Leah

Within two years, Leah shed the safety of her accounting job and made the switch complete.

Where are you in the cycle of renewal: Are you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future? What advice would Leah give you to move you ahead on your journey? Once we're on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.

When Leah made the commitment to change, she primed herself to new opportunities she may otherwise have overlooked.

We recently caught up with yoga entrepreneur Leah Zaccaria, who put herself through the fire of change to completely reinvent herself.

Up until that point, Leah had followed traditional measures of success.

The worst fear Leah ever had was the prospect of losing her yoga business.

She recalls:One day a man I worked with, Ryan, who had his office next to mine, said, Leah, let's go look at this space on Queen Anne .

Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.

Leah's interest in yoga prompted her to make a firm decision to reshape her life.

Leah's growth spurred her to open her second studio—and it wasn't for the money.

Leah's first yoga studio was by no means an immediate success.

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.

Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers: About the time my daughter was five years old, I started having a sense that ‘this isn't right.

Leah gained confidence by laying out her fears and confronting them directly.

Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content; instead, her energy sparked a period of experimentation and renewal.

Initially Leah stayed with her accounting job while starting up the yoga studio to make it all work.

In search of a meaningful life, Leah gave up what she had and set up her own yoga studios.

In her search to live a life of purpose, Leah left her high-paying accounting job, her husband, and her home.

However, it was another interest that led Leah to radically reinvent herself.

Feeling the need to change, Leah started playing with future possibilities by exploring her interests and developing new capabilities.

Calling out our fears explicitly, as Leah did, can help us act decisively.

By naming her fears and facing them head-on, Leah gained confidence.

By conventional standards, Leah was a typical successful woman before she changed her career.

As she explored new interests and developed new potentials, Leah felt powerful internally.

In that moment of clarity Leah made an important leap, conquering her inner resistance to change and making a firm commitment to take bigger steps.

In that moment of clarity Leah made an important leap, conquering her inner resistance to change and making a firm commitment to take bigger steps.

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her studio down.

within two years, Leah shed the safety of her accounting job and made the switch complete.