Susan Martin aka CoCo Cheznaynay® Secret Agent of Truth & Style™. This is a real life story of how small thoughts make big change. This is so powerful a creation, some do not remember my real name.

I needed courage to be me so this is what I did … I liked the name CoCo – it is fun, strong and a joy to say. What I did not have the courage to say or own in my life, I quoted CoCo. This started slowly but every time I said her name, people laughed so I decided to trademark the name. When you start paying attorneys, it all becomes real. Then I started adding more to her story. Now she is writing mine …

Two scary chapters CoCo has written in my life:

Scuba

I started scuba lessons and was surprised to discover I have a strange performance anxiety/panic disorder when I have to do skills in front of others, I can’t use my personality, sense of humor and I am underwater and I cannot speak – no more coping skills left … I had to overcome this fear because I had paid for CoCo’s graphic identity and intellectual property. And her philosophy of facing fear – could I ask others to do what I could not? I would be an impostor – the most dreaded label since CoCo is a Secret Agent of Truth & Style©

So I faced my fear and discovered while on eight scuba trips, divers have problems with their hair, their head and being seen above and below the sea. Surely there is already a product on the market – no? I developed one, figured out the manufacturing, marketing, pulled in an investor (who died before I received funding), patented it and now I am in the Scuba industry – how did that happen? It was like on a scavenger hunt; led and lured down an innocent path of discovery, by the philosophy of a cartoon character I was still getting to know…

Name Change??

So another fear I must own is public speaking desire to share the simplicity of CoCo’s philosophy. Several of my writings and groups I’ve assembled, speak to the power of your name. See December 21 and December 13, 2008.

In preparation for the talk, I went back to a site and actually paid $30 to analyze all of my names which includes a written report and access to a one hour consultation with their staff. I shared this report as a responsible communicator for a balanced, informative talk.

That was fun ——- then when I had time during holidays, I really read and admitted to myself, this report about my various names was true! and the subjective attachments or familial, tribal yokes maybe were creating discordant code in my life. If I could dispute the patterns and tendencies, it would have been the entertainment and prop it was meant to be. But the words are true….

So as a Secret Agent of Truth and Style points out to me again, I must go on another journey. The only way I will know if this frequency of Name is true, is to go through the entire process and live it. What if it makes no difference in my life and all of my ones think I am a nut? What if it does work and I could have averted years of disharmony? It is a process and I will not know until and as it is done.

And I thought again I was to teach through CoCo and she turns to teach me..