Practicing Presence and Power with Jamie Faye

I am honored to have Jamie F. join us today as a very special guest. She is a relationship coach specializing in guiding visionary leaders, women, men, and couples. With over 15 years of experience in personal development, Jamie has a holistic approach that integrates her unique blend of spiritual wisdom and practical strategies to empower people to unlock their full potential and embrace the richness of the human experience.

Read an excerpt from our interview below:?

Kimberly: Can you tell us more about the origins of your coaching and what inspired you to pursue this path?

Jamie: I think that it's both a calling and my life experience. I started in the music business as an Artist Manager and Producer, and I first got the life coaching bug when I realized that an artist that I was supporting was on the path to a project that was not in alignment with him. It was not actually his deepest desire, he was working in some areas of obligation and guilt, and no good things come from that. The coaching bug then expanded into life coaching and very quickly into relationship coaching. When I realized that most of my clients at the beginning were mostly women, I was helping them with their relationships, sisters, marriages, children, boyfriends, and wanting to find their love. However, I didn't have the skills to work with two people at the same time. I was really successful in helping clients who were 20 years older than me, helping them reignite their marriages, and loving their marriages. But I didn't have the skills to bring in their partners.

That's when I actually went back to school to study coaching again and to study relationship coaching. Along the way, I studied everything that was exciting for me, every modality that felt to me like it helped. Whether it was yoga, breathwork therapy, or getting into more of the ancient lineages from China, India, Taoism, and Tantra. Everything that would help people heal in the quickest, most efficient, and most effective way.?

Kimberly: A lot of CEOs, entrepreneurs, and founders listen to this podcast, is there anything you'd like to share specifically with those high achievers or people with more of a business mindset??

Jamie: When looking back, many CEOs I’ve worked with say “I wish I had invested more in my relationship. I wish I'd invested more in myself”. The truth is nothing is more important than you and your health. A lot of this work is very health-related… taking care of yourself, the belonging, the connection, the intimacy, which just comes from the ability to be vulnerable with someone and feel safe to share, right? The relationship with your person or the relationship that you are dreaming of. Whether it's with the person you're with or you were with in the past or you haven't had that yet because you've been so focused on your empire or these things you've been building for all these years, I know you want to share it with someone.

There is more to life than work, even though I know that we all identify very strongly with our work – and there's nothing wrong with that. Especially for women, we need to have another part, the part that feeds our work. For men who are really expansive in empire building, they look back and see how amazing their partner was in supporting them through that. So just remember there really isn't anything more important than every bit of time that you give on a daily basis. There really isn't anything more important.

Kimberly: Your work is largely about vulnerability and on this podcast, we focus a lot on vocal leadership, which can be related in many ways to vulnerability. Why do you think it's so important to be authentic and vocal right now, especially for leaders?

Jamie: If you're telling your authentic truth, you're going to speak to the people who are going to be most inspired by your work. Sugarcoating, covering up, or hiding is not good. The shame that we can have around things needs to be alchemized. Shame and guilt make us sick. Anything that you can liberate, vocalize, and allow out of your body, which might take some preparation, it might take some EFT Tapping. It might take some somatic release. It might take that because it is a big thing for you, but that is what's going to penetrate. When people say the thing that was scariest for them to say, it’s a really important pivotal part of your story. What that does is it penetrates through the noise and then that magnetizes everything. It might magnetize your new best friend, your best clients – the people who are going to be so inspired and create an empire that they never would have without your story. You inspire them because of your vulnerability.

Kimberly: You already shared a few great practices, but anything else you'd like to share with female CEOs? What do you think is really important for them to know where we are right now in this world?

Jamie: The thing that we are mostly missing is pleasure and play. We're so serious about our work. The ability to slow down, the ability to have fun, and the ability to laugh, come from being able to relax. A common theme in my work is that people find it very difficult to relax and feel guilty about it when they do eventually relax. It's hard for me to switch from working to being with my partner, to just having a lovely dinner or to hang out with him or to enjoy him. Enjoying intimacy, enjoying a hug… The biggest thing I can say to you is that it can be learned. You have learned hundreds of skills over your incredible life as a CEO and Founder. You are just constantly acquiring skills. You have innate talents and magnetism. You can learn something that we all lost because we got conditioned as members of this society. Relearn how to slow down, relearn how to relax.?

If you have any questions for Jamie, reach out to her at? [email protected]?

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