Episode 41: Find Your Life Brand, Your Markah Vida, with Rebekah Hogan

May 27

The Question: What’s Your Markah Vida?

Everyone fears waking up 40 years later and thinking, I'm not happy. Is it because you're not living your version of happiness and success? Rebekah Hogan is a multi-business owner and entrepreneur. She recently dived into life coaching, executive consulting, and business strategy and is here to help you find your Markah Vida.

Check out Rebekah’s blog article on the experience.

Who is Rebekah Hogan?

Rebekah Hogan is a business owner and entrepreneur in a wonderful relationship with Ed Urlik, a fantastic bass guitar player. She recently dived into life coaching, executive consulting, and business strategy.

She helps them to align their business strategy with their people strategy and to develop their life brand.

And life certainly likes to create its own brand that is ever-changing.

Failure is the F word

A popular concept, "You're not going to have the wins without the failures."

Rebekah said we use failure likes it's the F word. But we need to change our mindset around that. It's not a bad word.

And to take it one step further, instead of calling it a failure, call it feedback.

Look at your feedback.

What was your approach?
Who were you talking to?
How are you proposing it?
What were you asking for?

How can you do it differently?

We're all different. We move forward in different ways, but we can certainly learn from one another.

Moving forward with your mental health.

Be honest with yourself
Don't run away from your emotions

"The thing is, is that we also need to accept when we feel bad, because there's a lesson. There's something we need to learn. And as long as we're not being honest with ourselves, and we're ignoring it work tampering down, we're masking it."

Allow yourself to recognize what you need.

Rebekah said it beautifully, "once you recognize what you need, and you give yourself permission to give yourself what you need, everybody else starts giving you that same support too."

Words matter.

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Is it failure or feedback?

Is it lazy or unmotivated?

Is it ___ or ___?

Empowering Your Positive Mindset

Gratitude

"When we are focusing on what we are grateful for it is impossible in that exact moment to feel negative emotions. When you focus on gratitude, that is the state that you end up taking on. And that, in turn, changes your behavior."

Get specific and think about what can you be grateful for in your life right now.

What can you see? What can you smell? Touch? Hear? Taste? What fills your heart?

Decide how you want to show up.

What conscious choices are you making to show up for yourself today?

In order to show up in [this way], I need to do [this] to accomplish [this] for my friends, family, and myself.

Live your life brand.

Live your version of happiness. Live your version of success.

You don't want to wake up one day and find you're not living someone else's dream life.

MarkahVida. Marka(h) means Brand, and Vida means Life.

What's your MarkahVida?

"Sometimes we get so busy adulting that we don't stop to say, what kind of adult do I want to be? What legacy do I want to leave?"

Take a moment to write down what your definition of success means.

Let who you are and what's important to you dictate what your life looks like.

Markah Vida coaches with a lens that looks at all aspects of life. Rebekah dives into your values, draws clarity into who you are, and creates plans and strategies to balance the areas in your life that are most important to you.

Lori shared, Once I defined my values, I was really able to lean into every decision I made, subject to those values."

Find yourself a Rebekah. Find your values. Find your personal success.