Send us a text Listen to This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur who feels like the balance in the relationships in your life is off. You feel as if you or your clients don’t have full autonomy when it comes to decision making within the client-practitioner relationship and the healing process. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: How the pure energetics of a prey animal like the horse, and the immediate feedback they give, makes them great mirrors How a “yes” or “no” is never simple or ...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 87
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur who wants to grow their business but is unsure how to approach expanding it in a way that builds long lasting and trusting relationships. SHOWNOTES: I’ve created 3 businesses since 2008, which has been a golden age for entrepreneurship. As we face the threat of a recession on the horizon, I’ve been craving conversations with people who’s businesses have weathered the storms of hard economic times before. Enter: Al Marquis...
Oct 20, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 86
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur who has experienced anxiety, depression and other symptoms of nervous system dysregulation. You are looking ways to create a sustainable business and personal life that includes building reciprocal relationships, fostering personal responsibility, and trauma healing What You'll Learn in this Episode: How trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and suicide are misunderstood in our society How tuning in and being aware of the...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 85
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur who wants to follow the seasonal cycles and integrate the 5 elements of Daoism into your business and life. You have been feeling as if you just take on more and more in your business and have no breathing room. You want to find out how Autumn and the Metal element can facilitate a slowing down and inspire you to shed what no longer serves you. What You'll Learn in this Episode: How the Fall season is an opportunity to pr...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 84
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a Spiritual Entrepreneur who feels out of sync with the natural rhythms of the seasons and the transitional times at the beginning and end of each one. You want to know more about how the changing seasons and the cues from your body can tell you what you need so that you can align with each season. We explore the abundance of Late Summer and how it is an opportunity to return to our body, tune in to its cues and discover what is needed to nourish...
Sep 01, 2022•54 min•Ep. 83
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur who feels they don’t know when to say “yes” or when to say “no” to commitments or opportunities. You want to be able to trust or tune in to your internal wisdom and let it guide your decisions. What You'll Learn in this Episode: How tuning into how the body feels can inform our business and self-care decisions How trusting the body and listening to the information it gives you can tell you which clients and collaborators ...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 82
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur who is avoiding making moves in your business because you’re afraid to fall into old patterns of burnout that you experienced in entrepreneurship or in the traditional work environment. SHOWNOTES: What You'll Learn in this Episode: You can love what you practice AND feel like the business side of your work is making you feel exhausted and burnt out Observing seasonality within your business will allow you to flow through ...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 81
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur who has unhealed wounds and trauma are preventing you from reaching a state of nervous system regulation that would allow your business and your life to become joyful and spacious. What You'll Learn in this Episode: How having a community during your healing journey can allow for co-regulation, being witnessed and heard by others, and seeing yourself through the lens of others How tapping into the parasympathetic nervous ...
Aug 11, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 80
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur who has been trying to use formula’s and strategies to re-create someone else’s version of success, but only find that this makes you feel like you are failing or are inadequate. You want to find out if the Business Alchemist Mentorship (BAM) container can help release you from enmeshment with your business and allow it to be a portal through which you pursue your life’s purpose. We explore how BAM can empower you to dig ...
Aug 03, 2022•57 min•Ep. 79
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur who provides services to clients rooted in indigenous or traditional ancestral knowledge and are unsure how to present this information in a way that is ethical but relatable to a contemporary audience. SHOWNOTES: As I deepen my relationship to Daoist spirituality and philosophy, I am learning that there is more that connects us than divides us. When we anchor into traditional practices, regardless of where it comes from,...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 78
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur who has feelings of guilt around the need to slow down or the urge to some take time away in the summer months. We explore how you can honor the natural seasonal rhythms and use the natural pause in summer to tap into the heart-mind, set boundaries and clear intentions, and work on openness, connection and communication with your clients. SHOWNOTES: My dear friend Christina Cecconi returns for her 9th appearance on the Em...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 77
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur who is aware that your money wounds are dysregulating to your nervous system and may be holding you back in your business. Let’s talk about how to receive and invest money with ease and alignment. SHOWNOTES: I’ve been doing my personal shadow work around money for the last year and a half. I used to feel unsafe and distrustful of my ability to make and save money and when I came to this realization, I decided to hold the ...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 76
Send us a text We’re doing something a little unusual this week. Tiffany Jones from Kenza Collective Podcast interviewed me on her show about a question that had been sitting in her heart: “ Do emotions have a place in business?” I believe that when we see our business as a spiritual teacher, we are able to learn so much about ourselves and how we show up in the world. Understanding how this all works together can be a true secret weapon for you to build an intentional, aligned, fulfilling, and ...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 75
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur ready to structure your business finances so you can build safety, freedom and empowerment into your business. What You'll Learn in this Episode: Accountant Beth’s grounded advice to set a spiritual entrepreneur up for financial organization at the beginning of their journey Operations Mentor Tiff’s “runway” strategy to help transition from the traditional workforce to entrepreneurship When to invest in a bookkeeper or ac...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 74
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a Spiritual Entrepreneur who wants to transform your money wounds so you can receive money in an aligned way from your business What You'll Learn in this Episode: Money is a vehicle that is linked to your life purpose and internal values Listening to your own compass of success and fulfillment rather than outsourcing your goals to what society/culture/family prescribes Why traditional money systems don’t work for creative spiritual entrepreneurs ...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 73
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You want to harness the energy of the upcoming eclipse portal between April 30,2022 - May 15, 2022 as an invitation to align with your Sacred Path. What You'll Learn in this Episode: How eclipses are a metaphor and portal to release stories of conditions and step into what is in true alignment for you What happens when you alchemize emotions instead of suppressing them The role of sovereignty in your Sacred Path The practice of slowing down as a revoluti...
Apr 28, 2022•57 min•Ep. 72
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are unsure of how to participate in polarizing conversations because you fear being rejected or ostracized for having different opinions What You'll Learn in this Episode: When we stop looking at issues through the lens of us vs. them, we find humanity and connection with others The difference between “understanding” vs. “agreement” Seeking the parasympathetic nervous system state in polarizing conversations so you can stand in connection, curiosity ...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 71
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If… You are a spiritual entrepreneur at the beginning of your journey or stepping into a new phase of your business and want to move forward with intentionality Christina Cecconi is returning to the Empowered Curiosity Podcast this year for a new series. We'll be exploring the Five Elements/Seasons as seen through the Daoist Medicine tradition applying the energetics of these cycles to a spiritually aligned business. What You'll Learn in this Episode: The en...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 70
Send us a text Listen To This Episode If... You are a spiritual entrepreneur who wants to make more sales without using toxic marketing tactics. Traditional marketing tactics that pound on pain points and pressure someone into purchasing doesn’t work for spiritual entrepreneurs because it doesn’t honor the sovereignty of a potential client. If you are grossed out by the retraumatizing and manipulative methods that are rampant in the online marketing space, you’re going to want to tune into this ...
Mar 05, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 69
Send us a text This one is a love note to the entrepreneurs, healing professionals and artists in the Empowered Curiosity community who feel a deep calling to serve their communities and feel nourished by the work they do, but are experiencing blocks in their business. Let me know if this is something you’re grappling with in your business… You take the business courses and know what you “should” do, but can’t follow through You feel frozen and stuck when you think about getting started You keep...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 68
Send us a text Nervous System Activation Warning: In this episode, Teri Wellbrock shares her stories of Big T Trauma including physical, emotional and sexual violence. The word “Resilience” is thrown around a lot these days in healing communities. But have you stopped to think about what that really means? Likely, it brings up thoughts of someone who has gone through difficult experiences and has learned coping strategies. Maybe it brings up a memory of someone you know. Teri Wellbrock has exper...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 67
Send us a text Most of us grew up in school + family systems that reward standardized testing, quantitative results + efficient performance. We validate cramming for tests to get the A rather than emphasizing the integration and digestion of learning. From the time we enter kindergarten, our lives revolve around how we perform. So it makes sense that we grow up into adults who see life as a linear progression of accomplishments. Our lives shift from revolving around school to revolving around ou...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 66
Send us a text Conscious Relationships don’t just magically appear out of luck, fairy dust and wishful thinking. A relationship built on trust, belonging, and respect requires intention, unflinching accountability and solid communication skills. I’ve invited two real-life friends of mine Megan McNamara and Paul Angelo onto the podcast this week because they’ve worked to co-create the kind of relationship that we all strive for. I believe they’d agree with the verb that I chose to use in that sen...
Nov 04, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 65
Send us a text Today’s episode is an invitation to be a pattern-breaker. When we experience “negative” emotions like fear, shame, anger and grief...we isolate that emotion, put it in a box and hide that emotion so it never sees the light of day. However, this strategy doesn’t magically *poof* make the difficult emotions disappear. Rather, they show up through overblown reactions and physical signs and symptoms. Some of us have closets full of unexamined emotions. And it is completely understanda...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 64
Send us a text In a culture where the value of a woman decreases when she is no longer a Maiden, stepping into the role of a Matriarch is a rocky transition. We become malleable to absorb the pain of others. We lose ourselves to make others comfortable. We take up less and less space which means we dull our voice. Sometimes we don’t even realize that we are struggling with integrating a Mother Wound. It shows up in the form of loose boundaries, self-sacrificing, numbing out pain and struggling t...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 63
Send us a text We all have a body. AND we all have a story about our body. In particular, We all grow up with a story about what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do with our bodies. And in turn, We all have a story about what other people should do or not do with their bodies. Today, we are going to chat with Lindsey Lockett about Body Sovereignty. She and I are two people who view the world through a trauma-informed lens, we have been seeing the wounds around Bodies on full display in ou...
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 62
Send us a text When you walk past a mirror, what is the first thought that pops into your head? For most of us, that voice is critical, demeaning and oftentimes, downright cruel. We cling to the perception of “If only…” If only I were thin enough/muscular enough/booby enough/thigh-gappy enough...then life will unlock in all the ways that I hope and dream about. In this week’s episode, I invite Katie Pijanowski to share her journey. Through her story, we tap into the wisdom she has unlocked about...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 61
Send us a text We all say we want a healthy, secure, conscious romantic relationship without hesitation. But what that actually means and what it requires of you is a deeper and more nuanced conversation. So in this week’s episode, I step into that space with my dear colleague Katie Pijanowski. Katie is the host of the Mind & Body Strong Podcast and she had me on her show to discuss Conscious Relationships. We talk about how to cultivate safety within partnership, source intimacy within and ...
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 60
Send us a text Communication is a learned behaviour. No one comes into this life with the pre-downloaded software of “Mindful Communication” already installed. Rather, we come into this life with needs and as children, we do our best to have those needs met. Often, those strategies need to be updated in adulthood. Entering into a triggering conversation and responding with consciousness and mindfulness when you are in an activated state is a skill. I personally learned these skill by being human...
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 59
Send us a text It’s official, the doors to The Heart Lab are open for one last time in 2021. I could sit here and chatter at you about what it’s all about, but honestly, these two women say it better than I can. Because they’ve felt the transformations that happen when a community of aligned women come together. Gathering in Circles is something that our feminine ancestors knew how to do, but in our modern world, these opportunities to gather and truly open up and reveal ourselves is rare. When ...
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 58
