Meet Carrie Fabris | Executive Business Coach, Chief ReFramer, Author and Strengths Power Player

We had the good fortune of connecting with Carrie Fabris and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Carrie, what do you attribute your success to?
The most important factor behind my success has been energy! Keeping energy as my focus has fueled my attitude, drive, perseverance, reframing, and passion to build my business and dramatically grow it during the pandemic. When energy is low, we humans get tired. When we are tired, we are emotional which leads to irrational thoughts and not awesome choices. When my energy is low as a busy entrepreneur, wife and mom of two young kids, I consciously work to change my state and recharge the battery which usually involves songs from my “Happy” iTunes playlist. I change my physiology, dance around the room, change the self talk not serving me in my head, and focus on what I want. As long as I maintain high energy and keep my state in check, I seem to attract clients and in turn, I adore giving my energy to them to support their goals focused on strengths and leadership.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
My business is CareerFrame, launched in 2016. I help individuals, leaders and teams reset, realign, and reform. Together, we focus on reframing for the ideal from a place of strengths and natural talents. I am a Gallup Certified StrengthsFinder coach as well as a certified facilitator for Situational Leadership: Building Leaders and what sets me apart is my high energy, and tough love ability to help others step into their personal and professional power. I am real and relatable because what I offer to others is a roadmap to transformation personally and professionally based on my own journey from surviving to thriving. I bring decades of a corporate career (Travelocity, Google, Sabre, etc) and many personal tragedies and triumphs as my experience for helping others unlock and unblock themselves.

I’m most excited about people’s potential and inspiring them to take action. Always wanting to be a role model, I am most proud of how I took action after following my heart. After what felt like a failed attempt to launch CareerFrame into a real business by 2017 and what led me back to corporate, kicking and screaming, I persevered in 2020 by following my heart, leaning into fear, and jumping back to CareerFrame full time taking it to a level of success I had not imagined.

Getting my business to where it is today took massive focus on keeping my “state” in a place of “planting in the Winter for things to grow in the Spring.” I resigned from corporate and left on February 28, and then the world shut down with Covid-19. When I left, I had zero clients lined up. Zero. I would not let myself panic. I would not let myself be riddled with fear. And I could not have had this mindset without my own coaching journey and working through the hard mental things that had kept me frozen in the past. It was not easy. Some days were really hard. Some days I had tears streaming down my face when fear knocked at my door and yet, I would put my AirPods on, play a song that got me going, and would jump in place through the tears until the fear got bored and left. Other days simply “were.” Regardless, I made a choice of the mindset I needed to have to keep going!

Key lessons I’ve learned along the way are as follows: Where focus goes, energy flows. Change your story, change your life. Reframing will always help you see the positive in any situation so then it’s not so scary. I am 100% responsible for myself, my actions, my thoughts, my words, my feelings. Everything is a choice! And lastly, everything ends up as it should be, especially when you get out of your head and follow your heart. All of these combined, I literally practice everyday.

The Carrie Fabris (and CareerFrame) brand are all about honor, integrity and courage. These three words are my guiding principle that have helped me ‘reframe for my ideal’ and persevere through trauma that was holding me back, seeing myself for the potential I had with the great love and support from my coach, and being able to visualize who I want to be, and absolutely will be, through the right choices.

Along the way I also found the courage to write a children’s book called Fans Are Fantastic, supporting my special son who adores fans (ceiling fans, box fans, turbines, etc) more than anything in this world. As a mom, I searched high and low for children’s books on fans and always came up short. Being an entrepreneur, I saw a need, it was personal, and so I created the answer and produced the first illustrated children’s book on fans!

I maximize people and situations, taking them from good to outstanding. For my clients (individuals and teams), I help them get insightful about honoring the past and how our stories have brought us to where we are today. We simply cannot reject our past because it has shaped us into who we are now, personally and professionally. If we do not like who we are now, the beauty is that we can change! Which leads to how I help others have integrity and truth in the present about who they are, why they are that way, what they want to do about it, and how they want to show up tomorrow. Then I help them embrace the courage to do hard things that lead to joy and success on the other side. No one shows up, raises their hand and says, “I want pain! Can’t wait! Bring it on!” Pain will tell you that you can’t. Courage will tell you that you will. Whether an individual, leader or team needs to reset, realign, or reform, I take great interest and energy in clearing the path to reframing for the ideal and helping them step into their personal and professional power.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
A week in Dallas with me would consist of a balance and mix of experiencing great restaurants, shopping, culture, and chill time on my back patio with the fire pit and a cocktail! We would hit the following spots:

Highland Park Village – especially at night with the trees all lit up! We’d peruse the shops and have a drink at Lounge 31.
Northpark Mall – focused on key stores and drinks + dinner at Eataly Dallas – a spot that is quickly becoming a favorite of mine.
Katy Trail and Knox Street area – going for a long walk on a beautiful day and then hop into Toulouse or Taverna.
Downtown – stopping by Neiman’s, 4510, and driving by the “grassy null”
DMA and the Art District, stopping by Klyde Warren Park
We would have to have a steak – it would be a toss up between Bob’s and Del Frisco Double Eagle
Cowboys Red River for some good ole Texas two-stepping
Other restaurants I love that would be on rotation are Uchi, Drakes, Town Hearth, True Food Kitchen (for lunch), and St Martins Wine Bistro for a touch of “classic” Dallas
Spa visit to The Spa at the Crescent followed by wine at Sixty Vines

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I would like to dedicate my Shoutout to my husband Andres Fabris. He too is a DFW entrepreneur and has been an amazing guide, mentor, coach, cheerleader and supporter of my success. He saw that all I wanted to do was focus on CareerFrame and my passion for influencing others. When I was scared to officially take the leap, he was right there telling me to go for it and daily he celebrates my ongoing success!

Website: www.careerframe.com / www.fansarefantastic.com

Instagram: cdfabris and careerframe

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cfabris-reframe-coaching-training/

Other: My digital course ‘ReFrame Mastery Kickstarter will be launching in 2021, available on Teachable, and accessible through my website!