Karen Knowler * The Raw Food Coach

Are You Ready to Step Up to the Plate?

The following article is fron this week's issue of Successfully Raw. I'm publishing it here as there's an invitation at the end to take part in a one week tri-fold Raw Coaching Challenge. I'd love as many people to take part in this as possible and I'll be starting the ball rolling myself to give you an idea of how this might look.

So, if you're ready to Step Up to the Plate (or in some cases step away from it!!) and GROW over the next few weeks and months, but specifically during the next seven days then this is for YOU!

Being in the US this past week or so has been an amazing experience on so many levels. Have you ever planned for a trip or event and just known that everything was going to change for you, that something really big was going to happen? This is how I felt at the start of last week before I flew, I just didn’t know how it was going to show up.

Now here I am the day before I fly home and I want to catalyse the essence of what I have experienced to gracefully but powerfully challenge you to step up to the plate in your own world and do what you know you need to do.

Before we get into the big stuff, first some compassion ; )

I know first-hand that knowing you have more inside of you to birth than you are currently living out can feel painful. It feels painful l to stay smaller than you know you are and yet the thought of stepping out often scares the living daylights out of us! Yes, this is something I know only too well!

However, when you up your raw food game this ability to keep yourself back and smaller than who you really are ends up taking a LOT of energy, do you know what I mean?! It’s like a plant that wants to grow, that is destined to grow but uses every ounce of its energy to stop growing – which is actually a really hard, if not impossible thing to do!

Growth is nature’s way. It’s our destiny, our divine blueprint, our joy. It seems to be just us with our crazy mixed up beliefs and toxic heart and mind stuff that have a fear of being who we really are and not just growing but opening up and blossoming like the amazing creations we are.

Ready to Teach Raw Food Classes?

My Raw Classes Training happening this December is now SOLD OUT but if you'd like to go on the waiting list in case of cancellation read here to find out all about it...

As the live Training is being filmed, I'm delighted to now be able to announce the full details of the next-best-thing - the "Raw Food Classes - To Go!" Home Study Program which is borne of this training.

So if you'd like to learn how to create, plan, market, fill and run a raw food class of your very own design for passion and/or profit, read on, as there's an amazing time-sensitive offer here for you that expires on Monday at 5pm UK time - and it really is incredible...

Where in the World is Karen?!

Wow, it’s been an amazing couple of weeks and you may or may not know that for the past 8 days I’ve been in the US, spending 6 days in LA and from Monday night til this coming Saturday in warm and sunny Tucson, Arizona.

There’s so much to say, I don’t know where to start, but here’s the headlines!

Wednesday 12 Nov: Flew from London to LA, arriving at hotel mid afternoon. I was there to attend Ali Brown’s final Online Success Blueprint Workshop – a vision I had held for myself for the past two years. Finally I was there!

Thursday 13 Nov: Day 1 of the workshop and I met two people who receive Successfully Raw – how cool! This was a powerful day for me as I wrangled about how to move forward with my raw food work/ service direction, torn between two possible avenues - totally unexpected dilemma, but isn’t that always the way?!

Friday 14 Nov: Day 2 and by this time I had started to meet some really amazing people – some I already knew through the world of the internet and others who were new to me, but what an AMAZING place to be! Ali herself really is an amazing woman and when her own business mentor came on stage – my goodness, now that caused a stir. Minds were exploding left and right to see what “a tiny redhead from Scotland” has achieved in her career so far. Truly inspiring and unforgettable.

Saturday 15 Nov: Day 3 – the final day of the workshop, and this was a turning point for me. After much to-ing and fro-ing and with the help of two wonderful friends I made a big decision. From that moment forward the synchronicities kicked in in a big way and I knew I had made the right decision, even though I had had pretty explosive anxiety dreams the night before!

Katie's Looking Radiant in Red Magazine!

I'm so proud and excited to announce that Katie Foster, my PA, is currently looking radiant and gorgeous inside the current issue of Red magazine (December 2008).

Red magazine is a best-selling monthly women's magazine here in the UK and of all the glossies is by far one of the most highly respected. So when they called our offices recently looking for "a woman in her 30's who will be a eating raw food for Christmas" I only had to walk across the hallway to find the perfect candidate!

Katie blogged recently about her day on the photo shoot, and although she came back with a beautiful Polaroid, she was still very nervous about the eventual outcome.

Well, I think she looks amazing, don't you? In fact, I know I'm not alone as of all the women interviewed for this piece on Christmas eating habits she was the first one to appear and the only one to get a double page spread (plus she comes across as completely sane (which she is!) - even better :)

Find out what Katie had to share by clicking on the link below (this will open a PDF document), or if you're this side of the pond hop along to your nearest newsagents to see the fabulous results in its full glossy glory.

Download Katie_Foster_Red_Magazine_Dec_2008.pdf

Three cheers for Katie!