Client Case Study

FROM SCARCITY TO ABUNDANCE.

Gordon spent two and a half years sending out resumes into silence. The breakthrough came when he stopped fixing his resume and started fixing what he believed about himself.

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The Challenge

Two and a half to three years of active job searching with almost no response and only one interview in the entire stretch, while stuck in a hostile workplace after an ownership change.

The Shift

A daily six-phase meditation practice, added to his existing morning routine, moved him from scarcity self-talk to a felt sense of abundance within a matter of weeks.

The Outcome

A six-figure job offer, arriving just 30 days after he first came across the opportunity.

Olivia Gamber

A Note From The Founder

Olivia Gamber, CEO

Gordon came to me already exhausted. Not from one bad month of job searching, but from two and a half years of it. Resume after resume, almost no response, one interview in all that time. Add a company sale that turned his workplace hostile overnight, and he was ready to put on a store apron and call it done.

What struck me most in our first conversation wasn't his resume. It was how quickly he named the real problem. He kept saying some version of I'm not good enough, I can't get a job, I can't do this. That is scarcity talking, not a lack of qualifications. Gordon had spent years feeding that voice without realizing it was the thing standing between him and the next role.

This is his story of what happened when he decided to feed something else instead.

Two And A Half Years Of Silence

Gordon

When I was introduced to you, Olivia, I had already been for probably two and a half to three years actively searching for a job... I sent out resume after resume after resume and just wasn't getting any kind of traction. I think I had one interview in that entire time.

And I started thinking, well, what's wrong with me? Why aren't people interested in talking to me? I've done all this stuff. Why can't I get a new job? Why am I stuck in this really what had become a crap job?

And when things changed with ownership of the company, it went downhill very quickly. And I ended up in a very hostile environment. And all of those things were eating at me... I really was in a bad space. I was ready to hang it up and go work at one of those box stores, put the little apron on and I'll greet customers or whatever.

“Why aren't people interested in talking to me? I've done all this stuff. Why can't I get a new job?”

An Opening In The Dark

Olivia Gamber

Take us through when we met, right, when you started this process of going through your career transition and this program and the transformation, what was the mindset of scarcity? What did that mean to you? What was that looking like?

Gordon

I came across a Facebook ad and gotten in touch with you and Kevin... one of the first things that struck me when I met you through zoom was that you started talking about a six phase meditation that you had done every day for a year and how it had changed your life.

I was in that dark place, but I was open. I was like, everything that I have done has not worked. You've got something that you think will work for me. Tell me, feed me, pour it in here because I need it, whatever it is, I'll take it.

And when you said, meditate, find your way to a place of abundance. I said, sure, absolutely. I'm going to do that because what else have I got to lose?

“You've got something that you think will work for me. Tell me, feed me, pour it in here because I need it, whatever it is, I'll take it.”

Building Abundance, Day By Day

Gordon

And when you started talking about mindset and getting to a and being in a place of scarcity, you basically described me when you said, I'm not good enough. I can't get a job. I can't do this. I can't, can't, can't, can't, can't. And that was where I was at.

I had already had, when I met you, I had already had a morning routine and I just added the meditation to it... within about three or four weeks, my wife noticed a difference and it's like, wow, what's going on?

It took me several years to get into that deep, dark hole of scarcity. It took me quite a while to get out of it. But within a couple of weeks, I started to see the top of the hole and started to climb back out... you are closer to a six-figure job than you think you are. You're really only six inches away from it. And that six inches is right up here.

Olivia Gamber

I love it. Cause that's what I've been preaching. The identity comes first, the universe rewards who you are, not what you want. And you became abundance literally. And I just want to celebrate you for that.

“It really was where I had come from and who I became in the process was much more important than the money.”

The Offer, Held Loosely

Olivia Gamber

When you messaged me on LinkedIn, you told me you got that six-figure offer. Then I saw your post on LinkedIn and it was all about the abundant energy you had moved into. And it was nowhere about the money anymore. So I would love to hear when you got to that state, what did that mean to you?

Gordon

We used to talk about not being invested in the outcome of an interview. And that's really where I was at. I came across this opportunity... I came across it 30 days ago today. I did, had no idea. Yeah, that sounds pretty interesting. Oh, I'll see what happens. It's no big deal.

It wasn't about the money because I had been validated in terms of thinking I'm too old. The hiring manager is less than half my age. And that told me that I'm in a unique place with this particular company. It's a transformation for me.

The fact that they just wanted me and they saw my value and thanks to you and the things that I learned through the program... I felt so at ease in the interview and even now I'm still trying to figure out, wow, did I really get that job?

Gordon

Give yourself some time, give yourself some time. It took me a good four or five, maybe six years to dig myself into that hole of darkness and scarcity. It's going to take you some time to get out of it.

By the time I got to the end of it, I was so charged with positive energy and I would sit there and go, thank goodness. I did that because I feel so much better now than I did 30 minutes ago. And now I'm ready to go out and face whatever this world has to throw at me.

“I feel so much better now than I did 30 minutes ago. And now I'm ready to go out and face whatever this world has to throw at me.”

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Olivia: when you started this process of going through your career transition and this program and the transformation, what was the mindset of scarcity? What did that mean to you? What was that looking like?

Gordon: When I was introduced to you, Olivia, I had already been for probably two and a half to three years actively searching for a job. Um, it's, it's, it's no big secret. You see this gray down here. I'm past 50. Um, and for two and a half, three years, I sent out resume after resume after resume and just wasn't getting any kind of traction. I think I had one interview in that entire time.

Gordon: And I started thinking, well, what's wrong with me? Why aren't people interested in talking to me? I've done all this stuff. Um, what, why can't I get a new job?

Gordon: And when things changed with ownership of the company, it went downhill very quickly. And I ended up in a very hostile environment.

Gordon: I came across a Facebook ad and, uh, gotten in touch with, um, you and, and Kevin. And I know things have changed since then, but really, um, one of the, the first things that struck me when I met you through zoom was that you started talking about a six phase meditation that you had done every day for a year and how it had changed your life and understand this. I think this is important because when I came to the program that you were running at the time, I was in that dark place, but I was, I was open. I was like, everything that I have done has not worked. You've got something that you think will work for me. Tell me, feed me, pour it in here because I need it, whatever it is, I'll take it. And I think that was probably one of the key

Gordon: in a place of scarcity, you basically described me when you said, I'm not good enough. I can't get a job. I can't do this. I can't, can't, can't, can't, can't. And that was where I was at. And it resonated so heavily with me that when you said, meditate, find your way to a place of abundance. I said, sure, absolutely. I'm going to do that because what else have I got to lose?

Olivia: how they don't know what they're going to do. They can't even, they don't have any references to support it. If you're talking to your former self and somebody listening that could be in that situation, what's some parting wisdom you would leave them with?

Gordon: I feel so much better now than I did 30 minutes ago. And now I'm ready to go out and face whatever this world has to, to throw at me.

Olivia: was nowhere about the money anymore. So I would love to hear when you got to that state, what did that mean to you? And why did all of a sudden money become irrelevant to you?

Gordon: if it wasn't a six figure job, I probably would still be pretty excited about it.

Gordon: it wasn't about the, the money because I had been validated in terms of, you know, thinking I'm too old. My, the, the hiring manager is less than half my age. And that told me that I'm in a unique place with this particular company. That they don't see age. They don't see skin color. They don't see gender. It's, it's really a, a, a transformation for me and

Gordon: it really was where I, where I had come from and who I became in the process was much more important than the money.

Gordon: well, we used to talk about not being invested in the outcome of an interview. And that's really where I was at.

Gordon: that sounds pretty interesting. Oh, I'll, I'll, I'll see what happens. It's no big deal.

Gordon: I felt so at ease in the interview and, you know, even now I'm still kind of, you know, trying to figure out, wow, did I really, did I really get that job?