Keira Brinton
Appearances
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
I had a very critical moment in my life where I almost committed suicide. It was a really dark time for me. When I chose to live, I became a new person and I felt this call.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Yeah. So my name is Kira Brinson, and I'm the founder of JOA Publishing, the founder of the Mosaic Network, which is a business school for women. I'm a five-time author. I have a TED Talk, but I'm a single mom of five kids, and I love helping people write their most important books, building the businesses that are going to go out and change the world with their message.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
And they will also learn tips on how to bring their book to life and how to step forward into action and how to really follow the call of their soul.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Well, I think the biggest thing is that they're going to probably find pieces of themselves that they've hidden, that they keep ignoring. Like the call that keeps coming and they keep being like, oh, when my kids are grown up. No, not when your kids are grown up. That calling is going to be stagnant and dead and it's going to be old. It's not meant for then, it's meant for now.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
And I think when they watch my show, that will wake that up for them.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Yeah.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Yeah, it's not been an easy journey, right? It's been filled with a lot of risk, a lot of fear, and a lot of miracles. So I would just say I was a massage therapist for 20 years.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
and i had a very critical moment in my life where i almost committed suicide it's a really dark time for me when i chose to live i became a new person and i felt this call and the call led me to build a publishing house and to write books and then it soon led me to helping authors write their books
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Yeah. So 18 months ago, I was running an event in Arizona and I had $5,000 left in my bank account. It was only a few months after my marriage had ended. It's the first time I'd ever had to financially provide for five kids plus an employee, like all these employees. And I was stuck. I was stuck in a lot of fear. And I think this is a place that entrepreneurs get stuck in, right?
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
I was stuck. I was stuck in a lot of fear. And I think this is a place that entrepreneurs get stuck in, right? It's like we make all these wild decisions and we follow our dreams and then it's like the end of the road. And I chose to delete fear out of my body. Like fear had no place inside of me. I made $200,000 in a month. I made $700,000 in six months.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
It's like we make all these wild decisions and we follow our dreams. And then it's like the end of the road. And this was my burn the ships moment. And I don't have family that has money. It's not like I was like, well, I'll just call Aunt Sue. Like nobody was coming to save me. And that moment made me burn the ships. And so I took a loan from Stripe.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
And that was to pay my employees. And I chose to delete fear out of my body. And that decision, like fear had no place inside of me. I made $200,000 in a month and I made $700,000 in six months. And then since that day, I've made 1.9 million. And that moment burning the ships changed my whole business.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
So burn the ships is there is I don't even know what the story is, but I think somebody said it was Columbus and they moved to find the new land and he burned all the ships so no one could ever go back. Right. And so the burn the ship moment for me is like I knew right then because it was this moment because I was a massage therapist for 20 years.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
I was like, do I just give up all of my businesses and go back to being a massage therapist? Like, I'm sure I could pay the rent and buy food. Or do I take a chance like two feet in with everything that I've spent years building? I'm going to take this loan and I'm going to run like hell. And that was it. Like I burned the ships like there was no going back.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
There was never the door had been sealed.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Ooh, yeah, I actually, I do feel this. I feel like it's like the car is moving.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
And then since that day, I've made $1.9 million. And that moment, burning the ships, changed my whole business. For 20 years, I struggled with almost daily suicide ideation. And...
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Right? Like, it felt like for so long, it was like, how do I get the tires to move?
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
How do I just get the car to move? And I'm like, oh, the car is moving.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Now where do we want to go?
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
I have big visions, obviously. I have huge visions of helping the top leaders in the world receive their books the way that I do it. Because I know if I can find somebody like you or somebody who's got this huge following and I teach you the method that I help people write their books, the most important messages come through. That's how we reach more people.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
And books are the number one way to have a legacy.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Because everything else could be destroyed. YouTube could die.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Instagram could die. Our websites could die. But books last beyond us.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
So it's like I have this vision of like the top leaders. I help them receive these books so that we really make a difference. But also I have these centers I'm going to create that are going to help people who struggle with suicide ideation. I want them in every state. There's no medium. There's nothing personal.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
in between either psych unit and medicine and so i've been given visions i will create these they will move throughout the world i have visions of taking every woman who joins mosaic my business school to reach seven figures and help as many women hit a million dollars as possible
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Yeah, for 20 years, I struggled with almost daily suicide ideation. And I'm alive. And not only am I alive, but I'm living my best life ever. And so I feel like that is my legacy. This is like a chronic illness that very few people talk about. We have more people, we're losing them to suicide every day. And there's just really nothing. And I will say for me,
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
that i believe those who struggle with suicide ideation are the brightest lights they struggle with the deepest darkness and they just don't know it and there is a way to help them and i'm going to create it so that's just a part of the legacy i'm going to build yeah and i think it's great you know i have some of the business friends where a similar story but with alcohol right they struggled with alcohol nearly lost their life to it
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Yeah. So with the current business, I'm really growing. I'm growing in mosaic. I want to help as many women in business. I think that this being a single mom of five kids and being able to do what I've done, I've learned some things that aren't just mainstream. It's like how I've built business the feminine way in a way that I feel like if more women understood this, they would build more success.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
I have a huge vision of doing that. But then as always, my publishing house is just such a center of my heart. I see expanding it, reaching more and more authors, helping them because my publishing house doesn't just publish. It's actually author care. So they get a full year of like support and a mastermind because you can write the best book ever and you launch it.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
And I have friends who are like a New York Times bestsellers. And after they write a book, they tank.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
It's like they just tank. And so I've created a publishing house that not only do we publish well, but we take care of our authors. And I just want to expand that and reach more.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Well, legacy means to me that whatever I create now lives way beyond me, that it reaches and impacts humanity well beyond my years.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Well, I'd say if you have a calling, like you know it in your soul, it's not just like some imagination, it's not just some good idea, it was given to you. You know, I always say, like, I never dream about doing heart surgery. Like I never like, oh, I wonder how that would be. Because like I was not meant to do heart surgery. It's not mine. But whatever I've been given, it's because it's mine.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
And so anyone who's watching is like, if you have a call, it's because that's what you're here to do. Now let's get going. Because the slowness creates fear and doubt. Quickness creates momentum and magic.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Well, if you were to ask every person who works with me, the number one thing they say is after they work with me, they hear God. And it's not because I'm holy, definitely not perfect, but I have such deep faith in And I'm able to help people here. And if that is my legacy, if past my life, people say, she helped me hear God. That's what I came to do.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
Hello.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
well there's a practice i live by which is ask listen and do and what that is is to take time to go in and ask for inspiration and whatever you hear you take action as soon as possible because the space between action and ins the space between inspiration and action is where you become a slave to fear And so every time people get these ideas, they're like, oh my gosh, what am I going to do?
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
And then they don't take action. They actually become slaves to fear, which means that nothing happens. And then they just get looped into the monotony of life. So if you really want to do something, ask for ideas, hear it, and then it gets done that day. There's no lag time. And the sooner people take action, everything just starts to work. That's the only reason why I've been able to build this.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
I didn't do this because I was watching TV at night.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
So, I mean, my website, Kira Brenton, sure, it's going to have everything. But if they just send me a DM, just DM me on Instagram at Kira Brenton. I answer my DMs. I'm always there. I do a bunch of amazing experiences. I don't call them webinars because that's boring. They're not webinars. They are full-blown like alchemy. I do them like every six weeks.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
So if they just tap into my world, they can come in and we do amazing things over there.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Keira Brinton on Turning Pain Into Purpose and Stories Into Legacy
All right. So, teasers. I mean, it's intense. I'm intense. My story's intense. But damn it, if... they watch this, they will believe something's possible for them. If I have done it, then they can do it. And I've been through hell and back more times than I can count.