Happy Valentine’s Day beautiful souls!! This has been a crazy week and I have to say that so many of you have really filled my heart with big, big love! Some of you may know that I’ve been working to raise money to attend Marie Forleo’s B-School this year. So far I’ve had the chance to meet a whole bunch of new amazing clients as a result and have been able to do what I love doing best, helping people change their lives with the help of Spirit. My big dream, and the reason I want to go to B-School is because I want to reach more people and do what I do better! This is part of why I’m offering my 8 week tarot course starting March 18th. But let me go back just a little bit, tell you about my B-School dream and share the BIG spiritual biz myth that makes me CRAZY! Then I’ll tell you about the tarot course.
So first of all, before I get into my story…
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Thank you to everyone who has so far helped me with my mission to raise this money! I’ve raise ALMOST 3/4 of the money! I just have a little bit left to go and about 5 days to do it. I know I can make this happen with your help!!
If you’re wondering what the heck I’m talking about, here’s the brief skinny.
Marie Forleo, an amazing coach and entrepreneur, is having another round of her online business program geared for women looking to boost their business online, reach more people, make the money they need to live and sustain themselves and their business all while changing the world and changing lives.
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That was my reaction when I first learned about B-School. I then anxiously awaited for the next round of B-School to be announced but I was little heartbroken when I heard that there might not BE another round. Then after a bad and unproductive day that ended with me in bed, literally eating crackers in bed and watching season three of The Big C, I woke up in the morning to a Marie Forleo email with the first in a four part series of free training videos that would lead up to the open enrollment for B-School!
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But the lamenting came back when I saw the price of B-School. $1999. An amount I most certainly don’t have to throw around right now. NOT that this would be money “thrown around”. It would be money going to my business and my education, an investment in myself, my business, and my life! Still, know this doesn’t change the fact that it’s money I didn’t have laying around.
So while chatting on Facebook with a few lovely online friends about how it seemed like you couldn’t escape people talking about B-School {seriously, I got about 9 newsletters that day from other lists I’m on talking about B-School coming back}, I openly admitted to my deep desire to go but how my pockets weren’t deep enough to pay for it at the moment.
Again, a prayer was answered. The lovely Jen Saunders of Wild Sister {which you all know I love and adore} suggested running some kind of discount or pay what you can promotion to raise the money. That’s what she’d done to get the money to go to B-School last year and she raised the money without a problem. I said to myself “If Jen can do it, so can I!”
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My big Get Jess To B-School fundraiser with discounts of over 50% on readings, coaching, and classes that are coming up. I also have “Pay What You Can” 3 card readings available in your flavor of tarot, oracle, or angel cards! If you come over you’ll be able to read a little more background about why this is important, why I do what I do, and how B-School will help me do it better!
This leads me to the big announcement that I put out yesterday. My newly revised and ready to rock online course In The Cards: An 8 Week Tarot Journey is open for enrollment!
I LOVE…love love love…teaching this course! It’s a lot of fun and everyone walks away with something new. It doesn’t matter if you don’t even own a tarot deck because we walk through that process of figuring out what deck is right for you. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been reading for a while because we’ll talk about techniques to make your readings more intuitive, how to develop your own tarot language and style, and now to read the cards like you’re telling a story and not just reading individual cards in a spread. Over the 8 weeks you’ll get weekly PDF lessons, we’ll have {at least} 4 live calls for Q+A and practice {which will be recorded and available for download if you miss them}, and other audio and video downloads! You also get lifetime access to all the material and our private Facebook community!
We start on March 18th and enrollment is open now!! If you enroll between now and February 18th you get WELL OVER 50% OFF! This is part of my B-School fundraising but enrollment will stay open until March 15th. Get in now at the lower rate while you can!
All of this brings me to the big Spirit + Biz myth that drives me nuts. I’ve talked about it before here and there, and even in depth once, but I’m going to talk about it real quick here because I KNOW someone is sitting here reading this thinking “Why would I give you my money?” Why, indeed!
I get what you’re saying but here’s the thing…
There is a myth that anyone that does healing, readings, mentor or coaching from a spiritual standpoint or anyone that teaches spiritually based topics and techniques should do it for free.
Excuse my language but…
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There are different ways you could look at this. I deserve to get paid for my time. I deserve to get paid for my expertises and knowledge and ability to share it. These are the ways I USED to approach all of this. And in a way from a practical standpoint it still holds true. But the real reason why I do what I do is that I love helping people and seeing their lives change!
The truth is if I’m not getting paid and earning money to pay rent, put food on the table, pay the bills, and take care of myself then I can’t do what I do! I’ll have to go back to the land of the soul-sucking corporate jobs that I left in 2006 to follow my dream of writing, teaching, and healing full time.
Luckily my husband fulled supported this crazy idea and he’s been supportive so far!
But I don’t want to be supported financially by anyone!
I want to support myself while doing what I love which involves supporting others!
And the idea that people with these kinds of gifts and skills like I have should do it for free out of the goodness of their hearts would be WONDERFUL if we lived in a world that took good karma for payment. But it doesn’t! As Madonna would say, we are living in a material world and {like it or not} I’m a material girl.
Or as Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad would say…
There is also this little myth that people in the new age/metaphysical/spiritual biz are just trying to get rich quick. MYTH!
Well, myth for me! I work hard with my clients and it isn’t about turning a quick buck at all and it isn’t about getting rich.
I have a friend who lives in a $7 million dollar house. I love going to her house because I feel like I’m on vacation whenever I’m there. But I would never want to live in her house. I love leaving and coming home to my apartment, which is super nice and feels resort-esque in it’s own way. But I’m not after a $7 million house!
I’m after what every person who ventures out on their own with a business is after…financial independence and freedom while doing what I love. And what I love to do helps change lives {and these people seem to agree}.
So that’s the deal.
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So come by and help out if you can! Even a donation of $5 helps me get closer to my dreams!
Or enroll in my tarot class and let’s rock out with 8 weeks of tarot!
