About

So who am I? The million dollar question. I’d actually settle for the $500k question as that would have me debt free!!!

Anyway, my name is Samantha Leith and I’m your Goal Friend.

My story goes like this…….I was born in New Zealand, premature and underweight. Mum says she didn’t stop feeding me once I was released. She was only trying to help, but I’m still trying to fix this problem. I was born into a large family but with a large gap between my and my older siblings it meant that it was mum, dad and I who left NZ on a yacht and sailed for a few years. Apart from developing a great love for the water and travel it gave me a very independent spirit but it coupled that with a huge desire to create a white picket fence for my life as I thought that was what was normal. The problem is, I get bored very easily, so a white picket fence is not for me and it’s taken me years to accept that.

I started singing when I was 6 (The First Noel) and did my first paid gig at 10 (it was a wedding in Brisbane), so I always thought that would be my path. I asked my parents to move to Sydney as I had 2 siblings here and I wanted to be normal. Blessed with a brain and eager to use it, I won a scholarship to a private girls school and started my new life. This desire to be normal was so strong that while we were still living on the boat I made up a fake address and would walk to a different bus stop so the girls at school wouldn’t know I was the weirdo that lived on a boat. Silly really, as when they found out I was the coolest kid in the class. My entrepreneurial spirit was developed at school when I made a profit on supplying the booze and hosting the cast parties – I do not recommend this, and my daughter will have a hard time pulling similar wool over my eyes.

I kept singing and that has given me so many varied opportunities. I’ve sung with just about every style and with people from the Australian Opera all the way to the other end of the spectrum with Jimmy Barnes and MC Hammer. I’ve produced my own album, written shows, done musical theatre and loved every seedy bar I’ve sung in. I’ve entertained audiences of 3 and audiences of 20,000, each with their own good and bad points. The trouble was that desire for normality and a white picket fence didn’t really fit in with singing, so in my mid 20’s I stopped. I have no regrets about stopping, but I would like to be on stage singing again at some point – it’s in my blood.

I always had ‘real’ jobs (as some people call them) while I was singing, and these days I’m the Financial Controller of a publishing company. I’ve done retail, hospitality, accounts, training (me and a mic – how could I not love it) and direct selling. It was the direct selling that helped me discover self development, motivational and inspirational material. I was in love. Finally I had access to material that said it was ok to not strive for what was perceived was normal, it was ok to want to be an entrepreneur, it was ok to want to do more than one thing and it was ok to want more out of life.

I’ve always struggled with my weight, and truly believe it’s because I never set the right goal and never fixed the stuff in my head. You can check out my progress on www.StrippingBackTheLayers.com and see how I am going. Other goals that I have set I have achieved including buying property, touring with my show and achieving international seminars, a car and Sales Manager status with Nutrimetics.

These days I have dreams and goals – and be careful not to confuse the two. One of which is the profit from www.SomeKindOfBliss.com paying all my daughters school fees. It’s an online shopping site selling gorgeous Australian and New Zealand made Bath, Body and Home Fragrancing products. This site takes care of 2 of my passions, my daughter’s education and helping my family business (you see they make the product). It started as a street retail business, then the GFC hit and the friend I started it with left the state. Anyway, lessons learnt and now the online is improving weekly – so that’s where the focus is. I believe as I make changes and include different product it will pay more than her school fees which is great.

I registered the domain for My Goal Friend years ago, and had no idea what to do with it. I felt I couldn’t help people reach their goals when I hadn’t reached all of mine. Wrong!!! It was when I heard the inspirational Janet Beckers talk that I realised that just because my passion lay in helping people reach their goals it didn’t mean that I had to be able to do it all. Over the years I have learnt many things about myself, one of which is I am a great facilitator. So My Goal Friend is me bringing the best Goal Getters to you guys, so you too can achieve your goals. I’m constantly looking at info for the site and way to make the membership site all that it can be.

Would I be happy sitting in an office for the rest of my life? No. I will be back on the stage and it will combine my greatest passions; self development, helping people, travel, entertaining and my family.

My Goal Friend is a work in progress, as am I. Please read the blogs, check back on the site, listen to a call if you can, comment on anything you want and remember to Go For Goal’d.