Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m Lisa Cherry Beaumont, and I help people stuck doing work they don’t love to get out and do something meaningful.
I’m a workshop leader at events and retreats in Europe and Southeast Asia, and a student of psychology, Buddhism and emotional and energy healing.
I’m motivated to help people out of the mindset that life’s all about working long hours to earn enough money to pay the bills – and into the mindset of living on their own terms.
A few years ago, I was working in corporate. I was great at it and it paid me pretty well, too. But I knew deep down it wasn’t what I was supposed to be doing.
I felt trapped and unfulfilled and knew there was something much more important I needed to do, although I didn’t know what.
It took me several years to get where I am, doing what I love by helping others to understand what motivates them and makes them genuinely, deep-down happy so that they can go and do it for a living.
I’ve written three practical coaching workbooks and Life Purpose Alchemy, a culmination of my workshops and private coaching, is the most comprehensive.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
When I submitted Life Purpose Alchemy to my book reviewers I was incredibly nervous of the feedback I would receive.
It contains exercises I’d only ever used in my private coaching sessions with my clients and, honestly, I was scared they wouldn’t work if I wasn’t there to walk the reader through them, or my readers would find them too complicated or difficult to follow.
And I was totally wrong! When I received the feedback, every single one of my reviewers told me the book is outstanding and that the exercises worked beautifully. I cried a lot of happy tears, I can tell you!
Life Purpose Alchemy is my most exciting and important book as it’s a culmination of the practical work I do with my private clients and it allows my work to reach so many more people than I can possibly coach one-to-one.
Maybe I sound like a right hippie but all I want is a happier world and when people are doing the work that they were born to do, they’re happy!
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m conducting this interview at 11:30pm on a Saturday night! I tend to be most creative and productive at night. Don’t try to get a lot of sense out of me in the mornings – that’s my quiet time.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Buddhism was a big game-changer for me as it taught me, in a round-about way, that our thoughts create our reality; change your thoughts, you change your life.
As well as studying Buddhism formally, I’ve read a few books, some by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. I’m also a big fan of Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now.
I’m presently using what I recently learned in The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks which talks about how we sabotage things for ourselves when things are going well. It’s quite an eye-opener, I can tell you!
What are you working on now?
I’ll be translating Life Purpose Alchemy into Spanish. I’m also co-creating a practical step-by-step workbook on how to feel happier, and my next big project is to start working with school-leavers in order to research for a new book that will help them to make the correct career choices after they leave school. A lot of young adults have no idea what work they want to do when they leave school and end up getting shoe-horned into jobs that don’t fit them. I want to change all that.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m relatively new to book promotion but I do know that just posting it on your website and/or Amazon and hoping for the best isn’t going to cut the mustard! Research your keywords, that’s pretty important.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do what you love! Write about something that matters to you. And if you’re not great at editing, find someone who is. If you’re not great at cover design, find someone that is! Stick to your own skill set and hire others to do the rest.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Feel the fear and do it anyway – Susan Jeffers. I live my life by that and it’s scary as hell sometimes but it’s never boring!
What are you reading now?
I’m finishing The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, the book I mentioned about how we sabotage ourselves. I’m a huge fan of self help.
What’s next for you as a writer?
As well as the projects I’ve already mentioned, I’ve got a comedic book up my sleeve… It’s not my main focus right now and I’ve only just started it but my friends have begged me to write it so I’ve finally started putting finger to keyboard…
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
Something hysterically funny by my good friend and author Liam Pritchard.
A practical guide to surviving life on a desert island!
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