I'm so glad that you're here . You are listening to what the fuck did she just say with your host ? That's me , sandra Priestly . I'm all about living our best life and finding our zone of brilliance and then removing the resistance so that we can go all in .
I say random , crazy shit , which is why I called this podcast the way that I did , and I really hate long drawn out intros , so let's fucking go On . Yesterday's episode . I mentioned that I found the coolest thing on Instagram and I wanted to make sure that I had a completely separate episode dedicated to it . Here's what it was .
It was me showing up in Instagram stories . I love it so much and as I was going over and reading and rereading , I thought I needed to share it with you here . So here goes . You can also find this on my stories highlights . If you go to my Instagram page , it's Sandra R Priestley and that's linked in the show notes below .
Anyway , but go to my highlight section , click on . This is me . I'm going to read it for you here . I just think it's incredible because it's such a good representation of how I got to where I was by this time in 2022 . Here goes , here goes . I wrote a post . A few comments on it revealed how little people actually knew me .
We grow , we evolve , we should . So for those of you who thought you knew me before you likely don't Let me reintroduce myself . Hi , I'm Sandra . Grab a coffee , a tea or a glass of wine , a gin and tonic or a shot of tequila anything but water and hang out for a bit . I love all kinds of music , but my fave country .
It's why I often have it playing behind my stories . For the record , my son's playlist is the best , but he won't share his Apple ID with me . Hashtag kids are assholes . I went to University of Saskatchewan . I have a BA in sociology . I'm a proud Canadian and I'm also proud to say I'm from Saskatchewan .
My prices are in CAD , which doesn't seem smart from a marketing perspective , as most coaches charge in USD , which doesn't seem smart from a marketing perspective , as most coaches charge in USD .
So mine seems higher , but yet I actually care less about how my prices appear and more about the fact that Canadians should be able to price things in our own freaking currency . Fun facts from my university days . I worked at a dance club where the uniform was the tightest , shortest black dress you could ever find . I was a server , not a dancer .
I was also a server at a brew pub and I modeled for an agency in my spare time and used to do runway . Because of my height I'm 5'10" I was the first female to ever join the Hub City Boxing Club in Saskatoon . I joined for the exercise female to ever join the Hub City Boxing Club in Saskatoon . I joined for the exercise .
Not to compete On our outdoor runs . The trainer made one of the guys run slower with me to ensure I was safe on the campus at night . My first job was working for a private clinic who assessed and taught children and adults with learning disabilities . I had no idea that I was dyslexic myself until I worked there .
Now both of my kids have been assessed and I'm pissed at how tough it is for parents to get help for their kids in the school system . I vow to be an advocate always .
During that job I spoke at the Learning Disabilities Association of Canada National Conference the Fonz Henry Winkler spoke to and in this I show a picture of myself standing with him and I am literally a foot taller and I said told you , I was tall . I then started my career with the federal government .
I was all kinds of clerks a parole officer , a case manager and , for the last eight years of my career , a team manager . I loved them all in some ways and I won some pretty incredible awards . By far this is the one I'm most proud of . It was a national leadership award and I was nominated by my team .
But there was so much more to me and I realized that , no matter how much I love to lead , no matter how much I pushed the lines of what was acceptable in order to be the most me , I knew I wanted more . I quit before I turned 50 with a huge goal , big balls and a belief that I cannot fail .
I refused to get to the end of my life and wonder what if I wasn't scared ? What could I have accomplished ? And I'm damn determined to help other women too . So welcome to all of me now that I'm finally free . I swear like a motherfucker . I've been told I would sell more , win more , be more if I didn't , but guess what ? I don't give a fuck .
The worst thing to me would be for you to hire me and realize I'm not what you thought . The people who work with me and love me will accept me for all of me . My life changed because of an SJP shoe store . Today , I wear those Sarah Jessica Parker shoes on every podcast I record and during most trainings I call it big shoe energy .
It's like big dick energy , but more powerful . And while I'm here , I say crazy shit out of nowhere Most of the time when I'm speaking , but sometimes it flies through my fingers here . There is so much more to know about me and I'll be sharing more here , but what I most want you to know is that I believe in you more than you know .
I've taken women from where they are to extraordinary , from zero to 3 million , from overwhelmed to store shelves , from fear to faith . It isn't because I have the magic course that changes everything . It's because my zone of brilliance is being able to see yours . I know what it's like because I've been there too , and now I'm not .
It took work , it took faith , it took guts , it took risks . It's going to take even more because my dream is fucking huge . But isn't that better than sitting still stuck or worse ? I'll go first and I'll be here when you want to come along , thank you .