You know what happens when you are a creative, as you all know, cuz your creatives is that we have a lot of ideas and we have a lot of things that excite us that we see and we wanna try out and there is a, a positive and negative side to this. The positive is that when we follow something that feels and that excites us, it’s most likely that others are going to be drawn to that too. There’s more free energy in it. As my coach says, there’s more play. There’s more fun. There’s more pleasure. When we feel that energy, then others are drawn to that and they wanna sign up. The downside could be, you know, if we shift and change too much, It’s like, we become like a moving target and people can’t find us. it’s like, one minute, you’re this the next minute, you’re this. Then one minute you’re launching this program the next minute. It’s like, they can’t keep up. And when we keep changing, then the market can get confused. People have been following you for a while. They can get confused by that. And maybe they’re saving their pennies to be able to invest in this program. And then suddenly it’s gone like, and they’re like, wait, what, what happened to this program? You’re like, well, now it’s this program.
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Julie Goetzinger is the creator of Abundance Academy, Abundance Activation Workshops, Abundance Breakthrough Retreats, Free to Fly, and Money Intensive. She helps soul-aligned entrepreneurs to create more freedom in their lives in the form of time freedom, financial freedom and the freedom to be fully expressed. She is an Abundant Life Coach, Podcaster, Author, Motivational Speaker and Entrepreneur with seven years of experience in the business.
We’ve evolved beyond who we used to be. So as this new version emerges what we do on a daily basis, what we do in our business, how we show up in our relationships, it has no choice, but to be different now. So when we force ourselves to hold onto what once was, how we used to do things, or this is the way I make money, this is how I show up in a relationship. Then we cut ourselves off from abundance. We cut ourselves off from experiencing the full range of emotions, the full range of joy and pleasure, and excitement and adventure.
I’ve been getting to a place of feeling a little heavy around certain offers that I’ve had or certain programs and giving myself permission to shift, because if it feels heavy for me as the leader, Do you think that’s gonna attract or repel people from shining up for it? Who wants to sign up for something that’s heavy? What I’m realizing is more of my value, more of what I bring to the table, knowing that my presence is my gift and people come for the content. They come for the content, they stay for the community. So, what they’re really coming for is that tribe feeling, the family feeling, the belonging, the being understood, the being heard, the being seen, the feeling of safety that comes when we don’t feel that in our own, our blood family, or we don’t feel that even with some of our friends like we have to show up the way we used to, or that’s what we tell ourselves anyway.
But what it is about really tuning into your energy and giving yourself permission to shift and change your offerings based on where you are now and your evolutionary journey. I know I’ve heard in the business world, you know, that people who were, where you once were, are the ones that are gonna be drawn to you because they have similar past experiences. Maybe they’re going through something. Now you’ve already overcome. As a coach that happens to me all the time. I attract people who have very similar upbringings, very similar trauma, and a similar outlook on life. And they’re drawn to me because they resonate with my vibration. They know that there’s a better way. They feel that other possibilities they feel drawn to me as their guide. And that is because I’ve been through what they’re they’ve been through or I’m going through it now. And that happens to me a lot.
My one-on-one clients that they tend to come to me with things that I’m currently healing in myself and we heal simultaneously. And as a divine channel, I will ask the questions of the divine and receive the clarity right. Alongside my client simultaneously. And I have to listen back to my recordings from, my calls with my clients, knowing that the messages are for me as well. And when I channel, I don’t remember everything I say, I also talk faster. When we channel the guidance and the wisdom comes through faster than our mouth can move at times. And that happens to me too, which is why I record all my calls with my clients. But we’re helping people who have had things that we’ve been through as well. And those of you who are coaches or who are drawn to start a coaching business too.
I would love to give it to you if you haven’t given it to yourself yet, that permission to shift, permission to show up differently, and that permission to completely start something new.
To let go of what once was that wants to be, released that has served its purpose, that has helped the people it was meant to serve, and to let it go and to let it evolve into something so much more beautiful for where you are now in your journey.
Keep Learning About Yourself
Doing all the things, you know, as an entrepreneur, like wear many hats, but I got to a place of what do I wanna do now? I don’t need to just keep doing things because I’ve always done them in that way. I learned a lot about myself as a leader. I learned a lot about the holes that were in my program based on the feedback I received from people in my program that I asked. And that was scary to do, to have the courage to ask and to be open to receive that feedback and not take it personally, that’s hard to do. You learn a lot about yourself when you host a year-long program. You learn a lot about yourself and, it really is now about what I wanna be doing. How do I wanna show up?
Don’t Listen To People Who Are Telling You That You’re Too Much
When I started my own business, when I became an intuitive coach and started to go through the projects pretty quickly not wanna say, go through them, but I accomplished a lot in a short amount of time. I hosted, I don’t even know how many retreats, eight retreats over two year span. I hosted a mastermind program that meets every week. I started a podcast. I hosted a summit, coaching it. I’ve done a lot in two years and I’ve done it because I’m hungry for creation because I love to create, I have excess creative energy that wants to be channeled somewhere. So I channel it towards creation of products, the creation of new titles, for things and workbooks, and all those things I like to do. And now that I’ve created a lot in a short amount of time. Now I’m hearing from people you’re too much. You’re annoying. Your fast growth is annoying. Stop it. And I know that’s not a reflection of me. That’s about them not allowing themselves to create what they wanna create. So they wanna point fingers at me and say, you’re too much, or you need to slow down cuz it’s making me uncomfortable.
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Now I’m at the point where I wanna help others, who also have been told that they’re too much, who’ve been told to quiet down, who’s been told not to raise a fuss. Cause I don’t believe that we’re here to be quiet. I don’t believe we’re here to be pushed aside and to be told to tone down. And I see this even more amongst like females. I have never had a man tell me I was too much. I’ve been praised for that. Like you’re bright, you’re beautiful. You stand out, you’re successful. Like that’s great, it’s from the females in my life that I have gotten the criticism and maybe part of it is, because females are being taught to be quiet, to do what they’re told, and to be submissive. And when we don’t fall in line with that and other women also long to be free to express themselves freely, to be seen as free. They don’t allow themselves to do that. And they see you doing that. That’s where they place that shame; don’t do that.
Get Louder!
I see my role as someone who’s gonna keep putting myself out there. I’m gonna get louder instead of quieter. I’m gonna get brighter instead of dimmer. I’m gonna help support those women who also feel that desire to just come out like just to let yourself be seen and heard and experienced and enjoyed and criticized because it does come with. no one puts themselves out there, someone who doesn’t receive judgment and criticism, but it’s about coming to that place of knowing that it has nothing to do with you, but everything to do with the other person and what they think is capable for themselves. And I’ve also seen in my experience that when you move too quickly and others can’t keep up, they get offended by that. Sometimes either they’re inspired or they’re offended. They’re inspired if they believe that that’s possible for them too. They’re offended if they want that and haven’t allowed themselves to figure it out yet, or haven’t allowed themselves to be that yet. Then that’s when the criticism and the judgment comes. But it’s also about getting ourselves into that strong place of like, you can say what you want. You can throw shade, that’s what they say on TV but it’s like, I’m here and I’m gonna be seen and I’m going to inspire.
Make Yourself Uncomfortable
I invite other women to also make people uncomfortable. Make yourself uncomfortable. When you challenge yourself to deepen your learning, you challenge yourself to put yourself in new environments, with new people and new places. It is uncomfortable. And that’s where the growth comes from. And I tell my clients like I’m not here to make you comfortable. If you were comfortable, you would never grow. You would never step into that higher version of yourself. Birth is not comfortable when the baby comes out. It is an ugly, like terrifying scene. It’s traumatic. But then on the other side is the piece is the joy is the new exploration and is what we came here to experience. We came here to experience all of it.
So I really feel passionate about helping other women to open up more, to step more into their full power, to be who they came here to be, and to let go of all those stories of being too much,
As my coach, Dr. Aaron Wilkerson says like, rather than seeing yourself as too much, what if you were curious about how much more is there, how much more expressive can you? We came here to experience more, we didn’t come here to be in lack. We didn’t come here to be quieted. We didn’t come here to be less than to feel less than, we came here to be fully expressed. And when you are in your fullest expression, that is where your abundance lies. That’s it. It’s really simple. When you’re in your fullest expression, you are abundance. You are her now.
Limiting Beliefs That Stop Women From Seeing Themselves As Worthy Of Even Doing A Photo Shoot
I hear a lot of, I need to lose weight. I’m too old, I wanted to do that for years, but you know, at this point, like it’s too late for me. I’m a mom, I can’t spend that kind of money on myself. I put everybody before myself. So, there’s no time to come in. I’ve heard that too. So, but it’s so rewarding when they actually do come in. They’re like, oh, and then they show up differently in their lives and it. Oh, okay. Like I needed to invest in myself first. Yes. And then like, I got all the benefits and I’m different with my kids. I show up differently in my work. I’m different when I’m with my partner. Beautiful. Love
I love the process that I do with my clients. Sometimes I get to talk to them before they shoot, like in depth. Most of the time it’s there. I want to really get to know them and maybe they might not say, this is the problem. And sometimes they don’t even know like right there is a problem, but just through like that conversation and they’re so open with me, they just trust me. So I’m just like, I know I need to provide that safe place so that we if we need to talk before the shoot like I’m gonna talk to you. Cause I have had people that were abused and whatnot come in and it’s just. We’re not in a rush. Let’s talk like if we pull out the camera like great like we are gonna pull out the camera at some point, but I’m like, you know, this is for you really like reassuring them. This is my body. Yes. This experience is for me. Yes. Like everybody that comes to me, this experience is for them. Like, it might also be like a gift for someone else, but my clients are like, I want this experience. I wanna connect with myself.
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How we view ourselves affects how we interact with every person that we come in contact with how we interact with the world around us, our kids, and how we show up in our businesses. So I feel like it’s just so important. Like it starts with you first. Like if you can love yourself and you have that positive self-image and that confidence, you’re gonna feel unstoppable.
The Impact of Abundance Breakthrough Retreat
I was just ready just for a change. I was like, I don’t wanna be going through the motions. Like I see where I wanna go or have an idea of where I wanna go. And I’m like, I’m not getting there by myself or I’m like going too slow by myself. My business has really like taken off and now I’m like, yay. Like I was in that grind of like, okay, you gotta growth of the business. Like my head down, like business, business business. And like, I’ve got two kids. Like I was like, oh, I’m missing so many things. Like I’m still there, but it’s just missing out on so many things. Like I’m not getting to be present. That was so important. Like, my family’s so important to me and I’m like, I’m building this business so I can have that freedom. But at the same time, you almost feel shacked to the business. But now I feel like, I have that freedom. Like I’m not shackled to it. As I’ve grown, I don’t think before I would’ve been in a place I could get help. I was like, I can do everything. So I should do everything. Like, why am I gonna pay somebody to help me with my marketing or help me with my social media, I can do everything. And I was like spreading myself so thin and it was like coming back to that self-worth.
As for the changes, I wanna go back to the retreat a little bit, while I was there like, there were things that I thought I had dealt with and the realization wasn’t. Nope. Because it was still showing up like in my life, in different areas. So, That is so important just to like head on, not be afraid to look at the past and see if it’s holding you back. I’m so excited to take this leadership role yes. Just to help other people do the same in this setting that you have created, like this safe space.
We’ve all heard the term pay yourself first, growing up, whether it’s our parents telling us when we got our first jobs, make sure we’re paying ourselves first. We’ve heard it through high school, and college, but nobody knows how to do it. And the closest thing that I’ve known that has been taught closest to profit first and pay yourself first is grandmother’s envelope, budgeting methodology. And so what profit first is, is a pay-yourself-first cash flow system that works with human behaviors. It’s not accounting, it’s not bookkeeping. It’s a cash flow.
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Julie Goetzinger is the creator of Abundance Academy, Abundance Activation Workshops, Abundance Breakthrough Retreats, Free to Fly, and Money Intensive. She helps soul-aligned entrepreneurs to create more freedom in their lives in the form of time freedom, financial freedom and the freedom to be fully expressed. She is an Abundant Life Coach, Podcaster, Author, Motivational Speaker and Entrepreneur with seven years of experience in the business.
Over the years, accountants have been talking to us entrepreneurs in ways that were like, oh my gosh, what are they even saying so much that, you know, even myself were fearful at times to go to talk to an accountant because I had no idea what was going on. And the bedside manner that they had was not very positive. And it was very frustrating. And here’s the thing, you know, entrepreneurs are not stupid. We create jobs. We hire people, we create art, we sell, we market people give us money, all sorts of stuff. Then what’s the problem, right? Because why are businesses failing? Why do 50% of startups not make it to year one? How come they don’t make it to year five? How come they don’t make it to your 10? Because the individuals starting these companies are very smart. Well, the problem is not the entrepreneurs. We’ve been taught every single day since the beginning of time, this formula, and the formula is sales minus expenses, equal profit. Write that down. Everybody’s like, sales minus expenses, equals profit. That’s how you were taught and that’s structurally correct. And what we’re taught is sell, sell, sell, manage our expenses, manage them, and then whatever is left over is what we pay ourselves, but our profit is from a structural standpoint. But from a behavioral standpoint, that’s absolutely wrong and has been harming all of us because what comes first is important, what comes last and an afterthought. So all these years we’ve been putting, paying ourselves profit, all these great things as an afterthought. So what we’ve done is simply flip the equation. So now I want everybody to cross out sales, minus expense as equal profit. What we’re advocating is sell, sell, sell, take your profit and manage the business on everything else. Now we know life is not all about profit.
Pay Yourself First
Beginning business owners, it’s imperative to start paying yourself first. Otherwise, you’re gonna hate your business. We’re not taught how to run necessarily businesses. We might be awesome at creating our products and services, but no one really is teaching us the importance of paying ourselves first. Because if you don’t pay yourself first, how are you going to live the lifestyle that you wanted? How are your staff not gonna be being paid? They’re not gonna be being paid very well. And all startups should implement profit.
First based upon the message in the book, it breaks the doctrine of sacrifice. It ain’t cool to be 30, 40 years old, starting a business, living on your parent’s couch. It’s BS that you can’t be profitable from day one. It’s BS that you can’t pay yourself from day one. But implementing the strategy you can, you’re not gonna be a millionaire right away. This is a very conservative approach to cash flow management.
Move Your Money Into Strategic Bank Accounts
With a lot of independence, solo entrepreneurs collect all of their income and it goes into one operating account, one bank account, and they look at it every day and make business decisions. But what they’re neglecting is that some of that money is not theirs, right? Some of that money should go to profit, should go to paying down that, and absolutely needs to go to Uncle Sam. So by not realizing this, it sneaks up on independence and solo entrepreneurs. And the next minute they know they don’t have any money to pay Uncle Sam because they haven’t been allocating it aside. And they’re reaching into their savings. They’re reaching into maybe a 401k or something like that, simply to pay the taxes that they should have withheld along the journey of the year.
How to Alleviate Your Stress Towards The End of The Year
One of the things is a lot of business owners are not in tune with their finances. They don’t understand the ebbs and flows of the cash flow. They don’t have a system. So one of the beauties of Profit First is once we start implementing a system, we have a plan. That plan now there’s the first time. The first time a lot of business owners have a plan on how to actually use their money. So that’s great. Next with Profit First, we’re moving the money into strategic bank accounts for various different purposes. That’s extremely empowering, right? The first time you move that money, you were probably like awesome. It felt great. And we recommend that you reward yourself with that. That’s a great thing. So it’s often the first time that a business owner may be in control of their money. Next is all right. It’s working, so they have a plan that feels relief. They’re empowered because they are operating the plan. Next is focusing now that you have a plan, you’re empowered, and you’re focused on growing your business. When you know that you’re paying yourself, are taking care of your tax reserves, taking care of your profit. You’re not up late sleeping, how am I gonna pay myself? How am I gonna pay taxes? How am I gonna be profitable? So it relieves a ton of stress from home life.
My first business was in portrait photography. And when COVID came, I was forced to close down temporarily because we couldn’t do in-person work. I started brainstorming and thinking about what I wanted to do and I was scared and wasn’t sure what to do. And then I called my psychic, Patty Kemp, and she said that it was time to start offering readings that I’m actually quite intuitive and a medium. And my spirit guides were waiting for me to open up and realize how gifted I am. I kind of, you know, had an inkling that I was, people had been coming to me for advice pretty much my whole life and I thought I just gave good advice, but people would always say, Julie, you always make me feel better. Like, so good. You’re so wise. And I realized that it wasn’t just me. It was me as an energetic, medium being able to tap into their energy field without even trying to, it’s just something that I can just do.
I would receive messages from their spirit guides who wanted them to go in a certain direction. So I started offering these intuitive readings and I quickly got super busy. I was doing a lot of one-on-one readings over the phone. Every time I checked my email, there was a new booking. I was just like inundated and while it was fun at the time I was thinking about separating from my partner and didn’t have enough money to support my children. So having all the money come in from the intuitive readings was a huge blessing. And it was also overwhelming because there were so many of them and I was doing so much energy work, which is what readings are. And I was thinking about what could I do to help more people in a bigger way.
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One of my friends reached out to me and she said, Julie, there is this speaker, Michelle Villalobos. And she is, she reminds me of you. Like she’s intuitive. She’s fun. She’s inspiring. And she was like, I can see you hosting retreats as she does. I know you were mentioning that you’re interested in hosting a retreat. You should reach out to Michelle. So I reached out to Michelle and I ended up joining her Superstar Breakthrough retreat, and it was incredible. Then, I saw how she was able to do these retreats all virtually and at the time it was during COVID and she had hosted in-person events and she’s a professional speaker and spoke at many events. And she shifted when COVID happened to do virtual retreat. So the retreat I attended with her was virtual and I was actually kind of shocked at how close I felt to her community. After this one retreat, it was a three-day immersive experience. And it kind of reminds me of like a sorority. Like they choose people that they feel are aligned with their culture and their community. And she said that they had their eye on me. They were like, oh, Julie, like, there’s something different about her. There’s something that we want her to be in our community and I did share that I was intuitive and she said they were intrigued by that. And I started talking about money and she said, you’d be an amazing money mindset coach, your spiritual and you approach sales from a different perspective. I think maybe consider calling yourself an intuitive money mindset coach. And I was just like, oh, wow. Like, okay. And at the end of this retreat experience. It opened up a lot of opportunities for me, cuz I was seeing how I too could lead a retreat like that. And with this newfound title of intuitive money mindset coach was like, you know, I’m gonna try this out.
So, what I did was I reached out to a couple of people that intuitively I felt drawn to, and I just reached out to them. I told them that there was a project I was working on. Can we set up a time to talk about it? And to my surprise, they, most of ’em said yes, like let’s talk. And these were photographers. So I’ve already been connected to the photography industry as a photographer myself. And I talked with them and I told them my vision for this retreat. I told them that I just wanted to come together in sisterhood with fellow creatives and I wanted to support each other. I wanted to show each other that we don’t have to do this alone.
The Value of Having A Supportive Community
I learned that we’re not meant to do this alone. We’re meant to do this stronger in numbers. As we come together and as we call in those so aligned partners and co-creators, we just become stronger and stronger. And we today in my free to fly. So my community is called free to fly. Because it’s all about freeing yourself from limiting beliefs, freeing yourself from past trauma, freeing yourself from what you, you thought in the past was possible for you, freeing yourself from any limitations and in our free to fly call today, we were talking about our business goals and mapping out our business goals for 2022. And I had everybody share their claims and their goals and the projects that they were going to commit to implementing this quarter. And one of my members said, you know, now that I hear all these goals and how specific they are and the numbers, and, she was like, I wanna really get in there.
I wanna not be afraid toask for more. I don’t wanna be afraid to get specific, and know that’s not cutting me off from what the universe wants to deliver. I’m still gonna leave space for the magic and for things to UN the way they’re meant to unfold. But I wanna ask for more and it was that when we sit down ourselves to map out our goals if we ever do, it’s not as powerful as if we do it with a group. And if we claim it in front of a group and if we hold each other accountable for those claims.
I’m starting year two of leading my free to fly community. And I’ve seen the tremendous growth that everybody has had in, and not just the growth in business, but the joy that I see that is my biggest reward. Like it is so rewarding to see the friendships forming, to see the bonds deepening, to hear people say, you know, I’ve never told anybody this, but I feel like I’m safe to say that to me is the greatest gift is what I’m doing. That is my mission. My vision, of it is to create that safe space for people to be fully expressed.
My Vision
I even had this thought yesterday that if we were all fully expressed, would there even need wouldn’t it even be a need for money anymore? Because money is like, it’s a form of exchange. It’s just an energy exchange. I give you the money. You provide this service for me. You give me this product. What if we all were fully expressed, fully expressing our gifts, doing what we were given by God, universe source, whatever you wanna call it, using our God, given talents to the fullest, what would that world look like? If we all believed in ourselves, if we all trusted ourselves, if we came together as a community, what would that look like? And that is my vision. My vision is seeing more and more people opening their eyes and seeing their value, worth, gifts, and fully expressing them, not fearing what anyone else thinks, not what their parents are gonna think. Not what their friends are gonna think, not what their current clients are gonna think, but just trusting themselves and fully stepping into their power and their gifts. What would that look like? And to build a community of more and more people who believe in that vision too, who see themselves as that potential leader who maybe wanna host their own retreats.
I’m paying it forward by creating my own community, by having my own community of people who are there for each other through it all. And we all say like, there’s nothing off the table. There’s nothing you can’t share here. There’s nothing you will be condemned for judged for dismissed for no, this is a nest. This is your safe space to come to be nurtured, to be loved. And then you can fly. That is my vision. And that is what I’m creating with my community. And this vision starts with the abundance breakthrough retreat and the abundance breakthrough retreat is when we do come together, either virtually or in person.
Stop thinking that it’s hard. Thinking that it’s hard to make a million dollars, that it’s hard to make a hundred thousand dollars, that it’s hard to manifest love that it’s hard to stay in good shape. Stop thinking that it’s hard. That is just a story that you’re telling yourself that this is hard to do. And there are so many sayings that support this, if it was easy, everyone would do it. Right? So we have these sayings and these things that we were taught around. It needs to be hard. It has to be hard. We have to sacrifice time with our family and loved ones in order to make more money. Is that true? Does that have to be true or is that just the story that you’re telling? Surrender to divine time.
So I was given the reference of a baby and a baby going through the full cycle. When a mother is pregnant with her baby, she doesn’t want the baby to come out before its the due date. She might think she does because she’s uncomfortable at the end. But she doesn’t want the baby to come out before the baby’s ready. We want the baby to be fully formed, to be healthy, to thrive on its entry into the world. This is the same thing with your manifestations. You don’t want it sooner than it’s been cooked all the way. You don’t want that love too soon because it’ll be someone who’s not aligned with you. You don’t want to really bring all that cash in before you’ve set up your accounts and you have everything ready and you have a team to support you as your business grows.
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Everything is just energy. Everything is an exchange. Stop giving it so much heaviness or weight. Stop putting so much pressure on yourself to make it, to bring it in, and allow it to always be there. Think of it as a loyal friend. Who’s always there for you. When one client leaves another right behind them. When one lover leaves another’s right behind them. There’s an abundance of money. There’s an abundance of partners. There’s an abundance of opportunities. One after the next, after the next, after the next I heard somebody say, there’s always another bus coming. So if it’s not this bus, there’s another bus coming. There’s another bus coming.
The Abundant Mindset
The abundant mindset is we don’t need to hold on too tightly to anything because there’s always something more aligned right behind it. Pay attention to the divine counterparts, the synchronicities, the people that are brought into your life, and send them all gratitude. Every single one of them notices all the co-creators with you. All the people that play a part in the creation that is your manifestation. Celebrate it before it even arrives.
We Can Do Things That Are Easy For Us To Do
We can do things that are simple and easy for us to do. I worked in the photography industry for six years. I know and love the photography industry. Speaking to photographers, and speaking people who wanna build a prosperous business is so easy for me. I’ve done it. I started out right away, charging high prices right away for my photography. That looking back, I was like, wow, I did that right out the gate because I decided that this has to work. I left my elementary school teacher position and I said, I’m gonna be home with my kids. I wanna go on photo shoots as I’m able to, with my children’s schedule, I wanna be home when they get off the school bus, I wanna do homework with them. I wanna start dinner. I wanna do all those things and I wanna have a successful business. So in order to do that, I do need to have a high-end business. I do need it to be done in-person sales and all of that. And I did that. And now. I’m a coach. I get to work with other photography business owners and I get to help them have a prosperous business and balance motherhood and all of that as well. So it doesn’t have to be hard. Our mind, and our ego just tries to make it more complicated than it actually is.
Healthy Habit Is Vital
Everything is easier to call in when you’re in a place of strength, mental clarity of wellness, mind, body, and soul paying attention to your nutrition. The foods you’re eating, the water you’re drinking, limiting, or eliminating any kind of substances like alcohol, drugs, anything that alters your mind, anything that makes you feel off-kilter off balance. Let go of it. Also getting yourself outside, getting that sunlight, getting your walks in, getting your exercise, doing yoga, meditation, all of these things that can clean you out and connect you back to your source, where all of the guidance, inspiration, alignment, money, compensation, joy, all of that comes from your connection to the divine and seeing yourself as the divine. And in order to access that part of ourselves, we do need to be as healthy as possible.
Acknowledge The Beauty Of Life
The divine is your source of compensation, the money, the clients, the lovers, the opportunities come straight from the divine. We can want to take credit for it. I did this and yes, you played a part in it. You said yes to co-creating, but the blessing came from the divine. So don’t forget to acknowledge. Thank praise. Notice the gifts that come to you. The miracles are very real miracles that can come in an instant. The blessings that come every single day, notice everything in your life that’s going well right now, everything you already have. Everything that you see is beautiful. All the love, all the beautiful client’s opportunities, the money, the love, all of it. Journal it, and talking about it. Letting that be the story you tell people, rather than what’s going wrong, we tend to wanna talk about what’s not going well. This little area is causing me frustration. This is causing me stress. The more we talk about it, the more we focus on it, and the more we draw energy toward it.
All of it is divine. All of it is on purpose. Thank you for all of it. Thank you for the pain. Thank you for the challenges. Thank you for the struggles. Whenever we make a new claim to the universe. We are going to be given those initiations. We’re gonna be sent those opportunities to solidify our claim. The divine never judges. You give yourself grace, give yourself that permission that you give everyone else. Self-compassion practice. Deep self-compassion, deep self-love, acknowledgment praise.
I grew up watching my dad hate every day that he went. He was miserable. He was angry, you know, it stressed him out. And so I learned as a little kid, you look at your parents, like they’re Gods, you know? And so I kind of picked up the message. That work is hard. It’s not fun. You’re not supposed to enjoy it. It’s just a grind. And that was sort of without realizing it subconsciously what I recreated in my own life. And so the idea of like monetizing your magic or doing what you love, I’ve never seen that in any close way in my life, in my family. And so for me, it was a brand new concept and the magic part being like what you do that comes so naturally, so effortlessly, so gracefully that you almost don’t think it’s worth anything.
And that’s the problem, we diminish it and we think it’s not worthwhile. And so then, we were like doing the hard thing for the day to make the money so that we can come home and do the things that we love to do. And my whole thing is like, why don’t you make the thing that you love to do? The thing that makes you the money and I’ve yet to be confronted with a case where that’s not possible.
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Because of that belief system that I had about has to be hard, has to be a struggle, even when I became an entrepreneur and I could do what I wanted to do. I still made it hard. I still made it a struggle. And the reason was that I focused so much on that. There’s some sort of right answer to that. If I could just figure it out, then I would be okay. And I would just constantly map out, map out, map out, seeking this perfect solution to all my problems and investing the model and the strategy and the marketing with the thing that could change my life rather than me being the thing that could change my life. And then the marketing and the strategy and the business would change as a result of me changing. And so the big shift was from believing that the power layout outside of me with some mentor was some strategy, some system, some program, some answer, some business model and shifting the focus to, okay. This was a mentor that helped me do this. I wasn’t able to make this shift by myself of looking inward and saying, okay, who do I wanna be? How do I wanna show up in the world? I want to create my life, my business, my marketing strategies, and all the things I create. And from that place, everything else is just more fun, more joyful, more effective.
Aligned Leadership
I have this little model that I developed that I had planned to share with you. It, it’s not like really yet been fully expressed to the world, but I call it Alma which in Spanish means soul. So it’s four steps.
The first step is alignment. And the way I look at alignment is my brand, Superstar. So like a star, if you imagine a five-pointed star, the usual star with one point up here, aiming up two points, aiming down into the ground. And two arms going out on either side. And so for me, alignment is this five-pointed star. And at the center of that star, is you like, who you really are, your identity, your personality, what you love, what you, what you are naturally without having to try. And that’s the first piece. That’s why it’s the center of the star. It’s like when you get to know that every other piece of the star kind of flows outward from there. And so at the top of the star alignment, right? So we wanna align with who we are, but at the top of the start align with our north star, with our purpose, with something greater than us, something that’s beyond. Our small life that’s the north star, that’s purpose.
The two legs of the star. I consider them as like grounding us into this world right on the one leg is the leg that’s grounding us into our physical being. It’s our self-care. It’s our life force. So how are we cultivating life-force energy? Do we eat well? Do we sleep well? You know, are we taking good care of ourselves emotionally, and physically? And then the other leg is our values. So that’s the other thing that grounds us. The values are what connect us to the world. We surround ourselves with people who share our like values and just even get clarity about what we value. What’s important to us. Helps us to that’s a piece of alignment. So alignment inside up here, down on the one leg, the life force on the other leg, our values, and then the two arms shooting out in the arm going back into the past is our alignment with our beliefs and our stories.
Defining Leadership
Leadership could look like the things we create in the world. The words we say, the songs we sing, the dances, we dance, the books, we write that’s leadership. And those things that we invest, that energy into and express put out into the world. Those are the things that have the potential to touch other people and to find their people. To find the resonant matches in the world. And from that place of touching the resonant matches. It can touch people. And then it attracts back something, which I call either you can in some circles, you call it manifestation, and other circles, you call it monetization. But it’s what comes back to you, right? Is monetization in this context, right? The monetizing your magic, you send that magic into the world. It touches people and it brings back opportunities, money, whatever it is. And then from that place, of having now, receiving. Then we have the opportunity to amplify. Like we can partner with people. We can invest the money to send the signal out, even bigger. And that’s ALMA.
And so for me, that’s leadership, it’s like being responsible for your own energy and your own expression in the world. And that’s aligned leadership. And when we’re out of alignment, when those things are funky, when they’re not feeling good, when we’re not dealing with that, then the expression kind of gets, gets wobbly as well.
What Does It Mean To Be Energy-Rich?
The energy-rich is like coming from the energy of love and inspiration and feeling. The thing is energy-rich doesn’t mean big. It doesn’t mean extroverted. It doesn’t mean loud. It can mean that, especially, you know, for some of us, but it really, what it just means is coming from empathy and compassion and connection. And so when we’re energy-poor or energy-neutral, we’re usually disconnected from whatever, from ourselves, from what’s happening in the world.
Trust Is The Soul’s Currency
I would say two or three years ago, whatever 2018 was. I remember I claimed that as my torch and I claim to trust. And then a few months later I lost as my whole team started to either quit or I needed to let them go for a variety of reasons. And I ended up by myself in the business for the first time in six years. And Nalia helped me remember. So did my sisters, whom I had claimed trust, and like, what would it look like to trust that this is all happening for me? What would it look like to choose it? Because it’s one thing that I wanna make the distinction between trusting and choosing to trust, it’s different. There’s a distinction between like, oh, I trust that this is okay. Or I trust whatever. And versus like, wow, this really sucks. I’m in the middle of it. I hate it. And I’m gonna choose to trust.
And to bring those stories full circle, like it’s been so amazing ever since I needed that team to go it, there was a new version of me emerging and I needed a new team to be a part of that, that new vision and that new version of me. And I was so attached and that’s another thing. Like we get attached to things. I was so attached to the way it was. I wasn’t making space for what it could be. And so I believe that it was happening for me. And the thing I believe is that I orchestrated it for myself, my hire self orchestrated it, not like some divine entity outside of me.
Be The Creator Of Your Own Reality
I started to have experience a few years ago, as I started to pursue a more spiritual path, I wouldn’t have called it a spiritual path back then, I would’ve called it personal development. I was very scared of anything spiritual. I was not scared but resistant. I didn’t believe I am an atheist for decades since I was 19 years old. So spirituality, that word had a lot of triggers for me. So it was personal development that led me to have some experiences that were beyond what I could comprehend with my mind that they were trans-rational. They were beyond what is rational. And in exploring those things, I started to open up to more opportunities to have more of those experiences. And now I’m like actively seeking. And those experiences are things that I cannot deny, speak to a deeper, bigger universe than what I can comprehend or see or understand. I’m a seeker. I wanna always learn and know and grow. And I don’t remember your question.
There are creations that want to be birthed that are being called for in the world. And some of them are for you and some of them are for somebody else. But what are you feeling called to is such a big, more powerful question than what would work. Like, the old version of me back in the very, you know, notebook E strategy days is like, will this ideal work, will this strategy work, you know, will this thing fit together? And now that’s a certain consciousness. And a higher vibe question, one that’s gonna naturally bring more joy, more fulfillment, more impact is like what wants to be birthed through. What wants to be expressed through me, what wants to be created with my unique gifts? Co-created. And it finds to me that it’s juicier in it and it creates more excitement, more free energy. There’s more free energy, there’s energy that’s bound up, and then there’s energy that’s available for the taking, you know, following that free energy of what wants to be created.
Are We Meant To Lead?
Everybody must feel that way and who it might have been special. And now I think if you have that seat inside of you, it wouldn’t be there unless you are being called to lead. Maybe not everybody, like maybe other people have different things that they’re working on in their life.
Money Block
In business, in life, I feel like I’ve seen it enough times now to know that that’s where the juice is in that anger, that resentment, that feeling of it never works for me. Why not me? You know, like that an like, okay, let’s go there. Let’s feel it. Why doesn’t it ever work for you? That sucks, you know? And. Let’s feel it instead of trying to shift it, like, oh, you could feel better because why don’t you try this? We’re looking for an external solution, a magic bullet, a magic genie. We’re looking for someone to fix it for us. And that’s a dangerous place to be in as a coach. Because it’s the underlying issue that needs to get addressed.
Work Shouldn’t Feel Hard
I’m not saying it’s easy, but it’s so simple. It’s literally the star, its alignment. It’s starting with the internal piece. And this is when I did this work, it took me years cuz I didn’t have a model for this. So I developed my model and now, I think it can take anywhere from a few days to a few months to a year or so, in my opinion.
Like it kind of anywhere in there of starting with, okay, who am I, what do I love to do? What do I hate to do? What’s my magic? What’s my magical, unique, special sauce? Why am I here? What matters to me in my life? What would I not want to die without ever having contributed to the world? Am I feeling energy-rich, physically physiologically, biologically taking care of my vessel? Am I aligned with my values or am I living outside of accordance with what I believe in?
Abundance Is Not Having The Money. It’s Having The Mindset
To be abundant, you feel abundant, like abundance begins. We think of abundance as like an outcome of a certain number of dollars in the bank, a certain jewelry or cars or homes or whatever it is that we associate to abundance as a little kid. When we have enough, then I’ll be abundant. And honestly that rarely happens or if ever, and that’s why we see, like, you’ve heard the stories of people that win the lottery and then they’re back to being broke again because abundance is not having the money it’s having the mindset. And so I think each of us is a little different, but there are certain things that are associated with an abundance mindset. One of them that I’ve been taking on lately is generosity. I find that when I’m being generous, I feel abundant. So it’s the mindset that we cultivate. And it doesn’t mean you have to be giving away 50 and a hundred dollars all day long. What makes you feel abundant? What feels like it might be getting the nicer glass of wine instead of the cheap one. You know, maybe cost you an extra $4 for the nicer glass of wine, but it feels more abundant. You enjoy the wine so much more. So like, how do you cultivate the mindset and the feeling of abundance by wearing nice clothes? I feel like our responsibility is to cultivate the feelings of abundance for me, that’s generosity and that’s gratitude.Those are the two feelings that I most associate with abundance.
How Do We Not Blame Ourselves?
If everything’s happening, how do we not blame ourselves? Because there’s a fundamental belief underneath that, I think that I’m gonna call it pull-forward. And that belief is that there’s good and bad, right and wrong. And what I’m gonna offer to you is perhaps everything is, if you take on, and this is a big one, I know this is like a game changer, life changer, complete overhaul of your entire perspective on life. But if you take on that, everything is already okay. Not that it’ll be okay, but that it’s already okay.
Everything is good. Then you can take on that. It’s happening for you, even if you don’t understand exactly why or how. And so what I mean by that is. If you take on that, there’s nothing, no one to blame. There’s no blame, right? Like that you, that it’s happening for you because there’s some transformation, there’s some growth, there’s some greater good. There’s something that’s, that is already happening. If you really place the value on growth and expansion, rather than on outcomes.
I’ve been deepening with this over decades of working with people. And looking at the patterns and the energy patterns existing underneath and what I’ve found is that, and when we talk about abundance, something that’s important for me to clarify is that we’ve been trained more and more, and as a society to think money when we hear the word abundance. And I see that being a way to condition us and have us associate money as the relational to like the city of life, like the true abundance, the two life-giving wellsprings of where we draw our energy for creation from and what may gives us power and gives us access and gives us avenues of creativity being absolutely just instantly directionally related to money.
So I like to back up from that energy and just really plant the word abundance. In the reality and the truth I see it as a paradigm that there’s nothing bad or wrong with money. Money’s absolutely a part of abundance. Absolutely critical a part of it and to just watch that conditioning, that brings us into a consumer society, a mechanistic society, and a society based on materialism, that disconnects from the true roots being in the abundance of the earth and the rhythms.
And that’s where I feel like feminine energy really begins our connection to the earth to mama. So mama Gaia, how we treat the earth is how is everything in relation to it shows us our relationship to the feminine. Wow. You know, do we rape her? Do we, you know, care about her? Do we protect her? Do we have guidelines and regulations that take care of her? What are our standards? All of that. So as far as abundance, I feel like, at the root level, it’s going back to a paradigm shift. Are we rooted in creating everything and I teach everything I do? There’s one fundamental core energy I come back to, which is the energy we create from guides and determines our creations. So with that, holding that as the center flame. Back up the abundance into really saying that we are rooting in a paradigm of abundance that first honors, the energy of creation itself to not instantaneously be put into the energy matrix of money and mechanistic consumer society version, and then from that, cause that’s where I see true, the feminine and women truly, truly be rooted in what will make them access the extraordinary financial abundance is when they are unplugged from that consumerism kind of society. That is, by the way, crumbling right now. They are truly rooted and created from this other place. They can, they will have innovation, like never before they will have created. And they will also have deep-seated permission to go beyond the limit that society creates.
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Transplant Your Roots Back Into The Source of Creation
If you follow all those behavioral things that are, women are experiencing, the overwork, the stress, the pushing, the masculine, all of that, the fundamental energy you come back to is the roots. Have needed to be transplanted. I say, let’s transplant your roots back into the source of creation. And from there, you, you have the truth and the reality remembered through your being that life is, is abundant. It’s not like you have to try to be it. It just is. And you become an extension of that. And then you can get wildly creative with how you wanna do that. Do you wanna do that in financial wealth? Beautiful. I think bringing in financial wealth is a way for women to have, it’s like an access point into their system to see.
It relates to their power. It relates to how they are with masculine energy. And so a woman, starting to grow financially, she’s gonna meet all these other parts of herself. And I call it like an underground root system, energetically in her, in her being that will start to uproot and have the opportunity for change in reorganization.
One of The Biggest Challenges With Women In The Area of Abundance
I think that for women, in particular, I mean if we look at just where we are in, in our society, in our timeline. 1960 was when a woman was allowed to open her own bank account without needing a signature from a man. 1974 was when she was allowed to have her own credit card. And then she’s allowed to have her own house. So it’s new in our system. And previous to that, we were owned. We were owned by a man. I mean, we’re talking only a few decades, so it’s very recent. And these things have been subconsciously put into the programming of our being, in our body. And we will meet those limits. They’re not even beliefs because they’re below beliefs. They move into the realm of just pure, raw energy patterns of subconscious archetypal programming that goes on.
I say men also, but for a woman like her sexuality is, you know, it’s just prostitution everywhere. It’s made for marketing, it’s one of the hottest marketing things, a woman’s sexuality. We see advertisements that have a woman, you know, showing her sexuality and it’s for absolutely nothing to do with that. And so that actually has what I’ve seen in the women I work at with is. There’s kind of this like push-pull going on in their system with creating period and especially financial wealth and abundance because they don’t wanna be commoditized. They don’t want to bring it into a realm of, of sales and money.
They wanna make their own creative energy precious again. And once it turns, goes into the marketplace, Now we hit this energy of like, wow, I’ve we hit the collective energy of the feminine being commoditized, prostituted, all those things. And so it takes an incredible amount of clearing that from our system and coming into sovereignty with our own sexual, creative energy, and choosing to do it and building around boundaries and standards and ways of it expressing that hold it sacredly. So there’s a lot in that.
How Can A Woman Use Her Sexual Energy In A Healthy Way To Harness Her Creativity?
I work a lot in peak performance and working with high-level athletes or, or entrepreneurs or think tanks and that sort of thing. Even like there are seen as flow state is something, well, we’re gonna use flow state to go and produce more and that there’s this whole thing of just using to get more outcomes, to get more output. So it’s this undoing. And what I see in the I do with women is really them coming into their sexuality, their creativity as their own. Like my sexuality only exists with a man. Now it exists on your own. Your creativity exists on your own and to undo all of that programming and her system to have it called out, to have it confronted, and to begin to grow for a woman’s eyes that can see it. Cause if you can’t see it, if you’re blind to it, you’re gonna put on that energy and wear it out and not even know it, you know? And it’s like, well, you got that dress on. You didn’t even know it. You know, if you have eyes to see it, then you come into a place of having a greater choice and moving back into the energy of just sovereignty with your own energy and saying, it’s my joy to create powerfully. It’s my joy to shake things up and build this thing and do this thing.
Become More Intimate With Yourself
Know thy self for, for women, it’s knowing what is feminine energy. What is your heart? What are your desires? And to unplug from the matrix? A lot of it’s unplugging and undoing when I have retreats and we have women come in, a lot of it is like, all right, we’re gonna have to like pull the weeds off to even get to what is the flower underneath, you know? And it’s another way of remembering 1960.
Remember we had got societal permission to have our own bank account without a man’s signature. Like there’s still that programming. It’s the same thing for sexuality. It wasn’t till I don’t have the exact date, but recently where inter-marital rape was considered illegal, like, or inside the marriage, you know, a woman’s sexuality was owned by a man. She didn’t have a choice. And so there’s still that undoing of sexuality. I think currently in the modern woman where she’s waiting for a man to bring it out in. Well, I need a man so that I can feel this way. No, you have YOU.
Yes. It’s wildly enhanced by being with a man. Don’t get me wrong. Do you know what I mean? I love that. And those that sexual raw freedom exists in you, and then you share it with a man you don’t show up with a need, you show up with an overflowing and this is abundance. You show up with an abundance of that energy running through your system, and it’s like, let’s share this. Let’s be in this. Let’s see where we go together in this.
Find The Symbols That Speaks To You And Use That To Enhance Your Own Power For Yourself
A lot of how we translate life is through metaphor and symbology. There’s more association with the right side of the brain of moving things into a different way of translation. And beyond that, is the work that I do and why I feel like I’m here on the planet to help women unlock forgotten codes and live them to open into realms of their being that have been latent, that have been unlived. And literally, the codes in their DNA have not been transcribed. Like they have not been living frequencies and part of that is if we look at epigenetics we code for what our environment signals.
We also have in our genetics, the ability to put things called chemical caps onto our genetic coding. That basically says it’s a cap. It says, don’t code for this. Don’t be this vibration. Don’t be this expression don’t do, or do it in a very limited range. Why? Our predecessors and generations before got killed for it or got banished for it, or it was dangerous for them or it made life hard for them. Or there was massive trauma somewhere in the family line, for this reason, you know? And so it puts a chemical cap evolutionarily. It’s an evolutionary survival tactic of our nervous system to say, don’t do this. It was dangerous.
And so, especially for women and this even goes back to what I believe, the witch hunt. And that women have deep access to magic and to the priestess. That’s why I’m, I’m in the study of, of, of priestess sort of, you know, really accessing the magic that a woman has to see and translate life in ways that are incredible. There is feminine and masculine energy. And then there’s a male and female operating system, our body, and our nervous system. The masculine operating system has evolutionarily over generations and generations been designed around more masculine energy. The feminine has been designed evolutionarily as an operating system around the feminine. Which means there’s interconnection. We’ve been evolutionarily designed. We’ve over time adapted and sharpened our skills of being the ones who care for the tribe, you know? And so our senses, our old factory system, and our bodies are much more heightened than a man’s because we can smell. Range in the immune system vibrationally to know when a child is sick before they’re sick. You know, we have all of these abilities in our nervous system to recognize energy patterns.
Photographically in the tribe to see interconnections and to translate metaphorically and symbolically and to know things about how to lead life and move life forward. I believe there are caps on many parts of those because for a woman to come into her full power has been seen as dangerous, for many reasons.
Is The Term Witch Just Labeled To Shame A Woman For Being Powerful?
I think the witch is one word to describe it. I see it as entire libraries, like a whole library of codes, which is more the identity or the name that someone would call themselves. My specialization is going the energy patterns and the codes and the, everything that’s existing in. And before the expression, like the witch, is kind of the end result in what society might call her or what she might call herself. But it’s the library of codes that she’s accessing. And she’s drawing from like the energy we create from guys and determines our creation.
So you can call yourself a witch, but how what’s the expansion? What is your access? You know, and what library of codes and what I’ve seen to be true is that there are many different lineages of mystical arts, mystical medicines, and mystical cultures that have been broken and fragmented. And much of it, those witch rays, in which burnings, it was not safe to do anything connected to the earth.
And we’re going there again, we’re in that now where there’s one we’ve switched from. the A religious thing to more medical, but it’s like we’re in a thing where it’s like, wow, are we on the earth? I truly believe we’re at this, this global initiation because all of us are here on the planet to fully live these codes again.
Why Society Is Not Designed To Allow Women To Be In Their Full Power?
The energy it came from was very patriotic energy that saw women in a very subservient way. Like I said, even 1970 allowed you to get your own bank account like it was designed that women were owned by a man. It was just designed from old energy that was steeped in a religious view. Most of it said the man was the only voice in the house. The only power in the house. Men’s full glory comes through being in a sacred woman union. It doesn’t work for men either to have that kind of societal construct. They’re not loving it either. A lot of that for men still is UN unbundling, to recognize that there isn’t true fulfillment in control and domination. And it actually stems from scarcity and they end up feeling unfulfilled and alone in that.
A Woman’s Guide To Owning Her Power
Women back away from relationships and say, I’m gonna work on myself until I’m totally ready. And then I’m gonna go into a relationship. And it’s like, well, the way I see relationships really is that it is one of the biggest playgrounds for spiritual growth. As for myself, I didn’t like holding back from a relationship until I was utterly whole in myself and then say, I’m ready. I found wholeness through entering into a love and a commitment to love and into intimacy cuz the rawness of being in a real intimate relationship is it will rip your ego apart. It’ll show you and that’s what I feel is part of its design.
I think we have to undo the construct of what we think, relationships and partnerships, and all those things are supposed to be happily ever after where there’s never anything that happens. Like my husband and I are two of the fiercest mirrors to each other. We do our spiritual work of that together because we commit to going the distance together, so I think there is some of that of like coming into your full glory as a woman and it’s how we view relationships and what we view their purpose to be. And going there to open, going there to grow, going there to love, going there to be imperfect, going there to be humble. All of those things and going there to just be a mess human sometimes, and to seek to love in our messiness. You need to love yourself first, you need to be completely whole.
The Feminine Blueprint
It’s a powerful vortex that is unfolding in the world, into a bunch of teachings and training. It’s an approach a method. It’s a map really for a woman to come into her full glory, to come into her full power. And it’s designed really to be, although it can be used in many different ways to be a year cycle, year-long women and feminine. We work in cycles. Our intelligence is in cycles and rhythms. And within like one moon cycle within one year cycle, there are many different frequency activations organically within one cycle for a woman. The new moon’s energy is different than the quarter of the new moon. That’s different than the full moon. There are different energy frequencies and activations that happen naturally. And as we cycle as women, Our hormones are different at every point. Like we are. There’s so much that is encoded in each part of that cycle. I’ve been given, like this came through me, really not from me is that it was shown how to bring a woman through one full cycle in one year of all of those frequency code activations.
Full receptivity and yin energy really are in its ancient future power. And then coming into, as that, moon waxes and comes into the quarter moon, it’s about the embodiment. and then coming into expression and embodiment is where we face. The fire embodiment is about sovereignty in the queen and the energetic castle of your standards, boundaries, upper limits, constructing yourself as a woman, as you come into form full moon.
There are teachings that are layered in it to bring a woman into her fullness. And then in the fall season, it’s attraction. And that’s moving more into yin energy as we go back into the dormancy of winter. So the yin energy building and the principles and practices and embodiments of magnetism of yin building in the system to where we’re actually saying, come to me like one of the most beautiful ways they love to look at feminine energy and attraction is to look at the egg in the sperm.
The sperm hunts. The egg comes down, that fallopian tube, she’s with her sisters hanging out up there and it’s like, oh, it’s your turn girl one at a time they come down like that catwalk, and their radiance. And what they’re saying, energetically is like, come to me, come to me. It’s a magnetic pole at the center of life. There’s this magnetic pole of the feminine. That is her superpower. That is her radiance. And that actually gives the sperm, the signal of where to come of the precision biochemically.
Initiations
A lot of these words can get thrown around in pop culture and the meaning of it can be different.I draw that word from priestess tradition.
In the priestess lineage in coming forward as priestess teachings, an initiation is something that like, life is the initiation. We don’t create our own initiations. Consciously initiations are, when we are saying, I’m gonna come to live this, I’m grabbing this torch of this new intention, new dream, new knowledge that I must live this. And we all have those where you’re like, oh, this is what life’s asking me to live. What are we gonna do with that? And it’s like, how I’m gonna take that torch is how I use it in the feminine blueprint. That’s the symbol, right? I use it because when you can relate to it, it becomes a mythic story rather than a conceptual analytical thing.
It’s a mythic story we go on in this feminine blueprint. So it’s, I grab the torch and I say, okay, I’m gonna live this. Like I got this, I got the memo, the spirit told me, soul told me, I got the memo. I’m going to tell the sisters in the tribe here that I got it and what it is. And we’re all gonna witness in you.
And now you begin stepping forward in life, holding that torch of that, which you are here to live and birth and you begin walking that walk in the world and what life will bring you. An initiation is an opportunity. If we choose to see it that way, sometimes it will kick your butt. Most of the time it will shred. Here you go and make you really choose and decide who you are. And can you stand in it with your torch, a blaze? Or do you shrink back? Do you sell out? Do you prostitute? Do you quiet your voice? Do you try to turn it into something that it wasn’t really, but it’s safer, you know, all the things will do. And that’s why I hold as a mentor with women, fierce accountability. Like you, I say I will not stand with you in a lie.
I know that you are given the torch you are given because you are here to live it. And that means you are given everything. You need everything. You need all everything. An apple seed needs to become an apple tree is in that pattern. It’s in that code, all it needs is water and soil and an environment. That’s what this sisterhood that becomes, so that you can grow that and then just like, come, come, grow, grow. So those initiations or what, or life will initiate us into it.
Are you tired of trading your time for money and want to spend LESS time in your business and MORE time with loved ones, and doing other things that light you up?
Have you thought about hosting retreats or offering high-ticket coaching programs, but have no idea where to start? In this episode, I will share with you the retreat business model that helped me to bring in 6 figures in the first 7 months after implementing it which has allowed me to have monthly reoccurring income so that I no longer feel like I need to chase my next client. For a more detailed plan to implement this model for your own business, check out this page on my website to download the full training course for free.
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About Julie Goetzinger:
Julie Goetzinger is a psychic medium, best-selling author and coach who teaches how to make more money and impact without sacrificing your well-being. In her book, “Free to Fly: Manifest the Life of Your Dreams,” she shares her story of how she created abundance by stepping into her true self as an artist and spiritual medium. She is the creator of Free to Fly and has seven years of experience in business as an entrepreneur.
I took a little hiatus from hosting my podcast over this summer and did a lot of reflecting, a lot of refining and reshaping my messaging, my mission, my brand. Now I’m super clear on who I’m here to serve and I am super excited to be coming out again to guide my listeners who have the desire to have monthly recurring income in their businesses. The people that I love working with are the fellow photography educators, the coaches, the spiritual teachers, those who have wisdom that they know is meant to be shared with the world. And, they haven’t quite figured out how to do it in a way that works best for their followers, their students, and themselves. Having the lifestyle that they wanna have, the balance they wanna have, the income they wanna have. And I wanna share a little bit about something that’s worked really well for me, to create that monthly recurring income in my business.
From Photography to Unleashing Other Potentials
So who am I and why? Listen to me. I’m Julie Goetzinger. As you know, I started out as a portrait photography business owner, specializing in boudoir photography. And what that is, is empowerment. Photo sessions for women. I also did some high school, senior shoots, and family shoots. I love photography, but when COVID came in 2020, I couldn’t do the in-person work. So I decided rather than applying for a loan or unemployment, that I was going to take an inventory of my skillset and see what else I could do to bring in that income that I wanted to provide for my family.
I started doing intuitive readings, and I did them online. And, they quickly got booked. I am a psychic medium as well, and they got booked so quickly and I realized that it was way too much to be doing that one-on-one work for a low price point. It was not sustainable. I was exhausted. I did confirm for me that I am, actually a psychic medium. So that was good. And I got a lot of great testimonials and people saying how the messages were changing their lives. And I had to leverage my time in a different way to also increase my income. What I did was I ended up hiring my coach, Michelle Villalobos, who taught me this retreat business model so that I could leverage my time.
I ended up implementing her system that she taught me and I made over a hundred thousand dollars using this retreat model that I’m gonna share with you. And I made it in the first seven months of implementing this model. The year before I had brought in $40,000 and which is wonderful, which is great. And that was not enough to sustain me. And I did become a single mom. After I separated from my partner, I knew that I was going to have to bring in more income to provide for my children and myself. This all happened at the right time, as it always does in the universe. So I ended up bringing in that a hundred thousand dollars in the first seven months of doing this model.
I also became an international bestselling author. That’s me with my book, “Free to fly, manifest the life of your dreams,” where I actually share my full story of how I went from making $40,000 to making $225,000 two years after that. It took me two years to get to that. I’ve also hosted seven retreats. I’ve hosted virtual retreats; I’ve hosted international retreats and domestic retreats. I call them my abundance breakthrough retreat, which you’re gonna hear a little bit more about, little couple minutes. I’m also the host of this podcast, obviously, and I hosted a summit called “Unleash your abundance.”
So as I shared before I started out, actually, I was a public school teacher before becoming a photographer. I was a fifth grade public school teacher and I felt my leadership skills dying to come out. I had the desire to teach teachers. I remember hearing that intuitively that I meant to teach teachers.
And I had a lot of resistance around being led, especially by women. I had a very strong leader at the time that I clashed with. And I now know it was because I had not allowed myself to step into leadership yet. So I blamed her for what I would’ve done differently as a leader, and I can laugh about it now, but yeah, I gave her a run for her money.
I definitely questioned her multiple times. Questioned authority, questioned her leadership, to her face, and learned a lot from that experience. First of all, how to respect leaders and how it’s a really fucking hard job to do. And also that I am meant to lead myself. And that’s where that frustration and blame came in. Because I hadn’t allowed myself to step into leadership yet.
Those are my beautiful children there in the photo. I have two wonderful children and I believe that it’s really important to model leadership for them. And to model following your heart, following your intuition, doing what feels good to you, not chasing after money, but knowing that you get to decide what you do and you can be really profitable, wealthy by doing what is in alignment with you, and what that means—what feels right? What feels good? What feels fun? It’s not always easy, but feels like a yes. And when you follow that, that’s where your abundance lies. That’s where your freedom lies. Your fullest expression, the money, the love—all of it lies in that place of saying yes to what feels right to you.
The Problem: Trading Time for Money
And my problem that I grew to work through was that I was trading my time for money. I was doing one-on-one photo shoots. I was doing one-on-one intuitive readings, one-on-one coaching, which all of them created a lot of joy and pleasure for me, but it wasn’t sustainable because I felt like I was always chasing my next one.
I would do one photo shoot and then looking for my next one; I would do an intuitive reading and then have to do another one right afterwards, cause I wasn’t charging enough. I would coach one person at a time and there is wonderful money in one-on one-coaching. I still do it today and I still love it, but I have to limit how many people I can take. Cuz it’s a big form of energy exchange when you’re meeting one-on-one with a person to coach. My solution became the group model. Coaching a group at the same time on a common goal and having common backgrounds, common interests, and a common destination was the solution to my problem.
And this is an example of one of my abundance breakthrough retreats, and we call it a retreat because we retreat from our lives to do this program together. And it is absolutely doable. It’s doable virtually or in person. I will say that I prefer in person now that we can be in person again with COVID settling down. It’s been equally powerful and successful doing it virtually.
And if you have clients in different areas like I do in different countries, coming together virtually makes sense. There’s also zero overhead costs and it’s amazing the deep bonds and connections that happen online, as we’ve seen during COVID, that you can develop really beautiful bonds and connections with people sometimes never even having met them in person.
And that’s exactly what happened for my clients. They started to form these friendships and these alliances together even though many of them had never even met each other in person. So you can do this virtually or in person. I choose to do a hybrid of both so that I can mix it up with where my clients can come from.
So it’s more open to more people and more places. And I also do them in person. This is an example of one of my in person, abundance, breakthrough retreats. It was in San Diego. And at this retreat I had five people join in who were brand new to working with me. Four out of the five went on to join my yearlong program after that. And I’ll share a little bit more about that a little.
So what the retreat is is a three-day immersive experience to achieve a specific outcome. And then, you invite them to a year-long mastermind program. And what I’ve learned from my coach, Michelle Villalobos, is that people want the biggest transformation in the shortest amount of time. If you can provide a really amazing outcome for them, such as having their own program completed, developed, ready to launch by the end of those three days together, that’s a really juicy outcome, as we call it, because that’s something people take a long time to create on their own.
And they’re always second-guessing themselves. How much do I charge for? Is someone really gonna buy this? And that’s something we do, too. During the three-day experience, we work through the mindset blocks because we can get excited about an idea and be like, “Oh my gosh, that sounds so much fun. I’d love to host a retreat, but where do I start with the marketing? Who’s gonna come? Who’s gonna pay that much for the retreat?” And my retreat is 2, 997. That’s the cost of my retreat. So you might have blocks around that. Who’s gonna pay that for three days? Well, a lot of people will. I’ve paid for it myself multiple times. So, I don’t have that mindset block, but a lot of people think, “Oh, that’s a lot of money for three days. And how do I know it’s gonna work for me?” That’s part of the work too—working through their own mindset blocks and their own limiting stories about what’s possible for them and their ability to achieve the desired.
And it’s also about coming together with a group that has a common goal of also doing this. This group also wants to start hosting retreats. They also want to add coaching to their business. They also wanna step more into leadership, so they have that common goal. And then we invite them to the year-long mastermind program to start rolling out that program.
Three-Day Retreat to a Year-Long Mastermind Program
During the retreat, we build the program. And then during the year-long program, that’s when they get the accountability support, the mindset, support the friendship, the bonding of the community, the stepping further into leadership and working through other personal problems that come up along the way throughout the year. Cuz we all have things that come up personally and they get that support in the year-long program. And like I shared before, the results from hosting not my very first retreat but my first in-person retreat was that four out of the five people who attended my first retreat joined my yearlong master program, which is called “Free to Fly.” This allowed me to leverage my time and to stabilize my income because people had two options.
And at the time the cost of the year-long program was $16,000 and has since gone up, but the cost was 16,000. So they could choose to pay that in full for the year, or they could do $1,600 a month in a payment. What that allows for is for you to have the monthly recurring income. So,every month you’re gonna be getting this recurring payment from the people who chose to do the monthly payment plan. A lesson I learned along the hard way was when people choose to pay in full, avoid the temptation and just be like, “Woo, we’re rich! Now we can do whatever we want.” I did fall into that trap and I didn’t go crazy as far as buying cars or things like that. Like stories you hear about that. I’ve never been really into material things like that. No judgment if you are, but I am more into experiences. So I did a ton of traveling. I went to all my favorite places in California and Colorado. I really didn’t do much of a shopping free. I spent more of the money on experiences going out to nice restaurants, things like that. What I did not plan for was that not everyone’s gonna pay you in full and you need to be mindful of, your overhead expenses, like paying the venues and putting deposit down for future retreats, because I do this multiple times a year.
Of course, you need to be thinking about taxes. You need to be thinking about your team, paying a team, because if you grow quickly as I did—I went from 0 to 15 year long clients really quickly. I got to hire a team to help support me. So then I started to have money going out to them.
I needed more money for my marketing, my design work, because I was growing and I didn’t account for all of that. And when I saw the lump money come, I just thought I was rich. So I’m much more wise now. I’m actually doing the profit-first method that Mike Michalowicz teaches in his book, “Profit First.” But then you also need to be smart about managing your money and then also of course investing and growing your wealth.
Case In Point: Success Stories from my Program
Just to share some case studies of people that I’ve worked with, who’ve had great success from my program like Taylor Shawley. Before Taylor took our money-intensive and abundance breakthrough program, she wrote in her journal that she would like to have a $25,000. She ended the month at nearly $37,000, the highest month ever in her business. And she said that this time, it felt easy and she didn’t feel overwhelmed or overworked. Taylor graduated from our Free to Fly program. That’s our year-long program and is now studying to become a certified sex coach and is hosting her own self-love retreats and programs.
And then we have Kira Jones here with her adorable family. Kira brought in $45,000 in 40 days while taking our money intensive and abundance breakthrough programs. She’s now successfully hosting online software programs for her BIR portrait clients, which have allowed her more time to be home with her new baby girl.
And then we have Devanie McCartney. When she signed up for our money intensive and abundance breakthrough program, her goal was originally to make $6,000 in the next 30 days. Through our coaching program, She made over $13,000 that month. She shared, “Julie is inspirational, truly intuitive, and a lifesaver. She helped me healed me and gave me the tools I will forever use in my life and business.”
So just to share with you some of the numbers, because we all love to know how is this gonna work out like numerically? A possibility, and I do think this is a likely possibility, cuz I’ve been through this experience myself and I’ve led others through it as well, it’s very possible that you could be offering one retreat or one immersion experience per season. So that would give you four retreats in a year. I choose to do two in person and two virtuals. So I’ve got four yearly myself. It’s very likely that you can get at least five people enrolled into each immersion. That would give you 20 participants. The cost of the retreat will likely be around $2,500 to attend a three day retreat, which would bring you $80,000 up front.
A likely statistic is that about 30% will enroll in your year-long program at about $12,000. That’s average. I mean, I would say most programs are more than that. This is pretty conservative, but if it was about $12,000 for the year, then that would give you $72,000. In addition to the 8,000 and just to share with you my results from doing it.So that’s a possible scenario that I just share with you.
In the first seven months after I launched this retreat model, I enrolled 20 people in three retreats at $2,200 each, which brought in $44,000. And then, I enrolled nine people into my Free to Fly mastermind program at $1,100 a month for the year.
So that brought in a $118,800. the total revenue was 162,800 from hosting retreats and my Free to Fly program alone. And that didn’t include my one-on-one coaching clients, who I enrolled at five to $10,000. Didn’t include photo shoots. Didn’t include any other special programs that I’ve released.
I also do online programs. I mentioned my money-intensive program earlier. The money-intensive program is an online course that people can do from their home. You they can work through the modules themselves. That is a bonus when people sign up for my retreat. So most people get it rolled into the bonus of the retreat. But to purchase that alone is $499. So I sold some of those as well. But what I found is that my biggest success has come from hosting these retreats and then inviting into my year-long Free to Fly program. That is exactly what I am going to be helping my clients to do themselves in our own retreats.
Actually, the next one is coming up in October. So this is October six to eighth, 2022. And this one is gonna be virtual. I also have one coming up in Washington, DC. That’s where I live currently. January 5th to7th, 2023. And then we’re doing another virtual one in February and then April again, we’re gonna be back in Washington.
So during my three-day experience, the outcomes that I promise to my clients are that I will help them to hone in the vision for what they want to create, getting to a place of not ‘what does everybody like, what are they asking me for? How can I accommodate everybody else?’ but how do you want to be living? What kind of hours do you want to be working? What would feel best for you? So allowing ourselves to start there, creating the vision for what we want, how we wanna show up the amount of time we wanna spend doing it with a life of balance. So that’s what we work through first. And then, we get to the mindset piece. As we get excited and we’ve received the vision and that’s a really exciting time when we’re like, “Oh my gosh, this could be amazing for my business. This can be so much fun. Where will I host it? Maybe I’ll go to California.” We get into that excitement phase. And then we get the ego that says, “Well, how are you going to get people to sign up for this? Or you’ve never done anything like this before. You don’t like to leave you. Don’t like when people look at you. What will you talk about?”
That is what we work through as well. Those limiting beliefs, the mindset blocks that say, “You can’t do this. Who are you to think you can do this? Others are already doing it. Like it’s not gonna work. You’ve tried these programs before. They never.” So we work through those mindset blocks. A lot of them are subconscious, and that’s where my intuitive gifts come in, that I can help you to reveal those limiting stories. Sometimes they’re not even from this lifetime, I’m able to look back at past lives. Also at ancestry to look at patterns. I look at money patterns. I look at what you believe you’re worthy of and why I can see past experiences and help you. Once we bring light to them and reveal them, then we can accept them, heal them and release them.
So we do that together during the three-day retreat. And then we get into implementation. Let’s put this together, let’s build these packages. Let’s build this offer. How are we going to market it? How are we going to sell it? Who are we talking to? Very specifically, who’s our target market. That is what we’re gonna be doing during my three-day experience. And I am going to have a link to set up a call with me if you’re interested in joining. The cost is to 997, but I do have a special offer. If you know that it feels like you’re a right fit for the retreat, then I will offer the special discounted pricing to you.
I am so excited to be back on my podcast and recommitting to my focus goals and to serving fellow photography, educators, coaches, spiritual teachers, those of us who’ve been called into leadership. Some of us don’t know yet that we’re called into it, but I will tell you if you have trouble being led by others or in the past, you have. If you feel this burning desire to teach, to lead, but you’re not sure what it’s about yet, then this is for you. If you already have online programs and you have this big vision for them all selling and they’re just not, or you have no offering after they take the program, then this could be for you, cuz we can work on that year-long follow-up program, the mastermind program.
If you are a spiritual teacher and you’re doing individual sessions, you’re wondering how you’re going to ever hit that six-figure or seven-figure mark in your business when you’re trading your time for money. When it’s just one-on-one, or you’re working for a studio and you’re making $30 a session, how you ever gonna hit those bigger income goals in doing that? So if you think that hosting a retreat is something you’d like to do and would enjoy doing, but you don’t know where to start, this is for you.
