Ep. 9 - Embracing Our Soul's Unique Journey and Purpose [Living Content Rebroadcast]

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Hello, and welcome back to be more connected. [00:01:00] Today we have a very special episode. This is a rebroadcasted episode from my friend and former student Laredo. Say conquers, incredible podcast called living content. Laredo is a writer, creative and podcast host based in South Africa. And I consider her to be a soul sister and a soulmate client from across the world.

I'm so grateful that I was able to be connected with her through the soulful abundance festival that I hosted back in 2021. And in this conversation, I have a chance to be interviewed. And share more about my healing journey. My fascination with human design. And some of the highlights of Laredo is experience in the school of soulful abundance. So you may have noticed that I didn't release a [00:02:00] new podcast episode last week.

Originally I had intended for this episode to air last week. But things were a little bit busy with the two power of softness. Sessions that were held last week. And instead of pressuring myself to put out an episode, I practiced some softness with myself and decided to take the week off from the podcast.

Now, this was a relatively quick and easy decision for me. But I have another update to share about some things that have unfolded in the last week where I experienced much more resistance. And challenge. And at first, I wasn't totally sure if I wanted to go into detail about this on the podcast, because I thought [00:03:00] it might be.

An interesting or boring for the listeners.

But when I reflected on my big why and my intentions for launching this podcast, one of them was to be more open and honest and connected with my audience.

And when I reflected on what has been most supportive and healing for me, it's actually been the times when my coaches and mentors have been really vulnerable and transparent about their experiences and their stories. Because their stories contained. Such transferable lessons and really supported me and feeling seen and feeling less alone.

So.

Here we go. Some of you may have already seen on Instagram that I decided to [00:04:00] postpone the launch of soulful abundance foundations. And the reason I decided to postpone. It's because I only had two women sign up for the program. So these two women signed up in August during the early bird window and expressed a lot of enthusiasm about the program.

Which had me feeling pretty good in the early days of enrollment. But as the weeks went by, I got many, many nos. Which was okay. Over the years. I've come to understand that that is a normal part of the enrollment process. And this time around. I even had the lived experience of enrollment going slowly at the beginning and everything really coming together.

In the last week and a half of my launch. That's what [00:05:00] happened for the first two rounds of the school of soulful abundance. And so I was just continuing to push forward with my marketing and having lots of conversations with people. But this launch turned out to be different and things did not start coming together.

Even after leading the power of softness webinars. And so. Last weekend during the Pisces full moon. I went into a super negative spiral. Around the fact that enrollment was not happening and I was feeling. Disappointed and sad. And embarrassed. Basically just feeling all the feels. Because over the summer months, I had put so much time and energy into this [00:06:00] offer from sending out surveys to my audience together. Feedback.

To crafting the curriculum for the program and building the landing page and creating the graphics and writing the emails. It was a lot. And. I did space out that process and enjoy a lot of parts of that process. But it felt so disappointing that after all of that time and after all of that effort,

It appeared that. This program might not come together and this program might not happen. but at some point during the end of the weekend, I started to emerge out of that negative spiral a bit. And I reminded myself that I was like, okay, so I'm looking at my calendar and I actually have a bunch of calls with people on Monday and Tuesday. I had a bunch of calls. [00:07:00]

Lined up. And I told myself that. If I was able to enroll at least six students, I should go ahead. And continue with the program. But when. Tuesday afternoon rolled around. I still only had my two early bird signups. And so at that point, I kind of started to panic. My first instinct was to start strategizing and to go into this like aggressive marketing mode.