In this episode I'm interviewed by Tom Boyd for his show  Creators Are Brands. It's packed with gems! Description from Creators are Brands: In a world where everyone is telling us to speed up, we talk about intentionally slowing down to create more of what you love, how to create your own algorithm, we talk about her integrated holistic way of working with sponsors (that i encourage you to borrow), why she stopped selling courses even though they were bringing in crazy money, how to re-frame feelings of jealousy or comparison of other creators, why she’s quitting being an influencer, and stay to the very end and she shares a strategy for connecting with your audience through every digital thing you make. We discuss: Rethinking content creator business Building a sustainable brand on social media  Finding meaning and longevity in digital self-expression Relationships over transactions  Social media as a stepping stone on the way of remembering who you are  The metrics that actually matter  Trusting the content you’re “meant to” share over logical strategy  How to reframe comparison on social media  Allowing social media to be a mirror of places you are meant to grow Redefining success  Seeing triggers as opportunities for growth  Do you need to create a separate instagram account for your podcast?  Clearing out your creative shelf  Give yourself the grace to move through what you’re moving through  Ways to connect to the joy of creation  How Ksenia is currently approaching podcast and social media brand sponsorships Related episodes:  225  Retiring From Being An Influencer: Identity Alchemy, Soul Journey As A Public Figure and Releasing Addiction To Hustle 193  Tom Boyd of @bonusfootage: All Things Content Creation, Short Form Video and TikTok Growth 186  Join Me For 11 Days Of Sharing On Social Media | Hyping You Up To Share Your Medicine with The World Resources: Meditation and breathwork challenge on Open   Social Media Challenge: 11 days of sharing  Hashtag Mindful class on Skillshare Connect with Tom Boyd: www.tomboyd.co Creators are Brands podcast  Instagram: @bonusfootage TikTok: @bonusfootage Twitter: @BOYDERyo Connect with Ksenia:  kseniabrief.com Ksenia's email list Instagram @ksenia.brief YouTube Ksenia Brief TikTok @ksenia.brief Subscribe, rate and review the podcast on  Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on  Spotify

230. Rethinking Content Creator Business and Creating Your Own Algorithm – TOM BOYD Interviews KSENIA BRIEF

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In this episode, I share one of the most expansive journeys I’ve ever been on: my path to being 24 weeks pregnant with a healthy baby boy.  After multiple pregnancy losses, there have been so many non-obvious, non-linear initiations and activations that have moved through me to prepare me for this moment. In this solo episode, I share some of them. I have a feeling this will be part one of a series! We cover:    The layers of initiation we’ve been moving through on this pregnancy journey    How the desire to have children first activated in my body   The role that our wedding choices played in our journey to expanding our family    Being stewards for a New World Soul     Some of the lessons that have revealed so far on this pregnancy journey    Some of the signs that our spirit baby has sent us    The support I’ve had on my journey to a healthy pregnancy: acupuncture, yoga, song medicine, biological dentistry, bodywork    The role that intuition has played on this pregnancy journey    Answering the call to visit the land I connected with as a child    How I am living the concept of a “conscious pregnancy”    Some of the books I’ve found supportive during my pregnancies    How I’ve been choosing what to share on social media and what to keep to myself around pregnancy and loss   Learning to love my body through all the changes happening during pregnancy    Episode sponsor: Laird Superfood: Use my special link to save 15% at Laird Superfood at checkout. Go to zen.ai/ksenia15 add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset! Related episodes:    237  Honoring The Sacred Creative Pause, Podcast As A Ceremony, Magical Experiences During Recent Travels, Choosing Creation, and Lemurian Crystals   232  Miracles Abound: Recap Of My Healing Journey To Turkey   211  We’ve Moved To Austin! Trusting The Unknown    197  Reggie Riverbear: Coming Home To Yourself Through Voice, Finding Your Community and Trusting Spirit As A Business Strategy   180  Rebecca Naylor: The Universe As A Treasure Map, Learning To Trust The Mystery and Water As A Consciousness Carrier   201  Lion Tracker Boyd Varty: Following The Track Of Your Life and Creative Process In The Digital Age   Connect with Ksenia:    kseniabrief.com   Ksenia's email list   Instagram @ksenia.brief   YouTube Ksenia Brief   TikTok @ksenia.brief   Subscribe, rate and review the podcast on  Apple Podcasts   Follow the podcast on  Spotify    

239. I’m 24 Weeks Pregnant! Lessons from My Pregnancy Journey, Part 1

Four years ago musician, writer and podcaster Karina Ivanova was listening to one of my podcast episodes, and planted a seed that she’d like to be a guest one day. But then she heard an inner voice ask: “What would you be excited to tell Ksenia about?” That’s when she realized that the creations she’s meant to share with me (and with you) haven’t come through yet. So Karina got busy bringing her creative visions to reality, from a music album, to a poetry book, a podcast and a journaling movement in her home country of Kazakhstan. All while exploring her own spiritual journey through the Akashic Records and other modalities. Today, she shares it all with us, and I couldn’t be more excited about this coming full circle! We discuss:    Meeting Spirit while staying persent in your body   How to learn another language fluently – Karina’s experience learning english   Karina’s experience growing up with a musician mom   First encounters with Spirit    Karina’s spiritual journey and how opening her Akashic Records changed everything    Karina’s experience with residency at the Watermill Center   Making peace with your inner voice   Pain alchemized into sacred work   Music as an invitation to feel   The creative process of writing a music album    The healing power of journaling and free writing    How to quantum leap through journaling    Changing the trajectory of your life by establishing a communication between your past self and future self    Creating your own mantras    Appreciating the little things    Karina’s upcoming creative projects    Episode sponsor: Laird Superfood: Use my special link to save 15% at Laird Superfood at checkout. Go to zen.ai/ksenia15 add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset! Mentioned:  How To Read The Akashic Records by Linda Howe  Related episodes:   My TikTok Experiment: 0 to 350K Followers | 5D Video Storytelling Strategy for 2021 52  Ashley Wood: Stop Worrying About What People Think & Surrender To Your Calling 152  Ceremonial Singer-Songwriter Ayla Schafer: Music as a Spiritual Force 197  Reggie Riverbear: Coming Home To Yourself Through Voice, Finding Your Community and Trusting Spirit As A Business Strategy About Karina Ivanova:  I’m a 26-year-old musician, writer and podcaster from Kazakhstan. currently, I’m creating “jazziam” (www.instagram.com/jazziamwithkarina/) which is a journaling movement, community and podcast, introducing the healing power of writing (jazu literally means two things in Kazakh: to write and to heal) to people. 2 years ago, I released my first music album “metanoia” in English (https://open.spotify.com/album/7DTRqa5W5eWahtx6qpVO7v?si=SvVevKNtS0KnxZJkmA17vw) and a poetry book called “символ отречения от контроля” (symbol of surrendering control), in Russian. It’s a collection of 110 poems-reflections on my spiritual journey activated after a series of events such as residency at the Watermill Center, opening my Akashic Records for the first time and ending my 8.5 year long relationship. I’m interested all things arts and spirituality, conscious living, writing, soulful entrepreneurship and relationships. My sacred work these days is to hold space for people, as individuals and in groups, through writing practices and mantra chanting.

238. Trusting Your Creative Process, Being Available For Spirit While Staying Grounded In Your Body, Quantum Leaping Through Journaling – KARINA IVANOVA

In this solo update I’m sharing the WHY behind the longest break from podcasting I’ve ever taken, some of the creations that I’m currently bringing into the world, and why allowing the space for Source to move through is an invitation for miracles.  Here are some of the things I share:  - Our experience at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show (and an invitation for you if you’re called to Lemurian Crystals) - How I plan travel experiences to leave space for Source to guide me - I’m pregnant! How I’m approaching this pregnancy differently than the previous times - Fulfilling Eric’s childhood dream of going to the NBA finals - Releasing industry standards and expectations, and approaching every podcast episode as a sacred ceremony Episode sponsor: Laird Superfood: Use my special link to save 15% at Laird Superfood at checkout. Go to zen.ai/ksenia15 add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset! Related episodes:  236  Ksenia and Eric Brief with Michelle Sinnette: Why Spirituality, Taxes & Finances Are The Same Thing | Being A Business Artist | Facing Money Fears | ERC As An Opportunity for Source To Deliver Money 235  5-Step Intuitive Social Media Process for Artists, Creators, Healers, Coaches and Entrepreneurs 87  Eric Brief – All About Crystals Connect with Ksenia:  kseniabrief.com Ksenia's email list Instagram @ksenia.brief YouTube Ksenia Brief TikTok @ksenia.brief Subscribe, rate and review the podcast on  Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on  Spotify

237. Honoring The Sacred Creative Pause, Podcast As A Ceremony, Magical Experiences During Recent Travels, Choosing Creation, and Lemurian Crystals

My mentor Michelle Sinnette and my husband Eric Brief join me in this very special conversation about a soul calling we’ve all said YES to. After a few very internal months away from podcasting  (I’m growing a baby in my belly!), I heard clear guidance to jump back in. What we share in this conversation is an answered prayer in many ways, and we go to depths I’ve never gone before on the podcast. Thank you for sharing this sacred space with me.  We discuss:    How did a spiritual mentor end up in a financial services business?    Why spirituality, taxes and finances are the same thing   Living in alignment with Source in all aspects of your life   Moving beyond the labels of “conscious business”    Transcending the need to “make money”    Being a business artist   Building an outstanding business in a low trust industry    How Eric was guided to make SpiderERC a vertically integrated business    Being the invitation and letting go of the outcome    Being present for miracles instead of self-evaluation, over-strategizing and over-thinking    The role that Eric and Ksenia’s partnership and marriage plays in the success of the businesses Eric creates    The importance of feeling grounded from within before moving into action   Your soul being in pure creation without the need to produce and perform   Creating from fear is not creation… it is destruction    Seeing your business as a non-linear being    Moving through energetic blocks around money and stepping into freedom   Ksenia gets real-time coaching on moving past old money stories    We also cover all things ERC:   What is ERC? (Employee Retention Credit) and what opportunity does it offer for you?   Who qualifies for ERC/ERTC?   The Recovery Startup Business Provision   The importance of proper documentation when you file for to get your ERC/ERTC   What sets apart SpiderERC when it comes to choosing a company to file for ERC   Can you file ERC yourself?    Why accounting firms choose SpiderERC to send their clients to file for ERC   All of the global ripples Spider is producing beyond ERC    Episode sponsor: Laird Superfood: Use my special link to save 15% at Laird Superfood at checkout. Go to zen.ai/ksenia15 add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset! About Michelle Sinnette:  Michelle Sinnette is a seer and a mentor dedicated to catalyzing the leaders of tomorrow. She teaches them to harness their intensity, intelligence, and creativity to first move through the lens of their intuition and then move into aligned action. The result - true life fulfillment and tangible achievement beyond what they or their industry ever thought possible. Initiated fully into her intuitive gifts through two near-death experiences, Michelle now has an unparalleled ability to navigate into unseen realms for the purpose of activating more vibrant and meaningful living here on Earth. She has deep roots on the Big Island of Hawai'i and today her work takes her around the world. Her professional career has spanned the diverse fields of law enforcement, licensed therapy, neuropsychology, and business consulting. She weaves these realms together through intuitive mentorship and consulting for family empires, entrepreneurs, artists, and C-suite executives. Michelle believes that professional success is no longer the metric; it is aligned success rooted in peace. That is when we will see our full potential realized as a species. Connect with Michelle Sinnette:  www.legacycacao.com Instagram @legacycacao www.spidererc.com About Eric Brief:  Eric Brief is an entrepreneur, artist and crystal lover.  Connect with Eric Brief:  www.spidererc.com Instagram @ericbrief About Ksenia Brief:  Ksenia Love Brief is a storyteller, mentor and artist on a mission to weave a web of remembering through sacred one-on-one sessions, as well as intentional content across various mediums. kseniabrief.com Ksenia's email list Instagram @ksenia.brief TikTok @ksenia.brief YouTube Ksenia Brief Time stamps [also available on kseniabrief.com]  00:00:42 Intro, summary and a few tips for listening to this episode  00:07:45 Eric and Michelle join Ksenia in conversation  00:07:45 The interview begins here 00:18:00 The why behind creating SpiderERC as a service – what led Eric to ERC (Employee Retention Credit) 00:34:00 Why Michelle joined SpiderERC as an intuitive mentor  00:39:40 Being present for miracles instead of self-evaluation, over-strategizing and over-thinking  00:40:32 Letting go of the outcome and trusting people’s divine timing  00:46:00 The role that Eric and Ksenia’s partnership and marriage has played in the success of SpiderERC and other businesses Eric creates 00:50:11 Creating from fear is not creation… it is destruction. Releasing the fear of “needing to be successful” and shifting into doing what you’re meant to do 00:52:45 Employee Retention Credit from a spiritual perspective: the world is shifting  00:54:00 The complexity of claiming your ERC credit, some examples of businesses who have qualified and received their ERC credit, and who ERC is for 01:04:30 Do you qualify for ERC? How does this whole thing apply to you?  01:06:15 The ERC timeline: how much time is left to apply for this credit 01:10:35 Employee Retention Credit summary: who it’s for, who might qualify, and how to take advantage of this opportunity  01:22:28 Why SpiderERC and not your accountant or another ERC company (Michelle’s perspective)  01:26:00 Why accountants are not typically ERC experts  01:28:35 ERC as a puzzle  01:29:40 Why accounting firms are referring their clients to SpiderERC to claim ERC credits  01:31:20 Moving through energetic blocks around money and stepping into freedom 01:39:51 All of the global ripples Spider is producing beyond ERC  01:42:08 ERC affiliate program and Ksenia’s experience with referring businesses to SpiderERC  01:43:46 Ksenia gets real-time coaching on moving past old money stories

236. KSENIA and ERIC BRIEF with MICHELLE SINNETTE: Why Spirituality, Taxes & Finances Are The Same Thing | Being A Business Artist | Facing Money Fears | ERC As An Opportunity for Source To Deliver Mo

If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed or just unclear about how to show up on social media – and wondering if you should show up at all – this one’s for you. In this episode, I will share a 5-step intuitive social media process that is inspired by some of the downloads that have been coming through during my one-on-one energy/social media strategy work with incredible entrepreneurs, artists and healers (shoutout to all the incredible souls that say yes to this courageous, vulnerable work.)  I guess you could say what I do is “shamanic” social media. In essence, I connect the different realms and hold the mirror of possibility for the client’s highest self-expression in this world, using the lens of social media. I continue to be blown away by what comes through in these sessions – it’s way beyond me or anything my brain could have come up with.  I don’t get a chance to work with everyone in an intimate one-on-one way, but I feel that this work is incredibly important, especially at this time. That’s why I’m so excited to share this process and this guidance with you here on the podcast!  Mentioned:  Journal entry that changed my life: Spirit of Content Related Episodes:  219  Social Media Energy Code For When You Feel Stuck 192  My Approach To Social Media Strategy in 2022 | Reframing “Social Media Growth” and Unleashing The Full Force Of Your Presence 189  Trust The Life Force Without Having To Understand It | #11DaysOfSharing on Social Media￼ 186 Join Me For 11 Days Of Sharing On Social Media | Hyping You Up To Share Your Medicine with The World 151  Social Media Energy Download: This Makes All The Difference [Spirit of Content] 146  Conscious Social Media: A 7-Step Guided Journey Into What Really Matters Connect with Ksenia:  kseniabrief.com Ksenia's email list Instagram @ksenia.brief YouTube Ksenia Brief TikTok @ksenia.brief Subscribe, rate and review the podcast on  Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on  Spotify

230. Rethinking Content Creator Business and Creating Your Own Algorithm – TOM BOYD Interviews KSENIA BRIEF

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