Meet Corryn Kivett | NLP Master Coach and Trainer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Corryn Kivett and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Corryn, where are your from? We’d love to hear about how your background has played a role in who you are today?

I am from San Diego and raised by entrepreneurs who out of the love in their hearts encouraged me to pursue stability, which meant a 9 to 5 job in corporate America. I attended San Diego State University and graduated with honors in business administration (finance emphasis), then landed a job working as a financial planner at Merrill Lynch in San Diego. I soon realized I was chasing someone else’s version of success and decided to take the leap into entrepreneurship with zero plan to fulfill a greater purpose that was my own. In 2018 I finally listened to my intuition, which told me to follow my passion into personal development and create a platform to serve others.

I’ve always considered myself a high achiever which is a big reason why I was able to evolve from barely making ends meaat after taking the leap to growing a 6 figure business in a few years, however, my high achieving habits weren’t always the most positive. When I was younger, being raised by a single mom with a father who was in and out of the picture I turned to getting good grades, excelling in school and sports in the hopes of getting approval of those who raised me. Throughout the years of high achieving and perfectionist tendencies to get the approval of others, it was far more exhausting and continuously left me unfulfilled and drained. It stopped me from taking action, being true to who I was, and was a blindspot I never knew existed until I finally saw it. It wasn’t until I started to do the inner work that I began to shift the way I showed up which allowed me to step into who I truly was and create the business I’d always imagined with ease and having fun in the process.

Our past plays a huge part in the way we show up today and I am a firm believer that our past never defines us, rather it creates us and gives us a set of skills, a vantage point, and perspective that no one else has. As we start to grow and evolve out of the past stories that once defined us can we then intentionally choose who we are going to be and how we are going to show up going forward. I’m grateful for my past and the experiences I’ve gone through because without them I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
My brand is all about doing business on purpose, which has two parts. First, I get to help people uncover their purpose and what they are here to do; I am a firm believer that there is a dreamer within all of us that at some point we told to be quiet when if we simply listened to that part and leaned in to what we are truly here to do our lives would be more fulfilling and impactful. The second part is I get to help people show up more intentionally in their business which allows business owners to better communicate, sell and grow their business. The more we can show up intentionally, the more we can create intentional results.

My journey to starting Evolution Room has not been easy, which I don’t think anyone’s ever is. I went from working in corporate America to taking the leap into entrepreneurship with zero plan. I left a life I built with nothing to fall back on. In the middle of figuring out what business I was going to start, I was figuring out who I was, see I had tied my entire self-worth to my career, focusing on what I was doing and achieving as my identity, and all of it came to a crashing halt.

Earl Nightingale has a great story about a young boy who puts together a puzzle of a man. On on side their is a picture of a man and on picture of the world.  The boy is told to put together the picture of the man, which he does extremely quick for his young age.  When asked how he did it, the young boy says “I put together the picture of the world”. The idea being when the man is together his world is together.  In the middle of what felt like a mid-life crisis, I figured if I started putting myself together, my world would come together. And that’s what I did.

I invested in personal development and started to learn what I didn’t know that I didn’t know about myself, which allowed me to begin to shift the stories I was telling myself and get out of my own way. Then the more I learned about myself the more I learned about others which allowed me to show up better in relationships – which is the core to doing business.

As I started to see results in myself and was finally stepping into the potential I have only imagined I realized I had tools that could help others evolve, do business in a more purposeful manner and make a bigger impact by helping others.  That’s when I partnered with my co-trainer and launched Evolution Room.  It happend to be during a pandemic which is the perfect year for in-person training, right?

I’ve consistently learned to embrace the uncomfortable and surround myself with others who are doing the same. When you are in an environment where people are consistently striving for greatness and evolving into the best version of themselves anything is possible.

What I want the world to know about my brand is what Walt Disney said is true. If you can dream it, you can do it. All you need is to have the tools, resources, and environment to make it happen. You are designed for greatness and the first step is having faith in yourself and what you’re here to do in the world.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
If my best friend were visiting, which she is probably going to read this and will spoil my plans, she and I would go on a sunrise hike through Torrey Pines so she can see the beautiful beach, then we would head to brunch at Snooze for all-you-can-drink mimosa’s. We would most likely go to Little Italy for dinner.  I’d show her Cafe Gratitude since it is my favorite place to eat, and then of course dancing in Gaslamp. I would have to take her to my favorite coffee shop at Cafe Bassam in Hillcrest and seeing that we both love to workout we would be hitting the local gym to get our sweat on.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
Huge shoutout to Pivot Point Advantage – Stacey O’Byrne and MaryLou Hunter. These two women have helped me transition from corporate to successful business owner and have provided me with the tools to be able to turn around and help others.

Website: https://evolutionroom.co

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