Today we’d like to introduce you to Lacey Pruett.
Lacey Pruett is a business owner and yoga teacher, passionate about helping women find their best self. Through her own journey from performing for others, hitting a painful wall, stepping offstage for a season of self-awareness, rebuilding true identity, and re-assessing purpose, then finally stepping back onstage, confidently whole and performing her best, she wants to help others do the same.
As a communicator, TV host, speaker and educator for over 20+ years, she’s equipped to mentor women of all ages. She was a performer as a child, with ballet, piano, dance & cheer teams. As a high school athlete, she found distance running and continued to competitively ran distance races through her adult life. As a pageant competitor, Lacey served as Mrs. Texas 2012, her third title since beginning pageant competition in the late 1990s. (She’s also a former Miss San Antonio USA and Miss Lubbock USA.) Her coaching career gained momentum in 2012 when she served as Mrs. Texas and placed 4th at the Mrs. United States Pageant, as she spoke more about her journey and healthy living awareness with a broader audience.
She and her husband of nine years, Barnes, met during Lacey’s corporate America days. She served in several communications-based roles for a major airline for 12 years. They live in the Dallas, TX area, have a Doberman named Maximus, and a Corgi-mix named Samson. She also has two grown step-children, Taylor and Matthew, who live in the Dallas area. In her free time, she participates in animal rescue efforts around Texas.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
After spending 12 years in corporate America, I wanted to start my own health business, focusing on yoga principles and strengthening mindset. I’ve always been drawn to creativity and knew I wanted to write books for a living one day.
My 50+ hour a week corporate job didn’t allow for creativity to flow, so in 2013, I decided to take the plunge into entrepreneurship, by growing a business with a local nutritional supplement company, while getting my certifications as a health coach, group fitness trainer, and yoga teacher. Leaving the comforts of an office, steady paycheck, and a nice benefits package to start creating something of my own was scary and difficult at times. It takes a lot of focus, time, self-motivation, and strength.
The entire road was paved with nay-sayers who criticized me for leaving my corporate job, criticized my business ambitions, and criticized my career choices. If I spend too much time on my business, I was “neglecting friends & family.” If I spent too little time working, I was “wasting my life and talents.” I couldn’t win in the eyes of some people around me. I had to constantly turn a deaf ear to critics and remain focused on my vision while connecting with those who saw my vision and supported it, and me. I did a ton of study on mindfulness and emotional strength through these years, which I credit to my success now.
Writing and publishing High-Performance Detox has been the pinnacle of my success–so far–because I put so many plans into action to make it happen. With focus, support from a close circle of influence, and hard work, it really can happen. I love that I’ve designed my life to include my core desires: flexibility, accomplishment, legacy, and fun.
What do you do? What do you specialize in?
I’m known for my coaching and speaking, and as of March, a published author of High-Performance Detox. I manage LaceyPruett.com, which houses all of my services, the book, and business partnerships. I love live events like teaching yoga and speaking where I can bring my perspective of healthy living to life for others. Specializing mostly withholding busy women create more space for self-care and fulfillment, I enjoy starting conversations that matter. My hope is to host a retreat for busy women to put the steps I mention in my book into practice, and help women with their journey toward whatever they truly want.
I’m most proud of my book, High-Performance Detox. Sharing authentically can be scary, but the world needs more authentic voices. I am proud to put mine out there! I feel that my perspective as a busy woman who has spent so much of her life performing for others flipped the switch toward authentic living serving in roles I choose, not society, gives me a well-rounded perspective on what is possible once we know what we truly want and who we truly are. When you step into that power, things start to get fun.
Any shoutouts? Who else deserves credit in this story – who has played a meaningful role?
My gratitude sits with my business coaches who helped me put my thoughts on trial. Limiting beliefs were crushing me, and I had amazing business coaches and mentors walk me through identifying them, their origin, their truth, and with letting them go. With every belief that I removed, I could now replace it with an authentic belief that is truly mine.
My husband was the first person to give me permission to get it wrong. What I mean by that is growing up and becoming an independent adult can be stressful and I didn’t give myself any room to mess up. I had to get it all right because it was all up to me. I’ve lived on my own since I left home for college, financially supported myself the entire way. I am proud of that fact, but with that accomplishment came a ton of pressure. I had to always make the right choices, smart decisions, listen to others who may not have my best interests in mind, but simply share what worked for them. At 35, I heard for the first time, “so what if you screw up.” Those are very freeing words to gift yourself. What occurred after I had permission to screw up, was a world of new opportunities that I could now try out for myself, knowing that if it all went wrong, I would have a soft place to land. That’s what I call my husband now… my soft place too land. You don’t have to be married to have a soft place. You just need someone or a close circle that will catch you no matter what.
Finally, I am grateful to my critics through the years who were so tough on me. The coaches that were a little too harsh, the well-meaning adults with advice that wasn’t right for me, and yes, everyone who placed judgments on me. Each helped me advance to my next level of strength and desire. It’s part of who I am today, and I am very grateful for my journey here.
Pricing:
- My speaking fee starts at $250 for local groups up to 25 people and $500 for larger groups or out of town events
- High-Performance Detox can be purchased on Amazon for $10.99 (paperback) or $4.99 (audio) at amazon.com/author/laceypruett
- I do 1:1 coaching with packages starting at $99.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.laceypruett.com
- Email: info@laceypruett.com
- Instagram: @HPDetox
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/laceyfit
- Other: www.amazon.com/author/laceypruett
Image Credit:
John Doty, photographer, Benizo, Photographer
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