FAILURE!
- Alecia Iwanchuk

- Oct 30
- 3 min read

I was going to FAIL!
The feeling hit me like a brick in the chest.
I sat on my deck with an angry sun blaring down on me, my heart racing.
How could this be?
I knew this was what I was supposed to be doing. I was certain.
They had told me that all I needed was a cell phone and a dream.
I had that - I had a cell phone - I had a really BIG DREAM!
After the first coaching call I realized I was in over my head.
Do you have a website - No
A mail list of at least 200 people - No
Do I have an online following - No
Do you even know how to use Canva - No
Have you ever built a funnel - No
Ok, do you even have a laptop - No again…
I was paralyzed. I saw my dreams of creating my online yoga course slowly begin to fall away all around me.
And I couldn’t tell anyone. Not my Dad, who had loaned me the money for the course, not my friends, who I did not want to lose faith in me…
I was utterly alone.
I decided the best plan of action was to buy a laptop, so at least I could show up on the coaching calls and share my screen and get some help.
It helped. It got me a little ahead. Just enough.
The program was supposed to help me create a course that I could sell online and make enough money to leave my corporate job. I think that may have even been the exact words in their marketing campaign and they struck a chord deep inside me. You mean, do something I genuinely love, and feel is super helpful for people and actually get paid to do it??!! How could I not do that....
What I did not realize is that there are tons of hidden costs and subscriptions that they don’t tell you about when you sign up for these things, plus the time it takes to create them, plus the thousands of dollars in ad spend that they are assuming you have...
I was duped - but in a way I am glad I was. This little venture off into the big wide world showed me what my unknown unknowns were, and it showed me what I was capable of.
I was not able to create my course in the time frame of the coaching program. This was the summer of 2022 with a launch date in late fall. That came and went.
But, over the next 3 years, I stayed focused. I figured out how to create my website. I have now been through 5 different versions on 4 different platforms.
I figured out Canva, Mailchimp, and Stripe, and all the other myriads of integrations and platforms necessary to create online and build a business.
I created my course.
ELEMENTALS - A kundalini yoga course through the lens of earth, water, fire, and air.
First, I created it on Mighty Networks and gave it away for free.
Then I sold two on Thinkific
Then I uploaded it to my website.
Just recently I upgraded the entire course with deeper insights and new videos with way better production value because I have invested in a really nice Canon camera and Rhode mic.
I never gave up. On myself or my big dream of having my very own online yoga course that would help people who were making their way through a spiritual awakening and feeling lost and ungrounded.
If that sounds like you, I know this course can help you because it helped me. A journey to the center of the self. To find what you are made of and do what it takes to bring the best parts of yourself forward. Embody the wisdom of the ELEMENTS. Your body, your emotions, your will power, and your deep soulful healing.
If you never give up you never fail, you just keep learning. And growing. Or so I am finding out.
Buy this course HERE - it will change your life for the better. It changed mine!



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