I allowed myself to dream BIG again!
Transitioning careers, transitioning identities!
Hello readers! My name is Rebeca De Sancho Mayoral.
I spent my last +16 years in Brussels, among the ‘so-called’ most powerful rooms influencing and shaping the European destiny.
I had an amazing opportunity to represent Europe in many rooms, conferences, etc, and put my seeds into the growing European dreamed tree. One day I started noticing that I had achieved the top of my career within the institution, and I had achieved many of the dreams that I aspire to when I arrived in 2007.
I came to the conclusion that my goals were never aligned with achieving personal power or achieving Top high positions. Instead, my goals were aligned with values, growth mindset and impacting the world across the projects that I contributed to.
In 2020 I took a ‘Law of attraction training’ from Anna Boroshok. Thanks Anna!
While I was walking across the Bois de la Cambre park in Brussels and the world seemed to fall apart going through the worst pandemic that we know, I put myself in autopilot walking across green trees and listening to Anna’s workshop sessions and I started imagining my dreamed life and my future profession. A new career moved happened and I shifted my focus.
Fast forward into June 2023, I bumped into the ‘Ultra Silva mind’ method and Vishen’s thought-provocking messages on personal development. And voila! I joined the Mind Valley family!
Since then I had taken + 3 more quests (Duality, Confidence and Manifesting) and 2 physical events.
Transitioning careers, transitioning identities!
Hello readers! My name is Rebeca De Sancho Mayoral.
I spent my last +16 years in Brussels, among the ‘so-called’ most powerful rooms influencing and shaping the European destiny.
I had an amazing opportunity to represent Europe in many rooms, conferences, etc, and put my seeds into the growing European dreamed tree. One day I started noticing that I had achieved the top of my career within the institution, and I had achieved many of the dreams that I aspire to when I arrived in 2007.
I came to the conclusion that my goals were never aligned with achieving personal power or achieving Top high positions. Instead, my goals were aligned with values, growth mindset and impacting the world across the projects that I contributed to.
In 2020 I took a ‘Law of attraction training’ from Anna Boroshok. Thanks Anna!
While I was walking across the Bois de la Cambre park in Brussels and the world seemed to fall apart going through the worst pandemic that we know, I put myself in autopilot walking across green trees and listening to Anna’s workshop sessions and I started imagining my dreamed life and my future profession. A new career moved happened and I shifted my focus.
Fast forward into June 2023, I bumped into the ‘Ultra Silva mind’ method and Vishen’s thought-provocking messages on personal development. And voila! I joined the Mind Valley family!
Since then I had taken + 3 more quests (Duality, Confidence and Manifesting) and 2 physical events.
In September 2023, Mind Valley presented Evercoach ‘Life coaching’ programme.
I had been coached, mentored and went through years of therapy myself.
I had been mentoring some startups who approached me because of my work on innovation. I always liked to bring the best out of everyone and see growth in myself and the people I touched.
So I joined the Life Coaching October cohort almost on the last day to get registered!
It has been an amazing process of +5 months of learnings, personal growth and first and foremost, “allowing myself to dream BIG again”! That little girl who grew up in the Madrid suburbs in the 80s without internet or social media, she was always curious to learn and she was reading a lot about the world which made her curious to contribute to the world. That little girl managed to get into a TV show performing an extra role for a week, only because she wanted pocket money to be independent from their parents’ money. That little girl was fearless and always a fighter. That little girl had many dreams not to deter all the family education & career expectations as first-generation family member getting high education and going to colleague. That little girl went into very interesting international jobs, and she travelled the world. That little girl was always pursuing projects to influence and improve gender equality and always seeking growth in life.
In 2024, I finally started getting ready to a take the leap of faith in my new life & identity, to believe deeply in myself, allow myself to dream BIG again, envision financial freedom and to transition into an entrepreneurial career&life. I am not done yet with the transition process though I am counting the days!
Which steps did I take before that to clear my fears and doubts and come to my new identity?
• Tapping into clarity.
o Mindfulness. MindValley as said helped me a lot.
o Therapy. The last months of 2023, allowed me to clarify that I did not need more therapy but more action on my goals and purpose in life. I said goodbye to my +10 yrs therapist. The path was opened for new beginnings.
• Tapping into my strengths. +20yrs recap of my professional life and my childhood upbringing. My struggles in life from which I came out always stronger. My resourcefulness earning money and always getting by in life. I remembered Sara Blakely when she recalls the story of her life, driving and saying ‘stop this movie. I am in the wrong movie'. She wrote down her strengths and focused on that to build her dream business and pursue her impact in the world.
• Tapping into my network and community.
o Countless travels to London (including to Financial freedom Mind Valley weekend) and other cities where I thought I could meet the right people and/or get clarity on my dreams and how to execute them
• Tapping into my family. last but not least, I was seeking validation from my family. Coming from the first generation going to colleague, there’s a huge responsibility on your shoulders not to mess it up once you have achieved stability and a career, always seeking how to make them proud of you! all those who came before me, my ancestors, they did not have the tools or the means to achieve what I can achieve today. There is not one day that goes by without reflecting on that and I am grateful to be where I am today. I have a black and white picture of my grandparents in their village in Spain that I look to from time to time as a reminder.
So I started telling my mum and my aunt and I observed their reactions to me leaving this dream job. The day that I sat down during the Christmas of 2023 with my mum and I told her, ‘if you think that I have done well until now in my life, what if I can do even much better mum!?
I had asked a similar question end of 2023 and she would still read my doubts and she had replied back then 'I will not see it by myself'. And now in December 2023, she replied, ‘you are so small and so big at the same time’ (‘tan pequeña y tan grande’ :-)) It brings tears into my eyes this sentence. For me, that was the confirmation that I was finally ready to my new identity.
My mum was finally observing a confident Rebeca, the one she has probably observed since I was little, and she could see that I was ready to ACT on my dreams!
I had been coached, mentored and went through years of therapy myself.
I had been mentoring some startups who approached me because of my work on innovation. I always liked to bring the best out of everyone and see growth in myself and the people I touched.
So I joined the Life Coaching October cohort almost on the last day to get registered!
It has been an amazing process of +5 months of learnings, personal growth and first and foremost, “allowing myself to dream BIG again”! That little girl who grew up in the Madrid suburbs in the 80s without internet or social media, she was always curious to learn and she was reading a lot about the world which made her curious to contribute to the world. That little girl managed to get into a TV show performing an extra role for a week, only because she wanted pocket money to be independent from their parents’ money. That little girl was fearless and always a fighter. That little girl had many dreams not to deter all the family education & career expectations as first-generation family member getting high education and going to colleague. That little girl went into very interesting international jobs, and she travelled the world. That little girl was always pursuing projects to influence and improve gender equality and always seeking growth in life.
In 2024, I finally started getting ready to a take the leap of faith in my new life & identity, to believe deeply in myself, allow myself to dream BIG again, envision financial freedom and to transition into an entrepreneurial career&life. I am not done yet with the transition process though I am counting the days!
Which steps did I take before that to clear my fears and doubts and come to my new identity?
• Tapping into clarity.
o Mindfulness. MindValley as said helped me a lot.
o Therapy. The last months of 2023, allowed me to clarify that I did not need more therapy but more action on my goals and purpose in life. I said goodbye to my +10 yrs therapist. The path was opened for new beginnings.
• Tapping into my strengths. +20yrs recap of my professional life and my childhood upbringing. My struggles in life from which I came out always stronger. My resourcefulness earning money and always getting by in life. I remembered Sara Blakely when she recalls the story of her life, driving and saying ‘stop this movie. I am in the wrong movie'. She wrote down her strengths and focused on that to build her dream business and pursue her impact in the world.
• Tapping into my network and community.
o Countless travels to London (including to Financial freedom Mind Valley weekend) and other cities where I thought I could meet the right people and/or get clarity on my dreams and how to execute them
• Tapping into my family. last but not least, I was seeking validation from my family. Coming from the first generation going to colleague, there’s a huge responsibility on your shoulders not to mess it up once you have achieved stability and a career, always seeking how to make them proud of you! all those who came before me, my ancestors, they did not have the tools or the means to achieve what I can achieve today. There is not one day that goes by without reflecting on that and I am grateful to be where I am today. I have a black and white picture of my grandparents in their village in Spain that I look to from time to time as a reminder.
So I started telling my mum and my aunt and I observed their reactions to me leaving this dream job. The day that I sat down during the Christmas of 2023 with my mum and I told her, ‘if you think that I have done well until now in my life, what if I can do even much better mum!?
I had asked a similar question end of 2023 and she would still read my doubts and she had replied back then 'I will not see it by myself'. And now in December 2023, she replied, ‘you are so small and so big at the same time’ (‘tan pequeña y tan grande’ :-)) It brings tears into my eyes this sentence. For me, that was the confirmation that I was finally ready to my new identity.
My mum was finally observing a confident Rebeca, the one she has probably observed since I was little, and she could see that I was ready to ACT on my dreams!
Dear Mindvalley, I could not have done it alone, thank you immensely to the Mindvalley Team! thanks to the Life coaching team! To my life coach peers!
You all allowed me to think outside the box, start structuring my actions, to meet peers from all over the world in the same situation. I think often about that famous sentence ‘you are not alone’!
And of course, to learn from a great Coach Jason! Reflect on great (as well) Ajit coach life lessons and his amazing learnings & life journey! I will miss the Monday's Q&A but I know this is just the beginning of more dreams accomplished and more life!
You all allowed me to think outside the box, start structuring my actions, to meet peers from all over the world in the same situation. I think often about that famous sentence ‘you are not alone’!
And of course, to learn from a great Coach Jason! Reflect on great (as well) Ajit coach life lessons and his amazing learnings & life journey! I will miss the Monday's Q&A but I know this is just the beginning of more dreams accomplished and more life!