Dear Amethyst,
It is great to connect with you.
Could you share with WomenandBiz.com’s readers, your background prior to becoming a Shaman, Sound Healer and Soul’s Path Coach?
Amethyst Wyldfyre
Great to connect with you too!! Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to share and be of service! So here is the story….
Up until about 8 years ago I was a Real Estate Developer and Common Interest Community Manager. In my final years of that 18+ year career I developed a multi-use community of 51 single family homes, 56 apartments and an office building called “Crosswoods Path” (maybe a little hint from the Universe that I’d be moving into helping others with navigating their own Path?? Perhaps!) In my final year of that project I was also the National Chairwoman for my trade association CAI – the Community Associations Institute and I traveled all over the nation speaking to local chapters and leaders in the field as well as representing the voice of the 1 in 8 homeowners across the country at that time who lived in common interest communities on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. I was a consultant to several Fortune 500 real estate development companies including Pulte Home Corporation and K. Hovnanian, to the United States Agency for International Development (U.S.AID), the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the World Bank.
How did you get involved with healing and how has it helped you transform your life?
During the 2001-2002 millenial transition I was going through my own personal transition as I traveled through my first divorce from the father of my son. I spent most of that year and the prior year learning and practicing yoga which was the initiatory opening experience for me into the ideas of energy, healing, and a path of holistic unification of the mind, body and Spirit. I also learned how to make jewelry in that year – working with natural stones and silver. Following the 9/11 experience I put myself on a permanent “news” diet and began to explore metaphysical, spiritual, and business literature to expand my mind and feed myself information that was positive, uplifting and educational. Kind of by accident I got a book “Crystal Healing” by Marguerite Elsbeth that came in one of those “Buy 1 book Get 7 for free” deals. So instead of the newspaper I’d read that every morning. Since I was making jewelry with stones I naturally began to be influenced by their healing qualities and that was the start of my stepping in to the role of the healer. My life has been remarkably transformed by opening up to this path. In addition to my own personal healing of decades of emotional, physical and mental abuse from my family of origin and from self-abusive choices in my own journey as a result of those original wounds, I have been able to profoundly and permanently impact and transform the lives of all of my clients. I found my own personal gifts of healing as well as artistry, writing, performing and speaking and I now empower and facilitate others in awakening to their own Divine Worth and Divine Wealth.
What are the services and products you offer?
While I do have a few products – including my award winning CD – Divine Union – A Crystal Singing Bowl Healing Journey and my mini-book Magical Questions – A Spiral Journey of Spiritual Awakening, my primary focus at the moment is on enrolling and facilitating conscious entrepreneurs through The CORE Path – Energy Foundations for Divine Wealth Intensive. This highly transformational intensive experience is designed and intended to not only facilitate a deep energetic soul level shift for our clients but also to empower them with a tool box of Power Point Practices that they can use again and again to shift themselves as well as to come into right relationship with their business. We have carefully crafted this program to help people learn about their own personal power (energy) as well as the energy of their business and how to align that personal power with their passionate purpose to produce positive impact and profitable results. We help our people to learn how to feel Worthy of Wealth and to be able to not only attract but also to concentrate, contain and channel their wealth in a generative way.
What were the most difficult challenges you faced as you began to grow your business?
My most difficult challenge has been ME!! Learning AGAIN AND AGAIN how to get out of my own way, to lose my self-importance, to let myself be helped, to surrender to the higher powers at play in my work and my world, to reach out to others for love and support, to set appropriate boundaries, to listen when my body and mind say “enough”, to be open to receiving, to feel worthy of wealth, wisdom and wonder!
How did any advisors make a difference in your company?
Absolutely the number one single most important thing I have EVER done for my business was in engaging the services of mentors in those areas where I was either struggling or looking to learn and grow my business – I just did a blog post about the whole story of finding my mentors here: http://www.theenergyjourney.com/choosing-a-mentor
To sum it up – before mentorship (specifically SALES mentorship – which was what I was most in need of) my monthly income was 3 – 4 figures and my annual was in the low-mid five figures – after I broke through to 6 figures and now 7 is my goal! The more I learn the better I get at operating my business the more I am freed to serve with abandon all the people I’m here to serve and the greater difference I can make in the world through the vehicle of my entrepreneurship!
What advice would you give someone interested in starting a business as a healer?
REALIZE THIS!! You may be a magnificent healer – but if you don’t have the foundations rock solid and your OWN healing pretty well completed – then you are going to be entering into a RELATIONSHIP with your business that will be a crucible for your OWN STUFF to come up!! If you are being called into business as a healer – make sure you have your own energetic foundations firmly in place! Here’s another blog post I did a while back on my private blog about energetic foundations for further insight into what I’m talking about here: http://amethystwyldfyre.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/building-on-solid-ground/
One leg of my own personal journey involved opening a healing arts center and art gallery – this was a $250,000 lesson in my own money wounds – better to do the energy work – the soul shifting work – the illumination of your wounds FIRST – shifting old patterns and clearing karmic contracts at the energetic – rather than having to play it out in the physical world. One of the beauties of mentorship is that you can “stand on the shoulders” of your mentor – you can reap the benefits of THEIR journey without having to go through the story line yourself!
This issue of WomenandBiz.com is about using social media effectively. How are you using social media to grow your business?
LOVE LOVE LOVE Social Media – I think for women in particular it plays right in to our natural ability to connect and collaborate. It’s been a huge gift for me and my business and is one of the most used areas of marketing and promoting my business that I count on. I have made a huge number of connections with people and we are all able to actually get to know one another and about each others businesses to see if there is a fit for us to “play” together in some way pretty instantaneously and with a lot less time consumed than the more traditional forms of old fashioned in person networking. The birth of social networking, the internet in general and teleconferencing technologies have opened up the WHOLE world to me and my business. I now have worked with clients on almost every continent except Asia!
Are there any other questions you wished I had asked, from which you feel Women and Biz’s readers could learn valuable lessons?
This is a GREAT question – I’m so happy you asked – One question you might have asked is how do you define SUCCESS and create success in your business?
So the answer to that would be this –
My Divine Business Partner and I have identified the 5 Pillars of Entrepreneurship and we help our clients to understand where they are energetically in relationship to those Pillars and to get CLEAR about what to do to come in to greater harmony and balance so that they can achieve Spiritually Energized Entrepreneurial Success.
We’ve got this great system called SCORE for your Success that focuses on The Five Pillars which are:
Strategy – This is the overarching vision for your work in the world – do you know what the big picture is – or are you kind of stumbling along blindly – knowing that you are here to do something – doing something but not exactly sure where it’s heading – or working into your vision but finding yourself stuck in some way with moving forward into it’s manifestation? When you are clear on your strategy and committed to it – Success is a natural out-picturing or manifestation of this inner vision.
Communications – This is the way that you craft your message, share it with the world and also collaborate and co-create with others through mutually beneficial and satisfying relationships. Success here is being understood – nothing is more frustrating and energetically draining than mis-communications – so much time and energy can be wasted and your business is going NOWHERE fast if you are stuck in this area. Success means you are communicating clearly with YOUR people – they GET you and they WANT to invest in themselves through your work to get some kind of a transformation in their life or business.
Organization – This is how you spend your time – how your work space and flow is managed – how your boundaries are set (or more often NOT set) – how you DECIDE what is priority and what can be delegated or deleted from your list of to dos. Unclarity here results in big piles of projects, missed appointments, overbooking and overwhelming yourself and spinning in circles and not knowing which way is up! Success in this area means that you have a structure in place that is open enough to allow for some surprises and miracles but is firm enough that you don’t get distracted – you actually get stuff DONE!! Woo HOO! And the stuff you get done has MEANING, PURPOSE and is creating VALUE that is then measured in the next area!
Revenue Generation – We use money in our world to keep SCORE right? That being said – when our business is generating the revenue that we want and need then we are achieving SUCCESS in that area beyond that though it’s important to realize how amazing it can be to attract, consolidate and generatively channel WEALTH! Your business can be a vehicle for the creation of SO MUCH VALUE in the world. I’ve seen one of my clients (who is also a mentor of mine) grow her business from the low 6 figures a steady respectable $130,000 a year up until late 2008 to a quantum leap explosion of revenue last year that took her business to $2.2 million and this year she’s on track to DOUBLE THAT. What does that amount of wealth mean? What it means is that she’s SERVING a LOT of people!! And not only through her mentorship programs – she’s also channeling her wealth now into philanthropic organizations to support and give a leg up to other women entrepreneurs who are at the outset of their journey. That’s what I call SUCCESS!
Execution – this is the final pillar – if you are getting a whole boat load of brilliant ideas and none of them are coming fully into fruition then you may be struggling in this area – Success here is being able to first RECEIVE the inspiration, then being able to GROUND it into reality and FULLY Manifest the vision in all it’s glory, then being able to COMPLETE the process and let it go into the world without attachment to outcomes – often this piece is where we get energetically entangled – we want certain results – but the truth is when you are a PASSION–preneur – when you are following your dream/vision/calling and expressing that through entrepreneurship
Success Comes Organically Resulting in Excitement which naturally SCOREs you more Success~!
Thanks for the opportunity to be of service to your community!
More about me and my work can be found at http://www.theenergyjourney.com – also please enjoy 3 free gifts for you and your community from my partner Mikael Sami Kumara and me here: http://www.theenergyjourney.com/gifts
Love lights us! Peace is in you… You are WORTHY Of Wealth!