Today we’d like to introduce you to Niyc Pidgeon.
Niyc, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I was originally supposed to be a mechanical and automotive engineer and received scholarship places at the UK’s top universities to study to work in the pit lane in Formula 1 racing. Instead, I wound up being a motivational speaker and positive psychologist running a company with 17 team members and 4000 students in our programs because I found my love for human behavior and helping other people thrive. This complete career swerve came from a conversation I had when a psychologist advised my then boyfriend not to look at the fielders on the cricket pitch when he was going to bat… but to look for the gaps win between the fielders instead. I started to apply this to life and it got me thinking about what might be possible if we focused on opportunities instead of looking at what goes wrong. Positive Psychology is the science of happiness and provides an evidence-based understanding of what makes people, communities and businesses flourish. I decided to study for my master’s degree in pospsych and then went on to use this to fuel my coaching business too.
Teaching people how to run successful online businesses is as much about the strategy to do that as well as the mindset it takes too. For the first few years in the business, I did what I loved and felt completely on purpose – but I wasn’t making a dime. I was stressed out burned out and frustrated with the world. After winning Young Entrepreneur of the Year and gaining more confidence, I left the UK to write my first book, entering a competition with my dream publisher Hay House. I went to write for three months and never went home. I won the competition, published my book Now Is Your Chance in 2017 and went on to make this a best seller that has been dubbed the bible for happiness. At the same time I left the UK, I decided to take my business online and work from my laptop on the go. Where previously my business had been more like a hobby, things had finally started to work. Having never made money in my life, I made $35,000 in my first 35 days of re-launching my business and then did $100,000 in 100 days from there. I made my first million in the business before I was 30 and have now helped many other women build their own million-dollar businesses too.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
My obstacles and challenges have also become my greatest gifts as I have figured out how to grow through them. Money was always a challenge for me – I didn’t have any, and I didn’t know how to make it, but I knew inside me that I could – so I got frustrated trying. I did a lot of work on my money mindset and subconscious to be able to live from a place of desire and allow myself to receive money, abundance and success. For years I focused on the bills I had to pay and worried endlessly about them until I realized that was counterproductive. When I started to focus on what I wanted instead of what I didn’t have, things started to change. In May of 2012, I got into what I thought was a taxi on the way to the airport home from a vacation in Spain… it turned out not to be a taxi, and on the way to the airport I was raped. I finally went to speak with a counselor to help overcome the fears and PTSD I was experiencing and after ten months of hard work was able to live a normal life. I went on to share this story in my book and on stages around the world and have messages every day on social media from people sharing they’re now able to see a light at the end of the tunnel because I’ve gone on to be stronger, happier and more successful than ever before.
Because they see it’s possible for me to find strength through struggle, they know it’s possible for them too. Traveling around the world and running a million-dollar business looks so glamorous and often it is. But it can take its toll on your body if you’re not careful. Even though I’ve always been very healthy, working out six days per week for the last 15 years, and using all of the biohacking tools… the entrepreneurial life and personal challenges eventually caught up with me. I was diagnosed with heavy metals poisoning, adrenal fatigue, and an underactive thyroid and was completely wiped out for three months, with recovery taking a year. Getting so sick really scared me, and it gave me a lot of gratitude because I did still have a strong body which was able to heal, and I had a business which I’d systemized and built team within, which meant I didn’t have to always be in the business all of the time and could give myself the space to feel better.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
Niyc is founder of globally acclaimed online training company, Unstoppable Success. She coaches women-led businesses to grow through 6-figures, 7-figures and multi 7-figures using her frameworks and methodologies and runs self-study courses, mastermind groups, and private coaching for clients worldwide. As a leading motivational speaker, award-winning author, business coach and positive psychologist, Niyc is obsessed with empowering women to create more joy, personal power, and Unstoppable Success within themselves and their businesses. She has helped other women make more than $19 million dollars in the last five years and is fascinated by the exploration of what it is that commonly stops people and what it really takes to become Unstoppable. She is a sales superstar and has sold millions of dollars worth of programs and products from the stage, online, and on the phone, making her first $100,000 in 100 days, using her suitcase as a desk, and building 4+ separate 6 & 7-figure revenue streams. Now she teaches you how you can do that too and make 6-figure years, months, and even days your new normal.
Niyc is a Brit based in Los Angeles and proudly travels the world to speak on big stages and run her own live events, won Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2015, Psychology Book Of The Year 2017, and Most Outstanding Positive Psychologist 2018. She has been appointed as a Supporting Partner at United Nations Women UK as an Ambassador for their Onebracelet campaign to end violence against women and has helped more than 10,000 women-led businesses create success. Niyc has been featured in numerous mainstream media, named as a “Legendary Entrepreneur” in Forbes, and her award-winning and best selling book Now Is Your Chance, is a 30-Day Guide To Living Your Happiest Life Using Positive Psychology, is published with the world’s largest mind body and spirit publisher Hay House. She is now working on her second title, Force of Nature.
Is there anyone you’d like to thank or give credit to?
I was in Sundance Utah a few years ago at an event and the speaker on stage gave us each a domino and asked us to think about who it is that has had a domino effect on our life. For me, that person is my dad – but I hadn’t realized that fully until I was asked the question. When I was 11 years old, I tried to take my own life because I was being bullied. I was pulled out of high school and my parents remortgaged our home to be able to afford to send me to private school. That set me off on a new positive trajectory and was fundamental to my future success. When I see my dad again back in the UK, I’ll give him the domino and share the story and my gratitude for all of his support.
Pricing:
- $15,000 Level 1 Mastermind
- $120,000 Private Mentorship
- $2000 Online Course
- $15 Now is Your Chance Book
Contact Info:
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: www.niycpidgeon.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/niycpidge
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/niycpidgeon
- Other: https://www.influencive.com/niyc-pidgeon-from-rock-bottom-to-rockstar-coach/
Image Credits
Bry Penney
