Cameron Hemphill hosts the “Medical Millionaire” podcast, featuring Sarah Walton, an author and business mentor. Sarah shares her journey from a young ballet enthusiast to a successful corporate executive, highlighting the challenges of balancing career success with personal fulfillment. She discusses the concept of “high functioning co-dependence,” where women prioritize others’ needs over their own, leading to self-betrayal. Sarah emphasizes the importance of self-care, self-trust, and redefining success beyond financial metrics. She encourages women to break industry norms, prioritize their well-being, and seek joy in their daily lives.

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This is medical millionaire the podcast, helping your Med Spa increase in status, visibility and profitability. Join your host as he dispels myths, shares trends and gives you actionable steps today that will take your medical practice to the next level. Here’s your host, expert marketer and founder of growth 99 Cameron Hemphill, hey
everybody. Cameron Hemphill, here your host for medical millionaire. Hey, first off, thank you so much for taking the time to tune into our podcast. Our goal is to give incredible value and insight into the medical spa market. So if you’re an injector, you’re in the esthetic space, you’re running a very successful practice, or looking to run a very successful practice. This podcast is 100% designed for you, and today I have a special guest on the show. I have Sarah Walton. She’s an author, speaker, business mentor. Had a wonderful conversation with her last week, and she helps women with everything, with success and how to take you to the next level, wherever you’re at within your life. Sarah, welcome to the show.
Hey, Cameron. I’m so happy to be here. Thanks so much for having me absolutely.
Thank you so much for taking the time. Like, I mean, I’ve spent some time on your your website. I know that you’ve written a book, it’s published on Amazon. You have a tremendous track record and career. Like, take us down the story, talk to us and talk to the audience, how you got here. Sure.
Well, I gosh, if only we could do that in a sentence, right? Cameron, wouldn’t that be just fantastic. My story, hang on to your hats and glasses, people, but my story actually starts when I was five. Yes, five. And for those of you who are old enough to remember, PBS used to hold pledge drivers, and what they would do during a pledge drive is show really fantastic broadcasts, right? And one of the things that I got to watch, and I was little, was the Nutcracker. And I remember watching, you know, these beautiful ballerinas perform. And I turned to my mom and said, Mom, I want to do that. And I did my best, right? They’re really fun. Pictures of me as a small child, and any kind of ballet, anything you could find me, anywhere I would put it on. And as I grew up in Utah, where I was raised, in Sandy Utah, one of the big, big deals at the time, especially if you’re a teenager, was to be on the dance team in high school. And so I would watch these girls at halftime. I just absolutely loved it. This was something I really wanted to be able to do. And so came time to try out. When I was 16 years old. I was super scared. I was so excited. This was like, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul chair throwing time. So I, like, had on, like, lots of bruises on my knees, lots of throw and stuff. We had so much fun. And I got so excited the day of the tryouts, because they let us know immediately who had made it, and I’d made it. And I couldn’t believe it. I was so excited. I didn’t have the formal training a lot of the other girls did, so that was not a given. But as excited as I was, a couple of days later, I got the letter about how much the dance costumes were going to cost, right, the company, jacket, the shoes, and, you know, Cameron, I don’t know if you’ve ever had one of these moments, but it was like, I kind of watched myself go through this moment, like I almost lifted up out and like, watched this thing happen to me at 16, because there is no way we could afford these costumes. We were incredibly poor. I was being raised by a single mom. And when I say poor, this was not like, oh, sometimes it was hard. There were times where what was in the cupboard was a half a loaf of bread my mom had made from scratch and a jar of honey, yet, right? Like there were a lot of times what I had for breakfast was, you know, bread and milk, and that was a good day, right? So I’m looking at these, these numbers on this page, and I’m just thinking, how the heck am I going to make this work? Now, I know you’re all surprised already, but I was very ambitious, so I went and got a job at the mall. And for those of you who don’t know what a mall is, just think Stranger Things. And so I went to the mall and I got a job at a little cart selling tchotchkes that nobody needed. But it was the 80s, so it was cool, and I got my first paycheck, and I was so stinking excited because it was enough to put the deposit down on these costumes, but I didn’t have a bank account, so we had to go to the grocery store where I could get this check cashed at the service desk. And as we’re walking into the grocery store, my mom says, Sarah, the strawberries are on sale. Can we get some? And I’m thinking of my costume, and I’m thinking of strawberries, and I’m like, Yes, we can do both. So I go get my check cashed, and I go to find my mom in the, you know, fast Express Lane checkout, and she’s not there, and I’m looking up and down the aisles, and I finally see her in line with my younger brother with a cart full of groceries. And these are groceries I know she can’t afford to buy. It’s like breakfast cereal, my brother’s favorite breakfast cereal. There’s some milk, there’s bread for his sandwiches at school, lunch meats and the strawberries. And I’m standing there Cameron, and I’m thinking, I can take care of something for me that I’ve wanted forever, or I can take care of my family, but I cannot do both. And that moment, that realization for me at 16, ended up dictating almost every decision I made. From then on out, I was the only woman in my family. I have 65 cousins. I was the only one in my family to go to college at the time. I moved from Salt Lake City to France. I lived in France for two years, and then when I came back to the States, I came to New York City, and I had this incredible career where I kept moving up in the ranks, and I kept moving up to the point that I now have two children. I’m married, I have this gorgeous glass office, and I’m miserable because a 16 year old had decided I couldn’t take care of my family and myself, and so I was taking care of my family but not taking care of myself. And as this progressed, and I realized these were moments of my life, I couldn’t get back. I remembered the grocery store moment. I had forgotten about it for years, but there was a specific moment in my office after my daughter had called and said, Mommy, I miss you. And I hung up the phone with her, and I could hear the clock ticking in my office, and each second it was like, that’s a second I don’t get back, and that’s a second I don’t get back. And it scared the heck out of me. And that was the day where I walked up out of my office, I went into my boss, and I said, here’s how you’re going to rearrange the department. Fire me, and that’s how this all started. Interesting.
Oh my gosh.
It, you know, it’s amazing where, where you’ve come from, and it’s almost, it’s come full circle, in the sense of, you know what happened to you at that age? And I can absolutely relate on several levels. One, being from Salt Lake City, Utah, actually, yeah, maybe, yeah. So that is completely random, by the way, that you would you and I are from the from the same area, and met outside of that area. So that’s really cool. But you know that moment that you have to say, okay, dream or family, okay, like, you know, I’m going to take care of my family, and that really what, what put you in a position to say, Okay, I’m going to climb the corporate ladder, if you will, and be a success and make sure I take care of my family financially, right? And, and I think that there’s a lot of people that that it happens to them like they they are so much in fear of either a losing it all, or B, you know, being in a position to not take care of their family financially, to only find out that, hey, they are missing the real one on one connection with the love that’s right in front of their eyes, which is their family, right? So what a challenge? Like, can you talk like, talk to us a little bit about that? Because I think there’s a lot of people, especially in the esthetics world, like, there is a massive social media influence to be successful. There is women that have done a great job, and, you know, made a tremendous amount of income and success. And you know, they’re on stage at all of the events, and they have lots of followers. And, you know, so sometimes, like, how do you how do you find joy and happiness and really manage it all? And I think it’s interesting to hear from your story, like, Hey, I got there I was miserable, and I’m doing this, right? So like, Yeah, talk to us about that.
Yeah. So there’s a phenomenon, and I did not coin this phrase, so I need to give credit where credit is due. It was a psychologist here in New York, actually, her name is Terry Cole, who coined the phrase high functioning co dependence. And it is a phenomenon that hits women, not men, which is fascinating to me, that alone is like, wait, what? Right? And I don’t know that that’s necessarily true, but I think it, think it definitely holds true to the trend. And usually, if I’m speaking and I say the term high functioning codependence, everyone goes, Oh, that’s me. I’m like, Dude, I haven’t even defined it yet. How do you know? And everyone’s like, no, no, I can tell that’s me. And it’s this idea that as women usually starts as young girls, right? Is this idea that we are here to make sure everyone else is okay, and that our needs do not matter. And it starts with very small things like, Oh, don’t cry. Where’s my pretty girl. And the message there is, your emotions are making me uncomfortable. Please stop having them. Or women are so emotional, those types of phrases when actually we’re really not. Yes, it’s really amazing, especially in business. Women are incredible at business, mostly because of the high functioning co dependence. So what happens is, over time, we get rewarded as women, specifically for leaving ourselves out of the equation. And we hear phrase, and this is like for all the women listening, right? This is going to be on us to correct, by the way, because women are perpetuating the idea, and it comes out of phrases like, oh my god, she’s so selfless, she’s so amazing, and we just want to listen to that phrase. She’s so selfless, she has completely lost herself, and we’re rewarding that. And that’s the codependent piece. So there’s all these women out there who are quote, unquote killing it. What they’re killing I’m not sure, but they’re quote unquote killing it, and they’re like miserable, and it’s because the high functioning co dependence has reached such a fever pitch that they’re making sure their staff is okay. They’re making sure the social media looks okay. They’re making sure they look good on the outside, because that makes other people happy. They’re making sure that their family is taken care of, and they have completely forgotten who they are. And so just talking about that phenomenon, for so many women, just hearing me talk about it, now, it will start to course correct. It’s like one of those really cool things that once you learn about it, you don’t forget, like riding a bike. We all like to say that as coaches, right? Like, once you learn how to do this, you don’t forget. And once you start to see the pattern in yourself and other women, you can start to gently call it out and be like, how are you? And this is phenomenon with women where you say, how are you? And they’ll talk about everybody else in their life. Well, this is doing this, and my husband did that, and my my mom did that, and you’re like, No, no, how are you? And it takes them a second. They’re like, who what? And that’s because we’ve been trained not to deal with ourselves. And so I think just understanding that phenomenon, understanding it’s not our fault, this has been like part of our societal training for ever, right? Women weren’t even supposed to handle money at all. We were passed from husbands, you know, I’m sorry, from fathers to husbands, and we had to pay them to even take us. It was like, this crazy thing. We didn’t handle it. We just made everything work. Yeah, and that’s still going on, and women are still responsible for the majority of the quote, unquote, invisible work that makes society work. And so as we’re looking at women who are super successful, right, all these like, especially in the esthetic industry, I can totally get that. Like, super, super successful. And yet, if you were to say, what makes you happy, they may not even know. And so if you’re listening and you just went, Oh, crap, that’s me. You want to get that’s not your fault. It’s totally not your fault. And now you have this extraordinary opportunity to actually stop. It doesn’t take long, like you can literally be 20 minutes where you actually stop and look back and go, What does make me happy? And then start doing more of that slowly. I’m not saying blow up your life and like, I’m gonna go mountain biking for every day for this is not what we’re talking about. But like, starting to implement things that make you happy and remembering that your needs are on par with everybody else’s needs in your family or your life,
it’s so so well said. And I think, like, there’s, there’s so much comparison that’s taking place right now that’s fueling that even further to to get yourself even even more loss, right? And so, like, I mean, I have an incredible respect for for women and women that are entrepreneurs. I mean, we work with so many of them. I’m married. I have two kids. Both of them are daughters, you know, and so, like, I live with them all day. I work with them all day. And, you know, I can see the amount of of stress, like, you know, like, I mean, there’s a lot of stress on, on men, as well as because, like, Hey, you almost have to carry the stress and not show it. Yep, you know, but, but women take it to the next level. Because, I mean, I mean, I don’t wear a suit every day. I don’t have to do my hair and makeup and, you know, like, like, there’s certain things that I just care, like, less about, like, I care about my physical look and shape and all that stuff. Like, I’m into fitness and all that stuff. But like you, I mean, I just have to have, there’s incredible respect for because you guys take it next
level. It’s that famous line, right? Like Ginger Rogers did it all too, but backwards and in heels. Yeah, it is that phenomena. It’s really interesting. And I think there is the looking good piece of it. Absolutely, there’s no question about that, like physically looking good, and that women are supposed to, quote, unquote, look a certain way. I think even more than that, what you’re saying for me, from my perspective, please know I absolutely love men, by the way, is that there’s the invisible work, and that’s the thing that really women just pick up, right? And when I say that, when I say the invisible work that makes the world work, all the women start laughing, and the men look at me like, What are you talking about? And it’s this interesting thing where I say to women, how. Many things have you done today that did nothing for you but made someone else’s life easier? And all of a sudden it’s like, oh my god, the laundry, oh my god, the lunches, oh my god, the grocery shopping, the meal planning, the cleaning, the organizing, and that sort of thing that we just we really do well, and that’s the high functioning piece, right? That whole joke that like a woman’s brain is like a browser with 85 tab windows open. That’s really, really good at that. And there are physiological reasons for that in our brain, which is super cool. We can chat about that if you want, but that because we’re naturally good at it, we continue to do it, and then we get rewarded for being so quote, unquote selfless that we continue to do it, and that becomes its own reward to the point that we’re lost. Yeah,
and it’s almost like, it’s, it’s kind of interesting, like, in this day and age, I mean, in some level, it’s like, expected. It’s like, it almost like what you said, it’s the invisible work. And then imagine if that invisible work doesn’t get done for a week. It’s enough, like what happened in the household, and hey, I’m guilty of it, like I, you know, I have to give my wife a tremendous amount of credit, like the Hemphill household does not operate without the CEO. She’s definitely the CEO. Yeah. And, you know, I shoot, I’m guilty of not giving her more credit where credit’s due, because it’s just like you get in the repetitive motion, yes, you know, and, and I just like, cool. She like, does the laundry and things, and I try to help out and stuff. But it’s you nailed it when, when you said that, that invisible, that invisible work,
yeah, yeah, it’s pretty powerful stuff. And, I mean, listen, just having this conversation, I think is so important because it gives all of us this moment to go, oh, well, wait just because this is how it’s been. Does it need to stay this way? Oh, maybe not, right. And that’s, that’s the opportunity here is just to start to check in for all of us. And we all get to make that call for ourselves individually. But I think what’s so important is that none of us, male or female, continue this pattern without examining it, that we don’t just fall into stuff, because that’s the way it’s always been that is catastrophic for each of us, because we don’t get to explore every aspect of ourselves, and we don’t get to explore every aspect of what we could offer the world
totally true, you know? And it’s, it’s you can focus on, on getting lost, right? With, with rising through success, and maybe, like some of the I don’t know, it’s hard for me to explain, but it’s, it’s the invisible, day to day, things that that women do, that go unacknowledged, that need to be acknowledged, and then the women that are also like the social media, the successful entrepreneurs running a very successful practice or business, and the amount of weight that that they carry on their shoulders, you know, to build up this successful empire, to maybe even potentially lose track, like what you’re saying of who they are, and are they doing it for the right reasons, and is it really making them, making them happy? So it’s like talk to us, just a segue for a second.
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How do you come into the picture from a business mentor, coach and and help with that, that use case and that framework, and help people, because whether they want to admit it or not, or whoever, like everybody struggles, especially right now, the world’s crazy, and so like, talk to us, like, like, like, through that, and how, how do you go about that?
Yeah, I think there’s a big missing piece, and this is a problem I have with my industry. Makes me very angry. I have my moments where I’m like, you gotta knock this off. But this idea that everybody has to keep up all of these things, all. All the time, because that’s how you make the money. I really don’t agree with that. So that’s one piece of it is as we well. The way I say this is I encourage people to break their industry. Do not do this the way everybody else does it. Do it the way it feels right for you. And that’s actually how trends start. That’s when things get amazing, is when people stop copying what everybody else is doing, and they break it. It’s so cool to see somebody do that, and it does take some courage. But what I talk about inside that is our shared humanity, and one of the things in the coaching industry is the part that I really hate is this BS idea that because you’re financially successful or because you figured several things out, which is amazing and should be acknowledged, that you are somehow better than anyone else, or that you somehow have all the answers, and that you have somehow lifted yourself up out of our shared humanity. And we can see this a lot inside the personal development space, which I spend a lot of time inside. There’s sort of this nasty kind of filament that runs through the entire industry, which is, you know, if you’re a good person, if you do the right things, you should make a lot of money and never get sick or never attract a bad client, never have anything bad happen to you. And if, and if you do, well, what do you do to get it? And it’s like, let’s back that truck up a second. Okay, we all have bodies. Any one of us can get the call at any moment for a diagnosis that we didn’t expect. Any one of us can get a call from a police officer who’s like, Hey, I’ve got your kid. And you’re like, holy crap. I thought that would never happen to me, right? Like, welcome to being on planet Earth, right? Like we’re all in this together, and no work, nor an amount of success, can lift you up out of our shared humanity. And that is where I start with people. Is you are a human being, and people always say to me, but Sarah, what’s your coaching program? I’m like, you like I have to work with the individual in front of me, and what’s going on with the human being in front of me, where the gaps are, where the panic is, where the hidden fears are, and not like the traditional Are you scared of success? No, but like, the fear that really and truly, if I make another million dollars, I’m gonna get divorced. Okay, let’s look at that. What’s happening. Where is this coming from? What’s going on, and why do you believe that those sorts of conversations are conversations I wish more business coaches were having with their clients, because we’re not compartmentalized human beings. When your marriage isn’t working, your business gets affected, and sometimes the other way around, right? Like, I love Tony. Tony Tony Robbins said that when he was going through a divorce, he’s like, he was so successful the time, and he’s like, my life is getting in the way of my life, right? And I just love that. I just love the humanity of that, and that he was willing to share that and be humble enough to be like, I’ve screwed something up here, right? And that we all have those moments. And I think it’s actually the professionals and the businesses that share that piece of themselves without being dramatic. I’m not talking about the people who go on YouTube and go, guys, it’s been so hard. Like, no, that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about like, Listen, I am really successful in this, and I’m doing my best to hang on to this. What do you guys do around this idea? Or what happens here for you guys? What’s your favorite date, or what’s your favorite thing to do? What did you guys read this month that you love and start getting into our shared humanity? And when we do that, what you love, who you are, naturally starts to come out, and the business starts to explode. I wish I could tell you why that happens. I don’t know. I just know it works, and it’s, I think it’s this release of pressure. I think it’s this release of facade. And I think once we can get into that and have someone stand in the power of like, Dude, this is who I am, this is what I love. And oh my god, I could totally help you with whatever it is you’re working on now, whether it’s your nose, your eyes, your butt or or something else, right? I got your back. I can totally help you. Oh, and by the way, I tripped over my kid’s toy this morning, right? Like, if we can be people with each other, everything starts to change because you become safe, yeah? And you become safe because you are now safe with you. And people know when you don’t feel safe with yourself, when you don’t trust yourself, people know, and it’s repellent. Man,
that was so good. So it’s yeah, you you can lose sight of who you are, right? That’s in almost the more the more successful you get. And you made a comment earlier, if I make this, if I make another million dollars, am I going to get divorced? Like, there, that’s a, that’s a true statement. Um, and there, there could be some people that are listening in that’s like, wow, I haven’t maybe I’m just getting into this. Or what are you talking about? If I made a million dollars, I’m, I’m going to be successful, and my spouse is going to love me, and life is all, all, you know, just. Happy, and a lot of times like, you fight so hard to to achieve those those goals and aspirations, and maybe you’ve been working for years to make that first million or whatever it is, and you do and you find yourself miserable
and on the edge of divorce. And I think, you know,
there’s a lot of that going on. And so are you saying that when you have these, these conversations or or when you engage with a with the coaching that you do, is it that you you have these conversations to and again, I know going through your whole program would would probably be on this podcast until, you know it was midnight tonight, but having those conversations in like, having them remind them of who they are and where they came from and what makes them happy and focused. Like, what did they do today? For example, as simple as that, that they did for themselves, it
can be. Yeah, it really can be. Did you take a second? It can start that way. But I also work very hard on creating a future, right? So, if you had a future where things were going well, and someone were to write an article about you, what would be in it? What would they talk about? What would they see? And that sort of 10,000 foot view can really help. And then we pull that into, you know, what do you need to do today to go towards that? And then, you know, I talked a little bit in that past, that past segment there, about self trust, right? And this is really tough for women, right? Going back to high functioning co dependence, what’s happening all the time is self betrayal, right? My feelings don’t matter. It doesn’t matter what I think I got to do this because other people need me to do this. And so it’s a constant act of self betrayal. And I’m going to take it to the extreme for a second, and just a slight trigger warning, is to do a lot of work with women who had been sexually assaulted or raped, and when we were healing, right, working with them to heal the act itself, the physical act, that wasn’t what needed healing. It was awful, but they could heal that where the real pain was, like 100% of the time was I knew. I knew when I heard his voice, but I didn’t want to be rude. Everything told me to run, but I didn’t that kind of self betrayal. That’s the extreme, and I share that example again, not to trigger or to upset, but you can see that, right? It’s like women giving up on themselves for what other people might perceive and how dangerous that is for us. And that is an extreme example, but I will tell you, there’s not one woman I worked with who didn’t say some version of that. It just, it’s like heart wrenching, right? That is the level to which women have been trained to betray their own needs. And so looking at that and looking to heal that, that’s where we start on a daily basis. And it can be as small as, did you eat breakfast, or did you make sure everybody else ate breakfast? Is your staff taken care of? But you didn’t take a salary this month? Let’s look at that. These are moments of self betrayal that lead up to a mountain of not being able to trust yourself. So as we look at the 10,000 foot view of like, oh my gosh, what does somebody see for you? And like, even six months from now, what would somebody see? Oh my gosh, she’s she’s doing so well in her business. She’s so happy and fulfilled. She stopped dieting, if that’s a thing that she’s worried about all the time, right? Spending more time with her children. Her staff is freaking on fire, and they love her, right? We’re looking at all of these things. What acts of self betrayal does she need to stop doing in order to reach that? And I will tell you that question alone. People go quiet for 10 minutes and just write it’s like, Oh, I could do this and this and this and this and these things that we need to release that as we just kind of picked up along the way, that are acts of self betrayal and that we start to heal that, so that we become someone who we we know we will always be safe with. And so those tiny, tiny acts can be everything from Nope, I stay by myself for five minutes before I go to bed, drinking my favorite herbal tea and taking a moment to think about the day and then I go to bed, that can be an act of self healing, of being safe with yourself, and being able to trust yourself again and decompress and taking these small moments that as a human being, no matter how much money you’ve made or how many people you’ve helped, you need, and if you make sure that happens for you, you start to trust yourself more. So it can be as tiny as that, all the way huge to like, Could you start taking a salary before I throw something right, like, all the way up there, down to those tiny, tiny moments. I hope I answered your question. Cameron, I know I took a detour there, but I think that was important.
Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, it’s, I think that the question that you asked that, you know, wait two minutes and they start writing. I think, you know, you just get so caught up in the day to day. I have to do this. I have to go to there. My schedule is packed. I have kids. I have a husband. Everything’s got to look perfect. Oh yeah, I got to post on social media. Oh, I forgot to post on social media. Oh, wait, we have to run payroll, or it’s just crazy, you know. So I think taking the time and doing that exercise is extremely important, you know. And I know that Tom I want to tie this just. Little bit back into, like, a relationship conversation for a second. Just I was listening to a podcast recently. I’m a pretty big Ed mylett fan and and he’s got so he’s done so many shows, but he had a, he had a jay Shetty, yeah, yeah, you heard of him, yeah, yeah. He’s wrote a book recently on love. And, you know, I got a couple takeaways from him, and I actually think it kind of ties into this conversation, which is one of the things him and his spouse go through on a daily basis. And I kind of picked up on it was, was asked each other, you know, what did you do today for you? Oh, I love that, yeah, and acknowledge that. Like, Hey, what did you do today for you? Because the spouse is listening like, Oh my gosh. Like, you’re actually taking the time to ask me what I did for myself. Like you’re you have interest.
Great. That’s really powerful. Yeah, I haven’t read that book yet, but I’ve heard him. I’ve heard him on a few podcasts as well. It’s just so, so good,
so good, you know. And another one that he was saying that I picked up on. And again, it ties into this conversation, which is, you know, what can I help you with this month, you know, and, and that could be, you could relate that to, like working in the practice with your team members, or working in the in the practice with, you know, with whoever the vendor consultant, whatever, whatever it may be, but, you know, taking a step back just to kind of understand your surroundings versus just go, go, go, go, go, go, go, and not taking that time to kind of reflect and see where you can give, you know, value and help each other.
Yeah, love that. Cameron, I think that’s great. I’m really glad you shared that. It’s really important.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So, well, no, this is, this is great. I mean, I, I really appreciate it. I look, I enjoyed getting to know you over the over the past little while, and, you know, really doing my research on you. So if, if someone wants to engage with you, like, what, where is the best way the audience can find? Sarah Walton,
such a great question. Thanks for asking so nice of you. I mean, I, you know, I am on Instagram, so you can come on over and DM me on Instagram. But there’s also, I really love when people reach out. This is I’m so old school, I know, but I really love when people reach out. You know, just through the website, there’s a whole contact form there, and I get so excited when I see something come in. My staff does not read that that comes directly to me. If I need to delegate it or something needs to get handled, I’ll do that. But when someone just writes in and said, you know, and this happens often, like, I heard you on this podcast, you did this or this, or said this, and then I went home and, like, hugged my husband in a different way, I get so freaking excited. So please feel free to do that. But we also have a YouTube channel that I have a lot of fun on. There’s a show there called Sarah uncut, where I kind of just pick a topic and turn on my phone. So hang on to your hats and glasses, because that can be scary, but it’s also a lot of fun. And then, yeah, we also have my own podcast. It’s called the game on girlfriend podcast, because this is not your practice life. The game is actually on, love it, love it. And
you have, I mean, you have a book out, and I know that your book is on Amazon, so, right,
yeah, it’s called redefining success. And that was really how I came out of corporate, because I was so scared for so long, my identity was so wrapped up, you know, in that C suite title and having the huge staff. And so it was like, How can I redefine this? And how do we teach other women to redefine this as well?
Totally, oh my gosh. And so, like, I could just picture you in, like, this amazing office, top of the building New York City, looking out freaking. You’re like, I made it. I hate it. I made it. Yeah, and I bet that was hard for you, like, okay, my my child called, I’m out. And then there have to be, like, an identity crisis, maybe for a moment or
not a moment. And yes, a crisis. Yeah, no, I remember, oh my gosh, I’m so embarrassed to tell this story, but it’s so true, talking about shared humanity, right? Like I was sitting I was writing the money, the money mindset course, which was the first online course I released, and I started coaching people around their relationship to money, because my relationship to money, given the grocery store, right, was a little bit messed up, and so I needed to work on that. And I was coaching people through that, and sharing that, and I was writing it, and the mailman came to the door, and I was like, oh my god, it’s Tuesday at noon and I’m home. I’m such a loser. That’s literally what I said to myself, as opposed to, holy crap, I left my corporate job and I’m starting something amazing. No, the identity crisis was, he’s gonna think I’m a loser. And I literally opened the door and was like, oh my god, I’m writing. I’m working from home. Isn’t this cool? Like I had to explain to the freaking mailman that I wasn’t a loser for being home on a Tuesday at noon. And that was that was I shut the door and went, Sarah Walton, what the hell was that? Like? It was like, one of those moments of like, woman, we need to have a conversation here. Like, what you’re doing is amazing, and just. Because the outside world doesn’t recognize it with titles and huge salaries yet and all those things that doesn’t mean what you’re doing doesn’t matter. And I really had to have that moment with myself, um, sort of recognizing how much of my own self worth I had attached to what the outside world thought of me. And that was that was really tough. Cameron, I’m not gonna lie, that
is, that is painful, like we get, we can get caught up in that, like, because you can share content and look at, look at your own content through someone else’s profile feed or whatever, and and get caught up in, what does the world think of me? What does the world think of me? What is, oh my gosh, this is my identity. I have to keep going going going going going, okay, gone and but realize, like, actually, you know what? I’m at peace right now, just chilling at home on a Tuesday right
now. It’s my favorite. I’m like, people, everybody look at this. It’s Tuesday at 11, baby. You know,
I found this new thing. Yes, yeah, no, that’s, I mean it shoot, you know, I’ve seen my wife go through it. My wife had a 20 year career. You know, she’s been an entrepreneur ever since she was, like, right out of high school, took care of herself, like when I met her, she lived in a duplex, single, Gal taking care of herself, own business saved, well, very humble, quite frugal. And, you know, it’s amazing that I somehow convinced her to
not that part Cameron. I totally believe that happened, but I’m like, I
want to hang out with her? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I met her snowboarding on the mountain, and, like, I mean, this lady could snowboard, and I was, that’s a big thing for me. And I was like, Dude, that’s super cool. Plus she’s, she’s super hot, but
it’s all good. It’s all good. On my number, Cameron, hanging out with your wife? Man, yeah,
no, but she, struggled with that because she recently had, had retired after doing for 20 years. And, you know, she was recently diagnosed with Hashimotos is and the chemicals from, like, you know, working in the she was in a salon, she owned a salon, oh, wow, just started causing her issues. And there’s just a bunch of other stuff with food types and, you know, being at a high elevation and air and stuff, and so something we feel like, like had to give. And that was it. And, man, like, did she, she did she did she struggle? She really did. So,
sorry, yeah, it is. I mean, it’s real. And I think again, going back to shared humanity. This is something we go through, right? And it’s okay to be like, I’m going through this thing right now, and to talk about it openly, like that. That’s yeah, just gives. Give her my number. I just want to know this woman. She sounds amazing.
Yeah, yeah. No, she, she is. I definitely need to connect you guys. She’s and, I mean, what’s interesting is, you’re just talking to me on the podcast, like, how many other people on the audience are tuning in that have that same, you know, story, on whatever level it is, of the identity thing, or wherever you’re struggling at when it when it comes to losing track of, like, what makes you Happy, right? Because, shoot, Hey, okay, look, I’m a dude, obviously, man, right? I struggle with that. Yes, you know, yes, um, like, always struggle with that, because I’m a CEO of a company. And boy, is it demanding. It’s rewarding, but demanding. And Tony Robbins said it, Greta, my life is getting in the way of my life,
isn’t it? Such is that not the best line? I mean, it’s so true, and I think we’ve all had that moment, yeah, yeah,
yeah. That’s, that’s, that’s very interesting to know. I appreciate it. Okay, so they can go to Sarah walton.com What is your Instagram handle? The
Sarah Walton. And not because I’m the Sarah Walton. My name was taken, but yeah, the Sarah Walton, you can find me over there on Instagram. Got
it? Okay, cool. She’s got the book on Amazon. Guys, you can visit her@sarahwalton.com you know, she’s an author, speaker, business mentor. She She helps women launch and maintain businesses and careers they love. So reach out to her and and, you know, definitely take it upon yourself to have a conversation I’ve really enjoyed. You know, obviously you guys can see it’s just, it’s a natural conversation that we have, and I really appreciate you taking the time. I know how busy you are. So thank you so much for joining
now back at you Cameron, I really appreciate and love these honest conversations. Thank you so much for inviting me on and hanging with me through the whole thing. I so grateful
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