Your life can look successful and still feel wrong, and that gap is where reinvention begins. We sit down with Ana Denis, an author and communication coach living in the Netherlands, to trace her path from a shy, bookish childhood in Russia to a senior role in cybersecurity, then into entrepreneurship and a mission built around voice, connection, and purpose.
Ana shares what it’s like to chase financial security after growing up in poverty, only to realize the “golden shackles” of a great job can silence your inner life. We talk about the surprising bridge between industries: a sustainable fashion resale business built on pre-loved designer handbags, and how that side project helped her test a new identity before she was ready to let go of corporate certainty.
Then the ground shifts. COVID opens the door to moving abroad, and the Russia-Ukraine war disrupts everything, cutting her business, draining her savings, and forcing her to rebuild without language fluency or the ability to simply “get a job.”
From that dark chapter comes a new strategy: interviewing women who successfully switched careers, finding the shared human thread across cultures, and turning those insights into her book Reinvento. We also explore communication skills, public speaking, TEDx The Hague, and practical visibility tools like LinkedIn and personal branding, all anchored in the deeper question of who you are without a title.
If you’re navigating a career change, a midlife identity shift, or a season where you feel stuck and alone, this conversation offers real perspective and next steps. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a reset, and leave a review if it helps you hear your own voice more clearly.
To connect, or purchase Ana Denis’ book Reinvento, visit https://anadenis.com/ or her YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIAZJzumdHkVbD5913kBQDA
To download a free chapter of host Sylvia Worsham’s bestselling book, In Faith, I Thrive: Finding Joy Through God’s Masterplan, purchase any of her products, or book a call with her, visit her website at www.sylviaworsham.com
Transcript:
If you’ve ever struggled with fear, doubt, or worry, and wondering what your true purpose was all about, then this podcast is for you. In this show, your host, Sylvia Warsham, will interview elite experts and ordinary people that have created extraordinary lives. So here’s your host, Sylvia Warsham.
Hey my bringers, it’s Sylvia Warsham. Welcome to Release. And today is Anna Dennis. And she is hailing from the Netherlands now, but she has lived in over 50 countries. Because as most of us know, our purpose doesn’t get revealed right off the bat. What happens is there’s a major crossroads that we find ourselves in. You get to a point in your life where you just don’t feel fulfilled. You think you’re happy, but you’re really not. And when that moment comes in our life, it forces us to look within, to sit with some of these feelings and understand or discover why we’re feeling this, how we got to this particular space, and then from this space, what are we going to do to move forward? Because our soul is guiding us into our light. But in those moments, we don’t know what’s happening. We just know that in our heart space, we don’t feel in alignment, we don’t feel fulfilled. And Anna is gonna be sharing that amazing story of transformation that she has to share. Now she’s from Russia, and as a child, she was very shy, but very absorbed. Communication is so such a big topic in today’s world because the way we communicate with others shows what’s really going on inside of us. I can relate on so many levels to her story. We could be rolls apart and yet feel so close to a complete stranger. And I felt it when I read her biography. Because, like her, I wasn’t Russian, I’m Mexican, and I grew up in that culture, and I didn’t feel like I had a voice at all. In fact, I was often told by my father that I had nothing important to say as a child. He was an adult, and there was a mistake he made. He literally admitted to it before he passed away. But nonetheless, when you hear that as a child, it becomes who you are, that identity. And you hold on to it because you feel like this is who you are, but that’s not who you are. That’s just what happened to you. And those belief systems, those fear-based belief systems, you can shift them. You can shift them to a loving-based belief system. And Anna did that. She did that, and she’s here to share this powerful story with us. So without further ado, Anna, thank you so much for joining us on release out reveal purpose.
Thank you, Sylvia. Thank you for having me, and I’m really excited to be here.
And I’m excited for you to be here. So please honor us with those dark chapters and how you pulled out of that crossroads.
So let me take you back to the very beginning. And you mentioned everything you mentioned is true. I was a shy kid. I used to spend most of my time with books, and I felt like communication skills were something that wasn’t really um taught to me in a family. Like I never learned any communication skills. I was a nerd. I I was studying hard, great kid, everyone was happy. My my teachers were so proud, my parents were proud. I was never a nuisance or a problem to anybody. And moreover, I believed I was fine. Like my childhood has been like a perfect childhood. Well, aside from poverty, probably, it was actually not bad. So I was just a regular kid. I would go to um to school and then to art school and then to music school without any friends, like almost without any friends. And I considered this to be life. And then uh I was born in a small Russian city. Uh while it’s actually not small, it would um when uh when comparing it to the US, I would say that it was a capital of a state, but uh overall, well, in in in terms of um in terms of the country, then it it wasn’t really big. And um uh I had that idea of um that a lot of Russians have when they’re growing up in smaller cities. I had an idea of going back to a large city and just make it, just build the career I want. Because when it comes to opportunities, there are not lots of opportunities for young people in smaller cities, and also I was really drawn to the international environment. Even though my parents have never been abroad, I have never been abroad at that age, but then I was so curious about it. It was one thing that fascinated me from the very childhood, and I remember myself just sitting next to my dad, and we would watch national geographic movies and and and then like American movies uh that showcase New York and American cities, and I was like, yeah, it it felt like a trip to the moon because I I didn’t really feel I could ever go and just be there, visit that kind of environment, that kind of city. But I was fascinated. So that was something that was just drawing my attention and my interest. And then when I was 17, I decided to go to Moscow and continue my uh education there. Um, and I that’s what I did. I moved to Moscow. Uh, I lived there alone as a kid. Um, and uh I was just starting as a at a university and I graduated as a journalist with uh the knowledge of Spanish and uh English. So, like an international journalist. Again, I have never been abroad throughout my studies. I first talked to an English native speaker when I was, I believe, 23 or 24. So even though I was studying at a linguistic university, I have like never seen a person who is a native speaker. We had one native Spanish speaker, but not an English speaker speaker, which was kind of fun. But then again, I just I just had that dream of traveling. So that was super important, and I felt like I was pursuing any kind of role that will allow would allow me to do that. So, next, what happened is I got a job at a division of CBS, however crazy that might sound. Um, that was a division responsible for um uh certain online resources, and we were managing that these online resources, and it allowed me to practice my languages. And then I got a good job, a job at cybersecurity, and that was an international company, and I felt like this is it, this is my chance. I first joined that company as a translator and then moved on to marketing and then business development, so I had several roles, and overall my career spent 10 years in cybersecurity. Now, while I enjoyed every role that I had, and uh my roles in marketing and business development allowed me to travel, to meet people, to um bring sales trainings to some local teams and partner teams that we’ve had worldwide, which was crazy, which was like my wildest dream coming true. Still, well, cybersecurity is a male-dominated environment. And I was truly enjoying these roles and my responsibilities and the what I was doing, but I always felt, well, I was young, I was very ambitious, I wanted to make impact, and I wanted to launch uh some kind of uh big partnership or like create a big partner program. And what I noticed in in a huge company, in a corporation, that’s not what happens with young ambitious employees. So I I met some challenges. Uh I met some people who were trying to limit me, which which is normal, like part of it is totally normal. That’s that’s what should happen. But then again, I wasn’t really fulfilled, and at some point I was just I started to have this kind of inner voice that was saying, like, why are you here? Why are you even here? No one cares about what you are saying during these meetings, no one is listening to you. So, are you really making any impact, or is it time to move on? Now, the problem was it was really hard to move on because that was a great job. There was one of the best Russian employers. I held a very senior position with the the compensation benefits package and everything that comes with it. And I was like, and how am I even going to find anything like matching the same level, not even level, let alone any any higher level? Because while I love this international environment, one of the other challenges that I was solving is not being poor. That was really important. Like I grew up in a in a house and we had no toilet inside the house. Until I was seven, um, I had to take a walk, especially in winter. Uh I had to take a walk uh to the backyard. And so so solving like not being poor was important. And that was one of the foundations for all of my decisions, and now I couldn’t find an answer. But then um, so I mentioned that I went to art school and I was always interested in design and and a little bit in fashion. I never worked in fashion. Uh, this was worlds apart from cybersecurity, but then maybe the male-dominated environment influenced me, and I wanted to switch into something that could give me the sense of being understood, heard, and a little bit of girlish vibe. So I um I just asked myself, uh, and again, I was young at that time, but what I asked myself, like, okay, now if tomorrow they are going to give you a huge bonus, what will you do with it? And then the answer was, I I was in love with all of these designer things. Um, and now I I love antiques, so you can see a different lump out there. But then I was in love with the designer handbags, and I will my answer was like, I’m gonna buy a handbag, which is again, I feel like pretty pretty normal for a young girl. And I I just started to buy these handbags. I I will uh I would buy them for loved, so they were much cheaper than at Louis Vuitton or Chanel or Hermes. Um, but I enjoyed the process, and what happened is um at some point I decided to join um the communities on Facebook and on other platforms as well, and those were American communities, and that’s where I saw the opportunity because in Russia there were lots of currency fluctuations, so we unfortunately didn’t have a stable currency. Um, and uh there was an opportunity to buy out these handbags for almost nothing due to these fluctuations, and I would sell them to the US, and that would that that made sense economically, and that also gave me that uh girlish vibe and the girly business. Although there was a part of me that was saying, like, isn’t it too shallow? And I was a little bit ashamed that my colleagues in cybersecurity would learn that I’m I’m doing like handbags um and selling Louis Vuittons. Uh, what would they say? I I didn’t know. But that was that was a nice balance. Um, primarily I was looking for balance because I wasn’t I wasn’t going up going to just leave my job. Um I just wanted to feel fulfilled and and happy and uh entertained a little bit, and that provided entertainment. And now what happened is my business just grew. Um in in a few years, I was uh I was taking care of both my my role at at the at cybersecurity and my business, and my business was growing. Um I guess what was right was timing, because at that point there were not that many platforms like like Fashion File or Vestiere Collective is something that we have in Europe, and they only started to appear, and that concept of sustainable fashion only started to appear and and be trendy, so the timing was perfect, and um I had that uh share of business, and then I decided to leave because I was already making a lot more than in my role, and still I was terrified because money was such a big thing for me and then a big deal. I never asked myself a question like what do I really want? I never gave myself permission to answer this question. I was just pursuing any role that could bring status, um money. Well, a role that I would enjoy, of course. I wouldn’t take something that I um wasn’t aligned with, but um at the same time, there were other requirements this role had to meet. And I uh I I wouldn’t be a person like a hungry artist uh who is uh out of money and just doing what they love, but uh they are not getting paid for it. Um so that was my understanding at that point. And then COVID happened. COVID happened, COVID hit. Um, and me and my husband, we were sitting in our room and we were just well, we always wanted to travel, we always wanted to live somewhere else. Uh so maybe it’s time because we are relatively young and uh there are also some visa programs that allow us to take that leap, make that leap, and um yeah, why why not do that? So we moved to the Netherlands and uh we moved to the Netherlands in 2021 and in 2022 the war with Ukraine has started, which has disrupted our whole world. Um the the war just by itself is is is terrifying, and that is I guess for us was the first time when we felt it so close when our um some of our friends and relatives were affected by it. Well, everyone was affected, regardless of where they are. Um and then my business was affected, I lost a half of my business, uh, I lost my savings. Um and uh basically I was in a new country, I didn’t speak Dutch at that time, um, and uh I had to make it because I realized that I cannot go back. Um which was super scary, super weird, and super terrifying because I always I used to know all the answers. I I built a successful career, I hadn’t like the the way I was referring to myself, the way I was thinking about myself was like, yeah, I’m an independent woman, self-made, I I created my life and I’m proud of it. And then I was at a point where I was totally lost, I was totally stuck. I didn’t have the right to work in this country, which was also a limitation because I had a very specific type of visa, which only allows you to continue with your own business. Um, which uh well, under a lot of stress, I I um I target the simplest decision. The simplest decision would have been just to find a job, but it was impossible. Um and then I felt like whatever I wanted to do, I couldn’t do it. I I wanted to drive because I used to drive a car, and I um I lost the right to drive because I had to pass my my driving test all over again. I wanted a cat at home and I can’t couldn’t have uh cats because my my contract uh does not allow this. And and there was so many things, many, many things like that. So I I felt totally helpless for the first time in my life, and I just didn’t know how to handle that. That was so scary. And what changed it is that was a process, it was definitely a process because at first I I felt like I hated myself because I I was expecting more of myself, I was expecting that I would handle every situation coming my way, and then my life just got blown up and and I was I was standing looking at it and not being able to do anything. That was just I froze literally at that moment. And then I started to ask myself a question, uh like I was also applying to jobs and I was getting rejections because I I don’t have the right to work. Well, maybe there were certain other reasons as well, but that was uh also uh one of the reasons, definitely. And uh but but but then again, when if I if I could ask myself in all honesty whether I wanted this job or not, I didn’t want that job. And any job I was applying for, I I didn’t really want it because I was applying based on my past. I was looking at my CV and asking myself a question, what could be an ideal role for this CV? Based on my skills, based on my experience, uh who could pay me? Who would be the company hiring me? And and I was extremely unhappy. Uh and and then again, it turned out it wasn’t the answer to my question, so I continued to look for the answer, and so I realized, well, perhaps I would love to switch careers, but our minds are wired in a way that we know what we don’t want, but we have no idea what we want. And how can you know whether a certain job or a certain role will make you happy and fulfilled if you have never tried that? So I realized that I just wanted to talk to other people who have switched careers, preferably midlife, and just ask them questions. How how did they gather their courage? How did they do it? And I started to interview women. I just started to interview them and have conversations, and and I’m I I was just overwhelmed with support and uh and guidance that I received from them, and and then I thought, like, hmm, when I was when I was a kid, I was surrounded by books, and I always wanted to be a writer. I I always enjoyed writing blogs, and basically my business was built on just one scale, being able to create content and and write. And I was like, yeah, but I always wanted, I I dreamed of doing something meaningful, not just write a blog post on on beautiful handbags, even if they’re beautiful and valuable. But yeah, I was I was looking for meaning, and I was like, yeah, okay, if I cannot work, but perhaps I can use this time to just do whatever I consider meaningful. And I started to write this book, and now it’s now it’s been released, um, which which makes me extremely happy, and I feel like it’s finally making the difference. Another process which also occurred um during these the the the last several years is I also really I was always intrigued and interested by communication. Uh and it was always part of my role because in marketing and business development you do work with communication, but it was never my main focus. And I also I was like More focused on online communication, creating websites, launching offers, launching products, uh something like that. But then again, as I started to talk to people and also rebuild my life, because starting over in a new country is a process you don’t know anyone in the country, and you should intentionally rebuild your network and and make new connections. And I’ve never done that before because I was inert. I never I never even had that um desire to to c contact people. That was weird to me. And very unnatural at that point, I believe. But then again, as I started to rebuild it here, I realized that I first enjoyed the process and next this is the most important thing in the world. Like for me, communication it’s what can change everything. Uh every negotiation, every transaction that you are having. And and we are living in a beautiful world. You can reach out to almost anyone in this world. And then if you know how to use the tools, if you know how to connect with people, then you might achieve anything. And that is that is so so important, especially now when all this messaging and the messaging on division and uh taking people apart from one another, um, becoming stronger. If this message is becoming stronger, then I I was just talking to myself, like what what would you love to do? What do you consider meaningful? And the answer was I would love to bring people from all the cultures together from all over the world because we are not that different, and we are not that divided, and of course there are custom cultural uh backgrounds which might be different, but our needs as human beings stay the same, and we share so much in common that we shouldn’t be that divided and and feeling strangers to one another. So that was another process that was happening in the same time, and then again, um I was once in my room just scrolling through a feed of uh different events happening in the Netherlands, and I came across a TEDx event. And then luckily I was smart enough to listen to myself because what I felt at this moment was like genuine excitement and and and purpose, and it was it was such a an important mix of feelings. And I felt like oh my god, I can’t screw this up. This is TEDx, this is like one of my favorite brands that I was always passionate about, and and it’s again it’s connected with using communication, with using the power of your idea and the power of your voice. But I I didn’t think about it back then. I was just I was just so excited. And then I I joined the community, I became one of the organizers, and that is what I do on a regular basis. I I create courses on communication, um, public speaking, workshops, courses, um, different types of products, uh, helping people to use their voice. Which also has a very specific mission for me. It’s not only about using your voice, but also I come from a country where people don’t really have a voice, and uh I’ve never felt like I had it. Like from the very childhood, you are taught to behave in a certain way and comply, basically, unfortunately.
Um, and I can relate to that because as we discussed at the beginning of the interview, I think a lot of women in a lot of cultures can relate to that. Because as women, we it’s been a while, it’s been a long road for us to have our voices heard. In fact, and even in this country in the United States, it took them a while for them to even have the same equal rights, and to this day, we’re still fighting that salary-wise in big corporate America. Um, there’s so much that you unpacked in what you just shared in the last almost 30 minutes that you’ve been speaking. So I want to unpack it for our guests, for those listening on the other side. You mentioned in 2021 moving to the Netherlands after everything fell apart because the Russia-Ukraine war started, and your business, your handbag business, was you were buying them in Russia and selling them in the United States. And you had come from cybersecurity, you came from corporate America. There’s so much that you unpacked. I can relate to being a bookworm. I can relate to being someone that was fascinated by international relations. In fact, that’s what I majored in in college. I double-majored in French and international relations, and I wanted to work abroad. It just never happened for me. But I did work in corporate America and I understand the golden shackles that the cybersecurity job held for you because that’s the same thing that happened to me in pharmaceuticals. And any itch-eating woman listening on the other side of this interview will be able to relate because it’s the greatest fear of the unknown. We don’t know what’s happening beyond this. So, are we ever going to find that quote-unquote success that we’re looking for? You have tied your success to the amount of money that you made because of the way you grew up. You grew up poor and you just didn’t want to have a to live in a home without a toilet. That makes sense. I mean, that makes perfect logical sense to anyone listening. But you also know that that can also shackle you into that belief system, that success can only be gained by these corporate jobs. When in reality, what happens as we journey through life is that our definition of success changes with what we encounter. And it sounds like it did for you as well. And I find that the greatest teacher that we have is these trials and tribulations that we, this darkness that we must go through first to get to the light that we’re standing in today, that authority, that confident light that you’re now in, you couldn’t have been in without first going through that dark chapter in 2021 where everything is stripped from you. Because here’s the thing that happens to us, Anna, and I know you can relate, but for those listening, everything we go through has a purpose, it equips us for what’s coming next. You couldn’t have stepped into that light as confidently as you did in the Netherlands had you not been through everything that happened to you before. You wouldn’t have had the strength, nor the confidence, nor the courage to do it.
Definitely.
You know, being a shy and observing kid in Russia, you know, being that perfect daughter, I was that daughter too. I was a kid that my parents couldn’t didn’t have to worry about. But with that also came a level of responsibility that can suck out the joy in you faster than anything else. Because you feel that responsibility to have that success. And it drives you to a degree to where, in my case, I nearly died in 2012 just from the way I drove myself, right? I faced six doctors in a room. That was my moment of desperation where my knees finally hit the floor in total surrender to God’s plan for my life. Because the experts in the room, they had already told my father, who was a doctor, and my brother and sister, both all of them doctors. This girl is not going to survive the night. You better prepare yourself mentally, emotionally, spiritually, because she’s gonna die likely tomorrow. Um, in your case, the 2021 Russia-Ukraine was actually the probably the greatest turning point of your life, because it’s what actually shifted your entire perspective of success up until that point. Because success kept shifting for you. If you notice, like as a little kid, it was make money because you didn’t have enough money as a kid. You got that, you got that with the cybersecurity job. You were there and yet you felt unfulfilled. Because that’s not where you were meant to be. That’s not who you were created to be. That’s why you felt unfulfilled. And so then what happens next? You wanted to be, you wanted to find that balance. You wanted, you went from working with all men, which is what I did at Pfizer, that’s all I worked with was men, to going into the handbag business, working with all women, which is amazing, right? But it’s from one extreme to the next. That’s not really balanced if you think about it, right? The balance is what were you meant to be? That purpose. You have been a book one your entire life. When we’re readers, we also by training become writers because we have read so many books and we know what a good book is because we’ve read so many of them. And so it’s of course you’re going to fall into becoming an author. And then it’s a very easy transition to go from author to speaker. Because what I always explain to people that that struggle with writing is, well, can you speak and communicate to me what you want? And they’re like, Well, yeah. And I go, well, writing is basically that on paper. That’s all you’re doing. You know, because you’re speaking it on paper. That is being an author, and speaking it in vocally, like in the TEDx platform space, which is where you’re at now as the the host of uh TEDx, the Hague. I mean, you’re in a foreign country learning a foreign language, it’s just completely different to the ones that you had learned before. You couldn’t have done it without first going through that. And I want for people on the other side of the interview to understand that this purpose, this discovery of a purpose, it takes sometimes a lifetime of mistakes, what we deem as mistakes or paths along our way. All these lessons that we learned that we’re now applying today, we needed to have done that. And we can’t see God’s plan. Sometimes it looks so muddy. It’s like, what are you doing? Why am I here? But when you sit and reflect, the way you probably did for your book, Reinvento, that’s why you felt so light afterwards, is because all of the stuff that you thought. That’s why the reinvention piece of this is so critical for women in midlife, or even men in midlife, what they call call the midlife crisis. The truth is that’s an identity crisis because who you were created to be is coming finally to clash with who you thought you were supposed to be because of the belief systems that you carried. So your ego is in complete disalignment with your soul and your spirit. And it’s that is that whole concept of reinvention is that we need to align all three. That’s what I talk about in my book, In Faith, I thrive, finding joy through God’s master plan. My ego is in complete disalignment, which happens, by the way, and this is biblical concepts for those listening. Galatians 5.17 states this there’s an internal conflict constantly happening between your the desires of your flesh or the sins of the flesh and being spirit-led. It is complete conflict. That’s why we feel this unfulfillment because no matter what, we’re trying to find what fulfills us outside of us when that’s not where it is. It’s been inside of you this whole time. Yet you can’t see it because your mind gets in the way. It deceives you with those thoughts of you have got to make money, Anna. So you got to stay in cybersecurity. You can’t do it any other way. But your spirit is like, and your soul is saying, No, Anna, you need to step out of there because that’s not who you were created to be. And I’m gonna make sure that you can’t go back to that because I need you to continue moving forward because your role here in my master plan is so big, and I know you can’t see it right now, but you’ll find out soon enough. And certain things start to happen, and all these closed doors, they’re actually opportunities to find your way to your light. But we, our mind wants to keep us there in the dark, and that’s where the enemy steps in. The enemy, the deceiver of life, you know, the one that twists everything up in your head saying you’re not enough, you need to do more. You can’t do that. Who are you to write a book and publish a book on this? You’re nobody. That’s what the ego does. So, what we must do is empower that ego because the ego is not the enemy, it’s your self-image, and it’s there because of stuff that happened to you along your way. Right? It just kept tacking on, and your lights trying to come out, and your ego’s like, and fear is really powerful. So I bet when you were interviewing these women, Anna, they kept telling you some similar stories. What were the what were the similar stories? The the thread that you found between all these women that you interviewed.
Yeah, I agree with you. I I would say that the major switch that happened is before that, um, first I was seeing what happened to me as my fault. So I I cannot handle that, and uh so hence I’m I’m I’m not strong or uh I’m not as strong as I would view myself earlier. And second, I felt really lonely. I felt like my situation is unique and no one is able to help me because uh, well, luckily in the world, there are not that many people who have uh like firsthand experience with a certain war, uh, so they cannot really relate and other situations they are not so not so not so grave. But I would as I was listening to them, what I realized is that we all have our challenges. It doesn’t really matter, and as you said in the beginning of uh this podcast, we might be miles away, but our feelings and the way we experience ourselves as women and the way we experience our challenges and the world and even the challenges that we are facing are very similar, astonishingly similar. And I would talk to someone from Saudi Arabia and I would connect to her story, and then I would talk to someone from Venezuela and connect to theirs her story, and then to someone from Europe, and and then I that that was also huge motivation to write a book because it first of all it it it was the fulfillment of my dream of bringing the world together, people with different backgrounds and from different countries. But um another perspective of that was like we are not alone. Whenever you are facing challenges, whenever life gets tough and hard, we feel lonely. And and also in many cases, we also feel ashamed because what happened to us is somehow our fault. But then again, when when you start to talk to people, you realize that ha that happens to almost everyone. We all feel this way, and instead of just talking to each other and opening up and sharing and lifting that weight of our shoulder from our shoulders, we just keep being stuck in in our rooms without ever sharing that to a single person.
I love what you said, I really do because I like you believe that there is no us versus them, it’s just us, we’re one body, we’re one body of Christ. In all honesty, this is how I believe like there’s one God and all of us, that’s it, and you know what? Interestingly enough, the astronauts that just got back from doing that, they said, you know, when you look at the earth, you don’t see the divisions, you just see this blue planet in the vastness of space. I find that so interesting currently with everything that’s happening. Because I’m not someone that loves, I don’t agree with war at all. I don’t see the point to war. There was a very beautiful skit long ago done by the comedian Robin Williams, who said if a woman was president of the United States, there would be no worse ever. There would be some intense negotiations once a month, but no wars, because we’re just lovers and carers and nurturers, right? And I mean, it’s so quick when people just get into their egos get involved, greed gets involved, you see the the sins of the flesh, they’re right there for all this envy, discord. I mean, look at war. That’s all that it is. But when we when we start talking to people, like I’ve done in this podcast with you and with countless people, men and women, we realize we’re not that different. We really aren’t. We all want the same thing, we are all seeking fulfillment, we are all seeking um alignment and a way to communicate with each other. We’re all seeking collaboration. I’m not here to compete with anybody. In fact, not even competing with myself. I don’t do that anymore. I used to, though. Oh my goodness, that was driven in me because of the things that had happened to me. And then once I pulled back all those layers and really saw the essence of who I was, and it’s still being revealed to me. Because that, as most people know, I wake up every morning, sometimes at four o’clock in the morning, and my first appointment of the day is with God Himself. And it’s like, what do you need me to do today? How do you need me to show up for my brothers and sisters? Because you’re my sister. I know you could be living in in the Netherlands, and I’m gonna view you like part of my family. We’re here to co-collaborate, and when we co-collaborate with each other, we’re unstoppable as a human race. And the gifts that we have, they’re not ours to keep for ourselves and just hey, it’s mine, mine, mine. Like when we’re little kids, mine, mine, mine. It’s for us to release and to give to everybody else, and for them to elevate and empower them to step into their light. Because when they do, we will all win. We will all win. There they will not lose. When we all win, we win as a human race. When you win and you become the person you were created to be on that, I win too. Because I get to receive that gift from you, I get to read your book, and perhaps it could reveal something in me that could be the missing piece I’ve been praying about. Like it’s happened to me so many times, and that’s where we see that we all belong to this master plan, and we can’t possibly fathom our role in because we’re not the maker of the universe. But he knows us, he knows who we are, and he knows the gift that we have, and he’s been talking to us, whispering, and we have refused to listen to him because we’re more concerned with what we want than how we can actually impact this world in the in a in a good way. You know, and when we just surrender that peace, like you did, you surrendered it. Whether you realized it or not, that’s what you did. You surrendered that old part of yourself and said, Okay, I’m I’m I’m gonna listen now. I want to understand. And that’s when that book just flowed out of you, didn’t it? And so I want you to give us some last words of encouragement and ways that we can purchase reinvento so we too can receive that gift from you.
Well, reinvento is now available on Amazon on in all countries. So if you just type uh Anna Dennis Reinvento, it will pop up. Um, and uh you can also subscribe to my YouTube channel. Um, I do have a YouTube channel focused on reinvention from the personal brand perspective with the tips and tricks around LinkedIn and other platforms that could help you gain visibility. But I truly believe that listening to yourself has immense value. And I know it sounds a little cliche because there’s so much talk about how to listen to your own voice and how to listen to yourself, but actually going through that experience when you silence other voices in your life and and just trying to listen to your reaction to whatever you’re doing, just just looking inside and trying to understand what what does it tell me about me, about myself. That is the thing that can change everything.
I couldn’t agree more. I really couldn’t. You said it beautifully, and I just want to thank you, Anna, for your time today. Um, I know it’s late for you in the Netherlands, it’s still fairly early for me here, so I have a long day to go. But for the listeners of release that revealed purpose, remember Matthew 5.14 to be the light, be your big, bright, brilliant life and light. You have so much inside of you. And truthfully, when you stop thinking and start speaking to yourself about the life that you want to have, and you sit with that and you ask the voice within to guide you to be spirit-led, believe me, believe us both. We’ve been there, you will be led. And sometimes what ends up happening is that a lot of closed doors, a lot of trial and tribulation is actually directing you towards your light. Because God knows your tendencies, he knows you so well, he knows that you’re maybe stubborn, someone like me, that just wanted to go back to the golden shekels, and he finally says, Enough, you you can’t go back because it’s just uh you’re holding yourself back. I want to give you more. You have so much light inside of you, and I want all of you to know that you are so loved, you are so beloved, and above all, your identity is in him. You are a daughter of a king, you are the son of a king, or the maker of the universe. I want you to understand the authority that that carries, the knowledge that that carries. You have so much power, love, self-discipline. You can do this. If we can do this, so can you. Have a wonderful and loving rest of your day. Bye now. Thank you so much, Anna, for joining us.
Thank you so much, Sylvia, for having me.
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