Creating Impact with Ali Boone
/Ali Boone left her corporate, 9-to-5 job as an Aeronautical Engineer to create lifestyle design and start her own business. Now she goes to school (for fun!), travels and flies airplanes. How does she do this? Ali has found a great way to generate truly passive income by investing in turnkey rentals. Through her company, Hipster Investments, Ali teaches others to do the same.
Here are a few of the big topics we talked about
Ali discusses growing up “epically left-brained” - math, airplanes, good grades
Breaking out of not even “having feelings” - she was so in her head that it overrode any actual feeling that was happening
Becoming an entrepreneur was a mindset change
Lifestyle design is a constant journey
Openness to discovering something new about the self
Keys to feelings: not judging what comes up
Getting over her tendency to over-analyze by learning to be a neutral observer
She had the “coolest job” - top secret flight test engineer for top secret military planes
She is grateful for experiencing that, but always had her inner knowing it wasn’t for her
Passion vs. living in the way you want to live
Surrender and patience with the process - there’s a reason for the pace it’s happening!
We don’t have an owner’s manual but we do have our intuition
In Ali’s Voice
“I spent about five years trying to get out of my corporate job. I had no idea where that was going to take me. It was a journey in itself. It was a journey of trying as hard as I could and being open to what was presented to me.”
“It was a soulful journey of finding out who I am (I was under some false impressions). In some ways I’m not different at all today but in other ways I’m completely different”
“It’s about the lifestyle design, who I am, what I’m here for, and really just enjoying life, minute by minute.”
“We have resistance: there could be some reason that we’re terrified to suddenly not be the thing we’re supposed to be.”
“I was like, I should explore this emotion-feeling thing. It was such a mystery. And it was frustrating for quite a while because I was even asking people to explain them to me. I was hoping for a bulletized spreadsheet list! People would just stare at me. For the longest time, I was just clueless.”
“At that point because of how gracefully it had laid itself out, it was so clear to me, there were no questions at all that I had to be doing this. It was as if someone signed me up for this and I had no choice. It was partially knowing, and partially building it in a way that made it concrete for me.”
“I don’t think you could survive as an entrepreneur if you don’t have passion somewhere in the equation. The only thing that got me through the roller coaster was for the freedom of lifestyle. I want this so bad that I’m willing to rough out the hard times.”