Business builder, coach, best selling author, master healer and spiritual warrior
Hi, I'm Sonja Leason
– AND I WAS Not BLESSED WITH A Normal LIFE
With no where to go and no job, I left home with a CD player with Craig David "Born to do It" Album, £130 and some spare underwear.
Who knew that album title would become a mantra for my life.
I bunked the train, got on a coach, then a ferry. I walked the streets until I found a job. A lady somehow found me and let me stay in her granny annexe for £1 a night. That was my first earth angel.
I started washing pots for 100 hours a week in a 5* hotel (and only being paid for 50!)
Working in a packing factory, I lived in a homeless hostel for women escaping domestic abuse, drug addicts and homeless people.
I used to leave the hostel at 5am to walk an hour to work heavily pregnant. I once found a lady who had cut her wrists on my doorstep. I saved her life and my job deducted £5 from my £3.50 an hour wages for being late. True story.
I got given a flat by the council in the roughest area in my town. I'm talking heroin addicts and highrises.
It got burned down.
I lost everything (including this flowery sofa I got donated for free) and I went back to the homeless hostel. My son had to sleep in his pushchair as there was no cot for him.
I told the council I'd go to the national newspapers if they didn't sort it out. I got a council house the next day in a rough, but less rough area.
I worked 3 jobs (chip shop, bar work, hotel chambermaid) whilst studying hairdressing for 2 years, then psychology, sociology and health studies after that.
I moved in with my BF and worked in their family business. My first taste of self employment.
That soon crashed and burned.
He cheated on me with a 18 year old barmaid. I was 25, and traded in for a younger model.
Once the dust settled, I was blessed with my son, a gorgeous countryside school for him, and an address in a lovely area. I was able to leverage this and get a proper job.
I started in sales and DAMN I was good. I used to hack the sales process, getting so much recurring business I had hit my target before the month began.
This also crashed and burned.
I got made redundant the day before payday with no wages to be paid as the company went under. I couldn't pay my rent, my childcare bill or afford food.
I picked myself up AGAIN and got a new job, this time as an advertising coordinator for 15 monthly magazines. This was the start of the career you see today.
My son slowly went back to school and I got a job, AGAIN.
My boss ended up not paying my bonus for a multi 6 figure contract I had sold for them. I left.
After that, his finance director swindled him out of hundreds of thousands of pounds and went to prison. The company went under 🙃
Over 2 years my son got better, leading up to him having some professional kickboxing fights. He's a warrior and I'm so proud of him x
I was sick of being ejected out of a normal life, so I decided that if I was going to climb out of rock bottom AGAIN, I was doing it for myself this time.
Love Mondays was born and Peugeot was my first client. I had a one year in business party!
Entrepreneurship felt like home to me. I met coaches and healers whose life's work was to inspire change and help people. I threw myself into every programme I could get my hands on to try to make sense of my life and move forwards.
I took courses in psychology, sociology, life coaching, DiSC psychometrics, hypnotherapy, cellular healing, team dynamics, many somatic and trauma practices, metaphysical anatomy, sales, marketing, conversion psychology and business.
It was all driven by a self healing journey. I was sick, exhausted, broken but knew it was the right path for me.
I started to realise that I could help people to live the life of their dreams, no matter where they started.
I teamed up with 9 incredible business women and wrote a book, A Woman's Work.
We knocked Elon Musk off number 1 and Simon Sinek off number 2 on Amazon.
I started the journey towards healing my visibility wounds.
After 10 years of doing 6+7 figure web, marketing and sales automation in my business, and healing people (and myself) in secret, I knew I had to bring this into one.
I just didn't know how.
How do you link tech and health? I had no idea.
Don't worry - the universe made me sick so I could figure it out.
Hello Dark Night of the Soul Episode 2,708.
It's been a while since I've seen you around.
Mostly housebound for 18 months, only tolerating 7 foods, I started developing my methodology in the background (and healing my body AGAIN).
I pulled everything together into one, life and business transformation method.
The Self Mastery Method was born.
Now, I help trailblazing female founders turn their story into success - to reclaim their health, build their wealth and scale their impact.
If you know it's your time and you feel the call, but you just don't know how, don't worry. I can show you.
I went first.
With Special Thanks to The Z Listers
Who Didn't Make it to the Timeline:
- The 3 stalkers. From following me home on the bus, to sitting outside my house at 2am, and calling me 65 times a day off a withheld number.
- The sociopathic narcissist who sold me the dream when my son was dying, who eventually wouldn’t allow me to see my friends, stole my grandads money and wouldn’t allow me to buy make up
- The 15+ year best frenemy who couldn’t stand to see me doing well
- My sons dad who I had to get a restraining order against, who has paid me £20 since 2001
- My ‘blood relatives’, who taught me exactly who I didn’t want to be
- The many GP’s and Doctors who wouldn’t listen. You forced me to find root cause healing
Thank you for destroying me into the person I am today.
I owe it all to you x