious: Yeah, I work with a lot of experts who wanna build coaching programs, or I work with a lot of done for you service providers, which would be like web designers, graphic designers, agency owners, photographers so people who are leveraging their skill and their expertise to produce a result for somebody, whether it's through teaching or actually providing the service.
Naseema: Cool. And. Like when you work with them, do you do a done for you service, like you build out everything for [00:11:00] them? Or is it just like coaching and telling them like what to do and then they do it themselves?
Maya Elious: Yeah, so I coach my clients. We don't do any done for you services and I've ran an agency before a couple of times, and I find that my clients who get the best results is through coaching because I'm teaching them how to think versus doing it for them. And what I've recognized running an agency and doing done for you, whether I was building, landing pages, writing, copy, creating the design, I've done all of those things, is it makes it easier for the client to become.
More hands off of their business and the more hands off without the right systems and the right team and things, defined in your business, the less results you're gonna get because you don't even know why your messaging is messaging the way that it is. You don't even know how many emails sent out.
You don't even know what needed to be in the emails. But when we're coaching our clients, it's okay, here's how I want you to write the emails. Now in the coaching, the beauty is I give them templates so they're not overworking, they don't have to figure out a. [00:12:00] Thing from scratch, but they know why I created the templates and the foundations the way that I did.
So they're like, oh, I can take my genius and I can plug it into Maya system, but I know why Maya system works instead of just hiring Maya to plug in her system, and I have no idea. Why it's working the way that it is. So that way when they leave my program, if they wanna hire a copywriter, they wanna hire people, that's cool.
But they also know how to direct that copywriter to write on their behalf because they understand, marketing and messaging. Now
Naseema: Yeah, I totally really like the teaching man to fish versus, giving them the fish because especially in like in this day and age, you can really lose sight. Where you're going and what you're doing if you're not in your business. And I know there's this whole like push to work, be outside of your business, but you still have to understand how things work.
But like when we talk about even outside of like entrepreneurial space, 'cause not all of my audience are entrepreneurs. I [00:13:00] think what resonates a lot about your story is just how much you've had to adapt and how much. You took the way that you were thinking and you process to build a whole business around it to help other people.
What advice do you have for people who need a reinvention, who are trying to step out and who are trying to do different things with their lives?
Maya Elious: Oh yeah. If you're in a season of reinvention, the first thing is definitely going to be, you just gotta be really honest with yourself. That is the first thing, and I think reinvention can be challenging because it requires you to let go of aversion of your life that supported you at the time that you needed it.
Like whether you, you were so excited for this job that you have, but you've been working there for five years and you're realizing it's not serving me in this season. And it's but you wanna be loyal to your employer or you don't wanna seem ungrateful to God. You [00:14:00] know that I really wanted this job and it's you needed, the job that you got at 30 is not serving you now at 35 or whatever age you are. And so just being honest about outgrowing things that serve you in the past, and it doesn't make you ungrateful, it doesn't make you anything bad. It's just a sign I've grown and I need to make sure that.
Everything else in my life matches that evolution. So that's the first thing, getting honest about what you've outgrown and then getting honest about what you desire next. And I do think sometimes it's hard for us to verbalize what we desire next. 'cause we're nervous that we're gonna get judged. We're nervous that we're gonna seem ungrateful.
We're nervous that people could be like, girl, you want all of that? Like, why do you want all of this? And I'd be looking at people like, girl, why don't you. What are we talking about right now? So really the first step is a level of honesty about what's no longer working for you and what you truly desire to have.
Then the next step is, okay, what is the game plan so that I can get this? [00:15:00] Who do I need in order to get this? Do I need clients? Do I need a coach? What type of support do I need for this? And just. Getting clear about okay, what investments do I need to make? Whether it is, hiring a coach or hiring a housekeeper, if I need one, hiring a nanny, maybe I wanna start doing more with my time, but I need something to help with the kids.
Whatever it is we need to get clear on the resources that we need. From a business perspective, if you're changing industries, getting clear on who you wanna serve, what are some of the offers that you want to sell? And then the last step would be, okay, what systems do I need in place? From an entrepreneurial perspective, you're gonna be looking at what does my business model need to be to match how I'm living my life now?
There's some clients where it's like. Of mine who will say, I don't have capacity anymore for one-on-one. Can you help me build a group coaching program for your personal life? Whatever it is that you desire to do, you have to be honest about, this is what I have the [00:16:00] capacity for. This is what I don't have the capacity for.
What systems do I need to put in place to allow me to live the life that I want or to, or to run the business that I desire to build?
Naseema: I love that. A lot of people though, I feel like. Would rather be in that place where they are because it's comfortable and they have a lot of fear around the unknown of stepping out of that comfort zone. And also a lot of it is like fear of failure. What if this doesn't work? Like how do you talk people through that?
Maya Elious: Yeah. Yeah. People like to stay in their comfort zone and I, I also feel your comfort zone is actually where everybody else around you feels comfortable, but you feel uncomfortable. And I recognize that when I wanted to drop out of college, my comfort zone was college. 'cause it's like great, my parents will still love me and they'll still be pleased with me.
I'm barely passing classes 'cause I'm not paying attention. I'm too busy [00:17:00] designing club flyers in the middle of accounting class because I'm trying to make my money, with my graphic design business. And it is really scary. I think, one of the first things is you gotta learn how to. Not make other people's voice and opinion, your God, I'm a recovering people pleaser.
So I've stayed in seasons longer than I needed to stay in because I wanted to please man more than I wanted to please God. And when I was in a season where I was ready to drop out of college, I didn't have the spiritual maturity to say okay, the Holy Spirit is guiding me in this direction. I felt something inside of me, right?
Like my intuition, the Holy Spirit God telling me like, yes, there's more for you and you're, you're good. You're protected. I'm gonna take care of you. But for me, I'm 22, 23 at this time. My parents are, my God at this point, 'cause I hadn't developed enough of a strong enough relationship with God on my own where it was like what my parents say matter [00:18:00] most.
And so it's logical 'cause. These are the people who brought me into the world. But having to recognize even the people closest to you that love you more than anybody in the world are still not your God. And so you will have to disappoint people sometimes who are the closest to you in order to follow your obedience and to follow your calling.
So I really think that's the first thing. The really only way to overcome fear is to make your faith bigger. That's
really the only answer, and that's really what it comes down to.
Naseema: Speaking of people being really close to you, I, think I remember reading a long time ago, like you sharing your vision with, I guess somebody you were dating or somebody you were with and them wanting you to shrink yourself down and was I, did I remember that correctly? I think.
Maya Elious: Yeah, it was something like that. I think I was, again, 22 or 23 at the time, and this was a season where I'm like, oh, I'm about to be full-time in my business. Or I might've dropped out [00:19:00] and, gone full-time in my business, I'm wanting to make six figures, which you know, was $8,333 per month, and I had my highest month, and I think it was about like 6,400 or 6,900, something like that.
And I was really excited about it and I told him about it and he was like what's the big deal? It's not the number that you need for six figures. So as he minimized my excitement and my accomplishment, meanwhile it's like I make five times more than you. So why are you trying to, you should be hyping me up, sir.
I'm helping you pay your bills. So
Naseema: Like
Maya Elious: we eating off of my $6,900 where I ain't making my, listen, you gotta be careful and have some discernment about who you let around you. Okay. That would be one of the biggest pieces of advice that I would give my younger self is like, girl, you can't just let anybody around you. Okay. But yeah, so it was, that. And back then I was also doing income reports, which you might be familiar with if you were in the blogging age and stuff, but I was like.
I would share how much money I made in my business. 'cause [00:20:00] I wanted to be transparent with my audience on my journey to six figures. And so at this time I'm making between four and $5,000. Of course I had my highest month, the 6,900. And I was so excited about it. And I do the breakdown of here's how I made the money.
And my parents saw it and they're like, why are you telling the internet how much money you're making? I'm like, oh my gosh, these people drive me crazy. Now my parents are like my biggest fans, my biggest advocates, like they ain't got nothing to say. When I took them on the random trip to Turks and Caicos, my mom was like, this was worth every, my mom was like, this was worth every penny.
I'm like, girl, these ain't your pennies to say what it was worth.
Naseema: Your parents are by the way, like I
Maya Elious: Thank you. The same pennies you didn't want me telling the internet about is the same that got you on this vacation. So listen, sometimes you just gotta do what you feel is best and whether it's a, good friend your [00:21:00] spouse your parents. And of course there's different dynamics and you wanna navigate it with love and grace and respect.
But you, gotta follow what feels best for you. If you feel like God is calling me to do this, have an honest conversation with the people that you love and that I love you, and then, and move accordingly.
Naseema: Oftentimes I tell people if they wanna change their situation, they have to change their circle of influence. And to me that means , you don't have to stop talking to your friends and family, but you have to incorporate into your lives, conversations and people that things that you aspire to, how do you advise people to do that?
Maya Elious: Yeah, I, I think the exact same thing. I think proximity is so important. Who you allow to be around you. I say the people and the places, those two Ps. If you just master that, the people you spend time around and the places where you spend your time. Are really going to dictate your future, it's going to dictate how you are [00:22:00] influenced in making decisions.
And manna was so unfortunate. I actually had a call a, a few weeks ago, or a month ago or something like that, and this lady, she wanted to invest in her business. She really needed support with business coaching and stuff like that. And she's but my husband, he just really doesn't like to spend any money and I don't even know if I should tell him.
I don't know if I can do this. And I'm like. I can't even imagine. And it was, harder for me to understand this, even younger in my twenties when women would be like, I have to ask my husband. I'm like, girl, you ain't got your own money. Now. I understand. I have more wisdom in my thirties. Okay. I have more wisdom in my thirties, and I definitely think we need to honor our husbands and really, if they're phenomenal men, whether or not biblically speaking, we honestly should submit to it.
But this is why having the sermon and being in the right relationships is important. It's
like. I cannot fathom being married to somebody who wants to shrink off of a dollar. of [00:23:00] a dollar. Like money is. Money is important, right? We know that. But it's like money is important. But the thing about the reason I think it is important for people to have money is because you are a more honest person when you have more money.
The reason I believe that is because you make decisions based on your values, not based on the lack in your bank account.
Naseema: That part.
Maya Elious: And so she wasn't able to make a decision that honored what she truly felt she should be doing because they're so worried about money. And so that was, really hard for me.
Of course I empathized with her on the call. She was going through some other stuff and I'm like, Lord, she just has a lot going God, discover her. I'd be praying for people on freaking sales calls. I'm like, girl, you don't even need my, you need Jesus. Okay,
but. Man, I just can't imagine. ' when I think about the things that I desire in my friends and a partner, it's I want you to expand me.
I, I need to be around expansive people who can say, sis or [00:24:00] Babe, you're shrinking. Let's go bigger. Money cannot be the thing that is keeping us from this expansive vision. So I don't even know how I got into that, but I just, you gotta be around the right, people in the right places.
Naseema: Yeah. And I love what you said yo, what you spend money on is truly what you value. So I, that's why I tell people when I evaluate their spending, listen, this is showing me what you value. You could tell me all day what you value, but I'm looking through these transactions, honey, and it seems like you valuing Amazon, like what's going on?
Maya Elious: Yep. Yep, yep. Yep.
Naseema: Yeah. I like that because , people need to take a step back and really, really do. Especially some deep work, especially if they're in a process of reinvention or a process of trying to change who , they are or having a reset or whatever you wanna call it.
I really think that a lot of people just aren't examining right now. Where you at? [00:25:00] Is it aligned with where you think you are and where you
Maya Elious: Hmm.
Naseema: go?
Maya Elious: Status. That's true. I think a good exercise is one for people to write down their values. And like you said, when you look at people's bank statements, it's I can actually tell what you do value based on your spending. There is a scripture around that. It's. Says something like, where your money is there, your heart is also somewhere in Matthew's in Matthew. And it's true. It's if I look at my bank account, we see what I value, right? I value having a roof over my head. That rent or mortgage is gonna be paid.
If you look at my particular spending, we see, and I, I do less of it now, but you can see that I value, convenience and delegation. Like you gonna see a housekeeper on there?
You gonna see laundry service, you gonna see DoorDash. It's I could do my laundry and clean my house, which I don't mind doing. I know how to do those things well. 'cause I love a clean space. Very orderly and organized as y'all know. I also value somebody else doing it for me so I could spend my time.
With my family doing things that I love. Sometimes when I have retreats with [00:26:00] my clients, day one is usually about building the CEO. Day two is about building the business. Let's first build the CEO so we can build your business around who you are. And I have them pick out their core values.
I'll give them a list of 150 core values, and I'm like, let's dwindle it down to 20 and then dwindle it down to six to eight of them. And so I have them write down their values, but then I have them measure their values the same way they would create KPIs in their business. If you had to score yourself on a one to 10 you say you value family.
How often are you spending time with your family? You say you honor generosity. When is the last time you donated your time? When is the last time you donated money? And so I think it's important for us to write down our values, but then also hold ourselves to a standard of. Are these my values that I'm living or are these the values of who I want to be and I need to do a better job?
Being honest that I'm not that person right now?
Naseema: Mm. Yep. I love those check-ins and we need to do them [00:27:00] regularly. You can't just do it once, like you need to, you need to revisit that 'cause stuff falls off. Especially in this society, I think right now, especially people are. If people are having a hard time dealing with a lot of the things that are going on with our administration, with our economy, and people are floundering, people are really trying to figure out.
What their life is right now. And so like I really feel like this is a real big season of reset and a real big season of reinvention. And so I'm, I'm, I think this conversation is super timely because. People, sometimes you don't know what you don't know, and you don't really know what you need until you hear it.
Until you're exposed to it. I know we, I think the first time we met, we, we were at a retreat for my league. And I remember being there. [00:28:00] I remember knowing that I really wanted to go there, but when I got there, I didn't realize how much I needed to be in that space. I needed to be in a space where I can be.
100% me without code switching, without, feeling like I had to show up as this person or feel like I had to shrink myself to be get along with that person. It was like knowing I I just being in a space where I could fully be me. And I think that that was the first time I felt that and I was in my late thirties.
When I went and I was just like, man, like a lot of people need to experience that, but a lot of people just don't know that that is what they need.
Maya Elious: Mm.
That is very true. I think 'cause to your point, there's so much going on that it. It can be challenging to just sit and think about what do I actually need? The world is so noisy and we are constantly [00:29:00] distracted, and I also think that because the world is so noisy and because we're dealing with so much stress that.
We are feeding into that distraction because we're seeking escapism. It's like even from a business coaching point of view and thinking about content strategy and working with my clients on their content and thinking about the reality of social media and the direction it's going in. It's like people aren't even.
Going to social media for information anymore, they're going to escape. We wanna see funny reels and we wanna just keep scrolling. And we get stuck in the scroll for 67 minutes and it's dang. I actually came on social 'cause I meant to look for a recipe that I had saved.
But my discover page is actually, the algorithm is designed to keep us escaped from the real world.
And yeah, we're distracted out here and , it's unfortunate, we're seeing all of these. Late diagnosis for A DHD. It's like cys, that ain't late. They are designing things for our brains to function less and less. You [00:30:00] didn't have a DHD 10 years ago, babe. This is not late.
, Your brain chemistry literally has altered
Naseema: yes.
Maya Elious: you paying attention to a video for five minutes now. You could. That was easy to do a few years ago, six, seven years ago Now if you are not captured in the first three seconds, you're scrolling on to the next
Naseema: it. Yes. Yes. It's that instant gratification, but it's leaving us like with this void, like you said, like we're so distracted that we can't even hone in on what we need oftentimes.
So,
I hope, I hope this is people's wake up call, especially if they do feel like they need some change in their lives and if they feel like, they really need to a reset and a reinvention
Maya Elious: Yeah.
Naseema: You, you have to sit in it and you have to understand all of those great things that you shared. So like [00:31:00] how do you typically work with people? I know you do coaching, but I've seen you do events how do you usually t work for people? Mm-hmm.
Maya Elious: Yeah, so typically I have an annual event or a retreat for my clients, but I really do love working with my clients inside. My coaching program right now, we're running a cohort called Reinvention Mastermind, and this is for our clients who are entrepreneurs, their CEOs, and they wanna rebuild their brand with elevated messaging, upgraded offers, and a business model.
That feels aligned with where they are now. And so for a lot of our clients, this could be from going from done for you to done with you. This could be going from one-on-one to group coaching. This could be going from one niche to a completely brand new niche because they've grown, they've elevated and they want to do something different.
And I love working with my clients in this capacity because of course, like we have great curriculum. And courses and trainings that I think is phenomenal. But I get to coach them on the spot, [00:32:00] like on these weekly calls and get to hear okay, Maya, this is what I worked on. Can you give me some feedback?
And I think one of the most fulfilling parts of my work is that. The women I work with are already just so brilliant and genius in their own right, and I just get to hone that genius in a way that brings them more money, it creates more impact for them and makes them feel fulfilled in their work. So I love what I do with the coaching.
Naseema: I love that. I love that. And if people wanna reach out to you and work with you, how can they do that?
Maya Elious: Yeah. So you can follow me on Instagram at my Elias, M-A-Y-A-E-L-I-O-U-S. Or if you wanna hear more about our reinvention Mastermind, we have a free training@myaelias.com slash evolve. And see if reinvention right now is, is really what you're seeking for your business. And if it is, let's get on a call and talk about what working together can look like.
Naseema: I love that Maya, and I love this conversation. It was so good. I know [00:33:00] people will take. A lot away from it. So I appreciate you. I appreciate your time. Thank you so very much.
Maya Elious: Yes. Thank you for having me.
Naseema: Of course.
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