Transformed - The Journey to Becoming

After years of struggle and hurt, Sabine Gedeon was prepared to take the pills she had in hand. But before she did, she directed her pain and rage at God, and told him that, “in fact, if He was real, and didn’t want me to move forward with my plans, that I needed Him to prove it to me!” In the next moment, she says: “God Himself showed up in my bedroom, wrapped His arms around me.”

Thus begins Sabine’s story of transformation, which she likens to that of a caterpillar emerging from a chrysalis into a beautiful, graceful butterfly. In her new book TRANSFORMED: The Journey to Becoming, Sabine chronicles what took her to such depths and how she followed that divine intervention with a relentless pursuit of self-improvement and purposeful growth, despite the deep pain from the struggle of transformation.

Today, having transformed herself, Sabine Gedeon, is the Founder and CEO of Gedeon Enterprises, providing coaching and consulting services to ambitious, mission-driven leaders. With over 15 years’ experience serving as an HR professional, coach and advisor to leaders in Fortune 100 companies, and within her own practice, Sabine has helped hundreds of professionals breakthrough barriers, uncover or build their leadership capabilities, and experience growth in their lives, careers, and businesses.

Sabine knows first-hand the amount of faith and courage it takes to break away from the norm and step into something new or bigger than yourself. Using her personal experience as a benchmark, she hopes to help lead millions of others through their unique paths of purpose, impact, prosperity, and legacy.

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Show Notes

Segment 1

Georgeann and Judi introduce their guest for today’s episode, Sabine Gedeon, author of the book Transformed: The Journey to Becoming, and founder and CEO of Gedeon Enterprises. Sabine begins to describe her childhood in Haiti, and when she moved to the United States when she was four years old. Sabine describes how her mother moved to the United States a few years before her father and herself moved. She continues to describe how while she was younger, her parents didn’t trust strangers, such as babysitters to take care of their children while they were at work, and because of this they left her in the care of family. She explains how even though her parents trusted her family, viewing it as a more safe option, even though this wasn’t the case. Sabine continues to describe her journey through life, and how she had the image of success after college, even though she had a continuous personal struggle. She explains that she made the realization in her mid twenties that she didn’t love herself, and then became consumed by negativity after that realization, and could not go an entire day without seeing only negativity.

Segment 2

Sabine retells the story of the events that lead up to her plan to attempt suicide, and a last ditch effort discussion she had with God that caused her to decide to continue to live. She explains how for many years she went through the motions of believing in God, but never truly believed, but after that conversation she felt that “God wrapped his arms around [her]”. And, the next morning when she woke up she realized that God was real, God loved her and she had a purpose to live. Georgeann, Judi, and Sabine discuss what the feeling of God feels like. Judi brings up the point that God shows up to many people when they are at their lowest, and the three discuss why this may be the case. Sabine describes that surrendering herself to God was one of the most difficult hurdles in her relationship with God, and even having a relationship with God was difficult to her, as she had no human example of a healthy relationship to base her relationship with God on. Sabine describes her relationship with her mother, and how her mother treated her versus how she treated her brothers.

Segment 3

Sabine describes her definition of forgiveness, as well as her journey with those she has forgiven for her past. She explains how God allowed her to forgive her father first, and how even though he didn’t do anything wrong per say, he was absent from many of the aspects of her life she had the expectation of him to be there. Sabine explains how she gained her power back from letting go of the power that the past had over her, and how forgiving those who negatively impacted her past lifted a weight off of her shoulders and gave her strength. Sabine explains how she forgives others. The three discuss having a relationship with God, and Sabine explains how it's a process, and believing in God is a process, and Georgeann suggests that everyone should read Genesis 41 from the Bible as it aligns with what Sabine has gone through in her life.

Segment 4

Georgeann brings up how Sabine had to keep family secrets throughout her life, and how that is exhausting on Sabine and those who have to carry it. Sabine explains how the incest her grandmother experienced was rumored to her through bits in pieces throughout her childhood, and that became a full realization to her in her adult life while she was writing her book. She continues to explain she had another realization around the sexual abuse she experienced as a child, and how she realized she had told her mother about the situation, which is a memory she had blocked out. Sabine continues to explain what her purpose in life is, and how she is the chain breaker in her family, and breaks the cycles that have been plaguing her family. The three end the episode in prayer.