“Understanding where your value comes from and communicating it effectively to others is truly how you build wealth, opportunity, and freedom in your life.” Blake Schofield (0:39 - 0:52) Your self-worth is not determined by a list of checkboxes. From a very young age, women are taught incorrectly how to measure their inherent value. As students, we’re encouraged to achieve the highest grades possible. Achievements, check! As mothers, we’re expected to sacrifice all our time in devotion to helpin...
Apr 25, 2019•21 min•Ep. 11
“The real problem isn’t that you don’t have enough time. It’s that you value other people’s time more than yours.” - Blake (0:33 - 0:42) Blake Schofield Connections Illuminated You have all the time you need to do exactly what you want. The clock chimes eight o’clock and you haven’t even started your project due tomorrow. Dirty dishes lay in the sink. Your work pants still need to be ironed. Lunches aren’t even packed. Sound familiar? As a mother of three, I understand the chaotic ebb and flow o...
Apr 18, 2019•16 min•Ep. 10
“ I was looking for the next promotion, the next company to make me happy. What I realized was, if I really didn't understand what I wanted, how could I possibly ever find it? ” - Blake Schofield (2:20) Blake Schofield Connections Illuminated When you realize it's time for a change in your career but can't see the path forward, the only person who can give you the answers is you. Your instincts are telling you that the career you're in just isn't a good fit anymore. The work doesn't excite you a...
Apr 11, 2019•16 min•Ep. 9
“Women don’t keep their promises to themselves. When things get busy, they allow work or obligations to shut out the things that fill their cup.” - Blake Schofield (2:39) Blake Schofield Connections Illuminated Women tend to sacrifice themselves for the good of those around them. But how much good does it really do? There is a long history that has existed in our society of women taking on the burdens of those around them in order to be the ideal - ideal wife, ideal mother, and - more recently -...
Apr 04, 2019•17 min•Ep. 8
“Stand firm in your value… you are so much more valuable than what you are charging.” - Samantha Hartley (23:50 - 24:03) Blake Schofield Connections Illuminated Why wait? You can be happy now. Are you continually finishing the statement, “I’ll be happy when…?" Do you find yourself daydreaming, endlessly wishing, and coveting your fellow neighbor’s career? Then listen up. You may be headed for a catastrophic burnout and possible breakdown. That is where Samantha Hartley found herself after many g...
Mar 28, 2019•57 min•Ep. 7
“You owe it to yourself and the world to be living in your passion and purpose.” - Nicola Watson (53:25-53:30) Blake Schofield Connections Illuminated Conditioned beliefs about what we can accomplish or feel we deserve keep us from pursuing the things we really love in business and in life. However, it is entirely possible for you to build a successful six-figure business if you change your belief systems, and build a network that supports your dream. Nicola Watson moved to the U.S. from Jamaica...
Mar 21, 2019•57 min•Ep. 6
“The more women are successful as entrepreneurs, creating environments that allow people to lead balanced and harmonious lives, the more corporate America is going to have to change.” - Blake Schofield (8:01-8:19) Blake Schofield Connections Illuminated Women make up 49% of the workforce, but they only occupy 15% of executive suites. Which means, there is still a huge barrier for women to make their way to the top of today’s companies. More and more women are abandoning the corporate world to bu...
Mar 14, 2019•16 min•Ep. 5
“Self-care is not selfish, it’s actually the kindest thing you can do.” - Blake Schofield (14:06-14:12) Blake Schofield Connections Illuminated For today’s entrepreneurs, burnout is a major threat to their success and wellbeing. Our lives can quickly fall out of alignment with core values, leading to mental, emotional, and physical fatigue. In more severe cases, burnout contributes to health problems that have lasting effects self and family. By adopting new perspectives and beliefs around work,...
Mar 07, 2019•33 min•Ep. 4
“By nature, all of us are limited, because we only know what we've experienced.” - Blake Schofield (6:00) Blake Schofield Connections Illuminated Feeling unfulfilled? Re-evaluate where you're looking for answers. If you're searching for fulfillment in your life and career, consider the following... Would you know it if you got it? Having true clarity is the first step to creating meaningful change in your life. So many of us not only lack clarity, but also the understanding required to find it. ...
Feb 28, 2019•27 min•Ep. 3
“Letting go of the security I felt in money allowed me to create a path to actually have it all.” - Blake Schofield (2:00) Blake Schofield Connections Illuminated Letting go of fears and insecurities about money is difficult, but it grants us the freedom to pursue real fulfillment. Sometimes the truths we need to hear are the hardest to swallow. This is the first lesson Blake Schofield learned on her journey towards a fulfilling career. When her friend told her that her love of money was holding...
Feb 21, 2019•22 min•Ep. 2
“My mission is to show women what’s possible for their lives. I see more women than not sacrificing something really big in their life because they believe it’s an either/or proposition.” Welcome to The Bridge to Fulfillment. If you’re like me, you have spent too many years believing that you have to sacrifice your income, or your family, or your fulfillment in this life. This lie kept me unhappy for way too long, and it’s my mission to show women, to show you, that this doesn’t have to be your ...
Feb 14, 2019•45 min•Ep. 1
“Are you ready to build a successful career on your terms without sacrificing what matters most? Welcome to The Bridge to Fulfillment. My name is Blake Schofield, founder of Connections Unlimited. I am on a mission, a mission to help women everywhere recognize the fulfillment that is possible, without sacrificing the things that matter most. Too many women are living out lives in corporate America believing they have to give up something , income, health, time, family, because they believe the c...
Feb 09, 2019•6 min
