Many people aspire to be an expert or a personality, but the question is how do we become one? Tracee Sioux is one of those experts in this arena. She is a spiritual business, and life coach and the creator of The Year of Yes, a book about saying yes to your soul. By tapping into what your soul wants, you can be an expert in what you want to be. Tracee talks about building a sustainable business that is credible at its core, and provides a guide on how to realize your soul purpose, find your niche, and become successful in your chosen field.

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Saying Yes To Your Soul with Tracee Sioux

My special guest is Tracee Sioux and she is a spiritual business and life coach. She's the creator of The Year of YES!. It's a coaching program and in that program, she helps people understand their soul purpose and how to make it happen. She's also the publisher of Sioux Ink, Soul Purpose Publishing, where she takes people and transforms them into personalities and transform them into experienced experts. I know a lot of our audience want to be that expert, you want to be that personality. Tracee also has her own radio show, Year of Yes Radio and it's at True2YouRadio.com. She's amazing. She's been featured in New York Times Magazine, Today.com, and Forbes.com. She's a regular columnist in a ton of publications. Tracee, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it.

I got excited about you when I'm like, "What is this Year of Yes?" I want to know what that is and how you came to formulate this.

I got divorced in 2012 and I had been a stay-at-home mom. I had kept my foot in the door writing and I had some passion projects going on, but I hadn't focused on the business piece of it because my children were pretty young. When I got divorced, I found myself making $600 a month and feeding my kids from the food bank and utterly terrified. One day I was doing some dishes and I looked at this peacefully and I felt this profound peace all the way deep in my bones. I realized that my soul had gotten what she wanted. She had wanted a divorce because she felt very confined in the marriage that she had it. There was this deep peace. I thought, "What if my soul gets everything she wants? What if I just say yes to everything she wants? What would my life look like? What would I be doing? How would I be making money? How would I be living?”

I decided that it was a working experiment. I did it from January to December of 2013 and then I kept a diary, a very raw diary, which I published as The Year of Yes!. I teach people how to say yes to their soul, which could be an extremely scary thing to do and how to figure out what your soul wants. Most of us are so busy and there's so much noise in the world that we think we can't even hear our soul. Just getting quiet and noticing which is your ego or which is your soul is how I help people do that. We have a marketing arm and a publishing arm. It's like, "We know what you want to do, let's make that into a profitable business. What's the business model that can go around that and how can we market that to people and how can we package it so that it's something that you will love it and so will your clients." We have a publishing arm where we can take people and publish a book for them. They can either write it and I can edit it. It's all the way around publishing company. I love to take people from the very beginning and make them into living their soul's purpose, but also making a living.