I didn’t see any I wanted to be happy. That’s what I told myself, but I felt I didn’t know anyone that was happy, which is interesting. So I literally had to figure out, what does that mean? What does it mean to be happy? So in that process, I started reading books. You know, back then there were a lot of self help books. So I would read, read, read, read, and then I would end up at a lecture. And make a long story short, as I navigated through lectures and workshops on being happy and and feeling good. What resonated with me was that the truth was inside of me. The truth was inside so that put me on a journey for many, many years of trying to understand, what does it mean to have inner strength? What does it mean to be resilient?

Manon Bolliger  03:25

Yeah, yeah. Well, especially in a society where, you know, we’re kind of taught to look for solutions outside,

Diane Randall  03:34

right? Yes, we are taught. Yeah, we are taught. But I feel that I was so lucky in the path that I navigated was clearly showing me and telling me that the truth is inside, and I just needed to figure out how to how to get to it. I remember reading Elizabeth lesser book the it was called the the spiritual. It was the like the first book she read. It was the beginner’s guide to spirituality, basically. And that concept resonated so deeply with me. So once I discovered something that resonated with me, not only resonated with me, but made me feel lighter, lighter inside, and I would just stay on that path. And I’m telling you, I’ve gone in my younger years all over the United States and abroad, just trying to understand the different concepts that could help me just become not only happier but healthier, wanting to just be present. The all the concepts of that would make me a happier, healthier person. So as I navigated, I’m telling you, this was over 20 years. I think this, this evolvement, went over 20 years, and that took me to a personal development course. That’s how I got into life coaching. I wasn’t trying to be a coach, but I took the curriculum because I wanted to dive deeper into personal development what those concepts mean, and that led me to a behavior change. Because, okay, what does it mean for my behavior to change? Because, in the world, typically, you know, we’re, you know, you don’t change. You’re too old to change. Or, you know, how do you how do you figure out what change meant? And with intention, you know, how do I live my life with intention, which was really it. And then I’ve gone to so many workshops, talked to so many spiritual teachers, because I figured the secret sauce was it not just my mind and my body, but it was also my spirit. And believe me, I tried just the physical, external way I tried just the mind shifts, but then this the inner spirituality, really what made everything complete, the mind, the body and the Spirit. And once I learned all these concepts and I was feeling better, people would literally ask me, Wow, what are you doing? You look better, you feel better. You know, it’s always something positive that they would say to me about, you know, how I was navigating in the world, because some people knew me as this really sad, withdrawn person, and all of a sudden, I’ve changed, you know, I’m smiling, I’m happy and and I just wanted more and more and more over the years. And what I realized was I needed to share what I learned with other people, because in this world, we are taught to look outside of ourselves. We have all this messaging and conditioning that keep us sad and just in a negative toxic, you know, just negative toxic world and not being present, always distracted. So what I do is I help people to become present, to learn who they are and to love who they are, and I meet them where they are, and I really try to empower them to know that it takes courage to change. It takes courage to be that person you want to be, because there’s always society telling us who we should be and how we should navigate life, all this programming that I call going on around the world so so that’s my biggest, biggest passion and purpose I feel.

Manon Bolliger  08:27

And how do people, and I don’t mean technically, you know, like they look on the browser, but what are they looking for to be able to find you? What is it that their need is? Or, you know, how do, how does one happen to come your way?

Diane Randall  08:46

Well, I always say I my clients evolve, because at first I was just, you know, coaching, time management, basically, time management and work life balance, never even thought about the inner part. So what how people find me is if they’re looking for holistic living, if they want their whole life to come together, not just their physical aspect, but their mind and their and the physical, mental and physical and spiritual selves to come together, because that’s what I teach them, how to get inner strategies to create the lives they truly want. And a lot of people who aren’t really, who aren’t really living their true life, who aren’t really living an authentic life. They’re living for everybody else. Those are the people that get attracted to me, people who,

Manon Bolliger  09:53

I mean, it’s, it’s kind of a marketing question, but it’s not really a marketing question. It’s like a boy, both, both i. Angles. Because, you know, often people don’t know quite they know what their problem is, but they’re not aware of what they’re looking for. But are you, are you able to reach people with what they’re looking for? Or more from that, like, you know, my life is chaos. I’m not making any sense of it anymore. I don’t have a purpose. I don’t have time. You know that type is,

Diane Randall  10:28

oh yeah, I get you. I get you so or or they say, You know what? I’m okay, you know so what? I asked them, when they say, you know, I don’t have time. I said, Well, what would your life look like if, if it represented what you really, really wanted? And sometimes I get them to journal that as well. And a lot of things come up out of that type of exercise. Because you’re right. It’s not on the tip of your tongue, right? You know, just like me, I didn’t know I was depressed. I really didn’t know I knew I was sad, but I didn’t pull it all together. So So sometimes, I mean, so it’s basically asking those questions, you know, what would your life look like if it represented what you truly want and what do you want? And sometimes you don’t know what you want, you just know what you don’t want, right? So that journaling process helps the inner critic. You know, what are you saying to yourself and in the process of reframing that, yeah, a lot of what they want does come up because it’s just what they’ve been telling themselves which blocks all the things that they really want. So when they say, you know, I want to be a teacher, and I’m just using that basically, okay, what would that look like? Who would you be talking to? What grade would you teach? You know when you’re journaling, because that helps bring what they want from just a concept in their mind to reality on paper. Yeah. And then I say, Well, who would you? Who would you be if you could teach, how would you feel if you could teach, oh, man, I’d be happy, you know, I’d be teaching the sixth grade. That is how it’s really getting them to tune in and connect to that person they want to be.

Manon Bolliger  12:40

Yeah, no, that, I mean, that makes sense. And then now I’m going to go marketing for a moment here. Okay, because I You’re like a perfect candidate. You, you didn’t know what you had, and took you 20 years to resolve it through reaching out just about everywhere, which, if we were to make that faster, right? So now you have something you want to share, you’re very clear what it is and how you help people. But do you do like ads? And I don’t know, Facebook or YouTube, or do you do all? It’s all like referral, and therefore

Diane Randall  13:19

I have two books. And, you know, I do ads. I do everything. You know, I do the ads. But I learned a long time ago that my business is not for everybody. And I teach, I teach personal development courses at a local college, okay, workshops that I’ve designed, that’s how I had to learn to get my get the word out, because people are not just standing in line trying to heal.

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Diane Randall  15:05

no, but, but I do attract the people and really want to live a life because, like, like, I told you, my life evolved over time. I don’t want people to have to discover everything, every detail. So I’ve written two books, one called jump start your life. I wrote that in 2017 and I wrote a book, and it was published in the summer of 2024, July of 2024, called a whole life nourish, plant based, living with a holistic approach. Because what I also realized, it’s not just the mind, body and spirit. What am I putting into my body? You know? So, so I’ve evolved in ways that I never anticipated, taking one day at a time, just small steps. And that’s what I tell people also, it’s just small steps towards whatever you want, but if, but how do you empower yourself to do it? Because first, we have to release all those things that are keeping us stuck. Because if we could do it, we would have done it right. So we also have to look at, what are those barriers? What’s keeping me in the place I’m in? So it’s really examining those things so you can know what to let go of, or at least give yourself permission to explore.

Manon Bolliger  16:34

Exactly, yeah, yeah. But I like the idea of so you’re teaching it, I mean, so basically it’s become your, it’s your it’s your mission, right? So it’s my mission, yeah, so therefore teaching makes sense, and then from there, you attract the people who want to have what you want

Diane Randall  16:55

1. And I have a podcast called plant based curious, and it talks about whole living, holistic living, behavior change, you know, veganism, the whole thing, and that’s for people who are curious, right, right,

Manon Bolliger  17:11

right, exactly. Yeah. So that’s how you have, sort of all the aspects of the market, yes, yes. Don’t know that they need your service yet, and those that are actually looking for it, you’re you’ve sort of built the entire, you know, pyramid of

Diane Randall  17:27

Yes, but right through it, through intention, because I tell my students and people to come to my classes, I teach the tools that noone teaches us about life. So through my teaching and the classes and the podcasts, and if you want to go further, I used to have a platform, a group, not a group, but I had a whole community that I built, which I I wasn’t. It was another thing where, okay, build it and they will come right. And that didn’t necessarily happen. So I peel that back, and I have a coaching group. And once people you know, sign up, get on the wait list and let me know they’re interested in a topic, then we can form a small community. I love that. I love that so much better than just trying to build the build it and hope everybody shows up. So it’s really it helps people to relax and not feel pressured, you know, to feel like they can reach out. We can have a small group if it’s if it’s if it’s being plant based, if it’s okay. What is holistic living? You know, I’m a busy professional. I’m stressed out, or I’m a busy, just busy in my life with the busyness that’s all around us, and I am just drowning. So maybe that’s where we come together and we talk about, what can we do to build that life out to make that life more manageable, to make that life less stressful, to prioritize holistic health and well being.

Manon Bolliger  19:33

Yeah, yeah, no, it feels very organic. Yes,

Diane Randall  19:39

yes. I’ve learned that it has to be this kind of work has to be Yeah, yeah, because it touches on deep, deep, deep hurt, deep pain, things that people aren’t ready. To talk about until they’re ready to talk about it. You know, I’ve had people in my classes say, Well, I just I don’t want to go there. I said, Well, that’s where we need to go, you know, the very place you don’t want to go. So the classes work well, because, like you said, people are showing up that one, and I just had to create that kind of marketing where I have to be intentional with this, with the subject, and I have a blog. I have a blog so you get and I you get a clear idea of what I’m about and what I teach when I talk about whole living because my my blog posts are based on holistic insights to what all that means, along with the plant base, right? And the veganism, I mean, it just expanded to the whole whole universe, the whole world, actually, the animals the planet, you know, it just, it just kept evolving past me.

Manon Bolliger  21:05

Well, I think that’s the nature of a mission, right?

Diane Randall  21:07

Yes, yes, yes, yes. One that I didn’t have a checklist. No,

Manon Bolliger  21:13

wait, yeah, that’s, I was thinking it’s, it’s interesting, because I think your process resonates more true to, I think, how it actually happens. Then, you know, when you go to to courses to learn marketing or to how to get out there, whatever, I mean, they’re cookie cutter. They all say they’re not, but, but I don’t think it’s that simple. It’s, it is a just like Holistic Health is holistic. You know, holistically, getting your message out is how it happens, right? So, yes, yes, you have to kind of course correct. And then sometimes do things that may not be as comfortable, you know, if you know you don’t like whatever it is, you know,

Diane Randall  22:04

yeah, I had, you know, I learned that this is what I have to do, because people aren’t knocking my door down, right? I have to, I have, even if they’re thinking about it, you know, some people don’t want to acknowledge that, because it might be too painful to talk to me, you know? So, yeah,

Manon Bolliger  22:25

that’s it. It’s an interesting anyway, I’m glad, or I had no idea where we’d go. Very interesting because, you know, every, every person who’s in as a practitioner or helping people has the question, how do they get the word out of what they do, right? You know, yes, and always. You know, needing to make decisions. Do I do this? Do I do ads? Do I focus on what people want or focus on their problem? Do I focus on, you know? Do I do community? Do I, you know, help everybody, which you’re told you can never help everybody. You can,

Diane Randall  23:04

that’s right, you can’t,

Manon Bolliger  23:08

right? You gotta focus on that. So there’s so many belief systems on how it’s

Diane Randall  23:14

marketing, right, so many. But what I believe we all have in common is that we want love, we want joy, we all want to be happy. That’s what we have in common. I don’t care who you are, you know. So it’s, it’s, how do I get there? You know? What does

Manon Bolliger  23:33

that mean? Exactly, exactly? And if you’re a role model of it, and people can feel that it’s true. I mean, why not learn from you, right? Like, in a sense, right? If they need a guide, you’re not going to have somebody with 10 degrees that looks miserable and,

Diane Randall  23:55

well, I learned from that too, when I first started a div coach and I coach for probably three years from 2006 to 2009 and I’m telling you, I was miserable. I had all these people showing up thinking that I’m going to fix them, you know, I got a magic pill, a bullet to give them, and I really did not like the coaching anymore. It just wasn’t something. And I literally shut down my practice because I didn’t want to keep showing up, you know, wanting the clock to hit the 30 minutes or the 40 minutes. Because people were and it was the people that I was attracting, all kinds of people who, who, you know, they wanted to lose weight, or they wanted to do different things, but they thought I had the answer. It was, I was the one doing the work, and they show up, they didn’t do their homework, you know, it I just felt okay, this is not working because I’m not happy,

Manon Bolliger  24:57

yeah, but so, so how? How do you because, I mean, they seem like they have the victim mentality, right? Yes, yes, we’re gonna solve it, right? Yeah, they have nothing to do with

25:10

it, exactly.

Manon Bolliger  25:14

So how does that shift that when you went into more the consult, teaching and consulting that you actually attracted doers rather than victims.

Diane Randall  25:29

First of all, I did it did I shut it down, and I literally had to sit with it, you know, to really figure out. And then I said, Okay, I’m gonna teach until I figure it out. So I started teaching courses like freeing yourself of limiting beliefs. I just started teaching setting healthy boundaries, just all those courses that allow you to tap in. And I taught this course called jump start your life for like 10 years, and that’s what I turned into a book. So the courses allowed me also to evolve. And as I taught, I evolved with the students. Actually, they informed me a lot. Yeah, they informed me a lot. And so today, you know, people show up. I still teach the setting healthy boundaries, because many of us, people need that. Say, I do figure out the life I want to create. How will I protect that? What does that look like? You know, and I teach, I teach people, you know, that it takes courage, because it’s not easy. It’s not easy. It’s not something, wow. You know, I’m a different person today, so I get to organically teach people how to sit with it, what they want. Journal we do a lot of journal writing affirmations, just thinking about and visualizing that life that we truly want, the negative self talk. What does that all mean? Because we all can relate to that, you know, how do I even get past that? So I have to tackle or I have to talk about those things because they’re there, because if we don’t talk about the barriers where people are stuck in the negative self talk, how in the world are they going to hear what I’m saying? You know? So the key is, especially in the classes, and that’s where I really feel I evolved just the teaching part. 13 years I’ve been teaching these courses that I was able to tap into just asking them to give them self permission, just for the three hours or the two hours we might be together. So that allowed people to open up, yeah, because just jumping into something, you know, what? Boundaries? I don’t have any boundaries. My husband, my kids, you know, I can’t do anything for myself and helping to understand that they matter. They matter,

Manon Bolliger  28:19

yeah, yeah. It’s an interesting like, it’s a full circle, right? Yes, yes. You know you’re you’re a victim, until you know you matter, until

Diane Randall  28:30

you know you matter. And I teach people a lot of what I’ve gone through, exactly, yeah, yeah, you know, a lot of what I’ve gone through, you know, being that victim, being that withdrawn person, feeling like anything I said did not matter, just didn’t matter. Yeah,

Manon Bolliger  28:56

well, Diane, our our time is up. Wow,

Diane Randall  28:59

that went fast,

Manon Bolliger  29:04

I mean, we’re going to put, you know, the write up and all that. But is there any last word you want so people can connect with you, or,

Diane Randall  29:13

okay, people can connect with me at www dot Diane Randall consults.com they can, if they want to know more about me, they can read my blog. They can purchase my book, a whole life nurse, plant based living with a holistic approach, or the jump, stop, start your life book. But they can also download a free, just a free, guide.

Manon Bolliger  29:40

Okay, yes. Well, thank you very much for spending time together.

Diane Randall  29:45

Thank you for inviting me.

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