69 - Building a Speaker Brand in 2020 w/ Alexa Carlin, Founder of Women EmpowerX

<p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today on the Instant Impact podcast, Elyse is sitting down with Alexa Carlin. Alexa is a nationally-renowned public speaker and Founder & CEO of Women Empower X. Inspired by her own entrepreneurial pursuits, Alexa founded WEX with the mission to help more women pursue their passions and get to the next level in their career and life. She’s here to discuss how she overcame incredible odds to achieve so much success in such a short period of time, how we can get into the public speaking space, and how to tackle self-doubt. </span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alexa has always had the mission to make a difference in at least one person’s day, every day. At 17, she had already started two businesses and had her sights on the horizon when a bacteria got into her bloodstream. It started shutting her body down, and so she was put into a medically-induced coma and given a 1% chance to live. Her experience showed her the power of the mind and what is really possible. Even after she recovered and got her dream job, she was diagnosed with a chronic autoimmune disease, something she still deals with today. During the time she was recovering, she wrote a cookbook to help her heal through mindset and food. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are two ways to look at something, Alexa says. You can look at something that happened to you or something that happened for you. Alexa’s mindset was driven by curiosity. What would happen if she overcame this challenge? What’s next? That lead her to find the courage to turn an obstacle into an opportunity. Don’t wait for your life to change. You must change your own life. If you’re always trying to overcome something, you always feel short of where you want to be. But if you shift that mindset into an opportunistic perspective, you can live in joy. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alexa learned many things years later from her experience. One was to focus on the thin