"Diversify your income streams. "
Helen Millar inspires and supports people to shift from head to heart living. Allowing them to leave behind a life motivated by small silent fears, to one emanating love. As a coach, speaker, author and founder of Heart Healer (TM), she runs events, retreats, one-to-one sessions and a membership platform that enables people to empower themselves, mind, body and soul to heal the world by healing themselves.
As an award-winning actor and international business coach, Helen saw a huge need for people to live authentically from their hearts: the heady world of business and competitive nature of show biz was leading to burnout and a sense of being lost in their lives. Helen used her personal experiences of turning a life around from workaholic self-saboteur, to celebrating life in all its unexpected diversity, to create Heart Healer.
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We are thrilled to have you join us today, welcome to ValiantCEO Magazine’s exclusive interview! Let’s start off with a little introduction. Tell our readers a bit about yourself and your company.
Helen Millar: Helen Millar inspires and supports people to shift from head to heart living. Allowing them to leave behind a life motivated by small silent fears, to one emanating love. As a coach, speaker, author and founder of Heart Healer (TM), she runs events, retreats, one-to-one sessions and a membership platform that enables people to empower themselves, mind, body and soul to heal the world by healing themselves.
As an award-winning actor and international business coach, Helen saw a huge need for people to live authentically from their hearts: the heady world of business and competitive nature of show biz was leading to burnout and a sense of being lost in their lives. Helen used her personal experiences of turning a life around from workaholic self saboteur, to celebrating life in all its unexpected diversity, to create Heart Healer.
2020 and 2021 threw a lot of curve balls into business on a global scale. Based on the experience gleaned in the past couple years, how can businesses thrive in 2022? What lessons have you learned?
Helen Millar: Stop comparing yourself to life before 2020. We are not going back there, we are all changed irrevocably from the last two years and if you are chasing an old way of doing things in order to find a safe of security, you are missing the gifts of growth that the universe has given you.
I have learned to create more space in my life, to work on quality not quantity and to really listen to my deep needs, not the ones born out of comparison or a knee-jerk response to a feeling of rejection or disappointment.
The pandemic seems to keep on disrupting the economy, what should businesses focus on in 2022? What advice would you share?
Helen Millar: I’d say:
- Diversify your income streams.
- Use cash where possible.
- Support small businesses.
- Go the extra mile to avoid the convenience of Amazon.
- What we put out comes back to us.
- How can you lighten your load so you can move swiftly if necessary, whether that be physically or emotionally.
- Eat, exercise and sleep well so you have an agile body to support a robust spirit and keen mind.
How has the pandemic changed your industry and how have you adapted?
Helen Millar: My company primarily consisted of large in-person events each month, in and around London and other European cities. I also sold a product online.
Due to the uncertainty of live events I shifted to online, which then morphed into a membership community, I have doubled the range of products I offer online. I started a YouTube and telegram channel and created collaborations with aligned companies. I entwined another business I had as an executive coach into this company so I could align what I offered and meet the needs of people dealing with the big life questions that arose in 2020. To reflect how my work diversified I rebranded in 2021 and invested a lot in a new website and software to support my new way of working.
My industry has grown over the past two years but it has also become a lot more competitive. Rather than trying to compete I am sticking true to my authenticity and focusing on the people I am aligned with rather than a broader more commercial reach.
What advice do you wish you received when the pandemic started and what do you intend on improving in 2022?
Helen Millar: I intend on creating a range of courses during 2022 and increasing my membership community. I am thinking of relocating countries and what to build the foundations to be able to work from anywhere.
Online business surged higher than ever, B2B, B2C, online shopping, virtual meetings, remote work, Zoom medical consultations, what are your expectations for 2022?
Helen Millar: I expect there will be a huge surge in career changes and people getting out of the rat race. More small businesses emerging, more people moving out of cities, more people supporting local communities, growing their own food and focusing on the quality of their life and mental wellbeing.
How many hours a day do you spend in front of a screen?
Helen Millar: 4-6 in general. I try never to do more than 8, it can happen.
The majority of executives use stories to persuade and communicate in the workplace. Can you share with our readers examples of how you implement that in your business to communicate effectively with your team?
Helen Millar: I draw on my own life experience when relating to clients, and followers on social media. It is helpful when you can share your vulnerabilities and talk about things we often deam as shameful or embarrassing. Social media can fool us in to believing everybody but us is incredibly successful and living a happy y life. It can be empowering, inspiring and hearteneing to know you are not the only one who struggles.
Business is all about overcoming obstacles and creating opportunities for growth. What do you see as the real challenge right now?
Helen Millar: The real challenge is the insecurity around the world, not only in the financial markets, but also in supply chains, food shortages and health of the workforce, and political corruption. Insecurity creates opportunities for new creations to emerge, but it also can limit our ability to create, trust and take risks if we allow it to drive us towards fear.
In 2022, what are you most interested in learning about? Crypto, NFTs, online marketing, or any other skill sets? Please share your motivations.
Helen Millar: I have been in crypto since 2018. I am interested in furthering my online marketing knowledge as it is a never-ending journey and particularly video editing and ecourse creation. Further down the line I want to expand my writing.
A record 4.4 million Americans left their jobs in September in 2021, accelerating a trend that has become known as the Great Resignation. 47% of people plan to leave their job during 2022. Most are leaving because of their boss or their company culture. 82% of people feel unheard, undervalued and misunderstood in the workplace. Do you think leaders see the data and think “that’s not me – I’m not that boss they don’t want to work for? What changes do you think need to happen?
Helen Millar: I think we need a paradigm shift where be take the world away from being profit driven to people focused. Where this is at the centre of the work place and not a strap line on every website that doesn’t translate to the boardroom. Doable but not easy wen we have such distorted systems in place.
With this comes a need for a greater undsteranding about how to raise children, support parents and value creativity and the arts.
When we understand the real needs of the human body and soul we can remember to real needs of the planet and how to live peacefully upon it.
On a lighter note, if you had the ability to pick any business superpower, what would it be and how would you put it into practice?
Helen Millar: To have a business superpower I would have technology that works itself. To have a real superpower it would be to transcend my ego so I could constantly be aligned with my highest good for the highest good of all and stop creating karma and experience any form of suffering; true liberation in life.
What does “success” in 2022 mean to you? It could be on a personal or business level, please share your vision.
Helen Millar: 2022 success means deeper personal growth, a more expansive heart, greater creativity and joy in my day to day.
Jerome Knyszewski, VIP Contributor to ValiantCEO and the host of this interview would like to thank Helen Millar for taking the time to do this interview and share her knowledge and experience with our readers.
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