How to Live in Fierce Alignment: Interview with Spiritual Coach Kehla

This is an interview with Kehla Guimond of KehlaG.com.

Hey, Kehla. Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.

I am certified as a Neuro-Linguistics Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Emotional Freedom Techniques Practitioner, Law of Attraction Life Coach and also trained in TIME Techniques, CORE Method, Life/Success Coaching and Reiki Healing.

I would say my zone of genius is helping people discover the best version of themselves in way they never have before. With this, they get to step into fierce alignment with me helping them understand how to program their mind on a subconscious level, while also getting them to connect deeper with themselves on a soul and energy level.

I’m totally in love with both ends of the spectrum with coaching where the soul meets the subconscious and conscious mind in the most powerful and authentic way possible!

How did you get into personal training and build a business around it?

I’ve been an athlete my entire life, but my first love and passion in life was playing rugby.

I started playing in 2003 when I was 13 years old and continued playing for 17 years all across the globe. I played in Victoria BC, Ontario, the USA and China.

I played for teams that have won provincial championships and in tournaments in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle & many more.

From 2009-2015 I played Varsity for the UVic Vike’s Women’s rugby team in Victoria, BC. In 2013 I was selected to play on the National Women’s 7’s rugby team for the University Olympics in Kazan, Russia. Our team was the first team sport in Canadian history to win a place on the podium with a bronze medal.

In 2015 I graduated from UVic with a BEd in Physical Education and French.

Thinking I wanted to be a teacher with a focus on Health and Fitness, I moved to teach in China at a BC curriculum school close to Shanghai.

From 2015-2016, while living in China, I had the joy of traveling in Asia with my fellow colleagues and friends where I visited Hong Kong, Thailand and South Korea.

In 2016 I moved back to Canada and decided I wanted to work more with 1:1 with clients, rather than students, in fitness and health and so begins the new chapter of my life as a Personal Trainer.

This was my first entrepreneurial journey as I had the privilege of working in a busy city right in the heart of Downtown Toronto. This experience as a Personal Trainer had always been a calling for me as I loved health, fitness and coaching.

I grew a successful personal training business for 3 years before deciding to move back to Vancouver, BC with my long-term boyfriend. When I moved, I gave up the Personal Training world and started growing my business online as a Spiritual Mindset Coach.

When did your personal spiritual journey begin and how did it look like?

In Toronto, I noticed I was always stuck in a grind and feeling like I was in fight or flight mode all the time because I lived and worked in all the hustle and bustle.

A lot of my Personal training clients were VPs/CEO’s and just top notch executives in the Financial District so I always had to be ‘switched on’, which was incredibly draining.

I noticed that I was becoming really unhappy and was missing the west coast vibes of being present in nature. It was always an escape for the next vacation to leave the city and even when we’d land back in Toronto, my boyfriend and I would be looking at the next destination the same night we’d get home. It was bad!

In 2017, after a year of living in Toronto, I finally got fed up with being a victim in my current situation. Around this time that I had made this conscious decision to take control of my reality, a friend of mind introduced me to meditation and reiki healing.

She was a fellow colleague of mine at the gym and a very spiritual being. I was drawn to her and just loved her energy. She hosted a ‘bootcamp’ for meditation and I immediately signed up.

From this moment onward I had discovered my ‘haven’ of calmness no matter where I was in the world. This was my first tool into the world of spirituality and energetic healing.

After getting into meditation, I wanted more so I signed up for a Empath’s Workshop through a centre called ‘Soul Space’ in Toronto. I finally felt like I was getting answers to understand why I felt so sensitive and why I felt this strong need for meditation and learning more about grounding myself through spirituality.

The whole experience really just felt like a ‘remembering’ that simply ‘learning about spirituality’.

In January 2019 one of my best friends invited me to attend a free 5 day livestream event with Kathrin Zenkina, better known as Manifestation Babe on the internet, who was teaching about the Law of Attraction and manifestation.

Funnily enough, I had read the secret in 2012, but this world of manifestation and law of attraction had slipped my mind for the last seven years.

At this point, it was like drinking Kool-aid because I was in it to win it. I became completely obsessed with wanting to understand more about the subconscious mind, energy, being a vibrational-match, all things related to manifestating my desired reality into fruition.

It was January 2019 that I finally decided to take the jump and get into the coaching world. I was done with ‘waiting for the right moment’ because I realized that I was simply self-sabotaging myself for the last five years since I knew this was what I wanted to do.

How did you know it was time to enter the coaching industry and what was the turning point?

Backtrack to 2014, I was at a low point in my life and going through some major issues in a few areas of my life when a good friend of mine introduced me to a personal development course called The Landmark Forum.

This program was my first step into the coaching world. This was the first time I had experience with understanding how the mind creates stories, self-limiting beliefs and truly ‘who we are being’ is what in fact creates our reality.

Through the many programs and seminars I did with this company, I had a great deal of exposure to coaching and absolutely loved it.

In the summer of 2014 I had an intuitive hit – ‘Well Kehla, if you love coaching so much, why don’t you become a coach?’. I was excited to have this realization, but also had no idea how I would make it work. I was finishing up my teaching degree at the time and still had Personal Training on the back of my mind.

I continued with the work from Landmark in Victoria, Vancouver and then Toronto as well. I literally spent 5 years self-sabotaging myself that I didn’t know enough, I didn’t have enough experience – so I pursued teaching and then Personal Training, while still doing all this personal development work on the side for myself.

What happened in my later years of Personal Training was that I started to notice a pattern with my clients. The clients who thought highly of themselves, believed they would succeed – essentially, the ones who had a great mindset were the ones that thrived.

This is when I started ‘coaching’ more with my Personal Training and then discovered that really what I wanted was simply to coach.

So full circle now, jump forward to January 2019, I had finally hit another awakening moment where I decided I was going to make this happen.

I was committed to being an entrepreneur and finally dive into building my business. I think the five years of personal development is truly what allowed me to unpack what I had to get out of my way to finally pursue my dream.

What steps did you take to start your coaching business?

In January 2019 when I decided to go all in I shifted how I showed up on social media.

I switched my Instagram account to business and started posting content related to mindset and spirituality. I created a Facebook page related to my business, I created two courses that I launched to gym clients and friends in the spring of 2019 and just really started taking messy action.

I also started my podcast channel: living in fierce alignment in March 2019. This channel is literally my baby and I’m so happy that I started this right when I began my business!

The reality is, I had no idea what I was doing, the fact that I had ten women sign up for my first course ever with no website, no advertising and no real ‘business’ established, was a miracle.

The first time I ever did a livestream was to this group of women who signed up for my course in May 2019. I think really the secret to starting my business was just taking steps forward in the direction I knew I wanted to go in, even though I felt like I was walking in the dark with no path in sight.

Since 2019 I’ve hired coaches for myself, signed up for courses, read a ton of books, listened to podcasts, attended webinars, invested a lot of money into certifications and just continued to unravel this new world of being an entrepreneur.

It’s really a topless mountain, but it’s the most rewarding thing I�