In this vlog episode of Unlocking Lilly, the host recounts a pivotal period in her journey as a speaker. After quitting her day job to pursue speaking full‑time, she accepts a mentorship role at the two‑day Sage Summit conference. She describes the anxiety that preceded the event—fear of rejection, feeling unqualified, and doubts about worthiness—and how she reframed her mindset through gratitude and a focus on serving mentees. The video details her two one‑on‑one coaching sessions (covering leadership/vision and talent attraction/retention), her reflections on what went well and where she hesitated, and her commitment to improve speed and depth in future sessions. She also shares observations from the summit’s keynote by Canadian comedian Rick Mercer, learning moments from shadowing mentor Evan Carmichael, and a chance meeting with a new friend, Rebecca, whose quote “Say yes and figure the rest out afterwards” encapsulates the experience. The host expresses gratitude toward supporters like Jason Bean, highlights the joy of seeing mentees take immediate action, and invites viewers to reflect on the scary things they said yes to, reinforcing the vlog’s central message: overcoming self‑doubt through mentorship, intentional practice, and embracing opportunities.
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Hello everyone, so welcome to another episode of Unlocking Lilly. It's always been my dream to be a speaker where I can inspire people to do extraordinary things, and a few months ago I decided to make a life-altering decision. I quit my day job to pursue this full-time, and you guys are all coming along for the ride with me. So every challenge that I take on is to help me grow as a as a speaker. So my challenge this time is my first corporate gig with Sage Summit, which is a 2-day business conference. I'll be taking part in the mentor lounge where people could come in and book one-on-one coaching with me and talk about 2 specific areas. The first area is leadership and vision, and the second one is attracting and retaining talent. So when Evan Carmichael surprised me with this opportunity to be part of Sage Summit, I was so incredibly excited. I'm like, yes, this is exactly what I want. Oh my God, I am so, so grateful for this opportunity. And then I started to think, oh, I actually have to go out there and be courageous and show up and answer people's questions and be someone's mentor. What if I go there and I sit there by myself and no one shows up to talk to me? How am I going to deal with that rejection? What if everybody wants to talk to me and I have nothing to say? What if people ask me questions that are way above my head and I completely make a fool out of myself? What then? And then that's when I was like, no, no, this is ridiculous. I need to stop thinking like this. Obviously Evan recommended me because he believed I am qualified and capable to do this. Amazing. Great. Well, what if I let him down? You know, it's his name on the line here. He vouched for me. I have to perform well. What if I fall flat on my face and now he feels like he made a mistake in recommending me? What do I do then? That's when I thought about something that was quite interesting about me. All my life, I never feel that I'm worthy of the things that happen to me. I lean into the gratitude a lot. I mean, I'm so grateful for Evan for giving me the opportunity. I'm so grateful for all of you for supporting me, but I never give myself credit that I have worked hard for something. That I do deserve it and I am worthy. And that's when I thought, you know what, I need to really change my mindset around it. Yes, of course I'm new, and yes, I'm very grateful for all the opportunities that are coming my way, and it wouldn't happen unless Evan was helping me out. But at the same time, my intention is pure. My intention is to add as much value as possible. My mission is to help people become extraordinary. And as long as I keep that in mind and work really hard to prepare myself to show up and say, hey, you know, I am qualified to do this and I am ready and prepared and I spent the last couple of weeks, you know, really, really, really preparing and getting ready for this event, then if things do kind of go wrong, which it will, things are never perfect, I can learn from those mistakes and I could use this as an experience as long as I know that my intention is to help others. My intention is about the mentees that are going to be coming in. It's not about me freaking out and being panicky. If I'm panicking, they're going to be panicking too. It's my job to stay calm and provide them with a great experience and know that this is why I'm doing this in the first place. So when I thought about all of that, it immediately gave me the excitement, which was great, and also the confidence to go and continue on and feel great that I'm not only incredibly lucky to be given this opportunity, I also deserve it because I've been working so incredibly hard towards this goal. So excited for this. Good morning everyone. So today is actually the big day. So it's about 5, 5:15 AM. I'm an early morning riser, so this is amazing for me. This is like the best time of the day for me where I can reflect and kind of start my day right and see what are the things that I need to do. So the first thing that I do after I get dressed and shower and everything is actually do a walking meditation. So what that is, is I look at the, at the environment around me and just focus on that. So for example, if I were just to look at these trees, for example, I just focus on the leaves, I focus on the color, I don't think about anything else but that. So I'm going to do that quickly for about 5 minutes or so, and then I'll see you very soon. So I finally ended up in the exhibition grounds where the Sage Summit is taking place. So I'm just following the crowd, and hopefully I'm gonna find it. And whoever's ahead of me, hopefully they're going the right direction. I'm gonna meet up with Evan very, very soon. He's here already. So early. So I got my badge and I see Evan. Oh, this is so weird. This is so meta. Look who— look who it is. It's Lily. She's filming. Look at this. Oh, yours says new to Sage. Look at that. Yeah. All right. Maybe people will be nicer to me. We're going to head inside soon. So I got out of two back-to-back mentoring sessions, and I think overall went really well. People left really happy. With the first one, I feel like I could have done more with his limiting beliefs. I could have dug a little deeper, and given, given the situation, I kind of hesitated. So anytime I hesitate, I don't end up following through the way I want. I still think he left off with a lot, tons of value, but he didn't actually get to the real issue that he was facing. So I definitely needed to change that. And then the second one, I was able to take the immediate feedback that I gave myself, and I started asking more important questions right away so that way I could get to the solution a lot faster. And yeah, I think I still could have got there a little bit faster than I did. Better, better, but it could have been— I could have been faster, and I could have helped him a lot more with the solution and helping his business and how to create his messaging around what's important to him. But in the end, what made me really happy, because he, he left and he says, I'm gonna start doing this right now, it's gonna be this afternoon, and thank you for taking— thank you for helping me take immediate action. And that to me is the biggest thank you someone could give me. So I feel really good. Tomorrow I'm back at this again, and I'm going to try to find ways to get to the problem a lot faster than I have been, and that's been an ongoing progress for me. So yeah, I'm really excited for tomorrow, but super pumped about the two mentees that I had today. Okay, bye. So today is, uh, day 2 of Sage Summit. I was just thinking about I was thinking about the two mentoring sessions that I had this morning and how much joy that brought me. I always approach any kind of mentoring session or coaching session with a lot of nervousness because I'm always worried that I'm not adding enough value. You know, what are the things that I could do better? And then once I have the person face-to-face, everything else kind of fades and I just focus on them and the things that they can do to inspire themselves. So really thinking about the 2 people that I had yesterday and how happy they were when they left and how they're going to take immediate action. I actually received an email from one of them saying that his day went from a 7.5 to 11, and he wanted to thank me for that. All of that makes it so worth it to wake up at 4:45 in the morning to get down there and to do the mentoring session. Yeah, I don't know, it's— that's why I do what I do, is to see other people happy, is to see them getting inspired, is to see them taking action right away. Whether if it's in their life or business or relationships, whatever it is that they need. And I'm gonna just take that with me this morning, and I feel a lot less nervous. I feel way more excited than nervous. So it's all good. It's gonna be a great day. It's the last day of the summit, so it's, it's gonna be a fabulous day. Yeah. All right, just got out of the keynote with Rick Mercer. I'm gonna head over to the Mentor Lounge. I think Evan's already here, so let me go find him. All right, day 2 of Sage Summit done. Overall, it was a really great experience. I haven't been to an accounting conference before, and who knew that it would actually be a lot of fun? There was a keynote with Rick Mercer this morning. I didn't really, to be honest, I didn't know who he was. For those of you who don't know, he is a Canadian comedian and his keynote was really good. So today I didn't have any coaching, coaching sessions, but I used the opportunity to learn from Evan. I had some questions for him, so he kind of guided me through that and I was right beside him. So I was able to kind of sit in and eavesdrop a little bit into his sessions and, uh, and learn from him and see what he does so that way I could use some of that method myself too and see the way he asked questions, looking at his thought process and all of that. So overall it wasn't a waste even though I was looking forward to meeting more people, but every opportunity is an opportunity to learn. So it was great, great. So being part of the Sage Summit was such an incredible experience for me. Not only did I get to mentor people and help them out with their business and lives, I got to watch so some great speakers deliver their message to us. I also met a new friend. Her name is Rebecca. She shared her favorite quote with me, which is, "Say yes and figure the rest out afterwards," which basically sums up this entire experience for me. When Evan came with a challenge, I just said yes. I had no idea what was expected of me. I didn't know the details. I didn't know where I needed to be at what time, what day, wherever. I just said yes, and it turns out to be one of the best experiences I've had in a very long time, and I'm so glad I said yes. So for my next challenge, I'm going to be bringing all of you behind the scenes in my mentoring sessions with Evan Carmichael. So I learned from Tony Robbins that success leaves clues. If there's something you really want to be successful at, you need to study and mentor under someone who has been there and has been successful consistently. And to me, Evan perfectly embodies that and is such a great mentor for me. So the question of the day is, what is that one scary thing that you said yes to that turned out to be an amazing experience for you? So thank you so much for watching. Your comments and encouragement really, really gets me excited and wants me to keep going and making all all these videos for all of you. I actually have a special shout out for Jason Bean. Jason Bean wrote, this is so cool. Honestly, Jason, you've been there since day one, and I'm so incredibly honored to have you on this journey with me. Once again, thank you so much, guys. I love you all, and I'll see you very, very soon.
