Jan Goss

Jan Goss LEVERAGING THE POWER OF LOVE

Earning money by sweeping sidewalks as a seven-year-old child is the first ‘paying’ job Jan Goss can remember. Her memory is not of the “work” but of the relationship of work to money. “I learned from an early age that work equals money and I understood that I loved making my own money,” Goss recalls. However, like many in her generation she was raised in a religious household and taught that money was not important. Through three marriages which resulted in two divorces and left her widowed in her 60’s, Jan spent most of her adult life in financial pain and despair. “My first husband was a businessman who became a pastor. We built a church together. One Sunday he resigned and left the church. On Monday he left me with eight children - three of our own and five foster children - no money and a congregation that looked to me to keep things together. I knew I had to make money, but I hadn’t yet clarified my foundational beliefs about money and the “why” I wanted to make money. I was in survival mode when love began to turn things around.” Born in Munich, Germany to a military family, Goss moved 21 times in 18 years. From an early age, she had a deep spiritual relationship with God and understood that she could rely on that relationship to trust her intuition and listen to her calling. “I have always believed that my relationship with my creator is based on love. Love is the most important thing. I believe that God has given me and gives all of us gifts and talents that allow us to become the person we were created to be. God gave us these things through love and through love we use these talents to give to him that for which we were born.”

My purpose is to inspire and empower leaders to live an abundant life.

Jan Goss is the Principal and Founder of Civility Consulting, an Austin based firm specializing in personal and professional development.

She is recognized as a highly respected executive coach with a reputation for helping individuals and organizations create quick and sustainable results. Jan is an award-winning speaker and a #1 best-selling author.

Jan studied International Business at American Intercontinental University and is a graduate of the Protocol School of Washington in DC. She is also an honored graduate of the Global Leadership Program in San Diego, CA.

Jan developed 4 successful businesses after the age of 40 beginning with 13 years in the Real Estate industry and then opening the Austin School of Protocol. She now focuses on Civility Consulting, LLC and the Show Up Well Academy and Coaching.

Jan’s intuitive gifts and strong spiritual foundation set her apart from any other trusted advisor.

She resides in beautiful Austin, TX where she enjoys the lakes and hills and being with family and friends.

Website: civilityconsulting.com

Looking for a way to provide for her family, Goss got a real estate license, became a real estate agent which soon provided a sixfigure income. She continued her journey developing four successful businesses after the age of 40. “I was pushed to make money. I knew that I always loved to work and make money, but I had to believe that having wealth and being faithful to loving God were not mutually exclusive. I had so much judgment around wealth. Yes, love makes you wealthy - much more than a bank account. However, I needed money. What clarified it for me was my belief about the WHY - why I wanted money.”

Jan’s two pronged faith-based ‘why’ became the driving force behind her money mind-set. She believes that money is a tool to be used to make life better - better for self and for loved ones - and to help us become the best version of ourselves that God intended. Secondly, money can be used to do good works - the work God intended and called us to do. As a single parent Jan soon realized that more money meant more choices and better choices. “I could provide for my family. We could live in a nicer neighborhood where my children could get a better education. I could buy a reliable car - one that we didn’t have to worry about breaking down when we needed it. The more money I made the more I learned that I was in charge of my relationship to money and that I wanted it to be based on love. I wanted to be motivated by love - love for my family, love for others and the work I could do to help them, love for my creator and gratitude for the gifts and talents I had been given.”

Building a relationship with money was enhanced when Goss was introduced to quantum physics and began to understand the energy of money. Through books like Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles and the affirmations of Florence Scovel Shinn, she learned that it was important to understand that she oversaw the relationship and exchange of that energy. Along with her friend, Camille Walker, Goss held a call on the science of getting rich, where the principles she learned were discussed weekly for five years. “For years I put that information in me, and I benefited from listening to other people’s experiences around money and building wealth. This is when things really turned around for me.”

During her real estate career, Goss took a leap of faith, spent 60% of her bank account to hire a business coach, Lisa Nichols, who helped her understand that it was important to no longer work for money but to allow money to work for her. She also began to leverage the power of love through personal and professional development. This led to enrollment in the Global Leadership Program and connections with businesspeople all over the world. Jan also began to better understand gifts and talents that had been in her from childhood. With first impression management, she took her inherent intuition into the business world when she collaborated with companies showing them shifts in protocol which would save them money and increase productivity.

Building on her passion to help people develop personally and professionally, Goss attended and

“Three things will last forever— faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13

graduated from the Protocol School of Washington in D.C. leading her to establish the Austin School of Protocol. This enabled her to create two businesses that she heads today - Show Up Well and Civility Consulting. Goss and her Show Up Well Team strategically support the execution of each company’s mission, vision and value system through customized training, mastermind groups, and executive coaching. The goal is to create a profitable company culture that values civility, accountability, kindness and connecting to a larger purpose. Jan calls this a “Show Up Well Culture.”

As Jan’s leadership skills grew and success was noted her personal and professional coaching and consulting business grew as well. With the belief that success starts from the top down, Goss began with C level executives before providing training to company employees. These sessions quickly led to adding individual coaching clients to her business model and many wanted to learn about her money mindset. In addition, she was often asked to speak for groups and began to hold seminars about her journey from financial pain to financial sustainability. “I am enthusiastic about helping people shift their beliefs around money. Just as I was never taught the simple principles of using money to build a life of wealth, many people who come to me for help never learned these things either. We begin by examining their money mindset - attitudes, emotions, and underlying beliefs - that instructs their relationship with money. I train people to treat money as if it were a person - their best friend. Do they treat money with respect? Do they think it is evil? Do they fear that it will control them? What are their fears around wealth? When money comes to you do you treat it with respect and gratitude, or do you treat it dismissively and give it away? It brings me immense joy to be able to train people to develop a healthy relationship with money. To enable them to face their fears and come into the light that financial sustainability provides. Shifting their relationship with money is all part of their personal and spiritual development - loving themselves as God created them to be.”

Goss acknowledges that her many gifts and talents are God-given. Her “super powers” include putting people at ease and helping them look at life with faith, hope and love. “ My calling comes 100% from the holy spirit. I have a strong spiritual foundation which supports my ability to intuitively see the best in people and bring out the good in them. Magic happens every time I am with a client. It is supernatural and I cannot do what I do by myself. These gifts come directly from my creator. There is always a synchronicity of seeing a pathway for a person, where they are headed and being their guide. They choose their own way, but I am their guide. I can put them at ease and make them believe in a positive outcome. I give them the tools to succeed and the beliefs to build on. In truth, the bottom line goes back to love. The love God has for me by creating me and giving me gifts and talents. The love I have for God by always learning and growing and answering my calling to help others become all they can be. And the love I feel for people - it is genuine, and they can feel the authenticity. You can have all the wealth in the world but if you don’t have love, you are poor.”