Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Lisa T. Lewis.
It’s an honor to speak with you today. Why don’t you give us some details about you and your story. How did you get to where you are today?
Dr. Lisa T. Lewis, The Belief System (B.S.) Boss®, through her Belief System training, teaches career-oriented single mothers how to provide abundantly and effortlessly for their families so that they can achieve their love and money goals guilt-free and stress-free. A certified John Maxwell Team Coach and TEDx Talk Speaker. Dr. Lisa is a best-selling author. You can get her most recent book, “Single Moms Guide To Love and Money: Five Keys To Unlock Both,” at www.SingleMomsGuide.VIP. She brings thirty-one years and counting of leadership and management in the public section Finance arena. Dr. Lisa has a Certificate in Public Leadership and Women’s Executive Leadership from The Brookings Institute, a Certificate in Personal Development & Executive Coaching from The Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute, and is an ordained Elder/Clergy in the Christina faith. Dr. Lisa became a teenage single mother to a unique and anointed daughter; five months before her twentieth birthday. Raised in a solidly middle-class family, she didn’t want her daughter to grow up without or become a “child-of-a-single-mother-statistic.” She knew that required her to increase her income.
I’m sure your success has not come easily. What challenges have you had to overcome along the way?
She began her public service career in Washington, D.C. as a receptionist and worked her way up to be the Director of Budget and eventually a Chief Financial Officer in Lakeland, Florida. She works for the Hurricane Hunters. Like the pilots flying into the eye of the storm, Dr. Lisa’s career journey wasn’t easy. She encountered several prejudices and obstacles that, at various points, stalled her career advancement. Those prejudices and obstacles planted seeds of self-limiting belief systems that she had to overcome. During her recent TEDx Talk, “Progressing and Pampering While Awakening Possibility,” she shares the story of how a woman supervisor, whom she admired and looked up to, negatively impacted her professional career. Her supervisor told her that she was “over-ambitious and needed to slow down.” Unfortunately, Dr. Lisa allowed her supervisors’ negative opinions to stunt her career advancement. She stopped taking classes. applying for promotions and reading self-help and inspirational books. She just stopped cold in her tracks for an entire year. That was until she had to look her daughter in the eyes and tell her no; she couldn’t send her daughter to sleepaway camp because she couldn’t afford the investment. When Dr. Lisa saw the look in her daughter’s eyes, she promised herself that it wouldn’t happen again. She was getting back on her pathway to promotion because she wanted to do her part to facilitate her daughter’s success in life: that required money and lots of it.
Let’s talk about the work you do. What do you specialize in and why should someone work with you over the competition?
Along her journey to success, she continues to help women and single mothers create an executable success plan. She utilizes her over thirty years of experience to do so. She fully acknowledges that success looks different for each person. However, self-limiting beliefs keep women, single mothers, from fully realizing the success of reaching their love and money goals. All of us have beliefs that limit us and hold us back. Some of these self-limiting beliefs were instilled in us by our parents. While other self-limiting beliefs we’ve adopted at some point in our lives. Whatever the case, these beliefs seriously limit us. They keep us from achieving our full potential. They hamper our progress and stunt our growth. If we’re going to achieve our fullest potential, we must learn to identify and overcome the self-limiting beliefs that may be holding us back. Dr. Lisa walks her clients through rewriting the self-limiting belief into a set of empowering beliefs. Her clients take specific actions that will help them put their new empowering beliefs into action. Finally, they recite an affirmation that will enable them to burn the empowering beliefs into their mind and heart, just as Dr. Lisa had to do personally and professionally. She also walks her clients through determining if the success they seek is their own or someone else. Her first question to them is, “Are You Following Your Path, or Someone Else’s?” To have a truly fulfilling life, you must live it on your terms.
What’s your best piece of advice for readers who desire to find success in their life?
To have a truly fulfilling life, you must live it on your terms. It’s important to remember that everyone is different, and while the status quo might work for much of the population, it doesn’t work for everyone. There are plenty of forces willing to tell you what your success should be or look like: • Parents. Your parents want you to be happy and prosperous. Many of them also want to brag to their friends about their children. Parents tend to be practical in their advice. Just remember that you’d have a similar life to them if you followed their advice. That might be good or bad. You also have your own life to live. • Educational system. The educational system wants to turn out productive people into a society that conforms to their thinking. This way of existing or thought might be great for society, but it might not be in your best interests. • Society as a whole. It’s nice to admire society. Our egos crave this type of recognition. But the kind of life dictated by society isn’t a good fit for everyone. There are plenty of highly successful people by society’s criteria that are miserable.
Speaking of success, what does the word mean to you?
Success is being an individual and finding the success and path to success that works best for you. Following these strategies is success personified: 1. Ask yourself what you want to do. Don’t say that you don’t know because you do know. You’re just afraid to allow it to see the light of day. You might be concerned about what others think, or you might be fearful that you’re not capable of doing it. Deep down, you know what you want, what you would do if you could do anything, and then listen to the answer. 2. Deciding that you’re going to follow your path. One of the biggest obstacles to success is failing to make an actual decision. A decision only occurs when you shut yourself off to other possibilities. If you frequently change your mind, you’re not making real decisions. 3. Making a plan. Set up a schedule of daily tasks that will bring you closer to living the life that you have chosen. You’re practically guaranteed success provided you don’t give up. Your life is your responsibility. If you find yourself stuck living someone else’s definition of success, you’ll find yourself all alone. The people who influenced you to live this way will live their own lives. Take control of your destiny and find your path. Your life will be more interesting, satisfying, and uniquely your own!
What’s next for you?
According to the United Nations Women’s, 2020, there are more than 100 million single mothers globally. Dr. Lisa’s calling is to reach and serve as many single mothers as possible. She does that as an Author, Speaker, Coach, and Clergywoman. She hosts Masterclasses, Workshops, Group Coaching Sessions and provides Keynote speeches for organizations. Being a single mother is not a death sentence. It’s not the end of your life. You, nor your children, have to be a negative societal statistic, but you can defy the odds. You can overcome self-limiting belief systems and define success on your terms to enjoy a whole and prosperous life.
Finally, how can people connect with you if they want to learn more.
Dr. Lisa can be reached by phone, email info@DrLisaTLewis.com or https://linktr.ee/IAmDrLisaTLewis. Her linktr.ee account will get you to all of her social media platforms and her most recent offerings.