Elle Swan
Business Name: Swansense International
Business Web address: www.elleswan.net
Experience: International speaker, lifestyle coach, television personality, athlete and author
15-second elevator pitch: I travel the world, teaching women how to rise above mediocrity in health, wealth and love.
Books you are reading: The High-Beta Rich: How the Manic Wealthy Will Take Us to the Next Boom, Bubble, and Bust, by Robert Frank; The Producer, by Wendy Walker; Elle-evate by Elle Swan
Goals for 2011:
- Complete flying lessons
- Become fluent in French. From my earliest memories as a child growing up in Michigan, I’ve been drawn to France. As a young girl I vowed to go there; and when I spent three weeks there on my second trip to Europe as an adult, it was everything that I imagined it would be . . . and more. It is a place that I will return to many times, and being fluent in the language will make it all the better!
- Build my Club e membership to 2 million.
What are you passionate about? Teaching and supporting women to rise above mediocre living. I have spent many years fine-tuning a three-step process that helps women recognize their resistance to change. This awareness helps them make the best choices on a daily basis, and each day they rise higher and higher because they no longer have internal/emotional blocks holding them back. It is the same process that I used to overcome obesity, drug addiction and poverty.
What makes you nuts? Illiteracy
Top 3 “Bucket list” items
- Travel to Outer Space. When I came back to life after overdosing in an abandoned van 11 years ago, I came face to face with timelessness. This experience showed me that there really are no limits to what we can achieve. I am planning to be a participant in the Richard Branson Space Project. He is already going full force with the most brilliant minds in science, and I will go before my 50th birthday!
- Record a jazz CD in honor of my father. My father could hear most songs once and play them by memory. Jazz and gospel were his favorites. I love the sophistication of jazz, and that is why I will make a jazz CD.
- Win a Nobel Peace Prize. I see myself winning a Nobel Prize for demonstrating and teaching the world how to shatter the fear that causes them to lead average boring, depressing lives. I had the honor to be a guest on a radio show with Ghandi’s grandson. During the discussion he agreed with me when I said that the “new violence” within our culture is the directed toward ourselves. Self-love is an action, not something just to say because it sounds good.
Elle’s top tips for upwardly mobile women
My mission is to inspire women in what I call the trifecta: health, wealth and love.
- Health: Never eat foods that contain ingredients that you cannot pronounce.
- Wealth: Never, ever say the words “I can’t afford it.” Instead, ask yourself, “What can I give the world that will allow me to afford it?”
- Love: Love yourself first.
Elle Swan’s Vibrant Living philosophy has been recognized multiple times on FOX, NBC and PBS. She’s the Vibrancy Coach for ABC Las Vegas. She publishes the weekly newsletter Be Fit, Live Rich and she is the author of Your Mind Over Habits: A Woman’s Guide to a Happy Life and a Vibrant Body. Connect with Elle at elle@elleswan.com.
