Evoke Greatness Podcast
Do you have an insatiable hunger for growth and knowledge?
Are you interested in hearing the stories of how successful people have navigated their journey towards greatness…all while stumbling through valuable lessons along the way?
My name is Sonnie and I am the host of Evoke Greatness, the weekly podcast driven by my curious nature and fascination with the champion mindset. I am a HUGE book nerd and a wee bit of a "control enthusiast" with an obsession for motivational coffee cups.
On this podcast, we share the ups and the downs, the highs and lows and all the lessons learned in between. It's my most sincere hope you hear something in one or maybe many of these episodes that resonates with you and reminds you that you’re not in this alone.
I believe that a rising tide raises all ships and I invite you along in this journey to Evoke Greatness!
Evoke Greatness Podcast
Wealthy, Well-Known & Wildly Intentional with AJ Vaden (Part 2)
🎧 Episode 171: Wealthy, Well-Known & Wildly Intentional with AJ Vaden (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our powerful conversation, AJ Vaden returns to share what happens after the breakdown, how she redefined identity, rebuilt her priorities, and found peace on the other side of losing everything.
From re-centering faith and family to redefining success through obedience and clarity, AJ opens up about the deeper message behind Wealthy and Well-Known and why your past might just be the key to your purpose.
We explore:
- How AJ unraveled the lie that her identity was tied to work
- What obedience looked like after her “super firing”
- The moment that shifted her question from “Why is this happening?” to “What do you want to teach me?”
- How she and Rory restructured their life, marriage, and business from the ground up
- Why being seen in the struggle creates real connection
- The principle behind her most quoted line: “You are most powerfully positioned to serve the person you once were”
- What she hopes every reader takes away from Wealthy and Well-Known
🔑 Key takeaways:
- Your identity is not your title
- Peace starts when purpose takes the lead
- Real leadership begins in the valleys not the mountaintops
- You don’t need more platforms, you need more alignment
đź’ˇ Quotes to remember:
“Work doesn’t come first anymore. It’s not who we are. It’s what we do.”
“Real relationships are found in the struggle.”
“You are most powerfully positioned to serve the person you once were.”
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@aj_vaden
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you are most powerfully positioned to serve the person you once were. Why? Because you know them. You were them. Nobody knows that person better than you. You're intimately acquainted with every fear, every doubt, every goal, every dream, and if we can tap into that and align our business to that, then the world will change, you will change, and there will be a positive domino effect that is unstoppable.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Evoke Greatness, the podcast for bold leaders and big dreamers who refuse to settle. I'm your host, sunny. I started in scrubs over 20 years ago doing the gritty, unseen work and climbed my way to CEO. Every rung of that ladder taught me something worth passing on Lessons in leadership, resilience and what it really takes to rise. You'll hear raw conversations, unfiltered truths and the kind of wisdom that ignites something deeper in you your courage, your conviction, your calling. This show will help you think bigger, lead better and show up bolder in every part of your life. This is your place to grow. Let's rise together.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to part two of Wealthy, well-known and Wildly Intentional, with my guest, aj Beaton. Aj shares the faith-fueled rebuild after losing everything, the hard truth about identity and idolizing work, and the radical shift that saved her marriage, mission and mindset. We unpack how wealthy and well-known is more than a brand. It's a blueprint for becoming who you were called to be. And if you missed part one, go back to last week's episode and catch AJ's raw story of getting super fired and how her reputation showed up before revenue. Let's hop into it.
Speaker 2:There's so much to unpack just in your answer there. Two things One is going back to that moment of your super firing you talked about. There's a choice after that right, and one requires action and one requires inaction, but both have outcomes. I'm curious for those who may be in that same situation. They may have just gotten awful news that feels devastating. It feels like their world was just rocked. Awful news that feels devastating. It feels like their world was just rocked. How did you, or what guidance would you give others in being unwilling to allow your identity to be decimated in that process?
Speaker 1:Now I wish I had some profound words that would make anyone who's listening feel so much better if you're going through a transition state like that, and here's what I would tell you. What I found in all of that and it wasn't an overnight fix, and I am sorry to tell you it probably won't be an overnight fix for you either, but here's what I found Two things that really made a huge difference for me is, instead of asking the question, why is this happening? Because I think that's a lot of what we do when we're going through an unexpected transition or a really hard time or we got bad news we go why? Why is this happening? Why to me? Why this way? And this was from some wise counsel, not of my own volition, and they said, instead of asking why this is happening, what if you just changed that? And instead asked God, what do you want me to learn from this and that? Why? To what was revolutionary for me. It went from a self-loathing, self-pity woe is me, look what's happening to me to a look what's happening for me. And I do believe some things happen to us, but I think we often confuse what happens to us instead of what happens for us, Because the truth is, at least in my case, with real soul-searching reflection.
Speaker 1:I knew I should not have been there. I knew in my soul that this was not good for me, that the ambition had taken over. I had made work an idol in my life. I had become so consumed with performing and being productive that it was coming at a really great cost to help my relationships, specifically my relationship with God. I had put all of my self-worth into my work, and that's dangerous for all of us, because our identity is not a title, it's not what you do, and we talk a ton about this in chapter three of our new book Wealthy and Well-Known. The entire chapter three was my personal revelation of going. Why was everything about me wrapped up in a job title? What was it about that? And I feel like when I stopped asking why is this happening and what do you want to teach me, God, what I started to unpack is that he wanted to teach me that I had made work an idol, that my identity was tied to a what, not a who.
Speaker 1:And when everything fell apart, it's why I got lost, it's why I felt so broken and I felt so ashamed. But when I started realizing, no, I didn't even want that. Like why was I mourning something that I didn't even want it all kind of unraveled into? I was mourning this perception of me that other people had that, quite honestly, I didn't even love, I didn't even like to be honest. And so this what conversation really helped me to be more future focused versus the why conversation really helped me to be more future focused versus the why conversation was holding me in the past, and that was a very defining point of am I going to look back or am I going to choose to look forward, Because what is done is done and I can rather learn from it and I can be better, or I cannot learn from it and be stuck exactly where I was. And it was really that conversation of not asking why is this happening, but what can I learn from it? And a transition of looking backwards to instead looking forward.
Speaker 2:I think so. So many people who listen to this podcast can relate. I'm sure they almost just had a visceral reaction, as you kind of explained how you first felt about it. Because I think that's the real raw element is, and I think the permission of it's okay. It's okay to honor what you're feeling in that moment, but not get stuck there. And so my mom, in all of her wise counsel, has always told me when hard things like that happen, sometimes God has to step in and make a decision that maybe you should have made prior to. And I thought, yes, you're right, you're right. So, yeah, it's so true, it is so true, and that has been I've had to ask it many a times where I'm like you know what, if I look back now, I can see where I should have maybe taken a different turn, and where I'm like you know what, if I look back now, I can see where I should have maybe taken a different turn. And so you know, hindsight's always 20-20.
Speaker 2:But the other piece that I wanted to share that there were two things is when you talk about reputation. This really is like a kind of a full circle moment for me Started listening to podcasts and kind of getting into personal development 12 years ago now, and so prior to that, my outlook on life was very different, very much fixed mindset, like my circumstances really kind of are what they are. I don't know that I have a whole lot of control over it, and the very first podcast I ever listened to couldn't tell you whose podcast it was, I couldn't tell you who the other person was, but it was Rory. It was this whole new world of, like the way that he was speaking just lit something up inside of me, and on that podcast he ended up talking about Lewis Howes, and so I would proceed to dive deep into Lewis Howes podcast and it opened up this world of personal development for me. And I tell you, literally 12 years ago, there was a line of demarcation in my life and that was as a result of your husband and something that he was sharing on a podcast that spoke to something inside of me that was so hungry for this element of growth. But I didn't really even know what that meant.
Speaker 2:And so when you talk about reputation, and then I look back in the last 12 years and do I know that I would have taken a right turn or a left turn if that wouldn't have happened, I don't know, but what I do know is I leaned so hard into personal development and widening the lens in which I view the world as a direct result of that one thing that I heard, and then I would obviously, over the course of the last 12 years, learn a whole lot more about you, about Rory, about Lewis.
Speaker 2:It's why I'm here hosting a podcast, and sometimes, when we lean into not just being so closed off to everything, part of that to me speaks a little bit to obedience, right, I think God creates us for magnificent things in life and oftentimes we get in the way and we want to temper that. We don't want to do those scary things or we don't want to get uncomfortable. And I got to a point where I'm like I am just going to throw myself into uncomfortability, and so I think, through obedience, as I look back the course of the last 12 years, like, wow, a whole new world has opened up for me. I have opportunities today to sit with you and talk through your new book and be able to share these things with you, so it's really kind of that full circle moment that I felt was important to share.
Speaker 1:I had no idea. That's the best thing I have heard always. That is amazing, yes.
Speaker 2:I always think it's important to go back to those moments where life feels like it changed a little bit and give credit to where those things you know that led to some remarkable new ways of life and new ways of being. So I wanted to share that with you. But I think about how you and Rory you built a life, a business book, what's in your relationship, what's a dynamic that you guys had to renegotiate to make sure that you protected both your marriage and your mission?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that question because it's I think, a lot of people struggle with it, even if they don't work together in business. We live in a very connected world that can make us really disconnected from each other world. That can make us really disconnected from each other. And so when everything happened back in 2018, and I was fired and Rory resigned and we're in this let's just call it chaos it was chaos.
Speaker 1:Brand Builders Group, our company, was formed in the midst of a crisis, and when people ask, like you know, why did you start Brand Builders Group? We did it. God did. I don't know why he chose us. We were just obedient enough to say if you say so, we'll do it. And one of the things that happened in that very unique season of it was all burnt down. I tell people it was our Cortez moment, it was our burn the boats moment. God knew he had to burn it to the ground so that we wouldn't go back, but in the midst of all of that, it gave us a really beautiful perspective of well, there's no going back, it's all gone, all of it.
Speaker 1:So how do we want to rebuild it? How do we want to do it different? What worked, what didn't? What did we like? What didn't we like? What would we want to re-emulate some ways, what would we never do again if we had the chance? And one of the things was our personal schedules. One of the things was reprioritizing our marriage and our family and our health and, most importantly, our time with the Lord. And a huge part of what we restructured in that season that we still hold very tight to today is that season that we still hold very tight to today is work doesn't come first anymore, and that was new for us and we said it's God, marriage, kids, business, and we just we're very much believers. A happy marriage equals a happy family. But if the marriage is not intact, then the family is on the rocks and it's like if we're happy, our kids are happy because we're happy, right, but if the kids are happy and we're not happy, it doesn't always go the other way.
Speaker 1:We worked really hard to reset some boundaries of God first, marriage, second, family, third, work comes fourth, not last per se, but there is an order of priority of how we dictate what we do, when we do it, how we do it. One of those things is we just an open hand, surrendered moment, said God, we'll give you everything we have, every ounce of our beings, between the hours of eight and five, and after that it's up to you. And I, just, I love that, saying like work like only you can, pray like only he can, and we work like only we can from eight to five, and the rest we give it up. Whatever you want to do with it, as fast as you want, as slow as you want, as big as you want, as small as you want, whatever you want, lord, we're here for it and you're going to get all of us in these hours. And that's it. Because after that we recommitted our life to community and relationships, and our marriage and our kids and our health and rest Still struggle with that a little bit, to be honest, but it's a work in progress and I think for us that recommitment didn't happen overnight.
Speaker 1:Right, it took a minute probably two full years, to be honest of us resettling into a new rhythm, because there was a lot, a lot we had to shed, a lot we had to let go, and if you've been living a certain way for a really long time, let's just give ourselves some grace and some patience. It's not going to change overnight, or in a week or in a month. Sometimes it's going to take a minute, right, and it's not to say we don't ever work after 5 pm. We've been in the middle of a book launch for the last few months. We have had plenty of evenings and mornings that extended those hours. However, that's our baseline. That's the expectation of our business, of our friends, of our community and our family of we're done at five.
Speaker 1:And I have two amazing accountability partners, aged eight and six, who bust into my office every single day at 5 pm and they just walk over, don't even ask, they just walk over, put their little fingers up and shut my computer and they're like you're done. And they have full permission to do so, because work doesn't come first anymore. It's not who we are, it's what we do, and we redefined that. Our work is not our identity and our brand, our reputation. Who we are is not tied up into this thing we do. It's not a business, it's not a business model, it's not a book, it's none of that. It's like our personal brand is a reflection of who we are, who we're meant to be and how we want the world to see us.
Speaker 1:And when we started reformulating everything else around that we just said if that's true, like if I really want to be known as someone who is obedient to the word of God, then I have to start my day every day in the word. And I may have said that before, but I didn't do that before, and it wasn't until the last few years where I was like no, like I'm actually going to be the person I want to be. I'm not going to say I want to be this person and not be it. And so it was my words and my actions had to start aligning, and a lot of that was with intentionality around, like what legacy do I want to leave? What do I want to be known for? How do I want people to introduce me?
Speaker 1:And that even was within our marriage. Like, how do I want to show up for my husband and my kids and our team and my friends? And a whole lot of things that I had said didn't really line up with what I was doing. And that was again a lot of thought and intentionality went behind. What do I want to be known for? How do I want to show up in this world, and how does that play into our work, our family, our marriage, our relationships and it was a resetting of priorities.
Speaker 2:And that's that is a perfect depiction of walking through I think how having it all you know air quotes, having it all morphs in life Again, based on our value system, like that's typically what we go back to, right and it's what we make time and priority in our life, and sometimes it's false idols, like we've all been guilty of. When we get re-centered and become obedient, it's like all of a sudden, things then seamlessly start to come together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, almost always right. And you know one of the things and no judgment with anyone out there maybe you're an amazing planner and you spend so much time doing this. I wasn't, and what I have found is that most people that we interact with within our company and our community most of us spend more time planning our annual vacations and our weekly grocery lists. Then we do our reputation, then we do our legacy, we do how we want to show up in the world, and what happens is we create this by default brand, this by default reputation, and that's typically not usually going to end with the result of the one you want, right. That requires intention and attention, which requires time, and if you don't, you look up one day and you're like how did I get here? Well, you got there because you didn't plan where you wanted to be and we got to take ownership for that in our lives, and I had to take ownership for it in mine. I was the only one who could fix it, so I had to do the work.
Speaker 2:You say the best form of marketing is a changed life. So let me flip that a little bit right. What's one life-changing moment? You've shared some already, but what's a life-changing moment that you had that no one would see in your bio?
Speaker 1:Something that stitched itself into who you've become today. Great question, that whole quote. The best form of marketing is a changed life. The whole reason we started saying that and the reason we put that as a central theme of the book is because 18 months ago, after four years of struggling with some really interesting health challenges that resulted post-pregnancy high cholesterol gallstones had to have emergency gallbladder surgery. Aging it happens to all of us.
Speaker 1:I had like a really awful hormonal imbalance and I was carrying about 35 pounds of extra weight that, no matter what I did, I could not lose. And I was and am a pretty healthy human, don't eat a lot of sugar. But in that season, after I had to have this emergency gallbladder surgery, I was just like I have tried everything. I hardly eat. I only eat lettuce, it's only water. I don't drink alcohol, I don't do sugar. I work out like I was so distraught about why can't I get back to the way my body used to be right? And it wasn't just a physical appearance thing, which, trust me, I wanted that too. I wanted back in those jeans, I wanted that too. But it was more of like I can't sleep at night. I wake up every night two or three times Chronic insomnia, like I don't feel good. I'm always tired in the middle of the day. I have this chronic fatigue Like why, what do I have to do to fix this?
Speaker 1:And then I was introduced to a gentleman named Dr Cody Goldman and at this point I had tried every other fad diet, health regime, nutrient plan, supplement plan on the planet and I'm like what do I have to lose? Right, and he said but we're not going to do any of that. He goes I'm not. When I say the best form of marketing is a changed life, I bet I have sent 100 people to this man, no joke, and it's because it worked. And he said everything you think you know about health and and I was like, well, I don't know, I don't agree with that, dr Cody. I've done a lot of research here. And he was like I'm telling you right now from the conversation we just had in 30 minutes, and if you give me 40 days, 40 days, six weeks, I'll change your life. And I was like I'll do anything for 40 days. I go what do you got? What are we doing here? And everything that I thought I was doing right, I was doing wrong when I thought you know that thing.
Speaker 1:One of the biggest things that I would tell you in all this is the myth of less calories, right, right, if you intake less more than you outtake, you'll lose weight. That's not true this in this world, the more I eat, the more I lost. And it was the right things at the right time, and so I think one of the things that really developed in that is when it started working, like my whole life changed. I was sleeping through the night, which means like I was better performing. I didn't have midday crashes anymore. I didn't need a 4 pm coffee pick me up All that extra weight losing, it was the added bonus. I 4 pm coffee picked me up All that extra weight losing, it was the added bonus. I had mental clarity again. I felt like I looked like myself again. My skin got better, my hair got better and I lost the 35 pounds that I had been holding on to for the five years post-pregnancy.
Speaker 1:And this whole thing changed my life and it will continue to change my life forever, because I am a new person with a new outlook on.
Speaker 1:You know, food is thy medicine, medicine is thy food, and it was a restructuring of a belief system I had about me and food and thinking that the less I ate, that's how this all worked and it was a very, I think, unknowing, unhealthy relationship that I had developed because I was so desperate to get back to this previous version of me.
Speaker 1:And as soon as I let that go and I just focused on I want to be healthy, I want to age well, I want to sleep, that's what I really want it all changed. And so we actually internally we laugh and we say we call that the Goldman principle the best form of marketing is a changed life, because after this changed my life. As I am on the show right now, I talk about it everywhere I go because I can't not. It actually changed my life, and so I'd say that would be probably one thing that people don't really know. It's like if you meet me right now, you would have no idea that two years ago I was in chronic pain because of gallstones and gallbladder disease and I was 35 pounds heavier and hardly eating lettuce to survive and drinking water, trying to make it all work and I was doing it all wrong. And I think that would be a great kind of thing of this concept of the best form of marketing is a changed life is. I talk about him everywhere I go because he changed my life.
Speaker 2:It's amazing and I just appreciate how much as we wrap up here and I appreciate how much you show up as such an open book. Yeah, we're talking about your book, but truly just from a life and reflection perspective. I think that really says a lot about you and your character, right, I think that willingness, because I'm a firm believer that our successes are not the peak of the mountain. Our successes are going through the cold, hard valley because we get a lot of lessons there and then, once we get those hard lessons, those super firing moments, those health crises, those super firing moments, those health crises we then come to a place where we have a choice to make, you know, and as we actively choose, or choose to be an inaction, that then creates our outcomes. So I appreciate how just of an open book and transparent that you show up.
Speaker 1:I know that people can relate so much to all that you're sharing. I appreciate that and one of the things I will tell you is what I believe is that real relationships are found in the struggle, and I just know from personal experience. There's never been a time on a podcast or on a stage or at an event where I talked about all of my accolades and all of the successes, Iolades, and all of the successes I've had and all of the awards I won. When someone came up to me and said, wow, can you tell me more? Right, Can you talk more about all the success you've had? That just doesn't happen. It just doesn't. But every single time I'm willing to share the hard parts, every time.
Speaker 1:Now there was a lot of years where I had a hard time saying the words. I got fired. I had a really hard time. I would say, well, we left, right, it's like no, I got fired.
Speaker 1:The moment I could just be honest with the realness of what happened. People came out of the woodworks of going. I can't believe you shared that today. That is my story. And when I started talking about this aging and can't lose this weight and I'm trying all the things the amount of people who approach me off to this side and they're like can you please give me his number? That is me. I feel like something's wrong with me, Can you help? And I'm like I can't help you, but he can right. And it's like every single time I share the hard part, there is a real connection made. I cannot tell you one time ever in my life, by sharing a mountaintop moment, that a real connection was made, but every time I share a valley moment, something magical happens, and it's because people connect in the struggle. They need to know they're not alone, and that is where real relationships are founded.
Speaker 2:And they feel, maybe for the first time in a really long time, they feel seen, they feel heard, but alone. And what a gift, what a gift to just share our trials. Well, one more question, we'll wrap up. I want to know, when someone reads Wealthy, wealthy and well-known, what do you hope they believe about themselves at the end of the book that maybe they didn't believe before they opened it up?
Speaker 1:My gosh, such a great question. We put an entire epilogue at the very end kind of answering this, and I think there's three parts to this book that a lot of people don't realize because the title is wealthy, andy and Well-Known Build your Personal Brand and Turn your Reputation into Revenue. So, on the very general outside, on the cover, it looks like a pretty tactical business book around personal branding, revenue and business, and I will say a good majority of the book is that it is a blueprint. It is a playbook of figuring out what problem you solve, how you uniquely solve it, who you solve it for and how you want to make money solving it. We talk about online presence, offline presence. We talk about personal brand strategy. It is a blueprint, so don't get me wrong, it is very oriented. However, there is also a huge component of it that is part memoir and part inspiration, because we believe that people remember the stories and that stories connect people and that if you're not inspired, you will never act. And so here's what I would say If somebody finished the book.
Speaker 1:What would make me know that this was a book, well-written job, well, a job well done, and to make me feel like this is why we spent seven years doing this would be very simply stated and kind of how we started the interview is to know that you were made for a divine purpose and for a very specific person. And I think that's really divine purpose and for a very specific person, and I think that's really two separate things that are connected. That you have purpose, your life has meaning. The pains that you have experienced were not for naught. They were for a reason. They will be used for good if you let it, but you have to let it, and part of letting it means you share it, that you embrace like this. This thing happened and sharing it is helping other people know that it's it's okay to feel these things and it's okay to have gone through these things and that you're not alone, but also to give them a way out. Right, it's to give them a way out, and that's the person part.
Speaker 1:One of our signature quotes in the book is that you are most powerfully positioned to serve the person you once were. Why? Because you know them. You were them. Nobody knows that person better than you. You're intimately acquainted with every fear, every doubt, every goal, every dream, and if we can tap into that and align our business to that. Then the world will change, you will change, your community will change and there will be a positive domino effect that is unstoppable. I believe that to be true. I am seeing that being lived out right now in my life and I know that if it can happen for us, it can happen for you. It can happen for you, but you have to embrace the hard parts. You have to know that they were for a purpose and for a person and that you're uniquely designed and called to reach and serve a very specific person, and it's the person that you once were and that is how you find your purpose. We don't even need to say any more.
Speaker 2:That just like so beautifully wrapped it up. We're going to put everything in the show notes, but where can people find and follow you? Share the book website? We want to make sure that people go grab a copy.
Speaker 1:Yes. So please, grab a copy, please, please, please. You can get a copy at wealthyandwellknowncom. That's where you can grab a copy at wealthyandwellknowncom. That's where you can grab a copy. Now, of course, you can go there and just pick it from any of your favorite retailers. You can also pick it up on Amazon. It's going to be in all the places.
Speaker 1:But then also, I want to say that we're also giving away the audiobook for free, and so we'd love for you to pick up a copy, but we're also giving away the audiobook for free, and so if you would like to visit freebrandaudiobookcom, forward, slash AJ, then you can get the free audiobook at absolute no charge. We'd love for you to have both. It depends if you're just a listener or a reader. I like to do both, but the audiobook is for free because we just want to get it out into the world. And if you want to follow me, my preferred platform is Instagram. My handle is at AJ, underscore Vaden, and you can find all the interesting things about me, my kids, my husband and our work on my Instagram.
Speaker 2:So well. I can't wait to get the book. I'm a physical copy book. I love to be able to listen, maybe when I'm hiking, but I want to underline and mark it up. And I want to underline and mark it up and you know I love to get into a book like that, so I can't wait for it. Aj, thank you so much for your time and just your openness and sharing all the lessons and stories that people can so so much connect to their own experience and you've made people feel seen and you've made people feel like they're not alone and I don't think they'll forget that.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you, and thank you for being such a wonderful and gracious host. This was my pleasure today.
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