22: Reconnecting with Your True Creative Voice with Britta Buchanan
What if finding your creative voice wasn’t about adding more to your plate, but about slowing down, listening inward, and allowing yourself to realign with what feels true?
Britta Buchanan is the founder of Aligned and Undefined, where she helps spiritually conscious creatives reconnect with their authentic voice and creative flow.
After leaving her career as an elementary school teacher, Britta began guiding others through Human Design and the Akashic Records, helping them align with their soul’s blueprint and create from a place of authenticity and ease.
In this episode, Britta shares her journey of transition, transformation, and learning to trust her intuition—plus what it means to see creativity not just as something you do, but as a way of being.
The Power of Transition and Transformation
Britta talks about leaving behind a career that no longer fit and stepping into entrepreneurship with an open heart. For her, it wasn’t a sudden leap—it was a series of small, honest realizations.
“I always knew it wasn’t going to be a lifelong thing for me.”
Try this: Reflect on an area of your life or business that feels like it’s shifting. What truth are you ready to admit to yourself?
Bonus idea: Write down one small step that would bring you closer to what feels more aligned.
Creativity as a Way of Being
Britta believes creativity isn’t limited to art—it’s how we think, connect, and move through life.
“Creativity is a way of being, it’s a way of thinking.”
Try this: Approach your next decision or conversation like an act of creation. What’s possible if you treat it as a canvas?
Bonus idea: Start a short daily ritual—five minutes to sketch, write, or simply imagine freely.
Aligning with Your Soul’s Blueprint
Using Human Design and the Akashic Records, Britta helps people understand who they are at their core.
“Human Design is really great for that, but so are the records.”
Try this: Look up your Human Design type or journal about what alignment feels like in your body.
Bonus idea: When something feels off, pause and ask, “What would feel lighter right now?”
Living with Authenticity
At the heart of Britta’s work is the belief that when you show up as yourself, you naturally attract what—and who—is meant for you.
“When you show up as you, you attract the people that are for you.”
Try this: Notice moments where you filter yourself out of fear. What would it look like to speak or create from full authenticity instead?
Bonus idea: Reach out to someone who sees the real you and thank them for holding that space.
Quick Recap
- Change starts with honesty and self-trust.
- Creativity isn’t something you do—it’s something you are.
- Alignment begins when you listen to your own energy.
- Authenticity attracts the right people and opportunities.
Ready to Explore Your Own Alignment?
Britta shows that your creative path doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s. You just need to come home to yourself and create from there.
If you’re ready to take your own creative business to the next level—without losing yourself along the way—book a free strategy session with me.
Let’s make your next chapter feel aligned, grounded, and uniquely yours.
Transcript
I think being able to do things differently, being able to kind of trust yourself, trust your kind of vision and kind of, you know, what I was talking about earlier, you know, there's so much content out there about how to do things.
Speaker A:And yes, there's value in learning from others, but when you can really, you know, dive deep into what makes you different, what makes you tick, and trusting that and being okay with, you know, putting yourself out there, even if it's scary, and being able to speak authentically as you, I think when creative businesses and creative people really are able to honor who they are at their core and speak from that place and trust that they have value, that is really the crux of it all.
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Speaker B:Welcome to another episode of the Standout Creatives.
Speaker B:Today I'm on Britta Buchanan.
Speaker B:Britta is the founder of Aligned and Undefined.
Speaker B:She's a former elementary school teacher who's now helping spirituality conscious creatives reconnect with their true voice and creative flow.
Speaker B:Through her work with Human Design and Akashic Records, Britta guides people to align with their soul's blueprint and express themselves in a way that feels authentic and powerful.
Speaker B:Britta's approach combines deep spiritual insight with a creative touch, making her the perfect guide for anyone looking to rediscover their creative spark.
Speaker B:Britta, that's sounds like amazing work that you're trying to do, especially in the creative realm.
Speaker B:Can you tell us a little bit about your journey and how you got to where you are now?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:It's great to be here.
Speaker A:Thanks for having me, Kevin.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I am a former teacher.
Speaker A: I left the classroom in: Speaker A:And originally not, you know, the creativity aspect came in later as I kind of went on my own journey and I started offering Human Design the Akashic records because I found a lot of value in using those tools on my own and thought, why don't I bring them to other people?
Speaker A:And so I have been doing that and was doing that for Over a year, and then just about a year, and then this fall, I kind of got this inspiration to bring in some creativity into it.
Speaker A:And so I started offering some copywriting services, which I also do within my business through the lens of human design, supporting people to create really soulful web copy, mostly for their businesses.
Speaker A:And throughout the journey of bringing in the copy and continuing to do my caution records, Human Design work, I kind of, you know, I've been getting clear on what my brand is.
Speaker A:And I think that's a journey that all business owners go through.
Speaker A:And there is kind of this period where you're kind of figuring it out and it develops over time.
Speaker A:And what I kind of started to realize was what I really wanted to bring to people was kind of based off my own personal journey of, you know, feeling kind of.
Speaker A:Even though I had been running my business, feeling kind of like stuck in, you know, what am I actually offering?
Speaker A:What.
Speaker A:What is the value I bring?
Speaker A:And the more it became clearer, the more it was like, I want to help people with their creativity.
Speaker A:And when I say creativity, I don't necessarily mean being an artist or being a writer.
Speaker A:I mean, that's great, and I love people who do that.
Speaker A:And I consider myself to be a writer.
Speaker A:I write copy.
Speaker A:For me, creativity is a way of being.
Speaker A:It's a way of thinking, it's a way of doing that can be so, like, just enriching and it brings.
Speaker A:You know, when you can move with a creative flow, you are able to solve problems easier.
Speaker A:You're able to kind of move with more ease.
Speaker A:You're able to solve, they said, you know, solve problems, but, you know, the challenges that you can overcome them with more.
Speaker A:I don't want to say it's necessarily easier when you're more creative, but there's things just kind of flow.
Speaker A:And so being able to offer this, being able to help people re and respark their creativity.
Speaker A:I guess I kind of came from my own personal journey, running my business in the first year, and I was doing Human Design, the Akashic Records, but I felt stuck, and I wasn't like, what.
Speaker A:What am I doing with this?
Speaker A:And the more that I kind of stepped into my creativity in my business and in my life, the more I was like, this is what I'm here to bring to people.
Speaker A:And so I'm really excited to continue on the journey.
Speaker A:I still consider myself relatively new to the entrepreneurial space.
Speaker A:It's been a year and a half now, so it's still.
Speaker A:Still quite new.
Speaker A:And I. I feel like I'M really funding my stride and that feels really exciting.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think it's.
Speaker B:Takes time for anything.
Speaker B:No matter what you're doing business, if you, even if you're working for a company or whatnot, it still takes time to figure out exactly how to get into the flow of things, which is something that's just expected, especially if you're going out on your own.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker A:I think.
Speaker A:And I certainly had this vision of myself that, you know, I would start my business and all of a sudden I would have clients.
Speaker A:I would be, you know, super successful right away.
Speaker A:And that was a little bit misguided and, and it really has taken time for me to kind of find that flow.
Speaker A:And I think that we, you're right.
Speaker A:We don't necessarily live in a society that is allowing of that.
Speaker A:Like people expect us to just like figure it out right away.
Speaker A:And yet when we can give ourselves that time, there's so much magic that comes from that.
Speaker B:Hmm.
Speaker B:What was the moment in your teaching journey that you were deciding, this is not right for me.
Speaker B:I need to make a change here?
Speaker A:I don't know if there was one moment, there was a series of moments that led up to the realization that it wasn't for me.
Speaker A:I think finding human design specifically was really the permission slip for me that was like, oh, this is why teaching is a struggle for me.
Speaker A:I'm in human design.
Speaker A:I'm, I'm a non sacral being.
Speaker A:And the sacral center in human design is like your life force.
Speaker A:And so if you have a defined sacral, you have consistent and reliable energy.
Speaker A:And if you don't have a defined sacral, you don't have consistent, reliable energy.
Speaker A:So I, I'm a non sacral being in human design, so I don't have that consistent, reliable energy to keep me going.
Speaker A:And it made sense why I was so exhausted and like why I just had, I felt like I had, you know, I would, There was just a lot of, I had a lot of issues with being really, really tired and just the go, go, go of teaching.
Speaker A:And it's, it's, you know, it's, it's such a, there's so much to it.
Speaker A:It's not like, you know, a typical 9 to 5 where you like leave, go at, go in at 9 and then leave at 5.
Speaker A:It's like you're reading after work, you're spending, you know, getting in touch with parents, you're planning your lesson planning, you know, I was doing it on the weekends and just recognizing that I think it's a lot of work for anybody.
Speaker A:Being a teacher is not for the faint of heart.
Speaker A:And yet also seeing within my human design that, oh, this is.
Speaker A:This is why I'm maybe struggling so much with the exhaustion, is because I don't have a defense sacral.
Speaker A:And that was kind of the permission slip.
Speaker A:And then over the experience of my couple, you know, the years that I was in the classroom, it just got to the point where I think I always knew when I entered the classroom, I always knew it wasn't going to be a lifelong thing for me.
Speaker A:That was something I'd always intuited.
Speaker A:And I said, you know, I'm at least.
Speaker A: and got my master's degree in: Speaker A:And so I was like, at least five years out for my master's degree to make it worth it sort of thing.
Speaker A:And it got to be two years, and I was like, I don't think I can make it.
Speaker A:And kind of giving myself that permission and not putting that pressure on me that, oh, because I spent all this money in a master's degree, now I have to do this.
Speaker A:I think being able to give myself that permission to.
Speaker A:To leave.
Speaker A:When I realized that, I was exhausted and it wasn't working, and I was spending all this time working, and I wasn't, like, having that creative flow in my life.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A: nd of piled up in December of: Speaker A:I was.
Speaker A:When I told my principals I was leaving, and, you know, I said, I'll stay out the school year.
Speaker A:Like, I'm not gonna leave midway.
Speaker A:However, this is going to be.
Speaker A:This is the end for me.
Speaker B:I think there's a psychological principle called sunk cost fallacy, where it says that just because you spend some time doing something means you have to continue doing it, even though it doesn't really make sense to.
Speaker B:So a lot of people stick with things even though it's not what they need to be doing.
Speaker B:So it's good that you recognize that for you, this was not the right choice to continue on.
Speaker B:You had to make that choice for yourself.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I think for me, that was also the recognition that I could still be a teacher even if I wasn't in the classroom.
Speaker A:Like, there are so many ways to be a teacher, and in many ways, I'm still doing that with this work with human design, the Akashic records.
Speaker A:It's kind of that recognition that, oh, I don't have to not teach.
Speaker A:It's Just a different way of teaching and there's still value in and that.
Speaker B:What would, what did you want to do when you were a kid?
Speaker B:What kind of jobs did you think you were going to do?
Speaker B:Were you, did you want to be a teacher?
Speaker B:I did.
Speaker A:I wanted to be a teacher and I wanted to be a writer.
Speaker A:And for when I was in elementary school, I wanted to be a teacher.
Speaker A:And then for a while I was like, no, I'm too introverted, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker A:And then I kind of came back around to it.
Speaker A:When I was in my 20s, I didn't go to undergrad for teaching.
Speaker A:I got my master's in education.
Speaker A:So it's so funny that it is something I wanted to be when I was little.
Speaker A:And I think there's always been this drive for me to teach people.
Speaker A:But like I said earlier, also recognizing that there are so many different ways to teach and you don't have to be a classroom teacher to be a teacher.
Speaker A:I mean, you can be a teacher.
Speaker A:There's so many different ways.
Speaker A:And again, I think that's that creativity coming in and being like, how can you we, when we think of a teacher, we think of somebody who stands in front of a class and teaches children or you know, young adults, if you're teaching high school or college.
Speaker A:But that's just a very limiting idea of what it needs to teach because there's so, so many ways that people can, can share their knowledge with others.
Speaker A:And that's what teaching is, it's sharing knowledge with others.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And the way that, at least in the, the U.S. public schools, the way that we teach is very one dimensional.
Speaker B:There's not a lot of depth to it.
Speaker B:So we're teaching so that you can pass this test, so that you can go into an office to work forever.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:It's not absolutely right.
Speaker A:And I mean, there's a lot that's changed within the system within the past number of years.
Speaker A:There is really more of a focus on, at least in the districts that I taught in.
Speaker A:I can't speak for the whole country, the whole U.S. but you know, really big focus on, you know, project based learning and being able to, you know, work together with others.
Speaker A:And you know, not there's still tests and stuff, but there's, there's definitely been an expansion and kind of being able to teach children to critically think and to learn, work in groups and to, you know, be able to do projects.
Speaker A:And so that's a really great thing.
Speaker A:There's also a big emphasis on Differentiation in the school system as well.
Speaker A:And yet there's still a lot of.
Speaker A:In, at least in the traditional public schools, there's still a lot of, you know, red tape.
Speaker A:There's still a lot of ways of doing things that aren't really supportive.
Speaker A:Like the whole bell system in schools comes from factory workers and teaching children to be factory workers.
Speaker A:And there's just a lot.
Speaker A:There's a lot of things that have changed in the past few years that are really great.
Speaker A:And then there's a lot of things that are still like, this is a little bit outdated.
Speaker A:A lot of it outdated.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I think there was also the reason we have summer school is so that kids could work on the farms or something along those lines.
Speaker B:That's the reason we had that break is so, you know.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker B:So there's all kinds of things that are so outdated that it was all.
Speaker A:Based around the, the, the farming system.
Speaker A:You're absolutely right.
Speaker A:But most people aren't farmers these days.
Speaker A:And so.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I think also it's like everybody has a different learning style and way that works best for them.
Speaker B:So as a non like school teacher, you can teach in a way that makes it effective for whoever you're trying to teach.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:You can adapt and make changes.
Speaker B:So that way it fits the person.
Speaker B:Because some people are auditory, some people are physical, some people are visual.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I think that's definitely something that I have brought to my business is, you know, how can I support people individually in their needs?
Speaker A:And you know, I of course have my offers that I put out there for people.
Speaker A:And yet at the same time, I'm really passionate about working with people to, to make something that works best for them.
Speaker A:Because like you said, we all learn differently.
Speaker A:And that's also another reason why I love human design, is because it is.
Speaker A:We call it the science of differentiation.
Speaker A:And so we're just recognizing that we are all so different and that even differentiation in the school system, there's limitations to that too, because that differentiation just doesn't account for really like how.
Speaker A:How different we all are.
Speaker A:And even just the concept of sitting in school for like eight hours just is kind of ridiculous to me.
Speaker A:The amount of time that children sit and are expected to listen when really children are, you know, there's so much that children could be doing with their lives and learning by experiencing and learning by playing and learning through so many different modalities.
Speaker A:And the amount of time that at least I saw children sitting and listening to teachers, I mean, there's value in that.
Speaker A:And yet I think that the way that the traditional school system is structured is like.
Speaker A:Like we said, very.
Speaker A:It's very limiting right now.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:That's the reason for.
Speaker B:For the most part, why you see kids disrupting and all kinds of stuff, because it's not like it's not built for everyone.
Speaker B:It's just everyone's been forced into this singular way of doing things.
Speaker B:So it works for some people.
Speaker B:I mean, the vast majority of people are.
Speaker B:Are able to go through it.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Not super well, but, you know, enough.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah, Absolutely.
Speaker A:I agree.
Speaker B:Can you talk about how you got into human design and what human design is and how that works?
Speaker A:Yeah, I would love to introduce it.
Speaker A:I've been talking about it and speaking to it a little bit.
Speaker A:But I also am conscious that not all of your viewers have maybe heard of this before.
Speaker A: ntially channeled by a man in: Speaker A:He called himself Raouhu.
Speaker A:And so it is a combination of a variety of different ancient systems.
Speaker A:The I Ching, the Chinese I Ching, the Cabolo Tree of Life, the Hindu chakra system.
Speaker A:I feel Western astrology.
Speaker A:So it's all of these systems just, like, brought together, and basically you put in your birth date and your birth time and your location, and you get up a chart, and the chart can kind of really.
Speaker A:It's your blueprint.
Speaker A:It kind of tells you how you're designed to move through the world as you.
Speaker A: And I came across it in late: Speaker A:So it was before the pandemic hit.
Speaker A:My friend told me about it, and I got my chart up, I looked into it, and I resonated with it.
Speaker A:But I ultimately put it away because I did not believe in any spiritual things at that time.
Speaker A:I was like, I don't believe in astrology.
Speaker A:I don't believe in channeling.
Speaker A:This is bizarre.
Speaker A:This guy channeled this on LSD and Ibiza.
Speaker A:This is a crazy story.
Speaker A:Like who?
Speaker A:Like, what the heck?
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So I. I put it away, and I was like, okay, I resonate with what I'm reading about my human design, but I don't believe it.
Speaker A:How can I possibly believe that?
Speaker A:This is a ridiculous story.
Speaker A:And I left it for about a year and was focusing on other areas of personal development because I've always been really big at personal development.
Speaker A:I've always been big into, you know, like, Myers Briggs and the Enneagram and all the different profiling tools, and so kind of put human design away for.
Speaker A:For a little bit.
Speaker A: ever, it must have been early: Speaker A:Yeah, I was.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:I just had this intuitive nudge to just slip back into it.
Speaker A:And I was like, all right, well, I guess I'll listen to you intuition, because you usually don't fail me.
Speaker A:And I started looking into it, and I was learning more about it and kind of just taking my time, like, really sinking in little by little.
Speaker A:And for about six months, there was just like this sinking in of like, okay, like, I don't know if I believe this, but I'm trying it out, seeing what I can find out there.
Speaker A: And it wasn't until mid-: Speaker A:So at the time, I was living in Washington, D.C. and I moved to Northern Virginia for a teaching job.
Speaker A:And I moved to Northern Virginia just a few minutes outside of D.C. and I noticed a huge difference in myself.
Speaker A:And this is part of my human design is in the importance of environment.
Speaker A:Environment is very important for my human design type.
Speaker A:And I was like, oh, I feel really different here.
Speaker A:I think this is my environment.
Speaker A:Like, I changed my environment and I feel like a different person.
Speaker A:And that's when I really started to take human design seriously because, like, I couldn't deny how the knowledge I had learned about my environment being really important was impacting me.
Speaker A:And I. I felt different.
Speaker A:I felt better.
Speaker A:And so that's when I started to really believe it and when I started to kind of, like, dive in deeper.
Speaker A:But yeah, it was.
Speaker A: at initial time in early late: Speaker A: , early: Speaker A: It was about six months in: Speaker A:I think this makes sense to me, even though it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:There's something here that I can't deny.
Speaker B:It's so interesting because I had my reading done recently and it all sounded so true, but I don't know how it works.
Speaker B:Like, how does.
Speaker B:How does, like, your specific birthday and time and all that stuff relate to, like, this whole idea outlook on your life and how does it actually feel like it's true?
Speaker B:I. I didn't understand that, quite frankly.
Speaker A:I don't quite either.
Speaker A:RA, who brought human design into the world, talked about neutrinos and these tiny little particles that we can't see.
Speaker A:They're invisible to the naked eye that are constantly moving through the the world.
Speaker A:And like the neutrino trino, the neutrino field is connected to the Stars and the planets and like it has.
Speaker A:So the neutrino field is what's impacting us.
Speaker A:And so he talked about that as being what makes human design this, this science of differentiation, like real.
Speaker A:And since he brought human design into the world, neutrinos have actually been proven by physicists, like they actually exist, which is kind of crazy.
Speaker A:So that's, you know, an explanation that Ra has that, you know, these tiny neutrinos that we can't see are impacting us.
Speaker A:And yet I think with some of these esoteric woo woo practices, there is an element also of just kind of putting the logic aside and being open to things that necessarily making sense 100%.
Speaker A:And I think that's something that I've found has been really useful for me because like I said, I used to be very logical and like I, I always have been very intuitive and I've always trusted my intuition.
Speaker A:But at the same time I wasn't into, like, I wouldn't, I didn't consider myself as spiritual person.
Speaker A:I was just like, oh, I have an intuition that I follow and I don't know why that's, that is, but I trust it.
Speaker A:Um, and I think since coming into this world there has been in a recognition that to believe some of these things that I resonate with, I, I have to put the logic aside and be okay with that.
Speaker B:I feel like that's part of every faith, religion or spiritual element in the world because we can't explain everything.
Speaker B:And I mean science can do a good job, but we've only been doing science for what, like 2,000, 3,000 years, right?
Speaker B:So yeah, how much can we actually figure out about the world in such a short period of time?
Speaker B:Because obviously before humans there was a world that existed in.
Speaker B:How does that relate to kind of what we're feeling and sensing?
Speaker A:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A:And I think just remembering that to not make a dogma out of anything, I mean, I.
Speaker A:Human design isn't a religion and it's not a dogma.
Speaker A:And I'm not here to try to convince you that you need to go live your life.
Speaker A:If it resonates with you and you're listening to this, go take a look at it.
Speaker A:If it doesn't like, I don't care, you're not gonna hurt my feelings.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I also just think, you know, that obviously we have science and there's so much value in science and, and that we want to listen to science.
Speaker A:And yet at the same time that thing like with each new scientific discovery we, the sciences we know it changes.
Speaker A:And so I think sometimes people, in at least our modern world, what I've seen happening is people getting so stuck on the science.
Speaker A:And like, science is real.
Speaker A:And yes, science is real.
Speaker A:I'm not saying that it's not.
Speaker A:It's, it's.
Speaker A:But it's.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:People forget that the science that we know today didn't exist a hundred years ago, fifty years ago.
Speaker A:And so even in science, there's always room for discovery.
Speaker A:And true science allows that.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think the, the principle of science is that we, we don't know everything.
Speaker B:It's just.
Speaker B:Just like built into the system, which is why we test and experiment and record.
Speaker B:And if there's more testing done, that proves the previous science wrong.
Speaker B:Obviously there needs to be an update in the system.
Speaker B:That's happened many times throughout history.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:We used to think that absolutely the Earth was the center of the universe.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So it's like everything can change.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, the, the people, you know, the people used to believe the Earth was flat.
Speaker A:And I guess there are still people out there who believe that, but that's a different story.
Speaker A:I'm not here to, like, I'm not here to talk about that.
Speaker A:But like, generally speaking, you know, most people believe that the Earth is round.
Speaker A:And, you know, there's science that proves that.
Speaker A:And so just there's so many things.
Speaker A:It's a constant discovery.
Speaker B:I think that's one of the biggest things, especially if we add in the realm of creativity about just exploring different ideas because you don't know what you don't know.
Speaker B:And, and once you take a deeper look into different things, you can obviously change your mind.
Speaker B:Like you did.
Speaker B:You didn't used to be into spirituality, but now, you know, your business is pretty heavily based in that kind of way of thinking.
Speaker A:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A:I mean, I do the human design.
Speaker A:I channel the Akashic records, which some people might think is a little crazy.
Speaker A:But you know what, that's fine.
Speaker A:I mean, I think I have been.
Speaker A:There's been a lot of fear that I've had to uncover in myself around embracing these sides of myself because I've been so worried, you know, what will other people think of me?
Speaker A:I didn't used to be this way and just allowing myself to accept that, you know what, people can change.
Speaker A:And I always honestly think there was always spiritual part in me and kind of got covered up for a while.
Speaker A:And now I'm reclaiming our.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's kind of the same as your intuition.
Speaker B:So it's like that element of you that you can't really explain.
Speaker B:And there's no way to really explain what science either.
Speaker B:It's just something that we feel probably through many, many, many, like undetectable cues in the world that allows us to make these decisions.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:And I do think there's a layer of intuition that is based off of really subtle cues and just patterns, like repeating patterns.
Speaker A:And I don't think that's all of intuition, but I do think that, you know, a lot of times what we call intuition is just kind of being able to recognize patterns and those cues.
Speaker A:And I think a lot of times what people call intuition is really being able to catch on to those deep, subtle cues that maybe not everybody, they're not even maybe aware of in the moment.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And a lot of that is your brain working in the background.
Speaker B:Like it's constantly going, obviously.
Speaker B:But we're not conscious of most of what's happening with our brains.
Speaker B:It's just constantly processing and doing things in the background.
Speaker B:So it's like a lot of it has to do with what it's seen and heard and whatever telling it what it should do just because it makes your instincts faster.
Speaker B:If it didn't do that, it would take a lot longer to, to process things and we would probably have been killed by like tigers or something.
Speaker A:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker B:Can you talk about the Akashic records?
Speaker B:I'm not familiar with that.
Speaker B:So, yeah, explain a little bit about that.
Speaker A:So the Akashic records came into my awareness probably about a year and a half after.
Speaker A:After I found human.
Speaker A:Not a year and a half after I found human design, but a year and a half after I kind of went back in down the rabbit hole on my intuition guide me there.
Speaker A:And they are an energetic tool.
Speaker A:You can't see them, you can experience them.
Speaker A:They're basically the.
Speaker A:Your energetic library of all the thoughts, feelings, experiences that you've had in this lifetime and past lifetimes and future opportunities.
Speaker A:I don't consider myself to be a psychic.
Speaker A:I don't think that I can necessarily read the future.
Speaker A:I believe that I can tap into future opportunities and tell them to you.
Speaker A:And you get to choose whether you want to go in that direction or not.
Speaker A:Some people who read the records are very, you know, would say that they could read the future.
Speaker A:I prefer to leave it up.
Speaker A:Leave it up to you.
Speaker A:I, I think that we have a we.
Speaker A:I believe that we co.
Speaker A:Create our experience and that just because I say something is going to happen or that I see something in your future doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to make that choice.
Speaker A:So it is a tool to really dive deep into your energetics to understand yourself better, to understand kind of maybe why you came here in this lifetime.
Speaker A:That's, you know, sometimes people go over the records because they want to learn more about their purpose.
Speaker A:Sometimes people want to go into the records to do healing because you can learn.
Speaker A:You know, I've done a lot of past life healing in my akashic records.
Speaker A:Things that fears that don't make sense in this lifetime for me, like that I've been able to access in my past lives.
Speaker A:Like, oh, that makes sense.
Speaker A:I understand why I'm afraid of that.
Speaker A:I don't have any experience in, in this lifetime that would bring that fear up.
Speaker A:And so being able to access the past lifetimes.
Speaker A:Also, I've done ancestral healing in the records.
Speaker A:I've connected with people's relatives in the records, like deceased.
Speaker A:But it's also a great tool going back to this idea of creativity, of getting insights into how to move forward in the most aligned way for you.
Speaker A:I mean, my business is called Aligned and Undefined.
Speaker A:It's all about undefining yourself from what doesn't work so that you can align yourself to what does.
Speaker A:And so the human design is really great for that, but so are the records.
Speaker A:And so using the records as a tool to kind of figure out energetically, at an energetic level what isn't working, what, what maybe why something's not working.
Speaker A:Like if you want to do going into the healing portion of it with past lives or ancestor, ancestral stuff, et cetera, or even just like tuning into something in this lifetime that maybe was traumatic from a energetic records point of view.
Speaker A:And you can also get insights into how to move forward in the upsaligned way as well.
Speaker A:Like I said, I don't say, I don't consider myself a psychic.
Speaker A:I don't say that I read the future.
Speaker A:But I can give you tips and tricks with the, with the help of the records to give you insights into how to move forward in the most aligned way.
Speaker A:And I can access some future timelines.
Speaker A:Doesn't mean it's going to happen, but you can get an idea of potential futures on offer to you and you get to choose what, what direction you want to go in.
Speaker B:How do you help other people work through the records?
Speaker B:Because it makes sense to work for yourself, but having it work for someone else is an interesting concept.
Speaker A:So different record readers have different ways of doing it?
Speaker A:Well, how I use it is I have prayer that I use to get into the records that I got from my own records.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:You always need to ask.
Speaker A:Well, you don't need to, but I recommend it.
Speaker A:It's I think the ethical thing to do to make sure you have permission from someone else to enter their records.
Speaker A:And so when I enter someone's records, I am getting information from their records, like from their energetic library.
Speaker A:And I bring it through me.
Speaker A:So I, you know, I'll channel it through myself.
Speaker A:Um, I've had other.
Speaker A:I, I've been in experiences with people who read the records where they're kind of more allow me.
Speaker A:Or where they kind of guide the client to like get into their own experience.
Speaker A:For me, it's very much a storytelling sort of experience where I enter your records and I share what I hear from it for you.
Speaker A:And that's also how I was kind of taught when I learned the records.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So yeah, that is kind of how I do it.
Speaker A:Where I enter.
Speaker A:I will enter your records with your permission.
Speaker A:Usually I recommend people to come with one to two questions, open ended questions, not yes or no open ended questions that they can receive guidance on.
Speaker A:And then I bring it through my vessel to you.
Speaker B:Hmm.
Speaker B:I don't know a lot about psychics, but it sounds like a very similar energy exchange.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker A:I mean, like a psychic is reading your energy, tapping into your energy.
Speaker A:And that's exactly what I do in the records.
Speaker A:I just, I think the records are a lot more, you know, a lot of times people go to psychics because they're like looking for the future.
Speaker A:The records are a lot more, there's a lot more to the records than just looking at the future.
Speaker A:And like I said, I personally don't call myself a psychic.
Speaker A:I can tap into different timelines and I think that for me, like, I always want my client to feel like they're in the driver's seat.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:Obviously we can't control everything in our life, but we do have agency.
Speaker A:And I think that sometimes if you're going to a psychic and just being told this is your future, that can feel depil.
Speaker A:That can feel debilitating sometimes because it's like, oh, well, I guess I'm resigned to that.
Speaker A:And I personally don't believe that.
Speaker A:I believe that I can, like I said, I can show you a timeline and if you like it, here are some steps you can take to get there.
Speaker A:If you don't, well, let's, you know, see how we can regroup.
Speaker B:Yeah, I mean, there's so much out of side of our own control that I think any one predetermined outcome is not necessarily gonna happen.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker B:There's just like an infinite number of things that can happen and ways that things can get interrupted or, you know, so it's just like figuring out all the possible avenues and making your way to the one that you want to the most.
Speaker B:And that doesn't mean you're going to get there through the methods you think you are.
Speaker B:Sometimes you have to take like the windy road in order to find the path.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I, you know, I've, I've learned in my experience just listening to it for like I channel this in my, in the records.
Speaker A:But I've also, you know, heard so many other people in the spiritual space talk about this concept of timelines and that, you know, we all have multiple timelines that we can choose.
Speaker A:And you know, we ultimately, like you said, there's so much out of our control.
Speaker A:There is so much that we are just kind of bombarded with as we move through our life.
Speaker A:And then at the same time we do have agency and we do get to kind of choose.
Speaker A:We don't get to choose what happens to us when we get to choose how we respond to that.
Speaker A:And that is really, really empowering.
Speaker A:And when we believe, or I believe that when we can move through life believing that the way we respond to things is just as powerful as what happens to us, that there's a lot of, we have a, like I, I like to use the word co creation.
Speaker A:Like we have the ability to co create our life with the universe, God, universe, whatever you want to call it, whatever it is the most comfortable term for you.
Speaker A:But we have the ability to co create.
Speaker A:We're not in control.
Speaker A:We don't always get to decide what happens to us.
Speaker A:And yet there's so much beauty in having that agency and knowing that I do get to choose how I respond to this.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Oftentimes that's the only thing we really are in control of is our response to things that happen to us, around us and in the world.
Speaker B:There's nothing else you can really control for the most part.
Speaker B:I mean there are some things, but for the most part everything is almost 100% of stuff is outside of what you can affect.
Speaker A:It's true.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Can you talk about going from teaching to starting your business, the, the challenges of that and how you started up your business?
Speaker A:Oh, there's so much I didn't know and I think I, I did, I, I, I truly thought that I would just you know, post a couple Instagram posts, and all of a sudden I would just be rolling in the clients.
Speaker A:And I was so very, so very idealistic.
Speaker A:It's kind of hilarious looking back.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I think there's so much to business that I didn't know about and so much that I've had to learn along the way, and so much that I'm still learning.
Speaker A:I mean, I'm only a year and a half in, and then we learn as we grow and go.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So I think teaching is very structured.
Speaker A:You come in, you teach the same subjects at the same time.
Speaker A:At least for me.
Speaker A:You know, I taught elementary school, and so it was a very fixed schedule.
Speaker A:It was like, you know, we started it at 8, and then, you know, at 8:30, we started, you know, one subject.
Speaker A:And then, you know, there was.
Speaker A:It's a very structured day.
Speaker A:And then outside of the classroom, you know, when you're not in the classroom with the kids and there's so much to do.
Speaker A:I mean, like I said, creating papers, getting contact with parents as need be, you know, going to staff meetings, planning for the next week, the next day.
Speaker A:There's always something to do.
Speaker A:And in business, there's a lot more flexibility.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And so, which is a beautiful.
Speaker A:And yet also, I think for me, being used to so much structure, there was a bit of a challenge in, like, learning, like, how do I actually do this?
Speaker A:Like, where do I put my energy?
Speaker A:Where do I put my attention?
Speaker A:Now I have all this time to, like, what do I do with it?
Speaker A:And learning along the way.
Speaker A:Like, oh, okay, these are ways.
Speaker A:This is minnow how ways I can spend my time, you know, putting time into, you know, actually crafting my offers and figuring out what I want to offer and, you know, putting time into networking and, you know, getting to know people and putting time into reaching out to clients.
Speaker A:And so there's all these things that go into business, even, like, you know, looking at the money aspect and, you know, making sure the finances are okay, like, where am I putting the money in the business?
Speaker A:And all these things that go into it that I just didn't know about.
Speaker A:And so I do think there's a learning curve, especially.
Speaker A:I mean, I think anybody who transitions to business from, like a paying W2 job, there's going to be a learning curve.
Speaker A:But if you're coming from something so structured, like teaching, it is.
Speaker A:It's a bit like, what now?
Speaker A:What do I do?
Speaker A:I have all this, like, what do I do with all this time that I have?
Speaker A:And, like, how Do I use it wisely and how do I use it?
Speaker A:Well.
Speaker B:Yeah, I mean, I think especially if you're not coming from a business centered background, it's very difficult to know what it takes to run a business.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So you have the teaching aspect that you can do for your business, but in order to get people to learn from you, you have to find them, right?
Speaker A:Yeah, you got to find the people and you know, kind of where, where do you find them?
Speaker A:Where are the best avenues for that and kind of experimenting in that way too.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Can you talk about some of the ways that you've tried and what has, has been the most successful way for you?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I leaned a lot on Instagram and I still use Instagram now, but I think I leaned a little, a little bit to heavily on it in, in the beginning because I honestly don't get most people from Instagram.
Speaker A:Like it's more of a platform for me to keep in touch with people that already are interested in what I do.
Speaker A:Rather than finding new people.
Speaker A:I do, every once in a while I'll find the new person on Instagram.
Speaker A:But it's not been like a gold mine of clients.
Speaker A:Leaning really deeply into networking has been really helpful for me.
Speaker A:So going on, I know we met on a networking call, shout out to Laura Livingston's Real Connections.
Speaker A:So networking, going, finding those networking calls that really resonate with me.
Speaker A:Alignable has been great.
Speaker A:I like to use Alignable to get on smart connects there.
Speaker A:It's a great way to meet businesses and other business owners.
Speaker A:I've been leaning more to LinkedIn recently so that I think there's value there that I'm kind of just tapping into going to in person things.
Speaker A:I mean, my business is primarily online.
Speaker A:Um, I do a lot of most of my work online at this point.
Speaker A:I would love an in person space at some point in the future, but we're not there and it's okay.
Speaker A:Um, but I get a lot of clients from just like going places and being like, I, I do this and people are interested.
Speaker A:It's like I'm not trying, but it just happens.
Speaker A:Um, and yeah, I think like really leaning in.
Speaker A:Something I'm really, really leaning into this year is, you know, nurturing those connections that I meet on networking at networking calls and networking events and getting in touch like partnerships, collaborations, ways that I can work together with other business owners because that's exposure, you know, to their audience.
Speaker A:Getting on to more podcasts has been something I'm playing with too.
Speaker A:And so just having those connections with people, like real people and fostering that, Keeping in touch with people I think has been the most, where I've had the most successful.
Speaker B:The interesting thing that I found is that a lot of people think that something like social media is going to be the most effective way to be a successful entrepreneur.
Speaker B:And it can be.
Speaker B:But I think the way that a lot of at least service based businesses operate is that having real connections with people versus like using your platform to shout out people or you know, message to people is much more effective because you have that individual one on one connection or even if you're in like a group, a small group of people, it's easier to, you know, get people to know you and then like you and then if they're interested in your service, obviously that is, that is when they, they would work with you.
Speaker A:Yeah, I, I think I, I came in just thinking that social media was going to be like the best thing ever for me.
Speaker A:And it really hasn't been.
Speaker A:I'm not saying there's not value there, but it is, it really is more about those one on one in person.
Speaker A:Not necessarily in person, but you know, because not everybody's like in person.
Speaker A:That's the beauty of the online business.
Speaker A:You can talk to people across the world, but those one on one personal interactions with, where you know, you're checking in with someone like in a private message or sending someone an email, checking, like checking in with them there and you know, it's so much more valuable than at least I found and I can't speak for everybody then you know, just posting to the algorithm and you know, don't know who's going to see it.
Speaker B:Yeah, and another thing about like social media is that you can't control the environment in which your content exists.
Speaker B:So your, your post could be surrounded by a bunch of things either you don't agree with or you know, are distracting from the message that you're trying to, to convey to people.
Speaker B:So it's like, it's like going into like a crowded restaurant and trying to listen to the person next to you if there's a crowd of people like sitting around you.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And especially because you know, we are in such a content heavy world these days.
Speaker A:It's, it's so hard to, I'm just trying to be mindful of my language here.
Speaker A:I think it can be very hard to expect to just blow up on social media when there's so many other people posting and so many other people vying for attention for whatever reason.
Speaker A:I mean, whether they're an online business owner or they're just, you know, posting pictures of their dog because they think it's cute.
Speaker A:There's so much content out there.
Speaker A:And you're right, you know, who knows?
Speaker A:Like you're scrolling on Instagram and you know, you post about your business and then, you know, below that is a funny meme or something political and it's just like how do it's.
Speaker A:I think we really as online business as any business owner, but especially for primarily in the online space, we really want to be mindful about like how, how are we getting people's attention?
Speaker A:Because assuming that that post that I posted three days ago is going to make a huge difference.
Speaker A:It could, but I don't want to bank on it because there's so much else that people are seeing in their feeds.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And the fact that you have no control over what happens.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:It could reach a million people or it can also reach like two people.
Speaker B:It really depends on what the platform feels like it wants to share to people.
Speaker A:So it's, yeah.
Speaker A:Well, it's like even just the whole concept of going viral, it's like how many people actually go viral.
Speaker A:And you know, you can't expect, you can't, you just can't expect that.
Speaker B:It's not, it's not a real game plan.
Speaker B:You can try.
Speaker A:It's not a real game plan.
Speaker A:Absolutely not.
Speaker B:Can you talk about incorporating the idea creativity into your business?
Speaker B:So you didn't start off with it, but you decided at some point that it needed to come in?
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean, like I said, I had been doing my business for, you know, a year.
Speaker A: I started it in: Speaker A:Like I was doing it because I didn't really know what else to do.
Speaker A:And I was like, okay, like, you know, I, I like human design.
Speaker A:I like the Akashic record.
Speaker A:But I, I, I didn't really feel like there I was doing something meaningful with it.
Speaker A:Even though I was, you know, having sessions with people and, you know, I, you know, people were coming to me and I was still having services and stuff.
Speaker A:Like, I was still like, you know, people were still, you know, buying my services.
Speaker A:It was, it was just like this sense that what I'm it, I was just didn't feel fulfilled in it.
Speaker A:I was like, I feel like I'm just doing this because I don't know, I don't know why, why am I doing this?
Speaker A:And so there was this feeling of frustration of like, you Know, I. I like.
Speaker A:I like the Akashic records.
Speaker A:I like human design.
Speaker A:I like that I'm doing.
Speaker A:I like being able to offer this to people.
Speaker A:But why?
Speaker A:What.
Speaker A:What is the purpose of this all?
Speaker A:Like, what?
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:And it was in September when just a couple of different things happened, met a couple different people, and people can be very expansive, you know, just bringing in different energy, and it all of a sudden just, like, made sense.
Speaker A:It was like, oh, I'm gonna bring a copywriting.
Speaker A:And over time, it was like, oh, I actually really like helping people with their creativity.
Speaker A:And I think a lot of times, you know, we bring to the world what we ourselves have struggled with in some way.
Speaker A:And so for me, it was like, that feeling, you know, even just being a teacher and, like, I'm not super excited by this, but I guess I don't know what else to do.
Speaker A:And it pays the bills, and it's reliable, so I guess I'll do this.
Speaker A:And then it kind of.
Speaker A:That kind of went into, you know, being in my business and, like, doing it.
Speaker A:But I'm not super like you.
Speaker A:Still not super inspired by this.
Speaker A:Like, I'm doing it because it's.
Speaker A:I need to have something.
Speaker B:Something to do.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:You know, and.
Speaker A:Well, and, you know, you know, having something that can bring in money is also nice.
Speaker A:And the more that I started going down this journey with the copywriting, and then I started to see how the copywriting was kind of igniting my creativity because I was like, oh, I'm writing, and I love to write, and I've always loved to write.
Speaker A:And, like, you know, know, I went undergrad and I got a degree in English, and I wrote a bunch of papers, and I'm really good at this.
Speaker A:And I just kind of started to see how I was kind of awakening this inner spark in me, and I was like, oh, I can.
Speaker A:I can actually bring this to other people.
Speaker A:And this is what excites me.
Speaker A:Like, being able to see that what I needed was to feel like my inner creativity was awakened.
Speaker A:And when I started to bring more, like, that idea of creativity to my business and supporting people with their creativity, that's when I started to feel excited about my business again.
Speaker A:I was like, oh, I. I'm not just doing the Akashic records in human design because it's like, I can use these tools for a very specific purpose to help people reawaken their own inner spark.
Speaker A:And that is what feels exciting to me, and that's what I am going to continue to do.
Speaker A:So let's do it.
Speaker B:So did you see a shift in the types of people that you were finding attracted to your offerings when you made that, like, creativity element apparent?
Speaker A:That's a really good question.
Speaker A:I think yes and no.
Speaker A:I think that there was definitely some people that I had been seeing that kind of fell away as I evolved.
Speaker A:And I think that happens as we evolve, as when we evolve as humans.
Speaker A:And yet there, when I think about the client, like, clients that, like, still come to me and that come to me regularly, there's always been a reason that they prompted me.
Speaker A:And I think even though my branding didn't always necessarily focus around creativity and supporting people and reawakening themselves to that, there are certain people who have kept coming to me.
Speaker A:And it is because, like, I actually, I asked one of my friends who is also one of my clients comes to me every few months, and I was like, why do you come to me?
Speaker A:And she was like, oh, you help me see things differently.
Speaker A:Like, every time I come to you, you help, like, you help me see things, like, I have a problem in my life that I can't, like, that I'm really stuck in, and you help me see it differently.
Speaker A:And I think that's awakening creativity is being able to see something differently and be able to problem solve because you have a new perspective.
Speaker A:And so, yes, there are some people that fell away.
Speaker A:And yet at the same time, I think the people that.
Speaker A:The clients that really have always been with me and, like, believed in me from the start, like, they've stayed.
Speaker A:Does that make sense?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So it's not necessarily they were looking for creativity as a way, a method of helping them.
Speaker B:They're looking.
Speaker B:They're still looking at the outcome of whatever you're trying to provide.
Speaker B:So the tools that you use are kind of a little bit different or tweaked based on the creative element.
Speaker B:But it doesn't mean that you've changed the way that you operate.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:It's just a new way to look at.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Things I think, you know, my branding has changed.
Speaker A:I would describe my ideal client a little bit differently now than I would have when I first started.
Speaker A:And yet the people who value me and what I offer, like, I think they've almost always seen that in me, even when I didn't see it myself.
Speaker B:What kind of things do you do to help people with the creative element.
Speaker A:Within my services?
Speaker A:Yeah, well, there's a few places in the human design chart that I'll look at to really kind of support people in figuring out, you know, what they have to offer to the world and how they can do that creativity creatively.
Speaker A:There are a few key points in the human design chart that I'll look at to kind of help people get there.
Speaker A:And with the Akashic records I think I am much more forward facing.
Speaker A:Like, like I used to be really into like past lives and stuff and I think that's something that's changed in my own working with the records is it was like really past lives I was really into.
Speaker A:Like let's look back to see how you can heal.
Speaker A:And I think there's still value in that, in finding the, the, the creative element because sometimes we need to heal some things to like really awaken that creativity within us.
Speaker A:But I tend to be much more forward facing now when I work with the records, when I'm working with clients where it's like, okay, what can we do to help you?
Speaker A:Like what steps can you take to move forward?
Speaker A:What you know, what future timelines can we take a look at that might be on offer and you know, if you know what, what is on the horizon for you potentially?
Speaker A:Like you said, understanding that there are so many things that can happen.
Speaker A:And you know, just because I present to you future timeline doesn't mean it's going to happen.
Speaker A:But I think I'm much more forward facing in the records, like future oriented than I used to be.
Speaker A:So definitely a few key points in the human design chart and really like practical steps forward in the records for creativity and in my copy services.
Speaker A:I mean I use human design in my web copy to support clients in really expressing who they are and what they do in the most creative way possible.
Speaker A:And like I said, there are a few key points in the human design journey that I do look at for that as well.
Speaker B:Mm, it's so interesting because when you think of human design, you're not necessarily thinking creativity and it just shows you that creativity can be used in essentially all elements of life.
Speaker B:It's just like a part of life.
Speaker B:It's not really a thing for artists like we were saying earlier, something that can be used just by changing the way that you think and using all influences.
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean I think creativity is revolutionary, especially in today's age where we do have so much content and you can find so much information out there about how to do XYZ and you know, how to build a six figure business.
Speaker A:I've seen a lot of that as my, in my journey as an entrepreneur, you know, how to write a great novel, how to do this and how to do that, and there's value in the how to, because sometimes we do want to learn from others, and sometimes we do.
Speaker A:We do benefit from support.
Speaker A:And yet I think learning to leverage that information with our own unique way of being is so important because we are all different and we all bring something valuable to the world.
Speaker A:And in our 21st century world, I think it's really easy.
Speaker A:People that get so lost in the content and they stop thinking for themselves.
Speaker A:And so I think to be creative is to be revolutionary because it's like, oh, what do I actually think?
Speaker A:What do I actually believe?
Speaker A:What is a.
Speaker A:What is a way that I see this, that I haven't seen talked about before?
Speaker A:Um, what is a way that feels really authentic to me, that feels really good to me, that feels really exciting to me that maybe I didn't see at the how to.
Speaker A:I think there's so much value to being a creative person beyond the traditional ways that we think of creativity.
Speaker A:Like I said, I love a good book.
Speaker A:I'm avid reader.
Speaker A:I love to look at a good piece of art.
Speaker A:I love all those people that do those traditional creative things.
Speaker A:Like, I'm a huge advocate for the arts in all forms.
Speaker A:And yet I also think that the arts, those.
Speaker A:Those arts, the arts that people do, the traditional ways of being creative can be such a great muse for all of us to move through our lives regardless of what we do, regardless if we ourselves, we consider ourselves artists or not, to move through life in a unique, original and exciting ways.
Speaker A:I think that's what creativity is.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's so interesting because there's an idea.
Speaker B:I think I first heard it in Rick Rubin's book where he said that all ideas are out there.
Speaker B:Every single idea is out in the universe.
Speaker B:Similar to, like, human design, where everything exists in some capacity and we're just the vessels in which creativity is expressed.
Speaker B:So for artists, it's through their art.
Speaker B:But creativity can be expressed in really any.
Speaker B:Any avenue because you're the person that's taking all the inputs and outputting something that's never been seen because it's from you and no one else can be you.
Speaker B:That's the one advantage that we all have, right?
Speaker B:Is that we're all ourselves.
Speaker A:We're all ourselves.
Speaker A:And, you know, we have this one lifetime, regardless of if you believe in past lives or not, which I do.
Speaker A:I mean, I'm only.
Speaker A:This is the one lifetime I have is me in this vessel.
Speaker A:And so how am I going to use it to be my most awesome, authentic, creative self?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So we just need to kind of focus on ourselves, which is what I hear all the time is, like, focus on you and how your ideas and inputs and all that has.
Speaker B:Can have an effect on the world.
Speaker B:And we all like to look at other people for all the answers, and usually the answers are within ourselves by taking all the information that we have.
Speaker B:And it's not easy.
Speaker B:No one said it's easy.
Speaker B:It's just like taking all of it in.
Speaker A:I mean, I think we're constantly looking out to the world.
Speaker A:We're looking to the world for validation.
Speaker A:We look up to the world to blame people, things for the way things are, and we look out to the world to see what other people are doing.
Speaker A:Like, ooh, like, I want to be part of the next cool trend.
Speaker A:What's that person doing?
Speaker A:And you're right.
Speaker A:It all comes back to us.
Speaker A:And, you know, we take responsibility for us and how we show up and how we move through the world, and that's all we can do.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Awesome.
Speaker B:I have a few more questions left.
Speaker B:Do you know anyone personally who also runs a standout creative business, and what do they do to stand out?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, I took some notes because I want to make sure I was ready for these questions.
Speaker A:So I have a wonderful friend named Morgan Denay, and she supports mostly midlife women kind of in reclaiming their dancer spirit.
Speaker A:So she does work with them to really come into, like, she.
Speaker A:She will.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:I actually had a session with her last week.
Speaker A:We did an exchange, and we did dancing together, and it was on zoom, but it was so much fun.
Speaker A:And I think there's so many people.
Speaker A:So many people out there in the healing world.
Speaker A:And I just love the way that she stands out because she is really committed to helping people come back to themselves through dance and through movement.
Speaker A:And I just think that's so cool.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:That's one of the few ways where we're not always thinking of activity as being, like, a way to be creative and, like, tap into ourselves, but we all need to be healthy enough to, you know, like, use our bodies.
Speaker A:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker B:To bring everything out.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Our bodies are the ultimate creative vessels, whether you're dancing or, I don't know whether, you know, if you're really into fashion, people, you know, use clothes and makeup and hair to express themselves.
Speaker A:I mean, there are so many different ways that we can use ourselves too, show off our creativity.
Speaker A:Actually, I was at a party a couple weeks ago, and someone was, you know, talking about how she considers herself to be her muse because she's so into fashion and music or fashion and makeup.
Speaker A:I'm sorry.
Speaker A:And she's like, I'm my own creative muse.
Speaker A:I'm my own vessel.
Speaker A:And I was like, that's cool.
Speaker B:I mean, that's the best kind of muse you can be, right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:If you inspire yourself, that's the ultimate like goal.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Then you're, you're a non stop resource for, you know, inspiration.
Speaker B:That's cool.
Speaker B:What is it?
Speaker B:One extraordinary book, podcast or documentary that has had the biggest impact on your journey.
Speaker A:This is so hard because I have so many inspirations.
Speaker A:I love the Gene Keys by Richard Rudd.
Speaker A:He used to work very on in the early days of human design.
Speaker A:He worked with Ra Uruhu who brought human design into the world.
Speaker A:But then he kind of went off in his own thing.
Speaker A:And the Gene Keys are just a fabulous, fabulous tool for self discovery.
Speaker A:Kind of taking some of the elements of human design and kind of brought them into a new way of doing it.
Speaker A:But I love the Jinkies because it's really allows people to see the progression.
Speaker A:You know, there's the shadow element and then you can go into the gift element and then you can go into the city sidic element, which is like the realm of the gods, basically.
Speaker A:Um, and so I think the Gene Keys are such a beautiful tool for really being able to see your evolution and being able to dive deep into self exploration, which, you know, I love to do.
Speaker B:And it also ties into the idea of ourselves being, you know, our, our greatest asset is what, what we have and what we provide.
Speaker A:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker B:What do you think makes a creative business stand out and what is one piece of advice you'd give to someone based on your experience on how they can also stand out?
Speaker A:I think being able to do things differently, being able to kind of trust yourself, trust your kind of vision and kind of, you know, what I was talking about earlier, you know, there's so much content out there about how to do things and yes, there's value in learning from others, but when you can really, you know, dive deep into what makes you different, what makes you tick, and trusting that and being okay with, you know, putting yourself out there, even if it's scary and being able to speak authentically as you.
Speaker A:I think when creative businesses and creative people really are able to honor who they are at their core and speak from that place and trust that they have value, that is really the crux of it all.
Speaker B:Yeah, we all just like we were saying earlier, it's all stuff where we're looking for external validation and external ideas and external inputs and stuff.
Speaker B:But that's not.
Speaker B:You don't want to be anybody else.
Speaker B:When you're creating your thing, whether it's a business or art or whatever endeavor it is, you want to just bring your own spin to it because that's what people are looking for.
Speaker B:You can look for the other ideas with those other people.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I mean, especially in the business world, there's so many people offering.
Speaker A:So like, there's so many people offering services that are very similar to each other, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker A:And yet, if you really want to make your mark on the business world, you.
Speaker A:You want to be doing what you do from that place of true authenticity and like, from that place of you.
Speaker A:Because that's.
Speaker A:That's what makes you stand out, is when you come as you are authentically and show that and put that out there.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And you'll find the right people.
Speaker B:When you're portraying yourself as you really are versus in any other way, when.
Speaker A:You show up as you, you.
Speaker A:It's absolutely.
Speaker A:You attract the people that are for you when you show up as you.
Speaker A:But you have to show up as you to be able to attract the people that are for you.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:That's why there's so many businesses that are able to operate in the same space, is because we're all working with and trying to work with different types of people and just the people that we feel are best for us versus, you know, just anybody.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And there's so many people in the world.
Speaker A:And, you know, if you truly believe that what you're doing is worthwhile and in alignment for you, then you.
Speaker A:You'll find your people.
Speaker A:If you show up authentically as you.
Speaker B:Awesome.
Speaker B:Can you give the listeners a challenge that they can take action on right away?
Speaker A:At least I took notes because I was like, these questions are deep.
Speaker A:I gotta be ready.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I think there is a.
Speaker A:My challenge for the listeners is to really deeply consider, you know, where am I unconsciously following the crowd?
Speaker A:Where am I, you know, kind of letting the content that I see kind of dictate?
Speaker A:And what do I actually believe?
Speaker A:Like, I honestly, like, I'm like, take, like, get out of journal and write these things down.
Speaker A:Why am I unconsciously following the crowd or just doing things because that's what my friends are doing or that's what I'm doing, feel like I'm supposed to do, and what do I actually think and believe and feel?
Speaker A:Aside from all of the external things, I also really Recommend people to play in whatever way feels good for them.
Speaker A:Like, when's the last time you played as like you were a kid and to get out in nature and just see what that does.
Speaker A:Because I think that we so in so much of our modern day lives, a lot of us do, indoors, at desks, staring at screens.
Speaker A:And that is not the most conducive way for us to find our creativity because we are really animals at the core of it and animals come from nature.
Speaker A:So go out and play in nature and see how that ignites your creativity in a new way.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I mean, we've only spent the last, not even 100 years at a screen.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:It's like been maybe 30 or 40 years that, yeah, computers have been around, but we're now every day spending our days on screens.
Speaker B:If you work.
Speaker A:In such a short amount of time and I mean, I think like, I'm not a doctor, I'm not a health professional, but I think they've done studies that show that sitting at your screen all day is not healthy for you.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And when you go outside and you play, you're like in your natural environment because obviously all animals originate outside.
Speaker B:Shelter didn't exist until mankind made it a thing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So, yeah.
Speaker A:Where are you unconsciously following the crowd?
Speaker A:What do you actually think and believe and feel and get out and play in nature like you are a kid.
Speaker A:Do.
Speaker A:Do the most ridiculous thing that you don't think adults are supposed to do.
Speaker A:Supposed to do.
Speaker A:And you might be surprised at what you ignite within you when you do that.
Speaker B:Awesome.
Speaker B:Well, Britt has been amazing talking to you.
Speaker B:Can you tell listeners where they can keep up to date with you and get in contact with you?
Speaker A:Perfect.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Thanks for having me, Kevin.
Speaker A:It's been great.
Speaker A:You can find me on Instagram at Aligned and Undefined.
Speaker A:You can also find me on LinkedIn.
Speaker A:I think I'm the only Britta Buchanan on LinkedIn and so just look me up and I'm there and at my website, www.aliandefined.com.
Speaker B:All right, thanks again for coming on.
Speaker B:It's been a pleasure talking.
Speaker A:It's been great to talk to you too, Kevin.
Speaker A:Thanks for having me.
Speaker B:Okay, bye.
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