Interview with Anne-Marie Lerch
Mindset Expert and Business Success Coach
Q. How did you get to be a Mindset Expert and Business Coach?
A. I started getting into personal development about 10 years ago when I was in an extremely dysfunctional relationship with someone I loved very much, someone I couldn’t live with but couldn’t live without. It was one of “those” relationships. I found myself completely down and depressed about the whole situation so I turned to self-help.
I started going to seminars, read lots of books, found myself mentors and studied topics such as success principles, universal laws, manifestation, personal development and intuition. Through these principles I was able to completely turn my life around. I was consulting for a large corporation at the time and lived in Toronto, Canada. Suddenly, the weirdest things started to happen. I started manifesting things and great things started opening up for me. I remember I was sitting in my car needing a pair of scissors thinking “if this whole manifestation thing works then universe give me a pair of scissors”, I looked around and somehow I had a pair of scissors on the floor of the backseat of my car.
I then started having dreams that would come true. As a software tester I became really good at what I did. I would have dreams about where to locate software bugs and the next day I would find them exactly where my dreams told me to. I knew I was tapping into something, I just didn’t know what.
It wasn’t until New Years day of 2005 that I really put these principles to the test.
That’s when I wrote down what I thought were Big Goals.
1. I wanted to make $30,000 more than my already decent salary
2. To work for the greatest software company of all time (Microsoft)
3. To someday become a professional speaker and have my own business
4. To get married to a great man
I was consulting for a large corporation at the time and living in Toronto, Canada. A few months later, I started getting the feeling like I wasn’t supposed to be there. I just felt like I was supposed to be doing more and it felt like I had a bigger purpose. The feeling became so strong, that I just woke up one day and quit my job without anything to fall back on! I was scared, but somehow felt guided. I ended up getting an interview at Microsoft and I flew out to Seattle. I was devastated when I didn’t get the job. My heart completely sunk. But something in me just said “go anyway… if you want it, you’ll get it”.
I decided to pack my car, leave my family and friends behind and I drove across the country to Seattle, Washington with only $1000 in the bank. It was a huge leap of faith for me. It felt like jumping off a bridge and hoping that someone would catch me. The day before I arrived in Seattle, I got an email about an open position at Microsoft, for the exact role and for the exact amount of money I desired. I got the job and within 4 months of writing down my goals, I had checked TWO of them off my list!
When that happened, I knew that I had stumbled upon something really big. I decided to test my theory and applied the same process to my disastrous love life (and I mean disastrous). Within 1 year of setting my goal to meet a great man, I was engaged. Another goal achieved!
My friends and family started consulting me about their own dreams and how to achieve them. Sales people and entrepreneurs would talk to me about their businesses and together we would come up with bigger goals, better game plans and winning ideas. After having my first child, I started my own consulting and coaching company, which gave me opportunities to speak about the results I had achieved and help others to do the same. Without even realizing it at the time, Goal Number 4 was accomplished.
I wish I could say that the transition from corporate life to growing my own business was easy, but it wasn’t. My family was affected by the downturn in the economy just like many others. However, I realized that knowing the principles and applying the principles are two completely different things. No matter how much I think I know, I will always be a student, stretching and expanding my mind to achieve bigger and greater things, things I never thought possible. During the difficult time, I applied my winning formula once again, and within one month I turned my yearly income into my monthly income! I refused to let circumstances dictate my success.
I have since helped countless small business owners and sales people accelerate their success by setting bigger goals and consistently achieving them using my proven principles and my easy to follow, step by step guide to attracting everything you want.
Q. How can you help me?
A. I work with entrepreneurs, business owners and sales people to determine what in their thinking is holding them back from achieving their goals. Success starts from the inside out. A successful business will follow the change in thinking. Once we determine the appropriate goal, we work on a game plan on how to get you there.
Q. What kind of results can I expect?
A. Expect a changed mind and a changed consciousness which will have you achieving your goals. If you are willing to do whatever it takes, follow the process and never give up, you can expect to achieve your goal.
Clients report:
- Achieving Set Goals
- Making more money
- Clarity in direction and business strategy
- Growing their business more than they thought possible
- A changed thinking leading to ease and peace
Q. What is mind science?
A. Mind science is the art of thinking and how thinking adds or takes away from your success. Your outer world is just a reflection of your inner world. Thoughts are things. If you want to know what you’ve been thinking just look at your results. Mind science is using various techniques to create a changed consciousness for the purpose of achieving your goals
Q. What makes you different than other coaches?
A. I’m more intuitive than most coaches. One night, Seven Years ago, I had a dream about work. At the time I was testing software for a program we were developing for a large utility company. In my dream, I found software bugs/defects in different areas in the computer program. The next day, I decided to do exactly what my dream told me, and sure enough everything that I dreamed about came true. I knew I started tapping in to an intelligence that I could not yet explain. I became really, really good at what I did.
I have since learned to strengthen my intuition and use it to help others in their business. Many times when working with people I will receive intuitive insight about what is blocking their success in their business or what someone can do differently in their lives to create more of what they want. Many times, it is old inherited thinking patterns that is causing the unwanted results.
I have the background business knowledge and am able to see things from a completely different perspective than most coaches. I go with my gut and my intuitive insights when working with people.
Q. What type of consulting did you previously do?
A. I have a bachelor of Mathematics specializing in Systems Management with a double major in Business. My background is in IT consulting and business consulting. My expertise is in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI). BI is how companies can better leverage their data to grow their business through different offerings around their business. My expertise is also in software development from analysis, development, testing, implementation and project management.
I have worked in the following sectors:
- Pharmaceutical
- Utilities
- Software
- Financial
- Government
- Medical
Before I started my own company working with entrepreneurs and small business owners, I consulted with many reputable companies such as:
- Accenture
- Deloitte and Touche
- Sybase
- GE Consumer Finance
- Microsoft
- Banking Institutions
- Medical Offices
- Law Offices
Q. Who do you work with now?
A. I work mainly with entrepreneurs, sales people and small business owners that are open to working with universal laws to create success. I best work with people that believe in a Higher Power as much of my work is spiritual based. Examples of people are work with are:
- Real Estate Agents
- Insurance Agents
- Sales People
- Small business owners
- Network Marketers
- Chiropractors
- Massage Therapists
- Coaches
- Graphic Designers
- Managers
- Executives
