So here's the 30 second elevator pitch…but I’m going to turn my pitch around a little bit here. Normally I talk about the book (yes, we’ll get to that) but I think you need to know about me first.
My whole thing is the examined life. I’m someone who has gone through three bouts of breast cancer, two divorces, dysfunction, poverty, abuse, yeah all that. But the key is what do you do with it and how do you teach with it? I call myself a three-time breast “cancer dancer.” What’s that mean? I didn’t fight cancer, because what you fight fights back. Nor do I call myself a “survivor,” because I don’t just hang on by teeth and toenails. A cancer dancer finds out how graceful they can be under pressure…avoids getting their toes stepped on…and can usually get off the dance floor in one piece.
That’s how I live. That’s how I got through a lot. And it’s why I tell everyone “I’m not special. YOU CAN DO WHAT I DO.”
That’s the point behind the book — so let’s go there.
CLEAN OUT YOUR LIFECLOSET is made up of four parts: Clarity, Adaptability, Simplicity and Stress. What’s the key that makes this book different?
I’m no guru – deliberately. I’m not someone who says, “If you do everything I tell you, you’ll be successful.” The only person who knows what that might be is YOU, the reader. CLEAN OUT YOUR LIFECLOSET encourages you to write your own story of change based on your history, your life experiences, and your personal goals. Through stories, examples, and just-for-you-designed “Adventure Pages,” you can find your own answers, design your own toolbox, and discover that healing the old and creating the new can be positive, joyful and soul-satisfying.
In CLEAN OUT YOUR LIFECLOSET, the reader discovers how Clarity is the canvas on which they can paint their new life story.
They discover how much abundance they already have with the idea of Simplicity: living Life as a Tiny House.
They can embrace newfound freedom learning how Adaptability means “perfection is already yours.”
And they understand when Stress is a friend and teacher, instead of the enemy they fight daily.
Here are a couple of podcasts I did for Life Changing Stories and The Bucket List, so you get an idea of how I am as a guest:
And if you're interested, I have a full template with key points, Questions and Takeaways.
Corbie Mitleid has always been “the different one.” A writer and visionary in a completely medical family (father a doctor, mother a nurse, brother a doctor), she has always made her own path rather than take one cut for her by others. Leaving an Ivy League university after two years, Corbie struck out to find where joy and purpose lived, regardless of what she was told she “ought” to do. The path wasn’t easy. Two marriages, which didn’t last, and a constant search for The Partner Who Understood. A succession of jobs. A series of spiritual paths. Moving from Cambridge to Philadelphia to Poughkeepsie to New York City to Atlanta. Out of the blue, breast cancer—not once, but three times. Life became a roller coaster with no brakes, asking Corbie to survive divorce, abuse, poverty and life-threatening illness. But through all of this, she learned the value of the Examined Life: meeting challenges and always asking the next question, facing each new situation with strength, courage and humor. Today, Corbie brings a full toolbox to her job as a beacon of manifestation and vision for her clients. She knows what it is to create a career out of experiences. While she’s now a full-time intuitive counselor and inspirational speaker, her career has encompassed positions as a published author, a professional actress, a television producer, a radio personality, an executive recruiter and the “power behind the throne” for a number of high-profile CEOs. Corbie’s career now spans the globe, with clients worldwide. Her talents as an intuitive are featured in bestselling books. Still, her clients treasure her attitude of I’m not special, you can do what I do. “We have opportunities we can go after, and challenges to get past,” she says firmly. “My job is to give you the tools and courage to deal with both situations. Everything else is free will, and up to you!” Corbie lives in upstate New York with her husband Carle, a museum director, and three large and exuberant Maine Coon cats.
