Becky Shortt
Becky Shortt
Holding you to your goodness & greatness

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✓ Equal parts GOODIE & BADDIE?

Orbiting planet earth?

Dangerously CREATIVE dynamite?

GOLD in the veins?

Next step: a sexy life for a sexy human.

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World-class & off-planet.

I SEE YOU

You want world-class. But without the fuss.

If it’s been done before, you know it’s possible for you.

But what is out there, even the pinnacle of lifestyle and success, still isn’t quite your cup of tea. And cup of tea it must be.

You’ve got that anti-hero quality, set in your whacky ways, a textbook brooder and known to be a little ‘dangerous’.

I work with extra-ordinary people at different phases of their journey. Where are you at right now?

  • You have had the kind of success and public recognition that most couldn’t fathom in their wildest dreams. You’ve already made a tangible impact and inspired hundreds, if not thousands or millions. Now you realise that success doesn’t have all the answers, and you are wondering what is next-level for you. You want to create a life that inspires YOU, and do it on your terms.

  • You are in an existential crisis. Between getting older, making babies, attending funerals or seeing things not quite turn out as planned, you want to reignite your passion for life and get off autopilot for good.

  • You have a clear goal that terrifies you and that most would call impossible. You’ve been chipping away or thinking about it for long enough and now you are ready to GET IT in a way that feels fun, easy & just a little spectacular.

Everything is possible for you too.

You inspire me.

You are law-defying powerful. Sometimes you forget. And when you remember it takes your breath away. You have changed the course of your history with inspired decisions and know you will do it again. There is no end to your potential when you give something your all.

You are talented, but you don’t like to call it that. You’ve worked hard… you guess? Even when it feels easy or lazy, it’s more than most people could handle. That’s because when you show up, you show up! You know that being present and playing 100% is more energising than half-arsing it. Many a time you’ve been described as being ‘in the zone’.

You have created the most memorable ‘cannot believe this is real’ moments for yourself and others. Your documentary reel makes you look like a superstar.

And yet, you have been through and witnessed the darkest of times and have had to remind yourself that rock-bottom goes lower. This has given you extraordinary perspective and compassion.

People are drawn to you and your leadership.

Your heart is supernova bright, and yes, it practically explodes with love when you see people in their element (or puppies and good food).

You’re a healer. Your words and even your energy mean so much to so many people and can create cellular shifts. And even if ‘healer’ isn’t your title of choice, you are proud of this gift.

You set others at ease. Whenever you meet someone, you could make the ‘just promise not to fall in love with me’ speech, because between your easy smile, wicked sense of humour and enduring kindness, you are magnetic af. You’re not interested in winning favours or admirers, though. You just love to see people being themselves.

You dare to speak the truth.

Not just your truth, but the kind that will change lives and make people feel less alone and more alive. This makes you fierce.

And nobody sees the world quite like you.

It’s cool the way your brain makes connections, finds patterns, and creates insights from thin air. You can read a situation as easily as you can read people.

After all, you are a creative powerhouse and an artist. Everything you do is art. The way you do business, the way you move, the words you write and the pictures you draw up in your mind. Being creative is the same as breathing to you. If having a life-coach means creative thinking and life-design, you’re in.

When you want something, you go for it. You put your money where your heart is, even when it’s a stretch.

You are absolutely committed to being the best version of you. You’re not just someone who wants to intellectually ‘get’ self-help concepts or brag that personal development is part of your morning routine. Every day, you consciously make a choice to be better and to take meaningful action towards being your best.

You are creating a legacy. Your soul knows this.

 

BUT YOU HOLD YOURSELF BACK

You struggle to state your worth, even though you are the secret-sauce behind others’ success! You sometimes shrink and act like you are in the backseat, the background or the sidelines, when really you were born for next level leadership. You are THE SAME as those you inspire YOU!

Occasionally you trick yourself, cos you’re clever like that, telling yourself that this is all enough, even though you could have anything you dared to ask for. Sometimes you are scared you don’t have the energy and resources to make the life of your dreams- this vision, sustainable. Sometimes you stop yourself imagining more than this. When things have been ‘easy’ so far, it scares you that you might fail going for something ‘hard’.

You say yes too often, because you can handle it. One small, ‘harmless’ compromise after another. Before you know it, your life begins to feel like it’s on someone else’s terms.

You get sucked into the ‘hustle’ zeitgeist & still hear the voice of parents or some old audiobook that makes striving for security seem like the only way to success. Your best results have come from taking chances and trusting your intuition, and yet you give up your power at times to follow a plan that you know wasn’t meant for you.

You struggle to distance yourself from those who hold you back from the you you wanna be. You feel guilty, especially when you see that someone counts on you, and act like suffering toxic interactions is your charity work. Ultimately it’s no good deed if it stops you living your dreams and leaving your legacy!

Deep down you still feel undeserving of your tribe. But know that you need to be around people who are the best and want the best for you. You never feel like you quite belong and it’s becoming a source of shame, not pride. But you deserve the most supportive friends, the best mentors, and a family who let you grow and shine.

Even when it’s great, being you is hard.

You’ll be misunderstood. There is still a divide between the words you say and those that hum between your ears, even when you try to put it all out there. You inspire people so much that they hear what they want to hear, and that unfortunately can mean not really hearing you. So much for sharing your truth.

Life always feels a little dangerous. Not in the ways you like, but in the way where you are scared that you will lose everything you’ve worked for or that you peaked long ago. It puts you at risk of playing small or going for the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

Despite your good graces, you can’t help resent that everything feels like it is up to you. If you didn’t turn up, would anything get done? Nobody can really comprehend the energy and mental bandwidth you give to create the best life for you, your loved ones and the world.

And then, even though love is at the centre of all you do, you can accidentally hurt people’s feelings with your awesome-sauce. If only people knew your beautiful mind and good intentions, they could hack the occasional unfiltered truth or the smouldering confidence that might tickle their insecurities.

Wearing your heart & your art on your sleeve means unwanted criticism from those who just want the best for you. They’ll tell you to mould yourself a certain way, be a little quieter, a little safer, for your sake.

You have an erratic pace but your own flow. Sometimes you’ll be too slow. Sometimes you’ll be too busy. You worry it’s never good enough for those who discount you as busy or are concerned that you have happily spent days in bed.

Your magnetism & competence complicates your life. There are many offers on the table and you are forever learning to discern. You wonder when you’ll be completely satisfied as you squash cheeky fires in your heart.

It is lonely.

Hanging with friends is weirdly a huge deal for you. Doing what regular people do. But to you it’s a highlight and something you don’t take for granted. Having people love you as you are is so important to you.

You want success on repeat, but are afraid that you are missing that je ne sais quoi of your very adult & ‘together’ role-models who look and speak the part. You worry that your track-record of success is some kind of fluke.

Did you know?

Your success is no fluke! It is repeatable and you have everything you need (including the process) already in your coding.

You can have absolutely everything you want and more. You deserve it. And you deserve it exactly as you like it. That includes allowing it to be easy and at your pace.

The ones you think you are hurting might just be the ones you inspire the most. Trust in your impact and that the sting is only temporary. I have many stories like this I hope you get to hear from me one day.

Nobody will ever fully understand your efforts, your sacrifices, and the care you put into so many ordinary moments. But you can feel connection without being fully understood. To dissolve resentment, remove your expectations of another and ask straight up for what you want. That includes telling the well-meaning ‘concerned’ that you would love their whole-hearted support.

You are your message. Even if people don’t get what you say, they feel you and the way you show up has seismic impact.

Never dial down your juju, but dial up your boundaries. Saying no is your biggest flex. When you can do anything and everything, but choose to wait for something better, the real deal enters your orbit.

Say yes, too!

When you say yes to scary, out-of-your-depth experiences that feel expansive, you can quantum leap into worlds you thought were forever away.

You can let go of people with love. You may find they blossom in your absence and that next time you meet you are both changed and on the same wavelength.

Even when you feel alone, you are so loved. The extraordinary people who are your people are waiting for someone exactly like you to connect with. Remember that it is safe to have dreamy soul-friendships.

It gets better than your highest moments in ways you can’t even fathom yet. The best is ahead of you, with or without chasing the high!

The world is waiting for you to step up. You were not meant for ordinary. Shrinking does nobody any favours.

No shrinking. Only shining.

 

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Soul-sister + artist-champion + life coach to rebel goodies

HERE’S ME

I help flawed humans (@me) exist in their brightest light & get anything they want. I coach leaders, artists & self-proclaimed aliens to achieve their next ‘impossible’, following their own unique code NOT the ‘rules’ of planet earth. We make it fun & easy!

And so, people find refuge in our conversations.

We are all paradoxes here.

As I write this, I am an executive leader and the writer of controversial ‘sexy’ songs. I’m a neuro-linguistics expert and I spend most my time singing baby songs to my little girl.

I’ve had my fair share of adventure too.

I’ve driven at 130 miles p/h in a foreign country, my husband nearly dying beside me, and had to learn how to play nurse (needles & all) while committed to ‘not ruining our honeymoon’. I’ve been a teen-instructor, blackbelt and two-time karate world-champion (gentle heart x loves to fight). I’ve been a force for forgiveness in my parents’ separation (if it were a movie-drama I would be expected to be outraged because of weird details!).

I’ve coached my mentors & people who used to scare me, having them share their deepest secrets in the safest space for leaders who want to do and be better.

If what you just read seems like chaos, it isn’t.

It is life.

And your own intersecting of the dark and light is equally complex, but doesn’t have to hold you back. You don’t have to shrink when things get realer than real. You can feel free & powerful at every moment. You can feel profound love. And you can define and attain success on your terms.

Ever since I was 5 years old, I’ve been connecting to my heart and helping others connect with theirs. I wrote in my first diary entry ‘Today my heart is telling me…’ because that is how I intuitively knew how to relate to the world. Heart-first. In high-school, I wrote letters to my friends giving them reasons to live and reminding them of their unique beauty. My mum had to play my personal secretary, filtering calls from guys who loved me because they could always be themselves around me.

The same heart has made me a powerful leader.

When I ran my own karate dojo at 16, I helped students from 5 to 70 become their most confident selves. As I high-school teacher, my classroom was full during lunchbreaks, where students would seek advice or arrive bursting to share something new they had tried. Boys would come to cry. Girls would come to learn to be brave.

When I began formally coaching adults in 2013 after living & breathing personal development, I realised that beyond the gift of asking powerful questions, my extraordinary empathy & perspective were always leading me to this work.

The transformational gift of seeing what others can’t see has been there throughout so much of my journey:

  • When I went for and won two karate world titles, I had to believe in myself more than anyone believed in me. I wasn’t always the ‘favourite’ to win & was often treated like a novice (I was new to competing!). As a karate instructor I could see the spark in the most quiet unassuming students, and turned them into senseis & champions. When I juggled my teaching with studying for my HSC, I trained myself to think that my extra time in the dojo was exactly what would make me succeed. If you care about high ATARS, succeed, I did.

  •  In my teaching career, I was disqualified from applying for a position to be a senior learning mentor (how whack!). Less than 12-months later, I applied for and got the position that manages that role. The person I succeeded was a domineering, ex-military man who told me it was impossible to do the job and still have quality-of-life. Well, my vivacious little self (not at all domineering) not only had quality of life, but began a new solo music project too, often (through weird fortune) releasing singles on the days I had to sub-in for deputy principal. I laugh about that a lot! At an executive conference my boss gave me this magic value card with the word ‘PERSPECTIVE’ written on it in bold. She said that it was my biggest strength, and I knew it.

  •  And being a songwriter has been the ultimate lesson in perspective. I can turn grief,  guilt, shame & hurt into pieces of art that make people feel less alone. Our struggles don’t need to stagnate. They can transmute and give hope. This is why I’ve worked with so many artists. I give them permission to go deeper than ever and say what nobody is willing to say. They are loved for it.

 Becoming sure of yourself & your truth has its own struggles.

When I quit teaching karate, I received many hints about ‘coming back’, which were about as welcome as the nudges I get about having babies. Champion can equal obligation.

And when I knew I had to start my own solo music project, I felt too loud, then too quiet, too exposed & then misunderstood and like for every proud sharing moment, there were a thousand little humiliations. People who don’t try don’t know this world, but some of us just have to create.

These days, I work exclusively with the most inspirational ‘aliens’ on the planet.

Like leaders who feel strangely disconnected from current issues because they’re on their own heart-led mission. Old-soul, young-at-heart, creative rebels & those obsessed with learning & doing. Charismatic, sensitive and sparkly-eyed. Poets of life.

Extraordinary people don’t see the world in typical ways. Sometimes they think their brain is broken, but I show them how it holds the key to their greatest fulfilment.

If you want some more intimate details of the picture of my life…

  • Dan is my honey-bear, ultimate cavalier-baby-daddy, and photographer of beautiful women. I still call him ‘the best person I know’. Our first proper interaction was sparring during a karate class, and the first-time I planned to seduce him I got bitterly rejected! We think it’s weird being dubbed a ‘power couple’, but sometimes when he’s shooting my music videos it makes me wonder if we are. Our most running joke is quoting this scene. We’ve travelled to 10 countries together, with only one near-death experience. I am best friends with his mum.

  • I’ve been writing songs forever, and when I was in Year 5, I put on a concert of original songs about ‘Outer Space’ and performed them with friends to all the Year 4s! My sister used to harmonise my own Spice-girlesque originals with me and I serenaded my first boyfriend with songs I wrote for him (and it was very sweet and not cringe). I wrote my brother’s wedding song & a couple of theme songs for clients. I even did a songwriting session with the winner of the Voice so he could start writing music that was more true to himself (and not the generic shiz that Sony would have him put out)!

  • I am obsessed with the nuances of language & it’s how I get results in my coaching. I taught English for 12 years, study & practise advanced Neurolinguistic Programming & I look up word etymologies before bed. I don’t need to guess what linguistics and cunnilingus have in common. I created a writing course that is all about using words to heal and transform.

Here are some other tidbits for the truly curious who’ve made it this far:

  • The same famous producer who told me that I couldn’t sing or write songs for shit (paraphrasing), ended up recording two of my songs for free 5 years later. I’m proud of this one, because the evening he addressed my suckiness, I blogged about it, knowing whole-heartedly that karate taught me I can get better at anything. More singing lessons with my coach and client, queen Marion Rouvas, and everything clicked. Look at me now!

  • I get migraines at least once a month and my non-medicated strategy is to plant purple flowers on the pain points in my head. I’m grateful to understand debilitating pain, and if I can manage, I’ll listen to audiobooks and enjoy the ‘down time’. I’m studying sound therapy as another healing modality.

  • Every Christmas I do a burlesque performance of Santa Baby in front of my whole family, including any new love-interests who don’t anticipate being fluffed by my red tinsel. I also regularly impersonate James Franco as Tommy Wiseau to entertain/embarrass my family in public and to spice up the occasional games night.

  • I’m in a book called Public Bodies where I posed naked in front of the Contemporary Museum of Art with a bunch of strangers. With no adrenaline, excitement or energy. It was like ‘meh’. For the same book, we did a shoot in a freezing cold lagoon, and I’m pretty sure my goosebumps are why it didn’t make the final cut!

  • And yet, so many of my life highlights have been naked, with high-energy, but no fear. Like diving into a sparkling Zamami ocean, filled with emerald-green bioluminescent plankton alongside a new karate friend. Or calling in the year 2020 dancing naked on a Byron Bay beach (to my own song!) after teaching some new friends how to bellydance.

  • I’ve gone through some disturbing shit, like being blackmailed by a gang-member, finding out a family member and I have shared a sexual partner (nooooo!), and having my best friend arrested with an adjacent investigation happening on me ‘just as procedure’.

  • The moments that, upon my deathbed, I would pay millions to relive are those precious conversations with my nieces & nephews. When he was only 5 my eldest nephew asked me what success was & I felt like my whole life had been leading up to that point!

  • I make the best of the worst situations. In 2018, when a teacher quit in the English faculty, they took my Year 12 class away from me and put me on a new Advanced class. It was in the final term of the HSC, and I was devastated not to have my class until the end, but I learnt a new curriculum and convinced my new class to enter the lipsync battle with me as my back-up dancers. Some of the girls were so shy and had never done a public performance of this kind, but we choreographed something amazing and did two stunning and hilarious acts- the ultimate class bonding exercise. The way I cared about and committed to that class in just a term is one of my greatest reminders of the human capacity for love. There is always room in our hearts to give. Teaching has never stopped giving me that reminder.

Ok, I’m feeling a little raw after that overshare (did I even mention anything bio-impressive?), but I am now far more interested in YOU!

If you’re anything like the people I work with, you might relate to this.

And if you want to see how we can work together, click here or read on.

 

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Courage to back your dreams x Expert coaching

How we can work together

If you are anything like me, you know that the road to success can be lonely.

It’s ultimately up to you, after all, to do what it takes to make your dreams come alive.

And when you are a leader, outwardly focused on others and fascinated by their potential, it can be jarring to find that you are the only person really invested in your own success.

Imagine what it would be like to have someone who is utterly excited by your potential, wanting more than anything, to see you succeed.

Imagine someone who is committed to helping decode how you work so that you can streamline your life, take bold action (with or without motivation), and stop getting in your own way.

Imagine the intellectual & whole-body buzz of being coached on topics that you thought were taboo, or ideas that you thought were too out there to get airtime.

If even wondering about that felt like both excitement & relief, well this is a fraction of what is possible when you invest in someone who is invested in you.

  • No more waiting to see that one friend before you talk about money or sex.

  • No more waiting to see if your partner is in the perfect state to listen to your wild plans for the future.

  • No more putting your next-level dreams on the shelf so that you can attend to more practical & pressing matters.

  • No more needing to justify that fire in your heart.

Having a coach feels like the permission you need to ask for more, be done with what’s not working, and move towards outrageous, ‘impossible’ dreams.

You don’t need permission to back yourself in this way. You can do that right now.

But like those who work with me, you might just want an expert by your side.

Someone like me who:

Sees you in your greatest light & will never let you forget your track-record of success…

Has a highly diverse tool-kit to help you breeze through obstacles, and make peak-performance a new normal.

Will be honest with you, challenge your thinking & elicit life-changing insights

Can swiftly disprove your self-doubt & excuses with hard evidence of how incredible you are.

Believes that the parts you conceal hold the key to your greatest joy and impact.

How will you get results with me as your coach?

I do insight-based coaching, which means we focus on takeaway lessons that will change your whole outlook and approach. The insights create the mindset that will help you take action.

I am not an accountability coach.

That means I won’t check up whether you’ve done what you said you will do. I care more about how you think and feel, because when these are in check, the actions take care of themselves. If you want a coach to ‘make you do your homework’ that is not me. I’d rather help you get so excited about your life-work that you cannot NOT take inspired action.

You don’t have to show up to coaching as fearless or the ‘on’ version of yourself that the world sees. Your job in our sessions is to be honest. Hide nothing and hold nothing back. It is how we fast-track your new version of success. If you have read all about me, you would know that no topic is off-limits and I’ve been through things that many would find impossible to live with or surpass.

You are safe with me. You never have to impress. You can be your messiest self. But you will be ‘put back together’ with your greatest integrity, upgrades and all. Leave that part to me.

You do have to come to the party.

Coaching isn’t just an intellectual exercise or a regular dose of personal development. You can get that from any generic article. It is about YOU specifically.

Obliterating the beliefs, emotions and behaviours that hold you back. Rewiring your brain for success. Taking your biggest dream and making the first step so tiny and achievable that you can do it with no more than a gentle sigh.

You need to act as though it is working! This is a clever approach because then whatever you learn in coaching gets anchored as a memorable success strategy.

I can hear myself getting excited with all possibilities so I am taking a breather. It comes down to this.

With your courage in saying yes to you…

With my expertise in coaching people to get anything they want, in the exact way they want it…

You and I will make magic an everyday experience in your life. As you set out to achieve the extraordinary, you will be more supported than ever and will be gifted with the insights and the tools that will transform your world from the inside out.


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