153. Discovering Your Creative Potential: Overcoming Limiting Beliefs with Mindset Coach Lori Gouhin

In this episode of the Limitless Healing Podcast, Colette Brown interviews Lori Gouhin, an artist, podcast host, and a sought after Mindset and Goal Strategy Coach. Lori works with her clients to coach and mentor them to tap into their unique creative abilities so that they can achieve their goals. 

Lori shares her journey from a traumatic childhood to becoming a successful, self-taught artist, and coach.

They discuss overcoming limiting beliefs, the importance of listening to your intuition, and the balance between career and family life. Lori provides valuable advice for parents, aspiring artists, and anyone looking to unlock their full potential.

Episode Highlights:

02:15 Lori's Childhood and Early Influences
05:36 Transition to Teaching and Early Careers
11:41 Real Estate Ventures and Homeschooling
15:28 Rediscovering Art and Personal Growth
20:46 The Artwork of You Podcast
26:28 Final Thoughts and Advice

Learn more and follow along with Lori at:

Website: https://www.theartworkofyou.com/

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/theartworkofyou/ 

Website: https://www.lorigouhin.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lorigouhin/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lori.gouhin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/linkedin.com/lori-gouhin/

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Transcript

[00:00:00] Colette Brown: Welcome to the Limitless Healing Podcast, where everyone is welcome to take a front row seat and listen in on inspiring conversations, stories of healing, and action steps to help you live your best life. My name is Colette Brown, and I'm passionate about all things wellness, mind, Body soul inspired by my own personal transformation from unwell and not knowing where to turn to thriving and flourishing and motivated to help you do the same.

[00:00:28] Colette Brown: I share this platform with medical doctors, wellness practitioners, chronic illness survivors, meditation and mindfulness gurus, innovators of products from food to technology and more. Think of it as a one stop shop for wellness resources where you can listen to professionals from around the world to help you thrive.

[00:00:48] Colette Brown: Join me Mondays while sipping a cup of tea or making your favorite meal as we explore the world of wellness together. This is the Limitless Healing Podcast. My next guest is known for her vibrant, beautiful, and expressive paintings. And she's also the podcast host of The Artwork of You, where she discusses creativity and personal growth and also offers coaching services to help others unlock their creative potential.

[00:01:18] Colette Brown: It is my great honor to welcome Lori Gouhin  Welcome, Lori. Thanks for having me. It's great to have you, Lori I met you online and then we met at a live event as well and solidified our relationship in person. But we first started talking and I was intrigued. Number one, you're an amazing artist. Your artwork is just full of color and expression and It just is mesmerizing.

[00:01:51] Colette Brown: And then you hear the story about the artist that's behind the work and it kind of unravels. So I want everyone to get to know you a little bit better today. So why don't you take us back to a childhood memory that could have put you in the trajectory of where you're at today or something that was just very impactful when you were a child.

[00:02:15] Lori Gouhin: Thanks, first of all, for the kind words about my work. I really appreciate that. And if I think back to that time, I guess there were a few memories that stand out. I always loved to color and to paint with watercolor. When I was young, like in elementary school, and a good friend of mine, she and I would sit down by this little stream, and we'd bring colored pencils and watercolors, and we'd paint.

[00:02:37] Lori Gouhin: Just sit there and color and paint, but then when I think back, it seemed like such a brief time, right? It would be like maybe over summer vacation or something. And again, I'm talking elementary school. And I also had a big imagination. I used to think I would sit by the lilac bush in our backyard with a spoon, literally like digging, thinking I could dig to China and find treasure.

[00:02:57] Lori Gouhin: Whatever that meant. I don't know who took that, but so my imagination was pretty vivid and I think I always was on the creative side. However, I didn't explore that as time went on until much later in life. 

[00:03:09] Colette Brown: And where did you grow up? 

[00:03:11] Lori Gouhin: I grew up in Pennsylvania, the Pocono Mountains. 

[00:03:13] Colette Brown: Oh, the Poconos. Amazing.

[00:03:16] Colette Brown: Beautiful. And would you sit by the creek and draw pictures of the creek? Or what were you? I don't even necessarily 

[00:03:24] Lori Gouhin: remember. I think I would probably try to draw pictures of the creek or the flowers a lot. And I used to say, like, whenever somebody I was like a dear Abby, when I was little kids would come to me for their advice or to listen or But I remember one thing that would always stand out to me is I'd say, If you were sad or whatever, don't be sad.

[00:03:41] Lori Gouhin: Think of happy things like flowers. So I think I was drawing flowers, painting flowers a lot, although I don't really do that now. But as a kid, I would. 

[00:03:49] Colette Brown: That's amazing. What a deep soul for children to come and you to have the wisdom of think happy thoughts. Did you get that from your parents or was that just inside of you?

[00:04:02] Lori Gouhin: No, in all honesty, I had a pretty traumatic childhood, so it probably came really as a coping mechanism for myself. And so then I would try to share that with others. And it was a way to avoid having people ask questions of me because I didn't want to reveal a lot of things. So that's, I think how I actually became a good listener was then the focus wasn't on me.

[00:04:23] Lori Gouhin: It was on someone else. 

[00:04:24] Colette Brown: Can you tell us more about childhood? 

[00:04:27] Lori Gouhin: I grew up with a single mom, my sister and I. My parents got divorced when I was about three. And my dad was an alcoholic, unfortunately. And when he wasn't in that state, he was really funny and fun to be around, but he primarily was in that state.

[00:04:44] Lori Gouhin: So it wasn't really a good scenario. And uh, yeah, we were just, you know, we were just, you know, we were just, you know, we and my mom worked really hard and raising my sister and I, but it was a pretty, pretty violent and abusive childhood, if I'm being honest. 

[00:04:59] Colette Brown: Yeah. Yeah. And those experiences as a child, you're just trying to live and you don't know anything different.

[00:05:10] Colette Brown: But for you to tap into that so young and want to be a light to the world. To other people and deflect as well, that's art of deflection is very complicated as you're growing up and you're navigating this, you're concerned about the happiness of others and you're trying to preserve yourself and protect yourself.

[00:05:34] Colette Brown: Where do you go from there when you leave home? 

[00:05:36] Lori Gouhin: I left home to go to college and actually I went to college in my hometown, but moved out of my parents house and I started initially in communications as a communications major because I thought I wanted to get into photography actually, and then I changed about halfway through and decided to become an education major and I left college again halfway through to move to California from California.

[00:05:59] Lori Gouhin: Pennsylvania didn't think it through a friend of mine and her boyfriend were graduating college the year before me because I had taken a year off between high school and college to save money so that I could afford to go to college anyway. So I moved to San Francisco Pacifica right outside of San Francisco, thinking that I could just transfer to San Francisco state and everything would be fine, but it didn't really work out that way because I would have had to start all over and I didn't want to do that.

[00:06:24] Lori Gouhin: So I went back to Pennsylvania. And I finished my degree in education and I taught elementary school for five years, fifth and sixth grade. And yeah, and in the, while I was a teacher, my husband and I bought a sporting goods store. It was a preexisting bike shop and we turned it into a full blown sporting goods store.

[00:06:40] Colette Brown: Wow. Okay. So you were, you became an educator teaching children. And what was your favorite part about that? Just being with the kids. I liked 

[00:06:48] Lori Gouhin: that age group because I could tell a joke, they'd get it, but I just love being with the kids and having an impact on their lives. But that being said, I didn't, after my first daughter was born, I did not go back to teaching because of that very same reason, because I'm quite empathetic.

[00:07:06] Lori Gouhin: Knowing that I would take home every night, those 30 kids, their stories, second guessing myself, maybe did I say the right thing or worried about them and their family situations. But I knew that as a new mom, I would not have the energy for my own baby if I was still teaching a classroom of 30 kids. So I did not go back to school after having my first daughter and haven't taught since then, other than homeschooling later, my own kids.

[00:07:29] Colette Brown: Yeah. And I'd like to just pause on that for a second, because I think a lot of times We hear things intuitively inside, and we second guess ourselves. I know a lot of, I've heard so many stories being a mother myself, and I had that same reaction of, do I want somebody else raising? And what about all the stress that's coming from my job?

[00:07:57] Colette Brown: And do I want to bring that home or do I want to be present and give up some things in order to be a real present parent that is pouring into my children? For those younger moms, maybe we can just dialogue a little bit about that, of, there, there is two sides of it. Um, there is the listening to your heart and pointing to your children.

[00:08:22] Colette Brown: And there's also the side of, I walked away from a potentially huge career and I would do it again all day long. So what are your thoughts or your words of wisdom to give to those, those maybe parents in that situation that are weighing out, what do I do here? And they're feeling a little uneasy about their situation.

[00:08:44] Lori Gouhin: Yeah, I would do it all over again as well, just like you. And again, there's no shame on anybody that decides to stay in the workforce and have their children go to daycare. No shame at all. It just wasn't right for me. And what I will say is you bring up a good point with the stress of bringing that home from work.

[00:09:01] Lori Gouhin: I don't know what the statistics are, but I do believe that when one parent, whether it's the mom or the dad, can be home with the children, at least the majority of the time, that there is a lot less stress. In the home, and that just spills over into your whole life. It's because it spills over into your children's lives.

[00:09:17] Lori Gouhin: There's a joke that we have at my home because I said to my husband, I can remember clear as day when I decided that I was not going to go back to teaching. We were in the car and I said, look, I. Cause we didn't really have any money. We had just started that business the year before, and he quit his job to run the store full time and everything was pouring back into that.

[00:09:36] Lori Gouhin: Any problem that way. And I was the sole breadwinner at 30, 000 a year. And after five years, I was up for a 5, 000 bonus. So I would be walking away from that. I said, I would rather eat spaghettios every day. I don't care. We'll figure out a way to make it work. And we did. Again, as you said, listen to your heart and your intuition.

[00:09:55] Lori Gouhin: And another way that I like to live my life is by thinking it's not forever, it's just [00:10:00] now. So if I decide to stay home with my child right now, it's just for right now. I can always change my mind and go back or get a different job if it's not working out. But I first always want to follow my heart and my intuition.

[00:10:12] Colette Brown: That's so good. And I think the earlier we can do that, listening and tuning in, the easier it is in the long run, and also to try to impart in our children how to do that. And. Things that light them up today could change in the future, but let them explore that. And while college is important and schooling is important, it's also important to do something that you love and not get sucked into a vortex of you're making great money and you are so unhappy.

[00:10:48] Colette Brown: And I think that you can have both. I think you can make a lot of money and you can be very happy at the same time. And there's always compromises, but I think Most importantly, it's listening to that little inner voice. 

[00:10:59] Lori Gouhin: Yeah. And about really just being true to yourself and you don't have to follow what the mainstream says that you have to follow as far as going to college, not going to college, what kind of a job you have to have, or I know a lot of times people will get a degree and then they just think that they have to get a job in that field because that's what they paid all the money for.

[00:11:16] Lori Gouhin: But you don't have to, you don't have to follow anybody's rules, but to your own. As long as you're not hurting anybody else, so to speak, but yeah, just being true to yourself and finding your authentic way of being irregardless of the box, the system. 

[00:11:31] Colette Brown: Yeah. So you leave teaching, you focus on your children and your story that you had just opened.

[00:11:38] Colette Brown: And how did that progress for you guys? 

[00:11:41] Lori Gouhin: Not too long after our first daughter was born, I had to, Figure out a way to bring in some money because as I said, the store was making money, but that first year you have to really balance what you're taking out. And I was being paid through the summer, I think if I remember correctly, but anyway, so one night I'm watching an infomercial as it's two o'clock in the morning and I'm nursing the baby.

[00:12:01] Lori Gouhin: And I see the Carlton sheets, no money down infomercial. It's probably, I don't know if that, if you remember that, or it might've been before, But he made it look very sexy, invest in real estate, no money down. And I was just enthralled. Finally, I said to my husband, look, I think I can do this. Let's buy this infomercial.

[00:12:19] Lori Gouhin: I was like, I don't know, two, three, 500, which was a lot of money to us. And so he, He was, okay, if you think you can do it. And now my baby's five months old and they send me all the stuff in the mail. It's a binder. It's like CDs. I don't even think there were DVDs then. It was just, or maybe even some VHS.

[00:12:38] Lori Gouhin: VHS tapes. Yeah, there could have been that. I don't really remember. The big binder and the scripts and everything I was supposed to do of like calling for sale by owners and this really hokey script, but I did it. I did it every single day, got out of my comfort zone because my Y was big enough and looked at.

[00:12:59] Lori Gouhin: Property probably every day or nearly every day with a realtor back in the day when there was no internet and the real estate book came out once a month and only the realtors were allowed to have it. You couldn't take one home. You could only see it in the office. Anyway, I had Lydia, that's my oldest daughter, in my backpack and we would go with the realtor and just Look, and I had to learn to be not emotional, right?

[00:13:20] Lori Gouhin: The numbers had to work and it took six months and I finally found the cash flowing duplex that had an interest rate of nine and a half percent, but it worked. It made a small cashflow every month and process worked and we bought it. So then we started real estate investing along with the store. 

[00:13:38] Colette Brown: Wow.

[00:13:39] Colette Brown: That's amazing. You also touched on something that. I don't think we went into just a moment ago of your why was big enough. So I think to the other piece of advice is if you hear that little voice and you want to act on it or not, what is your why? Right? So what was your why in that moment? Being home with 

[00:14:01] Lori Gouhin: my baby 

[00:14:02] Colette Brown: and not having to 

[00:14:03] Lori Gouhin: get a job.

[00:14:04] Lori Gouhin: Yeah. I couldn't stand the thought of having to put her in daycare. So that was it. And allowing our business to grow secondary. We were completely devoted to that. I didn't want to have to walk away from that. I knew that we could make it work. I knew that my husband was fantastic at it and we could expand it, but there was just this time in between where everything had to fit together.

[00:14:26] Colette Brown: Yeah. So you start. Right. Real estate investing, the store is going great. And so did you homeschool or your kids went to school? At that time, 

[00:14:36] Lori Gouhin: when they got a little bit older, they went to Montessori school. My daughter, my oldest daughter went to public kindergarten and I decided that really wasn't the route that I wanted to take.

[00:14:45] Lori Gouhin: And so for first grade, she went to Montessori school and then my My, she was my youngest daughter at the time. Now my middle daughter went to the same school for, for preschool and kindergarten. And I volunteered there one day so I could be there with them. And then we moved to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina when they were nine and six and we had a new baby who was just like five or six weeks old.

[00:15:07] Lori Gouhin: And so it was when we got to South Carolina that I homeschooled and did that until they got to high school. 

[00:15:12] Colette Brown: Hmm. Okay. And then what, where does your life take you? So you're raising kids. Your businesses. And then your kids go off to college. And where do you find yourself? And when does the art come into play with this?

[00:15:28] Lori Gouhin: Yeah. So after having that store for a little over 10 years, we decided to sell the store and sell all the properties that we had in Pennsylvania and we relocated to South Carolina. And again, as I said, that's when I was homeschooling the girls until they were in ninth grade. So my, my focus was really just them being at home and homeschooling them in that time period.

[00:15:48] Lori Gouhin: I did get my coaching certification, but it got pushed to the back burner because really my focus was homeschooling. And we just did that until I was about. I'm trying to think what year it was. It was about six and a half years ago. So my oldest daughter was in college. My middle daughter was getting near the end of high school.

[00:16:05] Lori Gouhin: And my youngest, I was still homeschooling her. She was getting older. And I just felt like I really needed to focus back on me and something that was important for me and my creativity to start to ease myself out of just being. Known as the mom, right? I wanted something else. And that's when I really started exploring my creativity.

[00:16:24] Lori Gouhin: I've always been creative person. As I said, I like to decorate. I love to cook. Creativity comes in so many different forms. And I at first started a blog called cultivate creativity. And because these were my limiting beliefs, right? I couldn't do my own thing. So I started this blog where I would aggregate other creative people, other painters, artists, different things.

[00:16:45] Lori Gouhin: But it just, as I was doing that, I was like, I got more and more confident about trying it myself, right? Well, why don't you try painting? I know that I love to do stuff like that. So I shut that down and I just started painting and I started practicing and just kept at it and eventually would, you know, maybe post a painting here or there on social media or somebody would see a painting when they came over and that's really how it got going.

[00:17:08] Lori Gouhin: I was also newly 50 and I thought I'm 50 now. I want something for me. And so that was another motivator. That's how the art started. 

[00:17:17] Colette Brown: That's beautiful. And it's, it's gorgeous. Just the colors that you paint and weave in and blend together. And it's almost, this is your expression of life where you have all these colors.

[00:17:31] Colette Brown: Of call them your work and your personal experiences, but yet they all blend in. It's beautiful. Even the hardest times that we go through, it's for a purpose and it gives us perspective and appreciation and resilience. So it's really a beautiful representation, I believe, and open for interpretation.

[00:17:54] Lori Gouhin: That's what I love about abstract work. It all means something, or it's so personal, but you know, the abstract work, we all see something different in it and even the way that somebody decides to hang it on the wall. I sign all of my work on the back so as not to limit how they view the work and how they want to display it in their home.

[00:18:11] Lori Gouhin: And really I just paint from intuition and emotion. I know that sounds kind of cliche, but it's really true. Often people ask, do you have something specific in mind when you start? And I generally don't, even if I sometimes think I'm going to go into go with a certain color scheme, it generally 99 percent of the time will end up a different way.

[00:18:28] Lori Gouhin: I could start out with blues and not all end up pink. It just, it just, as I keep going, it's, there's no rhyme or reason. 

[00:18:35] Colette Brown: Yeah. And I have a question. I want to back up again because. A lot of times. So you're in your childhood, your father was an alcoholic and a lot of times we take on in our own personal lives what we witnessed as partnership.

[00:18:54] Colette Brown: What do you think it was for you that helped you break that mold and choose a really good partner? 

[00:19:02] Lori Gouhin: I honestly, I don't know that there's anything I would like to think. It's just, I didn't want to be that way, but I didn't want that for my life. And I didn't want that for my future children's lives. The parenting that I was exposed to growing up, I like to think that I'm the polar opposite of that.

[00:19:19] Lori Gouhin: And I know a lot of people repeat cycles like that. I'm not really sure of the reason. Why? Some go that route and some go the other, but I think that for me, it's just, I wanted a better life for myself and I wanted to be a better parent. As I said earlier, I'm very empathetic and I think even being a teacher taught me a lot about being a mother and going through the education part of that and how to deal with children.

[00:19:41] Lori Gouhin: It helped me a lot. Oh yeah. Yeah. My husband's a wonderful person and we've been married 31 years, almost 32 years. Congratulations. Congratulations. 

[00:19:51] Colette Brown: That's amazing. I don't know if that answers 

[00:19:52] Lori Gouhin: your question, but 

[00:19:53] Colette Brown: it does. And I think it answers it in a way of, it sounds cliche, but [00:20:00] manifesting. So you had a vision of, I don't want to be here.

[00:20:04] Colette Brown: So you knew what you didn't want. So now you know what you do want and you had that contrast. And so you could say, I choose this. Because this is the direction that I want to go and it is interesting to see why is it that some go this way or some are raised looking me like a, it looks like a perfect environment and then they go the opposite direction.

[00:20:27] Colette Brown: So there's, I think there's a little bit of everything, but, um, I just, I, out of curiosity was. I was wondering if you kind of, yeah, were intentional about that and obviously you were. So today you're an artist, you host a podcast, so tell us a little bit about your podcast. 

[00:20:46] Lori Gouhin: Uh, my podcast is called the artwork of yo, and I started it in November of 2023.

[00:20:51] Lori Gouhin: And initially I had to really think about the premise of the show and what I wanted for it. And I decided to go with solo episodes, short solo episodes, and it focuses all on creativity, self awareness, mindset, goal strategy, and accountability, because those are the things that I coach people around. I'm now just starting to venture into having guests on the show as well.

[00:21:12] Lori Gouhin: It's doing really well. I'm just amazed. That how much I love it, I knew I would love it, but I'm amazed that I actually do love it as much as I do and the impact that it's making I every week I have people reaching out to me telling me that they're listening to the show. It's making an impact. They'll tell me a little excerpts or nuggets from the show that they've decided to implement themselves and just really how it's affecting them and it just makes me so grateful.

[00:21:38] Lori Gouhin: And the artwork of you came about because as we've been talking about, I've been an artist now for over six years, but I also had that coaching certificate from over a decade ago. And although I coached a little bit throughout the years, I coached realtors for a while and, you know, just various people, but I never really made it a business.

[00:21:56] Lori Gouhin: And, but that, that feeling of wanting to be a coach never really left. And so I tried to think of a way that I could combine my artwork. With the coaching work so that the coaching wouldn't have necessarily seemed to come out of left field for those that didn't already know that I was a coach. And so that's when I came up with the concept of the artwork of you.

[00:22:14] Lori Gouhin: And because I honestly believe that we're all the artwork in our own life. And I really want to encourage people to show up like the masterpiece they are. And so when it came time to start a podcast, it was just fitting that was going to be the name of it, and that's what we were going to focus on. 

[00:22:27] Colette Brown: Yeah, that's beautiful.

[00:22:29] Colette Brown: What else? So people can work with you in coaching and do you have any programs or anything that people can come into or is it mostly one on one? 

[00:22:39] Lori Gouhin: It's one on one coaching and we work in a three month container, so 90 days at a time. And really my focus is mindset and goal strategy. I really do help people with the how, because people are looking for the how.

[00:22:50] Lori Gouhin: Just tell me how to do it. Now, I'm not necessarily going to tell you, I could tell you how all day long, but it has to be something that's in line with you and your limiting beliefs and your strengths and your weaknesses and your values. So what we do is we work on the mindset. We figure out what the goal is.

[00:23:06] Lori Gouhin: What is it that you want to accomplish? Even if it's a goal, that's like maybe a year out. And then we break that down. We work backwards. So if you want to achieve this. At X amount of time, whether that's a target or a goal, right? Because the target is something we're aiming for. A goal is something we, we actually can do or not do.

[00:23:22] Lori Gouhin: So we work backwards and decide where do you need to be in 90 days? And then we go 60, 30 and come up with a strategy that really, as I said, works for you. What are your hesitations? What are your limiting beliefs? What are you willing to do at this point? Right. That we can work towards, take small little incremental steps to get you to get more and more out of your comfort zone to achieve what it is you want to achieve.

[00:23:45] Lori Gouhin: And accountability is a big part of it as well. It's a really high touch program. They give my clients my cell number so that we communicate throughout the week. It's not just a weekly call and then you don't hear anything till the next week. Cause things, life comes up, things come up between the calls.

[00:24:00] Colette Brown: Yeah, no, this is so true. And that's, it's important. And I think if we equate it to a professional athlete, They don't get there on their own. They have coaches come in and help them. They have dieticians. They have nutritionists, sleep coach, whatever it is. They have a team of people around them. So if you are looking to get somewhere in your life, You need to surround yourself with people who can help you get there in different ways.

[00:24:28] Colette Brown: And one of them definitely is through a coach, helping you to prioritize and see through your own self. Because a lot of times when we're looking at other people are like, why aren't they doing that? Not that it looks very clear from the outside, but when it comes to looking inside, it's a little convoluted.

[00:24:46] Colette Brown: And so having someone come in and create the clarity, the vision, the vision of the trajectory of where you're trying to go and how to get there is so important. So I love what you're doing. That's wonderful. 

[00:24:59] Lori Gouhin: Thank you. Yeah. And to, just to echo what you said, it's a lot of the times we don't even know the questions to ask ourselves.

[00:25:06] Lori Gouhin: And that's why having a good kid coach or mentor is so pivotal because they can help you see your blind spots. They can get curious. Yeah. about you and what it is you want to create. And then they can ask you the questions again, that you don't even know to ask yourself to help with that clarity. 

[00:25:21] Colette Brown: Yeah, this is so true.

[00:25:23] Colette Brown: I love that. And so for you, what has been the biggest learning opportunity maybe in the past 10 years that has really Something that's really helped you from out of the blue. Maybe it's a question someone asked you and it pointed you in a different direction. 

[00:25:42] Lori Gouhin: I think about self coaching when I wanted to become an artist and I had so many hesitations about putting myself out there and so many limiting beliefs still and not the whole imposter syndrome because I was a self taught artist.

[00:25:54] Lori Gouhin: And so really. Reading up on confidence and learning to coach myself and realize that I can do hard things and just putting the post out there, putting the price of my work out there, creating the website and just holding my breath and saying, all right, I did it. Let the chips fall where they may. It doesn't matter.

[00:26:11] Lori Gouhin: And each time I did that, It became easier and easier. And then with every new goal, starting the coaching business, starting the podcast, it's the same process over and over again. It compounds over time, that courage that you have from getting outside of your comfort zone and taking little micro steps. 

[00:26:28] Colette Brown: I like that.

[00:26:28] Colette Brown: That's powerful. One of the questions that I ask all of my guests towards the end is if this was the last conversation and the last message that you had to broadcast out to the world, what would it be? 

[00:26:44] Lori Gouhin: That you are the artwork in your life and start showing up like the masterpiece you are. 

[00:26:48] Colette Brown: That's such good advice.

[00:26:50] Colette Brown: And whatever that means to you. And everybody knows that answer within. And if you don't, maybe you need a coach like Lori to help you dig it and explore it. Yeah. So Lori, thank you so much. The work that you're doing, not only on canvas, but. In lives of others is so meaningful and when we can help others, it makes life so colorful and beautiful.

[00:27:21] Colette Brown: And we're showing up to give our gifts in order to make an impact and a difference in the world. So I really appreciate everything that you're doing. And is there anything else that you'd like to add? 

[00:27:35] Lori Gouhin: Thank you for the opportunity, Colette. I really, really appreciate you having me on your show today. And if anybody would like to delve into self awareness, which is a big part of my work, I have a great 90 day self awareness journal that you can download for free on my website, and that is at the artwork of you.

[00:27:53] Lori Gouhin: com. 

[00:27:54] Colette Brown: Lori, you're so amazing. All the work that you're doing and the gifts that you're giving. So if you've enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend and Lori tell people on social media where they can go to find all of the beautiful work, not just your artwork, but your work. the wisdom that you're sharing on your social media pages.

[00:28:18] Lori Gouhin: Yeah. On Instagram, my at Lori Gouhin, that's L O R I G O U H I N is where you'll find all of my original art. And at the artwork review on Instagram is where you will find all about my coaching stuff. I'm also on LinkedIn under Lori Gouhin and Facebook, Lori Gouhin. And on those channels, I just combine both the art and the coaching.

[00:28:39] Lori Gouhin: But if you're specifically looking for art, Lori Gouhin. Dot com is my website. And if you're specifically looking for coaching, the artwork of you. com is my website for that. 

[00:28:49] Colette Brown: Beautiful. Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate you and the work that you're doing in this world. And I'm just, I'm very happy to know you.

[00:28:59] Colette Brown: Likewise. Collette. Thank you. Thank you, Lori and everyone else until next time, be well, you just finished another episode of limitless healing, where we dive into. All things wellness. If you enjoyed this episode, it would mean the world to me. If you would share it with your friends and family together, we can plant seeds of hope that leads to transformation in our lives and the lives of those we love.

[00:29:28] Colette Brown: Let's get healthy together.