A Bit About Me!

Hello and welcome to The Mindset Project and our new blog.

This first blog is literally going to be an introduction of who I am, my background and how The Mindset Project was born.

So buckle up, this might be a little longer than normal however I hope you enjoy a little insight to me and how this all came about.
(I do have to admit that I LOVE talking so it is challenging to leave out so many finer details however I will just give you the necessities for now!)

I am Adelaide born and raised however recently moved to Geelong for my partner and LOVING it here (other than the cold!).
I absolutely adore my partner and our two golden retrievers.
As I am writing this, I am 25 weeks pregnant and incredibly excited for the next adventure of our lives together.

When I’m not working, I am hanging with my family or friends, going out for food (and wine when I can again!) or baking in the kitchen.
I am a bubbly, social person who also doesn’t mind a night home alone on the couch when needed too.
I can either be super focused or have an attention span lasting about 2 seconds, I love a list, I go through phases of loving to read depending if I have a good book recommendation and it makes me so happy when I see people smiling or giggling at their phones.

Anyway, enough about me…. now for my biz journey!

I grew up with the cliché idea of wanting to help people but not really knowing how.
I first started with the idea of a law and/or psychology career which transitioned into wanting to be a police officer and that’s where my life stopped.
I did everything toward this being my career. I would finish school, get into the police academy and retire as a police officer. All of my school subjects revolved around this, I didn’t get tattoos, I was cautious about the people I hung out with, I participated in extra curricular activities that would look good on my resume and joined a gym to build my fitness to pass the test.
At the end of year 12, I applied and much to my dismay, I didn’t get in.
I had NO idea what to do from here.
I got an ‘in the meantime’ job as a legal secretary until I could apply again and during that time, I was feeling less and less passionate about becoming a police officer.
This was a strange feeling for someone who revolved every life decision around it only 12 months prior.

I needed to work out what to do and decided that fitness had become a passion for me while trying to get fit.
So off I went and become a qualified personal trainer having literally no idea about what it entailed.
I didn’t realise that I would be self-employed, that I would need to find clients in order to get an income and that I would be paying more rent to a gym than what I would be paying for a house.
I never thought I would have become a personal trainer and even less so, I never would’ve imagined that I would buy a gym 6 months into being a personal trainer… but here I was!

I owned my own gym for 6 years, which is a story for another day, however it lead me to the work I do now.

I thought I was hiring a business mentor to help me grow my biz however this mentor taught me that to be a business owner, I needed to do a sh*t tonne of personal development to sort out me before I sorted out my business.

Safe to say my mind was blown!
I had never done a second of personal development work in my life so in a lazy 13 hour personal development session on one cold wet Sunday, my life (and mind) was flipped on its head.
I was able to learn so much about me, my habits, my background, why I did what I did, why I felt so lost in my career, why relationships didn’t work out, where I wanted to go in life, the impact I wanted to have… and the list goes on….

Over the next few years I did a lot of personal development work which is some of the most challenging work I have ever done.

The more I worked on myself, the more I realised that so many of my clients and the people around me would benefit from doing some kind of personal development work.
My clients were at the gym to ‘lose weight’ but after digging a little deeper, they were at the gym to lose weight so that they got more compliments so that they felt more loved so that they were happier.
My friends were settling in jobs or relationships they didn’t even like because they didn’t see their worth in deserving the best life.

I started developing a passion in helping people on a far deeper level than just physical fitness.
I wanted to help their mindset and their overall health. I wanted to see them all thriving. I wanted to eliminate the ‘settling’ mentality that I was seeing far too often. I wanted everyone to be happier.

Long story short, I closed my gym and walked away from the fitness industry.
I have dabbled in SO many areas of mindset and worked SO hard at finding what I wanted to do.
After sitting in the Virgin Australia lounge waiting for a flight with my partner, I was able to knuckle down on the fact that I wanted to start with helping high school girls.
This developed into working with all high school students and then into wanting to get into corporate and workplaces to help those people too.

Slowly but surely I want to get my message out to the world so that I see happier people around me.
I know it’s a-coming!!

From a PT teaching her clients that restrictive meal plans were ideal to a health and mindset who teaches holistic approaches to happiness.
From a harsh-exterior girl who pretended everything was fine to a emotional mess feeling lost and overwhelmed to a grounded woman with clarity.
It has been a journey to say the least however I would not be here without all of the bullsh*t so I owe my current success to all of that!

For those of you who stuck this post out until now, thank you!!
I deeply appreciate you and cannot wait to continuously share value and hopefully help you in your life too.

If you ever have any questions, feedback, comments or want to see a certain topic, please contact me.
I would love to be able to share knowledge.

That’s all for now,
Court 🌻