Today we’d like to introduce you to Jasmine Stokes.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Wow, where do I even begin? Let’s see here to sum it all up… my husband spoke my business to me and into me. I have always been known as an intercessor, as a helping hand, as a comforting ear, as a fixer, as a problem solver. Late one evening my husband was speaking to me and he was like “babe you should just be a life coach”. Now this was something I would joke about and I wanted to do and be but I didn’t necessarily know how to go about it. After having a conversation with him, you know the meta powers that be went into gear, lol. I scroll through Facebook and there’s a class. So quite naturally I was a little afraid but I decided it’s time. So, I signed up and I became a Certified Life Coach. With this, it grew into me becoming a Certified Master Life Coach where I could teach other women the foundational structure to coaching, help them start their businesses, and create a revenue stream in their businesses. I never thought having the gift of helping someone, wanting to help someone, and sharing my life’s journey and lessons would bring me to being an entrepreneur and helping women to this magnitude.
So, I formed The Greater Me Consulting and it is a Coaching and Consulting business for minority women. The sole purpose is to empower women to their next level in life, their “greater” level through Life Coaching. At the Greater Me Consulting, I teach women how to not only survive in their life journey but to thrive. I offer products geared towards confidence, empowerment, and self-healing. The Consulting portion of the business launched The Empower You Academy in late 2019. Here, I offer online courses, webinars, and training certifications to allow women to better themselves in business and entrepreneurship. The biggest challenge I’ve faced with starting my own business was understanding it is mine. I’ve been in Corporate America for over 15 years (I am still a Corporate Bae) and I was so conformed to doing everything “someone else’s” way. It was a daily struggle when I would look at branding, marketing or even catchy slogans. I kept thinking it had to be so “politically correct” and this isn’t the case. I’m the boss, I decide what I want/need, I get to tailor it all to me; my personality, my target audience, and how I want women to feel when they first see or engage with my company. I had a serious pep talk with myself and released that energy and hold that had me. I want women to know and feel encouraged to be them, love them, and most importantly Choose Them! My biggest message is titled “I Choose Me” and it’s a daily affirmation and lifestyle we all have to get accustomed to saying and living. It runs deeper than the outward appearance and it’s more than just a catchy slogan. I’m choosing myself still in so many areas but until I Chose Me, this business I’m running couldn’t. The life I’m living couldn’t choose me until I knew I was comfortable being me and I made no excuses about who I am, what I like, and what I do.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle-free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
It’s been a smooth road honestly. Outside of the normal imposter syndrome popping up which I’ve come to learn this happens to all of the greats. I have been truly blessed for three years and to see a profit. It’s one thing to make the revenue but to see a profit in my business within these three years; I’m elated. I don’t want to say “oh there aren’t any hard days or hurdles”. Yes, fine-tuning my target audience, marketing on a budget, getting additional funding, and learning the many woes of social media marketing have been what I deem the “necessary challenge” for all business owners. The key is to keep researching, keep taking training courses, keeping a coach and supportive system close, and staying open to continuously learning and getting better. I just take it day by day and that keeps me focused, not too overwhelmed and I’m able to appreciate the hurdles once I overcome them.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about The Greater Me Consulting?
As stated above I am a Certified Master Life Coach and I specialize in helping minority women start their businesses. I specialize in helping women make themselves and their purpose a priority. Once they walk in their purpose, they can ignite their passion for business and then see a profit. What sets me apart is the grace of God on my life, the faith my business is built upon, and the fact I am purposed for this. I am passionate about impacting and helping women accept themselves and then my profit comes after I walk in my purpose. The money does not drive me in this business. It is the women I get to impact; their drive and success drives me.
I am most proud of the Empower You Academy. The Academy is where I certify life coaches and the reason, I am most proud of the academy is because this is when and where I get to see what I truly do and the impact it has on the women assigned to me. To date, I have certified 41 women in one year. When each woman registers for class, I say “they are about to get it done”. It being their business, their personal goal, their business product or services release. Once they graduate and they’re doing it I then say “they are getting it done”. This is so refreshing and rewarding. Each woman set out to achieve a goal, they worked with me and achieved it. What more can I ask for?!
I would like to for whomever is reading this to know you are enough, just as you are. This is something I had to learn and be comfortable with before starting my business but it’s become more true while running the business. Being comfortable in who God created you to be and doing what God created you to do is what separates you from anyone else. If anyone is looking to start their business as a Life Coach or Business Consultant or maybe in need of some coaching to help them get to their next in business, please check out my website at www.thegreatermeconsulting.com and enroll in a program. If you do enroll, please let me know you read this article when registering.
Contact Info:
- Email: CoachJas@thegreatermeconsulting.com
- Website: www.thegreatermeconsulting.com
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