Business By Nature

Rachel Budde, founder of the natural, head-to-toe body care line Fat and The Moon, sees the world through the eyes of nature, because we are nature. YOU are nature. This statement captures what she wants to heal in the world. Seeing ourselves as something other than nature or seeing nature as something we have to fight or beat back, creates more separation within us, in our lives and in our world.

In this conversation with Rachel, a passionate herbalist who also runs a successful product-based business founded on her values of nourishment, we discuss business as an act of optimism needed to counterbalance pain in the world. Business itself is a very creative entity. How we use it is up to us! It can be a tool for good as well as curiosity.

This episode is filled with perspectives that will shift how you see the world, your business, body, and challenges.

Rachel drops deep wisdom on:

• Understanding digestion and how other natural processes can help shift cultural paradigms,

• Micro-practices as the practical way to stay self centered in a busy life,

• Pushing leading to paralysis because it’s a short-term depletion cycle ,

• The important skill of resilience,

• Business being a microcosm of what you can apply to your life, and

• Different fuels being needed for different phases of life and business.

In this conversation, Rachel shares how often we can’t think our way through challenges that arise. We have to open our awareness and take in something new, often surprising. This is how we shift. Tune in to begin softening and experiencing this magic.

To learn more about Rachel Budde and the new, exciting product launches coming soon, join the email list at fatandthemoon.com.

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Discover your Force of Nature by taking the quiz: https://businessbynature.com/take-the-quiz/

Before she became a spiritual coach, Rebecca Davison was a banker for 13 years. In this episode we dive deep into money mindset, especially for women.

This episode goes beyond typical belief work as Rebecca reveals the root of most challenges: the fear-based ego. She gives practical tools for stepping back into the abundance of spirit. Prepare for many expansive ah-has for releasing guilt and bad habits in your life and business.

Rebecca Davison is an Energetic Alignment Coach, an Intuitive Guide. and a Spiritual Mentor. She founded the Intuitive Life Academy, the premium learning establishment to help you to live from your soul. 

Connect with Rebecca and download your free gift: www.rebeccadavison.life/ideal-future-self-activation

Take the Force of Nature quiz: https://businessbynature.com/take-the-quiz/

Note: There are a few minor audio glitches towards the end, but this conversation was too good not to share. Enjoy!

Today I’m connecting with Functional Medicine Health Coach Carrigan Ham about how your force of nature determines the type of shadow work that’s most helpful for you. 

We’re diving into cultivating your volcanic nature, the importance of using archetypes to give you a blueprint for your unique gifts, and how to regulate your nervous system when you’re full of creative energy. 

Take the Force of Nature quiz: https://businessbynature.com/take-the-quiz/

Learn more about Carrigan’s work here: www.withinneralchemy.com

On today’s episode, I’m talking with Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapist and Nervous System Specialist Sheridan Ruth. We’re going deep into how reorienting the nervous system can help you discover more compassion, community, and celebration in your life. 

In this conversation, we’re discussing the negative impact of shame in business, Sheridan’s approach to shameless selling, and how to find improved mental health, business outcomes, and a more fulfilling life.

Learn more about Sheridan’s work here: https://sheridanruth.com/

Body Whisperer Amanda Smith is joining us on today’s episode to talk about harnessing your innate force of nature in your work. Amanda has a unique talent for understanding and communicating with the body in an analytical yet intuitive manner. 

We’re talking about Amanda’s previous work in aerospace with NASA and how that led to her entrepreneurial journey as a healer for female athletes with gut issues. Amanda is also sharing how her results on the Force of Nature quiz inform how she’s been showing up in her business and her life. 

Want to learn more about Amanda’s work? She’s offering a free body scan to our listeners who use this link: https://bodywhisperhealing.com/thankyoulistener

Today Diana Zaheer is joining us to share about how her business is a very flexible entity and why that supports her (even though it goes against most conventional business teachings). 

Diana has been an inner work teacher and spiritual counselor for decades and it’s a gift to hear her about about her work. We’re diving into how following the nature of your work leads to doing more of what you want and more of what your clients actually need. She’s also sharing an incredibly useful practice to connect with yourself so you can access freshness and a playful curiosity in any moment (especially when things feel hard). 

If you want to learn more about Diana’s work, here’s how you can find her: 

Website:  https://innerharborteachings.com, which has many links for the album and music videos and social media and podcasts and the healing rooms, etc.

Linktree -- https://linktr.ee/innerharborteachings

Mellissa Seaman, an incredible intuitive business strategist, joins the podcast this week to talk about the multifaceted benefits of having a magic mirror quiz for your business.  We talk about the drastic difference in opt in rate the quiz provides. 57% higher than other freebies!

We talked about magic mirror quizzes and why they are different than most quizzes out there.

How a good quiz builds trust between you and your clients and provides both of you with information about each other.

After 20 years of having her own business, Mellissa wishes everyone she knows had one of these quizzes. 

We touch on how creating your quiz actually gives you a deeper map to your own work as well, which is one of our favorites perks. 

If you are listening to this episode in early February 2024, jump in and join the free quiz challenge. And if not, get on Mellissa's mailing list so you can be ready to join the next one. 

Join the Live Quiz Challenge Feb 5-9 https://channelyourgenius.com/challenge/

Check out Mellissa's Academy https://channelyourgenius.com/academy

How to Prepare For Spring 

> Stay steady but low to the ground in January, peak out a little more in February 

• Pay attention to what inspires you 

• Watch out for re-inventing the wheel 

• Work on your health 

• Cultivate vitality, you will want it for what is coming 

• What enriches you? Trips to the river, knitting, an old favorite TV show

• STOCK up on it 

• Actually THINK of bone broth, it’s so nutritious, it’s a lot of things cooked and cooked and cooked, that is your winter. We are cooking you and making a delicious broth in you that YOU have through spring. Nutrition stored in you for when you begin to expel that energy. 

> Start your bloom in March, show more of yourself, express more 

• Find a time in spring to announce your work, whether it’s what you currently do or something new 

• Show up in it a little longer than you may normally, so instead of 2 posts about it - make it 5

• Instead of telling one group of friends about it, tell 3 

• Instead of just telling your current clients, tell everyone on your list 

• Make a bold move 

5 Things To NOT Do This January 

Happy New Year!

The way society tells us to approach January is often damaging for people’s energy! This is meant to be a guide to approach January in a way that is helpful & healthy.

#1: DO NOT Envision Your Absolute Dream Year 

• Dreams are beautiful & you should steer towards them, but big dreams take time! It will not manifest in one year's time. Have it be steps towards that dream, not the ENTIRE dream smashed into one year.

#2: DO NOT Create a Plan with No Tested Experience

• If you do this, you basically created something in a vacuum, & it may not go as planned. If you have a new idea, instead of making this entire plan built around it, take this idea & try it in a small way & see how it goes. 

#3: DO NOT Make a Complicated To-Do List 

• Do not let your hyper motivated January energy make you feel constricted the rest of the year. Instead make a general map so you are not locked in to a to-do list that may not ring true for you the rest of the year. Picture that you are making a list for a friend.

#4: DO NOT Spend Most of the Month in Your Head Thinking 

• January is still winter, actually deep winter! We are still supposed to be resting, hibernating, & preparing for the coming Spring. To actually shift to a “hurry up & figure all this out” mode is actually not very good for you. Notice your thoughts & inspirations, but do not feel you need to make them happen immediately.

#5: DO NOT Check Out

• This is such a human action, but by fully checking out, you are not giving any opportunity to some magic that might happen. You need to have some routines & discipline, but this does not need to be full time.

#6: DO NOT Just Pray

•  Part of working with the Spirit is taking action. If you only pray, you are not allowing the Spirit to make the magic happen by boosting your action. 

Don’t Build Your Business That Way

I wish to instill a little amount in fear in you, for the sake of liberation!

The fear: Do not build your business the way someone else is building theirs as this will not help you feel fulfilled. When we look at someone else’s business there is a good chance they have a very different nature than us, even if they are interested in similar things as us. This means building your business just like theirs & how it works for them will most likely not work for you. This will just lead to exhaustion, anger, frustration, and most likely not success.

It is more important to find a way to build your business that matches your nature. That supports your needs & wants & tends to how you operate. That leads to flow, ease, productivity, joy, success, more money, & achieving your goals.

Following your nature leads to harmony.

Personal inventory: Who do I “glorify” or try to model my business after? It can be very unconscious. Then notice do I need to use that person’s work as a model or maybe shift it to just being an inspiration.