I want to share something about what I’ve found to be very difficult when it comes to being a Spiritual Entrepreneur.
I had a calling over a decade ago that felt like I was meant to channel messages in the form of blog posts.
“You have to tell them this, Nicole”, I would hear (I’m clairaudient).
And so I would.
I learned WordPress. Set up a blog and started to write.
About 20 or so of my family and friends read and commented about it.
But… that didn’t feel like fulfilling a calling. It didn’t satisfy the longing I had that I had come to the planet at this time to do SOMETHING.
So I worked harder. I took blogging courses and was in blog groups where we shared each other’s posts. I learned how to make Pinterest graphics and write better content.
And still… very few people would comment on my blog posts and I didn’t know if it was reaching anyone. No matter how much effort I put in!
I did my “inner work” too! I worked with mentors and coaches, both business and spiritual. Nothing seemed to change the outcome; I put out more energy and effort than was returned in terms of traffic, followers, or subscribers.
When you have a calling…
You see, my calling wasn’t to write (though I LOVE writing). My calling was to help people.
My calling is to make awakening easier, especially as it relates to your life’s work. I felt an all-consuming pull to deliver the messages coming through me, and it didn’t feel like they were being delivered.
After a while, I made an unpopular decision. I decided to write when I felt like it. I would publish posts when I felt moved to. I would let clients find me and balance my Intuitive Writing with my family life.
It’s been a VERY HARD thing to do. It meant I had to stop worrying. Stop watching the numbers. No longer care about traffic or subscriber counts.
I WANTED TO LET MY WORK SHOW ME WHAT IT WANTED ME TO DO.
Because when I was writing to those 20 family and friends in my first blog, I loved it. I wasn’t questioning anything; I would just go for my morning walk, give the kids some toys to play with, and write away.
That’s what I think is so hard about being a Spiritual Entrepreneur.
Where are your people?
You want to help people but don’t know how to reach them!
You want to fulfill your purpose, but you may not know how to support it financially.
And if you have an open root chakra and have grown up with the other shoe dropping and scarcity – it’s a challenging leap of faith, to say the least.
My advice (if you want to hear it because what works for me may not work for you) is to decide how you feel about your intuitive downloads.
Do you trust them? How much do you trust them?
When I decided I either trusted my intuition or I didn’t, that’s what finally made me stop being concerned about my numbers and TRUST that everything is unfolding as it should.
It allowed me to stand in my power.
I’ve also learned my audience can be quiet. My audience prefers to email or DM me rather than comment on a post.
I’ve met people years later who will tell me one of my posts helped them and I had no idea!
I just put it out there. And I get unsubscribes and new subscribers just like everyone else.
Some of my launches are successful, and some were met with crickets.
The only difference is that now I trust my intuitive guidance, and I’m seeing where it leads me.
And I keep getting the most amazing clients, who have found me in a google search when I went against what the SEO says to do…
I’ve learned the universe will just handle things if we can get out of our own way, get better at accessing our intuition, and then TRUST it! Which isn’t easy… believe me, I know.
Whatever you are doing in the world, I think you’re making more of a difference than you think. You may just have a quiet audience or be part of a bigger plan.
Just know that it’s not always easy to trust your intuition when it comes to your livelihood and your financial security, but if you get really clear on how to access it then it’s time to stop second guessing it!
You can always work your side hustle or plan for the day when you’re all in on your business or career growth. My advice would be to carry out your intuition AS YOU RECEIVED IT instead of taking a baby step, not seeing the results you expected and starting over.
It can take time for the universe to line up your dreams and for you to have the vibration to allow it. Learning to stay the course because you KNOW your intuition wasn’t wrong is a power move when it comes to getting what you want and fulfilling your soul’s desires.
Do you trust your intuition when it comes to your business or career? And if so, how much do you trust it?
Even if you write and it seems like no one is listening?
Even if you share on social media and it looks like no one is viewing it?
Even if you feel 100% driven to create a digital product and no one buys it the first time?
You may be one small tweak away from something great.
Second guessing may be just the energy to derail you.
As an Awakened Professional, Conscious entrepreneur, and former Human Resources professional, I think it’s time to add my two cents to the topic of “Quiet Quitting”.
I want to talk about the energy of “quiet quitting” and what it does to your self-esteem, your law of attraction abilities, and how to let yourself off the hook if you’re “quiet quitting” (depending on your definition) or manifest something better.
I invited relationship expert Shirani M. Pathak who is a pro at boundary setting to join me in unpacking this topic.
Energetic Boundaries and Empowerment? My guest today is all about it!
Listen in to get our thoughts on quiet quitting, quick quitting, quick firing and career fulfillment in general.
ABOUT SHIRANI:
Shirani M. is your secret to creating a company culture where your employees are excited to get up and go to work every day. She is the founder of the Fierce Authenticity™️ Movement and a specialist in relationships and belonging. Shirani is on a mission to help 100,000,000 people rewrite their stories and create their Legacies of Love. You can learn more about her at www.shiranimpathak.com
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Understanding your Gene Key shadows is the easiest way to write more magnetic copy without changing anything else! It’s the energetic factor that will have your soul clients seeking you out instead of leaving your website because they feel confused.
When you are writing to your soul mate audience, whether it’s a sales page or a social media post, they can feel your energy!
If you are speaking to them from the energy of your shadows, it can feel low vibe, like an overshare, or TMI, even if you’re telling them something genuine.
But when you understand which energy is your “gift” energy and which is your shadow energy, it can help you create more magnetic copy that attracts your soulmate clients to you and keeps them hanging around to see what else you have to say.
One of the most eye-opening tools that I’ve used for myself and for my clients to understand when your copy is coming from your shadow energy is the gene key profile that you can download for free. It has been so accurate that I haven’t found anyone yet who didn’t resonate with theirs. More importantly, it’s a strong clue to where you have unhealed patterns and where you have a more high-vibe tone when you are sharing your wisdom with the world.
You CAN share information from the energy of your shadow, but the difference is if you have awareness of it or not (I explain it in this post!). But first, let’s take a look at how I am using the term “shadow” for the purposes of this discussion.
What do I mean by “shadows”?
You may be familiar with “shadow work” or have heard it mentioned before. For me, I see our shadows as the unconscious conditioning that affects our patterns of flow. For example, if I have a strong intuition about something and decide to follow it, but obstacle after obstacle arises, I will explore whether or not it is a shadow energy or a sign that it’s not meant for me.
Carl Jung first shared this idea of the shadow as the alternate to the light side of ourselves.
Through a myriad of spiritual development classes, I’ve come to see my shadow as the spot where my conditioning is strongest. It’s where I keep unconscious patterns that I find myself bumping into when I’m trying to uplevel or grow. The shadow is often our blind spot!
For example, if your parent told you, “speak only when spoken to” before entering a family gathering when you were little, you may find later in life you have a hard time speaking up. You may not remember your parent even saying that but when you find yourself in a room full of people you don’t really talk unless someone asks you a question.
It becomes an automatic response to a situation and it may not even bother you until you decide you want to become an entrepreneur. All of a sudden, you find yourself at networking events with a chance to promote your business and you feel like your tongue-tied, or even anxious.
Your shadow, in this example, is blocking your entrepreneurial goals. By uncovering the memory that is no longer true, you can speak even when not spoken to when you can bring awareness to it and thereby heal the pattern for good. The shadow may be “self-sabotage”, but it stems from the dark side of wanting to be able to speak freely and being told “no”.
Now I am not a therapist or an expert in shadow work, but I do work with energy healers when I feel those blocks and I do inner child work to access my shadow patterns because I always want the sky to be the limit for me!
For years I did inner child healing meditations and used this Messages from Shadow oracle card deck to bring awareness to my shadows. I recorded this short video to show you how I use a shadow card deck to uncover any stubborn energy blocks. I still think this is great inner work, but when it comes to writing authentic copy that resonates with my soul audience, I’ve found the Gene Key shadows can be even more potent. They seem to cut right to the chase when it comes to which energy of yours is coming across low vibe and which is coming across feeling yummy and powerful.
To be clear, this is not a hack, or some way to try to get rich quick. This is for those of you who are trying to connect to your soulmate clients and audience and you’re feeling like something is off. You want to get your message out there but it doesn’t seem to be connecting. It could very well be that you are writing from your shadow energy without realizing it but when you are in your “gift” or your “sidhi” people can feel it!
What are the “Gene Keys”?
The Gene Keys are an offshoot of your Human Design chart. Human Design is said to be your unique blueprint based on the time and date of your birth, and the Gene Keys are an extension that goes further to show you how to heal lower frequencies to raise your vibration.
You can get your free profile here: Gene Keys: https://genekeys.com/ (choose “Free Profile”)
What I find SUPER interesting about the gene keys is that each gene key shows you three levels.
Your Shadow.
Your Gift.
Your Sidhi.
It’s explained in the Gene Keys book as three levels, from a lower vibration to a higher vibration.
I interpret it as the shadow is when you have conditioning and are operating out of a “not-self” theme (explained further in Human Design). Something that is going against your natural tendencies, preventing you from being in your most potent power, and you have the opportunity to heal it if you become aware of it.
The gift level is after you’ve transformed your shadow and where you are experiencing greater flow, alignment, and probably attracting people to you who want to learn from you and be in your networks.
The Sidhi, to me, is like a mastery where you just allow yourself to be and your vibration is in a much higher state. Free of your shadows a majority of the time.
I think many of us who have been doing “the work” are in the gift level with some ups and downs. So you may go to the Sidhi from time to time or the shadow from time to time with the goal of healing when you’re in the shadow but not staying stuck there.
When I found the Gene Keys, I felt like it made shadow work easier because I could spot the patterns so much more easily! Not only that, whenever I pull the Gene Key chart for a family member or a client, they are usually blown away by its accuracy. I know nothing is set in stone when it comes to our lives, but what I’ve found is that the Gene Keys usually remind us of what our natural tendencies were before someone told us we were “too something”. Too loud, too sensitive, too demanding, or too whatever. When we change that behavior, we deviate from our natural potent power.
Embracing our Human Design is embracing who we are at our core! It can be so magnetic when you are aligned.
Why you want to heal your shadows.
Here’s the thing. The shadow energy does not feel good once you start awakening.
It feels like you know something is pulling you in the wrong direction. Or you hear your words sounding like a person you don’t want to sound like.
It’s a lower vibration and because like attract likes, you’re more likely to attract drama when you’re living in your shadow energy.
The Gene Keys have been such an eye-opening tool for me because when I saw my shadows named, I immediately recognized them! It was like “OMG, I struggle with that all the time”.
KNOWLEDGE is POWER. Having a tool to recognize your patterns or conditioning is so powerful.
In Your Marketing and Copy
When you are writing copy or in any marketing endeavors, you want to be authentic. If you are not, your audience can feel it. And it can make them feel uncomfortable!
You may have seen this in situations where it seems like someone “overshares” or is giving TMI. You start thinking “Why would this person share this when they’re clearly uncomfortable?”
Yet, someone else can share the same story and it can feel vulnerable and heartfelt and they’re helping others with their story.
The difference is when you try come across authoritative when you are in your shadow energy it feels “unhealed”. It isn’t a high vibration yet because you are still learning and working through it.Unless you share that you are still in it, instead of trying to be the authority, it can feel “off putting”.
But when you are at the gift level, or you have transformed from that shadow, then it feels like a higher vibration and becomes more powerful.
Exploring your shadows to write more magnetic copy isn’t a trick or a hack! It’s a way to bring your soul creations into the world feeling more healed and more authentic because you are doing your shadow work, which in turn helps your whole life anyway.
WHAT I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO KNOW …
Now I realize this is challenging to sum up in a blog post and explain when the Gene Keys are such a complex system, but there is something I would love for you to take away from this blog post if you are open to it.
And that is if you print your chart and check the boxes on the right to include the levels, you can have the shadow of each handy, and it clues you in to where you are out of ALIGNMENT.
I recorded this quick video to show you how to access your gene keys and see these three vibration levels I’m referring to.
For example, one of my shadows is “Addiction”. As a teenager, this was an issue for me in the form of substance abuse, but now I pay attention to this in the form of thoughts.
If I feel like something isn’t working, or intuitively I feel like something is stuck in my life, I’ll become more aware of my thoughts.
Do I have a pattern?
My workday gets interrupted quite frequently. I used to think it was my ego interfering with my life purpose, but I’ve recently noticed that I’ve replaced that thought with “this is just how my life works”.
I set aside three hours of peace and quiet to get work done and the dogs bark EXTRA, a kid is sick, or the Internet goes out… and I think, “Ugh. This ALWAYS happens!”
Well… am I addicted to this pattern? Am I addicted to this thought? Can I reframe it?
This is how I use the shadow information from the Gene Keys to create change in my life.
The Gene Keys can be such a rabbit hole that you may not have time for at the moment, BUT you may want to consider just focusing on the shadows for now.
Because when you’re in your shadow energy, you’re not in alignment and people can feel that from you. It feels off and not quite right when someone is in their shadow, but you usually can’t quite put your finger on it.
It carries out into your words, your digital programs, and your copy. People can feel it!
BUT… when you’re in alignment, that creates your potent energy and radiance.
I’m so excited to bring this guest to the podcast today. I’ve had the honor of first being a listener to Emily Aarons’ Aligned & Unstoppable podcastand being inspired by her – to becoming a writer on her team for the past several years.
I’ve seen her business explode and witnessed the shifts as she’s been able to embody and share her wisdom centered around her incredible healing work and her beliefs about intuition in your business.
Today we’re talking about Emily’s journey, which includes a stint in Corporate America when she had to get a “real job” and where that led her to the Awakened Professional she is.
Her mission to break the broke healer stereotype is inspiring to anyone who has thought of giving up and needs that extra inspiration to take those last few steps to move the needle forward in your business.
I hope you enjoy our conversation and tag us @theawakenedprofessional and @emilyaarons with any insights you take away from this episode. We love to see them!
Highlights you won’t want to miss:
Emily’s journey from “Broke Healer” to thriving entrepreneur and what the tipping point for her was.
It can look like you are thriving on the surface, but your job can be soul-sucking (income goals alone aren’t enough!).
What do you want? You have to do what’s right for you.
“Showing up” – you don’t have to look perfect!!! Is your message stronger than your appearance and perfection?
You cannot fake good energy.
Alignment! How to know if you’re in alignment or not in your physical body.
How do you know if the universe is shutting a door or if you need more inner work? “Trusting that the final outcome will be in your favor no matter what.”
Emily Aarons is a highly sought after intuitive healer for female empire builders. She’s best known for getting her clients out of overwhelm and burnout and unlocking the wisdom within to create alignment in their business. For over two decades, Emily has been practicing healing work directly with powerful visionaries and teaching them how to tap into their intuition to activate quantum growth in their business. She’s the creator of the “Angels In Your Biz Oracle Card Deck” and “Aligned & Unstoppable Personal Journal”, and is the host of the top podcast “Aligned & Unstoppable”.
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I love this episode! I feel that way about every episode, but this one, in particular, is the “one about intuition!”
Caitlin from Meraki Media is here to talk all things intuition, marketing and fusing them together for your business. Yes, your social media has an energy!
We have such a fun story of how we met and our conversation was so engaging we created a part 1 and part 2.
This is part one, where we delve deep into Caitlin’s background including unexpected financial responsibility at a young age, tragedy, and even her Eat, Pray, Love moments around Europe.
You’ll find part 2 on “The End in Mind” podcast where she asks me questions about Intuitive Writing and more.
I hope this high-vibe conversation will keep you thinking for days to come.
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Without further ado!
Highlights you won’t want to miss:
Caitlin’s journey into financial independence at a young age through tragedy and how it shaped her into the business owner she is today.
Being exposed at a young age to the movie “The Secret” and how she feels about that now.
How to use Intuition in your business, especially for your marketing.
We both share our beliefs about being an Intuitive Channel and how that journey unfolded for us (we get REAL on this one!!!).
An honest discussion of how marketing and copywriting works for Spiritual Entrepreneurs (Yes! We are different!)
Caitlin is the Owner and Creative Director of Meraki Media, and obsessed with all things Instagram. Business Instagram Training is her passion project that lets her live her mission of authentic community building. She loves to show you the potential of targeted marketing on social media.
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Hey there, I'm Nicole. I am a Freelance Writer/Digital Marketer who loves to use Human Design and the Gene Keys to help my clients turn their ideas into scalable income so they can free up their time. 💗 Explore the blog and try the resources below to find out more!
