Today we’d like to introduce you to Hannah Brindley.
Hi Hannah, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
When it comes to my entrepreneurial journey, I think it’s really important to rewind all the way back to 2015.
I graduated with a degree in Biology, I wanted to go to med school or be in the health field, but I realized I hated it. Once I graduated, I felt so lost.
While in college, I developed a huge passion for the beauty industry–I LOVED makeup and skincare. So, after I moved home, I started a beauty Youtube channel.
At the time, I was still battling if I wanted to go to medical school, but in the meantime, I was pursuing the beauty industry. I had my Youtube channel, became a freelance makeup artist, and then got myself a job at MAC Cosmetics. And at that point, I thought I was pursuing my dream.
But while I was at MAC, I realized that I didn’t want to do that for the rest of life. This is a great career and company, but I realized it just wasn’t for me. However, while I was there, I realized that I LOVED sales. It was thrilling to me. I loved helping people figure out what the solution to their problem was.
Around the same time as this, I got a second job at Chick-fil-A, and eventually I became the Training Director at that location. Then for a while, I thought I was supposed to pursue a career at Chick-fil-A Corporate because they really are an incredible company to work for. But I also knew something wasn’t quite right with that either.
While I was working at Chick-fil-A, I realized I loved training people, and just like my experience with sales, I never thought I would like doing that either (I was always a math and science nerd).
But after about a year working in these jobs trying to figure out my next move, I became very depressed. I realized I didn’t want to pursue a career in the medical field, I didn’t want to do anything with the degree I earned, I didn’t want to work at Chick-fil-A Corporate, and I didn’t want to be a makeup artist.
I felt unsure, confused, sad, depressed, anxious, ashamed, guilty, and just STUCK.
This was an incredibly hard season in my life. I felt like I had no idea who I was. I spent 21 years of my life thinking I was going to be a doctor only to realize at 23 that wasn’t happening anymore, and I had no idea what to do about it. So, I fell into this state of depression.
My mom begged me to move home. I had a lot of pride and I said no a few times, but finally I surrendered my pride and moved home. I had no idea what I was going to do, but I had kept talking to my mom about how I wanted to start a blog and inspire women. That’s all I knew at the time, and that’s what she encouraged me to do.
I realize that I am very fortunate for this specific scenario and I am so GRATEFUL because I know that quitting your job and moving home isn’t possible for a lot of people. But this is part of my story, and I cannot express how grateful I am for my mom in this time. It changed the trajectory of my entire life.
After I went on my journey of starting a blog to inspire women, I discovered a beauty network marketing company. I ended up joining it because I thought that maybe this could be my way to make money while I’m building this blog.
When I joined this company, I realized it was actually was pretty fun for me. I was selling makeup and mentoring women. I was literally doing my favorite things.
In the span of two years, I became a part of three different companies. In one of those companies, I became car qualified in about six months, and in another one of those companies, I scaled to the top 1% of the company at the time. And at the point, I thought I wanted to pursue it as a career.
About a year in to my network marketing journey, I was introduced to the coaching industry. I enrolled into a group coaching program to help people in MLMs market and sell their products and build their teams. It was all about attraction marketing. I realized then that one day, I wanted to do what they were doing. I knew I wanted to be a coach.
Moving forward, God continued to lay a coaching business on my heart. I ended up joining a mastermind and brought my very first coaching program to life in the summer of 2019. It was to help other network marketers learn attraction marketing. It was roughly a $17k launch, and I thought that was just the COOLEST experience ever.
Later in 2019, I joined another mastermind and became a Certified Life & Success Coach.
Then at the very start of the pandemic, in early 2020, I invested in my first 1:1 mentor, began offering 1:1 coaching, and in 3 months of us working together, I had created my very first $10k month in my business. This led me to creating my first 6 figure year (in 2020). And that was almost exactly one year after the launch of my first program.
It was around this time as well that I had a major spiritual breakthrough. God brought me to my knees and showed me the importance of surrendering everything to Him and keeping my eyes on Him above ALL else–including my business.
This breakthrough changed everything for me. I was not incorporating my faith into my business until this breakthrough. To be honest, I realized then that I couldn’t NOT talk about God on my platforms or incorporate Him into my coaching because I would be withholding valuable information and from my clients.
Now, I call myself a “Faith-Fueled Business Coach.” I am fueled by my faith in my business and not by the world, and I teach my clients to do the same.
In February of 2021, I founded Faith-Fueled Coach Academy (FCA), which is now my signature program. I spent the entirety of 2021 optimizing the program with 1:1 clients, which was another 6 figure year. Now, a little over a year later, I have successfully launched (and booked out) the group coaching program that is now known as Faith-Fueled Coach Academy. FCA is meant to help women start and scale a Holy Spirit led coaching business.
This year c to focus on my podcast launch. The Reclaimed to Reign Podcast launched on 2/22/22 and became a Top 100 Podcast. The mission of the show is to help faith-based women reign within spiritual warfare and reclaim a Holy Spirit led life and business. During the launch, it ranked #81 on the podcast charts in the entrepreneurship category, and I was truly humbled.
I will also be opening up a membership early May that will act as an extension of the podcast. It is the Reclaimed to Reign Membership the purpose is to help faith-fueled female entrepreneurs breakthrough self-sabotage and spiritual warfare in their life and business. Because without this foundation, their business will crumble (just like I figured at with my own spiritual breakthrough).
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It has absolutely not been a smooth road. I know you can’t see me, but I’m giggling right now because of how bumpy the ride has been. Transformation and growth is not linear whatsoever.
I’ve had A LOT of growing to do, SO much to learn, and a multitude of limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging tendencies to bust.
As you read from my story, I have pivoted SEVERAL times. But one of the lessons I had to learn early on is to say YES when I was feeling a nudge from God to move (even when it logically made sense to stay put).
With this, one of the biggest obstacles has been learning to take the first step when the rest of the steps haven’t revealed themselves yet.
There have been several times where I didn’t want to move forward because I didn’t have every step mapped out or I didn’t know what I was supposed to do after the first step. So, I would stay put longer than I should have. I would “think myself in circles” and not take action. But the truth is that action creates clarity, and most of the time, we have that first step right in front of us, but we are too afraid to take it.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am a Faith-Fueled Business Mentor and a Certified Life & Success Coach. I am fueled by my faith in my business and not by the world, and I teach my clients to do the same.
What was your favorite childhood memory?
I have two because I can’t choose! They both have to do with a bonding experience I had with a member of my family.
The first is with my mom. There were days when my mom would beg me to stay home from school (I was a nerd and didn’t want to miss school) just so we could spend the day together. But on days I would give in to her request, we would sit in the sunroom all day on comfy couches and read fiction books. I am so glad I gave in to it because it is truly one of my favorite memories. I will never forget how peaceful and comforted I felt those days.
The other memory is with my grandfather. When I was little, I LOVED horses. He bought a horse for us both when I was ten years old, and every weekend, he would take me to ride! I will never forget those days, and I’m so grateful he shared my love for horses with me. There is nothing more freeing than galloping in a field!
Contact Info:
- Email: hannah@hannahbrindley.com
- Website: www.hannahbrindley.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/hannahbrindley
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/hannahbrindleyinc
Image Credits
Southwell Photo (DayNa Gliebe)
