The subjects we touch on in the episode are difficult and may be hard for some to listen to. Anna has years of experience in e-commerce and digital marketing and is a highly successful female leader recently featured in Forbes, which has given her financial freedom. However, she has spent a number of years of her life freeing herself from an abusive marriage, freeing herself from domestic violence. She talks about her journey from fear and shame to wanting to get help for her partner, to finding safety, then working on her and her children’s healing, her self care and how she has truly found her freedom – Freedom in love, freedom in money and freedom in mind.
KEY LEARNS
“I lived for six months with a bag in the back of my car that had like a spare pair of clothes for me, a spare pair close for the boys and our passports. Again, when I look back on that, I think it is absolutely crazy. Because why didn’t I just go? I think I had that because whenever there was a drama, then you can’t suddenly start packing things, you need to just leave. And at least I knew I had that confidence. I had everything in the car”
“I do believe that he had some kind of mental health imbalance because it wasn’t always the way it was. So I think that’s why I stayed so long. But leaving that and also going through that whole thing of you are a failure because your marriage hasn’t worked out, having mixed-race children, which seems silly to say, but I really did feel that I didn’t want to be a single parent with two children. And that took me a lot to get over. And I don’t know why I think it’s because society put you in a box. And I didn’t want to be put in that box by other people.”
“So it’s finding someone that you can confide in, initially. But I do think it’s all about facing your situation, not running away from it.”
“I just felt like I was going around in circles and just couldn’t get out. So you’ve got to, you’ve got to speak to someone, and you’ve also got to not be in denial, you’ve got to own up to the fact that you are in this abusive marriage. And you then have to think about how you’re going to get out of it. What is going to be your exit strategy out of this, because you need a plan to get out. And you need to follow through on that plan and face that fear. it’s not until then afterward, then he can do all the healing and recovery part of that to work on your confidence and work on self-care and all that kind of stuff. But initially, it is a bit like 999 is an emergency, isn’t it and you need to get out.
“I think I actually think everyone should have a counsellor, or a coach or a mentor or something like that because I think we’re always growing. And we can’t always see things ourselves and everyone needs some kind of support, especially with what’s happened in the last 12 months with the pandemic.”
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ABOUT ANNA
Anna is a female Leader with years of experience in the eCommerce & Digital Marketing space. Anna is an Author of She Made It Happen, Speaker, and Founder of Amazon 101 Academy and Your Freedom Podcast.
Having become an Amazon seller in 2013 in the USA Market followed by Europe her skills lie with understanding Amazon, Building Brands, and creating eCommerce stores. She has taught over 2000 students to build successful businesses through on and offline training programs, and has a passion for branding and turning seemingly ordinary products into unique lines.
Learning how to rank quickly on Amazon or drive traffic through Facebook & Instagram she has built multiple brands from scratch with 10+ years of online marketing experience. She has a knack for being able to rank quickly on Amazon and outsmarting the competition. She was featured in Forbes Magazine in April 2020.
She is on a mission to empower other women to build successful businesses online having left an abusive marriage.
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ABOUT THE HOST
Emma Last is a qualified Mental Health and Wellbeing Trainer and Coach. She has co-written both the First Aid Industry body’s accredited First Aid for Mental Health and Wellbeing training for Adults in the workplace and those working with children.
Emma also has over 20-years, experience in leading teams and developing strategies for change. She worked in senior leadership for a large corporate until early 2018, when she came to a turning point in her career due to being on the brink of burnout and wanted to gain more of a balance in her life. She then rebooted her life and founded her company Progressive Minds.
Emma also works with workplaces and schools on their Mental Health and Wellbeing strategies and provides training and coaching to support employees through challenging and changing times. Emma also works with individuals to help them to perform at their best by working on their mental fitness, which incorporates stress/burnout prevention and resilience and agility development through her Human Reboot Movement Coaching Programme. Her clients say they have become more mentally fit, happier and gain the results they want in their lives.
Her Human Reboot podcast achieved number 22 in the Mental Health category in Mental Health Awareness week
Emma invites you to join her Practical Stress and Pressure Strategies Training on August 17th https://bookwhen.com/progressive-minds
CONNECT WITH EMMA LAST
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