In this episode, Remi, a powerhouse creative director, and I dive into how building a brand is about so much more than just a logo or colors—it's about creating a world for your clients to step into and embody. Remy shares her journey from graphic design in the corporate world to leading her own creative business and highlights the transformative work of helping women infuse their intuition and identity into their branding and business.

Topics Covered:

• Why your brand is more than just your colors and logo—it's about creating an immersive world and identity.

• How to extract your unique genius and bring it into your brand through creative direction.

• Remy’s entrepreneurial journey, her experience in corporate London, and how she embraced her disruptor identity.

• The importance of inner work, boundaries, and tapping into intuition as a founder, especially for female entrepreneurs.

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About today's Guest: Remi Gutteridge is a Creative Director, brand strategist, and founder of Disruptive Studios. She helps high-level female founders build brands that don’t just look disruptive, but move people, drive serious revenue, and leave a lasting legacy. Over the last 8 years, she’s scaled two multiple six-gifure businesses and helped women go from “just another coach” to the face of something respected, remembered, and in-demand

Follow Remi on IG & DM for more! @remigutteridge

If you are ready to live in YOUR purpose, on purpose: www.mariaserbus.com

I have been listening to Dr. Michael Lennox and his morning astrology videos for the last 3+ years... And today it is truly an honor to announce him as a guest on the AWAKEN with Maria podcast.

We dive deep into his personal journey from corporate life to becoming a renowned psychologist, astrologer, and dream interpreter. Our conversation is full of wisdom on finding purpose, working with dreams, and understanding how astrology can be a powerful tool for both self and collective growth.

Topics covered in this episode include:

• The unfolding of life purpose and how every chapter in life serves a reason

• Dr. Michael Lennox’s story of integrating spirituality, dreams, and astrology into his life’s work

• The practical use of dreams as a tool for shadow work and personal growth

• How to approach astrology as a contextual tool for understanding life and current collective energies

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Meet the guest:Dr. Michael Lennox is a psychologist, astrologer, and leading expert in dreams and dream interpretation. He holds a Master's and Doctorate in Psychology from The Chicago School, with a doctoral dissertation on Astrology and Personality published by Lambert Academic Publishing. Dr. Lennox is the author of four books on dreams, including Dream Sight and his most recent, Psychic Dreamer, and has made hundreds of radio and television appearances — including on NBC's Emmy award-winning Starting Over. He hosts the Conscious Embodiment podcast and leads a worldwide practice based in Southern California, offering classes in astrology, shadow work, and spiritual self-inquiry.

Connect with Dr. Michael: @drlennoxdreams

Enroll in the Shadow Class (05/23): [Learn More]

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Book Maria as a speaker for your next event or conference or dive deeper into the purpose work at: www.mariaserbus.com

Part 3 of 3 - Make sure to tune in to ep. 99 and 100 for the whole story. This is what it means to live in your purpose, on purpose, daily. It's a choice you make, a practice you chose. You don't know the next 90 steps. You don't know how it all works out and you certainly don't have some preconceived full control over everything.

The only thing you can control is you, the choices you make and to decide to live in your purpose daily even when it doesn't make sense.

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In this episode I sit down with futurist and Emmy award-winning entrepreneur Natalie MacNeil, founder of AI Dream Team. We dive deep into the intersection of artificial intelligence, spirituality, and embodiment, exploring how we can consciously and responsibly integrate AI into our lives and businesses without losing touch with our humanity.

• Natalie's unique journey as a futurist and her holistic, embodied approach to building human-AI collaborations

• How to stay grounded, intuitive, and empowered in the rapidly evolving AI age

• Addressing the risks and dualities present with AI, including potential for both collective fear and hope

• Why our intentional, conscious relationship with AI—and our willingness to do the necessary inner work—will help shape a brighter future

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Meet the guest: Natalie MacNeil is a futurist; Emmy Award-winning media entrepreneur; and founder of AI Dream Team, which helps entrepreneurs build deeply human, AI powered businesses.

Connect with Natalie

Say hello on IG @nataliemacneil

Curate your own AI Dream team to increase efficiency and productivity using Natalie's amazing holistic AI program: (The below links are affiliate links, Maria does not promote a program she doesn't fully back or use herself!)

Join AI Dream Team [HERE]

Or Grab Natalie's AI Prompt Book [HERE]

Connect with Maria Crystene

Say hi on IG @iammariacrystene

Work together: www.mariaserbus.com

This episode is a must listen to with my dear friend and business colleague Kelly Brock. We dive deep into her journey from burnout and hustle to finding fulfillment as a multidimensional matriarch and conscious leader. Kelly shares candid stories about her evolution in business, conscious parenting, and embracing growth through life's seasons—reminding us that living in our purpose isn't always about the highlight reel, but the small, meaningful moments.

• Conscious Leadership & the Multidimensional Matriarch: What it means to lead with intuition and soul-alignment in business and family 02:05, 08:46.

• Navigating Identity Shifts & Burnout: Kelly's transformation from network marketing success to honoring her true values 04:38, 06:35.

• The Growth Zone & Normalizing Change: Embracing discomfort as a necessary part of stepping into new purpose-driven roles 12:59.

• The Power of Presence & Redefining Success: Why fulfillment often lies in everyday moments and “the pillow test” 33:24.

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About Guest:Kelly Brock is a visionary mentor, intuitive business coach, and founder of Multi-dimensional Matriarchs, a global movement for women rising into conscious leadership. Once a high-achieving entrepreneur trapped in burnout, she now teaches women how to replace hustle with an intuitive, soul-aligned way of leading and building impact. Kelly is also a homeschooling, conscious-parenting mom who believes the future of leadership begins with how we lead ourselves and our families.

Connect:

Follow on IG: @KellybrockEnter the Initiation (Kelly's program) [HERE]

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IG: @iammariacrystene

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Enjoy the latest Legacy CEO on the AWAKEN podcast as I interview the amazing KAROLINA RZADKOWOLSKA.

We dive deep into Karolina's journey exploring sober living after realizing she didn't enjoy the relationship she had with alcohol, was in a job she didn't love, and knew something had to change. When dry January turned into 5+ years of sober free living & how her power and purpose turned up 10 notches, tune into this powerful story.

About Karolina - Karolina Rzadkowolska is an alcohol-free empowerment expert who helps intuitive women ditch alcohol and unleash their entrepreneurial fire. She’s worked with thousands of clients to lose the desire to drink and unleash a new level of health, happiness, and drive to go after their biggest dreams. She is the bestselling author of the book, Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You (HarperCollins) and her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Goal Digger Podcast, The Sunday Post, Popsugar, Real Simple, Elite Daily and multiple TV shows. Karolina also 5x certifies coaches in her ICF-approved Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification. She’s passionate about helping you discover what really gives you purpose outside of a beverage and design an emboldened alcohol-free life. She would love to hear from you at www.euphoricaf.com.

Say hello on IG: @euphoric.af

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Living in your purpose is a choice.

It requires a deeper inner knowing of what lights you up, a way to connect to your intuition and tools to deal with the stress/overwhelm and mind chatter.

Listen now.

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Living in purpose, on purpose, isn't always linear. It's messy. It means waking up and choosing your purpose, on purpose, daily.

It can even mean walking away from "what makes sense" even when everyone thinks is CRAZY, but you do it anyway.

This is one story of leading from purpose, part 1 with your host Maria Crystene.

Connect: @iammariacrystene

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Tune into this powerful conversation with Maria & Catherine as we dive deep into how these two spiritual tools - Tarot cards & Feng Shui - can support your spiritual awakening path. While Maria & Catherine both identify as being more "type A logic minded" woman, hear how a Tarot deck started Catherine's journey into tuning into her intuition and when Feng Shui became a last ditch effort on finding love, and IT WORKED! How you can use both these tools as beautiful spiritual practices to support your journey.

Catherine Andrews is a spiritual and health mentor for big-hearted, sensitive women who are stepping into their potential and leadership. She writes and hosts The New Sensitive newsletter and podcast, where she helps women reclaim their sensitivity as a strength. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with her husband AJ in a 300 year old log cabin, and her first book, all about how perfectionists and people pleasers can use Tarot for healing and self-discovery, will come out with Hay House in 2027.

Connect with Catherine below:

catherinedandrews.com 

IG @catherineandrews

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Tune into this powerful conversation with Nicole “Cole” Nfonoyim-Hara, owner of Griot Arts in Rochester, MN as we discuss how leaning into community & connection is necessary during crazy & uncertain times. While they"may want us divided, Nicole & her work and mission at Griot Arts is a testament to the power of leaning in to community & lifting each other up. Griot Arts is a bookstore & celebration of the art community lifting up black artists and artists of diverse backgrounds.

Nicole “Cole” Asong Nfonoyim-Hara* is committed to liberation and healing through story and the power of language, narrative, and the written word. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in NYC, her Cameroonian, Afro-Costa Rican and Indian roots/routes ground her creative work and practice. She is founder and director of Griot Arts, an arts hub centering Black literature and art. Her work has taken her around the country and the world. Her writing has been recognized by the Loft Literary Center, Minnesota State Arts Board, Givens Foundation for African American Literature, and VONA/Voices of Our Nation.

While this conversation was originally planned for IG live as part of the RISE UP series, d/t technical difficulties we premiered it on the podcast.

Tune into all 3 episodes of the RISE Up [⁠here⁠]

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