Revolutionizing Business with Spiritual Practices: A Conversation with Tara Jackson

Ever wondered how past life regression and chakra work can revolutionize your business strategies? In this episode, we sit down with Tara Jackson, the mastermind behind Empathpreneur, to unravel her unique methods for helping highly sensitive and empathic entrepreneurs break through internal barriers. This conversation dives deep into Tara's innovative approaches that blend spiritual practices with business coaching, offering listeners fresh perspectives on overcoming negative beliefs and ancestral influences.

Curious about the hidden power of colours in your spiritual journey? We explore Tara's fascinating insights into how colours, much like crystals, carry energetic vibrations that can illuminate personal needs and unresolved issues. Through vivid personal stories and practical tips, we discuss the transformative potential of integrating colours into daily life—whether through visualization, fashion, or mindful practices—to enhance your emotional and spiritual well-being. This segment promises to enlighten and entertain, making the exploration of colours both educational and playful.

Shifting gears, we discuss the transition from the fast-paced corporate grind to a more relaxed and productive entrepreneurial lifestyle. Tara and I share our experiences and spiritual practices that empower empaths to thrive, emphasizing the pivotal role of nature, diet, and intuition in maintaining a balanced life. As we wrap up, we tease some exciting future projects aimed at bringing holistic practices into the corporate world, and Tara gives us a glimpse into her upcoming book, inviting listeners to stay tuned for more transformative insights.

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Chapters

• 2:30 Empathpreneur and Embodied Self-Care
• 10:33 Energetic Business Alchemy and Exploration
• 20:23 Integrating Spirituality Into Corporate Culture
• 29:31 Author's Book Discussion and Future Plans

Transcript

Speaker 1: 2:30

so welcome everybody to another episode of barn to the soul. Thank you very much for listening. And today I've got an exciting new guest for us and her name is tara jackson. So welcome, tara. Thank you so much for supporting barn to the soul thank you.

Speaker 2: 2:48

Yeah, I love it. It's an honour to be here.

Speaker 1: 2:51

Oh, thank you. So Tara is has well is let's start there an embodied business and creativity coach, and her business is called Empathpreneur, which I love. I find it hard to say a bit but I love it.

Speaker 2: 3:10

Yeah but it tells you exactly what it's all about.

Speaker 1: 3:12

It's fab, it's like a little. It's very easy to understand, isn't it? So tell us about what you do, tara.

Speaker 2: 3:20

So say you had a client come to sort of you know highly sensitive empathic entrepreneurs and it can vary from yeah, exactly so it can vary from someone coming to you know, to grow their business or have the impact or success that, on their terms, that they're looking for.

Speaker 2: 3:53

It actually tends to be helping people with more of the blocks, the you know the beliefs, the, the energetics, the things happening inside that might be, you know, stopping them or holding them back or, you know, just really not allowing them to be their full self ultimately in their business and experience what we are aiming for, and so that that is kind of in the nutshell.

Speaker 1: 4:09

Yeah, yeah so those negative beliefs that we all pick up, you know, um culturally, socially, family, all of those yeah and and also past lives as well.

Speaker 2: 4:22

That was a large part of what I did in the beginning, actually, and you know an ancestral, of course, you know through our families and lineages, but past life was definitely a big part in the beginning and, yeah, I did a lot on that and how that links to different you know the different chakras even, and colors. Yeah, that's a whole other thing and I know you do a lot on that as well, which is very interesting for me.

Speaker 1: 4:44

Well, it's funny because we'll go on and talk about your books, but I met Tara through the Unbound Press, who I'm publishing my novel with, and, and actually we didn't talk about this, but my novels are based around past life regression. So I absolutely believe in all of that that you know, your experiences, that you bring with you, your beliefs, your traumas, that you bring with you into this life not even understanding them initially, but you're carrying them around can absolutely affect the way that you move through life and who you pick as a partner. You know everything, really, doesn't it?

Speaker 2: 5:22

Oh, my goodness, completely. And yeah, I came to it through the lens of business, or well, I came back to it. I've always been interested in past lives and as a child I know I have vivid memories and things but sort of came to it through the lens of business. So that was fascinating how that tied into so many different parts of growing a business as well. Yeah, Completely what you're doing.

Speaker 1: 5:43

Yeah, and actually I've never really thought about business in that way, so that's a really interesting perspective. Yeah, Thank you for that. I should love to explore that that one. Yeah, definitely so. Um, tara and I met through the Unbound Press because you have been quite a prolific writer, haven't you A?

Speaker 2: 6:03

bit over the last few years. Yes, kind of started and it kind of snowballed from there. Definitely, yeah, and do you?

Speaker 1: 6:10

I'm going to ask you this because, um, with me writing my novel, sometimes I go back and I read sections and I think, gosh, I can't even remember writing those. And somebody said to me well, obviously you've channeled it. And I think, have I? And do you think that's true? Do you think it just flows when you're in that right space?

Speaker 2: 6:32

absolutely, it's interesting. Each book is different and, as you know, as you know, but the first one, which is more of my story and my you know my experiences in this, you know lifetime, etc. Based more on, I guess, factual things in some way, most of that felt like I remember writing that, I guess. But then the next ones, which definitely came a lot quicker and felt much more channeled, I always go back and I'm kind of blown away by what's there. Sometimes you know, yeah, it does, it does.

Speaker 1: 6:59

Yeah, yeah, absolutely agree it's a strange experience isn't it when you read your book and you think gosh, that was clever of me.

Speaker 2: 7:09

Yeah, yeah at that. Look at that wisdom. Yeah, I also find that, oh, go ahead, sorry, no, go on go. I also find that I often write my books for me, so it's stuff that I need to step into or grow into with my books. Anyway, not all of them, but the more recent three were definitely like that. They were things that I needed to come into, and so they were helpful for me as well on my journey it's almost like it was your channeled guide for you and then it became a guide for others.

Speaker 1: 7:39

That's lovely, isn't it, when you think about it like that. So the book that is your sort of story is empowered. A self-care guide for sensitive souls, is that?

Speaker 2: 7:50

embodied.

Speaker 1: 7:51

Embodied a self-made body, no, no sensitive souls.

Speaker 2: 7:55

I guess it is empowered as well.

Speaker 1: 7:57

Yeah so that was really your.

Speaker 2: 8:00

That's more about your life, your childhood, your experiences in this lifetime, basically it is, yes, and sort of going through addictions and leaving my body you know as a child that kind of thing and then sort of going through addictions and leaving my body you know as a child, that kind of thing and then sort of coming back to myself. So half of it is the story and then half of it is kind of the self-care tips, tools, guidance and things that I did and still do to support myself. So little bits of you know, information, but kind of more practical things as well.

Speaker 1: 8:31

Yeah, I think actually with everything you, because obviously what the book I'm writing is a novel, but a few, you know, lots of the threads are things I've experienced in a way or I've heard about or you know.

Speaker 2: 8:45

So you sort of weave that in, don't you in in a lot of your writing, to be honest honest, absolutely, I mean absolutely, and I think, especially with our publisher, that's really kind of encouraged in a way.

Speaker 1: 8:57

I don't know.

Speaker 2: 9:00

She tends to. The books tend to be like that based on our stories, our experiences and things that come through us.

Speaker 1: 9:04

So, absolutely, I do find that, yeah, how things have been transformed basically. So your other books are Embodied Wealth, embodied Creation and Embodied yeah, a lot of embodied. Yes, I love that. I looked up the definition of embodied, actually, just so I could get, and it's it's basically the basis of what they do. If somebody is, you know that word, so that again makes great sense really. When it's like your word empathpreneur, it's great. You know it really just is what what the book is about basically in a nutshell. So tell us about embodied wealth, because that's a real biggie for a lot of people, isn't it? You know beliefs around money and how to succeed and all the rest of it.

Speaker 2: 9:54

I mean, yes, it takes a different stance on it. To be honest, it really does. I see wealth as much broader than just money. You know, wealth is what we value, what we are looking for in this world, our experiences, our feelings, the things we want.

Speaker 2: 10:10

And so I'm really encouraging that ultimately, and also I work with a spiritual color psychology system called Color Mirrors, spiritual color psychology system called color mirrors, and so in the book it really well, the system actually just quickly has, um, a number of colored bottles with oils and water and combinations and you bathe in them and it's sort of a visceral experience for the body to heal, to release, etc.

Speaker 2: 11:29

And so I wrote this book actually came off the back of me using a number of these bottles and bathing in them and having really vivid visual experiences because I'm quite a visual person and journeys where I healed stuff. I went into past lives, I got insights or guidance, I spent a lot of time in the center of the earth and the cosmos, and so each bottle gave me these really kind of different experiences which I then translated into kind of guidance or tips or ideas, all ultimately to support you, to be more you in the world, which I think is true wealth ultimately. And so the book kind of includes in the color sections these stories as well and these, so you can pick it up, a page open at random and, you know, maybe use that to support you or work with the color as well to because color is such an activator as well to really help you to you know, to to bring something into your life or to release something in your life, so it does that as well. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 12:26

I love that, I used to, I love, I still love but, uh, crystals, but I used to sell them, but often people would pick them on the basis of the color and and really, the way we see color is just a vibration, isn't it? It's an energetic vibration. So if you're drawn to a color, you're drawn to that vibration. So that's what your energy needs at that point in time.

Speaker 2: 12:49

So that's and also, if you're, it's very fascinating. And also if you're repelled by a color like you really can't stand being around a color. What is that saying about you and you? Know, maybe you're not owning something about yourself, or there's something you'll you know really need to heal, or yeah, it's a fascinating way to to support people and yourself, I think. And yeah, I've always loved color massively.

Speaker 1: 13:10

Yeah, and actually it's a fascinating way to learn about yourself, because sometimes we don't know what you know, sometimes we can have a clue, this isn't working, that isn't working. But sometimes we can have a real surprise and the healing you know well why don't I like that and then something can come up and um, so even if you haven't got a major issue, just working with them, it's going to bring. It's going to bring something up, isn't it?

Speaker 2: 13:36

exactly. I mean, I've got a course on this and stuff and you really work deeply with the colours and, yes, it's amazing how, when you, let's say, pick red for a week and of course that links to your root chakra as well, but just work with red, You'll notice it everywhere, as we do. You know, when you're focusing on something and it might bring up old triggers or issues around safety, security, money you know all the root chakra type things and things will come up that you just don't expect. It's fascinating how it really can affect all areas of your life if you're open to it as well.

Speaker 2: 14:05

I think, but yeah, it's really powerful to work with a colour quite intentionally and, you know, for a while.

Speaker 1: 14:13

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 14:14

You know if you do it again as well.

Speaker 1: 14:18

And I suppose you can wear it as well, can't you?

Speaker 2: 14:19

you can wear it, visualize it, have flowers in it, all the things, anything you can think of really, yeah, yeah, eat it, I suppose as well. Well, exactly, yeah that sounds amazing.

Speaker 1: 14:31

So do you do a course in that, or is that something that you would do reading with somebody, or?

Speaker 2: 14:37

so I'm yeah, so I trained in the system called color modes and I'm a practitioner, but I you can use it yourself in your own thing. So I created a course called business chakra alchemy.

Speaker 2: 14:47

It's an interesting name, but it takes you through the chakras in relation to your business and maybe some of the blocks or issues that might be coming up in those specific chakras. And we work with the colored bottles, um, visually like not actually physical one, although you can and so then some of the we do, past life regression or some sort of visualization with that chakra, and then you know some mindset type prompts and things as well. So I've used the system to support the work I do.

Speaker 1: 15:14

Yeah, as well, which you can also do a reading.

Speaker 2: 15:18

Yeah, there's many things you can do with it.

Speaker 1: 15:20

Ultimately, yeah, that sounds amazing. I mean, I think I went for a massage the other day and, um, it was quite amazing because, um, I went into some space I don't know where, what space I went into, but I was getting so much visuals and I think it was stuff releasing and she worked on my, literally just rubbing oil into my skin. But even that process, if you're open to it, can help you release, and obviously I needed to release it at that point in time.

Speaker 1: 15:52

So it was just, yeah, very visual, very strange experience, powerful, not strange powerful, powerful you get that often.

Speaker 2: 16:03

Are you visual? Are you quite a visual person? Do you get those sorts of experience?

Speaker 1: 16:07

yes, I do yeah, I think that's with my training and all the past life work that I've done. I do get I I tend to tap into that sort of um area of people's energy, but for me it's very visual. Yeah, yeah but yes, it's so you know, whatever you do, if you do something like that, or you have a massage, or you, whatever, you know, you work on a color, you're eating food in a particular, you know all of it is going to affect your energy as well.

Speaker 1: 16:40

Yeah, completely yeah and the more awareness we have of it yeah, exactly, yeah.

Speaker 2: 16:45

I think that's when it gets fun, though, and exciting is when you have that awareness and you do explore it and you do notice things, and it just makes it a lot richer the journey.

Speaker 1: 16:53

Yeah, for me anyway, I like that you say have fun with it, because I think sometimes people think, oh, it's really heavy all these emotional stuff and it can be. But it can also be really wow, can't it?

Speaker 2: 17:06

It can be both completely. Yeah, I find it a really rich experience if you're open to that, and I want that in my life. I love the breadth of it, the depths and the highs. You know all of it, the lows and the highs, and it does make it richer and you just feel that kind of most juiciness of life, I think for me.

Speaker 1: 17:23

It's all part and parcel, isn't it, of the energetic Lovely. So tell us about the other programs you do, because you've got a few, haven't you? You've got the amazing Business, chakras, alchemy, which I love the sound of, but you I do.

Speaker 2: 17:41

I do so after my second book, embodied Business, which was also similar to, I guess, the Course Business Chakra, alchemy. I then created a kind of membership space called Embodied Business and it's evolved over the last couple of years and is basically now a way for entrepreneurs to sort of it's sort of very entry level, but who are more interested in looking at the energetics, the spiritual sides of business, I suppose level, but who are more interested in looking at the energetics, the spiritual sides of business, I suppose. So yeah, often they know the practical parts, they know how to get it started, do the accounting, that kind of thing.

Speaker 2: 18:13

But it's starting to look and understand a business from the soul of your business or the energetics of each offering, and also looking at yourself again in different ways and how you relate to your business and just more of the energetic side of it, yeah, and expansion and you know that kind of side to help you grow it and look at it in that way.

Speaker 1: 18:32

And so it's sort of an ongoing membership space and that yeah, I love the idea of a soul of a business, that's just. You know. It becomes its own energetic entity, doesn't it? So it's something that you have to work with and that can be a very different concept, but it's a lovely one actually.

Speaker 2: 18:52

It's such a support because, you know, I came from a business background and really learned how to do business. I know that I suppose that more masculine way, for lack of a better word and it's very much. You know, learning the systems, the processes, the doing, and that's of course you need all that. You have to show up and do the work, but learning about the soul of a business and then being able to connect to that as someone you know that loves going into that space.

Speaker 2: 19:14

It was so supportive because you know, I guess it's, you know, like connecting to your intuition ultimately, but having that guidance just makes it easier. We feel held and especially, you know, in the early days when you're on your own most. Most of the time you might have a little support, but it's often us doing it alone and having that helps. And you know, learning to trust that can be the hardest part.

Speaker 2: 19:37

Yeah, I think it's trust, isn't it definitely yes but when you do it does it shifts business as well. I mean, because I've helped, I've worked at one point with a lot of people doing this as well, and it is a it does guide us often to do it slower, more cyclically, more seasonally and really allow things to come. Not we're not, you know, we're really not being guided to force to push to do things. It's such a different way of working and it, yeah, it's um, it's an interesting way definitely for doing business and I think, if you know the other side, bringing this in can really add that depth and richness to it. You know, I guess, that things like you know, steve Jobs or Walt Disney, who you know, intuitive guidance came to them. It's just, I guess it's leaning into that side of what we have available to us. Yeah, as entrepreneurs?

Speaker 1: 20:25

yeah, because I find I mean I work nine to five in the corporate world, um, and I rush, rush, rush, rush, rush and spirit isn't in any sort of rush whatsoever and I've often noticed that and it's just sort of okay, it's much more relaxed.

Speaker 1: 20:42

It's much more. Just take your time. You know you don't need to have all these products ready, you don't need to have everything perfect. You just need to sort of start, basically, and be relaxed about it, not this oh, come on, come on, come on. Sort of energy. You've got to be. Um well, it's more productive to be sort of more relaxed in a sort of paradoxic way. You know exactly that. Really took me a lot of time to realize that, and when you're doing nine to five and it's you know, it's all that and it just to shift is actually really can be really hard to do that.

Speaker 2: 21:26

It really is, and your brain is like I need to make money, I have to get this thing out. I have to do this thing out. I'm not going to make any money, I'm not going to be able to pay my bills.

Speaker 2: 21:33

I'm not going to be able to do this and it's so counterintuitive. But the people that have been most successful, you know, in doing are the ones that really can lean back into it, really lean into the stopping, the allowing themselves to be held and supported, and then they end up making more money by doing less. But you have to surrender to that like as we know, but you really do.

Speaker 1: 21:53

Yeah, it's like working smart basically. Yeah, actually.

Speaker 2: 21:58

Exactly.

Speaker 1: 22:05

Yes. So what was I going to say then? Oh, I was going to ask you about your practices. What do you do? Because obviously you know the business that you have. You hold space for others to create. You create this and you're a very prolific creator, looking at your website and everything you've done, which you've obviously loved doing, but what do you do? Sort of, what practice practice spiritual practices do you do on a daily basis? Do you do energy management? Do you look in, you know, check in on your energy? What do you do?

Speaker 2: 22:35

yeah, I mean, as you can imagine, most you know people that are sensitive need a lot of that and, you know, the more we open to it, the more sensitive we become. Yeah, and I mean I have to get into nature first thing in the morning, without fail, basically, and clear my I came energy through nature. I'm very blessed to live in kenya right now and I have a beautiful forest that I go for walks in and I literally live in nature, so it's very much. That's the number one thing that helps more than anything. And then throughout the day, there be, you know, there'll be some grounding or, you know, bringing energy through my body, if I can feel stuff, but yeah, all energy just holding my space, kind of thing. But if I get into nature first thing and move my body, I'm pretty good.

Speaker 2: 23:18

That sort of seems to work for me personally. And I mean things like eating certain things. I can't eat sugar, I can't like a lot of sugar, I can't have more than one cup of coffee. I don't drink alcohol anymore. I, you know, I really have to be careful about what I consume because it affects my energy so easily. And I still do make you know, I still do the things that don't make me feel good.

Speaker 2: 23:39

You know, I'm human but I try to do the things that will help me with that. So that's another big one for me as well.

Speaker 1: 23:47

I found that, talking to a lot of people actually, that you know if you are an empath, you really have to look after your body and if you don't, yes, it starts playing up basically and you have to start thinking, what am I doing? And and tweak it. And you know you almost have to clean the energy, clean what, or have a clearer, cleaner version of what goes into your body somehow yeah, and also your intuition does guide you.

Speaker 2: 24:16

I mean, my intuition was guiding me to stop drinking alcohol for years before I you know, I start, I'd stop, I start, I'd stop, and I finally did stop and it made a.

Speaker 2: 24:25

It just made the world of difference and I'm coming up to five years in alcohol, and that in itself is huge. But then and then it's like then sugar becomes an issue, so I have to be super careful and then about how much sugar I have, and then certain, you know, certain times of the month I can't have as much coffee, you know it. It really kind of creeps up on you in some ways, but and you're just encouraged to keep it even cleaner and cleaner. That's what I find personally. Otherwise, yeah, my energy gets so affected and yeah, and that's the thing, isn't it?

Speaker 1: 24:57

you know your energy runs through your body, so if your physical body isn't working as well, then that affects your energy't it? You know your energy runs through your body, so if your physical body isn't working as well, then that affects your energy, and if there's something in your energy, it can affect your physical. You know it's all interrelated, isn't it? Absolutely, absolutely, yeah Well, so I know what else I was going to ask you what are you working on now? Have you got a new project in place or have you got new things coming up?

Speaker 2: 25:24

so I do at the moment. Yeah, so it's interesting you said you work in corporate still, because I want to try and bring some more of this into the corporate space. That's something I'm kind of working on, at least, you know, supporting with sort of maybe energetics and creativity within the workspace. That kind of came from that background too and it's one of those things that's been nudging for a few years to go back and to do that. So that's something I'm kind of working on right now. I've also got my fifth book in the works, which is supposed to be called embodied money. So we're going into money now, but I'm not sure it's sort of it's with the books. You know it's still it's an energetic relationship and right now it's we're kind of in a bit of a void, so I'm not sure where it's going to turn into.

Speaker 1: 26:09

Let's see, watch this space, yeah yeah, I love the idea about um corporate. It's actually. I'm in law so and I've done something I've done for 27 years and it's funny actually, because when I was younger I wouldn't tell anybody what I did spiritually because, it was. It wasn't readily accepted. It wasn't particularly looked at as something that would help your career or anything like that now I'm at the other end of my career.

Speaker 1: 26:45

I tell everybody, but you can see the glazed expressions at times and it's like no idea what you're talking about. So there is a there still is a wide gap.

Speaker 2: 26:58

I think I'm curious about that. Yeah, that was definitely something that put me off even wanting to talk about it. And I mean, there's ways in that aren't so necessarily outwardly spiritual, like you know, especially with creativity for what I do, for example, you can, you know you can, help people and you can make productivity, or you know empathy and you know other kind of traits that maybe an organization might find more useful. And then, once the way I see it or my guidance is like you know, once you're in there, you can start to bring in things. Maybe or hopefully, the aligned people will find you because the energetics will be right aligned with.

Speaker 2: 27:33

You know me so, but it's also interesting to know that it has changed a lot as well hasn't been in over 10 years either.

Speaker 1: 27:41

Well it's been a while yeah, because I, you know, I've always had this path with the law and I've had this path the spiritual and I've tried to emerge some stuff and it's never worked. And I've often thought why am I what? What is the purpose of this? Yeah, it's literally that it is shifting, and maybe people like me, I'm sure there's more yeah, uh, helping that that whole sort of sector to shift, perhaps. Maybe that's what it's about, but it needs to shift more definitely. I think that's, um, and it definitely is. So that sort of work is amazing. That would be. I shall. I shall watch what you're up to.

Speaker 1: 28:25

Thank you yeah.

Speaker 2: 28:26

I'm still quite nervous, but thank you. Yeah, it will happen, it's definitely going to happen.

Speaker 1: 28:31

Yeah, no, you have my full support with that. I think it's very much needed, you know, a different mentality about how to treat people, how to and maybe how to treat business as well, which is you know a different mentality about how to treat people, how to and maybe how to treat business as well, which is, you know. It's refreshing and I think, will open a lot of people's eyes. So that's lovely and we wait with bated breath for your book five.

Speaker 1: 28:56

When I read about your books on your website. I read your book and I kept thinking oh, I'd love to do that. Oh, that sounds interesting, oh, there was a lot in there, tara, but it all sounds amazing, so I will put up all your details underneath the episode and people can contact you for your website, can't they?

Speaker 2: 29:17

Absolutely. Thank you so much yes.

Speaker 1: 29:20

Not a problem, and if they want to have a look at your books, do they buy them for your website or?

Speaker 2: 29:25

I mean anywhere you buy books online, they are available, so yeah fabulous.

Speaker 1: 29:31

Well, thank you so much for joining us today. It's been lovely to talk to you. It all sounds very exciting. So, um, you might probably have to come on again and tell us, uh, what you're up to and, uh, how the book has evolved and all that sort of thing. So absolutely.

Speaker 2: 29:49

Thank you so much as well. It's been lovely to talk to you, thank you.

Speaker 1: 29:54

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