Christina Carpentier, Master Shift Coach, Personal Story

My Story

At the young age of 4, I demonstrated my ability to create my first IF in my shIFt when I had my first violin recital. I was all dressed up and I watched all the other children performing. In my mind, at the time, I was not so sure I liked the idea of all those people watching me, play the violin, in the elegant performance hall of the Milwaukee Conservatory of Music. So…I decided that I was going to shIFt my position and I thought, “IF I turned my back to the audience I would have a lot less “fear” around playing the violin in front of all those people."

Needless to say, I guess there was a journalist in the room that thought my actions were “noteworthy” and I ended up in a huge picture in The Milwaukee Journal Newspaper. (See picture)

Since then, I have always had a way to figure out how to shIFt my perspective when things were not exactly showing up the way I wanted. I would in my mind’s eye, have a “vision” for a better way or a better path.

Throughout my life I have been a seeker and one who has always studied “successful principles” for life, relationships and business, by a myriad of experts like Dennis Waitley, Wayne Dyer, Norman Vincent Peale, Barbara DeAngelis, Brian Tracey, Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, Napoleon Hill, Marianne Williamson, John Gray etc. I have gleaned many “pearls of wisdom” from these wonderful teachers.

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Christina Mastering ShIFt
at the young age of 4

playing her violin with her

back to the audience!

I have always been an optimist, one who believes and sees the “bigger picture”. One of my mentors told me back in 1995, that I was an “iconoclast.” I did not know what he meant by calling me that, so, this is what he shared from his perspective:

Well, after my mentor shared that with me, I realized he was right. It was a GIFT that I had. I have always found great pleasure in the shIFt in finding the GIFT!

Early in my career I was a Director of a National Chain of 100 weight loss centers. I broke sales records and managed a staff of nurses and counselors. I also, was very successful as an Account Executive in the Healthcare Industry as an Entrepreneur in sales for 8 years and in the Corporate World of Executive Sales for 13 years. As a highly skilled Account Executive at Baxter Healthcare, I dramatically increased Baxter's marketshare and won many achievement awards of recognition. I also was very successful at 'managing my managers' and developing great relationships with them.

Back in 2000, I had been married to my husband, James, a wonderful man, for 11 years and was living in my “dream home” that James and I had built from scratch. I was supposedly living the “American Dream”, but it did not feel like a dream to me, as I was trying to balance my career with my role as a wife, as a mother of my first daughter, Alexxis, and as a business executive. I was in the notorious rat race on the “wheel” spinning round and round with the proverbial “golden handcuffs” on. It did not feel very good and needless to say, it was not the dream for me!

So, one evening, after a 17-hour-work-day, I decided to follow my “vision” for where I wanted to live. I declared to my husband that same night, that “I am done with this rat race.” I could not live this way anymore. I asked him to go online and find a job in Arizona. (We both had a dream to move to Arizona.). That night, he found a great position online that he wanted, and after 1 month time, as grace would have it, my husband had secured that same position in Arizona and we wrapped up all the details of our former life in Wisconsin and moved out to sunny Arizona and never looked back!

It was a SHIFT all right and it was not easy! I allowed all the IF’s to enter my process, but I paved my way and there are no regrets. Since then, I have had my second daughter, Angela and have enjoyed living in the mountainous area of Mesa, Arizona with my husband and two daughters and three animals.

After re-establishing my sense of my authentic living, my authentic self emerged as a Master ShIFt Coach™. Guiding others to have the courage to make important shifts in their lives toward living their heart’s desires.

If you are in a deep dark place, “Knee DEEP in SHIFT™”, not knowing how to get out…then I am the ladder to get you out! It would be my pleasure!

Follow your Bliss, (I did)

Christina Carpentier
Founder of Co-Volution™
Master ShIFt Coach™
Specializing in Career ShIFts

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